Los Angeles

Celebrity Sleepovers

sleeping bags ©karina y From the guy who brought us 101 Other Things to Do in Amsterdam, comedian Mark Malkoff is showing cheapskate vagabond-types everywhere how to couch surf Hollywood style. It only makes sense that in a city of overrun with overpriced hotel accommodations and celebrities the cheapest way to get a good night’s [...]

L.A.’s “Museums Free For All” This Weekend

The Getty Center; L.A. © shishito With a gloomy weather forecast for the weekend in Los Angeles, residents and visitors can beat the winter blues and visit numerous city museums for free. In it’s seventh year, L.A.’s ”Museums Free For All” kicks off this weekend. A wide range of museums–presenting art, natural history, science–are free, however [...]

LAX Declared World’s Most Social Airport

LAX ©sfxeric Los Angeles International Airport Named Most Social Airport in the World by Facebook. LAX “likes” this. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport comments, “yeah, but we are still the busiest.” Suvarnabhumi Airport comments, “we’re catching up!” Today, Facebook announced that LAX is the “Most Social Airport in the World.” The title was given based on [...]

Undead Destinations

Bran Castle © Horia Varlan The recent pop culture obsession with vampires has led to a surge in fang tourism. Lonely Planet has compiled a list of the best places around the world to delve into the mystery of the undead. Explore ancient legends of beautiful Pontianaks– Indonesia’s version of a vampire–in their namesake city [...]

Banksy Takes Los Angeles: Documenting The Street Artist’s Tour of Tinseltown

The British street artist Banksy is back in Los Angeles, just in time to create hype around his Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. This past week, Hollywood has been abuzz with daily reports of new Banksy-claimed street art pieces—at least seven since we last checked. GOOD magazine has the latest.

Adios LA: Clever ‘Dear John’ Letter to Los Angeles

Artist Jon Jackson has had enough of his hometown of LA. Now it’s time to say Adios … You can slip out the back Jack or you can put up five 10 x 23 foot billboards in your neighborhood. Adios LA is a visual goodbye to the city Jon Jackson has called home for years [...]

Books & Bars: L.A.’s Thirst for Literature (and Style)

… there is currently a trendy movement occurring in Los Angeles that has seen the marriage of books and bars. That’s right – drinking establishments that have lined their walls, and shelves, with everything from hardbound classics and modern novellas to law encyclopedias and philosophical tomes. As for the current trend of styling everything from [...]

Photo of the Moment: Falling from the Sun Burst, Los Angeles

Adrenaline Rush: The Geek Sport of Speedcabling

© Jaako Trust an IT guy to devise a new “game” that has people detangling Ethernet cables, and calling it a “sport.” Los Angeles native, Steven Schkolne, devised the game called “speedcabling” in which contestants were given a tangled mess of eight Ethernet cables and asked to detangle them. The contestant who detangles the cables [...]