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| Music | Sports | TV and Movies
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Local Places

Pasadena-area organizations and web sites of interest   

  Creative Arts Group (arts and crafts lessons)
Culture Net (Local art and music connections)

  

Animation, Comics and Graphics

Visual arts that tell stories while moving or standing still 

  Anime News Network (news, information about events and conventions, and a host of other things)
  Anime Web Turnpike (links to lots of Japanese animation and related sites)
  Comic Book Resources (news, reviews and original material)
  Comics.com (your dose of daily comics)
Comics2Film (news and reviews about comics-related movie and TV projects)
Fourth Rail, (mainly reviews of new material)
Friends of Lulu (Women in the comics field)
  Hero Machine (design a comic book character on-line)
Online Comics (a 6000+ title directory of them)
  Tokyopop (now has a huge section for fans)
  Web Comics List (8600 titles and growing)

 

Games

Games and information about them

Adrenaline Vault (news about and patches for computer and console games)
Coffee Break Arcade (links to many online free games)
  Gamespot (news, downloads, patches and more, about PC and console games)
  Game Rules (for everything from card games to sports to computer games)
  Games for Windows (downloads, patches and more for your PC, including a lot of free games and demos)
Midway (the arcade game company has online versions of the oldies)
  NabiscoWorld (online game site sponsored by the food company...good puzzles, fun games)
Popcap (puzzle games written in Java)

 

Getting Involved

Volunteer your time to make something better

   Dosomething.org (Don't just sit there...)
  Network For Good (Enter your zip code and find out places to volunteer
  Voice of Youth: Make a Difference (a UNICEF site about teens and kids volunteering around the world)
  Volunteer Center of San Gabriel Valley (local opportunities to volunteer)
Volunteer Match (find ways to help others, even from your own home)
  Youth Noise (Get loud in a good cause or to support your beliefs)
  Youth Services America (Get in touch with ways to volunteer)


Music

Concerts, information and fun related stuff

   Acoustic Music around California
  Alive and Picking (directory of folk, blues and roots music concerts & events around southern California)
  All Music (links to info about performers, musical styles, musician bios...)
  Band Matrix (find your favorite band's website)
Billboard (the granddaddy of all popular music information sources)
  Country Music Television (the MTV of country)
  Digital Tradition database at Mudcat.org (This is where to find folk songs, lyrics and guitar chords--use the search engine in the upper left corner)
Free Sheet Music (links to music and resources for musicians)
  Gracenotes (a major database of music, with contents of CDs indexed by title, artist and song. Ignore the marketing stuff, the database link is at the bottom of the page.)
  Jesus Freak Hideout (Christian rock stuff)
  Kennedy Center Millennium Stage online broadcasts (all sorts of music, with a searchable archive)
  Kissthisguy (a crazy site for all those song lyrics you THOUGHT you heard right)
  La Musica (Latin pop music)
  Live 365 (internet radio stations)
  MTV (Hey, if you haven't heard of it by now...)
  Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (rock history, pictures, links...)
  Shoutcast (internet radio stations)
  Song Facts (things you never new about songs you love or hate)
  Song Fight (ongoing contests to write new songs or create new album covers)
  Song Hit Lyrics (from the 1930s to the present)
  This Day In Music (a British site with lots of music info and trivia)
  Ultimate Band List (find links by performer, including some tour info)
  VH-1 (Okay, so there's more than one music channel on TV...)


Sports

All the local pro teams plus links for college, high school and individual sports

  Angels baseball team
Avengers arena football team
  Chivas USA soccer team
Clippers basketball team
College Sports of all kinds
  D-Fenders (NBA Development League basketball team)
Dodgers baseball team
Ducks hockey team
Figure Skating U.S. Figure Skating Association
Football (NFL) This is the NFL's own site
Galaxy soccer team
Gorp (links for outdoor sports, travel and activities)
High School Sports (Rise Magazine's website)
Ice Dogs (minor league hockey team, home games in Long Beach)
  Kings hockey team 
  Lakers basketball team 
  Sparks women's NBA team
  Tennis (from amateur to Olympics to Davis Cup)
  U.S. Olympic Team
  U.S. Track & Field
  Women's Tennis (WTA) site

 
TV and Movies

Shows, reviews, news...

  ABC Network (Lost, Grey's Anatomy, etc.)
  Anime Web Turnpike for all the anime series
  BBC America (Dr. Who, Robin Hood, etc.)
  CBS Network (Jericho, NUMB3RS, etc.)
Dark Horizons (news and rumors about movies and TV)
  Internet Movie Database (information about films and anyone who works on them)
Jump the Shark (a site about good and bad TV shows, and when they changed from one to the other)
Memorable TV (about old TV shows from the U.S., England, Canada and Australia)
Movie Trailers at film.com
  NBC Network (Heroes, Grease, etc.)
Sir Linksalot (Mainly TV, but a lot of other entertainment links)
TV Tome (Episode guides, cast lists, show histories and a lot more about over 2000 TV series)
CW Network (UPN + WB = CW. Solve for C.)


Unusual and Useful Information

Things you may never NEED to know, but might want to...

  Cryptozoology (about the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and other things that might or might not exist...)
  Dumb Laws (also has links to info about Dumb Criminals)
EarthCam (an index of WebCams around the world, sorted by what kinds of things you can see)
Famous Dogs, Cats & Critters (an index and database of famous animals...name your pets or research famous or fictional ones)
Internet Safety (Safeteens is a site run by a techno-journalist, and has tips for everything from privacy to avoiding rip-offs, as well as some good links)
  Museum of Unnatural Mystery (fun science site)
Rap Dictionary (a European site, mainly for fun, but with information to show how slang changes really fast...)
  Pop History (what happened when, with an answer-man for all kinds of trivia)
The Straight Dope (answers to questions you hadn't even thought of yet, a mixture of the weird and the helpful)
Wacky Uses (Have you ever wondered what ELSE you can use peanut butter for? Serious but goofy uses for things you find at home.)


Visual Arts

Art links, exhibits and calendars of events

  Art Crimes (graffiti art and related links from around the world
  Art Scene (calendar of events at museums and galleries in the Los Angeles area.)
Artcyclopedia (all about artists from many places, many times, complete with samples you can view onscreen)
Murals in Los Angeles. (See the wall art from buildings, freeways and other big spaces in public places.)
Web Exhibits (visual images from just about everywhere)


Zines and Scenes

Publications and places that exist only electronically...

Alloy (a mixture of different elements...)
Bamboozled (online zine by northern California teens)
Bolt (an international teen zine that even sells t-shirts designed by teens)
  Del.icio.us (not a zine, but a site to find and share web links...imagine Google turned inside out, and this is it)
  GirlSense (design and send e-cards, or open your own virtual boutique and design e-clothes...)
GirlSite (interactive site for girls. Creativity, chat, major discussion...)
GirlZone (articles, interviews and computer tutorials)
GurlCom (This one even has HTML lessons, to teach you how to do web stuff)
  Latinitas (Teen zine aimed at Latinas)
  SmartGirl (Chats, articles and reviews by teens)
  TeenHollywood (Celebrity stuff, news, contests, etc.)
  TeenInk (articles, fiction, poetry, art, photography)
  Vibewire (Australian zine/multiblog to make you think)



06 February 2008