Jason Toney

Both the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Citybeat take deep looks at what the immigration debate and protests are really all about for people in Los Angeles. Andrew Gumbel goes macro and wonders if March 25th will become the watershed moment that brings Americans closer together. Daniel Hernandez zeroes in a bit and wonders why the old folks in the news media aren't giving the kids a chance. Meanwhile, Earl Ofari Hutchison continues...

-Techwhore.com has started documenting his experiences doing charity at the Los Angeles Mission. His first training day was smelly and left him conflicted. -Hey you, yeah you with the unmentionable rash, tell your potential partners that you've got VD or face the legal consequences. -The whole Sam Kellerman/James Butler tragedy just leaves us very sad. The Hollywood side of us, however thinks that one of the Law & Order's has probably already written a...

So, if you're on your way to find some Nature in LA this weekend, might we suggest downloading two tracks from Oliver Wang's Soul-Sides? He was in town this past weekend and came across The Devics and Feist (one of our favorite artists from 2005) while listening to Anne Litt's new show on KCRW - The A Track (which is also available daily at kcrwmusic.com). This LAist contributor is currently bouncing Madlib's Beat Konducta...

Mayor Villaraigosa seems to get more national interest with each passing week. He hasn't even been in office a year and we know we've talked about him being in the minds of the entire USA (and the world) more times than we care to go search through the archives to find. Yesterday, Time Magazine asked him about last week's protests and the state of Immigration law in the country. The quotable Mayor: I've never...

We asked and some LA Video Bloggers responded. 88Slide is a daily trivia challenge with actual prizes and a very local focus. Today's episode is taken on our own subway (the red line we think) and in the past few weeks they've had episodes on the LA Marathon and LA's first Gay Rugby team. We like that one and not just because Rachel, the lovely host, is rockin' a kickass Manchester rugby shirt and...

- LAPD cruisers might get cameras. - From the "it couldn't happen to a nicer guy" file: Suge Knight is broke phi broke. - LA Observed reports that Villaraigosa isn't happy to receive all types of civil disobedience. - Tonight's Clippers game is a first round playoff preview with the Nuggets and, more than that, home court advantage might be on the line. By the way, the Nuggets's Carmelo Anthony was the western conference...

Lan Bui of Irvine California rocks (we like it today even though it was taken a couple month's ago). (via rocketboom)...

Amanda Congdon and her many fans over at Rocketboom reminded us that this is Video Blogging week 2006. We went on a quick search for local bloggers posting daily video and, well, we're stumped. Where are you LA Video Bloggers? We want to see you strutting your stuff for the webcam this week. Let us know you're out there. Meanwhile, we'll point to our favorite daily video site (we kind of hate the term...

Over the weekend, on his way to the CheeseStore, Cody of Kid's Allright happened upon Art Storm and took some pics. Check for Crewest's next show on April 15th. Give Tax Day some SoulSignificance....

We're not quite sure what conspiracy Judi McLeod at Canada Free Press is trying to make by noting that Telemundo is owned by NBC which is owned by GE whose largest institutional investor is Barclay's Global Investors whose largest institutional investor Lazard Freres Asset Management and CSX-AXA who are, apparently, a bunch of Jews. Is the point that she thinks Spanish speaking people couldn't have organized such a well-orchestrated show of civil disobedience or...