Jason Toney

See, stars are just like us. They have yard sales. Cartoon Brew tips us off that Tim Burton and his wife, Lisa Marie (That's what Cartoon Brew says. LAist thinks he's married to Helena Bonham Carter), will be having a yard sale this month in Azusa. Amongst all of the fancy name brand stuff the Burtons will be selling at discounted rates will be movie memorabilia. We're pretty well stocked on our Nightmare Before...

There's something rotten in Echo Park. It may look like the country jamboree bear hanging from the stoplight at 1600 W. Montana took his own life but we suspect foul play. How would a stuffed doll get up on the pole? How could he tie a knot when he doesn't have fingers or thumbs? And, more importantly, what is wrong with the life of a shaggy toy bear? I mean sure, he's no Vermont...

If we want to exclaim for Yahoo! do we need to add another exclamation point? Oh, let's forget the grammar quandaries of the day and just wish Yahoo! a hearty and happy 10th birthday. LAist can't believe it's already been a decade for the mighty search engine. We know that google gets all the play these days and that all the cool kids are leaving Yahoo!Photos for flickr (which might be why you're trying...

The Advocate is reporting that the Carl Bean House, home to the Magic Johnson Health Care Center, will be forced to close down if they can't get alternative funding. Their one million dollar county funding dries up today. Carl Bean is the very last of LA's AIDS Hospice Care Centers....

We're not sure what to say about The Jacket. We went to the LA premiere of the film last night, the first major release from Warner Independent, at the Arclight and, well, the flick is hard to explain without getting into the complexities of the story. It reminded us of 12 Monkeys (not only in some story elements but in actual scenes) but that's not a bad thing. If you accept the premise, it's...

LA Blogs asked us to send in some questions for their Mayoral Insight and we couldn't come up with any. Thankfully, other local bloggers answered the call and so LA Blogs has put it to all the candidates of the race to answer their questions. We particularly like the two questions regarding the LAPD from LAPD Wife and Boi From Troy. Candidate Bill Wyatt was the first to respond....

Jared Hess (director of Napoleon Dynamite and Postal Service's most recent video) will be part of the Q and A tonight along with Michael and Olivier Gondry and Peter Cornwell at this month's RES screening. Not quite as cool but an added bonus? First 100 people in the door get a free pair of Converse. We presume they'll be some assortment of black and white Chucks. How could they not be?...

Overheard Saturday night while standing at valet outside an Independent Spirit Awards After Party: Designated Driver (as she sits in the driver's seat): Somebody was getting high in here. Your car totally smells like pot. Drunk car owner (after smelling her car and returning to the valet station): I don't mean to offend anyone but which one of you guys was toking up in my car? Valet Manager: Oh no. Not my guys. They've...

We don't mean to be all movies all the time today but while trying to figure out where we could see Born into Brothels this week, we fell in love with Google's movie hack. LAist thinks it's a pain in the behind to have to go through fandango or movietickets.com or one of the other film finding services to figure out which theatre we can go to to catch either the blockbuster on 60...

If you want Oscars coverage, Gothamist and Chicagoist blogged the shows and Tony Pierce has a transcript of the political portion of Chris Rock's monologue (which we missed while we were in traffic going to an Oscar party). Based on the transcript, we're bummed we didn't see it because that was pretty funny. Our only Oscar thoughts come from the party. We hollered for Jay-Z and Beyonce; we decided Hillary Swank's dress was the...