Jason Toney

Netflix's resident film critic and relatively recent blogger is in town for the Independent Spirit Awards and likens Santa Monica to an alien world: I'm in Santa Monica for the Independent Spirit Awards, and I gotta tell you -- SoCal scares me. I mean, it all looks so reasonable and pleaseant: There's the beach! A nice cafe! Ooh, a movie star! And then you see, say, a Segway dealership, and all the cars are...

File this under brilliant. How Stuff Works decided to find out what kind of responses you'd get if you actually put out a call for a real life A-Team. Knowing that the characters of Face, Hannibal, Murdoch and the rest lived in Los Angeles, they placed an ad on Craigslist LA for a mission that the authorities just couldn't seem to crack. Here are the requirements: I'm looking for a crew of four -...

LAist hasn't done much in the way of covering trials featuring celebrities or the pseudo-celebrity: do you care? If something interesting happens, like Corey Feldman goes on TV and actually says something relavent (and, just so you know, his 20/20 interview had none of that), of course we'll have something to say about it here but otherwise, well, we're just not that into it. Unless, of course, you're just clamoring for it. So tell...

We were looking for a counterpoint to "Jack Dunphy's" assertion in The Times earlier this week that the paper was biased against the LAPD and that it was particularly telling in their coverage of the Devin Brown shooting. Dunphy presents an interesting case but his own desire to be "fair and balanced" in his critique of the Times seems to do his point a disservice. On the other hand, Media Matters pulls no punches...

We know it happened on the whole other side of the country but did you watch Project Runway last night? Perhaps the best finale of any reality show in history (paced correctly, cast members being even more themselves, a question of cheating, drag out fights, and then, true competition) ended with Jay McCarrol winning, just edging out LA-based Kara Saun. Kara Saun lost our love a little bit last night by taking the contest...

We're not sure if we're happy that Low Culture has come up with a diagnosis for these odd feelings but at least we know our problem. Obviously, we should have posted about Paris Hilton's sidekick being hacked by now but we didn't. You know why? We felt bad. Not just for all the people in her address book that got crank called to oblivion but also...for her. We know, we know. Perhaps no one...

We're crossing our fingers that the storm is gone but we did want to point you to some pretty cool pictures that Will of Hollywoodland took in a short period yesterday in front of Amoeba Records (he works there). From sun to showers in about ten minutes....

The sun is shining where we are and we just got back from the dentist so we don't want to even think about the rain. Please don't point out that the clouds are rolling in again or that we've got another thunder storm expected this afternoon. La la la la. We can't hear you. We're just going to check out today's Daily Breeze and their story on the ever decreasing crime rate in the...

Amazing how interested we are in a story about two radio stations we aren't much listening to right now. After talking about the apparent battle between Hip Hop radio and ratings juggernaut Power 106 and weak signal upstart 93. 5 KDAY yesterday, what did we find in our mailbox but the March issue of URB magazine with a feature on the history of the original KDAY 1580. Amongst all the nostalgia, Members Only jackets,...

Unfortunately, the death of Hunter S. Thompson on Sunday stole our attention from the passing of a true Los Angeles icon. Before Blue Crush, before Roxy gear, even before Sally Field, there was Sandra Dee playing Gidget on the big screen and, perhaps single-handedly, letting girls know that they could surf too. She died Sunday at the age of 62. We particularly like what movie critic (and California native), Carrie Rickey, had to say...