6 Reasons The Clippers Will Be Better Than The Lakers This Year (And 3 Reasons They Won’t)

Since the Los Angeles Clippers moved here from San Diego in 1984, they have shared a “rivalry” with their championship-winning neighbors the Lakers that makes the relationship between Germany and Poland look equitable and balanced. Historically crippled by terrible signings, fan apathy, perpetually awful luck, and Ricky Davis , it seemed to most people as if the Clips were destined to be an eternal punchline. But in sports, conventional wisdom is only true until it’s not anymore, and last night (in a game that admittedly means nothing) Chris Paul and  the Clippers looked a hell of a lot better than Kobe and the Lakers

L.A.’s First "Snow": Flurries & Fireworks Last Night At The Grove

[ via @DigitalLA] Calm down, West Hollywood. I understand your concerns about the safety and urban decay of the area

Who Should Be The Next Owner Of The Dodgers? Our Top 5 Choices

For a ball club that had kind of grown used to bad news , last week finally brought a tremendous ray of sunshine: erstwhile Los Angeles Dodgers owner and professional bankruptcy clown Frank McCourt has finally caved in to public pressure and cold reality, agreeing to put the team and its assets (which, you might recall, are legally separate from the team as part of an elaborate shell game ) on the market. Of course, this is still Frank McCourt we’re talking about here, so his version of “reality” still involves an asking price of $1 billion , but progress is progress.

Nerd Alert!: L.A. Lines Up For iPhone 4S Day

[Steve Wozniak first in line outside Los Gatos Apple store for iPhone 4S via ] The release of a new Apple device is reason enough for people across the world, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak , to lineup outside stores at ungodly hours to be one of the first owners of whatever the next best iGadget may be. Compounded with last week’s passing of Steve Jobs and this week’s BlackBerry outage, people may be extra motivated to gather outside and wait for today’s release of the iPhone 4S

GofG L.A. Interviews The Rapture: On DJing After Parties, The Late DJ Mehdi, & Advice On Starting A Band

– Go HERE for more photos by Brent Harrison from The Rapture After Party and tag yourself & your friends! Last week, I had the utmost pleasure of speaking to Gabriel Andruzzi and Vito Roccoforte of The Rapture at the 2nd Annual FILTER Magazine Culture Collide Festival in Echo Park. The band and I talk success, music business and the late DJ Mehdi .

Salahis Take Beverly Hills: The House + Steps To Wannabe Social Climbing In L.A.

[Michaele Salahi, Tareq Salahi via ] Here in L.A., despite how much we don’t want to admit it, this town tends to not only embrace but actually breed tacky people and their tacky behavior. Of course this doesn’t apply to all Angelenos but if L.A.-based shows like “Million Dollar Listing”, “The World According To Paris”, and anything “Kardashian” were a direct representation, everyone here would have bedazzled cell phone cases, take out second mortgages in order to take two-week vacays to Maui and have personal healers, but the truth is only some of us do. My point is, the move from Virgina to Beverly Hills makes perfect sense for D.C.’s shamed social pariahs, Michaele and Tareq Salahi , also known as those freaks who crashed the White House state dinner and hosted half-assed polo matches on vineyards they pretended to own on “Real Housewives of D.C.”  If any place is willing to tolerate that level of gauche they’ve managed to hone, it’s LaLaLand

How To Bring The NFL Back To L.A., The Right Way

Since the main demographic of this site is people looking for news about Kim Kardashian and the things that are often put inside of her, I’m guessing we have at least some football fans in the audience other than yours truly.

You Know It’s Summer When A Bunch Of Goats Invade Downtown L.A.

Remember that scene in Collateral where the coyote runs across the middle of the street in Hollywood, and Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx just kinda stare at him, and then Chris Cornell starts singing, and then it’s a metaphor for the urban predator or man’s inherent wildness or something? Well, movies can be fun and all, but why settle for make-believe when we have our own real-life city-meets-nature metaphor smack dab in the middle of Downtown LA

Salute Your Shorts: Flag Fashion Inspiration For 4th Of July!

With the 4th of July just around the corner, have you given any thought to how you’ll be working The Red, White and Blue into your ensemble? Why not sport the very symbol of our great nation’s independence somewhere on your body? We’ve already gone over the virtues of flag pants and how nothing screams USA pride like when it’s coming directly from your crotch

Reason #5 To Have A Summer BBQ: Hot Dogs

#5: Like the food of the gods, there’s nothing quite like a grilled hot dog. Not only are they delicious, but they actually taste like summer. Oh man, and if you get some Grey Poupon up in that, forget it! But hopefully you’ve evolved from your 7-year-old self and graduated from ordering off of the kids menu so there’s really no socially acceptable time to slam a Hebrew National these days, with the exception of summer BBQs