RSSAugust 28, 2008
Joe Saunders left after only 1 1/3 innings. AP Photo/Gus Ruelas
Oakland A's defeat LA Angels 6-5. Joe Saunders left the game in the second inning. Howie Kendrick and Erick Aybar left the game with sore hammies. Outfielder Juan Rivera forced to come into the game at second base. It was one of those games for the Angels yet they managed to make it close. With Joe Saunders pitching with an ailing hand, he was absolutely crushed by the A's giving up six runs in two innings. He left the game, and the bullpen clamped down on the A's. But the Angels would come back, and they had many chances to actually take the lead but could not capitalize on all the walks the A's were giving away. The Angels got nine hits and eight balls but did their best impersonation of the Dodgers. The difference though is that the Angels actually have the ability to win games.
Washington Nationals defeat LA Dodgers 5-4. Sorry Greg Maddux. Maybe you should've stayed with San Diego after all. Yeah the Dodgers hit three homers, but they still lost to the WORST TEAM IN BASEBALL. Twice. Meanwhile they stay three games behind the Diamondbacks because they lost to the third worst team in baseball (San Diego Padres). Thrice. At this rate Bud Selig should just ban the NL West from sending a team into the postseason.
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We're giving a pair of tickets away (each are worth $49.50 and tickets can bought here) for this Sunday's concert featuring Jack Johnson, Rogue Wave and the Culver City Dub Collective at the UCLA Intramural Field. Why is it at this location? "Jack Johnson and his crew are passionately committed to greening every aspect of this tour in order to minimize environmental impact," the tour information states.
In that spirit, to enter the contest, you must write a comment on this post below about one thing you do to be environmentally friendly. A qualifying comment will be chosen at random for the pair of tickets on Friday. More details are below:
Here's how the contest works:
- Enter the contest by making a comment on this post (below). Comments must fit the criteria, stated below.
- The criteria of the comment must state one way you act environmentally friendly. If you don't do anything of the like, state one way that you could be doing to be "green."
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- Looks like California Governor Arnold Schwargenegger could be a no-show at the upcoming RNC. He says he will remain in California until the state budget remains unresolved.
- Sometimes an early-morning jog isn't safe--at least it wasn't yesterday morning at around 6:30 when a jogger was struck and killed by a drunk driver. (Drunk at 6:30 a.m.? Yikes.)
- Glendale firefighters made a sad discovery early this morning as they fought a blaze in a residence. A badly burned body was found in the bedroom, but no further information has been released regarding how the fire happened or who the victim is.
- Lesbian activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in San Francisco on the very first day same-sex marriage was legalized in California, has died. She was 87. Her wife, Phyllis Leon, was by her side when she passed away.
- What happened to "One day at a time?" Actress and post-rehab anti-drug spokesperson Mackenzie Phillips was arrested at LAX this morning on charges of possessing heroin and cocaine in her luggage.
- A recent audit has raised the question: Why do LA social workers file so many vehicle crash claims, and for so much money?
- There are plenty of fans of Top Chef out there (and you know where you stand on the love/hate debate about Season 2's Marcel), so this might be for you: Defamer shares with us that the one-time runner-up to the big prize was busted just south of here in Laguna Beach this weekend for driving drunk.
- Congrats to Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert blog who yesterday turned 1,000 (posts that is)!! It's a great blog on capitol politics that help us down here understand what's going up there, especially with our local representatives. Our only complaint is that (free) registration is required and there is no RSS. Boo.
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August 27, 2008
Never a good thing in the first place and never a good time for the Los Angeles commuter, a bank robbery late this afternoon northwest of the Westwood and Olympic intersection has shut down streets in the area. An armed robber described as a male black wearing a mask robbed a bank and split. Some streets were shut down as the LAPD routinely checked the area, but as one cop plainly told us in the most deadpan of ways, "robbers never hang around and you can take that to the bank."
Every day LAist will be sharing wishes from Wish Tree for Pasadena with you. Yoko Ono's Wish Tree for Pasadena is an interactive installation at Colorado One. The Wish Trees will remain there until November 9 when it will join other wishes from around the world at the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island, off the coast of Reykjavík, Iceland One of the best things about of Wish Tree is that you get to...
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Photo by mackz via Flickr There's a pretty scary and disappointing, but very thoroughly reported story posted today on LA Weekly by Randall Roberts. If all is true and the alleged video survives to make it to YouTube, the internet is going to go nuts on Hollywood Bowl's contract security firm, CSC. In short, Sean Carlson and Phil Hoelting, promoters of this weekend's annual F Yeah Fest, were at passing out flyers after the...
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Jesca Hoop at the Temple Bar by Koga/LAist More details are coming out regarding The Temple Bar closing its doors at the end of next month. The venue's booker, Dexter Story, described closing as bittersweet. "We're going to miss this place," he said over the phone this afternoon. As to why owners Louie and Netty Ryan are choosing to close the venue, Story forwarded a letter they have been sending out (the full letter...
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Two intrepid runner/writers. One race. Your inside peek at the lives and workouts of the LAist Nike+ Human Race Team. LAist Contributors Melissa Moore and Angel Magana talk all about it. Photo by Hamed Saber via Flickr Name: Melissa Most recent 5K (3.1 mile) time: 25.4 Years running: 18 Miles per week: 15-20 Age: 31 Fitness level: Intermediate Shoe: Adidas Normal terrain: Pavement with some trail work Even the best runners find themselves, at times,...
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You just can't keep an undead cable network down: TechCrunch has reported that The WB has been resurrected as TheWB.com, which launched today. The site will act as a source for all the TV shows that originated on The WB and has a number of interesting features. While one might argue with TechCrunch's assertion that TheWB.com is now a competitor to Hulu.com, they really do have a pretty awesome search engine that will hunt down...
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The newly renovated Hollywood Palladium has announced their fall line-up, which begins with JAY-Z on October 15. The rest of their schedule includes Flogging Molly, The Kooks, Of Montreal, Slightly Stoopid, Mudvayne, Gym Class Heroes/The Roots, Rise Against, Dragonforce, Alejandra Guzman, Onerepublic and La Fabrika Del Reggaeton. Tickets will be sold on Live Nation's website starting tomorrow for Rise Against, but all the other shows will be sold starting on September 13, except for JAY-Z on September 5.
Tuesday was Hillary Clinton Day at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The senator and former presidential candidate gave a rousing speech that most pundits agreed accomplished what she had promised to do: leave no doubt that she is fully behind the candidacy of her former rival, Sen. Barack Obama. Before the speech, all any journalist trolling for stories inside the Pepsi Center wanted to do was figure out any sort of fresh angle on...
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Update, 2:40 p.m.: According to Officer Diaz per KNX1070, the suspect hit one of the officers twice in the head with the butt of a knife. The other officer fired a couple shots with one apparently entering a Metro bus slightly injuring one passenger. The other shot hit suspect who was brought to hospital in stable condition. This was at the Southeast corner of Sunset and Vermont.Both the LAPD and the LA Fire Department are...
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A rendering of what Metro Studio@Lankershim could look like The proposed Metro Studio@Lankershim (it will be the "NBC West Coast News Headquarters") that would be built over the Universal City Metro Red Line Station is an excellent project for the economy, jobs and the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. "The truth is we are in an almost life-and-death struggle to preserve and grow our entertainment jobs in Los Angeles and particularly in the Valley,"...
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ART Do you long for your carefree days taken up by playing Donkey Kong, Pong and other '80s video games? You can't have those days back, but if you are feeling nostalgic, check out the I am 8 bit exhibit. I am 8 bit features works created by over 100 varied artists and inspired by the classic video games of the '80s. Through September 7th. 11 am - 6 pm // World of Wonder...
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Following up on the story where a bicyclist was attacked and robbed by two men on the Ballona Creek Bike Path, Streetsblog LA finds that this is not a new problem. This month's incident demonstrated that the LAPD had hard time dealing with the incident because no numbered street address could be given. Even when the city's Dept. of Transportation tried to find out the crime statistics for the path, the LAPD could only give data for the area. And now Streetsblog finds that this problem existed back in the 90s.