Jason Toney

We're not in love with the Curtis Mayfield Remixed album. Outside of an excellent reinterpretation of Superfly as a latin dance joint by Little Louis Vega and our love of Freddie's Dead in any form, it's simply OK. Tonight's birthday tribute to Mayfield at Little Temple, though, should be anything but just OK. DJ Jeremy Sole and KCRW's Tom Golubic (who is also the music supervisor for Six Feet Under *ahem* Contest!) should be...

We love the happenings at Fisher & Sons and we're pretty sure you do, too. The new and final (sniff!) season of Six Feet Under premieres on HBO on Monday, June 6th at 9PM. This truly is our last chance to crush on Claire Fisher and hope that David and Keith finally get it together and pray that Nate and Brenda will help each other find happiness. They broke down the sets this past...

DCist editor Rob Godspeed is live blogging the Take Back America conference this week and caught our Mayor-Elect taking it to the attendees for their lack of diversity and lack of effort in developing a plan for our struggling cities: "You look in this room today and you don't see the strong diversity we need." [...] "Neither party is talking about an urban agenda. Neither party is talking about how to improve our cities."...

...sliding down a hill. The Los Angeles Times has some unsettling photos (the one we borrowed is by Chris Carlson from the Associated Press) from the landslide in Laguna Beach. 345 homes have been evacuated and 7 have been completely destroyed. This shouldn't be unexpected as Bluebird Canyon has devoured homes before. In 1978, it had a whole neighborhood of 24 houses for lunch. Snarky commentors at towleroad are waiting for the rapture index...

It used to be "You can click but you can't hide" but now the MPAA is going even further. While it might be small potatoes compared to the $4.8 million police were granted to get you to buckle up, the MPAA has given $186 grand for surveillance cameras to be placed in LA's downtown Fashion district -- the "hotbed of hard copy movie piracy" according to Daily Variety. C|Net suggests that the cameras are...

One of the most interesting parts of NPR's (well Northern California's KQED really as all these pieces come from their California Report show) expose on the conning of old people is that the "over-80" crowd is the largest growing population in America. We really can live forever. What the elderly are finding, however, is that extending our lifespan has major pitfalls. Part two, which aired today, looks at FAST, a Los Angeles initiative that...

We saw lots of motorists over the weekend slowing down to read the information screens positioned on our freeways. This was no Amber Alert, however, this was a new initiative by the California Office of Traffic Safety to get more people to fasten their seat belts. The signs read "Click It or Ticket. Buckle Up." The usually leisurely Memorial Day Weekend traffic around the city felt more hazardous as free-flowing lanes would unexpectedly feature...

We spent Memorial Day Weekend away from the computer. We were enjoying the surprisingly pleasant weather outside running and reading books. We spent Saturday night at the Infusion Gallery with Cannibal Flower and their 80s prom art event (which featured an awful lot of art focused on the vagina as well as Vincent Calenzo). We caught up on our spring cleaning and we enjoyed "The Longest Yard" far more than we ever expected to. Now...

We won't delve too deeply into our thoughts on Episode III. We've seen it twice now in the Cinerama Dome and can't shake the feeling that it pretty much stinks. When the 2nd best actor in a film populated with real people is a computer generated one, well the movie has problems. Regardless of our feelings, the flick has made boffo box office and the Arclight is the #1 theatre in the country to...

We don't watch much in the way of local news but have they started running the daily earthquake forecasts yet? Last week, The US Geological Survey started issuing a Real Time Forecast map of California that is created by combining two types of information. First, a 'background' assessment is made of earthquake risk around California, by assessing the physical properties of various geological sites, along with the statistical behaviour of fault lines over long...