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Dodgers Go Gay: First LGBT Night at Dodger Stadium

The Los Angeles Dodgers are all set to recognize their gay, bisexual, and transgender fans at the organization's first ever LGBT Night at Dodger Stadium on September 29. If you remember, two lesbians, Danielle Goldey and Meredith Kott, were kicked out of Dodger Stadium in 2000 for kissing in public ... More >>

Frozen Kirin Beer Now Available at Dodger Stadium

Some pairings just work in baseball: Micky Mantle and Roger Maris, peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Lukewarm beer on a a blazing hot summer day, however, is not one of them. Officials at Dodger Stadium seemed to have figured out as much. Since the beginning of the season, Kirin Ichiban has been offering f ... More >>

Dodgers Stand Tall with Industry-First Arborist, Sustainability

Despite anything that might happen on the field during the darkest of seasons, Dodger Stadium is now and has always been my favorite place on the planet. It's where my father and his father took me to ballgames and it's where a buddy of mine, should he survive me, plans to scatter my ashes by stealt ... More >>

Dodger Stadium to Host -- Gasp! -- Soccer?

Walter O'Malley, who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in time for the 1958 season, might be turning in his grave. He helped develop Dodger Stadium, and it was one of Major League Baseball's premier venues when it opened in 1962. It still is. But, over the years, the American sports sc ... More >>

Dodger Stadium Begins Serving L.A. Craft Beer Street Tacos: Happy Opening Day!

Fans heading to Dodger Stadium today will be getting more than just a season-opening game against the San Francisco Giants. In addition to new outfield video screens, an echo-minimizing sound system and expanded bathroom facilities across all levels, the 50-year-old stadium has also upgraded its con ... More >>

Why Are L.A. Places So Popular on Instagram?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best City in America Just before the end of Instagram's wild year — bought by Facebook for $1 billion, publicly eviscerated by its community for new privacy policies — ... More >>

Dodgers Stadium Upgrades Unveiled for 2013 Include Waaay More Ladies Bathrooms and Tweetability

Are you ready to play ball? The Dodgers will definitely be ready in an updated and "tricked-out" stadium. New owners brought in ballpark exec Janet Marie Smith to update the 50-year-old stadium, third-oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. Fans are already raving over/dissecting the upgrades su ... More >>

33: Cauliflower T-Bone at Superba Snack Bar

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 33: Cauliflower T-Bone at Superba Snack Bar. It's not very often that, at an eatery with a meat-loving menu, the dish that reverberates through your ... More >>

34: Bossam at Kobawoo House

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 34: Bossam at Kobawoo House. Kobawoo is one of Koreatown's older restaurants, having been established all the way back in 1985, and although it bega ... More >>

49: The Dodger Dog at Dodger Stadium

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 49: The Dodger Dog at Dodger Stadium. Are Dodger Dogs the best hot dogs in L.A.? Um, no. Not even remotely close. But often the success of a dish depends more ... More >>

Dodgers Hire Janet Marie Smith, Star Stadium Designer, To Renovate Dodger Stadium

The new Dodgers ownership group has been very busy lately, adding Hanley Ramirez, Joe Blanton and Shane Victorino to the roster. But all of those moves pale by comparison to today's big acquisition. In a coup, the Dodgers have obtained stadium designer Janet Marie Smith from the Baltimore Orioles, p ... More >>

Dodger Stadium Assault Injures Man Involved in Parking Lot Crash

An assault at Dodger Stadium last night had echoes of Bryan Stow, but luckily the victim's injuries were not life-threatening. The fracas, first reported by @LAScanner on Twitter, happened before 9 p.m. in parking lot 3. ABC7 tracked down the rest of the story and found out this is what happened:

California Assembly's Stadium-Violence Bill Has Been Completely Gutted, Won't Apply to Latest Dodger Beating

Last summer, in the painful aftermath of the Bryan Stow beating at Dodger Stadium, Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) offered a beacon of hope for baseball fans who wanted their national pastime back: His Assembly Bill 2464, as it was originally proposed, would have created "sentencing enhancem ... More >>

Dodgers And Marijuana: A New High Encouraged by Sunset Boulevard Dispensary

With Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Baseball Management taking over the team, it's a new era at Dodger Stadium. And what better way to celebrate than to buy you some of those recently reduced $10 tickets for seats way, way up in the top deck and ... get high. Really. There's a dispensary near Dodger ... More >>

Dodgers Opening Day Will be Swarmed by Cops Hoping to Avoid Repeat of Bryan Stow

Cops are planning to swarm Dodger stadium and nearby Elysian Park on opening day tomorrow. If you remember last year's opening day, then you know why. Among the violence that broke out was the horrific beating of Giant's fan Bryan Stow, who was put in a coma. The LAPD today said it was prepared to ... More >>

Frank McCourt's Dodger Parking Lot

Is it OK if Frank still co-owns the vast acres encircling Dodger Stadium?

Chick Pees in Urinal at Dodger Stadium, Makes Guy Hold Her Beer (NSFW Video)

Gender equality at the Dodger Stadium urinal.​Just when we thought the hemorrhaging Dodgers legacy couldn't get any trashier, it looks like we may have found a more dogged Dodger dog than team owner Frank McCourt. Forget parking-lot supervillains: This is the chick who peed in the boys' bathro ... More >>

Frank McCourt's Dodger Troubles Could Lead to an NFL Team in L.A.'s Chavez Ravine?

A vision of a downtown stadium.​Frank McCourt's battle with Major League Baseball over control of the Dodgers could be a good thing for efforts to bring an NFL team to town. So reports Yahoo! Sports' Jason Cole, who cites unnamed sources who agree that this could goose the movement because th ... More >>

Don't Say No, It's the End of the World

Cleaning Out Dodger Stadium

Can the clock be turned back on drunken, violent crowds and 'bad" fans?

Bryan Stow, Dodgers Assault Victim, Still in Critical Condition: Here's How to Help

Stow with his kids​Today, the L.A. Dodgers play the San Francisco Giants again in NorCal. But what should have been an exciting rematch will be clouded by the critical condition of Bryan Stow. Stow, a Santa Cruz paramedic and San Francisco Giants fan, was attacked on Opening Day by two Dodger ... More >>

SF Giants Fans Behind 'Beat L.A.' Banner Say They've Paid a Plane Company to Fly Giant Diss Over Dodger Stadium on Opening Day

freshnessmag.comWe know, wrong sport. But she's got the right spirit, and looks damn good doin' it.​Updated after the jump: Revenge banner reading "GIANTS SUCK" flies over Dodger Stadium! Plus, a shot of the "Beat L.A." original. Update: Will the banner-flyers remember to adhere to the post-9 ... More >>

SF Giants Fans to Fly 'BEAT LA' Banner Over Dodger Stadium on Opening Day

feelingdodgerblue.comNot in our stadium, you don't​Tell us, Los Angeles: Are you going to stand for this? Update: Street-art blog LA Taco won't. We quote: "People of Los Angeles, we cannot let this potential aggression stand. LA TACO will organize a boycott and shaming campaign of any Los An ... More >>

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26 MILES TO THE SEA

Drivers Stop Your Engines: L.A. Marathon Street Closures Detailed

lamarathon.com​You know what's great about the Los Angeles Marathon? Nothing if you're trying to drive to Hollywood from the Westside to get your Thai food on at the same time streets are tied up like Quagmire on a sex bender. It can make L.A.'s one relatively traffic-free day -- Sunday -- fee ... More >>

Dodgers Not the Only Ones the Phillies Sent Home Early: An Interview With Dodger Stadium Executive Chef Joseph Martin

The Dodgers season isn't just over for the players, but for all the staff and employees that it takes to uphold a professional sports franchise. One of those people is Chef Joseph Martin, a lifelong Dodger fan who also happens to be the Executive Chef at Dodger Stadium. We asked him a few questions ... More >>

Castles in the Sky Poll

Curbed L.A. today features a bit of architectural whimsy -- not in the form of Buck Rogers-like blueprints imagined during the 1930s, but a list of city projects that never saw the light of day and which would make cool destinations on a iPhone GPS application. Some are dead and buried projects such ... More >>

Dodgers Ticketmobile Hits the Streets

Frank McCourt didn't want to spring for shuttle buses to take fans to Dodger Stadium this season, but his organization is now sending out a ticket truck to sell game tickets to local communities. Launched yesterday in a publicity campaign that featured rapper Snoop Dogg, the truck will appear in L.A ... More >>

Manny Ramirez's Grand Slam Silences Critics

With his first swing of a bat last night Manny Ramirez laid to rest the loitering demons of doubt and recrimination that have followed his emergence from suspension. On July 3 he took the field against San Diego after a 50-game hiatus for having used an illegal performance enhancing substance. Catca ... More >>

Going to Blazes: Elysian Park's Red-Hot Fire Danger

The Fire Next Time Dept.: The Eastsider L.A. has a good profile of the fire dangers facing Elysian Park -- home to the Dodgers, family picnics and Sunday lowrider-car gatherings. The piece begins with a portentous look at a tiny, obscured patch of blackened grass -- spotted against the backdrop of S ... More >>

Today in Photographs: April 26, 1951

Chavez Ravine property owners at City Hall protest proposal for public housing development in Elysian Park. They would eventually beat back the public housing plan -- only to have many of their own properties seized to make way for Dodger Stadium.Photo: LA Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

Today in Photographs: March 20, 1965

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas addresses members of the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park, which would successfully block city plans to build a convention center near Dodger Stadium.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

Manny Ramirez to Wear Dodger Blue Again -- For $45 Million

The L.A. Daily News, among many other sources, reports that Dodger left fielder Manny Ramirez and his super-agent, Scott Boras, have agreed to terms that would let Ramirez remain in L.A. for the next two years for a $45 million contract. "The agreement," the DN says, "was pending results of a physic ... More >>

This Week in LA Music: Victory Music, Eagles of Death Metal, Madonna, TV on the Radio, DJ AM and Spinnerette

all photos by Timothy Norris Something big happened that resulted in lots of great music echoing across the land, a Tuesday night became a virtual New Year's Eve, and we rejoiced, as we always do, with music. Erin Broadley snuck backstage and hung with the Eagles of Death Metal before their Jimm ... 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 >>

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 >>

Steak Me Out for the Ball Game

Best beggars� banquet at Dodger Stadium

The City I Found

Best remnants of hardboiled L.A.

I Love L.A.

Viva los Dodgers theme songs!

Hot and Bothered

Blood and Hubris at the Paradise Motel

The making of Richard Montoya�s Water & Power

C'mon, Dodgers, WTF?

6 meditations on the Blue Sox

Capital News

C’mon, Dodgers, WTF?

6 meditations on the Blue Sox

Go Blue!

Dodger Moves I�d Make if the Team Were Mine

Let Them Drink Beer

The history of Dodger Stadium: A ghost story

From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage

A brief history of Progressive Los Angeles

Dog Day Afternoon

Tube steak or not tube steak? That is the question . . .