Paul Davidson

With tabloid journalism often going for the least common denominator and reguarly attempting to connect dots where dots aren't available to be connected -- it's amazing something like this hasn't happened already. Cue Shane Nickerson, a regular 'ol Los Angeles local who happens to be a Producer for an unnamed reality show starring an unnamed A-list actress. Seems that when Nickerson got up to answer the door on Mother's Day, a certain tabloid magazine...

The cold hard facts are these: people wanna eat at quality, unique restaurants with great food and even greater ambiance. They want to leave said quality establishments with a smile on their face and a few dollars left in their pockets. They want to be able to return at a later date and end up getting the same damn-good experience like the last time they were there. Enter Entwistle Farms. Hitting the pavement running...

With enough solved mysteries now to publish a best-selling novel, LAist has settled into a comfortable place solving local mysteries for our loyal readers on a week-to-week basis. Sure, it may not be nearly as snarky as The Coffee Buzz -- but hell, it's free. And in this world, that's something to talk about. This week, LAist turns our wandering (and lazy) eyes towards a potentially criminal situation that has been unknowingly going on...

Here at LAist, we like to think of ourselves as purists. None of this going into a bookstore to buy a magazine. No visits to indoor coffee shops just to pick up a paper. No sidewalk dispensing glossy covered soft-core classified mags. We like to go to the newsstand. The old-school, no-heat, street side newsstands. But there are good newsstands and bad newsstands (just like good people and bad people) and so LAist decided...

Hitting the ground running, LAist takes time out of our busy schedule solving crimes this week to address yet another unsolved mystery of the Angeleno landscape. Broken parking meters. We've all been there. Looking for a spot in a highly congested area and finding ourselves idling next to a particularly ominious open spot. Why hasn't someone parked there? It's obviously not a painted red area. And then we see it. A broken parking meter....

Let's face it -- Tom Cruise must really be worried. Every time the guy reaches a turning point in his career... Every time we start to think that his movies are grossing less than other "not-so amazing movie stars..." Every time he's got a movie coming out... He hooks up with another woman. Unnamed sources located in the highest positions of power here in Hollywood have whispered about Cruise and his methods on more...

It's been a BBC radio play, a BBC television show, an Infocom video game, a hugely popular novel and a towel. That's right, It's Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which adds to the ever growing list of Hitchhiker's properties by opening in theaters today as a full-fledged movie. While Douglas Adams' co-wrote the script and worked tirelessly on getting a movie version made before his death two years ago -- fans have...

It's a Friday night. (Or, it could be a Saturday night too. Or maybe even a Sunday night. Okay, it could be any night.) Either way, you've shown up at a busy chain restaurant like Marmalade at the Grove, or Cheesecake at the Sherman Oaks Galleria or P.F. Changs down in Santa Monica. There's a queue for sitting down for dinner, and you've been handed one of those great little pager doohickeys. "Don't leave...

It's a beautiful day in the galaxy for fans of The Eels today, seeing the release of their new album "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations." The two-disc album, which tells the story of one man's life over 33 songs, has been hailed as an "absolute stone masterpiece" (EW), "a record of real, despondent beauty" (NME), "stunning" (The Guardian), "spellbinding" (The Times), and "life affirming and career-defining" (The Sun). As for LAist, who has already...

While local citizens are always their own experts on everything from restaurants to movie theaters to parking lots and gas stations, LAist finds that more people have more opinions about sweets than anything else in town. Most specifically donuts. (Or, doughnuts. Or, dough-nuts.) Last year, Daily Candy raved about a place in Sherman Oaks called Baby Donut (15030 Ventura Boulevard) where obsessive-compulsive doughnut eaters, those fed up with the generic corner stores or the...