Photograph of memorial outside Heath Ledger's NYC apartment Gothamist learned that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment, cause of death unknown so far (but apparently the masseuse who found him called Mary-Kate Olsen before 911).Bostonist considered sending a link about the Super Bowl, but damn! The New Kids are reuniting!Although Sylvester Stallone is a native of New York City, his Rocky character lets many Philadelphians consider him a native son......

Photograph of the Trump Soho by Riccardo Sinti...

Chances are pretty good that you’ve heard of The MisShapes – New York's party-throwing trio and current It-kids. Last fall, the New York Times wrote about “the phenomenon known as the MisShapes” and their 15 minutes of fame. They've been in countless pop culture magazines, most of which reference the one time that Madonna dropped in on their weekly residency at Don Hill’s in SoHo. They've been on ads for those Eastport backpacks that kids......

Tony from LAist, here again to give you some choice picks of some of the bands that LA is very proud of. Tonight is one of those nights where you really wish you could split yourself up into several you's to check out all the bands that are rocking your fine town. The pick of the day has got to be Dengue Fever which is a multicultural group starring Cambodian pop star Ch’hom Nimol.......

My name is Tony Pierce, I'm the Editor of LAist, here in your fine town for SXSW. This is my third year doing the 9-day marathon of Interactive, Film, and Rock and I've gotta say that this is the best week-and-a-half that I get to spend each year. Although no one argues that Austin is the live music capital of the world, LA has been known to be home of some pretty decent bands,......

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous person quota by interviewing Lewis Black, covers the social cause with a non-profit car sharing company, and gives us more wacky local facts than we can handle with Austin by......

Remember when these guys were all over MTV and sold millions of records? Yeah, us neither, but don't even front like you didn't spend your whole senior year tooling around in your El Dorado, singing along to Ruby Soho and putting Kool Aid in your hair. Way back in 1992--allegedly the "year punk broke"--cult punk revival bands from California were a dime a dozen, and they were all being offered millions by major labels to......

Austin's real estate market is still as crazy as ever, with the median house price now just shy of $170,000, according to numbers published by the Austin Board of Realtors and reported by the Statesman today. Along with the price increase is a jump in the number of houses sold -- a whopping 15 percent rise in existing home sales from last February. Coupled with the decreasing number of homes available on the market (down......

Another fire has broken out in Downtown. Firefighters are on the roof of a building at 6th and San Jacinto, maybe the building next to SoHo. Coincidentally, it is directly across from the KOOP building that has burned twice in the past two months. Crowds were on the street watching the men in yellow do their business. No word on what caused the fire. If you have morei nfo. let us know in the......

SoCo is getting another face-lift. Hipper, trendier, more expensive. And as happy as we are to see Austin continue to grow, we wonder with more and more trendy businesses and shoppers flooding our neighborhood, where the hell are we going to move when our rent becomes too astronomical? The urbane gentrification of South Congress district will be getting another boost in the coming year, as what was once Capitol Car Credit will be transformed......