The Emergence of Staples Center.Staples Center This article has multiple issues: * Its neutrality is disputed. * It may contain original research or unverifiable claims. * It does not cite any references or sources. opened on October 17, 1999, and immediately won recognition, becoming a two-time winner of the Poll-Star-CIC Arena of the Year award. It has gained fame as the home of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= , the Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1997, they are one of the 8 original WNBA teams and were one of the teams that participated in the league's inaugural game. of the WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association WNBA World Ninepin Bowling Association WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association WNBA Women's National Book Association, Inc. WNBA Warszawski Nurt Basketu Amatorskiego , the Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). of the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there , and the Los Angeles Avengers The Los Angeles Avengers is an Arena Football League (AFL) team based in Los Angeles, California and they began play as a 2000 expansion team. History The Los Angeles Avengers of the AFL AFL: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. . It is the only arena that is home to five professional sports franchises. Hosting more than 250 events and nearly 4 million visitors a year, Staples Center has been a premier venue for high-profile sports and entertainment events as well as events of national and international distinction. Since its opening day, Staples Center has hosted the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating U.S. Figure Skating (USFS), officially called the United States Figure Skating Association or USFSA, is the national sport governing body for figure skating in the United States. Championships, the 2002 NHL All-Star game, the 2004 NBA All-Star Game, the 2004 Pac 10 Basketball Championships, the WTA Tour Championships The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour. The event's current sponsored name is the Sony Ericsson Championships. from 2002 to 2005, the first ever Latin Grammy Awards The Latin Grammy Awards were launched in 2000 with a telecast aired on CBS. It was the first primarily Spanish language prime-time program carried on an American network television. in 2000, the annual Grammy Awards since 2000, the Pac 10 Men's Basketball Tournament since 2002, the X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. indoor competitions since 2003, the Ultimate Fighting Championship This article covers the organization itself. For the inaugural event which went by the same name, see UFC 1. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, currently recognized as the largest MMA promotion in the world. UFC UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazilian University) UFC Unified Facilities Criteria UFC Uniform Fire Code UFC Uniform Freight Classification UFC United Facilities Criteria UFC USACE Finance Center 60 pay per view event, as well as numerous Concerts and HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy Championship Boxing matches. In addition to hosting the attendance record setting WrestleMania 21 in 2005, the Staples Center has also hosted WWE Unforgiven in 2002 and WWE Judgment Day Judgment Day is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. The first edition of Judgment Day was in October 1998 as an In Your House event. This pay-per-view replaced Over the Edge after the 1999 event, which saw the death of Owen Hart. in 2004 as well as other WWE WWE World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (formerly World Wrestling Federation) WWE Witwe (German: Widow) WWE William Webb Ellis (inventor of rugby) WWE World Wide Education WWE Well Woman Exam events, including the upcoming WWE No Way Out No Way Out is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Originally a 1998 In Your House event, it has been held in the month of February every year since 2000. From 2004 to 2007, No Way Out was exclusive to the SmackDown! brand. in 2007. The Arena There are a total of 12 locker and dressing rooms, including team-specific locker rooms for the Lakers, Clippers, and Kings. There are a series of meeting rooms in the arena, including the Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. conference area on the suite level and additional rooms in the attached, three-story office tower. There are extensive hospitality facilities, including a magnificent arena restaurant and club space on the suite level at one end of the arena, overlooking the arena floor. Spectator amenities include a full-service ticket window, 1,200 television monitors throughout the facility, 23 refreshment stands spread among the arena's five concourses, as well as the Fox Sports SkyBox sky·box n. An elevated, usually enclosed private compartment for viewing events at a sports stadium. Noun 1. skybox - an elevated box for viewing events at a sports stadium restaurant on the main plaza, and the outdoor City View Grill, offering a look at the downtown skyline. There is also a TeamLA store on the plaza level, accessible from outside the arena, and offers a complete array of apparel and merchandise for the arena's resident teams and top events. Event presentation is augmented by a $2 million specialty lighting package, a $1.5 million Bose sound system, a Mitsubishi eight-sided, center-court scoreboard and videoboard, as well as a fascia fascia (făsh`ēə), fibrous tissue network located between the skin and the underlying structure of muscle and bone. Fascia is composed of two layers, a superficial layer and a deep layer. board along the upper seating level, provided by Daktronics. Staples Center seats up to 20,000 for concerts, 18,997 for basketball, and 18,118 for hockey and arena football. Two-thirds of the arena's seating, including 2,500 club seats, are in the lower bowl, and there are 160 luxury suites, including 15 event suites, on three levels between the lower and upper bowls. The arena's attendance record is held by WWE WrestleMania 21 with a crowd of 20,193 set on April 3, 2005. Future developments Although Staples Center is already a Los Angeles icon, it is only a part of a much larger 4-million [ft.sup.2] development by Anschutz Entertainment Group The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is a sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. The company owns or operates several major entertainment/sporting venues, including Staples Center and The Home Depot Center and beginning in (AEG AEG Aeger (Latin: Sick) AEG Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (Common Electricity Company) AEG Aircraft Evaluation Group AEG Association of Engineering Geologists AEG Air Expeditionary Group ) adjoining the Staples Center and the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. . A downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or sports and entertainment destination, known as L.A. Live, broke ground on September 15, 2005. L.A. Live is designed to offer entertainment, retail and residential programming in the downtown Los Angeles area. The multi-faceted entertainment destination will feature entertainment venues, restaurants, retail commercial and residential spaces, television and radio broadcast studios, and concert spaces. Highlights of the district will include a four star, 1,100 room convention center headquarters hotel, a 40,000 [ft.sup.2] outdoor plaza, an ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network broadcast and restaurant facility, Regal Theatres, as well as Club Nokia, the Nokia Theatre Los Angeles, and Nokia Plaza. Nokia Theatre Los Angeles will be a premier mid-sized music and theatre venue featuring state-of-the-art acoustics and seating for 7,000. The Theatre will host the Latin Grammy Awards and ESPY Awards, as well as numerous other productions from VH1, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , and BET. It is also available for corporate shareholder meetings, product launches, and seminars. Club Nokia will be a club for live music and cultural events. The stand-alone club, which will accommodate up to 2,400 patrons, will feature up and coming music acts, bands, and cultural shows. The club may also be used to host private parties and corporate events. Nokia Plaza will a 40,000 [ft.sup.2] open-air plaza that will serve as the central meeting place for Los Angeles' Sports and Entertainment District. The Plaza will serve as one of the district's key anchors, providing a broadcast venue featuring giant LED screens as well as a red carpet site for special events. The Nokia venues will be part of the "Nokia Unwired" marketing platform, which will bring live music to fans in both the Nokia venues and through "Nokia Presents Hard Rock Live" on MTV. Staples Center Trivia * Staples Center is the only arena that is home to five professional sports franchises. * Outside the arena are statues of Wayne Gretzky and Magic Johnson, although both Los Angeles sports legends played at The Forum (formerly known as the Great Western Forum), where the Kings, Lakers and Sparks previously played. (The Los Angeles Clippers previously played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena • • [ .) * In 2005, most of the purple seats were reupholstered to black seats. * The press box in the arena is named for Bob Miller, who has worked as the voice of the Kings for 33 years. * The press room, located on the Event Level, is named after Chick Hearn. * Staples Center was named New Major Concert Venue (2000) and Arena of the Year (2000 and 2001) by Pollstar Magazine and has been nominated each year since its 1999 opening. * Staples Center measures 950,000 [ft.sup.2] (88,000 [m.sup.2]) of total space, with a 94- by 200-foot (29 by 61 m) arena floor. It stands 150 feet (46 m) tall. * Load-in at the arena is accommodated through a floor-level dockway. There is a 15,000 [ft.sup.2] (1,400 [m.sup.2]) marshaling area for event production, as well as a dock area designed to accommodate up to six television production vehicles. * Staples Center features an eight-sided, center-court scoreboard featuring 4 12-by-15-foot (4 by 5 m) Mitsubishi DiamondVision video screens and 4 9 by 12 foot (3 by 4 m) messageboards. In addition, the arena contains 2 complete television control rooms and 34 fixed camera positions. Facts about Los Angeles * 2,166,279 Angelenos between the ages of 15 and 59 own a telephone. 87,266 do not own a telephone. * Of the 13,583,205 housing units in Los Angeles County, 8,406,170 are owned by the occupants and 5,177,035 are rented. * As of 1996, there were 102,049 people over the age of 85 living in Los Angeles County. * More than 20,000 Angelenos are enlisted in the Armed Forces. * 18,090 Angelenos actually commute out-of-state to work. * As the entertainment capital of the world, most of this country's film, television and recording stars live and work in the L.A. area, including 40,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, which comprises more than 50 percent of that organization's membership. * An average of 150 productions are filmed daily on L.A. streets. * L.A. is home to the world's most famous sidewalk, Hollywood's Walk of Fame, which serves as a tribute to entertainers. Since the 1960s, more than 2000 terrazzo terrazzo Type of flooring consisting of marble chips set in cement or epoxy resin that is poured and ground smooth when dry. Terrazzo was ubiquitous in the 20th century in commercial and institutional buildings. and brass stars have been unveiled on Hollywood's major sidewalks. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau Los Angeles County's Rich Heritage of Museums African-American Firefighter Museum Autry Museum of Western Heritage Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is an aquarium in San Pedro, California, a community within Los Angeles. It concentrates on the marine life of Southern California. In addition to its displays, it also offers school and group programs. California African American Museum The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, USA. History The museum opened in 1981, in temporary quarters at the California Museum of Science and Industry (now the California Science Center). California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State Chinese American Museum The Chinese American Museum is a museum located in Downtown Los Angeles as a part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. It is dedicated to the history and experience of Chinese Americans in the state of California. Dept. of Recreation and Parks' Museums El Pueblo de Los Angeles Museums and Historic Exhibits Facilities within the Port of Los Angeles The Port of Los Angeles is located on San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown. Also called Los Angeles Harbor and WORLDPORT LA Fire Department Museum and Firefighter Memorial Japanese American National Museum The Japanese American National Museum opened its doors in 1992. The museum is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California. It is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Maritime Museum The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is a non-profit museum operated by the City of Los Angeles. The Museum The Los Angeles Maritime Museum is located on the main channel in Los Angeles Harbor, San Pedro, California, in the former Municipal Ferry Terminal building. Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Television & Radio Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Southwest Museum Travel Town Museum The Travel Town Museum is an outdoor transportation museum in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. The primary collection focus of the Travel Town Museum is the history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Hammer Museum Source: The County of Los Angeles Places Angelenos Take Their Out-of-Town Visitors 1. Universal Studios 2. Disneyland 3. Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by 4. Rodeo Drive 5. Venice Beach 6. Grauman's Chinese Theatre  The of this article or section may be compromised by "peacock terms".You can help Wikipedia by removing peacock terms. 7. Sunset Boulevard 8. Santa Monica Beach/Pier 9. Knott's Berry Farm Knott's Berry Farm is a brand name of two separate entities: a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products (primarily jams and preserves) based in Placentia, California. 10. Marina del Rey 11. Queen Mary 12. Star Homes 13. Magic Mountain 14. Will Rogers Beach 15. Old Town Pasadena Built on the foundation of one of the oldest, most beautiful and most prosperous cities in California, Old Pasadena arose from the ashes of a decaying bowery that had a well deserved patina of homeless and hippie. 16. Farmer's Market/The Grove 17. 3rd Street Promenade (Santa Monica) 18. Griffith Park 19. Ports O'Call 20. Beverly Center Source: Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau A Brief History of Griffith Park At the end of the 19th century, when Los Angeles was still a small town, one man, Griffith Jenkins Griffith, envisioned a city of a million or more people, people who needed" ... a place of recreation and rest for the masses, a resort for the rank and file ..." As a Christmas gift in December 1896, he deeded five square miles of rancho lands to the City of Los Angeles
Today, Griffith Park is the largest urban municipal park in the nation. It boasts an impressive roster of special facilities, amenities, and recreational opportunities that, by conservative estimates, are enjoyed by upwards of 10 million visitors annually. This visitor base is drawn from both tourists and from the City of Los Angeles and surrounding communities themselves, which is one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. Source: Department of Recreation and Parks
Entertainment Industry Income Averages
Employment
Occupation Title (1) Median Hourly
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports,
and Media Occupations 147,340 $19.57
Art Directors 1,640 $36.70
Craft Artists (7) $11.48
Fine Artists, Including Painters,
Sculptors, and Illustrators 320 $24.32
Multi-Media Artists and Animators 5,920 $36.29
Artists and Related Workers, All Other 50 $10.81
Commercial and Industrial Designers 1,010 $21.74
Fashion Designers 1,650 $30.22
Floral Designers 990 $11.30
Graphic Designers 6,960 $20.80
Interior Designers 1,160 $21.55
Merchandise Displayers and Window
Trimmers 1,960 $10.97
Set and Exhibit Designers 440 $22.40
Designers, All Other 510 $16.87
Actors 19,850 $9.98
Producers and Directors 10,730 $59.78
Athletes and Sports Competitors 560 (4)
Coaches and Scouts 2,510 (4)
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports
Officials (7) (4)
Dancers 1,280 $7.76
Choreographers 300 $15.28
Music Directors and Composers 1,150 $12.04
Musicians and Singers 4,730 $18.44
Entertainers and Performers, Sports and
Related Workers, All Other 41,520 $17.25
Radio and Television Announcers 1,130 $17.34
Public Address System and Other
Announcers 660 $9.23
Broadcast News Analysts 300 (7)
Reporters and Correspondents 1,290 $19.35
Public Relations Specialists 5,120 $23.21
Editors 4,720 $19.98
Technical Writers 1,570 $28.18
Writers and Authors 3,870 $27.61
Interpreters and Translators 930 $17.34
Media and Communication Workers, All
Other 1,650 $17.05
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians 4,660 $18.30
Broadcast Technicians 2,310 $20.70
Sound Engineering Technicians 2,390 $23.18
Photographers 1,590 $14.71
Camera Operators, Television, Video,
and Motion Picture 3,740 $33.60
Film and Video Editors 4,140 $25.06
Mean Annual
Occupation Title Mean Hourly (2)
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports,
and Media Occupations $26.66 $55,460
Art Directors $42.75 $88,920
Craft Artists $13.45 $27,970
Fine Artists, Including Painters,
Sculptors, and Illustrators $24.51 $50,970
Multi-Media Artists and Animators $39.94 $83,070
Artists and Related Workers, All Other $13.22 $27,500
Commercial and Industrial Designers $24.28 $50,500
Fashion Designers $37.09 $77,150
Floral Designers $11.40 $23,720
Graphic Designers $22.48 $46,750
Interior Designers $25.29 $52,590
Merchandise Displayers and Window
Trimmers $12.85 $26,720
Set and Exhibit Designers $22.80 $47,430
Designers, All Other $21.95 $45,650
Actors $22.01 (6)
Producers and Directors $62.33 $129,650
Athletes and Sports Competitors (4) $108,670
Coaches and Scouts (4) $38,000
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports
Officials (4) $22,140
Dancers $7.85 (6)
Choreographers $16.01 $33,300
Music Directors and Composers $15.83 $32,920
Musicians and Singers $35.38 (6)
Entertainers and Performers, Sports and
Related Workers, All Other $19.36 (6)
Radio and Television Announcers $28.16 $58,560
Public Address System and Other
Announcers $12.51 $26,010
Broadcast News Analysts (7) (7)
Reporters and Correspondents $25.56 $53,170
Public Relations Specialists $26.68 $55,480
Editors $22.19 $46,160
Technical Writers $29.91 $62,220
Writers and Authors $40.07 $83,340
Interpreters and Translators $18.01 $37,470
Media and Communication Workers, All
Other $20.48 $42,600
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians $21.61 $44,940
Broadcast Technicians $24.19 $50,310
Sound Engineering Technicians $24.77 $51,520
Photographers $16.88 $35,110
Camera Operators, Television, Video,
and Motion Picture $30.96 $64,400
Film and Video Editors $29.53 $61,420
Occupation Title Mean RSE (3)
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports,
and Media Occupations 4.0%
Art Directors 4.5%
Craft Artists 8.3%
Fine Artists, Including Painters,
Sculptors, and Illustrators 4.8%
Multi-Media Artists and Animators 8.0%
Artists and Related Workers, All Other 10.6%
Commercial and Industrial Designers 5.0%
Fashion Designers 5.2%
Floral Designers 5.2%
Graphic Designers 2.7%
Interior Designers 7.2%
Merchandise Displayers and Window
Trimmers 5.4%
Set and Exhibit Designers 6.0%
Designers, All Other 8.6%
Actors 8.4%
Producers and Directors 6.4%
Athletes and Sports Competitors 21.8%
Coaches and Scouts 8.9%
Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports
Officials 7.3%
Dancers 3.0%
Choreographers 11.8%
Music Directors and Composers 14.2%
Musicians and Singers 19.1%
Entertainers and Performers, Sports and
Related Workers, All Other 8.5%
Radio and Television Announcers 9.2%
Public Address System and Other
Announcers 8.8%
Broadcast News Analysts (7)
Reporters and Correspondents 7.8%
Public Relations Specialists 4.8%
Editors 3.0%
Technical Writers 3.9%
Writers and Authors 15.1%
Interpreters and Translators 2.8%
Media and Communication Workers, All
Other 3.7%
Audio and Video Equipment Technicians 3.5%
Broadcast Technicians 7.1%
Sound Engineering Technicians 5.1%
Photographers 6.7%
Camera Operators, Television, Video,
and Motion Picture 5.7%
Film and Video Editors 2.6%
(1) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because
the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not
include self-employed workers.
(2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean
wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for
those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published,
the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey
data.
(3) The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability
of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the
more precise the estimate.
(4) Hourly wage rates for occupations where workers typically work
fewer than 2,080 hours per year are not available.
(5) This wage is equal to or greater than $70.00 per hour or $145,600
per year.
(6) There is wide variation in the number of hours worked by those
employed as actors, dancers, musicians, and singers. Many jobs are for
a duration of 1 day or 1 week and it is extremely rare for a performer
to have guaranteed employment for a period that exceeds 3 to 6 months.
(7) Estimates not released.
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