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Chicago Cubs

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    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.

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2008

    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 >>

  • LA Life

    March 27, 2008

    How to Get Divorced by 30

    A beginner’s guide to ending your starter marriage

  • LA Life

    September 13, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Savage Advice

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

  • News

    May 24, 2007

    The Boras Factor

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

  • News

    April 5, 2007

    Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

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

  • Film+TV

    June 1, 2006

    Where Is the Love?

    Vaughn and Aniston go to war

  • News

    December 1, 2005

    Attack of the Philistines

    Strip-mining the L.A. Times

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    More Music Lists

    Strip-mining the L.A. Times

  • Eat+Drink

    August 26, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Strip-mining the L.A. Times

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Party Munster

    How Steven Mikulan learned to get his groove on

  • Columns

    March 28, 2002

    'N Scene: Lip Gloss, Cell Phones and Justin Envy

    How Steven Mikulan learned to get his groove on

  • News

    August 10, 2000

    Barbie's Revenge

    How Steven Mikulan learned to get his groove on

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    The End of Times

    Dammit, it was the hometown that we liked most about our hometown rag

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