The Trolley Dodger

LA Phil Presents - July 4th Fireworks Spectacular: A Ball at the Bowl with the LA Dodgers – Wednesday, July 2 - 4, 2008 at the Hollywood Bowl

Featured Artists:

• Los Angeles Philharmonic
• Randy Newman, special guest

Have a ball on the 4th of July with America’s favorite pastime! The Dodgers celebrate their 50th Anniversary in Los Angeles for this great American extravaganza with our very special guest Randy Newman hitting it outta the park. Enjoy classic baseball music, visuals, plus appearances by Dodger greats and the Bowl’s dazzling fireworks spectacular!

Log on to HollywoodBowl.com for tickets and information.

LA Kings Derek Armstrong tossed out the first pitch a few days ago at Dodger Stadium, and here’s the video from the Kings website:

And while we’re on the subject, the Kings announced that coach Marc Crawford is not coming back next season.

Andre Ethier has posted the first review at his “Dining with ‘Dre” blog, on “Shabu Hachi”, a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica (website). I was happily surprised to find a full-blown review with photos that would do any blogger proud. ;) And the ultimate test for any food blog — does it make me hungry? — succeeded.

I have a hard time imagining Dodgers back in the day writing restaurant reviews for the Times.

This part was very funny:

As I sat and looked at all these great vegetables being cooked, I was thinking to myself that this alone could be a great meal. (If you didn’t just catch the sarcasm, now you have. I am a true meat eater and crave a heaping helping of it for almost every meal. I pretty much do not consider it a meal unless there is meat involved).

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers, 2007-08 Western Conference Champions!

Congratulations to #24 on his well-deserved award.