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Rolling Stones - Staples Center - May 3, 2013 (With Photos and Set List)

Rolling Stones Staples Center May 3, 2013 The Rolling Stones still put in the work, as was demonstrated by their stint here in Los Angeles over the last two weeks, which included a series of rehearsals in Burbank -- Falling James lurked outside -- and their secret show at the Echoplex. See also: ... More >>

Miguel - Red Bull Sound Space - 3/11/13

Miguel Red Bull Sound Space 3-11-13 Better Than: The nose bleed section at Staples Center. A Miguel concert is something like if strip clubs held church services during happy hour. "Take your shirt off! It's hot in here!" someone yelled at him, with the same fervor as an "amen." See also: Miguel ... 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 >>

Instagram's Most-Popular Photo Locations? Los Angeles Dominates

Last month we told you about how Southern California locations dominated the year-end list of top Facebook location check-ins. Along comes Instragram with its own year-end list of "most popular locations" for photos uploaded to the social-networking service. Once again ...

Streetcar for Downtown L.A.? Council Creates Special Voting District So Residents Can Decide

What a romantic day for downtown: Dreams of a streetcar loop from Broadway to 11th to Figeroa to Hill (see map below) have a chance of becoming reality, now that the L.A. City Council has created a special voting district in the area it would service. Residents will be given the option to pay a sma ... More >>

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Big Sean, Kid Ink - Club Nokia - 3/27/12

Big Sean, Kid Ink Club Nokia 3/27/12 Better Than... hanging out with the people who went to the Lady Antebellum show at Staples Center. Since 2008, XXL Magazine has anointed a group of up-and-coming rappers as their freshman class in order to show fans what the future of hip-hop will look like. M ... 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 >>

Farmers Field Downtown Stadium Deal Approved by L.A. City Council

Dennis RomeroWoot-woot.​With reporting from Simone Wilson. The downtown stadium dreams of Anschutz Entertainment Group, the owners of Staples Center and LA Live, are coming true one spineless bureaucrat at a time. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a deal, negotiated mostly beh ... More >>

X Games Inspire LAPD to Crack Down on Underage Skaters in Downtown After-Hours

Naoki Tomino​The buzz killingtons at the LAPD don't stop this week. They snuffed out a flash mob rave on Hollywood Boulevard, prepared for Lady Gaga fans to get out of hand yesterday (the didn't) and now they're targeting underage buggers who are illegally on the street past curfew (after 10 p ... More >>

Downtown Stadium Deal Moves a Few Yards Forward in L.A. Just as NFL, Players Come to Terms

Coming to downtown?​Even before the NFL and its players agreed on a new labor deal today the mayor of Los Angeles called a press conference to reveal a proposed pact between City Hall and the billionaire-controlled company that wants to build an NFL stadium on land owned by you, the taxpayer. ... More >>

Dodger Stadium to be Moved Downtown? Report Says MLB Talking to AEG About Building New L.A. Ballpark

A relic?​Update: MLB reportedly denies this, as does AEG. Details at the bottom. A baseball stadium in downtown Los Angeles? Built by the folks who own Staples Center? Whew. This Frank McCourt mess has really shaken things up. Because the loathed Dodgers owner is the landlord at Dodger Stadi ... More >>

Live Review: Maná at Staples Center

Timothy Norris Fher Olvera ​Review by Erica E. Phillips WHO: Maná WHERE: Staples Center WHEN: 6/23/11 The long-haired, tattooed, tight-pants-and-open-black-leather-vested members of Mexican pop rock group, Maná, are as legendary as their music. Flip a radio dial in any major U.S. city and ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: Los Angeles Police Vigilant Despite Death of World's Most Reviled Terrorist

Gone.​Updated after the jump with a pat on the back from the LAFD. The LAPD is keeping its guard up despite President Obama's world-shaking announcement that terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan. Assistant Commanding Officer Blake Chow, the department's counterterrorism comm ... More >>

Serene Branson's CBS2 Grammy Coverage Ends With Paramedics Checking Her Out (Video)

CBS2Serene Branson.​L.A. news hounds were abuzz Monday over CBS2 reporter Serene Branson's stand-up meltdown outside the Grammy Awards at Staples Center. Her wrap-up Grammy report for the station, caught on video (after the jump), ended with a jumble of nonsensical words. Gawker on Monday sur ... More >>

Los Angeles Farmers Stadium? L.A.'s Proposed NFL Venue Downtown Might Already Have Naming-Rights Deal

FoxCletus would like L.A. Farmers Stadium.​Los Angeles has been called many things - douchetown, Mexico City II, land of the celebutard. But a heartland of farming it is not. So you have to hand it to the folks at Anschutz Entertainment Group, the people behind Staples Center and the proposal ... More >>

Forget The Broad Museum: Hooters Coming To Downtown L.A. (Now That's 'Culture')

An official 'Hooters Girl.'​Downtown has really grown up in the last ten years. It has more than a few foodie-approved eateries, several upscale bars, a new Broad museum on the way, and an NFL stadium proposal that's being touted by the folks behind Staples Center. But what it really needs is ... More >>

(Video) Metrodome Roof Collapse In Minneapolis Could Raise Hopes For NFL's Vikings Los Angeles

APSnow comes down, L.A.'s NFL hopes are lifted.​That blast of snow that brought down parts of the Metrodome's roof in Minneapolis could bring some new rays of hope to sunny L.A.'s chances of getting a new NFL team. Turns out it's not the first time snow has come through the roof of the venue, ... More >>

Designs For NFL Stadium In Downtown L.A. Are On Staples Center Chief Tim Leiweke's Desk

ZeregaStaples Center could get a big baby brother.​It took the city of Los Angeles several years to get its final medical marijuana dispensary law on the books. When the City Council doesn't like the taste of something, like telling its friends in the pot business that they can't operate too c ... More >>

Look, Up in the Sky!

It's the Ritz! It's Chinese! It's Wolfgang Puck!

Tonight: Boom Boom Satellites, UNKLE, JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys, Justin Bieber, Jessie Baylin, Aqualung, Wet & Reckless

Boom Boom Satellites​Japanese duo Boom Boom Satellites have been churning out their stadium-sized electro rock for two decades now, but except for big-beat enthusiasts who probably have some of their albums shelved with Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy and fans who discovered their music in video g ... More >>

Dino-Might!

Breaking: Olivia Munn To Protest Circus With PETA In Downtown Los Angeles

​Suddenly this whole PETA protest of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus outside Staples Center got a whole lot more interesting. PETA tweeted (via LA Observed) that G4 television host Olivia Munn will be joining the anti-circus festivities at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Suddenly we're down ... More >>

Did Free Staples Center Tickets Inspire L.A. City Leaders To Spend $3.2 Million Of Your Money On Michael Jackson's Memorial?

​A court filing seeks "declaratory and injunctive relief" for taxpayers regarding the city of Los Angeles' expenses for the Michael Jackson memorial last summer, alleging that city officials who received free tickets from Staples Center's owner looked the other way when it came to public costs ... More >>

Downtown Street Closures In Effect For Lakers Parade

​It's not a SigAlert, but you mind as well be prepared for a FigAlert as Figueroa Street between Olympic and Jefferson boulevards will be closed starting at 12 a.m. Monday to accommodate the 11 a.m. Lakers parade. Restaurants at LA Live will be open and accessible from Olympic Boulevard, but ... More >>

City Attorney Drops Investigation Of Staples Center After It Kicks In Cash For Michael Jackson's Memorial

​Following Anschutz Entertainment Group's announcement that it would give $1 million to the city (and $300 to the L.A. Police Foundation) to defray the city's costs related to last year's Michael Jackson memorial show at its Staples Center venue, the Los Angeles City Attorney's office stated t ... More >>

L.A. City Attorney Targets Overdue Taxes, Gets $1.5 Million For L.A.

​As the city struggles to make ends meet -- cops need to be hired, city workers will likely be fired, and fire companies are already going on daylong hiatuses to save money -- it's been hard to find a hero at City Hall. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took off for Europe this month, at the taxpayer ... More >>

Lakers Are The Sports Franchise Of The Decade

Da Lakers.​Yes, another year-end, top-of-the-decade list, this time from Sports Illustrated. The magazine says the Los Angeles Lakers are the sports franchise of the decade. The Staples Center-based ballers beat out the NFL's New England Patriots (number two), the University of Connecticut's w ... More >>

Poor, Ultrarich Tim Leiweke

L.A. City Hall genuflects to AEG. Somebody forgot to tell Carmen Trutanich

Movie Theater Bites the Dust

BlogDowntown's Ed Fuentes confirms that the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex will close October 25, mostly due to the expected competition from a new Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 located near Staples Center. The Laemmle Grande was a diamond in the rough for local filmgoers because its bills, while favoring multipl ... More >>

Michael Jackson Memorial Tickets -- This One is the Closest You'll Ever Get

More than 1 million people tried to get tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial at Staples Center this morning, and the ticket scalpers promptly descended. We feel just terrible that we here at L.A. Weekly managed to grab an extra one just by promptly calling -- and not even using our press contacts, ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Memorial Participants Announced: Kobe, Mariah, Stevie, Berry G., Brooke, John Mayer (?!), Jennifer Hudson, Magic, Rev. Al, Usher, More.

Okay, this is an odd list. Is this not an odd list? Most specifically, John Mayer. Right? That's a left-field pick. Is he not the Leonard Zelig of our time? And Shaheen Jafargholi? Hmm. The rest is fascinating and spot-on. The participants for Michael Jackson's memorial tomorrow have been announced, ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

E.L.A. Gold Line Fears City and MTA officials worry for the safety of jaywalkers and beat-the-train drivers once the new Gold Line extension's trains begin running through East Los Angeles. L.A. TimesLakers Parade Wednesday morning the championship L.A. Lakers team will parade from Staples Center to ... More >>

Fighting City Hall: A "How-To" from L.A. cartoonist Donna Barstow

With Los Angeles City Council ready to approve a train wreck of a budget, and with their vote on May 26 to delay for months a bizarre plan to place "sign districts" potentially filled with pulsating digital billboards in more than 20 residential and business districts citywide, arm yourself by knowi ... 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 >>

Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

Eli Broad's Grand Avenue Follies

Mecca for the monied can't get a loan, but is likely to get City Council's nod

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.

Van Halen, Staples Center, November 20

Van Halen Staples Center, November 20 By Randall Roberts Jack and Coke? Check. Bic lighter? You know it. Rocker passed out on sidewalk, girlfriend exasperated, before the show? There were a few of them here. This is Van Halen, after all, and them up there is Diamond David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Ha ... More >>

Van Halen to Play LA in November

Which Van Halen? The Diamond-Dave fronted VH, of course. The band is slated to play the Staples Center on November 20. As previously speculated, the band will consist of Eddie, David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen. Michael Anthony will not re-join the band for the tour and bass duties will fall to ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of March 15 - 22

Tickled Pink!

An Anthem Reclaimed

The Point of Being Different

The Cirque is back in town

All Gates Open

Times Cancels City Hall Party

Will stick to covering news

Rants and Reflections

A street-side view of the Democratic Convention

The First Amendment, LAPD Style

Cops push politics to the sidelines at DNC

Pre-game Antics

Food workers win at Staples

Rock & Roll Jinx