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Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see includes some evidence of Halloween creeping in: Thursday, Oct. 18 Andrew Shea's thriller of a documentary, Portrait of Wally, traces the legal journey of the titular 1912 painting by Austrian artist Egon Schiele of then-17-year-old Valerie "Wally" Ne ... More >>

The Pianist of Willesden Lane

Henry Rollins: The Column! We Are the Aliens, Everyone Else Is Earthling

[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.] Coming to you from a small room offstage in the very cozy and cool Belly Up in Aspen, Colo., t ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green

[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.] I came back to Los Angeles a few days ago with 32 shows behind me on this tour, in England, Ir ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Ode to Winter

KCRW Broadcast #151 for Saturday, February 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet Fanatics! Cold much? Scandinavia has all the cold you could ever want. I am sitting in the airport in Helsinki, Finland, waiting for a flight to Frankfurt. From there we will go to Linz, Austr ... More >>

11 New Restaurants for New Year's Eve

Anne FishbeinPicca​On New Year's Eve, restaurants celebrate with live bands, festive décor, theme dinners, exceptional ingredients, multi-course meals, tasting menus and endless glasses of bubbly. How to choose the best spot? We've selected 11 restaurants that opened in 2011 to represent a ... More >>

USC Cracks Copiale Cipher, the Code of a Secret Society Obsessed with Eyeballs

Copiale Cipher: the eye was the key to knowing ​Cool news from USC: a computer team led by a professor who has been trying to crack the Zodiac Killer's weird hieroglyphics has instead cracked the dense Greek and Roman code in the Copiale Cipher, a 105-page manuscript of a secret society obses ... More >>

The Ig Nobel Awards: Researchers Invent a Wasabi Fire Alarm

Anne Fishbeinwasabi, etc. at Kiyokawa​ The Nobel committee has been awarding their coveted prizes this week, which fact may have overshadowed the announcement of the 21st annual Ig Nobel (get it?) awards, sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research and handed out last Thursday at a Harvard ... More >>

Ten Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Thor, The Beaver, Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom

Thor​ Ten movies coming out this weekend, with reviews from our print edition: 10. The summer tentpoles are coming, and this week we have Kenneth Branagh's Thor, which Eric Hynes says is "an astonishingly awkward marriage of ancient Norse mythology and 21st-century nonsense and "works too har ... More >>

Make Your Reservations Now: Sang Yoon's Lukshon Opens

L. Balla​ If there's one thing Sang Yoon knows how to do, it's build anticipation. After months of preparation, rampant media speculation, publicist road blocks, and a few days of preview dinners last week, he finally debuts his new Culver City restaurant, Lukshon, tomorrow. It's safe to say, ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins' Predictions for 2011 (Protip: It Gets Better)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henr ... More >>

Poles Apart

East European lunatics and Glendale's staid classicists

Mushroom Fatalities Hit Northern Italy

A. ScattergoodMaitake mushrooms at Clearwater Farms​ If you want to find mushrooms in this town, your best bet is probably to keep your foraging to Clearwater Farms' farmers market stall rather than look for them yourself. And if you're foraging for wild mushrooms in Italy, you might want to s ... More >>

Won Ju Lim at Patrick Painter Inc.

A playground for the mind

Vintage Enoteca Casual Wine Bar Opens in Hollywood

Danielle FrancoisVintage Enoteca​ While daydreaming about food and wine during their corporate advertising jobs in Manhattan, Danielle Francois and Jennifer Moore decided to ditch the daily grind and move across country to open casual wine bar, Vintage Enoteca. The Hollywood bar on Sunset Bou ... More >>

A REAL ONE-NOTE

6 Cheese and Beer Pairings For St. Patrick's Day

Wine-and-cheese is such a classic combination that you might not think of going beyond it. But beer is a pretty terrific match for cheese too, and this is just the week to switch out your glass of Cab for a pint. Consider it an homage to the biggest beer drinking holiday of all: St. Patrick's Day. ... More >>

TO HELLER AND BACK

TOM HULCE’S FINEST WORK SINCE ANIMAL HOUSE

Cube: Cornucopia Squared

Where does the shopping end and the eating begin — or vice versa?

Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Grüner Veltliner, the White Wine that Acts Like a Martini, Plus Party Reds and When Gnarly Is Good

Physical Graffiti

Glow, Baby, Glow!

What to do in L.A., July 18-24

Seduction and Despair: Hearing John Malkovich

The actor directs and stars in this new opera, presented by Musica Angelica

The Counterfeiters: Blood Money

A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion

The Year of Duda

The best classical events of 2007

Film Reviews: Smiley Face, Beowulf, Confessions of a Superhero, Om Shanti Om

Love in the Time of Cholera, How to Cook Your Life, Salvador Allende

Agent Provocateur

Michael Haneke over America

The World According to Hutz

Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello’s mastermind

Fo' Schnitzel

Where to find Austrian grub

What the Heck Is That?

Arthur Nights, the festival you never expected

The Sound of Magic

Auf Wiedersehen, Adele

Last-chance Klimts

First Bite: Cute Food

Hatfield's

Kuku Puffs

Ask Mr. Gold

Tales from the Vienna ’hood

Dog Days and the New Austrian Cinema

Also Opening This Week

Massage Is the Medium

The deep-pressure art of Suwan Laimanee

Terrible Rain

W.G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard and the bombing of Europe

The Year in Film

'N Scene: Lip Gloss, Cell Phones and Justin Envy

Ordinary Heroes

Harrison’s Flowers transcends its star power; not so Showtime

The Big Chill

Hot summer in the Slovenian lake country

The Narcissist

Natacha Merritt and her Digital Diaries

Ecstasy-in-a-Can

Dance Kontrol

Let’s have sex on the beach. Or not.

Sticking It Where The Sun Shines

Santa Monica's gift to the world

Roll Over, Beethoven

Confession of a Bruckner Dodger