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The Times has a pretty funny story about fishing for bottom dwellers in our beautiful river. The whole thing is good but this was out favorite part - without giving anything away. Gaeta brought along white bread as bait, this column brought a $300 Orvis fly rod, a spin rod and a fresh Egg McMuffin from a nearby McDonald's. How could a carp resist that? About 15 minutes into the fishing episode, there was...

LAist was doing some upgrading Sunday morning and afternoon so we couldn't do all the posts that we wanted to do. But we are glad that everything is working well enough for us to post this little slideshow featuring the song by Count Basie. We in LA were very lucky to be so tied to Jackie's memory today and we hope his inspiration stays with us for more than just a few days. video...

Tragedy in Virginia... BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman was killed, bringing to death toll to 33, but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life. "Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," said Virginia Tech...

An independently owned-and-operated AM station in San Bernardino will be the only place in the country tomorrow morning that will be airing reruns of the disgraced dj Don Imus. "I'm not going to let networks dictate to me who I run on my station, Fred Lundgren, chairman of the Inland Empire's KCAA (1050 AM), told the AP on Thursday. Imus had been syndicated through KCAA every weekday morning since 2003. Lundgren admits that what...

About ten days ago at Spaceland Shapes of Race Cars (not Races Cars, LA Weekly), played with the Binges in a show that even Mummy from The Monster Squad attended and rocked out to. Tonight you'll have to choose which one you want to see, unless of course you're interested in laughing, in which case you might consider Patton Oswalt... or Metal Skool who are known to attract celebs to their shows. After the...

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The Shins, "Australia" from Wincing The Night Away, Subpop The Shins, Viva Voce @ The Orpheum Elemenopy @ Safari Sam's Eek A Mouse @ Malibu Inn Rock & Roll Adventure Kids @ The Smell Jack Tempchin @ The Hotel Cafe Lyra, Forget Cassettes, Yes Me to Death @ The Scene Elemenopy, "It's Tricky" - live from the Whisky 7/05...

Over the years the pool of the Hard Rock hotel in Las Vegas has established itself for being one of the funnest places to meet some of the hottest ladies in town. Next month not only will there be babes lounging, there will also be hotties on stage rocking. To celebrate their 14th(!) anniversary (didn't they just turn 21?), the Donnas will give a concert poolside of the Hard Rock, Friday May 11th. Tickets...

LAist gets and listens to a Lot of music. You can see the bands we like in the concerts that we review, the Tonight in Rock listings that we compile, and in the cds that we review. But we realize that we listen to way more music than we review so we figured we make a list once a week letting you know what we're into. week ending 4/13/07 Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Self-Titled...

The United States Olympic Committee just announced that Chicago has won the honor of representing America as possible host city for the 2016 Olympics. Before you go kick the dog or jump off the Hollywood sign, you should be sighing a breath of relief. Today's vote in Washington doesn't mean that Chicago will get the Summer Olympic games, it just means that they can spend more money over the next two years to compete...