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Santa Anita Park

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    BBQ Contest At The Queen Mary This Saturday Your Insider's Guide to Sampling!

    Legit barbecue contests like the ones you see on TV don't happen much in Los Angeles. Did you make it the contest at Santa Anita Park we told you about? No? Well, the 1st Annual West Coast BBQ Classic drops anchor this weekend at the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach, and it is the last sanction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    HBO Cancels 'Luck' for Being Too Realistic

    Turns out David Milch and Michael Mann's hardcore new horse-racing show for HBO, the extremely well-received Luck, was a little too realistic for comfort. PETA started the flamewar last month, enraged at the news that two horses had to be put down in a single season. And when word came today of a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    BBQ Contest at Santa Anita Racetrack: Coming March 10

    A barbecue contest and a horse race in Los Angeles, of all places? We've seen a rodeo and BBQ competition before, but this combination is a new one for us. The Santa Anita racetrack is hosting both the San Felipe Stakes and the Winners Circle BBQ Championships on March 10. While the horses run at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Michael Mann's New HBO Show Luck Is So Hard-core That 2 Horses Have Died Already

    We knew Luck would be hardcore. With Deadwood's David Milch on the screenplay and Miami Vice's Michael Mann in the director's chair, HBO's new ode to horse-racing was bound to be grittier and manlier than Cormac McCarthy' 5 'o' clock shadow. But are they taking the realism too far? In a single sea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Greek Fest This Weekend in Arcadia

    St. Anthony'sDon't miss the grilled lamb chops ​ The grilled lamb chops with garlic fries will transport you to Mt. Olympus. Also, it's fun to walk around getting all Bacchanalian on licorice-y ouzo. You may wake up the next morning wondering why you are covered in cheap evil eye jewelry looki ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2011

    Portantino's Passion Ploy

    An upstart suburban legislator outfoxes California Speaker John Perez

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Best Turkish Delight: Nory Locum in Canoga Park

    A. ScattergoodTurkish delight at Nory Locum​ If you've never had excellent Turkish delight, deceptively simple bits of chewy, gelée-like candy often flavored with bergamot or rosewater, sometimes shot through with pistachios, you haven't been spending enough time in Middle Eastern shops or r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Marilyn Monroe Photographer Bill Carroll Talks About Working with a Young Norma Jeane

    Marilyn Monroe's legacy as the personification of the Hollywood lifestyle and glamour (along with its tragedies) is just one reason why the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Beverly Hills is running its current exhibit "Becoming Marilyn." The show features a collection of photos that span her 17-year career f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    California Horse Racing Saved By Wealthy Lunatic

    Frank Stronach, making Al Davis look sane and sober​Frank Stronach has been a well-known lunatic in the horse racing industry for many years. But today he added considerably to that reputation with his erratic performance before the California Horse Racing Board.In the space of 20 minutes, the Aus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    No Horse Racing At Santa Anita This Fall?

    ​The big players in California horse racing will gather next Tuesday to hash out the future of racing in Southern California.At the moment, it looks like the Oak Tree Racing Association -- which has been running races at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia for 40 years -- will be heading elsewhere.

  • Eat+Drink

    October 15, 2009

    Love, Shandong-Style: at 101 Noodle Express, a Beef Roll as Big as Your Arm

    ​The big players in California horse racing will gather next Tuesday to hash out the future of racing in Southern California.At the moment, it looks like the Oak Tree Racing Association -- which has been running races at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia for 40 years -- will be heading elsewhere.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Brave New Archive UCLA will get the correspondence, speeches, papers and audio recordings of 20th-century author, seeker and drug experimenter Aldous Huxley. L.A. TimesSlay Case Man Still Missing Nearly nine months after the gruesome killings of four people in a Quartz Hill house, a fifth presumed v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Today in Photographs: February 6, 1941

    Et in Arcadia ego  Grooms and stablehands vote to strike Santa Anita Park, shutting down turf events for a day. The racetrack in Arcadia would become a relocation center for Japanese Americans in the months following Pearl Harbor.Photo: LA Times/UCLA Collection

  • Eat+Drink

    December 11, 2008

    Looking for a Hot 3-Way: Chili, Cincinnati-style at Chili John's

    Et in Arcadia ego  Grooms and stablehands vote to strike Santa Anita Park, shutting down turf events for a day. The racetrack in Arcadia would become a relocation center for Japanese Americans in the months following Pearl Harbor.Photo: LA Times/UCLA Collection

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Rick Caruso's Aria: L.A.'s Mall King Mulls a Mayoral Run

    Does he have a shot?

  • LA Life

    June 23, 2005

    Hasta la Vista, Baby

    Driving for the view of it

  • Film+TV

    July 31, 2003

    Horse Balm and Bull Pucky

    Seabiscuit, that is, and Buffalo Soldiers

  • Calendar

    June 5, 2003

    Nisei Narratives

    Seabiscuit, that is, and Buffalo Soldiers

  • Columns

    May 16, 2002

    Guerrilla Public Service: The Man Who Would Be Caltrans

    Seabiscuit, that is, and Buffalo Soldiers

  • Eat+Drink

    November 29, 2001

    Will the Real Taipan Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up?

    Seabiscuit, that is, and Buffalo Soldiers

  • Eat+Drink

    July 27, 2000

    Out and About Food

    Tasteful summer adventures that redefine Saturday afternoons at the ballpark

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Forever Fabulous

    Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Out at the Tracks

    Horsing around in Southern California

  • Eat+Drink

    July 23, 1998

    Taste Globally, Picnic Locally

    Horsing around in Southern California

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