Monday Night Football

I Hung Out With Ty$ the Other Night. Things Got Out of Hand

10:00 PM, Monday, Oct 8: I'm standing outside Paramount Recording studios on Santa Monica Boulevard waiting for the publicist for rapper Ty Dolla $ign -- aka Ty$. The plan is for me to hang out with the Hollywood denizen, who rolls with the Pushaz Ink label crew (YG, DJ Mustard, Fuego). Ty$'s blowin ... More >>

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Green Day Never Sold Out, You Just Got Old and Complacent

One of the most mainstream punk bands since the new millennium, Green Day has faced criticism for selling out ever since releasing 2004's American Idiot -- some would say as far back as after the release of 1994's Dookie. Fuck that. They didn't sell out. In fact, American Idiot and 21st Century Br ... More >>

Mark Sanchez Called a 'Shaky' Chihuahua by Boomer Esiason

Former USC quarterback Mark Sanchez has been the NFL's Great Brown Hope for a Latino nation not so used to seeing Hispanic surnames on Monday Night Football. Frankly, Latinos come in 250-pound sizes, but rarely in the 6-foot range required by the hard-hitting league. So Sanchez (6 feet, 2 inches, 2 ... More >>

Bon Iver - The Shrine Auditorium - 9-19-11

Timothy NorrisBon Iver​Bon Iver and Other Lives The Shrine Auditorium September 19, 2011 Better than... Monday Night Football Last night around 8pm most of the crowd in the Shrine Auditorium was under the crystal chandeliers in the lobby fighting for a drink and trying to forget that Monday ... More >>

Best Monday Night Football Party: Mo's Place

At Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey, the slick, outsized pageantry of Monday Night Football is no match for the debauched live-action carnival gleefully concocted by the proprietor. When you first walk in, you see a typical, somewhat weathered sports bar. Faded pennants, posters, and blinking screens ... More >>

NFL Stadium Plan Downtown Sees Some Neighborhood Opposition From Resident Gina Zapanta And Other Locals and Businesses

Dennis RomeroCheers for Farmers Field.​Updated at the bottom with endorsements today for the stadium plan. First posted at 4:56 p.m. For the first time that we know of organized community opposition to the downtown L.A. stadium plan has cropped up. It comes to us in the form of a letter sent ... More >>

Monday Night Football at Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey

A. SimmonsMo of Mo's Place​At Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey, the television pageantry of Monday Night Football is no match for the debauched live-action carnival Mo concocts. When you first walk in, you see a typical sports bar. Faded pennants and posters plaster every speck of the interior ... More >>

It's National Spaghetti Day: Is There an Never-ending Pasta Bowl Game Yet?

So here's a rhetorical question for you: how many National Food Days are we technically allowed? Can we designate all 365 of them, or are some days reserved for non-edibles, like National AK-47 Day, or National Monopoly Day? Today, for example, is National Spaghetti Day. Which means, perhaps, that y ... More >>

Henry's Hat Monday Night Football Half-time Show: Stand-up Comics with Your Bar Food

This weekend marks the start of the NFL season, and Monday the beginning of Monday Night Football, and thus the onset of football-watching at local bars and eateries and pretty much any restaurant with a nice big flat screen television turned to the game. Henry's Hat, the new gastropub in Studio Cit ... More >>

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