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Sir Albert Pujols traveled up the Interstate 5 freeway from Anaheim to LA, but this time he's staying. A dream come true for Dodger fans as Pujols agreed to a one-year deal with the Dodgers on May 17 and hit the ground running as he made his debut that same night starting at first base against the Diamondbacks. Pujols started his journey with the Cardinals where he played for 11 seasons and was unanimously voted NL Rookie of the Year in 2001 and then would go on to contribute to two World...
Over the past 14 months, the live music business was put on hold due to the Covid pandemic. But now that Los Angeles has moved into the yellow tier, concert venues are re-opening with strict safety and health protocols and limited seating capacity. The Canyon Club venues are allowing much eager fans to attend live shows and will welcome British Invasion living legend Peter Noone and his band, Herman's Hermits to their location in Agoura Hills on May 28. At the age of 15, Noone achieved...
The Dodgers came storming out of the gate this season with the support of rookie sensation, utility-player Zach McKinstry until he, unfortunately, suffered a right oblique strain retroactive April 22 which has continued to keep him on the shelf. The injury occurred while he was taking batting practice, and felt it on one particular swing of the bat. Oblique injuries take time to heal and he'll have to spend some time in Arizona on rehab assignment before coming back to the majors. Before the...
It's been two weeks since LA Kings veteran forward Jeff Carter was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a third-round draft pick in 2022 and a fourth-rounder in 2023 and the Penguins are continuing to breathe a sigh of relief. They are now leading the East Division, while the Kings are occupying the seventh position in the West. Only four top teams in each division make it to the playoffs, so the Kings will have to do some serious scratching and clawing to make it in. Given the fact that the...
Los Angeles Kings veteran goalie and future Hall of Fame candidate, Jonathan Quick, is reportedly drawing interest as the April 12 trade deadline approaches, and it is feeling like his days might be numbered in a Kings uniform. Due to the trade deadline, the Seattle expansion draft, or possibly an offseason transaction, he is not likely to finish out the remainder of his contract with the Kings. Fans want to cling to all of Quick's past accolades, but this is a business and the Kings decision-ma...
Rob Blake, Los Angeles Kings Vice President and General Manager, made an announcement that they signed defenseman Matt Roy to a three-year contract extension with an average annual value of $3,150,000. A nice raise from the league minimum of $700,000. Blake liked what Roy has contributed to the team. Roy, a 6'1", 200-pound native of Detroit, Michigan, was selected in the seventh round (194th overall) by the Kings during the 2015 NHL Draft. That came after his first season at Michigan Tech where...
The spark for the LA Kings hockey team has finally ignited the flame as they had a six-game win streak up until a loss to the Minnesota Wild last night. Only one other team in the NHL had the same win streak. During that winning streak, the Kings outscored their opponents 22-7 which makes head coach Todd McLellan happy, since he's been wanting more scoring from his team in order to have success this season. McLellan has been making changes, tweaking, and making improvements with his team since...
Drew Doughty, the LA Kings' future hockey Hall of Famer, and, at the height of his career, one of the elite defensemen in the NHL, has unfortunately seen a decline in his performance over the past two seasons. So sub-standard that many fans were ready to give up on him heading into the 56-game, COVID-19-shortened, 2020-21 season. The timing of his decline is quite interesting and maybe just coincidental. Doughty signed an enormous eight-year contract extension with the Kings in July of 2018 for...
The Los Angeles Kings opened up their 56-game, COVID-19-shortened, 2020-21 season with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Minnesota Wild at STAPLES Center. With no fans in attendance, recorded crowd-sounds were pumped into the arena to simulate the reactions of the fans, especially during eventful moments. i.e. a great save, a goal, etc. A very surreal atmosphere. Since the NHL disallowed preseason games this year, this first game of the regular season might be considered the Kings "preseason" game, a...
Young Venezuelan right-handed Dodger reliever Brusdar Graterol, 22, made his first start in the Major Leagues against the Houston Astros on Sunday and allowed only one hit and struck out three in the first inning. With Walker Buehler on the injured list with a finger blister, Graterol got the start, but would pitch only one inning since manager Dave Roberts wanted to utilize his bullpen, using eight relievers, and came away with an 8-1 win. That start for Graterol was the opportunity he needed...
Los Angeles Dodgers right-handed pitcher, Dustin May, the 22-year-old young sensation out of Texas has been showing some real promise so far this 2020 season. Fortune struck for May on Opening Day when he replaced scheduled starter Clayton Kershaw who injured his back before the game. May became the youngest Opening Day starter for the Dodgers since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. But May didn't pick up his first win until his third start versus the San Diego Padres on August 4 and struck out...
One of the bright spots for the Los Angeles Dodgers during this 2020-21 Covid-shortened, 60-game season, has been the newly acquired Mookie Betts. Betts, the 27-year-old former Boston Red Sox star outfielder and American League MVP signed a colossal 12-year extension with the Dodgers worth $365 million on the night before Opening Day. Combined with the one-year, $27 million contract he's currently playing out, Betts' total comes to 13 years and $392 million. The Dodgers were eager to sign Betts...
The Los Angeles Kings hockey team was on a roll closing out the regular season, gaining momentum, beating playoff-caliber teams, had a win streak of seven games which was best in the Western Conference, and then on Wednesday, Rudy Gobert of the NBA's Utah Jazz was diagnosed with the coronavirus which started a ripple-effect throughout the sports world. On Thursday, the NHL made a decision to suspend play until further notice, which came less than 24 hours after the NBA suspended its schedule....
Colin Hay, best known as the lead singer for Men At Work, is making a solo appearance at Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 28. Men At Work is the platinum-selling Australian band that topped worldwide charts in the 80s with anthems like "Down Under" and "Who Can it Be Now," among others. Hay is justifiably proud of his place in pop history, but has also experienced tremendous success as a solo artist. Over the past 15 years, Hay has reinvented himself as a solo artist, regularly...
Living Legend, Jose Feliciano, recently made an appearance at The Grammy Museum's intimate Clive Theatre for a sold-out Q & A and performance, moderated by Executive Director Scott Goldman. At age 74, the Puerto Rican multi-Grammy Award-winning musician, singer and composer is still full of vim and vigor, and also a funny joke-teller. He was promoting his new album, Behind This Guitar, which reunited him with famous record producer Rick Jararrd. "There wouldn't be a career for me without Rick...
Cirque du Soleil's Big Top returned to Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium on opening night, January 21, with its first sports-inspired Big Top production, VOLTA. Los Angeles is the first city ever visited by Cirque in the USA in 1987 and VOLTA is the 15th Big Top to visit here as well. VOLTA is energetic, urban, contemporary, and is a captivating voyage of discovery that showcases never-before-seen acrobatics in a visually striking world with beautiful, enchanting and magical live vocals with live ba...
A Classic Rock band will "keep pushin'" on. The REO Speedwagon tour will land at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 4 to delight all their adoring fans. Nobody can call these guys fossil rockers...they sound as good as they did when they formed and started making hits back in the '70's. REO will get the party started with frontman Kevin Cronin belting out hits like "Don't Let Him Go," "Ridin' The Storm Out," "Keep On Loving You," "Can't Fight This Feeling," "Roll With The Changes,"...
Styx, the classic-rock giants, will be landing at The Saban theatre in Beverly Hills on January 12. Original lead singer Tommy Shaw and the band have been averaging over 100 shows a year and bringing their energy that has been delighting fans for over four decades. They'll be bringing their barn-burning chart hits, joyous sing-alongs, and hard-driving deep cuts. Like a symphony that builds to a satisfying crescendo, a Styx set covers a wide range of stylistic cornerstones. From the progressively...
Los Angeles Kings two-time Stanley Cup champion goalie, Jonathan Quick, seems to have now turned the corner after a rough start to the season. He has permitted two goals or fewer in five of his last seven starts. Head coach Todd McLellan, in his first season as skipper of the Kings, never lost faith in his 33-year-old goalkeeper. McLellan will never forget how the Kings completed a memorable comeback in the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, becoming the fourth team ever to rally from a 3-0 series d...
From being called up to the Los Angeles Kings, to being down with the Ontario Reign, and now back up with the Kings, 22-year old right-winger Matt Luff is working to make his name permanent on the Kings roster. Luff has a natural gift, a natural instinct about where to be on the ice and how to play the game. He knows how to be strong along the boards and get himself into scoring positions. Head coach Todd McLellan has high hopes for Luff, and Luff knows what he'll have to do to make it in the...
Alec Martinez, Los Angeles Kings veteran defenseman and two-time Stanley Cup champion in 2012 and 2014, sustained an injury to his right wrist in the third period of the Kings' 4-3 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks on Monday night. Martinez dove toward a loose puck around the Kings' net and the skate of Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsonn lacerated his wrist, causing damage to his radial artery and two superficial radial nerves. He left the game immediately and subsequently underwent successful s...
Twenty-five years since the record-breaking Los Angeles run of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Davis Gaines and Dale Kristen - L.A.'s longest-running Phantom and Christine and arguably the best at those two roles - reunite for their first concert together. The stage veterans will perform solos and duets from their favorite Broadway shows, share stories, and reminisce about their long careers on Broadway and beyond. You do not want to miss their performance at Cerritos Center for...
Seven musical acts that you don't want to miss are landing at The Canyon Clubs in October 2019. On the 18th in Agoura Hills and the 19th in Montclair, Martha Davis & The Motels will take the stage. One of LA's original new wave bands, they scored big with hits including "Only the Lonely," "Suddenly Last Summer," "Danger," among many others. They gathered up two gold albums with Davis on lead vocals and also doing some songwriting. She won Best Performance in a Music Video at the American Music...
Five musical acts that you don't want to miss are landing at The Canyon Club. On September 1, the British Invasion invades The Rose in Pasadena with Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone. At the age of 15, Noone achieved international fame as the lead singer of the legendary sixties pop band, singing hits like "I'm Into Something Good," "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter," "There's a Kind of Hush," "Listen People," and his anthem "I'm Henry VIII, I Am," among many others. Ultimately, Herm...
Three musical acts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA). On September 20, living legend Johnny Mathis takes the stage with his Voice of Romance Tour. The Grammy Hall of Famer, who was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, will be performing all of his classic hits. He has one of the most distinctive voices in music and you will hear his famous vibrato as he sings "It's Not for Me to...
