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LAst Night's Action: Donovan, Galaxy Fall in Penalty Kicks
Real Salt Lake celebrating after winning the MLS Cup on penalty kicks. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Real Salt Lake defeats LA Galaxy 1-1, 5-4 PK. 120 minutes couldn’t decide who would win the MLS Cup, so they went to penalty kicks. In penalties Galaxy captain Landon Donovan waited to kick in the fourth round. He inexplicably missed the shot way over the crossbar. While Josh Saunders was able to save Andy Williams’ kick in...
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Federal Building Downtown | Photo by Vintage Son via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr A car lost control and crashed into a building after striking another car at a stop sign in Echo Park. The driver was killed and the passenger injured but in stable condition. Clippers' announcers Ralph Lawler and Michael Smith were suspended for a game for comments made about an Iranian player which included a mispronunciation of Iranian and...
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Week Around the Ists
Gothamist was saddened after seeing why Sad Panda is so so sad.DCist caught up with the dapper gents and ladies who took to the streets in high style for the D.C. Tweed Ride.Torontoist Googled its city. Googled it hard.Seattlest sputtered in disbelief at a grassroots campaign in favor of a proposal to dig the world's largest open-pit mine.LAist wondered if the city's drivers are ready to go Dutch--as in be taxed based on miles driven...
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Silversun Pickups @ Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/03/09
You've got to really, really want to see a band if you go to the Gibson Amphitheatre. You can't just drop by casually and check it out. One has to commit themselves mentally, physically, and financially for such a trip. By the time you've shelled out an exorbitant sum for parking, had your senses assaulted from all sides by the glowing hell scape that is Universal Citywalk and are finally sitting in the murky, oppressive gloom of the amphitheater, most of us are grumpy as hell and in desperate need of a stiff drink. Fortunately for everyone at that venue The Silversun Pickups are so good that they manged to erase all of those bad memories after the first couple notes.
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Classical Pick of the Week: Dinner Theatre
Shows like Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, and Woody Woodpecker got into all kinds of shenanigans set to the music from Barber of Seville. Check out what the barber was really up to in this week's classical pick. In this rough economic climate, families are always looking to streamline costs. With this week's classical pick, you can have your cake and eat it too. At 6 PM tonight, the American Youth Symphony will be...
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LAist-CS: Pac-10 Here to Save the Day
Cal players and fans celebrating with the Stanford Axe after their victory. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Every college football fan in the Best Coast in America has heard the same thing over and over again: the Pac-10 is not real football. During the baseball season, Orlando Hudson and Juan Pierre echoed that sentiment very loudly one Saturday in the Dodger clubhouse during an LSU-Georgia game. While Nebraska was trudging through against Kansas, Florida blowing...
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Tonight In Rock: Ray LaMontagne, The Misfits, Eisley, War Tapes
Tonight legendary New Jersey-based horror punk progenitors the Misfits (LAist Review) will be headlining the Key Club. Eisley, a familial, Texan indie rock quintet, are poised to grace the Troubadour with none other than Miniature Tigers (LAist Interview, Review). And, lastly, local rockers War Tapes will be taking on the Smell in Downtown. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown to catch the conclusion of Maine-bred folk singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne's three-night stint. LAist favorite, Rock Island-based alternative country singer-songwriter Lissie is slated to kick things off.
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Final Fantasy, Mountain Goats @ the Henry Fonda Theater 11/15/09
Attention violin students everywhere: Hang in there, kids. It is possible to parlay those Vivaldi exercises into a musical career with a fan base of near-hysterical young women. Just ask the dreamy Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy, whose austere synth and drum-accompanied strings nearly brought the house down last Sunday. The profound beauty of the headlining Mountain Goats, on tour to promote their latest full-length, The Life of the World to Come, followed, and the...
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Get Out: Swimsuit Ice Skating, Orson Welles 2x, Furoshiki How-To, Love Like a Frenchwoman
Photo by KingoftheHill via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Swimsuit Ice Skating @ Seaside Ice The popular Swimsuit Ice Skating Weekend returns to sunny Seaside Ice--the only outdoor ice skating rink on the beach. Skate in your swimwear from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for the best bathing suit, too! (Of course, you can also skate in your "regular" clothes from 4-10 p.m.) Admission to this 7,200 square...
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MLS Cup or Bust!
Its do-or-die time for the Galaxy and Real Salt Lake as they meet in Seattle to crown this year's MLS Cup champion. (Image via MLSNET.COM) The Galaxy and Real Salt Lake prevailed through their respective conference final match ups last week to advance to today's MLS Cup Final being played in Seattle. It is the sixth time the Galaxy make an appearance in the Final, the last having been in 2005 when they won...
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Photo by stephenfalk via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Another water main break to report: This one today in Stevenson Ranch also caused a sinkhole. 5 freshmen boys from Long Beach's Poly High have been arrested on charges of groping female students during a lunch break last week. It "takes a village" it seems to work on saving the Century Plaza Hotel. The Valencia High School choir is hoping to raise the...
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Gossip, Men @ the Henry Fonda Theater 10/26/09
OK, OK, OK. We know that this is long overdue. But we couldn't pass up the opportunity to share the night that the illustrious Beth Ditto took the Fonda stage in what we assume was her pre-Halloween take on the ever charming Wilma Flintsone. It was all cat moves and throaty swagger, or what we've come to expect from the Gossip. No one works a crowd like this crew, and they had the fans singing...
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SantaCon Is Comin' To Town: Tickets Now Available
Does Santa shop at Circus of Books? Depends who's on the list! (Caroline on Crack/LAist) This is an annual event aimed more at the naughty (although, hey, there's fun for the nice, too). It's SantaCon, a send up of sorts of the absurdity and kitsch of the Christmas season. Or, as the organizer puts it: "Santacon is a response to the consumer-culture of Amerika's Holiday season." To get in on the merriment, which will...
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They Might Be Giants @ Royce Hall 11/14/09
Did you know that They Might Be Giants records albums for kids? That are educational? And still rock? If it was inevitable that all the long-standing indie music fans would grow up and have kids, it would follow that all the long-standing indie bands would grow up and have kids, too. And why should either group have to resign themselves to a life of mind-numbing Kidz Bop or Wiggles tunes?...
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Arson Investigation Into Station Fire Yielding Little Evidence
Photo by unsure shot/LAist Featured Photos on Flickr The Station Fire began on August 26th along the roadside in the Angeles National Forest above the community of La Cañada-Flintridge, and soon after its fiery grip held the city in its clutches, authorities deemed the start point a crime scene and launched an arson investigation. But so far there isn't much to stoke the embers of the case, as it were, thanks to a lack...
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The Big Pink @ El Rey Theatre 11/18/09
Arriving on a tidal wave of hype from their native England, The Big Pink filled the El Rey with expectant fans and critics all ready to see if their live show was as good as their debut album A Brief History of Love which was released in September. And was it? Well, I guess the best answer to that question is sometimes.
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Whole Foods' Month-long Produce Drive to Benefit LA Foodbank
Produce on display at Whole Foods in Pasadena; taken when store opened in Nov. 2007 (Callie Miller/LAist) 'Tis the season to give thanks for what so many of us have, and to take some time, effort, and, if possible, funds to help out those who may be less fortunate. Right now organizations focused on feeding those who are in need are in need of donations from those who can afford to spare, and this...
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Hard Hitting Documentary Blood Equity Tackles Life After Football
This weekend, all you have to do to watch bone-crushing, high impact violence is turn on either CBS or Fox's coverage of the NFL. Also this weekend, you can head over to the Laemmle Sunset 5, in West Hollywood to get some perspective on the aftermath of those helmet-to-helmet collisions. Blood Equity features gripping testimonials from NFL legends like Mike Ditka, Harry Carson, Tony Dorsett, Darryl "Moose" Johnston and Willie Wood about the hardships...
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10 Years Later, the Lodestone Takes a Final Bow with Grace
Since its inception in 1999, the members of the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble "have always done the shows we wanted the way we wanted,” asserts company co-founder Philip W. Chung. “We were all young back then, and none of us had any experience running a theater company. Maybe if we knew better, we wouldn’t have done it that way. But we’ve maintained our identity the whole time and we never deviated from our initial mission: to stretch the definition of Asian-American theater."
