Tony Pierce

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, all 25 Dodger players will don the Hall of Famer's number on the back of their uniform on April 15th, a stunning tribute that will charm everyone except the official scorer. The number 42 was officially retired from MLB ten years ago, allowing those who still had the number to continue to wear it, but barring anyone new from sporting...

LAist gets and listens to a Lot of music. You can see the bands we like in the concerts that we review, the Tonight in Rock listings that we compile, and in the cds that we review. But we realize that we listen to way more music than we review so we figured we make a list once a week letting you know what we're into. week ending 4/06/07 Charlie Louvin - "When I...

Was that Hollywood fire just a brilliant marketing scheme for tonight's benefit? Bad Religion @ Santa Monica Civic (Heal the Bay benefit) Captured By Robots, Teddy Bear Orchestra, Yeh Dede @ The Mint Bone Thugs-n-Harmony @ Ventura Theatre John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae @ Gibson Richard Swift, David Vandervelde @ Spaceland Billy Talent, Cancer Bats, Drive By @ The Troubadour Talib Kweli @ House of Blues Veruca Salt, Charlotte Martin, Poets & Pornstars, Hello...

During this holiday season, there is no better example of what the meaning of life is than a white guy who loves to talk black, wearing a ski cap and sunglasses, video taping himself singing in his pulled-over car. At night. Especially when he's singing Journey, y'all....

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In what will probably be discovered as being a halo around his head, Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez is being accused of having an illegal substance on the brim of his cap. The blog The Cheater's Guide to Baseball claims that in the first two games of this young season, K-Rod has gone to his cap an inordinate amount of times, with special attention given to the underside of his cap by the thumb of...

To promote their new series "Drive", Fox is giving away free gasoline at the Unocal 76 at the corner of Beverly Glen and Santa Monica Blvd. near the mall in Century City. Don't get fooled by the old Google satellite image that shows SM Blvd. before they improved the roads. This is the 76 across the street from the Walgreens (formerly the charming Santa Glen Market) and two blocks away from the McDonald's. LAist...

Because of the unseasonably beautiful weather here in LA, when the Angels broke camp they sent their injured Cy Young award-winner Bartolo Colon to single-A Rancho Cucamonga of the California League. Typically rehab assignments would be sent to AAA Salt Lake, but currently RC is 10 degrees warmer than SLC, so the Angels sent their young phenom Jered Weaver there too. That means tonight's home opener at Rancho Cucamonga will put Colon, who made...

Nurse With Wound @ Amoeba (7pm, free) De La Soul @ Galaxy Theatre Les Sans Culottes, Donita Sparks, Cheem @ Spaceland Man Man, Simon Dawes, The Ventriloquists @ Roxy Malik Pointer, The Darkside Crooks, Wreckloose @ On the Rox The Watkins Family Hour @ Largo Fantan Mojah @ Dragonfly Ken Andrews, First Wave Hello @ The Troubadour Big F*ckin Deal, The Cheat, Buffalo Roam @ Safari Sam's...

The Yardbirds circa 1967 Steve Vai and Jerry Cantrell are the only official guitarists listed for this Yardbirds "reunion", but don't be surprised if other legends decide to sit in with original drummer, Jim McCarty, and rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja. The Yardbirds, The Flash Express, Rolling Blackouts @ The Knitting Factory The Little Ones, Sea Wolf, The Temporary Thing @ The Troubadour De La Soul, KRS One @ The Canyon The Motels, Berlin @...