Amsterdam

Cookbook of the Week: Home Made Summer (Almost) A Recipe For A Negroni Ice Pop

If the recent weather has you already craving a fantastic Home Made Summer, good news: Yvette Van Boven's latest book is almost here. Van Boven is a Dutch food stylist and illustrator who owns a popular café in Amsterdam; her husband, Oof Verschuren, is an award-winning photographer (for the Dutch ... More >>

Marijuana Shops In Amsterdam To Stay Open Despite National Law (Just Like L.A.)

It looks like Amsterdam is taking a page from Los Angeles' marijuana scene. Like pot shops in L.A., that city's 220 coffee shops will defy home-country federal law which has banned such weed-selling; the city's mayor says they'll stay open after the law takes effect Jan. 1. Whew, said every touris ... More >>

Rick Steves, Famed Travel Writer and Pot Advocate: 20 Questions

"I'm a travel writer, and for me, high is a place"

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 >>

Cannabis Cup Coming to Los Angeles Next Month: World's Premier Marijuana Contest Near Downtown

It's about time. High Times magazine's Cannabis Cup, the world's most prestigious (only?) marijuana judging competition is finally coming to Los Angeles after decades in Amsterdam and years in San Francisco. What took them so long? We asked associate publisher Rick Cusick:

Marijuana Dispensaries in L.A. Targeted For Closure: Here's The List

This is how Amsterdam does it.​L.A. still has a near-record high number of marijuana dispensaries despite efforts by the City Council to control them. (And we do mean high). But one-by-one the office of City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is knockin' 'em out. (Unfortunately, one of his assistant c ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Muse Til Midnight, Sander Kleinenberg, The Lot

Check out the Tim Burton exhibit and hear Dublab DJs at LACMA; see Sat. ​For those who like to party, Summer's soiree schedule still shines pretty bright even as the seasonal shift begins. This week offers plenty of opportunities to get down 'ti' the leaves turn brown. It's in fact a very colo ... More >>

Planes, Trains, Citroëns French Fries: Air France to Fuel Planes with Cooking Oil

Flickr/ldrose​ If you needed another reason to book an Air France flight to Paris, you can now do so in the name of environmentalism. Well, at least if you ignore the carbon footprint part. According to Mother Nature Network, Air France-KLM has announced that this fall it will start fueling pl ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle and Hard Place Members Objectify Themselves for LICKER LICENSE

still from Sweet Balls by Hazel Hill McCarthy III​ LA's Hazel Hill McCarthy III outdoes herself (and her gender) with LICKER LICENSE, a touring one-night event of all-female video and performance featuring Kristy Fenton (Modern Witch), Actually Huizenga (Hard Place, Wet Look, et al), Genesis ... More >>

Show Cave Kisses L.A. Goodbye With Denzel Washington-Inspired Girl-On-Girl Art Show 'Licker License'

photo by Douglas McCarthyShow Cave curator Hazel Hill McCarthy III displays the tongue shaped glow-in-the-dark "Licker License" hard drives​ After five years and three locations around Los Angeles, notorious Show Cave night gallery closes with a gleefully gynocentric event entitled "Licker Lic ... More >>

Short Skirt-Wearing Bicyclist Too Sexy For New York Cops (But She'd be Welcomed in L.A.)

New York Daily News​In our ongoing series of posts called "New York Shitty" we've repeatedly documented the superiority of Los Angeles over the Big Apple. But none of our jabs could make the point as well as this story: A cop in New York actually stopped a short-skirt wearing tourist who was ... More >>

SlutWalk Los Angeles Happens Saturday in West Hollywood

Anton BielousovWalking the walk.​There are perp walks. And power walks. Now there's a SlutWalk coming to West Hollywood tomorrow. But before you line the parade route, Charlie Sheen, note that the participants aren't embracing your kind. Rather they're protesting the notion, uttered this spri ... More >>

Amsterdam Marijuana Cafes Could Close to Tourists: An Opportunity For L.A. Pot Shops?

This could be us.​This could be a great opportunity for Los Angeles, the marijuana capital of America. Turns out Amsterdam might not want your weed-smoking tourist business anymore. Associated Press reports that "the Dutch Cabinet says it will push ahead with plans to force anyone wishing to ... More >>

XXX Porn Domains Approved; L.A.-Based Adult Industry Not Happy

estheraseIt's coming.​Good news for porn hounds. Maybe. You now have your very own domain. Kind of how the White House has .gov. You have .xxx. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the folks who control such things, gave a green light to triple-X this week. It looks l ... More >>

Opium, 8 Pounds Worth, Found on LAX Passenger Arriving From Amsterdam, Authorities Allege

What happened to good ole' fashioned American heroin, anyway?​Hmm. Coming from Amsterdam, eh? Maybe we better take a closer look at those suitcases. That was the case at LAX, and authorities said they busted a 28-year-old U.S. citizen returning from the Dutch city. They allege he had nearly 9 ... More >>

New Year's Eve Ravers: If You Forgot What (Or Who) You Did At 'Together As One,' You Might Want To Check Craigslist

Caesar Sebastian / Insomniac EventsYou might not remember this kiss in 2011.​It's time for Missed Connections: New Year's Edition. In this episode we take a look at ravers who were apparently so blissed out they forgot to get the phone numbers of people they just tongue wrestled with. And so, ... More >>

Kush, Cartoons and Camaros

Inside Curren$y's customized culture

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

Agwa: Liqueur or Mouthwash? It's Hard to Tell

Elina ShatkinAgwa, Bolivian coca liqueur.​Be careful leaving bottles of Agwa around. The new, mint-green liqueur made from coca leaves that are grown in Bolivia then processed and bottled in Amsterdam, looks and tastes remarkably similar to mouthwash. Perhaps you're a dental hygienist who wan ... More >>

Soul Legend Solomon Burke, Dead at 70

Solomon Burke. RIP​Solomon Burke, one of the great soul survivors, died yesterday on a plane in Amsterdam at 70. Burke started off in Philly as a straight-up preacher/gospel singer, but after a move to Atlantic Records -- at the time the label for sophisticated, urban soul -- he produced a se ... More >>

Food Union Supports California Pot Legalization

There are many good reasons for California to legalize marijuana, not least being that it's cheaper to drive to Mar Vista, say, than it is to fly to Amsterdam, and because one wonders what the folks who design Intelligentsia's high-strung coffee palaces could do with a pot café. There is also the w ... More >>

Kulov's 10th Annual Tea Festival at Royal/T

Kulov Tea Festival​ Sipping rare and aged teas may not be as mainstream as getting your triple espresso caffeine fix, but then neither is learning proper tea drinking etiquette whilst being served by cute little Asian-girl waitresses dressed up as French maids. On Saturday and Sunday, May 1-2 ... More >>

Volcano Fallout: Cribs Cancel Coachella Slot, Other Stranded UK Acts Iffy

​ Contact Music reports that The Cribs, the UK indie group that has Johnny Marr embedded with it, has cancelled their Coachella appearance after being pulled off the plane that was going to take them from London to California: The Cribs were due to fly to Los Angeles on Thursday (15Apr10) fro ... More >>

Feds Removed From LAX A Bomb Detection Device That Could Have Thwarted Detroit Attempt

​Federal officials removed a bomb detection device from LAX, a U.S. Transportation Security Administration official tells the Weekly, one that at least some observers think could have alerted authorities to the the kind of plane-bombing plot attempted on Christmas above Detroit. In 2006 LAX in ... More >>

Security Tightens At LAX As Feds Assess Threat In The Wake Of Detroit Plane Bombing Attempt

​After we put shampoo in little bottles, took off our shoes before check-in and endured long lines at airports in the wake of 9/11, Americans have to be asking if it has all been for naught. After all, a Nigerian who had recently been in the terrorist-rich nation of Yemen allegedly got on boar ... More >>

COOPER'S TOWN

Where Art Thy Art Fairs Now?

BY TOM CHRISTIEThe fairs are moving on up: With the Los Angeles Art Show heading downtown to the L.A. Convention Center (Jan. 21-25), both PHOTO LA (Jan. 9-11) and ART LA (Jan. 23-25) are moving into the vacated Barker Hanger at Santa Monica Airport.  All three fairs show improvement, and will ... More >>

You'll Never Be Vice President: A Letter to My Daughter, the Community Organizer

Why didn't I nip all this in the bud and buy you a well-oiled Remington 12-gauge?

Quartet New Generation's Pipe Dreams

The stylish foursome brings the recorder into the 21st century

Pipe Dreams

Stylish quartet brings the recorder into the 21st century

Itzhak Perlman and Olivier Latry at Disney Hall

And, the great Dutch noise, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The Missing Rice Table

You can’t rijsttafel in L.A., but there is Indo Kitchen

Who's That Girl? Lauren Weedman’s Search for Home

Alternative Comedy 2007

Orange Crush

The execution of Theo Van Gogh

Past Particles

You Say You Want a Resolution

Dark Elegies

Similar voices: Uitti, Griffiths

Feeling in the Dark

The uncontrollable energies of Z’ev

In Living Color

Nine Kick-Ass Dishes of 2002

The Butcher and His Boy

Scorsese’s Gangs of New York

Starters Alternators

The Insulted and the Injured

A conversation with English writer Rupert Thomson

The Squats of Amsterdam

The High Life

Traveling to Amsterdam for the Cannabis Cup

Reefer Madness

A weekend in "Vansterdam"

My Vincent

R.B. Kitaj on van Gogh

The Art of the Blockbuster

"Van Gogh's Van Goghs"

The Entertainer

Ian McEwan, after Amsterdam

Soap and Symphony

Willem Wijnbergen, unpacking