Free Time? Cool Links

Local Places

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

Animation, Comics and Graphics

• 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

•  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)

Music

• 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...)
• 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...)
• RadioFolk (Directory of online broadcasts of folk, bluegrass, Americana, Native American, Celtic...)
• 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

• Angels baseball 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 andactivities)
• High School Sports (Rise Magazine's website)
• Kings hockey team
• Lakers basketball team
• Ontario Reign (minor league hockey team, home games in Ontario...used to be the Long Beach Ice Dogs
• 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

• ABC Network (Castle, Grey's Anatomy, etc.)
• Anime Web Turnpike for all the anime series
• BBC America (Dr. Who, Being Human, etc.)
• Blastr (Syfy Channel's online magazine)
• CBS Network (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 (The Event, Chuck, 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 (Smallville, Hellcats, etc.)

Unusual and Useful Information

• 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 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

• Alloy (a mixture of different elements...)
• Bamboozled (online zine by northern California 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)