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Themed Runs, Obstacle Courses Taking Over Jogging Events

Apparently just doing it isn't enough for you people. Nope. Putting on your New Balance shoes and heading for the tape is a bore. And so a revolution is afoot: Themed runs and obstacle-course events are taking over the 5k, 10k, and marathon scenes. You hungover hipsters apparently need the extra st ... More >>

6 Awesome L.A. Sports Leagues You Can Join

See also: *10 Places in L.A. to Draw Nude Models *Top 10 Gyms in L.A. *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. For all those sick of the gym but who are still holding tight to their New Year's resolution to get in shape, there's Zogsports. The social sports organization that brings together you ... More >>

End It Like Beckham: L.A. Galaxy Won the Championship, But Is Major League Soccer a Retirement League?

Is Major League Soccer the league where great players go to retire? That's the question that arose Saturday afternoon before the league final between the L.A. Galaxy and Houston Dynamo, a rematch of last year's final. The Galaxy beat its opponents 3-1 for its first back-to-back Cup win in its histor ... More >>

Dodger Stadium Is Place Where NFL Will Return To L.A?

Bad news, maybe, from the NFL regarding L.A. City Hall's downtown stadium dreams. Reporting from the league's Los Angeles committee meeting, CBS Sports cites sources who say Dodger Stadium actually appears to be the number one site for an NFL team in L.A. The proposal to build a $1.5 billion stad ... More >>

Register To Vote Online, L.A: Today Is Your Last Day

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 6 presidential election, people. So when it comes to the Obama vs. Romney war, don't talk about it, be about it. County registrar officials say as many as 3 million people in L.A. County who are eligible are not registered to vote. Wow. And her ... More >>

Tiesto to Play Staples Center on October 20

See also: Our review of Tiesto at Home Depot Center in October Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs DJ Gets Death Threats for Playing Dubstep In an exclusive to West Coast Sound, massively popular Dutch DJ and produce ... More >>

Downtown L.A. Crossfit Gym Debases Homeless Neighbors in Photos, Facebook Posts

When the CrossFit Games arrive at the Home Depot Center in Carson on July 13, they'll bring with them a flood of heavily muscled, extremely intense athletes hoping to win a $250,000 prize courtesy of CrossFit's big-name sponsors, such as Reebok and GNC. They'll be immortalized on the website of the ... More >>

L.A. Galaxy Has David Beckham. Chivas USA Has Rabid Fans. Who Will Win the Battle of L.A.?

See also: Don't Call Them Hooligans: Meet Ultras, L.A.'s Major League Soccer Superfans Ten minutes into the second half at Home Depot Center on this Saturday night, the P.A. booms "¡Arriba las Chivas!" so loud the ushers flinch. The grito over the loudspeakers whips up the sold-out house of 18,800 ... More >>

Don't Call Them Hooligans: Meet Ultras, L.A.'s Major League Soccer Superfans

There are two groups of soccer "types" everyone is familiar with. There's the "soccer mom," scooting across town in her minivan with her 2.5 children, and the "hooligan," a soccer fan whose sole purpose in life is to beat the living shit out of anyone who doesn't support his favorite team. There is ... More >>

Skrillex: L.A. DJ, Producer Is Boy King of Electronic Dance Music

Leads the mashed-up, remixed generation

Tiesto - Home Depot Center - October 8, 2011

See also: Our Q&A With Tiesto Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto The Home Depot Center October 8, 2011 Better than...shows that aren't the biggest of their kind ever. The last time I saw Tiesto was February 2002 at Exit in New York City, ... More >>

Tiesto Heads to L.A. For Record Crowds at Home Depot Center Saturday: We Ask Him Why

See also: *Our review of Tiesto's show at Home Depot Center, October 8, 2011 *Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto is a love-him-or-hate-him DJ, but if you look at his draw in the L.A. market and beyond, you have to think people really do l ... More >>

America, You're Beautiful — Too Bad You Have to Work Tomorrow

Dan Schuette: Riot Squad's Bawdy "Shooter"

Street Fusion Cart Launches at Home Depot Center

The Home Depot Center's Street Fusion Cart​Even major league sports are cashing in on the street food trend. This Saturday, May 26th, the Home Depot Center debuts its new Street Fusion food cart at the LA Galaxy vs. Chivas USA game. "Fusion" is the operative word, with a menu that spans half-a ... More >>

Janet Napolitano Urges You to Become a Terrorism Snitch at Staples Center: Profile Away

Front row, next to Jack Nicholson.​Ah, the terror-snitch ho-down has begun at Staples Center downtown, where U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday announced that the "If You See Something, Say Something" tip-off program has expanded there. Any particular th ... More >>

Fear and Loathing Pop-Punk Style: The Vans Warped Tour Kicks Off in Carson

By Colin Stutz Mothers and fathers with furrowed brows, are you concerned for your precious teens' well-being? Nervous that those impressionable youths might stumble down a dark staircase and onto a path of substance abuse, sex addiction, debauchery and crime? Uneasy of the world "out there" and ho ... More >>

This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Boos Hound: David Beckham Ejected from Game

David Beckham gets boos the old-fashioned way -- he earns them. While some local L.A. Galaxy fans may go overboard in their heckling of the star midfielder for wanting to get out of his L.A. contract and play for AC Milan, Saturday Beckham gave everyone cause for alarm when he applied a dangerous, " ... More >>

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

This Unsporting Life: David Beckham's Plummeting Popularity

Wikipedia​The decline and fall of David Beckham, soccer superstar, can be glimpsed in the recent headlines below. The British midfielder's popularity began falling last spring when Beckham scuttled his contract with the L.A. Galaxy so that he could return to European team play. Los Angeles fans tu ... More >>

David Beckham Clashes With Another Fan

ITN​ They're at it again: The prickly L.A. Galaxy superstar and the public who have turned on him. After getting fined $1,000 by Major League Soccer Friday for engaging in a July 19 verbal confrontation with an angry Galaxy fan (since banned for life from the Home Depot Center stadium), David Beck ... More >>

David Beckham Fined $1,000 for Fan Fracas

According to Reuters, Major League Soccer announced today it has fined L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham $1,000 for his role in a verbal confrontation between himself and angry team fans. Last Sunday, in an international "friendly" game with AC Milan, fans belonging to the Riot Squad support group heck ... More >>

Heckler Banned for Life After Beckham Confrontation

USA Today reports that the man who confronted L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham during a soccer match with AC Milan last Sunday has been red-carded for life. The row began during halftime at Carson's Home Depot Center when a shouting match escalated between Beckham and an angry fan described by the New ... More >>

Beckham Booed in Home Game

L.A. Galaxy fans got to see two sellouts Sunday -- the exhibition soccer match against ACCaleb Williams/WikipediaDavid Beckham Milan they attended and the first home appearance of superstar David Beckham since he negotiated his way out of his Galaxy contract to play with the very same AC Milan. A ca ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Jackson Memorial Set A Michael Jackson memorial that would be free for 11,000 ticket holders is planned for the Staples Center this coming Tuesday. The venue's owner, AEG, bankrolled Jackson's comeback tour but may yet profit after the star's death. L.A. Times, L.A. TimesMongols Paraphernalia Seized ... More >>

It's Her Party: Sarah Palin Rallies Fans in Carson

Jon Voight appears in support, declaring, "I'm blessed to have met John McCain"

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

Farce in Carson

A corrupt Los Angeles suburb tries for a comeback - and lands on YouTube

9 L.A. Flashpoints

Rock Picks: Julieta Venegas, White Stripes, Spectrum

For the week of September 13 – 20

Nightranger: Frocked Up

When the lights go down

Hardcore Scores

Son of a Beach

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

X Post Facto

The power of the X Games, especially on TV

Fun With Air

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Ultimate Product Placement

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

I'm in the Moog for Tiki

Manu, Mort & Thor

Waste Not, Crunch Not

Activism doesn’t have to smell like patchouli

Venue Directory

The Conversation

Satire, Punk and Politics

Or, black people don’t like George Bush

God Free

Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

The Thin White Line

Firing Arnold

The Soccer Experiment