The first Peking to Paris rally was run in 1907. Despite two thousand applicants, only 5 cars actually arrived at the dock in Beijing and the winner was an Italian prince named Scipione Borghese, who drove a 45 horsepower Italia. Apparently, he didn’t endear himself to his fellow competitors when, upon arriving at the first hotel in Mongolia and discovering that it had 5 …

Los Angeles Galaxy, the two-time defending Major League Soccer champions have their first game of the 2013 season this Sunday at home against the Chicago Fire.
With Beckham gone and Landon Donovan on a two-month soul-searching sabbatical that will keep him out of the team until late April, the captain’s armband has been handed to Irish international Robbie Keane, the team’s top scorer last season. …

President Barack Obama stood on the capitol steps, overlooking hundreds of thousands of spectators packed into the National Mall, and delivered his second inaugural address. It was Monday, Martin Luther King Day, and the world was watching.
KCRW carried live coverage of the swearing-in ceremony and speech, and then began the work of figuring out what it all meant.
To the Point had analysis of the …

Monday UPDATE: On tonight’s “Which Way L.A.?” guest host Alex Chadwick asks union spokesperson Craig Merrilees why the workers are striking, shutting down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The union accuses employers of outsourcing these good local jobs overseas to Costa Rica, Taiwan, and elsewhere. But Steve Getzug, a spokesperson for the Harbor Employers Association, says there’s no outsourcing. He told …

Last year the LA Galaxy turned away all challengers, becoming Major League Soccer Champs. This year has been a struggle. Captain Landon Donovan has complained of motivation problems. And the team posted a losing record well into the season.
Nevertheless, as the 4th seed, the Galaxy reached the playoffs again after winning a knockout game against 5th seeded Vancouver last week.
But in the Western Conference …

One of the down-ballot local measures that LA County residents will vote on come November 6 is Measure B. The measure would require all male porn performers to wear condoms on set to protect their partners and themselves from the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
In order to pay for County health workers to traverse the Valley spot checking porn sets and enforcing the new …

In 2008, Measure R appeared on the ballot for LA County voters. The measure raised LA County’s sales tax one half cent — from 8.25 cents on the dollar to 8.75 cents — for 30 years, until 2039, to pay for rail, bus, and roadway projects across the county.
Because it was a tax increase, the measure had to be approved by at least two-thirds …

Last week it was announced that California State Parks would contract out the running of three of its 278 parks to a private Utah company. The state budget squeeze has 70 of the state’s parks slated for closing, but at least 30 of them will now remain open due to a mix of private and non-profit funding that’s replacing money cut from the state’s …

After sneaking into the National Hockey League playoffs as the number eight seed in the Western Conference, the Kings have dispatched the number one seeded Vancouver Canucks in five games, and then swept the second seeded St Louis Blues. Only the Phoenix Coyotes now stand between the Kings and a place in the Stanley Cup finals.
This Sunday (May 13, at 5pm Pacific Time) the …