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The 10 Metal Bands Most Beloved By Geeks

By Adam Steininger Geeks love metal more than the computers on which they listen to it. They yearn for heavy metal that was forged by Orcs in the mountains of Mordor, smuggled halfway across the universe on Serenity and then discovered by Silver Surfer while scouting for delicious planets. The te ... More >>

A Day of Weimar: Three Illustrated Lectures on Sex and the Occult in Pre-War Berlin

Los Angeles Gadflies on Fire

City Hall politicians want them gone

Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] A few days ago, I was sitting backstage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, in the same area ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Upskirt Dress to be Sold at Auction in Beverly Hills

The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

Top 5 Apocalypse Movie Food Scenes

Alle your McDonald's are belong to us.​There's a scene in "War of the Worlds," the 2005 remake not the 1953 original, when Tom Cruise finds berserker survivalist Tim Robbins holed up in his basement. After sheltering him from the aliens, Robbins offers him peach schnapps. Even then, he (and th ... More >>

Rapture at Cannes: The Twisted Poetry of Lars von Trier's "I am a Nazi" Scandal

​ After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premiere showcase of top-shelf auteur cinema would go on without me for another few days, with many highly anticipated Competition title ... More >>

Calabasas High School Hate Crime: L.A. Sheriff Tracks Graffiti Suspects on Facebook

Spring Break surprise at Calabasas High​Update: Three Calabasas High students have reportedly admitted to the crime. More to come in a sheriff's announcement at 10 a.m. How many times do we have to learn this lesson, people? If you've been bad, no matter how tempting it is to blabber your bad ... More >>

Movie Review: 3 Billion and Counting

Movie Review: Ahead of Time

Abdul Jabbar Gbajiamilla Says Abercrombie Fired Him Over His Corn Rows; Federal Discrimination Suit Heading To Court

Plaintiff Gbajiamilla.​If Hitler were alive today we're sure he'd prefer the master-race aesthetic of Abercrombie & Fitch. After all, this the company with models so pure as the driven snow (and, er, androgynous) that Mad TV dedicated an ongoing sketch to them, with an employment policy that a ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Mystery Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE ON THE L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO THE MYSTERY PLAYS ​Photo by Dlugolecki Photography Though its title alludes to the Biblical pageants of Medieval Europe, playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's 2002 pair of sup ... More >>

John Mayernaise and Celine Dijon: Creating Food for Grammys No Easy Task

N. GalutenEdibles in the Grammy luxury suites​As Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall once said, upon arriving in Los Angeles, "What's with all these awards? They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler." This city does love to give out awards, and when we do, there a ... More >>

As Pub Food Goes ... the Gorbals

... If it’s open

Jewish Boys and Comic Books: Zap! Pow! Bam! The Golden Age of Comic Books at the Skirball

View more photos of superhero and comic book rarities in the "Golden Age of Comics" slideshow. There is a pretty amazing collection at the Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950." Some stuff on display just blew my mind, like ... More >>

Inside The Baader Meinhof Complex

Even back in the day, when I was revolting on campus while extolling the paradise of Soviet socialism to my slack-jawed parents over breakfast, my lefty friends and I drew the revolutionary line at Germany’s Baader-Meinhof group, which grew out of the student movement into a full-fledged terrorist ... More >>

Size Matters

Photos from Pride Parade in Mexico City

Off in Chiapas, I missed the massive annual Pride Parade in downtown Mexico City, but Cesar Arellano has photos. Check them out here and here and here. It was the 30th anniversary of the first gay march in Mexico City, which happened in 1978, at a time when gay activists were spied upon and eve ... More >>

Super Boll

In a web exclusive, our conversation with the Postal director continues

Uwe Boll Goes Postal

Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy

Lefsetz vs. Hilton?

A new odd couple is born.

Bukowski's Bungalow Named A Cultural Landmark

Brushing aside allegations that Charles Bukowski was a Nazi sympathizer, the Los Angeles City Council approved the designation of Buk's former bungalow on De Longpre Avenue as a cultural landmark on Tuesday -- sparing it from demolition. Though the effort to save the house was successful, Buk's l ... More >>

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Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match.

The Iceman cometh

Film Reviews: Angels in the Dust, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Trade

Also The Game Plan, Feast of Love, The Rape of Europa and more

Reviews of Paradise Lost, Bob & Ed's Discount Enlightenment Warehouse

Also this week's pick, Limonade Tous les Jours

Recoveries

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth conducted by Stéphane Denève

Dutch Auction

Lowbrow relics on the block; RIP, Fausto Vitello

Farting in Church

How to make irreverence matter

Being Lenny Bruce

Filling the shoes of a fearless satirist

Poster-Modernism

Rauschenberg and Revolution on Wilshire

Watch Them All Fall Down

Domino dancing to communism’s collapse

Rise of the Anti-Machine

Millennium Reproaches

Tony Kushner, back on the Left Coast

Letters

Dim Future, Bright Past

Bolshie Ballet

Martin Amis takes on Christopher Hitchens and comrades

Dialogic Dialectic

Tony Kushner returns to the stage via Afghanistan

The Unpredictable Revolutionary

James Wood on Knut Hamsun

Sesame Osama

Letters

Shame, Embarrassment, Fear

Paragraph 175, The Taste of Others, Last Resort

Annihilation Man

How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything.

Seeing Red

Joe Stalin comes to L.A.

Letters

To Know God

A post–New Age dialogue with Dr. Stephan Hoeller

Kosovo Conundrum

The Collective Confusion of American Progressives

Skin Deep

This week's Nazi movie

Glam Flock

Return of the sweet art of pre-Spice, post-Glitter rock & roll

Saddam and Gomorrah

Wag the Dog's Barry Levinson on movies, the media and Monica