Paul Davidson

If you haven't heard of the amazing Regina Spektor, tonight and tomorrow night are your lucky, er, nights. Her third album, Soviet Kitsch (the first album widely released via brick & mortar stores and available now for digital download via the iTunes Music Store) is a lyrical and musical wonder -- allowing the Bjork-esque Spektor to move from the poetic jazz that filled out her earlier releases into more mainstream (yet original) territory. Her...

Third Street is stealing your quarters. Well, maybe not Third Street itself, but the valet parking attendants who staff the many valet parking stops along that street. After placing twenty five quarters in our closed ashtray and proceeding to visit a variety of stop along the road, LAist came to a very startling conclusion. (Which, of course, was already mentioned.) Valet parking attendants are stealing your quarters. Just which restaurant's parking attendants are the...

We here at LAist never thought we'd see the day. What day is that, you ask? The day when a group of impressive signatories, including novelists (Peter Lefcourt, Eric Garcia, Rovert Eversz, Claire Tristram), journalists (Ray Rivenburg, Annie Nocenti), L.A. City Councilmen (1 of them, being Eric Garcetti), filmmakers, television producers and award winning playwrights would band together to accomplish something that everyone has been waiting to see happen for decades... Rename the intersection...

LAist is starting to get sick and tired of lambasting the variety of award ceremonies (People's Choice, Golden Globes, SAG, Producer's Guild, Writer's Guild, DGA Awards, Academy Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Kids Choice Awards, etc) for being too numerous and of possessing so little entertainment value. Seriously, we are. We're tired of the humbuggery. And just about the point in time we were getting tired of that, a brand new category of award ceremonies...

LAist is feeling a little bit depressed at the current selection of new films playing at the local cineplex. We're just feeling a little bit taken advantage of, and you're about to read why. We remember 1976. Do you? Do you remember a movie called John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13? Do you remember anything so amazing that it was worth remaking the same exact movie about twenty-eight years later? Do you have any idea...

It's that time of year again. The Museum of TV and Radio has announced their lineup for the 2005 William S. Paley Television Festival, with event panels being organized for NYPD Blue, In Living Color, Adult Swim, Law & Order, Desperate Housewives, Jack & Bobby, The L Word, Lost, Veronica Mars, Boston Legal, Deadwood, and An Evening with Michael Palin. LAist highly recommends buying tickets to an evening for one of your favorite shows,...

There are stupid criminals and there are sneaky ones who love doughnuts. According to NBC4, our ever-faithful eye in the proverbial news-every-minute sky, a SWAT team "that went into a building Monday where a man who robbed a doughnut shop supposedly was hiding" found no one. Not even the crumbs of a once eaten bear-claw. The suspect, unknown to the major media news outlets, but known to LAist by our own pet name we've...

Thanks to the crack-team of reporters over at NBC4, the big news has finally reached the masses. That's right. For all those couch-potatoes desperate to become a reality-TV star AND big fans of eating live crickets and donkey balls, your prayers will now be answered this May. That's when Universal Studios theme parks in Hollywood and Orlando, Florida will be taking the "Fear Factor" you know and love from primetime television to tourists and...

There are many secrets shrouded in mystery here in the City of Angels. That's why LAist's brand-new feature (one of thousands to be unveiled in the coming decades) Secrets of the Town has been unleashed upon the unsuspecting citizens of this great city in an attempt to uncover the tidbits of information you were never meant to discover. This week, LAist would like to let you in on a little secret that few people...

Here at LAist, we like to watch trends. And then after watching said trends we like to take notes about said trends. Of course, following taking said notes about said watched trends, we like to type on our laptops about them and bring them to your attention. This week is no different. If there's one trend that's stood the test of time over the decades in Los Angeles, it's got to be the trend...