Mark Gorton is perhaps best known for founding the peer-to-peer service LimeWire. But his real passion is transportation — specifically bicycles, and making cities friendlier to them.

Gorton makes no bones about his disdain for the automobile and its impact on cities, and he’s used his passion, and money, to promote more-equitable transportation policies. He founded OpenPlans, a nonprofit focused on promoting transparent government and civic engagement, and he’s tried to bring an open source approach to urban planning. He also launched Streetsblog.

He believes the automobile plays an...

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John-John (Texas Battle) punches a zombie in Death Valley.

A zombie pimp and his vampire prostitute cause trouble for goofy cops in the debut episode of MTV’s horror comedy, Death Valley.

Yet another variation on the prime-time monster theme, the shaky-cam series, which premieres Monday, looks for gore-spattered laughs in its Cops-meets-The Walking Dead scenario: Supernatural creatures roam Los Angeles’ desolate suburban s...