Jason Toney

Turn your heartlight one this summer, and enter LAist's new contest to win Neil Diamond concert tickets. We know you want a chance to sing along to "Sweet Caroline" and the many other hits of the pop artist with one of the most successful touring careers in history. The Brooklyn native is coming to LA in September on his world tour, and the countdown to the ticket sale is on. LAist happens to have...

And USC and EA Games know it. Game Girl Advance points us to USC's Summer Seminar series where young girls are being offered scholarships to attend their Interactive Entertainment Summer Camp. Video games aren't the only things girls like. 'SC has programs for the young Y-chromosomed scientist in your house as well. They aren't girls but Elijah Wood and The Killers will be shooting their reveal of the xbox 360 this Thursday at Avalon...

So how would you end a weekend in which you have the number one movie in the country? Well, if you're Mos Def, you cold rock a party like it was Krush Groove. The Mighty Mos Def and Talib Kweli closed the main stage (to a much smaller crowd than Nine Inch Nails which, we think, had to do with Goldenvoice not naming Mos and Talib in the adverts or the program) with an...

We still don't have a problem with the Los Angeles, Mexico billboards nor do we have a problem with the response to it. We think it's a little silly and could've been done more creatively but we like freedom of expression in all its forms. Well, in most forms. Boifromtroy notes that Lieberman Broadcasting Group has been under attack from GLAAD and NCAVP for two of the programs that air on their spanish language...

We were in the desert over the weekend so we didn't get a chance to showcase the good and the debatable on LAist on Sunday like we normally do. Before we do that, though, we'd like to remind you that we are giving away a prize pack for Crash which enters movie theatres this Friday. Joy Mitchell gives an LA perspective on the flick in last week's Weekly. Previously on LAist: - We talked...

Coachella in 2005 was all about more. More bands. More signs. More mist. More shade. More cool breezes. More old people. More kids. More art. More more more. And it was better for it. We opened the day listening to Buck 65 (who sings an awful lot about horses) from the VIP area before staking out a prime location at the Outdoor Stage for much of the rest of the day. Jamie Cullum, Eisley,...

24 hours from now, Boom Bip and Sexy Magazines will be performing in the Mojave and Gobi Tents on the Empire polo field. You can get the full schedule for Coachella here. Want to organize your own schedule, you can use the CoaChooser (which isn't all that impressive. We were able to do the same thing much quicker with a highlighter on our schedule printout). Remember that no outside water can be brought in...

Is this really a big deal? What's so wrong with a Spanish language station target marketing its audience? Americans for Legal Immigration are calling the ads offensive and an emailer to Worldnet Daily believes the ads mean "they don't have to hide their intentions anymore." We're not quite sure who "they" are but the station says that people of Mexican descent make up a large part of the city and that the Spanish language...

You know about AIDS/Life Cycle right? The six day June bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that raises money for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. Participants travel 585 miles and raise a minimum of $2500 per rider in the process. If you're insane enough to want to do something like this, there is still time to register. Two excited cyclists have come up with...

Whatever you're playing at Bloomberg, stop it now. We don't even watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno but there's no reason why when Conan takes over the show at the end of the decade that the show should leave its cushy Burbank studio. We think Conan will do just fine out here on the left coast. In fact, the pasty talk show host could use some sun. And what does New York's Mayor...