Philip Anschutz

AEG Sale Off; Tim Leiweke Steps Down As L.A.-Based CEO

The for sale sign outside the door of Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of Staples Center, LA Live and London's 02 arena, has been taken down, the company announced. Not only that but Tim Leiweke, the company's L.A.-based president and CEO and the architect of plans to build a $1.5 billion stadiu ... More >>

AEG, L.A. Parent of Coachella, Staples Center, For Sale

Updated at the bottom: AEG confirms that it's looking to sell. L.A. based Anschutz Entertainment Group, the downtown powerhouse behind Staples Center, LA Live, the proposed Farmers Field football stadium, and the world's second-largest concert promoter, Live Nation, might be for sale. Several outl ... More >>

L.A. City Hall's 'Elephant Awareness Day' Apparently Not Enough to Keep Ringling Bros. Out of Staples Center

Surprise, surprise! Not one month after L.A. politicians wasted time and resources designating August 3 as the city's official "Elephant Awareness Day," the poster corporation for alleged elephant abuse is coming to town. This very evening, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (owned by Feld E ... More >>

How Green Was My Downtown

Tim Leiweke's NFL Stadium Position: AEG is Willing to Share Revenue, and Today's EIR is Out to Change L.A. Driving Habits

By Hillel Aron Some call AEG's Tim Leiweke Los Angeles' most powerful man. But hours before today's release of a 10,000-page Environmental Impact Report for Farmers Field NFL stadium, Leiweke was stressed. Jacket off, slumped in a chair, drinking a Coke, he didn't seem like president of a firm with ... More >>

VIDEO: Hundreds of Fitness Dorks Turn Out for Massive 'Zumba' Flash Mob at L.A. Live

What appeared to be hundreds, if not thousands, of Zumba® fans in their finest Latin-flavored workout getups crowded the Nokia Plaza yesterday afternoon, forming the most chaotic mob at L.A. Live since the Lakers riots. If you haven't heard of Zumba yet, here's what you're missing: It describes it ... More >>

Blade Runner Stadium

Battle For Brooklyn: Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's Documentary Has Echoes in L.A.'s Football Stadium Controversy

Construction begins on the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn​ There's a moment towards the end of Battle for Brooklyn when Prospect Heights resident Daniel Goldstein peers through a fence at a construction site teeming with workers and cranes. The area was recently home to dozens of small bus ... More >>

Toothless Arizona Boycott

Los Angeles, a Major Global City Owned And Run by Outsiders?

Mark Luethi / LA Weekly Flickr poolLooking in.​Is this worldly town -- America's gateway to Asia, the second-largest media market in America, the Latino capital of the United States -- really owned and controlled by outsiders? It's a question posed by local expert and author D.J. Waldie at Zo ... More >>

Seven Opinionated Reasons An L.A. Downtown Stadium Could Be A FAIL From The Start

One vision of a downtown stadium.​An NFL stadium downtown. Frankly it even has some of us hardened Anshutz Entertainment Group (AEG, the company that wants to do this) watchers giddy with excitement. Perhaps our testosterone has gotten the best of us. A piece looking at the viability of a s ... More >>

Decision On NFL Team For L.A. By March? That's What Staples Center Honcho Tim Leiweke Wants To See

The Convention Center, and Staples, by sky.​Angelenos could find out if we're getting an NFL team within three months. That's the goal Staples Center boss Tim Leiweke set for the NFL to give us the green light (and a team), he told downtown business leaders this week. And next month, he sai ... More >>

Are You Ready For Some Football, L.A?

chargers.comWould L.A. get the Charger Girls as part of the deal?​Strange days, these. The economy seemed to have bottomed out around here sometime in summer, even as the recession was declared officially over ... for a year. But rich guys, they play by their own rhythms, and the movement to b ... More >>

Are NFL's Chargers Coming To L.A? Rumors Abound That Staples Center Owner Phil Anschutz Has Taken A Stake In The San Diego Team

Los Angeles Chargers?​Updated with Earvin "Magic" Johnson's comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. First posted at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday. Laker legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! early Wednesday that he's teamed up with the Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring an NFL team t ... More >>

Los Angeles Has New NFL Stadium ... Website

Majestic RealtyWould an NFL stadium in Industry be too far away?​We might not have a new NFL stadium or even a team to fill it, but Los Angeles has a new NFL stadium website. In what seems to us to be an increasingly competitive battle over who will get a stadium built -- Ed Roski's Majestic ... More >>

Staples Center's Parent To Kick In $1.3 Million For Jackson Memorial

​Anschutz Entertainment Group, the company that owns Staples Center, has decided to kick in $1 million for the city's $3.2 million in costs in helping the billionaire-controlled firm put on its memorial concert to honor the late Michael Jackson almost one year ago last summer. An announcement ... More >>

Lakers' Jerry Buss Headed To Basketball Hall Of Fame

nba.com​The Basketball Hall of Fame was widely expected to announce the induction of Lakers co-owner Jerry Buss Monday morning. The 77-year-old was one of 19 finalists for the honor. In the largest sports deal at the time, Buss purchased the Lakers, the Forum, the Los Angeles Kings hockey tea ... More >>

Phil Anshutz's Paper Criticizes L.A. Times Over Same-Sex Marriage Reporting

​On Monday the Washington Examiner, the conservative daily newspaper owned by Staples Center magnate Phil Anschutz, called out the Los Angeles Times for its coverage of events surrounding the same-sex marriage trial in San Francisco. As the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked streaming vid ... More >>

Lakers Proclaimed Most Valuable NBA Team

NBA​The Lakers can add ad another crown to their collection as Forbes magazine on Thursday proclaimed the squad the most valuable team in the NBA. Hot off last season's championship, the magazine valued the franchise at $607 million, which topped the New York Nicks (#2; $586 million), the Chi ... More >>

Los Angeles City Hall's Funny Michael Jackson Figures

Is the "millions" spent by memorial-goers on food and rooms mathematically impossible?

City-Touted $4 Million Benefit From Jackson Memorial Doubted

Sony​As the L.A. City Council takes up the strange saga of the Michael Jackson memorial next week, the critical question will be whether area businesses really reaped a $4 million windfall for an event that cost taxpayers $3.2 million, and whether memorial organizer Anschutz Entertainment Grou ... More >>

Former L.A. City Council Maverick Endorses In Second-District Race

Christine Essel​Former Los Angeles CIty Councilman Joel Wachs on Wednesday endorsed Hollywood Christine Essel in the highly contentious, high-spending race to fill the second district council seat left open by Wendy Greuel, who became City Controller in July. Wachs has been fairly quiet since ... More >>

The Jackson Memorial's $4 Million City Windfall Dubious

It was cool to hear City Councilman Dennis Zine on news radio this morning discounting the benefit of the purported $4 million tourist-and-shopping stimulus brought by the Michael Jackson memorial at Staples Center in July. The city paid $3.2 million, mostly in overtime and regular staffing for pol ... More >>

"Shady stories” Come Out

Los Angeles Corporate Welfare: Ritz-Carlton and AEG

Rich entities siphon taxpayer money while real communities struggle

Mushroom Season in Poisonous Sacramento

Assemblyman John Perez wants to make Phil Anschutz richer with a favor to Nokia Live

'L.A. Live' is Truly Bad Architecture: Curbed LA

Thanks to Curbed LA for pointing out what I keep hearing about the architecture, architect and design work that brought us AEG's LA Live complex near Staples Center: despite the unintentionally humorous PR spin from the mayor and other politicians that this is a "public square," LA Live is hideously ... More >>

Update: Trutanich may conduct criminal probe of Michael Jackson/AEG memorial costs

UPDATE: I missed this really funny Los Angeles City Council agenda list published today by Mayor Sam blog's Petra Fried, showing the council's time today is being dominated by post-Jackson explanations, probes and studies. One interesting agenda item: trying to explain how the city spent a fortune o ... More >>

MICHAEL JACKSON: THE POST-MORTEM SPENDING SPREE

The blame and the buck fly furiously after the pop icon's burial

$4 Million Jackson Memorial Cost to Taxpayers?

By Tibby Rothman City Hall is begging Jackson fans for alms, but upset L.A. residents face paying a king's ransom for the memorial to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. During the hours leading up to today's globally viewed memorial, the Los Angeles Police Department and other city offices were str ... More >>

Industry Stadium: Years Before Kickoff

Today City of Industry's city council rubber-stamped approval of a plan to build a football stadium on vacant land near the nexus of the 60 and 57 Freeways. The vote followed Tuesday's  victory of a $150 million bond measure, which was passed by 60 of Industry's 82 registered voters. The build- ... More >>

Reading the Fine Print: How to Spot the Loopholes, Legal Doozies and Loose Phrasing in California's Ballot Initiatives

Voter beware the phrases "associated with," "other uses" and "related issues"

Los Angeles Convention Center Before and After

Last week, the Los Angeles City Council approved a deal that could lead to dozens of monster-size billboards and video displays to be mounted on the outer walls of the Los Angeles Convention Center – aimed at tens of thousands of motorists driving by one of the most congested intersections in Amer ... More >>

Mega-Billboard for Billionaire Anschutz: What's Next, Preparation H Pavilion?

City Council rolls over for tycoon, ignoring its own anti-billboard law

That's Wack

California’s legislature approves 1,000 new laws annually. Insert laugh track here

Feb. 9, 2007

L.A.’s 20 Best Italian Restaurants by Jonathan Gold, Separated at Birth by Steven Leigh Morris and The Bastard Question by Ernest Hardy

The Ultimate Product Placement

Phil Anschutz takes a huge hit if Beckham tanks as L.A.’s soccer megastar. He’s not worried

Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

LA’s Underground Power Broker

The name Vignali receded into L.A. history after the “Pardongate” scandal of 2001, but questions remain about drug-dealing son Carlos and his real estate magnate father, Horacio, who just might be pulling the strings in the remaking of downtown L.A.

Hollywood Overheard

Another year, another round of ridiculous remarks

Letters

Megaplex Monopoly

Coming to a theater near you

The Lakers Lesson

Maybe the NFL wouldn't be the worst thing for L.A.

Stadium Schemes

The secretive and expensive road to L.A. football

The Old Ball Game

L.A.’s future is fine without football

Giuliani Time

Money Fields

End of the line for L.A. River park

It’s Chinatown, Jake

The behind-closed-doors transformation of the downtown rail yards

Battling for the Big Ones

Reformers get mixed results in targeting major projects

Power Player

Ed Roski Jr. owns a piece of the Kings and the Lakers. But his favorite game is hardball