This week the LA Weekly gets up close and personal with 110 Angelenos. In among the publicists and activists, doorkeepers and politicos, we found 2 bloggers. Congrats to Luke "it's not all about porn nowadays!" Ford and Tony "I love my iPod" Pierce! We bet it's nice to be put on a list with Jack Black, Mayor V, Sarah Silverman and Francine Dancer — we're really with they'd have a cocktail party together. All......

Vanessa Grigoriadis is a fearless and whip-smart journalist whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, New York and Radar magazines. A recent LA transplant, Vanessa excels at writing influential trend analyses and razor sharp profiles. In 1998, she authored the infamous New York feature "Power Girls," about Lizzie Grubman and other power publicists/socialites. Lizzie Grubman subsequently appropriated the article's title and made it the basis of her own reality series on MTV. It hasn't taken......

Max S. Gerber has captured janitors, scientists, porn stars, Willie Nelson, Carrie Fisher, Tim Hawkinson, Jim Jarmusch and many more. He's a photographer who does editorial portraiture, and his website features engaging editorializing of its own. His photos have appeared in Time, Newsweek, the UK's Sunday Telegraph Review, the LA Weekly, LA Magazine, LA Citybeat and more. Later this year, his photo series My Heart vs. the Real World will be published as a book.......

In the crowded field of public relations, marketing, specialty novelty/luxury items, and events, Kerith Elizabeth Henderson has her own thing going. Kerith’s experience of developing her own business is a noteworthy tale for folks trying to find their way and forge careers in creative, non-traditional ways while having fun. Plus it’s a reminder to us all that publicists are people too, ahem. Age and Occupation: 31. President of PRess, co-owner of PiscesSoap.com and Marketing......

Gawker.com, which doesn't seem to share Defamer.com's compunction to snicker at celebrity-offspring who are barely 18, shares a bit of news about a flack's efforts to spread the word about a couple of aspiring socialites, including Sam Greisman, who, apparently, is Sally Field's son. Upon reading about the publicist's efforts on Greisman's behalf, we felt an odd sense of recognition. Why, last week we'd just read a profile of Sam's (half?) brother Peter Craig, in......

Here in Los Angeles, they say you should write about what you know. Which gets us to thinking about the whole Raiders of the Lost Ark scenario where a movie presents a classic sequence involving a dirty, unshaven college professor who is running for his life as an unwieldy boulder chases after him, threatening to end his life once and for all. And that, of course, makes us think about the Topanga Canyon folks......

You may or may not recall back in August when LAist brought the skewed politics of the Hollywood Walk of Fame to your attention. Back then, it seemed as if the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce was (gasp!) just giving out stars on the Walk of Fame to stars who had (double-gasp!) studio pictures coming out soon, studio publicists willing to pony up the $10,000 to secure said spot on the Walk of Fame, and......

LAist just has to wonder aloud what normal American people (living outside of Hollywood) are supposed to glean from HBO's latest wannabe insider comedy, Entourage. After screening the first few episodes of the brand-new series (already renewed for its second season which, by HBO-scheduling standards, should be finished and airing during the Apocalypse), viewers have been privy to the behind-the-scenes life of one up-and-coming actor. Such amazing revelations have been made: that male actors......