Barry Sanders

Los Angeles Wants 2024 Olympics

We've done it twice, we can do it again. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today said he put our hat in the ring for the 2024 Olympics. "I am pleased to confirm our enthusiastic interest in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games," he wrote to the U.S. Olympic Committee. The bid ... More >>

David Israel, L.A. Coliseum Commission's Top Official, Says No to Electric Daisy Carnival Rave

Dennis RomeroColiseum commissioners Barry Sanders and Don Knabe.​After the L.A. Coliseum Commission voted late Tuesday to accept the resignation of its CEO, Patrick Lynch, the body's top leader said he would vote against allowing the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave that sparked turm ... More >>

Death, Money and Megaraves

Why Los Angeles politicians embrace a growing Ecstasy phenom that kills

LAPD Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon Just Says No To Raves, Ecstasy

Timothy NorrisRavers.​Raves, those late-night parties fueled by ecstasy and electronic dance music, have found some unlikely allies in L.A., including L.A. city Councilman Bernard Parks and city Recreation & Parks board president Barry Sanders. Talk about your recreation. Last summer's Electr ... More >>

The Next Electric Daisy Carnival Rave At The Los Angeles Coliseum Will Have To Be Approved By Politicians

Electric Daisy Carnival.​We reported how the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission made a sneaky move and voted to lift its temporary ban on raves earlier this month when no one was looking (and when some of its more rave-wary members were clearly unable to attend). Well, the body on Wednesday gave ... More >>

Raves Back On At Los Angeles Coliseum, Sports Arena

Coliseum CommissionElectric Daisy Carnival brings big money to a public venue.​Looks like the taxpayers might have been snookered on this one: The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission unexpectedly voted Wednesday to allow raves to be held at its venues -- the Coliseum and the Sports Arena included ... More >>

Raves Temporarily Banned At Los Angeles Coliseum Following Problems At Electric Daisy Carnival

​ View photos from the mega-rave in the "Electric Daisy Carnival: 60 Most Memorable Moments" slideshow and "Electric Daisy Carnival: The greatest show on earth?" slideshow. The president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission has temporarily banned raves at the venue following the d ... More >>

Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Dies After Attending Electric Daisy Carnival Rave; Drug Overdose Suspected

​A 15-year-old girl who attended an Exposition Park mega-rave died of a suspected drug overdose Tuesday, on a day when headlines were dedicated to mayoral and police concerns about the more than 200 medical emergencies and reported 65 arrests related to two-day event at the Los Angeles Memoria ... More >>

Can Placido Pull It Off?

With a secretive Domingo convalescing, L.A. Opera faces a high-stakes Ring Festival

A Nervous 'Rec'

Lavishing cash on itself, the L.A. City Council prepares to slash the parks

Hollywood Sign Covered to Save Land from Home Development

Shannon Cottrell​ Yesterday, the Trust for Public Land began covering the Hollywood Sign in an effort to save 138 acres to the left of the letter H from being transformed into yet another lot of luxury homes.

"Parks and Wreck": Reporter's Wide-Open Spaces?

Also, Palisades residents respond to Weekly's "Rathouse" cover story

Sour Notes

Whither Willem?

The L.A. Unharmonic