{"id":440348,"date":"2010-03-17T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a94a3743970b"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:40:08","slug":"dodgeball-in-venice-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day-happenings-and-a-haunted-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440348","title":{"rendered":"Dodgeball in Venice, St. Patrick\u2019s Day happenings and a haunted hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A dodgeball league game at the Bellevue Recreation Center. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho \/ Los Angeles Times\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb11016970c image-full \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fb11016970c-800wi\" title=\"A dodgeball league game at the Bellevue Recreation Center. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho \/ Los Angeles Times\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The Eagle Rock Yacht Club is starting a dodgeball league in Venice. The club known for its Glassell Park dodgeball league is scheduling its first Westside match April 8 at 7 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>Half sport and half social league, dodgeball seems to be getting more popular with Angelenos. Curbed LA reports:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The league will play at the Oakwood Rec Center and the games will be followed by drinking. You can vote on the after-bar when you sign up. Will the Venice crowd be as popular as those Silver Lake dodgeballers?\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/westward_the_course_of_dodgeball_takes_its_way.php\">Read the full post here<\/a>, and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglerockyachtclub.com\/venice\">the yacht club website<\/a> for more information.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some other interesting L.A.-area items around the Web:\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/strong>: L.A. Weekly offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/events\/category\/st-patricks-day-591638\/\">comprehensive list of events throughout the city<\/a>. Here is an excerpt from their first listing at Spaceland in Silver Lake:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The night&#8217;s opener and closer are fine enough \u2014 Les Blanks churn out swaggery boot-stomping indie rock, and Francisco The Man specializes in epic alt-Americana \u2014 but the highlight of this show will almost undoubtedly be watching the Blasting Company deliver a full set of Balkan blues under an actual roof.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times&#8217; Margaret Wappler also has compiled a list of events <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/theguide\/bars-and-clubs\/la-et-stpatslist-17,0,2083740.story\">you can check out here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghosts in Boyle Heights?<\/strong> The Boyle Heights Paranormal Project found a mysterious footprint at the abandoned Linda Vista Community Hospital. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/news\/2010\/03\/16\/boyle-heights-paranormal-project\/\">KPCC has the story:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The footprint was fresh and surrounded by wet basement dirt. Only the caretaker for the hospital had been around since it was closed in 1991. This footprint seemingly couldn&#8217;t have been made by any living person.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>New tower in Westwood<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/_wilshire_gayley_that_proposed.php\">Curbed LA reports<\/a> that a 29-story tower could be coming to the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Gayley Avenue. Here is an excerpt:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Local developer Kambiz Hekmat is considering two options for the corner\u2026 A 250-room luxury business hotel OR an 144-unit condo tower.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Anthony Pesce\n<\/p>\n<p>Have some news for Linking L.A.? <a href=\"mailto:Anthony.Pesce@latimes.com?subject=From%20LA%20Now\">Contact Times reporter Anthony Pesce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: A dodgeball league game at the Bellevue Recreation Center. Credit: Lawrence K. Ho \/ Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagle Rock Yacht Club is starting a dodgeball league in Venice. The club known for its Glassell Park dodgeball league is scheduling its first Westside match April 8 at 7 p.m. Half sport and half social league, dodgeball seems to be getting more popular with Angelenos. Curbed LA reports: The league will play at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}