Summer Olympics

Dances With Films and a London Olympics Doc: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 24 Paul McCartney and Wings went on their Wings Over the World tour from 1975-76, conquering three continents and marking McCartney's first concert appearance since the breakup of The Beatles. The concert film of the same name premiered in 198 ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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Today in Photographs: August 6, 1984

​Swiss runner Gabriela Andersen-Schiess staggers toward women's marathon finish line as a medical staffer watches during the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.Paul Chinn, LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

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