Last Monday, New Jersey-based singer-songwriter and Perez Hilton favorite Jenny Owen Youngs (MySpace) -- previously mentioned here -- headlined at the Hotel Cafe (MySpace) in Hollywood. Opening for her was local singer-songwriter Greg Laswell (MySpace) and Minneapolis-based The Abdomen (MySpace). Laswell, whose recent music video for "How the Day Sounds" was filmed with actor Elijah Wood at Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Highland Park, packed the room early and included his cover on piano......

Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday the 13th, for the 2006 installment of AFI Fest, Los Angeles' valiant (read: sometimes comical, sometimes desperate) attempt to mount a world-class film festival, something this city deserves but sorely lacks. This year AFI Fest will screen 147 feature films and 36 shorts including several special screenings and premieres. The festival will host the U.S. premiere of Bobby, the Emilio Estevez-directed drama about the assassination of Robert F.......

Now that novelist Jonathan Lethem has just won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his work, we thought it was finally time to clear up the confusion we’ve experienced around the 4 Novelist Jonathans who have all achieved literary and popular successes in the past few years. Who wrote the Jeeves pastiche? Whose work is being adapted into a soon-to-be-released movie starring Elijah Wood? Who wrote the post-9/11 novel? Who likes comic books? Who eschewed......

And USC and EA Games know it. Game Girl Advance points us to USC's Summer Seminar series where young girls are being offered scholarships to attend their Interactive Entertainment Summer Camp. Video games aren't the only things girls like. 'SC has programs for the young Y-chromosomed scientist in your house as well. They aren't girls but Elijah Wood and The Killers will be shooting their reveal of the xbox 360 this Thursday at Avalon......

Maybe Austin is just like LA, after all. Much like how we do when we're home, we missed the premiere of a film but didn't miss the after party. Hooligans, a film about, well, soccer hooligans is probably very good and a lot of fun but we didn't see it. Instead we saw the star of the film, Elijah Wood, do an iPod DJ set at the end of the night at Maggie Mae's......