Los Angeles Clippers

New African-American Owned Beverly Hills Jazz Club Is An Anomaly

Dennis "D.Anthony" Robertson has moved back and forth between the business and music worlds for years now. An aspiring drummer, he first began promoting acts at B.B. King's at Universal Studios, working his way into management and eventually ownership of the club. When that venture ended a few ye ... More >>

Scott Sterling Overdose Death In Malibu Prompts Coroner's Autopsy This Week

Scott Sterling, the 32-year-old son of controversial Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, was found dead of an apparent overdose in Malibu last night, sheriff's officials said. Someone called and asked deputies to check up on Sterling at his beachside home last night, and when cops arrived about 11:3 ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

20: Lamb Dip at Philippe the Original

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. 21: Lamb Dip at Philippe the Original. There are preferences in Los Angeles that speak volumes about a person: Dodgers or Angels? Lakers or Clippers ... More >>

Five Reasons The Clippers Will Shock The World This Season

There's a future NBA champion being built piece-by-piece at the Staples Center this year. It has a point guard destined for the Hall of Fame, a dominant power forward, a young, outrageously athletic 7-foot center and a shooting guard with no fear, no conscience and no hesitation. I'm talking, of co ... More >>

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

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/2 - 7/6

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If you still look confused, you may be offered a free sample." 10 Best Tamales in Los Angeles. "But, as one might predict, the law barely lasted one full business day before a lawsuit was filed against it." Lawsuit Claims ... More >>

Steve Nash's Secret Diet NBA Eating Habits

Yesterday came the news that the Lakers had landed future Hall of Fame point guard (and all-around amiable Canadian dude) Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for a boatload of future draft picks. Despite being 38 years old (the fifth oldest active player in the NBA), Nash last year had on ... More >>

Staples Center's Perfect Storm of Lakers, Clippers, Kings Games This Weekend

For those who oppose building a stadium downtown because, they argue, we just can't handle the traffic, this weekend could be the ultimate test: It's being called the perfect storm of sports events: The Lakers, Clippers and Kings are all playing in playoffs at Staples Center this weekend. And a bik ... More >>

Live Stream the James Beard Awards: Cheer Mozza Possible Foie Protest

If you're the sort of food-obsessed person who will be following Twitter this afternoon and evening to find out exactly who's winning awards, or who's complaining about not having done so, at tonight's James Beard award ceremony, you might consider just live streaming the event. That's what the folk ... More >>

How Green Was My Downtown

Clipper Darrell, Biggest Clippers Fan Ever, Told by Team Not to Use its Name

The Clippers, of course, comprise the Rodney Dangerfield of basketball. No respect. Even with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin reviving the team, putting up Ws and attracting new audiences, the squad will always be plan B in Lakerstown USA. What we're trying to say is, the Clippers could use all the fa ... More >>

Xi Jinping Does L.A.: China's Vice President Hopes for Lakers Game, Ride on City Yacht

ReutersXi knows how to party.​China and Los Angeles are BFFing out of control right now. After L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a $30,000-a-day tour of Beijing, Chongqing and Shanghai in December, one of China's top officials is returning the favor: Vice President Xi Jinping, fully expec ... More >>

Clippers Cupcakes: Everybody Gets to Eat Cake in This Town, Even Chris Paul (Especially Chris Paul)

The NBA began its abbreviated season with more of a whimper than a bang, at least if you're a Lakers fan. (Note to David Stern: Maybe vetoing trades is a bad idea.) To console the hometown crowd -- who says sorrows cannot be managed by buttercream frosting -- Magnolia Bakery began fashioning Lakers ... More >>

When it Comes to Pro Sports Championships, L.A. is Not #WINNING

We're beginning to think L.A. is the Rodney Dangerfield of cities -- you know, no respect. Despite our celebrity, natural beauty, and second-only-to-New York size, we suck in so many ways. Our traffic is the worst. Our roads are almost the worst. Our do-nothing City Council gets paid more than any o ... More >>

Blake Griffin, Clippers' Star Dunker, Bares Sexy Abs For Men's Health Cover

Blake's a gun collector.​Kobe, you're washed up. Nobody wants half of half. So move over, because there's a new player in town: Blake Griffin. The power forward for the L.A. NBA team that everyone's talking about this season, the Clippers, shows off his assets in the latest Men's Health ma ... More >>

Hooters Says It's Hurting From NBA Lockout

southla.wordpress.comThe good old days.​Kobe and the gang aren't the only ones out of work amid this ridiculous NBA lockout. The longer they continue to turn up their noses at NBA officials' proposed season contract -- admittedly a pretty lousy deal -- the longer those beleaguered Hooters wait ... More >>

Lakers: Five Reasons L.A.'s NBA Dynasty Isn't Over Yet

The best player in the NBA is still with us.​The Lakers flamed out like Charlie Sheen in rehab -- in spectacular, unprecedented fashion (via a sweep the likes of which coach Phil Jackson has never seen). And now Phil Jackson says he's coached his last NBA game and Kobe Bryant is talking about ... More >>

Donald Sterling, Clippers Owner, Alleged Housing Discriminator, Gets Wikipedia Bio Scrubbed of All Things Controversial

Both sides of Donald Sterling.​Donald Sterling is something like a Jekyll and Hyde of Los Angeles society for some. If you've seen his full-page ads in the Los Angeles Times, you'd think he was the city's greatest humanitarian. Ever. But if you've read some the lawsuits against him, you'd se ... More >>

The 42 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles*, According to the Downtown News

AEG CEO Tim Leiweke: He's got downtown Los Angeles in his hands​*Well, technically just in downtown Los Angeles, but that's where all the big players make all their big decisions anyway, right? Just ask a pissed-off Daily News outsider in the Valley. Jon Regardie at the LA Downtown News knows ... More >>

L.A. Clippers Owner Donald T. Sterling Inducted into Landlord Hall of Shame

Mr. FishDonald T. Sterling​L.A. Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling will probably never become a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, but yesterday he did receive a different kind of honor: A statewide renters' rights organization inducted Sterling into its Landl ... More >>

Clippers Owner Donald T. Sterling Goes National, Places One of His Wacky Ads in New York Times

Donald T. Sterling ad in Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, New York Times​We thought Los Angeles was the only place where Donald T. Sterling, the infamous owner of the L.A. Clippers and landlord of so-called "luxury" apartment buildings, showcases his questionable graphic design skills in those wacky adv ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/7-9/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Did we agree to stop calling them gastropubs? Very well, they're no longer gastropubs." First Bite: Half a Dozen of Each, or Mix & Match at The Six. "Some people think that food started when goat cheese was introduced on ... More >>

Food Q & A With Clippers All-Star Baron Davis: L.A. Native Talks South Central, Crossroads, UCLA and More

2009 Eric RichardsonBaron Davis at Clippers media day​Baron Davis is a rarity in this city. He is a true Los Angeles athlete, having grown up in South Central, playing high school basketball at Crossroads in Santa Monica, then in Westwood at UCLA, where after two years, he was chosen with the ... More >>

Former Los Angeles Clippers Player Lorenzen Wright Reported Missing

Lorenzen Wright​NBA veteran Lorenzen Wright, who began his basketball career with the Los Angeles Clippers in 1996, was reported missing over the weekend. The NBA star disappeared while visiting his kids at his ex-wife's house in Collierville, Tenn. According to reports, he left the house at ... More >>

FOURTH UPDATE Exclusive: Antonio Villaraigosa free tickets are worth $50,000 to $100,000. Full list here of 80 free events; corruption laws ignored

By Tibby Rothman and Jill StewartDid the mayor lose, misplace -- or destroy -- his records? ​ L.A. Weekly is publishing below its exclusive ticket price list for the 80 events to which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accepted free seats.But first the hot news from City Hall moments ago. The below is a ... More >>

Clippers Owner Donald T. Sterling Finally Wins One

Things haven't been so great for L.A. Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, who's pro basketball team is once again near the bottom of the regular season standings. Mr. FishDonald T. Sterling​Sterling has also been sued by his former general manager, Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor, and paid a huge, nearl ... More >>

Clippers Owner Donald T. Sterling Sued by 'West Wing' Actress

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, who's no stranger to lawsuits of one kind or another, is now being sued by former West Wing actress Kim Webster, TMZ reported yesterday afternoon.Mr. FishL.A. Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling​It's been a rough few months for the billionaire, who made ... More >>

Sportscaster, TV Reporter Rory Markas Dead

Fox 11 NewsRory Markas.​Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim announcer Rory Markas has died at the age of 54, the team announced today. The sportscaster and television reporter died at his home in Palmdale Monday night, Angels vice president Tim Mead stated. Fox 11 News, where he had worked as a re ... More >>

Clippers Owner Tries To Keep Housing Discrimination Issue Out Of Elgin Baylor Case

Illustration by Mr. Fish.Donald T. Sterling.​Ah, Donald T. Sterling. Owner of NBA's Clippers. Peddler of nouveau riche, high-rise living. Sometime fake philanthropist. And racist, if you ask some. One of the people you could ask is former Laker Elgin Baylor, who is suing Sterling for discrimin ... More >>

Clippers Owner Allegedly Didn't Like To Rent To Blacks, Latinos; Pays Record Settlement

Tenants at some of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling's more-recently acquired Koreatown properties allege that the basketball magnate weeded out black and Latino residents in favor of Koreans who were perceived as being people who don't "complain" as much, according to one fair-housing ... More >>

Israeli Basketball Team Robbed at Staples Center

​The LAPD are on the look out for a thief who stole more than $15,000 in cash from Israeli basketball team members while their personal items were in a locker room at Staples Center. Police have a surveillance video of the thief who looks all dapper in a suit and sporting a clipboard and fake ... More >>

7 Eleven Opens New Store: Free Pizza The Laker Girls

Who'd have guessed that the debut of a new 7-Eleven would be such a grand event? This Friday's opening of the new convenience store in Compton will occasion the kind of fanfare normally reserved for oh, I don't know, a celebrity-named community center or a new hospital wing. In addition to an appea ... More >>

Food Fight, Literally: Former Los Angeles Clipper Accused of Beating Man In Local Pizza Joint

Darron Cummings / AP.Former Clipper Zach Randolph with current coach Mike Dunleavy Sr.​TMZ is reporting that NBA player and former Los Angeles Clipper Zach Randolph is being accused of beating up a local citizen inside West Hollywood eatery Berri's Pizza Café. Supposedly there was a verbal co ... More >>

Donald T. Sterling's Fake Homeless Center

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Last Night: Underground Lit’s Best Kept Secrets Dan Fante and Tony O’Neill Impress at Skylight Books

By RYAN RITCHIE An interesting poetry reading happens about as often as a Clippers winning season, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of hack wordsmiths from getting in front of audiences to espouse beliefs that no one but the poet’s mother cares about (and even she doesn’t care all that much) ... More >>

Brooks Melchior

Play-by-playboy

To Get to the Other Side

Response to articles on Southwest Museum, Obama and more

Donald T. Sterling's Skid Row Mirage

The billionaire Clippers owner claims he's creating a major homeless center. He's not, but image is what counts.

9 Reasons to Get On the Clippers Bandwagon

9 Reasons To Get on the Clippers Bandwagon

Where Hope Grows Like Fungus

The Living City

Los Angeles From Bud to Bloom

Winners and Losers

Character of the Happy Warrior

The education of Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen

Stud on the Tracks

The freewheeling Steve Malkmus, when hard, is about 8 inches

Sunny Days, Sultry Nights

Highlighting the events of the season

Some Kind of Blue

Sterling Silver

Battle of the Bads