Perpetual flame wars
Opening arguments
Before you know it, LA’s opening ceremonies will be here — but they’re not going to be where most Angelenos will expect them to be.
Perpetual flame wars
Opening arguments
Before you know it, LA’s opening ceremonies will be here — but they’re not going to be where most Angelenos will expect them to be.
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LA JEOOOOOPARDY + Torched meet and greet on August 12
Come for a meet and greet at Zebulon and stay to watch me defend my LA Jeopardy crown for the 4th time 👑
We're all in this together
Beyond city limits
LA28's chief athlete officer Janet Evans was deployed to assure everyone that the city of LA "will host more Olympic sports than anywhere else" which is repeated several times in Friday's venue announcement
Some-build Olympics
Conventional wisdom
"This was originally supposed to be a 'no-build' Olympics, and that's what the commitment was to the public"
Cruel and all-too-usual punishment
A house of cards
The Grants Pass ruling gives LA's leaders a legal pathway to do what many of them have been attempting to do for years — expand the city's anti-camping laws in the lead up to 2028
OKC28
Change of venue
In the simplest terms, what LA28 announced yesterday is that seven events are moving out of the city of LA, and seven events are moving into the city of LA
Policing the games
Why did LA28 hire an Army general as CEO?
Three days after Reynold Hoover started as LA28 CEO, the 2028 Summer Olympics were officially designated a National Special Security Event — the furthest in advance that this designation has ever been made
No-bid Olympics
The forever games
With fewer cities stepping up to welcome the games, the IOC is keeping a handful of previous hosts on heavy rotation. And it might mean more Olympics are on LA's horizon
Venue plans
We're all in this together
Beyond city limits
LA28's chief athlete officer Janet Evans was deployed to assure everyone that the city of LA "will host more Olympic sports than anywhere else" which is repeated several times in Friday's venue announcement
OKC28
Change of venue
In the simplest terms, what LA28 announced yesterday is that seven events are moving out of the city of LA, and seven events are moving into the city of LA
Shade
Not so deep-fried anymore
Fair weather
Learning how the LA County Fair took heat seriously is a warning for other megaevents planned during Southern California's increasingly dangerous summers
With fronds like these
"Don't be a palm, be an oak"
Of course LA should plant actual trees before the Olympics, but which trees should we actually plant?
No shade intended
The best time to plant a tree
Starting today could provide a bit of respite for Olympic ticketholders making their way to the diving finals on a sweltering July afternoon — and someone waiting at the same bus stop trying to get to work
Trains
Track record
A bright spot
We're Californians — of course we're turning all our freeways into super-fast trains!
RIP 28 by 28
How do we get there from here
What happened to 28 by 28 is what's happening to a lot of LA's Olympic-related goals at the moment: a flashy announcement got a lot of attention yet had no strategy to actually make it happen
Buses
It takes a toll
Olympic lanes
Before everyone spins Kathy Hochul's cowardice into a death knell for LA's congestion pricing dreams, it's important to know that there are lots of different ways to do road pricing
Safety in numbers
What we need is a surge of bus investments
A majority of Metro's nearly 1 million daily passengers are bus riders, who are often left waiting in more ways than one
Public Safety
The people on the bus
LA's electeds could take truly monumental steps to protect the safety of transit riders who power the entire region
Supergraphics
RIP BSS
A supergraphics superhero
"I liked working big and moving around. It was absolutely fearless work"
1984
An invasion of butterflies
"Somehow I saw in my head the sky and the ground sprinkled like confetti — sprinkled with all magical stuff that shimmered and that expressed joy"
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LA JEOOOOOPARDY + Torched meet and greet on August 12
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What Are the Olympics For? Q&A with Jules Boykoff on June 8
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Answers to your burning questions
Answers to your burning questions
Introducing Torched
Is LA really about to squander a once-in-a-generation chance to leverage its Olympic opportunity into tangible, permanent benefits for the 10 million people being forced to participate in this civic experiment?