Downtown Mesa’s Monsterland Bar & Grill is getting ready for its last hurrah Saturday night after announcing abruptly earlier this month that it would be closing. But fans and employees of the establishment that started life as a haunted house attraction and prop museum aren’t ready to say the last rites yet. There is not one, but at least two bids out there to keep Monsterland going — one by dedicated employees of the venue and another by an East Valley businessman.

A Mesa band whose songs have been heard on three seasons of MTV's "The Real World" is throwing a compact discrelease party this weekend.

NEW YORK - The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials.

NEW YORK - The Internet has a rising star whose name isn't Google. Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.

NEW YORK - The founders of the popular social networking site MySpace.com are among the winners of this year's Webby online achievement awards.

SAN FRANCISCO - Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels.

March 16, 2005

Google Dave Feinman. Go ahead. Really. He wants you to. Type his name as one word and you will soon know a lot about him — through his home page and blog on MySpace and the Web site that bears his name.