Friday In collaboration with The Industry and Echo Park Film Center, Metro Presents a free screening of Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself, often called the best documentary film about L.A. The [continue reading]
Friday On Valentine’s Day, art and love reunite! Spend the day with us for the Metro Art Tour. From Union Station to South Pasadena, The Independent Shakespeare Company will entertain [continue reading]
Here is the situation tonight in a nutshell: the Dodgers have a chance to clinch their National League Divisional Series against Atlanta at 6:30 p.m. at Dodger Stadium. There will easily be a 50,000-person-plus crowd. Then, at 7:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Kings have their home opener against the New [continue reading]
The Kings are set to begin the defense of their Stanley Cup title against the Chicago Blawkhawks on Jan. 19 with the player lockout apparently resolved (the players still have to approve of the deal). The Kings made this nice video in the off-season promoting Metro as a good way [continue reading]
Pico Station Improvements staff report Interesting item that will be heard in the Board of Director’s Finance committee on Wednesday afternoon (1 p.m., Metro Board Room, 3rd floor) on a proposed agreement with AEG to add a second platform to the Blue and Expo lines’ Pico Street station (pdf download [continue reading]
The Expo Line opened in late April and since then we’ve received a steady trickle of comments from Metro customers saying that it’s difficult to differentiate Expo Line and Blue Line trains at the two stations they share — 7th/Metro Center and Pico. A few passengers have even complained of [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Kings not only won their first Stanley Cup, but they made history in the process. Their playoff run over the past couple of months was among the best ever in professional hockey — –check out their accomplishments here — and now it’s time to properly celebrate the [continue reading]
photo by Bradley Tollison, via Twitter As seen yesterday from Metro Rail near the Pico station for the Blue and Expo lines. The old-style Kings jersey definitely compliments this guy’s lid. Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals is in Newark at 5 p.m. Saturday. BTW, hockey-inclined readers should check [continue reading]
They can only cram so many people, of course, into Staples Center for Game 4 today between the New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings, with the puck dropping about 5:15 p.m.. But I’m guessing that interest in this afternoon’s game will draw a big crowd to L.A. Live and [continue reading]
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: There’s a good exhibit at the Huntington Library though July 23 on the planning and construction of the 1,776-mile railroad between Sacramento and Council Bluffs, Nebraska. To be more specific, that’s 1,776 miles of rail built between 1863 and 1869. To put that in perspective, it took about [continue reading]
