One of the nice things about having so many tv channels is there is so much selection. There once was a time when there was only one late-night talk show option: Johnny. Then there was Letterman and Leno. Now there's also Craig Ferguson, Conan of course, and Jimmy Kimmel. There's so much selection that there's even an audience for Carson Daly's terrible mess of a show. In order to keep up with the O'Brien's,......

Not that long ago Jason Toney was the Editor of LAist and now he works for The Mouse in their online division. And he's still bustin on Negro Please. And he's still bobbin his head to the fat beats. As we continue our list of top ten best of lists, we give you Jason Toney's Best LA Hip Hop CDs of 2006: In a pretty dismal year for hip-hop, local hip-hop head Peanut Butter......

Heart @ Fairplex Pomona Apollo Sunshine @ Troubadour Feist @ Avalon Jill Sobule @ Largo Headlights @ Spaceland 311 @ Santa Barbara Bowl Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo' @ Greek New Maximum Donkey @ The Joint Death House Chaplain @ Mr. T's Bowl Scream, Beautiful Creatures @ Viper Room Supagroup, The Giraffes @ Key Club Tsuyama Atsushi, Kawabata Makoto, Tatsuya Yoshida @ The Smell Lisa Lisa, Zapp, The Manhattans, GQ, The Delfonics @ Hyundai Pavilion......

Jason Toney, editor emeritus, is back to blogging, just not for LAist. On his personal blog, Negro Please, he writes that after three months "away from the daily grind of blogging about Los Angeles in our glutted city-blog landscape, I thought I'd take a look at what's going on in LA and who is doing it well. I've barely read most of these sites since I retired completely so it's almost a whole new......

LAist Editor-at-Large Jason Toney was among the fantastic Blogging While Black (Revisited) panelists at SXSW Interactive. In a conference that pays a lot of attention to tools, this was a rare, welcome session devoted to content. Hooray! LA bloggers Jason and Tony Pierce were engaging, funny, thoughtful and smart, and the rest of the panel (Lynne, Tiffany and George) were, too. Just don't say they were well-spoken, which is not the way to compliment a......

First, if you haven't read downtown blogger Jeremy Hermanns' account of being on the Alaska Airlines flight that blew a hole in its side at 30,000 feet, read it now. The LA Times looks at Nissan's new concept car which, not surprisingly, drives fast and looks cool. When it's parked, a screen folds down so the driver can play the video game "Project Gotham Racing 3," using the actual car steering wheel and pedals......

That there Jason Toney's got some pretty big shoes. Behind the scenes at LAist, he has been universally kind and gentle with us contributors. And up front on LAist you probably have noticed that he's smart, witty and engaged with the city in a way that is always interesting. Thank goodness he's not really leaving. So I can only aspire to fitting my small, sometimes obnoxious feet in his footsteps. Thankfully Marleigh is here......

Nearly 30 years ago, the legendary USC football coach John McKay left Los Angeles for Tampa Bay to become head coach of the Buccaneers. McKay took over the worst team in football, one which set a record for consecutive losses. When asked about his team's execution, McKay famously quipped "I'm in favor of it." Yet McKay eventually turned the Bucs around, as they reached the NFC Championship game under his leadership. A generation later,......

My name is Jason Toney and I'm the new editor of LAist.com. Hi there. Happy Valentine's Day. I've been a contributor here for just a little over three months. I wasn't born in LA but I've spent most of my life here and in the San Fernando Valley in particular. I work in television. I also have a personal blog. LAist currently has 11 regular contributors covering news, sports, events, art, architecture, and the people......

LAist.com welcomes Jason Toney as a contributor. Jason claims to buy way too much music, fails to attend nearly enough music shows, and spends too much of his paycheck on drinks around town. But Jason is really all about this town. Since no one ever comes to the Valley where he lives, he is often in Hollywood, Silver Lake, and the Westside and can, on the rare occasion, be convinced to go to the beach.......