Olympic Games

Mitt Romney To Help Out With San Diego-Tijuana Olympics Bid

If the U.S. Olympic Committee told you your bid to host the 2024 Summer Games was no good, you'd probably slink back to whatever corner of the earth you came from. But not San Diego, the Little Big City That Could. Uber-Democratic Mayor Bob Filner has enlisted the help of none other than ultra-1-pe ... More >>

San Diego-Tijuana Olympics Bid Nixed

San Diego and Tijuana holding hands like ebony and ivory, together in perfect harmony, side-by-side, hosting the Olympics? Not going to happen. Yes, the dream of brownfolk and surfer dudes working in tandem to host the 2024 Summer Games was a pipe dream:

Tijuana Wants The Olympics?

In America's collective imagination, Tijuana is the perpetual stand-in for the dusty border town. It's the home of the donkey show, buckets of beer and velvet Elvis paintings. But a funny thing happened while we weren't paying attention:

Los Angeles Wants 2024 Olympics

We've done it twice, we can do it again. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today said he put our hat in the ring for the 2024 Olympics. "I am pleased to confirm our enthusiastic interest in bidding to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games," he wrote to the U.S. Olympic Committee. The bid ... More >>

Hooray for Volleyball

Los Angeles Took Home 4 Times More Olympic Medals Than Any Other U.S. City

Enough with the America pride. After the closing ceremony for the London Olympics last night, in which the winning U.S. flag was carried by USC shooting victim and Olympic medalist Bryshon Nellum, we've got an intense case of L.A. pride. Los Angeles was, indisputably, the ultimate-grand-supreme win ... More >>

Leni Riefensthal's Olympia

Food News Roundup: Olympic Specials At L.A. Restaurants, Verve Coffee Roaster's Opening, Cantaloupe Pasta Salad

Zester Daily: A look into Electrolux Cube, one of London's most exclusive restaurants celebrating the Olympics. In Erika's Kitchen: The mushroom-y menu for Erika Kerekes' Trufflepalooza 2012. Food 52: The writers' group column on their favorite summer vegetables and why. L.A. Eater: An announce ... More >>

Top 5 U.K. Beers That Should be Served at the Olympics Instead of Heineken Happy International IPA Day

The summer Olympics are well underway and with the Games, the inevitable media spotlight on the host country's culture. Between the star-studded opening ceremonies and the unprecedented Cultural Olympiad, Great Britain has done its best to take advantage of the attention the Olympics brings. Except, ... More >>

Where to Eat for the 2012 Olympics: British Pub Edition

We'll be the first to admit that, during the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, we weren't visiting our favorite dumpling house in the SGV and asking the hostess to turn on some synchronized swimming -- but this is London 2012, a culture that, for Americans at least, lends itself more comfortably to hanging ... More >>

Eats at the London 2012 Olympics

LONDON -- Game on for eating well during the Olympics, which begins today, July 27, and run through August 12. Already one of the best dining cities in the world, London has been spiffed mightily up for the Olympic games. Billions have been spent on new athletic venues; streets have been reconfigur ... More >>

California Pole Dance Championships at Highlands: Sport Says Sayonara to Strip Clubs and Sets Sights on the Olympics

George GrigorianAnjel Dust, a dancer for more than a decade, also is an organizer of the California Pole Dance Championships.​With her Lucite heels, cheeky schoolgirl pigtails and silky, hot pink disco shorts exposing admirable curves, the petite dancer is a textbook picture of urban erotici ... More >>

Everything All at Once

Two Local Brewers Win Big at the Great American Beer Festival

Jason E. KaplanThe crowds converge on GABF​ Over a dozen L.A.-area craft brewers traveled to Denver last week to compete in the 30th annual Great American Beer Festival -- arguably the oldest and most prestigious national beer competition outside of Europe. This year, 526 breweries submitted 3 ... More >>

Sega Unleashes Sonic Generations Demo Today for Sonic the Hedgehog's 20th Anniversary

Sega​ Read more in "Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Turns 20, Joins Nintendo's Mario for London 2012 Olympics Video Game." June 23 marks the 20th anniversary of Sega's beloved mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. Beginning today, gamers can download demos of Sonic Generations, the anniversary game, via Xbox ... More >>

Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog Turns 20, Joins Nintendo's Mario for London 2012 Olympics Video Game

Shannon CottrellSonic the Hedgehog's 20th anniversary party​Check out our E3 2011 category for more coverage from the show. See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshows, "E3 2011: Day One" and "E3 2011: Day Two." Inside the E3 booth for Sonic Generations, the 20th anniversary Sonic the He ... More >>

ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

Use Your Noodle Part Two: Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop

In June, we wrote of the dazzling food prep scene in Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop (a re-make of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple which will be released on September 3rd). In it, Li, a chef with a fondness for bare midriff tops, pink satin and the wife of his grouchy ... More >>

Use Your Noodle: Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's Remake Of The Coen Brothers' Blood Simple

Sony Pictures Classics​ For all the marquee prominence in the title of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop, (slated for release on Sept. 3rd) we only see a kitchen staff shift into high gear once. In the scene, Wang -- the villainous owner of a restaurant located in ... More >>

Jack Johnson: Hit the Ice, Jack

ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

Top Chef Canada Coming Soon

​ If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>

A Brief History of North America, in Coca-Cola Ads

It's an anniversary of sorts for Coca-Cola. 25 years ago today the soft drink giant launched New Coke, a product that the company hoped would help them win the Cola Wars. It was an unmitigated disaster. People hated it, and quickly began hoarding cases of the original Coke. They staged protests, fil ... More >>

LMFAO Rapper Gives His Side Of Run In With Mitt Romney

Sky Blu.​A rapper from the duo LMFAO said he's the one who had a well-publicized run-in with onetime presidential candidate Mitt Romney on a Los Angeles-bound flight as it took off from Vancouver, and that the Republican politician is the one who started it. As the Weekly's West Coast Sound r ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Olympic Moment: How to Cut a Sandwich with an Ice Skate

Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesStephen Colbert finds a blade for his sandwich​You can't say that Stephen Colbert doesn't put his money where his mouth is. Or, in this case, his lunch. The Comedy Central comedian became the patron saint of speed skating when he bailed out the US Olympic speed skating ... More >>

Mitt Romney Assaulted On Flight To L.A.

Mitt Romney.​Onetime Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was allegedly assaulted in a non-injury confrontation during a flight from Vancouver to Los Angeles this week, but the former Massachusetts governor on Tuesday said he would decline to press charges. The scuffle happened Monda ... More >>

Lindsey Vonn's Olympic Dreams Depend On Austrian Cheese?

​The US medal count in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the opening ceremonies for which are tomorrow, apparently rest on the salvific properties of Austrian cheese. Specifically topfen, a curd cheese that is similar to German quark. Lindsey Vonn, the American skiier who is a heavy favorite in 3 ... More >>

EVERYBODY MUST GET CURLED

Leno Prime-Time Show Done; NBC To Go Back To 'Scripted' TV

NBCJay Leno.​NBC over the weekend copped to its retirement of the short-lived Jay Leno Show at 10 p.m. weeknights, officially announcing that its hoped-for lineup shuffle was a proposal that would have Leno and Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien squeeze into late-night together at 11:35 p.m. and ... More >>

GET HAI

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, Dies

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died early this morning at the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She was 88 years old. Shriver was the sister of former president John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. She was a ... More >>

We Were the World

Can You Hear Me Now!

Gutter Politics: What Happens on Leno Stays on Leno

The instant controversy swirling around President Obama's Tonight Show joke/gaffe about bowling as though he were in the Special Olympics is another indicator of the hypersensitive times we live in -- not so much because anyone from the Special Olympics even complained, but because, according UPI an ... More >>

Fallen Idols of All Shapes and Sizes

Fest-ish Fun

Slasher Flicks: Fencing

Learning the gorgeous, hunky Western martial art

Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

Members of the Los Angeles friends of Tibet held a "die-in" outside the Chinese Consulate on Monday afternoon to protest the recent Chinese crackdown on Tibet in advance of the Beijing Olympics. 40 people laid still in the street, corresponding with the number of Tibetans killed in the recent upris ... More >>

Top gymnasts show their stuff

Frontline: On Our Watch

The sins of inaction

Miller Time in the Church of Arnold

Jingo Bells

Prime-time pride, manly girls vs. girly girls and fear of a black dream team

Urban Beatification Project?

Paul "The Spoiler" Gonzales

The Man Who Would Be King

L.A. dreamer longs to sit on the throne in Equatorial Guinea

Mr. California

The Healing Games

The Olympics on NBC

Olympic Anti-Doping an Uphill Battle

The Passion and Power of "Sugar" Shane Mosley

1984 Timeline