Ya-Ya we love you too, but please start winning some games. We reported back in June that Andre Ethier was blogging about food in LA. Now Joe Torre is blogging about life in LA. Driving, yip yap dogs and the most important home run ever. Joe on gas prices: “Who’d have guessed that a gallon [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2008
The summer halfway point has come and gone and you can already feel the days starting to shorten. But don’t fret, there are still 5 weeks of summer left and lots going on. Check out the Celebrity Food Show in Anaheim, mariachi in Santa Fe Springs, 80’s music sing along in Downtown, wine tasting in [...]
Continue reading...10. June 2008
Andre Ethier is batting .294 this season, and he’s 5th on the team for runs and batting avg. He also knows where to get some mean Shabu Shabu thanks to Takashi Saito. And now he’s telling us about it. That’s right, Andre’s got his own food blog, Dining With Dre. Over the next few months, [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2008
Featured Event: On June 7th and 8th, at the LA Memorial Arena, the top 40 Makunuchi ranked wrestlers will be on hand at the Sumo Tour to battle it out in oversized thongs. This event marks the first return professional sumo wrestling to the city of LA in over 25 years. Tickets start at $10 [...]
Continue reading...16. May 2008
So I heard that the Tiger Lily over went a transformation seemingly overnight into a new Cuban spot a month or so ago. Literally, over night… one week I was there, the next week I heard it was a Cuban joint. I highly doubted that I would find good Cuban food at a place with [...]
Continue reading...24. April 2008
Dodger Way - A dramatic, new tree-lined entrance On top of the field level concession renovations that went on in the off season, and the plan to renovate loge, reserve and top deck in the coming off seasons, the Dodgers have unveiled a plan to create an entrance promenade in the outfield parking area. The LA [...]
Continue reading...17. April 2008
Some might say the biggest Dodger news this year was the signing of Hiroki Kuroda or Andrew Jones. Beyond a couple of decent outings from Kuroda and Jones’ inability to make contact with the ball, not much is happening on the field. But I think the biggest news is the new field level concourse and [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2008
A Dodgertown Retrospective I never really liked baseball growing up, I went to games when I was a kid with my parents, but I just never got into it. Then one day, it clicked. I loved the Dodgers. Maybe it was that fateful afternoon when Kirk Gibson belted the home run and limped around the bases. Whatever [...]
Continue reading...20. February 2008
What’s better than a day at the races? Santa Anita Race Track provides 6 hours of entertainment for just a few dollars, majestic views of the San Gabriel Mountain range, fresh air, beer, fresh carved deli sandwiches, beautiful million dollar horses and of course 5 foot tall jockeys. You don’t have to know horses and [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2008
Shatto 39 Lanes is a bowling god amongst a city of bowling alleys turned entertainment centers. There are no LCD screens playing music videos, no DJs spinning music, no silly animations on the score boards, no glow in the dark bowling. This is truly one of the last remaining old school bowling alleys left in [...]
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27. August 2008
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