Tony Pierce

Good is a pretty new, very beautiful, quite interesting magazine. The video above has some very informative facts about the Internet, sex, and how people usually view porn. LAist finds itself in an odd position of finding itself unsure about how long we could (or should) ignore the fact that one of the largest industries in this town basically gets ignored in the local papers, on local tv, and in the blogs that pride...

Dear LAist, Did you see Entourage last night? When Drama drove to Variety to beat the ass of the TV critic Paul Schneider, was that really Michael Schneider who also is a critic at Variety, appears on E!, and runs the Franklin Avenue blog? Also, where can I get that AD/HD shirt? Nancy, North Hollywood Dear Nancy, We thought the same damn thing! However, if we had tuned into the Franklin Ave. blog on...

A carefree Springtime waterparty turned tragic in Bakersfield when two kids who didn't know they had the E.Coli virus bacterium infected three others and possibly seven more including one adult. In a news conference on Monday, county health officials announced that two children were already sick when they attended the party and sickened other children, ABC23 reported. Officials said they are still trying to determine how the original two children got sick. Three children...

While it may be true that no one walks in LA, people do ride their bikes, and this week is your chance to ride your bike to work while feeling superior to your coworkers. Metro will kickoff its 13th annual celebration of Bike to Work Week with a bike rally and fair featuring Ed Begley, Jr. and a free concert by the Ditty Bops at Los Angeles City Hall, Monday, May 14. Metro also...

They have a weird name, they're unsigned, but still their music ends up on big tv shows and on the radio. Dylan Callaghan, the frontman of Silver Lake's Shapes of Race Cars, explains how this can possibly be. LAist: 1. Shapes of Race Cars have been around forever. You're playing the Key Club tonight, opening for Metal Skool. What your favorite LA club to play in? Dylan Callaghan: tony, baby!!! SRC has not been...

Who doesn't love their mom? OK except for you and you. LAist loves our mom and we know she appreciates it when we put a whole mess of videos in one post very conveniently so she can just sit at her computer and watch and sing along and be shocked and awed. Yes, some of these videos are songs that only say Mother once or twice but, just like how much you spent on...

Dinosaur Jr., Awesome Color @ The Troubadour Modest Mouse @ Greek Gibson Fairport Convention @ McCabe's Dios Malos, Free Moral Agents, Todd Congelliere @ Alex's Bar Broken Needle, Circle One, Death Party @ Safari Sam's Ariel Pink, Soft-Boiled Eggies @ The Echo Los Kung Fu Monkeys, Defied, JBL, Final Summation, Squatters in Paradise @ Knitting Factory...

- Bring popcorn: The MacArthur Park Task Force's first meeting is Monday at 6pm at Charles White Elementary School, 2401 Wilshire Blvd. - NBC4 - Was the Griffith Park Fire a pro-development conspiracy? - blogging.la - George Michael to star in an upcoming sitcom called "Ellie Stone" - Entertainment Wise - UCLA has done the right thing with 5,700 old pictures of Los Angeles - they're letting everyone use them - LA Observed -...

In their first official show of their world tour, Dinosaur Jr. treated last night's show in West Hollywood like the warm-up gig that they probably booked it as - sticking to new songs, tracks from the first two records, and only a few of the hits, including that Cure cover that sounds exactly like the Cure. They also seemed to forget to hire a competent sound man as the one running the board last...

- Dodgers donate $100k to help rebuild Griffith Park - MLB - LA Voice suggests that if there wasn't so much nature in the park, there would have been less of a chance of a fire - LA Voice - Three Glendale schools were locked down this afternoon under fear that a kid had a gun. It turned out to be a pellet gun - CBS2 - Paris Hilton ate corn with me -...