LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Local zine Ker-bloom! never fails to supply a light meditation on various topics (love, gamer culture, mid-life crises and more) – the latest issue, #63 deals with topics of forgiveness. Each issue is gorgeously, painstakingly handset and letterpress-printed on recycled cardstock, in limited edition batches of about 250. Karen Switzer (aka artnoose) has kept Ker-bloom! in production since 1996, and also runs Crafty Cards, designing custom letterpress cards and stationary out of her East......

While some time ago, we advised using corporate coffee houses in a pinch when you're in a strange town, we're beginning to believe that French bakeries should be our new default places to get coffee. After all we are still continuously pining for a cappuccino from La Boulange de Polk, even though we've been back many times since our initial review. And we've just visited such a place downtown, Cafe Madeleine, at 300 California......