Tony Pierce

We get a lot of cheesy people trying to get their hands down the proverbial pants of LAist every day. You know, those who try to get their crap on our crap so that you THE EYEBALLS will see and love and salivate and consuuuuume. Even though that's not really how it works. How do we know? Well, watch: Be nice to each other. Give $20 to the most shady homeless person you see...

6. The couple who were shot and killed by cops in Laguna Beach died in a weird way. The wife was freaking out, cops arrived, she wouldnt put down the gun or stop pointing it at the cops, they shot her, the husband picked up the gun and pointed it at the cops, so they shot him and killed him, and the woman reached for the gun again and the cops killed her. 5....

Lemonheads, Icarus Line, Giant Drag @ El Rey Jet @ The Troubadour Vast @ Malibu Inn Shapes of Race Cars @ Club Moscow (free) Grand Champeen @ Knitting Factory (lounge) Big Youth @ The Echo NaNuchKa, Nectarphonic, Oso @ Molly Malone's Stone Sour, Lacuna Coil, Shadows Fall, The Knives @ The Wiltern...

Now that the line-ups have been announced, I'm happy to follow Sloane's lead and speculate on what my day will look like. By using the Coachella scheduler, The Coachooser, I simply turned off blocks of bands I wasn't probably going to be interested in seeing, and turned on blocks of bands that I liked. On Friday there were 19 acts that I kept turned on, and by leaving each set just a little early,...

One of the nice things about having so many tv channels is there is so much selection. There once was a time when there was only one late-night talk show option: Johnny. Then there was Letterman and Leno. Now there's also Craig Ferguson, Conan of course, and Jimmy Kimmel. There's so much selection that there's even an audience for Carson Daly's terrible mess of a show. In order to keep up with the O'Brien's,...

Yesterday we told you how to see 14 pretty good bands this Friday at Coachella, so now let's do Saturday using the Coachooser. Sadly even though the middle day has our most anticipated act, The Arcade Fire, it has the fewest amount of bands that we want to see, a paltry 15. Nine of them are playing between 2:30 and 5:30, and five of those are all playing at the same time! While we...

Don't you just love Secret Shows? If you can't make it to Coachella on Friday to see the Arctic Monkeys (who we now know will be sandwiched quite nicely between the Silversun Pickups and the Jesus and Mary Chain on the main stage), the much-hyped Brits will be playing a few days later on Sunday at the historic Troubadour. People swear there's still a few tickets left if you click here and use the...

Someone needs to tell Wendy McCaw that they canceled the soap opera Santa Barbara years ago. In what could only make sense in a network soap, the embattled Santa Barbara News-Press publisher has allowed a story without a byline to appear on the front page of her paper, accusing her former Executive Editor, Jerry Roberts, of having thousands of images of pornography on his company computer while he worked there. McCaw reportedly delivered Roberts'...

Sean Lennon @ The Roxy The Blood Brothers @ The El Rey The Nightwatchman, Buddy @ The Hotel Cafe Xiu Xiu, Sunset Rubdown @ The Troubadour The Prix, Radars to the Sky, Eagle & Talon @ Boardner's HDR, Anathema, Melotia, Conner, The Wandering Sons @ Viper Room Sasquatch, Smash Fashion, Dark Ages, Sweet Evil @ Silverlake Lounge 8mm, Wait Think Fast, Ezra Reich @ Spaceland Adult, Erase Eratta, @ Safari Sam's...

John Marshall Evans became the US ambassador to Armenia in August 2004. Six months later he visited California and was convinced by Armenian-Americans here to cut the political B.S. and simply say that the 1.5 million Armenians who were the victims of genocide at the hands of the Turks from 1915 and 1923... were indeed victims of genocide. Today President Bush will tapdance around the word in fear of insulting our ally Turkey, a...