Jason Toney

From the tone of the comments in this post, a lot of folks are very angry about the Giant Village cancellation. If you want to inquire about refunds and such, we've got the contact info in that post. We're more interested, though, in the people who wouldn't let the abrupt death of their original plans get them down. Silverwolf of Blog or Death? opted to stay in and make it a movie night while...

Okay, so now that The Chronic (what?!) -cles of Narnia Rap has jumped the shark and even your crazy uncle joe knows that Google Maps is the best (true that double true) and your kid sister is walking around in her Crazy Delicious tee and has skinned her myspace page with Andy Samberg pics (even though she really crushes on Chris Parnell but, ohmigod, none of her friends are going to understand) and you've...

Take the train or the bus for that matter for free today. MTA doesn't want your drunk driving ass bloodying up the streets. Speaking of having someone else drive you, LAist New Year's recommendation for the future: make a car or taxi reservation for your new year's festivities early. We wanted a cab to come get us last night and drive us from the valley to Santa Monica but we were met with busy...

According to a few reports, including one on LJ's LA community page, it looks like you won't have access to Fergie's Humps tonight (or Ben Gibbard's or Jason Bentley's for that matter). Police and Fire officials have supposedly cancelled Giant Village 6 for safety concerns. UPDATE: The fire department says it was event organizers, not authorities. Weren't going to Giant Village tonight? Well, you probably still have to worry about this problem as that...

Well it is two doors in the last few months, but still... While UponShop is shuttering its brick and mortar spot, the NYC staple, Turntable Lab, has opened up shop . They are very much ships passing in the night. Uponshop hosted a fire sale last Saturday while Turntable Lab held a soft launch party at the very same time. They even have similar record sensibilities. As we noted yesterday, Uponshop was/is all about...

Now, truth be told, as far as local fast food burgers go, this -ister would much rather go to fatburger than In-N-Out (considering the constant line of cars at In-N-Out, you're not really "in" and "out" all that quickly anymore) so we don't have much cause to peruse the chain's website on a regularly basis. So, really we have no idea how long the secret menu has been hiding in plain sight right there....

We were told after their Friday night performance, that we had been their toughest audience yet. We didn't laugh quite as heartily or as often as others had before us. We didn't gasp or sigh or exhale audibly at all the key moments in each woman's solo scenes. Well, it wasn't for lack of interest in the subject matter. Nice Tits is a collection of one acts all centered around a woman's relationship with...

First an announcement: this is my last post as lead editor of LAist. I've got a new job that is taking much of my time. I love laist, though, so I'm staying on as "editor-at-large" which mostly means I get to post when I feel like it and bug everybody around here with my opinion on everything. Thanks for putting up with me on a daily basis for the last 10 months. Carolyn Kellogg...

Okay, so nobody has Showtime so you probably haven't seen Sleeper Cell, the premium channel's newest show burning through all it's episodes this month with the second round of episodes starting tonight. LAist had the show stored on it's tivo and blew through the first 4 hours this morning alternating between being completely enthralled and terrified by the characters and situations playing out on-screen. See, Michael Ealy plays a practicing American muslim FBI agent...

What should we tell you about Kong? That the hour and fifteen minutes after Jack, Ann, Denham and the rest arrive at Skull Island are not for the weak hearted? That the film is shot beautifully? That there are moments when the lighting is so stark, the simple movie effects so classic, that you wish it was in black and white? That the strongest performances are by Kyle Chandler as the incredibly cartoonish Bruce...