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8 Ways You Know It's Autumn In Los Angeles

Autumn is a funny time in Los Angeles: the leaves stubbornly affixed to their trees, the hoi polloi going about in all manner of t-shirts and flip-flops. As the 92-degree days bleed into 85-degree days bleed into 79-degree days, you could be forgiven for not quite realizing that summer is over until ... More >>

Meet the Twins Behind Dodgers Fan Weekly

They auditioned to be the Doublemint Twins. They played ball with Sam Malone in a Cheers episode. And today they are the women of Dodger Fan Weekly, a weekly episodic web series created by fans for fans -- or, make that, by female fans with an emphasis on the female fan. They are Adele Baughn Wilso ... More >>

After Murder of L.A. Fan, SFPD to Go Undercover in Dodgers Gear

Updated at the bottom: The Dodgers say the victim was the son of a team security guard. First posted at 2:05 p.m. San Francisco police planned to beef up patrols in the city tonight in the wake of Wednesday's fatal stabbing death of a Dodgers fan, which happened not long after L.A.'s loss on the Gi ... More >>

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 >>

How Important Is Home Field Advantage in the Playoffs?

L.A. Weekly is a great predictor of Dodgers doings. In fact, we're a veritable Nostradamus of forecasting National League West outcomes, our record standing at a perfect one-for-one. The baseball writing staff conferenced on August 23, stuck a fork in the division and pronounced Los Angeles the vi ... More >>

Who Are You People and What Have You Done with Our Dodgers?

Let's talk "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," shall we? Not the 1978 Donald Sutherland-Brooke Adams version, fine though it may have been, but the Cold War pod people Don Siegel movie, starring Kevin McCarthy and released in 1956. On June 2, 2013, the Dodgers lost to the Rockies by the score of 7-2, ... More >>

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner Refuses To Resign, Seeks Therapy

Usually we pay attention to San Diego about once a year, during Comic-Con. But in the last few weeks America's Finest City has played host to an even bigger spectacle -- the implosion of Mayor Bob Filner.Today, Filner sought to cling to power by promising to go to sex-harassment rehab. Some folks th ... More >>

A Tour Through the L.A. That Could Have Been

It's Time for Dodger Bowling

Carne Asada Sunday at Dodger Stadium: Our Dinner With Andre

If you have no plans on Sunday, July 28, you probably could do a whole lot worse than to spend the afternoon at a ball game followed by some carne asada right off the grill. Especially when the ball game involves the Dodgers (versus the Cincinnati Reds), and the cookout will be hosted by Andre Ethie ... More >>

Winners of Four Straight, Dodgers Make Their Pitch

This feels a bit better now, doesn't it? Buried in last place, 12 games under .500 and 9.5 out of first place just four days ago, L.A.'s Dodgers have won four straight to improve to 34-42 and seven games back. Most importantly, they've won within the division, beating the Padres in San Diego Saturd ... More >>

The Dodgers Celebrate Back-to-Back Wins in San Diego, But Can They Make a Run?

A little skepticism is a healthy thing. The Dodgers beat the Padres in San Diego Saturday and Sunday and we're all pleased. Relieved, ecstatic, borderline giddy, actually. My bad mood rises after a Los Angeles victory, staying with me overnight and right up until game time the next day. Twitter was ... More >>

Dodgers Escape From New York With a Split, Puig a Hit

What a difference a day makes. Or half a day. After a rainout Tuesday, the long-anticipated Los Angeles-New York interleague series finally materialized yesterday. And it wasn't long before the Dodgers looked like they hadn't appeared at a place called Yankee Stadium -- or even touched a baseball - ... More >>

Dodgers Pull into New York for Don Mattingly Lovefest While L.A. Fans Steam

Losers of six of eight, the Dodgers pull into the Bronx today for a pair of interleague games with their long-time World Series rivals, the New York Yankees. And much to the dismay of the City of Dodgers, it's going to be 48 hours of Don Mattingly-inspired reminiscing, with a laser-like focus on hi ... More >>

MLB Hits Back after Dodgers Dbacks Fight, Suspension all Around

The long wait is over. The Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks had a knock down drag out fight Tuesday night in Los Angeles, and a mere three days later, Major League Baseball has decided what to do about it. MLB generally hands out fines and suspensions the day after an on-field incident, but with a ... More >>

Don Mattingly Loses Remaining Credibility as Dodgers Sink Further in West

The 1962 New York Mets -- losers of 120 games and a team the locals are resembling more and more each day -- were led by a first baseman known fondly as Marvelous Marv Throneberry, about whom it was said, "If he could get to it, he could drop it." The 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers -- losers of but 36 ga ... More >>

I Dared Yasiel Puig to Hit a Grand Slam; Now I Owe Him my Car

A baseball blogger's Twitter feed is no place for objectivity. If not by definition than by tradition, a baseball blogger -- and Dodger bloggers have been at this the longest -- roots for his team. He may rip them a new one when the situation calls for it, but his love is blue always. And so last n ... 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 >>

Dodgers Sink to New Depths in Mile High City, Turn to Rookie for a Hand Up

The 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers are a monumental flop. They're a steaming-on-the-asphalt big fat flop. In fact, there's so much flopping going on here that if this were basketball, L.A.'s club would be fined out of existence by the NBA. But no such luck. This is baseball, and our team has laid a dud, ... 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 >>

Two Dodgers Going in Completely Different Directions

In deference to Clayton Kershaw, let's separate the "best player" from "best position player" label, shall we. Adrian Gonzalez is L.A.'s best position player. He's their MVP. And you might say that without Adrian Gonzalez the Dodgers are the Marlins. Other than the two-month difference between his ... More >>

Dodgers Media Firestorm Extinguished, Don Mattingly Still in Place

If the lesson to the media, and to FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal in particular is "mess with the Dodgers, you get burned," it's been delivered loud and clear, received, over and out. And I'm having piping hot soup for lunch, by the way. Consider the Don Mattingly-inspired headlines following the ma ... More >>

Weekend Preview: Improving Matt Kemp, Dodgers Begin Roadie Tonight in Atlanta

Rebounding from an eight-game losing streak with victories in four of their last five, the Dodgers have hit the road. Beginning tonight at 4:30 p.m. it's three at Atlanta followed by three in the former home of the Braves, in Milwaukee to face the Brewers. While we wouldn't use the word "surging" t ... More >>

Clayton Kershaw at Risk in 132-Pitch Win?

Clayton Kershaw is as close to deity as anyone in baseball, and he's getting closer with each passing five-day period. He's a god, let's face it. The man walks on dirt. And I am his groupie. In fact, I've worked it out with The Main Squeeze and it's decided. We're naming our first-born male child C ... More >>

A New Day Dawns as Dodgers Win Two Straight

The Dodgers showed up for their weekend test, ready with their sharpened # 2 pencils (no jokes about their walking up to the plate with them in hand, please), scouted out the nearest restrooms, got credit for spelling their names correctly, and beat the patsy Miami Marlins two out of three. They di ... More >>

Dodgers Face Unexpected Test in League-Worst Marlins

This is a test of the Emergency Baseball System. This is only a test. Please stand by for the next 72 hours, while the fate of your baseball club and its manager, are determined in part by the worst the sport has to offer. The former Florida Marlins, now known officially as the Miami Marlins (becau ... More >>

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 >>

Dodgers Swept into San Francisco Bay, Drift Rudderless Out to Sea

Good news, bad news. The good news first: no one drowned. Now the bad news. Your Los Angeles Dodgers went to San Francisco and were swept in three by the hated Giants, losing each night in one-run fashion, 2-1, 10-9 and 4-3. There was the usual trouble hitting with runners in scoring position, some ... More >>

SF Weekend: Dodgers, Giants to Play a Particular Brand of Baseball

While neither the Dodgers nor the Giants are playing particularly well at the moment, one team is playing particularly less well than the other. And as much as it pains me to admit -- we don't hide our loyalties here, so if you're looking for unadulterated objectivity, you may want to look elsewhere ... More >>

Meet Josh Tucker: The Man Behind the Dodgers' Twitter Feed

He's got a quarter of a million Twitter followers, but you don't know his name. He's talked about on social media more positively -- and is responsible for more smiles from fans -- than the Dodgers' Luis Cruz, Ted Lilly and Juan Uribe combined. He's baseball savvy, he's creative and he's the man beh ... More >>

Ryan Braun, Hometown Anti-Hero, Booed Unmercifully As Dodgers Beat Brewers

OK, so that headline is a tad misleading: Alleged drug-cheat Ryan Braun wasn't booed unmercifully throughout the weekend as predicted here Friday. He was booed mercifully, actually, and there's a difference. It's like what Jerry Lewis once said about the Great Wall of China: "It's not a great wall; ... More >>

Dodgers Take Two in New York; Brewers on Tap Next

Ah, the ups and downs of a .500 team. Or, in the case of the 9-10 Dodgers, an almost-.500 team. L.A.'s baseball club went east for a week, dropped two out of three in Baltimore, won two of three versus the Mets, and came home as happy as clams in the Chesapeake. Winning the final game of a road tri ... More >>

­The Other Cleat Drops: Chad Billingsley to Have Tommy John Surgery Tomorrow

Well, the news on Chad Billingsley couldn't be worse for the Dodgers. Here is the statement from the club, issued this afternoon: "Chad Billingsley will undergo Tommy John surgery tomorrow, April 24, at the Kerlan Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles. Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform the surgery. ... More >>

Move Over, West Hollywood -- Silver Lake Is the True Gay Mecca

By Tyler Trykowski Could gays of the 1980s imagine what it would be like to be gay in 2013? From the Supreme Court pondering marriage equality to NFL players weighing how best to come out, the way we're gay today is nothing like it's ever been before. And for that modern gay man, West Hollywood ma ... More >>

Best L.A. Novel Ever: A Single Man vs. Golden Days, Round 2

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading check out: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The battle b ... More >>

Terror in Boston Tightens Security for CicLAvia

Both this weekend's bike ride and other outdoor L.A. events could see new precautions in light of deadly attacks at marathon

Dodgers Falling All Over Themselves, Hope to Avoid a Padres Sweep

Remember that supposedly over-loaded eight-man starting staff the Dodgers were sporting all winter? Well, it's down to four, and by most accounts five are required. Aaron Harang -- didn't want to be here, wasn't wanted anyway -- traded. Zack Greinke, TKO. Chris Capuano, ineffective and injured quic ... More >>

Jackie Robinson Day: Los Angeles, the Dodgers and Major League Baseball Celebrate

It's Jackie Robinson Day, America. And it's Jackie Robinson day across America. The third Monday in January of every year we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. And on April 15 we remember the day Jackie Robinson became the first "Negro" player in Major League Baseball.

Jackie Robinson's Story Is Partly a Los Angeles Story -- Something 42 Neglects

"Opening Day," says Harrison Ford's Branch Rickey in the Jackie Robinson biopic 42, "is all future. The past is wiped away. It's a clean slate." It's a nice little platitude to mutter in the locker room, but both on the baseball field and in the real world, it's the kind of starry-eyed naive optimis ... More >>

Disaster Strikes Dodgers as Zack Greinke Breaks Collarbone in Brawl, More Drama Follows

Since the Los Angeles Times prefers the cleaner version of Matt Kemp's words -- requiring "We'll see, bitch" instead of "We'll see..." -- we thought you'd appreciate the actual quote, as tweeted by the Times' Dylan Hernandez above. "Bitch" is one way to describe Padres' Carlos Quentin, certainly. D ... More >>

Chad Billingsley Begins Comeback in San Diego Tonight. Will it Take?

The Dodgers play game two of their series with the Padres, facing old mate Eric Stults, tonight at 7:10 p.m. in San Diego. There Chad Billingsley will try to come back from not one, but two injuries. One major, one minor. Billinglsey bruised a finger in a routine Spring Training bunting drill March ... More >>

Dodgers Sweep Bucs, Trade Harang. A Good Time Was Had by All

Check almost any close-up of Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle during a baseball game and watch the frequency and ferocity of the up-and-down jaw smacking of his gum chewing; you'll be convinced, and afraid for his family, that his face is about to explode. Of course, it might be the Pirates' flounde ... More >>

5 Takeaways from the Dodgers' Season-Opening Series

That was just so Dodgers. From the pomp, circumstance and exhilaration of Opening Day to the shoulder dropping, ground ball dropping of back-to-back losses to the rival San Francisco Giants. Here are five takeaways from the Dodgers' first three games: 5. The team is going to have its struggles wit ... More >>

How the Dodgers' New TV Contract Exemplifies Major League Baseball's Problems

Cable subscribers are subsidizing a dying industry

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?

Los Angeles Times to be Auctioned, as Will All Tribune Post-Bankruptcy Newspapers: Bruce Karsh Will be The Deal's Frank McCourt

Updated below with Tribune clarifying it's not really an auction, reactions from top Los Angeles Times journalists and potential buyer Austin Beutner. Additional reporting by Hillel Aron. CNBC is reporting that Tribune Co. has hired investment bankers to sell off its newspaper unit, which includes ... 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 >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/22 - 10/26

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We're kind of worried that the folks at the big box store know something we don't, as the new seasonal catalogue has some sobering emergency food options." 6 Things on Sale at Costco.com: Your Holiday Dinner Party, My Apocal ... More >>

Men Oh Tokushima Ramen: Chashu, Pork Belly A Ramen Video!

The history of the San Francisco-Los Angeles rivalry is well-documented in many fields, whether it's the Giants and Dodgers contesting the NL West (we're all aware of how that turned out this season) or a frank debate on which city offers the biggest and best representation of West Coast cuisine. In ... More >>