Jason Toney

Fresh off of impressing folks with their energetic set at SXSW, Art-pop band Maximo Park is at Cinespace tonight at 10pm. Cinespace's Tuesday rock nights are hosted by DJs Steve Aoki and Frankie Chan and they bring the true hard rock dance party if there is such a thing. Rumor also has it that this is the after party for Bloc Party's Troubadour show tonight as well as to celebrate the release of their...

NPR ran a story last week about the growing contest between California cities vying for stem cell research business. Communities struggling a bit in a post-dotcom world like San Jose are hoping that an infusion of biotech dollars will revitalize their economies. Well, Los Angeles is in that hunt as well. Both the downtown business community and UCLA have stepped up their efforts to have stem cell dollars spent in their areas. UCLA is...

Attention to all our flickr detectives: you've been bought! Our new Santa Monica neighbors, Yahoo!, have acquired every hipster and tech nerds favorite online photo site, flickr. The announcement comes after weeks of speculation that it had already happened. Flickr made an announcement that reminds us of when Livejournal got bought by Six Apart (is this too much geekspeak?) earlier this year. "Nothing's going to change...we're all staying right here...all of you original users...

LAist knows this is a few weeks off but you probably need to get your tickets for it now. The cast of "Family Guy" will be doing a reading of classic episodes, giving a live performance from the upcoming comedy album and giving a sneak preview of the first episode of the new season at The Wiltern on April 15th for two shows. "Family Guy Live!" is being produced by Just For Laughs, creators...

There were some stories we missed this week, like the same-sex marriage ruling, the return of our favorite show based in Los Angeles, "The Shield" or the murder at Locke high school amongst others but what can we say...we were at SXSW! Here's what we did catch: - We found our own little Hobbit Hollywood in Austin. - We explored g-d's web presence. - We tried to figure out if we are ever going to...

We ran from our very last SXSW event - the It Takes a Nation of Millions to Make this Panel panel - and straight to the airport to return to Los Angeles. Mena Suvari was on the plane and we wanted badly to chat her up but didn't; we got caught up in traffic on the 101 (no shock) because of a Sherman Oaks lockdown while the police searched for a bank robbery suspect...

The father of Chicano music has died. Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero, Jr. was 88. The man should be considered a Los Angeles icon having spent most of his adult life living in and around the city. 20 years ago, he and his son, Mark Guerrero, performed "Two Generations of Mexican-American Music in L.A." at the Southwest Museum in Highland Park and have done similar performances throughout California ever since. Recognized by The Smithsonian as a...

Friend of LAist (you didn't know we knew such cool people did you? Well, we do, even if only virtually), Christopher Rice will be reading and signing his new novel, Light Before Day, at the Border's Books and Music on La Cienega in LA tonight at 7:30 PM(and as an aside, how much does google local integration with google maps rock right now?). Are we allowed to say that we like Christopher's writing more...

After a week in which LAist sat on a panel, enjoyed immensely the panels of others, partied with our publisher, our co-conspirator from the north and the brand new baby of the family, caught Asobi Seksu with Neal Pollack, and ate ourselves into oblivion, it is finally time for us to head home. But not without a little music first. An interview with Elvis Costello turned unexpectedly into an expose about "The Killer" Jerry...

The LA Times yesterday referenced LAist in a piece about how local blogs are covering local politics (login may be required). We can't quite tell if Brendan Buhler is mocking us (and all the other bloggers mentioned) or not but we did appreciate their descriptive line for us: A snarky local outpost of a chain-blog with sister sites in London and New York. We love when you call us snarky. Mayor Sam thinks the...