The New York Times Heads To Laguna Woods For Insights On Aging

Laguna Woods is famous for many things: elderly people, elderly people and elderly people. So when the nation's best newspaper sends a reporter to the tiny OC city, chances are, the story that comes out is going to be about youth baseball.Just kidding. It's going to be about elderly people.An…

[Trendzilla] Go Wet 'n Wild (Again)

Go Wet Nn Wild (Again)More than likely, the first brand of cosmetics you ever tried was Wet Nn Wild, now a familiar name of tried-and-true drugstore beauty essentials. The classics are all still there—and yes, their eye- and lipliner pencils and nail polish are still at the pricing they debuted…

Congressman Campbell, The Excellent Blogger

If you're able to stomach the bitchy bitching about Obama, Congressman John Cambpell's “laptop reports” to constituents are actually pretty good reads. Why? He has figured out what makes great bloggers great: gimmicks!This latest bend-over-backwards-to-be-clever narrative structure:Three Liners: OK, so 'one-liner' is the term we all know and are accustomed…

[Sound Guy] Local Bands Invade Your TV Set

Product PlacementLocal bands break in by sneaking through your TV setIn 2005, “Breathe Me” by Sia played during the series finale of HBONs Six Feet Under. Despite being nearly two years old at the time, the song was exposed to a whole new audience, prompting widespread commercial radio airplay and…

Unwigged and Unplugged

The names Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest might not mean anything to you, but they should. Individually, each man has an impressive resume (McKean was Lenny from Laverne N Shirley; Shearer voices Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders and Otto Mann on The Simpsons; and Guest has appeared in the…

[Locals Only] Anaheim's We Are the Pilots Prepare to Take Off

Flight TestWhen naming your band these days, you really do have to consider search-engine optimization—or, to use a more colloquial term, Googlability. (Googliciousness? Googlocity?) If you call yourself something too mundane—like local band Years—you end up being pretty much impossible to search for online. For AnaheimNs We Are the Pilots,…

Obama's Amerika Cracks Down on Butt Cracks!

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Baracknophobia – Obey comedycentral.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Sure, Jon Stewart can mock those courageous Fox News hounds exposing the wussy Socialist tyrannical ways of the 10-week-old Obama administration, but look what the Chosen One's hyper-P.C-anti-freedom-thug…