Tony Pierce

- 9,000 people a month turn in their California driver's licenses for Arizona ones - LAT - LA coach builders + Mini Coopers = Mini Cooper limos - bornrich - The only thing worthwhile in the holier-than-thou feature about author Roger Kahn who wants to pretend that there's something wrong with betting on your own team, is this quote by Jim Murray about Pete Rose: "Did Rose bet on the game?" Murray once asked...

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...

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'...

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...

People talk shit about our local paper. Sometimes we're the ones talking shit. But every day there's gotta be ten things that you can learn from the Times. Right? 1. Houston's in Century City doesn't do reservations but accepts "call ins". 2. Rancho Cucamonga's mayor was once a heroin addict. 3. The Times uses Wikipedia as one of its sources. 4. Two people arguing at a Laguna Beach resort were shot and killed by...

The best thing about last night's Saturday Night Live was neither Scarlett Johansson hosting nor Bjork singing - both were disappointing to say the least. Indeed the only saving grace of the whole night was the TV Funhouse cartoon "Torboto". "The Prince Show", was ok, we guess, or was that the week before? They're all so disposable and interchangeable. If you didn't make it an hour and twenty minutes into the show and missed...

Iggy & The Stooges @ The Wiltern Sarah Silverman @ Largo Rooney, Graham Colton, Bleu @ The Roxy Metal Skool, The Atomic Outlaws, Anna's Brother, Kottak @ Key Club The Black Pine, Happy Hollows, Valentine @ The Echo Midget Fanclub, The Make, The Lieutenants, Blood on the Stereo @ The Gig A Static Lullaby, A Thorn For Every Heart, Kaddisfly @ The Knitting Factory The Henry Clay People, Clark 8, Downtown/Union, The Soft Hands,...

Adam is asking you, the reader, about movies that you might remember that were filmed at Echo Park Lake. While we can think of many, our favorite non-movie was the music video to Netty's Girl by the Beastie Boys. Who we miss very much and wish they'd put out a metal record or something....

When Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald began a six-week leave of absence Wednesday after being diagnosed with cancer, no one expect that Sunday there would be obituaries being written for the seven-term congresswoman. Rep. Millender-McDonald, the first African American woman to head the House Administration Committee, easily won her district (California's 37th congressional district) in last year's election by 82%. She lobbied to ban smoking in the Speaker's Lobby off the House floor, a request that was...

Before Nirvana there was Sonic Youth and this summer there will be nirvana at The Greek when Sonic Youth plays their entire Daydream Nation album. If June 20th isn't marked on your calendar you probably shouldn't enter this contest. We have a pair of tickets for this show. We also have two posters for the winner as well. To enter tell us a story about Sonic Youth. Tell us what the show is going...