E-Feud.Maybe this town isn't big e-nough for the both of 'em. The Web site LAVoice.org launched recently, and instantly attacked LA.com. "Somewhere beneath the surface of L.A.'s roiling cyberstew, an enormous rather pungent pun·gent adj. 1. Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp acrid sensation. 2. a. Penetrating, biting, or caustic: pungent satire. b. bubble A bit in bubble memory or a symbol in a bubble chart. of overperfumed and disappointingly airheaded grrrl-power ... is poised to burst forth," LAVoice.org's Mack Reed writes of L.A.com. Reed dismisses the site, which is still in its preview stage, as "heavy with celebrity froth, 'hipster' information on L.A. clubs and eateries and in general, candy-flavored noise." He then acknowledges that he had applied for the job of LA.com editor, which was assigned to Laurie Pike pike, in zoology pike, common name for the family Esocidae, freshwater game and food fishes of Europe, Asia, and North America. The pike, the muskellunge, and the pickerel form a small but well-known group of long, thin fishes with spineless dorsal fins, . Lynda Keeler Keel´er n. 1. One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; - called also keelman ltname>. 2. A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc. , president and chief executive of LA.com, said the site would become much more than the one Reed critiqued. "What's there will be expanded," she said. "It will really reach out and engage, we hope, all the diversity and communities of L.A." |
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