Jason Toney

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...

Moveon.Org is hosting emergency rallies across the country (and several locally including ones in Long Beach, Riverside, Laguna Beach, Santa Ana, and Ventura) today to protest the push for the "nuclear option" --removing the filibuster as a way to block the passage of law and appointments-- by Senate Republicans. Senator Frist's threats are his way of side-stepping Senate Democrats who want to block several of President Bush's judicial nominees. Hasn't Frist ever seen Mr....

According to Heavy Trash, many things. Specifically:The problem is, gated communities do not increase people's trust in each other or the overall quality of life. They may in fact do harm to both. To combat this spirit of distrust in our local communities, the arts organization erected bright orange viewing platforms at three key locations throughout the city. We're sure the gated communities are working quickly to get them removed but, for now, you...

Even though we've been told everything changed after 9/11 that doesn't mean it can't change back. With a record setting first quarter for International travel, LAX expects to get back to pre-9/11 traffic levels by next year. The 4.1 million international passengers in the first quarter this year surpassed the 4 million international customers during the same period in 2001. March of this year saw a 13.2% increase in foreign travel over March of...

LAist would like to send one lucky winner a prize pack from the Lion's Gate release, Crash. Set in Los Angeles, Crash is about race relations and takes an unflinching look at how we all interact with each other. Crash opens in theatres on Friday, May 6th and stars Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillipe, Jennifer Esposito, Thandie Newton, Ludacris, Michael Pena and Larenz Tate. The Prize Pack includes a...

Your morning begins with Good Day L.A. where Steve Edwards jumps to every scene of violence and mayhem across the city and the world while Dorothy Lucey and Jillian Barbarie horrify you with gossipy pop culture hijinks and bad local fashion; you read every news blog you can find so you know what to be afraid of; You turn on 24 where for three years running, LA has been a hotbed of successful terrorist...

LA.Comfidential notes that Girl Scout Troop 171 is taking a page out of Phyllis Neffler's playbook and giving their squad of young ladies a different kind of survival training. One mother, who happens to be president of local spa Dermalogica, is throwing what we can only hope is a beauty boot camp at the end of which the Santa Monica girls will get their clear-skin badge. Taking cues from the Shelley Long/Craig T. Nelson...

Julia Child, the Pasadena-raised gourmet whose television career spanned four decades, is coming to DVD tomorrow. The 3-disc, 18 episode collection showcases some of her favorite recipes. While most of her shows were produced at WGBH in Boston, Mrs. Child never forgot her Golden State roots. In 1981, She helped launch the American Institute of Wine and Food, a non-profit organization with the sole purpose of getting all of us to enjoy our meals...

We spent the weekend at the Festival of Books trying desperately to figure out how to get into Hogwarts Platform (or Diagon Alley) but we spent the last week doing the following: - We tried to get someone to lose their job. - We wanted to tear the Hollywood Sign down. - The war on oversized cars in compact spaces was renewed. - We got tourist trapped at Universal Citywalk. - You told us...

Here's a new place for all our favorite flickr detectives and professional photographers to show off their best stuff. Los Angeles Photobloggers just launched today and it hopes to be a showcase of the finest of LA based photoblogging. They are part of the growing metro based photoblogging network which is also associated with photoblogs.org. Check 'em out. photo by Nitsa....