Check out this time lapse video shot at the STAPLES Center from May 17 to 20 as the arena changed the floor (and fans!) for the LA Kings, the LA Lakers, and the LA Clippers, and back again a few times. more ›

sports fans that will be coming in to see the Kings, Clippers, Lakers or Amgen Tour this weekend are probably going to stick around to have a drink or dinner at some point, even if just to wait out traffic. So which fans are local managers cheering for? more ›

Thursday night's Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals between the Kings and the Phoenix Coyotes marks the start of an unprecedented four-day span of sports in the 92-acre bit of Downtown Los Angeles that encomasses the STAPLES Center and L.A. Live complex. more ›

A portion of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a toddler who fell to his death from a luxury box at the Staples Center has been tossed out. more ›

Lords and Ladies of Los Angeles, prepare to feast and fall back a few hundred years in time at a new theme restaurant opening in Downtown, right across from "ye olde Staples Center," as Grub Street L.A. puts it. more ›

In case you hadn't heard, a 20-year-old woman named Mariah Yeater is accusing Justin Bieber of getting her pregnant after the two allegedly bumped uglies backstage following a concert at the Staples Center in October of 2010. Yeater now has a four-month-old baby that she claims is Justin's, but the 17-year-old pop superstar maintains that the baby isn't his, and that he and Yeater never had sex. more ›

Thousands of diehard "Twilight" fans from all over the world gathered for several days last week as they awaited an early screening of the first of two films covering the last of four books: "Breaking Dawn - Part 1." If you passed by Chick Hearn Court between Wednesday and Sunday, in the space between the L.A. Live Plaza and the Staples Center, you would have seen two large "tent cities" filled with moviegoers who spent as long as four days outdoors awaiting the film. more ›

Angelenos, open your closet doors. Do you wear all of those shoes? We didn't think so. Head to the Staples Center tonight from 6:30pm-8pm and donate your footwear to the Bag Your Shoes event. A collaboration between The Los Angeles Sparks and Waste Management, the first-ever Bag Your Shoes campaign aims to collect 1,000 pairs of old and new kicks. more ›

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) snoozed through Monday night's moonlight elephant walk in downtown Los Angeles. Fresh off the train, eight Asian elephants arrived in Vernon around midnight, all performers in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, as blogged by the LA Times. more ›

L.A. Live, STAPLES Center, and, someday, Farmers Field: Downtown's megavenues draw crowds, and AEG and Metrolink want those crowds to get there using public transit. A partnership has been born between the two companies, who are putting together "a comprehensive five- county transportation plan to encourage Southern Californians to take public transportation when they attend events at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles," according to a release issued today. more ›

Lakers drama is a year-round sport and it's no longer just the 122-86 elimination laugher that's temporarily tarnished the Lakers legacy -- it's disdain from above. 7-foot-2 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is fed up: he can't believe the Lakers have yet to erect a statue bearing his likeness and quite frankly, neither can we. Kareem's taking his case on a 360-degree multimedia tour from sports radio to the late-night talk circuit to the Twitters. more ›

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka the Lady who arrived at the 53rd Grammy Awards inside a translucent Mork from Ork egg, is celebrating the big 2-5 today in Los Angeles with concert at the Staples Center. We thought it fitting to celebrate early with a Gaga video lunch. So let's hear it for 1986. The year she was born. This way. more ›

Police and security guards engaged a knife-wielding man in standoff Saturday morning on the basketball court of the Staples Center less than two hours before the LA Clippers were set to play the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Associated Press reported. more ›

Congratulations, Lakers fans! In a GQ list of the "Worst Sports Fans in America," you have been deemed "Starfuckers." The magazine says devotees to the NBA's purple-and-gold team are "fair weather," because they abandoned the team when Magic Johnson left in 1991, and did the same in 2004 when Shaquille O'Neal moved on. more ›

March Madness is here. And no, we're not talking about Charlie Sheen. It's tournament time, sports fans. And whether or not you're truly a college basketball fan, you'll only have 3 days next week to fill out your brackets between Sunday night, when the round of 64 is announced and Thursday morning when half of your office is empty and everyone's at the bar and not just because its St. Patrick's Day. more ›

DtLA businesses are hoping to score big in the profit game when the 2011 NBA All-Star weekend slam dunks the Staples Center next weekend "drawing thousands of big-spending celebrities, professional athletes and die-hard hoops fans for four days of basketball, dinners and parties," reports the LA Times. more ›

You just watched Kobe and Pau put in work on that 3-peat the entire city is pining for, now it’s time to find a downtown LA restaurant to satisfy your own cravings. You know what you’re in for at the army of steakhouses surrounding the Staples Center and you know what kind of gutbuster items await you at ESPN Zone. What other restaurant options within walking distance of The Staples Center can feed a Bynum-sized appetite, whether or not you’ve got a Bynum-sized salary? more ›

A ticket for the Clippers means three games in one tonight at Staples Center. Immediately following the regularly scheduled NBA Clippers vs Magic game, two dodgeball match-ups will defile the shiny floor of downtown's premiere sports palace with a retro lunge and pummel. more ›

I was twelve years old when The Wall came out, and while the theme of desperate alienation was familiar enough to any pre-teen kid, the way the thing ended - with the lead character turning into a fascist dictator - didn’t make a lot of sense at the time. It was years later, when I heard Roger Waters tell a story about the night when he spat in the face of a fan who was trying to climb onto his stage at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, that the whole concept came into focus. It’s a dark, personal piece of music about about the part of himself that Waters would ordinarily address to his analyst, that dark corner of his soul that secretly wanted to see barbed wire fences across his stage to keep his customers from getting within spittin’ distance. more ›

Following an autopsy, the Los Angeles County coroner has ruled "that the death of a toddler who fell from a luxury box at Staples Center after a Lakers game Sunday was an accident," reports LA Now. Lucas Tang, 2, suffered multiple traumatic injuries in his fall from the skybox to the arena's concrete floor, however there was "no evidence of foul play," in his death. Tang tumbled over the box's glass barrier while his family paused to look at the photos they'd just taken on their digital camera. Those barriers were found to be in compliance with building codes. more ›

Lucas Anthony Tang, the Garden Grove 2-year-old who died after falling 28 feet from a luxury skybox at Staples Center on Sunday night, suffered massive head injuries, however an official cause of death is still pending, reports KTLA. Results of the autopsy planned for Tuesday are expected to be released Wednesday, according to Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter. more ›

The Los Angeles Times is reporting the parents of two-year old Lucas Anthony Tang were taking photographs of him prior to his fall at STAPLES Center last night. Tang, who plummeted 50 feet from the third level of the luxury suites, died as a result of his fall. The Los Angeles Police Department told the Times that the family was reviewing pictures on their digital camera when they lost track of the boy who somehow crawled over the glass partition. more ›

A toddler has died following a 50-foot fall within the Staples Center, according to LA Now. The boy, thought to be 2-3 years old, "fell from the third-level top tier of the Staples luxury suites several minutes after the Lakers beat the Warriors 117-89 on Sunday night." more ›

Making a general assumption here, of course, but concert/sport venue menus and concession items are fair to middling at its best. You go for the experience: rooting for Lakers, Kings or Clippers at Staples Center or sitting in the sun with a Dodger Dog and $20* beer in hand. (We exaggerate, but only a little.) more ›

The Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon is tomorrow, which means that once participants get out of the water at Venice Beach, they'll be hitting the streets on bike and foot to complete the race that will take them from the West side to Downtown's L.A. Live. more ›

The reactions to Lady Gaga's MTV Video Music Awards get-up have been decidedly mixed. Accepting an award from music icon Cher, the pop star appeared onstage at the Staples Center Sunday night wearing a dress made entirely of meat. The dress was the work of LA-based designer Franc Fernandez, and was meant to be a political statement. more ›

The "Last Girl on Earth" certainly wasn't lonely last night as thousands of screaming fans packed the Staples Center for her headlining concert. In a show that featured a dramatic set, and an opening performance by pop sensation Ke$ha, Rihanna reportedly wowed the crowd. more ›