Kevin Kelly

Stay tuned for Day 2 and Day 3, of which Day 3 includes a very hot Katie Holmes news tidbit.

We have arrived. After a grueling eleven and a half hour roadtrip through conditions ranging from foggy, to rainy, to blizzardy, we drove into Park City around 6:00pm Thursday night. A fine meal of Swiss/German food helped to fortify our freezing LA-based skins. It was about 18 degrees outside. And snowing. What did we get ourselves into? Park City really is a beautiful place at night, with a blanket of snow covering everything and...

For the past several years, Geocaching has become more and more popular around the world. With the popularity of the internet, and the affordability of gadgets like handheld GPS units, this game is managing to reach a wider audience every day. We stumbled across this outdoor "treasure hunt" last year when we managed to find (after a lot of looking in the wrong places) our very first geocache near the Chess Park in Glendale....

And that about does it for this year's stunning presentation....

Yesterday was New Comics Day (new comic books are released on Wednesdays, so if you have a friend or loved one who disappears for a few hours each Wednesday, chances are that they're a closet geek), which took us to one of our favorite local comic book haunts. Yes, we're geeky, and we admit it. Meltdown Comics on Sunset Blvd. (and with two "Mini-Melt" locations in Los Feliz and Eagle Rock) is hands down...

All the hype, glitz, media, and talk that led up to the National Championship game finally came to a head this past Wednesday night, and unless you've been living under a rock since then, you know how it came down. What you might not know is what it felt like to be a dyed-in-the-wool Longhorns fan. Not just these past few days, but all season long. Whenever Texas would beat a team with a...

As Bob Barker has been telling us for years to spay and neuter our pets, it comes as no surprise that we face a huge animal population problem here in the United States. 5.8 million pets are euthanized in this country every year, and that translates to 658 animals being put down every hour. It's a really staggering number to think about. In 2000, two volunteers at an animal hospital in East Los Angeles...

Ask LAist is our occasional feature in which we answer the perplexing questions of our dear readers. Need help figuring out something about the city...or life in general? Ask us. LAist isn't just here to tell you where the best egg cream in city is, or when Boogie Knights will be playing the Lava Lounge again. No, we are here for much, much more. And a big part of that is your, and our...

If you were extremely lucky last Tuesday, you were able to get your hands on something proving to be more elusive than the fabled "Golden Tickets": an Xbox 360. LAist scoured the Southland in search of one, but we were met with closed doors, shaking heads, and empty packing crates at every turn. It was like Cabbage Patch Kids, all over again. Although we don't think people were robbed at gunpoint for Cabbage Patch...

Being stranded or alone in Los Angeles can be a bit daunting, and sometimes downright scary. On the other hand, the freeways and streets turn into traffic free islands of Shangri-La that make staying in town worth it. Even if you don't have to go anywhere for anything, just pretend you're running a big errand, and marvel at how little time it will take you to go from Santa Monica to Glendale and back....