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Scientists Use DNA to Determine Food Contents

Wondering what's really in those meatballs? German scientists have come up with a way to determine the precise quantities of plant, animal and microbial substances in foods using DNA analysis. The technique could prove beneficial for people with food allergies, to test for pathogens in foodborne-ill ... More >>

Everything A Musician Needs to Know About Getting Health Insurance

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

A park like no other

Amigo the Devil Sings About Serial Killers and Spousal Abuse, With a Sense of Humor

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you never met him, you might mistake Amigo the Devil for a monster. The 25-year-old murderfolk maudit's most popular song is called "Perfect Wife." Wi ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bikers Around a Bonfire

See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a new gallery debuts on Melrose, a film by and about a lover of life screens in West Adams and a light show plays out in a corner in Culver City. 5. Mind games When artist J ... More >>

Church & State Update: Chef Tony Esnault Takes Over From Jeremy Berlin

The downtown bistro Church & State has a new chef. Former Patina executive chef Tony Esnault took over the kitchen recently, succeeding Jeremy Berlin. The move came when Berlin, who had worked with Gordon Ramsay previously and had come to Los Angeles from England to open Ramsay's The London West Hol ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: David Bowie's '"Heroes"'

KCRW Broadcast #194 for Saturday, December 15, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Christmacidal Fanatics! Here we go into week three of our Bowie month. Tonight, it's the legendary "Heroes" album. Bowie released Low on 01/14/77 and "Heroes" on 10/14/77. This was a very creative period for Bowie but he ... More >>

What Is the Los Angeles Warehouse Scene?

No one denies that Los Angeles knows how to party, but dance music fans who aren't interested in bouncers and bottle service or sharing a stadium with a herd of teenagers have had to look harder for their fix. The 20 Greatest EDM DJs What's the Difference Between the EDM Scene and the Beat Scene? ... More >>

Low expectations

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Father-Son Phone Books

This week, flowers and fetish photos hang one on top of the other at LACMA, the Getty throws a party for an 80-year-old mural and an artist shadows a possibly imaginary former classmate. 5. Nine-year-long sci-fi opera Kathleen Johnson's Brainchild, a performance in nine parts set to unfold over ni ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cereal in Balloons

This week, one artist pays homage to hits of the 1960s, another pays homage to a discount store and a group of photographers make images too unwieldy to hang on a wall. 5. Jazz without music Free-jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor has a deep, mysterious voice, and his readings sound like his play ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! How I Spend My Nights Off

[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.] It is a night off. I am in Boise, Idaho, sitting in the Crux, a coffeehouse on Main Street. No ... More >>

Leni Riefensthal's Olympia

Grill Around the World in 8 Ways: Celebrating July 4th like an Angeleno

A proper Fourth of July feast probably begins at the grill. And in contemporary Los Angeles, this all-American meal is as likely to be comprised of yakitori and carne asada as hot dogs and hamburgers: Americans have been mixing and matching food traditions from our collective immigrant background si ... More >>

Crafted, the $8 Million Crafts Market That Will Be the Biggest in the U.S., Opens in San Pedro

Collapsible Christmas trees, Barbie dolls and iPads -- a tidal wave of goods mass-produced overseas hits the Port of Los Angeles every day. Moving this bounty from ship to shore is the lifeblood of San Pedro. It may seem odd then, that the latest attraction at the port is a humungous marketplace of ... More >>

Drink This Now: Strand Brewing's Ito-Weisse

Cloudy, tart, fizzy, and slightly funky -- there aren't many styles of beer that can compare to a proper Berliner Weisse. Legend has it that Napoleon's troops referred to it as "the Champagne of the North," while more contemporary imbibers have described it favorably as the "lemonade of beers." Sure ... More >>

History in the Talking

Deniz Kurtel Brings Art Basel LED Sculpture to Los Globos: Like Walking Into a Kaleidoscope

Deniz Kurtel makes dance music. She also creates LED sculptures. Saturday night at Los Globos, Kurtel brought together both of her artistic pursuits for her "Double Exposure" tour. Inside the venue, she played tracks from her latest release, The Way We Live. Right outside the club's patio, party-goe ... More >>

Weill You Were Out

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Grim Reaper's Bike Seat

Great video is slated to screen Valentine's Day at the Hammer, and the inspired My Barbarian collective is moving into Human Resources' Chinatown space for a monthlong residency, which can only bring good things. 5. Art or lawn furniture? Diana Molzan's painting Untitled, shaped like a table and pa ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Longest Film Ever Made

Courtesy 1301PE GalleryA still from Modern Times, Forever, which might be the longest film ever made​ Pacific Standard Time's performance-art festival continues through this weekend, but there are a few great exhibitions to see as well. One in Chinatown is almost therapeutic, while another, o ... More >>

Church & State: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

LinA In LA Picks: You Only Get to Party Like This Once in a Century

Lina Lecaro The Wolf's wax will put crowds in 11th heaven in Eagle Rock.​Is 11-11-11 a date to fear or to anticipate? Psychologists say it might bring about cases of "apophenia" (the human tendency to find meaning or patterns in randomly occurring data). We can promise this weekend -- which ki ... 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 >>

Tiesto Heads to L.A. For Record Crowds at Home Depot Center Saturday: We Ask Him Why

See also: *Our review of Tiesto's show at Home Depot Center, October 8, 2011 *Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto is a love-him-or-hate-him DJ, but if you look at his draw in the L.A. market and beyond, you have to think people really do l ... 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 >>

Free M.A.N.D.Y. DJ Mix For You: The Boys From Get Physical Will Spin Friday at Exchange Los Angeles

The men from M.A.N.D.Y.​If you want to talk about what's really been happening in global clubland in the last 5 years, you have to talk about the Get Physical label and its co-founders Philipp Jung and Patrick Bodmer, a.k.a. M.A.N.D.Y. All roads lead to Berlin and the bubbly, minimal, slow-gr ... More >>

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Music Picks: Of Montreal, Kristeen Young, Sofia Gubaidulina,

Also, Federico Aubele, Fancy Space People, Golden State and others

Stage Raw: Juno and the Paycock

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on God of Carnage and The Merchant of Venice​Photo by Ron Sossi Writes Paul Birchall of Sean O'Casey's play at the Odyssey, "This staging of O'Casey's play artfully mixes blarney and despair in almost equal measure." Mayank Keshaviah e ... More >>

L.A. DJs Jason Bentley, Damian Lazarus Headed to Ibiza Next Month For Dance Music Summit

J to the B rockin' Stussy like it's '93.​While we like to think of ourselves as worldly ragers, the City of Angels often doesn't rate on the world map of professional partying. You know, Miami, Vegas, Berlin, Ibiza. But we're getting there (glad we have our priorities straight). Some of the g ... More >>

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February Roundup of Restaurant Openings & Closures

Lemonade: Coming soon to Brentwood​ Sure, we enjoy swanky restaurants like The Wilshire, but it's usually the small hole-in-the walls that hold a special place in our hearts, and stomachs. That's why it hurts so bad when the dinky places close. RIP Tacos Carmelita. Let's take a moment to appre ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Sonneteer

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER ​Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>

When We Leave

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Somewhere Movie Review

Sofia Coppola takes Stephen Dorff to the dark side of the Chateau Marmont

Nightranger: Music & Passion Were Always the Fashion

Chef Changes at Church & State: Jeremy Berlin Replaces Josh Smith

Lawrence MooreChef Jeremy Berlin​Church & State has had not a few chef changes in the few years since it's been open downtown, and today comes news that there's been another. Chef Joshua Smith has left the restaurant, as of today, and has been replaced by Jeremy Berlin, most recently of The Lo ... More >>

TGIF Mix: DJ Emerson Brings You Unadulterated Techno

DJ Emerson.​Techno is a word that has misused and abused. The worst offenders think anything with a 4/4 beat and a digital vibe is techno. Wrong. In the world of dance music, it's a separate, sub-genre, not an umbrella term for all things unfamiliar. Here, then, is a lesson in proper, what's ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Stars, Peggy Sue, Gogol Bordello, Blue Rodeo, Seasons

Brian Jonestown Massacre, making friends in Australia​The Brian Jonestown Massacre got a little bit of that dance-music religion on its latest album, and why not? You can only drone for so long, right? BJM's latest album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (recorded last year in Iceland and Berlin, relea ... More >>

DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For The Legendary Mr. C (Who Says Eezer Still Goode)

​Mr. C is one of the founding fathers of contemporary electronic dance music. He became a top DJ during the late-'80s dawn of rave culture and soon joined the dance-pop act the Shamen, which was so successful ("Move Any Mountain," "Ebeneezer Goode") it was even heard on L.A. radio in the early ... More >>

The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend (And Beyond) -- Steve Lawler, Heidi, John Digweed

​Save up your energy, kids, summer's almost officially here, and the talent is flowing like bubbly at a Jamie Foxx party. We especially like the mix-and-match paring of Steve Lawler and Heidi Saturday at Avalon and the return of John Digweed to his L.A. home, the Mayan, Wednesday. Friday: If ... More >>

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

District, Hollywood's Newest Food and Drink Spot, Opens Tomorrow

Restaurateur George Abou-Daoud (Bowery, Delancey, Mercantile, Mission Cantina, Tamarind Deli) has already covered a lot of restaurant genres with his string of Hollywood bars and eateries, and this week he's ready to debut his next project. District opens Wednesday next to Mercantile on Sunset Blvd. ... More >>

Damian Lazarus, Cockney Rebel

London-born dance producer talks techno and the changing face of electronic labels

JUNE IS OUT & PROUD ALL OVER!

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