Humor and practical advice are a win-win combination, as the California news satire site, The LaLa Times (www.lalatimes.com), joins forces with Surviving L.A. (an information resource site for Los Angeles residents; www.survivingla.com). Though they're two diverse urban coping mechanisms, they both aim to supply Angelenos with better quality of life.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 29, 2005 -- California news satire site, The LaLa Times (www.lalatimes.com) has joined forces with Surviving L.A. (an information resource site for Los Angeles residents; www.survivingla.com) — two diverse urban coping mechanisms — to supply Angelenos with better quality of life.
“With 10 million people in L.A. County, life in Los Angeles can be pretty brutal and isolating,” says Surviving L.A. founder, Jeffrey Tipton, “but L.A. is survivable and ultimately a great place to live once you figure it out. But while you’re struggling to figure L.A. and life out there is nothing better than humor to get you through the day. I’m pleased to direct my readers to The LaLa Times. I believe Angelenos need to laugh more and The LaLa Times touches on the absurdities of life in L.A.”
Tipton is a physician, board certified in preventive medicine and public health, who started up his site in order to provide Angelenos with answers to all of their L.A. living questions. Surviving L.A. provides information on health, finance, politics, news, community, adult and kids events, and philanthropy. His book, Surviving the City: A Guide to Healthy Living in Urban America, will be published by Harcourt-Praeger next year. In his spare time, Tipton enjoys exploring the city with his family and doing stand-up.
The nature of the partnership between the two sites centers around cross-linking, co-writing some content, and swapping knowledge about how both sites could help build community in Southern California — a place that’s notoriously devoid of it.
“For me, this is a natural alliance about providing fresh perspectives,” says LaLa Times founder/editor, George Wolfe. “Providing humor allows our readers to step back and laugh at themselves, their own angsty city, their bizarre and perplexing universe… and to realize that they’re not alone. Surviving L.A. arms residents with practical tools that help residents gain fresh perspectives by providing resources to get a problem answered so they can move on with their life. Or perhaps they improve their quality of life by connecting to a particular community they didn’t know existed.
"Personally, I love that Jeffrey has a fertile sense of humor, is big about giving back to the community, and that he’s lived here all his life. Me, I’m a transplant, so I seek out that balance — I like that we bring both of those perspectives to the table of our city. All we need now are some chairs.”
Wolfe adds that surviving Los Angeles is akin to Benjamin Franklin’s situation when faced with the daunting prospect of fighting the British: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
George Wolfe is the founder, editor and main writer for The LaLa Times (www.lalatimes.com) which has supplied Californians with steady doses of humor for a couple years now — at first to a few hundred visitors per month and now to tens of thousands of visitors. Over the years, he worked in NYC as the editor of ArtSearch, in Seattle as associate editor of Metropolitan Living magazine, and has been a freelance reporter for National Public Radio (KPLU) and a freelance writer for various magazines, including scr(i)pt (screenwriting), Alaska Airlines (travel). He has received several writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, has published a first novel (Blake's Bible), and has been a finalist in several comedy screenplay competitions. He was an invited speaker at the UCal (Irvine) Humanities conference ("In the Shadow of Big Media").
Jeffrey Tipton is the founder of Surviving L.A. (www.survivingla.com) and is a native Angeleno. He is currently the Director of the Student Health Center at Cal State L.A. He trained in preventive medicine and occupational medicine at UCLA. He is the recipient of several research grants and has spoken to a variety of professional groups and students on a variety of health related topics. Tipton has written several screenplays and many other comedic works, and was a regular contributor to Laugh Lines in The Los Angeles Times.
CONTACT:
Thea Mercouffer, Publicist
310.383.8763
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