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Ice Cube Talks About His Favorite Projects He's Ever Worked On

Having long, long ago secured his place in the rap pantheon, Ice Cube today is, to the average Dlisted reader, a man to be both mocked (for his Are We There Yet period) and possibly feared -- if, say, confronted in the type of bar where denizens consume Coors Light. But in person he's cordial and ... More >>

Brian Banks, Jailed On False Rape Charge, Sees Dream Come True As Atlanta Falcons Sign Him

Brian Banks, the former Long Beach high school football prodigy falsely accused of raping a classmate, today got a second chance at his NFL dreams. After spending nearly a decade fighting the charge unsuccessfully, the 26-year-old was released from jail and hit the field last year in an attempt to ... More >>

L.A. to Build Football Stadium at 405-10 Interchange

By Eva Recinos and Zachary Pincus-Roth The city of L.A. today reached a historic agreement on a new NFL football stadium to be built at the intersection of the 405 and the 10 freeways. The decision comes after various proposals for stadium plans have fallen through in recent years, notably a propo ... More >>

Crazy Vegas Strip Car-To-Car Shooting Involving Maserati Ends With 3 Dead

Updated at the bottom: The LAPD is actively searching for an SUV like the one involved in the shooting. First posted at 1:19 p.m. Three people were killed after someone in a Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip early this morning, police said. The brazen attack in the middl ... More >>

Music Picks: Foxygen, Tomahawk and Nick Cave

NFL Failures, EDM Greed and Massive Corruption: The Inside Story of the L.A. Coliseum Scandal

Wreck-It Ralph Influenced Not Only by Video Games But Harajuku, Gaudi and the San Diego Chargers

Wreck-It Ralph won't be in theaters until November, but the buzz for Disney's forthcoming animated film has already begun. Directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Futurama), the movie stars John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch as video game characters whose lives are more comp ... More >>

Anthony Wayne Smith, Former Raider, Serial Killer?

Former Oakland Raiders defensive lineman Anthony Wayne Smith has been with charged with three unsolved murders, the LAPD announced today. That makes the number of killings he's accused of committing four: He's currently being retried in the 2008 homicide of Lancaster mechanic Maurilio Ponce. Doe ... More >>

Whose Silicon Beach Is It? San Diego Used the Term 2 Decades Before Google Came to Venice

Updated at the bottom: One tech czar says maybe all of Southern California's tech-biz scene should be called "Silicon Beach." First posted at 8:07 a.m. We get mad at New York for trying to surf, claiming that it invented graffiti art despite the fact that Latino gangs have been doing it here for ne ... More >>

Brian Banks, Ex-L.A. High School Football Star, Has NFL Tryout With Seahawks After Rape Exoneration

Pete Carroll, the same football coach who recruited Los Angeles High School football star Brian Banks to the USC team one decade ago, is reportedly giving the 26-year-old a second chance after 10 years fighting a false rape conviction. Carroll coaches the Seattle Seahawks now, and has granted the N ... More >>

Brian Banks Not Guilty of Rape, Still Hoping to Play for NFL's Chargers After 10-Year Ordeal

At 16 years old, Long Beach Polytechnic High School sports star Brian Banks was on the fast track to a smashing football career. He was a starring middle linebacker on one of California's top high-school teams, and had offers flowing in from all the best colleges. USC wanted him on full ride. Then, ... More >>

Junior Seau Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound in Oceanside

Updated at the bottom with the San Diego County coroner confirming suicide as the cause of death. First posted at 12:27 p.m. Wednesday. Junior Seau, the hometown hero and onetime USC player who became a star linebacker for the San Diego Chargers, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound thi ... More >>

Tim Leiweke's Green NFL Stadium

EIR says fans would forsake cars

Why Drive to Vegas? Mayra's Wedding Chapel is Right Here in East Hollywood

Here comes the bride, all dressed in cream satin, with a sparkly brooch on her hip. "They've been together for a very, very long time. Like, two years?" says Yesenia Villanueva, 22, the bride's classmate in nursing school.Driving north on Normandie Avenue, just before the road crests and the Gri ... More >>

Super Bowl 2012: No Matter Who Won, Los Angeles Still Loses

Last night's Americana showdown at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis was blaring on the TV sets of 47.8 percent of the nation's households -- Los Angeles very much included. After all, we couldn't bear to be out of the loop on all the Super Bowl tweets and commercials and pop-culture commentary ... More >>

Cedars-Sinai Heart Transplant Recipients Play the Doctors Who Saved Their Lives...in Softball

Brought together by softball and heart transplantsPhoto courtesy of Cedars-Sinai​ Talk about a game with heart. Once a year, a bunch of cardiac transplant patients and the Cedars-Sinai doctors who saved their lives get together to play a friendly game of softball. The patients usually win. The ... More >>

Cheese Rules: San Diego Charger's Shaun Phillips Talks Cheese With Barrie Lynn

Small Screen NetworkPhillips And Lynn Comparing Sips​ What do professional football linebackers like Shaun Phillips of the San Diego Chargers do in the off season? They nibble cheese and sip wine, of course. Phillips appears in three episodes of "Cheese Rules," a new series on the Small Screen ... More >>

Anthony Smith, Former Raider, Charged in 2008 Murder

sportsmemorabilia.comAnthony Smith.​Anthony Smith, a former L.A. Raiders defensive end, was charged with murder, the District Attorney's office announced today. The 43-year-old from Fontana was charged along with two "associates," 41-year-old Charles Eric Honest and 32-year-old Dewann Wesley ... More >>

Term Limits Hot Button Issue at West Hollywood City Council Debate, Incumbents Oppose Them

West Hollywood City Council candidate Mito Aviles​Term limits for West Hollywood City Council members was the hot button issue at a candidates' forum held at the West Hollywood Park Auditorium last night. Nearly all challenging candidates supported term limits while incumbents Abbe Land and ... More >>

Jocks Who (Don't) Rock: Top 10 Most Embarrassing Music Videos by Football Players

Top 10 Embarrassing Videos of Football Team Rap Songs

'Real' Tila Tequila All-Girl Sex Tape to Be Released Next Month

Vivid EntertainmentTila Tequila proves that there's no wall between reality and porn.​L.A. porn-maker Vivid announced Monday that it has "acquired" a Tila Tequila all-girl sex tape and will release it on Valentine's Day. The big question here, of course, is do you care? It's been more than a ... More >>

Should The 'Raider Nation' Return To L.A. If We Get A New Stadium?

A member of the Raider Nation.​All this talk of the NFL returning to Los Angeles -- with two apparently viable bids for new area stadiums on the table -- has some fans giddy about the prospect of possibly bringing the San Diego Chargers or perhaps the Minnesota Vikings to town. So giddy, in f ... More >>

Three Architectural Visions For Proposed Downtown Los Angeles Stadium To Be Unveiled Wednesday

It could happen.​L.A. will have a look at what could be its next football stadium when the folks who own Staples Center unveil the venue's three architectural finalists Wednesday. Tim Leiweke, the chief of Staples parent Anschutz Entertainment Group, has said he would like to invest $1 billio ... More >>

(Video) Metrodome Roof Collapse In Minneapolis Could Raise Hopes For NFL's Vikings Los Angeles

APSnow comes down, L.A.'s NFL hopes are lifted.​That blast of snow that brought down parts of the Metrodome's roof in Minneapolis could bring some new rays of hope to sunny L.A.'s chances of getting a new NFL team. Turns out it's not the first time snow has come through the roof of the venue, ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: The Los Angeles Charger Girls? No. 10

NFLThe beauties of St. Diego.​It wouldn't be the holidays without a recap of the year's news. And what better way to celebrate a mediocre year than to look on the bright side and celebrate hot chicks in the news -- the 2010 edition. That's right, folks, we take you down memory lane and celebr ... More >>

'Los Angeles Chargers' Could Be Playing In Coliseum In 2012

NFLWelcome, all.​We were the first in L.A. to echo reports that the San Diego Chargers might be coming to the City of Angels Now the Los Angeles Times T.J. Simers does the math and argues that not only are the NFL's Chargers likely to to come to town, but they could do so by 2012 and play in ... More >>

Are You Ready For Some Football, L.A?

chargers.comWould L.A. get the Charger Girls as part of the deal?​Strange days, these. The economy seemed to have bottomed out around here sometime in summer, even as the recession was declared officially over ... for a year. But rich guys, they play by their own rhythms, and the movement to b ... More >>

L.A. Loses 2022 World Cup Host Bid To Qatar

Back on the plane, girls​You can uncross your fingers, Los Angeles -- the most adored sporting event in the universe is officially not going down in the City of Angels in 2022, taking its promises of worldwide honor, limelight and way more terrible traffic than usual right along with it. The ... More >>

Are NFL's Chargers Coming To L.A? Rumors Abound That Staples Center Owner Phil Anschutz Has Taken A Stake In The San Diego Team

Los Angeles Chargers?​Updated with Earvin "Magic" Johnson's comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. First posted at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday. Laker legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! early Wednesday that he's teamed up with the Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring an NFL team t ... More >>

When It Comes To NFL's Jaguars Moving To Los Angeles, Jacksonville Says 'No Way L.A.'

​A group of Jacksonville residents has started a campaign to keep their NFL team, the Jaguars, from moving to Los Angeles after the city gets a new NFL stadium. The online effort is titled, "No Way L.A." The site notes that the city has gone through a succession of teams -- the Dons, the Rams ... More >>

Tila Tequila Suicide Hoax Prompts Warning From LAPD

Tequila!​The Los Angeles Police Department over the weekend issued a warning to reality television star Tila "Tequila" Nguyen after receiving calls to check on her welfare. She tweeted disturbing, bloody pictures of herself and then stated that "I feel tired. I'm going to take my medicine and ... More >>

Commitment to the Raiders

Ice Cube's new documentary chronicles the team's L.A. years

J'Accuse: the Trial for Luis Santos' Murder

Bad suburban boys break ranks, and Esteban Nunez and pal Ryan Jett are fingered

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week