Hillel Aron

Some athletes look like they’re having fun when they play. Robbie Keane is not one of those athletes. The L.A. Galaxy’s season opened anticlimactically, with a drab, scoreless draw at home against the Mexican team Santos Laguna in the CONCACAF Champions League. The Galaxy’s captain, Robbie Keane, was the very......

For years, an NFL team has been considered the ultimate prize for any municipality in the Greater Los Angeles area. The city of L.A. tried for years; so did the city of Carson. But in the end, it went an unlikely candidate: the rather maligned city of Inglewood. The unlikely......

So, things are getting pretty weird over at the L.A. Times.  In February, nutty tech entrepreneur Michael Ferro bought a controlling interest of Times parent company, Tribune Publishing. Within three weeks, he fired Tribune CEO Jack Griffin. Soon after, he promoted Times editor-in-chief Davan Maharaj to a publisher/editor role, an unusual......

The California primary is right around the corner – June 7, to be precise – and this year, it matters, kind of, sort of, if you squint and look at it from a just the right angle. Democratic presidential candidate and totemic icon of wishful thinking Bernie Sanders has admitted......

The state legislature has taken a tentative step toward regulating sober living homes. Authored by Republican Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, AB 2255 was approved by the Assembly Health Committee this week. The bill would create an optional state certification that sober living homes could apply for. The state would then maintain a......

Here's something: You can park for free at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. That's right, FREE. The underground garage, which charges up to $16 a day, has been free for about a month — but there's a little trick to it.  On the way down to your car, stop......

Tonight, 37-year-old Kobe Bryant will play his last game of professional basketball, and you can be a part of it – for just $20,000.  That's the ticket price on StubHub.com of a single courtside seat for the game against the Utah Jazz at the Staples Center – a small price to pay for......

On Monday, the city of Los Angeles honored Vin Scully, the voice of Dodger baseball for 67 seasons – including the current one, which will be his last – by changing the name of Elysian Park Avenue to Vin Scully Avenue. The move was not without its very small share of naysayers......

It's hard not to notice how fast Los Angeles is changing. We all know that feeling of walking down a street and hardly being able to recognize it – what happened to donut shop/Mexican place/porn store? The feeling is often bittersweet – a changing city is a vibrant city. The......