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Now hiring: undercover hipster
By David Markland | 8 CommentsIn what sounds like the plot of an 80s B-film starring Jon Cryer, but with a wacky 90s CraigsList twist: Private Investigator / Detective Needed for Covert Assignment Licensed private investigator needed for covert infiltration into a network of hip, socially powerful individuals. The individuals... -
New 2009 Driving Laws: Don’t get a ticket for DWT
By Travis Koplow | 2 CommentsI have a theory that the reason traffic was so stupid this morning is because everyone was getting their last legal texting in before the new driving laws go into effect tomorrow. AAA of Southern California has a run down on the legal changes. Most... -
New Year’s Eve Party Spots On The Cheap
By Jason Burns | 3 CommentsDowntown blog Angelenic has posted a great list of places in L.A. to count down the final minutes of 2008, with people you may or may not know. Let’s face it, sometimes the latter is better. And since we’re in the throes of a Depression,... -
Girlie Hair on Fridays!
By tammara | No CommentsGirls: Tired of your hair looking plain jane when you hit the town on Friday nights? Well you’re in luck. Last week, purely by chance, I happened onto this hair salon, “Harroin: Addicted to Style” smack in the middle of Hollywood and they are running... -
Archiving Angeles (AA): NYE in Redondo Beach
By Jason Burns | No CommentsRoute 66 just stretched its legs into Downtown Los Angeles. The silent film era was coming to an end. The dawn of a new year was just hours away. Redondo Beach was ready. The year was 1926. Photo from the USC Digital Archive -
Metro’s Twitter Goes Bilingual
By Jason Burns | 8 CommentsYour ATM does it. Your kid’s toys do it. Even Disneyland does it. Now, Metro joins the club by tweeting in both English and Spanish. That’s very nice of them, unless you don’t want to read the exact same update twice. The tweet pictured above... -
A Float Gets Built
By faboomama | 2 CommentsAfter sharing my experiences decorating floats with my daughter, I figured it would only make sense to actually show her. The entire family packed into the car for a quick trip to the float near us in the City of South Pasadena, the oldest self-built... -
LA Times bankruptcy hits home…mine, as a matter of fact
By Lucindamichele | 2 CommentsWell, technically I dodged the bullet, because my services were rendered and paid for a while ago. But since I have freelanced for the LA Times before, I received a lovely notification in the mail yesterday informing me that my sometimes-employer had gone dodgy on... -
Pedro Pete does Huell Howser
By frazgo | 6 CommentsIts a parody, get your mind outta the gutter and enjoy. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. Pedro Pete is an LA... -
Villa Sombrero in Highland Park Reincarnated!
By Lucindamichele | 1 CommentThose of you who knew & loved Villa Sombrero, in Highland Park, mourned its passing a few months back when it shut its doors on those sombrero-sized margaritas forever. But despair not! My friend, often when we lose a loved one, what we don’t realize... -
Christmas isn’t cold and its VDay already at WalfriggenMart
By frazgo | 4 CommentsI lost the coin toss to see who got to take the kids to walmart to use their freaking gift cards. Despite requests she not give them cards from walmart ,my sister still does it. Anyway..imagine my horror when I see Valentines Day up. Sheesh Christmas... -
Vote now for LA Metblogs’ Grinch of the Year!
By David Markland | 3 CommentsOh, LA Grinches, don’t think we forgot about you! The holiday glow isn’t enough to let us here at Metblogs forget about you nasty, wasty skunks and decide who among you we’d least like to touch with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole. Vote now! The dishonoree... -
Watch Where You Point That Thing
By Jason Burns | 2 CommentsNBCLOSANGELES is reporting that the LAPD would like you to not shoot your gun into the air on New Year’s Eve. You could maybe hurt somebody, and that would be bad. It’s also against the law. And, dumb. As of this posting, the department has... -
Fire Sale! Last-minute tix to Robin Thicke tonight with Chrisette Michele at Club Nokia!
By Lucindamichele | 3 CommentsIt’s exclusive. It’s awesome. It’s expensive. But you can go for free! The first five people to get back to me in the comments get tickets as soon as I can confirm your names for will-call. woot! Info on the show is here. -
How Should L.A. Celebrate NYE?
By Jason Burns | 11 CommentsIn New York, they drop a ball. Orange County supposedly has an orange – although last year I found myself at a depressing outdoor “Mardi Gras celebration” with questionable live music, blackjack table raffles, and some guy trying to sell me a posturepedic mattress. That’s...
