Chicago Cubs

How Much Rope Does Don Mattingly Have Left?

Exactly how much rope does the Dodgers' skipper have left? Probably not the best choice of words there, because whatever you think of the way Don Mattingly is going about his business, any and all rope is best locked away safe and sound. Rope, sharp objects, plugged-in radios near bathtubs, adjacen ... More >>

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

MOCA's 'Blues for Smoke' Exhibit Raises the Question: What Does 'the Blues' Even Mean?

Music scholars, art curators and grumpy old men playing chess in the park have long debated the definition of "the blues." They will never reach a consensus. There are many irrefutable images of the blues: juke joints, a roadside chain gang, Son House's metal-clad ring finger. But it is also the bed ... More >>

Catalina Cuisine

Chef Paul Hancock of Avalon Grille has ambitions beyond beach food

The Jocks of L.A.

Los Angeles loves its sports as much as any city does; there's no shortage of folks who will begin seething at a misspoken word about a favorite team or player. Say hi to the jocks of Los Angeles, who inspire that fervent brand of rage and rapture that can only come from a glance at the scoreboard.

Serengeti's Chin Music

See also: *Anticon MC Serengeti: The Quirkiest, Deepest Rapper *Free Download: Serengeti's "Tracks" Serengeti is wisecracking at Rex's Batting Cages in Inglewood, while hacking at 90 mph heaters. The Chicago-raised, Mount Washington-based rapper riffing on a character in his raps, 45-year-old, Dit ... More >>

Matthew Broderick's Ferris Bueller Superbowl Ad Tours L.A. in Midlife-Crisis Minivan

Thank you, Honda, for bringing to life Hollywood's wildest fantasy this Superbowl season: Ferris Bueller, our favorite high-school hooligan, playing hooky in our own backyard. Sure, we get a tired, squarish, middle-aged version of Bueller, who has morphed into a very mortal Matthew Broderick, the a ... More >>

Frank McCourt Divorce: Larry Silverstein's Boner Is Key, But On The Stand He's Not Sure What Year This Is

Ted Soqui Fred Merkle committed the most famous mistake in baseball history in 1908, when, in a game against the Chicago Cubs, he failed to touch second base as the winning run scored. Merkle's Boner cost the New York Giants the game and the pennant.   That was nothing compared to Larry ... More >>

Will the Dodgers Boycott Arizona? No Se Puede.

​On Which Way L.A. the other night, L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn suggested that the Dodgers should join the city's protest of Arizona's strict new immigration law:"I'm going to be asking the L.A. Dodgers to consider moving their training facility from Arizona," Hahn said.It was only a year ago th ... More >>

Goal: Upscale Sports Bar Hopes to Score on West 3rd Street

The strangest thing about Goal, LA's newest upscale sports bar, isn't what's there. It's what's missing. Recently soft-opened on a stretch of W. 3rd St. known more for chic cafes and fine dining, Goal offers the de rigueur décor of a sports bar: dark wood, leather booths, plenty of flatscreen plasm ... More >>

WSJ: Cubs Win Freedom As Zell Sells

A late Wall Street Journal report claims that Sam Zell, the CEO of Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, plans to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team to the Ricketts family, whose "bid, led by Chicago financier Tom Ricketts, son of J. Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade Holding C ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Dogtown Z-Boys, Detour Fest and Dodger Victory

This weekend was one of celebration in Los Angeles, packed with more events than we could scramble to cover. Friday night kicked off with a special VIP party at Crewest Gallery in Downtown L.A. where The Label Lab hosted the opening of the "The Z-Boy Show—Direct from the Source," featuring work fr ... More >>

Los Angeles Invited To Party After Dodger Victory

"We're going to party at my house. We're going to party like rock stars, if you can find my house," yelled an enormous sweat and champagne-covered man to the frenzied crowd at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night. The “man” was Manny. And indeed he is the man right now in this Dodger-crazed City of ... More >>

Dodgers Win Big in Chicago

Before the Lakers took over the minds and hearts of sports fans in Los Angeles, there were the Dodgers. Players such as Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Maury Wills, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, and Fernando Valenzuela, among many others, were gods, and then things didn't go so well for the team in ... More >>

Manny Nearly Beaned by Angry Cubs Fan

There's no place like home. Especially for the Dodgers, who are not only coming back to L.A. with a 2-0 series lead, but will get at least a two game respite from crazed, drunken Cubs fans. On Wednesday, superstar outfielder Manny Ramirez nearly had his head taken off by a baseball thrown from the ... More >>

Debauchery as Dodgers Clinch Western Division Title

Thursday night at Chavez Ravine, a crowd of 52, 569 crazed cheerleaders came to celebrate something that had already happened five hours earlier. With the loss of the Arizona Diamondbacks to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Dodgers were automatically the winners of the Western Division and heading into ... More >>

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¡Ask a Mexican! Savage Advice

"Why do Mexican chicks yell for their papi during sex?"

The Boras Factor

Is super agent Scott Boras destroying the game of baseball? And what does he want now?

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

Where Is the Love?

Vaughn and Aniston go to war

Attack of the Philistines

Strip-mining the L.A. Times

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