The South by Southwest film, interactive, and music fest is just a few weeks around the corner and LAist couldn't be more excited to attend and participate. Yours truly will be speaking on a panel, LAist will be throwing a concert at a great club, and we will cover the hell out of the fest in a way you've never seen done ever. Unless your dreams are really pretty. SXSW music has over 1,000......

Summer in LA usually brings in the smog season, those hot, hellish months when the mountains disappear behind a curtain of sky that's as beige as a shag carpet in an Encino tract home, circa 1976. Eyes tear. Lungs burn. Paint peels. Not this year, however. If you've been breathing a little easier and seeing the Hollywood sign a little more often, you're not alone. The AP via Yahoo! is reporting that LA has......