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Kotchman Gets the Offense Rolling. AP Photo/Charles Krupa
LA Angels over Boston Red Sox 7-5. The Angels crushed Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka to the tune of six runs on seven hits in five plus innings. The small ball team went big ball as Casey Kotchman hit a two-run homer and Torii Hunter hit an Earl Weaver to account for five of the six runs in that fateful sixth inning. The Angels relievers did just enough to get the win for Jered Weaver who went 5 2/3 innings giving up three runs on six hits and three walks. Francisco Rodriguez despite giving up a solo homer to Manny Ramirez notched his 44th save of the season. The Angels have now defeated the Red Sox six consecutive times, the best record and best road record in baseball.
San Francisco Giants defeat LA Dodgers 7-6. The Dodgers had a chance to tie the Diamondbacks for first place and be over .500 for the first time in what seem like eons. Things didn't look good when the Giants had a stranglehold of the game leading 7-0 in the fifth inning, but the Dodgers stormed back with a five-run fifth and one-run sixth. If you have Greg Gibson in your fantasy umpire league, you get credited with two ejections: Dodgers third baseman Casey Blake and manager Joe Torre both in the eighth inning.
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Photo by Chrissy Piper via Aesop Rock's MySpace profile
Aesop Rock - the tall man of the NY weathermen rap cliq - consistently breathes fresh air into everything he touches. He's the only man that could have a music video with zombies, and yet still is that proverbial, (or fabled) fresh prince of fresh air. His artistry on the mic, coupled with his abilities working the production tip, makes my heart float. I wish I was like Aes-Rizzle, and the only thing getting in between me and GTA4 was a flourishing rap career & touring. Instead, I beat it last week. At least this Aesop Rock cd has replayability. Lucky for you, Aesop is currently touring the states, and lucky for me, he found time on the road to play one-sided twenty-questions.
LAist: You're my top 3 favorite "tall" celebs - Kobe Bryant, yourself, and of course, Howard Stern. How tall are you exactly?
Aesop Rock: Hey, thanks man. I'm 6'4". Big props to Stern. He's from Long Island. I watch and listen to a lot of Stern these days.
Howard Stern or Opie and Anthony?
Stern.
Are you boys with "Dog the Bounty Hunter"? - I heard your song Food Clothes Medicine on Dog's show.
They licensed it. I was a fan 'til he turned out to be a racist piece of shit. I mean I guess it wasn't that surprising in the end, but I have to admit the show intrigued me prior to that ridiculous taped call. I ended up feeling a bit embarrassed that my song was on his show. Fuck you Dog, fuck you. But that theme song that Ozzy whipped up is pretty insane... "I'm the dog, the big bad do-o-og..."
Photo pf pro volleyball players in action in Long Beach by BinaryLA via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr
- The state budget woes are about to force the Governor to give the axe to about 22,000 temporary, part-time, and contract jobs. Oh, and BONUS--this executive order "would stop most overtime and allow him to roll back salaries for nearly 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour." Sweet.
- Water agencies, it is time to come together to fight drought!
- Sorry party-loving collegiate Angelenos, our city doesn't make the grade, per the Princeton review. (I guess LA's party cred is reserved for Hollywoodites with penchants for drinking and driving and famous under-agers on the club scene.)
- Are you at all curious about how "deadly" your daily commute is? We're talking fatalities on the freeways, not how toxic the fumes are, how the long drive keeps you out of shape, or how many brain cells your nifty Bluetooth headset rots per minute.
- It may soon be time to say sayonara to the weed forest that has cropped up at 9th and Grand. No, not that kind of weed, stoner!
- L.A. Now can hook you up with an audio-visual tour of the Fairfax District. (Of course, if you're more the visual-literary type, we can also see to your Fairfax & Fairfax Village info needs.)
- You heard it here first--well, in a premonition-type way. The Tofu Fest is no more. EaterLA shared the official word from the bean curd's mouth; last year was indeed just that--the last year.
- Ex-LAist Editor Tony Pierce, now of the LA Times = really big in the UK. Like, "head honcho" big. Nice job, TP!
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July 28, 2008
Just like LA Weekly's Detour Festival announcement from earlier today, F Yeah Fest, which takes place on August 30 and 31 in the Echo Park area, has recently done the same with their announcement. In addition to a taco eating contest, comedy and art, the first day's line up includes No Age, Negative Approach, Matt & Kim, Fucked Up, Two Gallants, Ladyhawk, David Vandervelde, Glass Candy, High Places, Mika Miko. Monotonix, The Strange Boys, Abe Vigoda, David Dondero. Mannequin Men, Best Fwends, Crystal Antlers, Underground Railraod to Candy Land, Nodzzz, War Tapes, Frank Fairfield, Graham Forest. On Sunday, there will be a large scavenger hunt followed by shows at various locations around LA including Dan Deacon at a secret location.
Program Two at the New Original Works Festival at REDCAT revealed a challenge in the programming department. With two modern dances placed side by side, the audience was asked to watch the second piece without being overly affected by the first. Difficult job for any viewer. If the performance pieces are even minutely similar to one other, the initial act is always a hard one to follow. Lionel Popkin opened the show with a duet...
Continue Reading "Performance Review: NOW Program 2"Pacific Gas & Electric, a utility that most serves Northern California, may join the No on Prop 8 campaign tomorrow at a press conference. "They know exactly what they are doing here. They need some credibility with the left, especially in San Francisco," writes Brian Leubitz at Calitics. "As for other companies, I expect we'll see a few other businesses." Which businesses in Southern California will join in? Will Southern California Edison? How about Southern California Gas Company?
Every weekend, usually at around sunset, groups of people gather on Venice Beach to play and dance their hearts out. Yesterday's crowd was smaller than usual (around 100 people), but was still a fun and joyous time for everyone....
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An event this past weekend was put together by the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community to honor California's Speaker of the California State Assembly, Karen Bass. The job of Speaker, which Bass recently got, is pretty much the second most powerful political job in the state with her current top duty is to balance the budget, which is no easy task. According to local writer and activist, Jasmyne Cannick (remember Kiss my Gass?),...
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While it's understood that "Mad Men" isn't an action/adventure series, last night's season premiere could have used a bit more oomph. While highly dramatic and exceptionally written there was too much seed planting vs. movement. OK, so Draper's wife, Betty, can flirt with a tow truck driver? We don't really expect her to go beyond that red herring - this isn't "Nip/Tuck" after all. What we can expect is Draper to get together with Betty's...
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Photo by colros via Flickr Since the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House at Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood has been damaged closed and has been awaiting repairs and retrofitting over the last 14 years (however, it is still open for tours). Some of the work has been done, thanks to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds that went towards the first phase of seismic retrofitting, repairs, and restoration, but the...
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Red Velvet Remnants | Photo by pink_fish13 via Flickr Monday David Maraniss discusses and signs Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World 7pm @ Vroman's Christopher Reich signs Rules Of Deception 7pm @ Barnes & Noble, 3rd Street Promenade Tuesday Christian Lander presents and signs Stuff White People Like 7pm @ Book Soup Kai Chen discusses and signs One in a Billion: Journey to Freedom 7pm @ Vroman's Adrienne Barbeau signs Vampyres of...
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Submitted and Written By Dan Collins For ice cream lovers, Scoops is the frozen jewel in the Heliotrope Corridor crown (also called the Bicycle Districk and Hel-Mel), just around the corner from the legendary punk rock pavilion on Melrose known as the Ukrainian Center. Today’s urban sophisticate finds that nothing cools one down after a midnight bike ride’s next day sun-soaked hangover more than gourmet ice cream at bargain prices. And Scoops has all the...
Continue Reading "LAist Interview: Peter Ji of Scoops"LA Weekly just announced the lineup for their 3rd Annual Detour Festival, which takes place downtown in the Civic Center area on Saturday, October 4th. This year’s show features The Mars Volta, Gogol Bordello, Shiny Toy Guns, The Presets, Cut Copy, Matt Costa, Black Lips, Hercules and Love Affair, Grand Ole Party, Datarock, Bitter:Sweet, The Submarines, Adam Freeland, The Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Para One, Guns n Bombs Live, Peanut Butter Wolf, Buraka Som Sistema, Nico Vega, Japanese Motors, The Mae Shi, We Are Wolves, Afternoons, Noah and the Whale, Mugison, donMoy, DJ Kid Lightning, Paparazzi, AC Means.
There’s a number of good films being screened around town tonight. FILM: See the musical that made Wicked possible: the 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy, Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow are off to see the Wizard in Emerald City on the big screen at the ArcLight Sherman Oaks tonight at 7:30. Tickets: $9-$11.50. FESTIVAL*: Billing itself as the "last independent film festival," the Dances with Films fest started on last...
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Cirque Berzerk, the LA-based, all-volunteer, DIY fire-dancing, contortionist, aerial daredevil, burlesque cabaret, clown troupe debuted its new show "Beneath" at Los Angeles State Historic Park last weekend. Complete with two acts, an original score, and a ten-member live band, "Beneath" practically set the big top on fire (under supervision of the Fire Marshall, of course). Cirque Berzerk was so hot that the Thursday - Sunday run sold out by Friday night's intermission. Lucky for those...
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