As the regular season draws to a close, it’s time to look back on all those baseball blogs that carried us through the workday through the spring and summer months. We asked for your vote and you filled our inbox. Here are the 101 Best Baseball Blogs as chosen by LA Snark readers:

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LA Snark’s favorite band of 2007 makes it’s way to the Wiltern on October 20th with supporting act Midnight Movies.
Tickets available here.

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Today, Apple released the 1.1.1 update for the iPhone that has some iPhone-meddlers (people that installed 3rd party software on their iPhone) nervous. The upgrade comes with a warning:
“WARNING: Apple has discovered that some of the unauthorized unlocking programs available on the Internet may cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software,” the message read. […]

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Canadian indie new-wavers, blah blah other labels and genres, Metric will be at the Glass House in Pomona on October 2nd.  Tickets are available here.

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Ladytron will be playing an all-ages show with Great Northern at Hollywoood & Highland tonight. You’ll need a metro ticket to view the show. We recommend parking far away and taking the train in.  Show starts at 8. […]

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Tom Cruise is recently became furious on the set of his latest film Valkyrie, a World War II drama (yes another one) filming in Berlin. Apparently the director and other members of the set staff including Cruise had called for a moment of silence in honor of all of the victims of WWII when […]

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Acoustic based Glasgowian(?) indie poppers The Hermit Crabs are set to blow up soon.  With an album set for release this summer, the Crabs might just be crawling onto US shores sooner than they expected.  For now check out their myspace page for some samples.

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Variety is reporting that Jessica Biel may snag the role of Wonder Woman in the upcoming Justice League film, causing a whole new generation of boys to take an unhealthy obsession with superheros to a whole new level. Will Superman and Batman be sharing the spotlight in this movie? If so, will Superman […]

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Bent Objects is a nice little Blogger blog that features, well, bent objects. Mostly bent wire acting as legs and arms to random things like, well you’ll see.

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Iron & Wine (yeah that guy that covered Such Great Heights for the Garden State soundtrack) has just released his latest album “The Shepherd’s Dog” on Sub Pop records.  Each album seems to add more instrumentation to the mix than the last, but this album features a few returns to the early, simpler acoustic pieces.
Iron […]

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New Jersey indie rock veterans Yo La Tengo will perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego’s La Jolla site on November 4th.  The band will play an acoustic set and tell stories (think VH1 Storytellers, except hopefully they don’t water the music down with too many cellos) and take questions from the audience.  […]

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I got my Van Halen tickets, did you? The (almost) original lineup of Van Halen lands at the Staples Center on November 20. The band recently performed a dress rehearsal at the Forum chock-full of all Roth era gems (Atomic Punk? Whoa!).

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Dunkin’ Donuts looks like it’s going to make a West Coast comeback.  This combined with the recent news that D&D is dumping all their transfats will make this a welcome return to my diet.

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As a way of promoting their new relationship with the iPod, Starbucks is plannong on handing out 1.5 million or so songs from October 2, to November 7. Customers will receive a “song of the day” card with their coffee purchase that can be redeemed when logging on to iTunes. There will be […]

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The BBC reports that Amsterdam’s famous red light district plans to shut down about 1/3 of it’s brothels. Amsterdam ha srechaed a 25m euro deal to purchase 18 brothel buildings and turn them into stores or housing.
About 51 of these prostitute “store front” windows will be sold in the Wallen (as the area is […]

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