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Yesterday LAist was invited to watch a taping of The Florence Henderson Show on the AARP's new network, Retirement Living TV. It was a bonus that they shoot it on the same soundstage where they filmed I Love Lucy. Blogger Donna Lethal's presence was required for her sense of irony, incredible database of old Hollywood trivia, ability to spot someone famous at 20 yards, and long red hair that men find irresistible.

Yesterday LAist went to see Magritte at LACMA because we hadn't seen it yet and he tried new things and this is the last weekend that it will be here, so we didn't mind handing over $25 for a ticket and one of those walkman devices that tells you what you're looking at. Even though we try to be cultured we often fail, which is why we aren't usually at fancy art museums in...

Although it feels like it's been around forever, blogging is so new that even its Godfather is young. Ev Williams was the co-founder of Pyra Labs, which created Blogger.com in 1999, which he sold to Google four years later. After working for The Man for a year, Ev quit Google and formed Odeo, a podcast service. Like most promising start-ups helmed by successful entrepreneurs, Odeo attracted some investement money and formed a Board of...

Yesterday LAist enjoyed a little lunch-break entertainment at the Hotel Cafe thanks to a showcase event hosted by Nettwerk and featuring two of their label's artists, Leigh Nash and Josh Rouse. Nash, who was last seen a few years back fronting the now-defunct pop group Sixpence None the Richer, is prepping her solo debut album Blue on Blue for a mid-August release. Her tunes are thoughtful and very catchy (shades of her old band's infectiously annoying "Kiss Me" single), and are served well by her breathy and airy vocals. She actually wrote the material during her residency in Los Angeles a year or so back, and it's possible to discern a bit of our city's surrealistic luminosity and cinematic atmosphere in her music, particularly on our two favorites of the tracks she shared, "My Idea of Heaven" and "Along the Wall."

Movies... one of the few surviving American traditions from the 20th Century. What's not to like? Popcorn, soda and experiencing a good movie in the company of others. OK... we forgot a few things. In an effort to survive amidst the clamor of new media, cinemas have succumbed to the commercial demon and lost track of their main draw: escapism. We used to go to the theatre to escape advertisements. Now they're everywhere. Even in the movie.