Boy Scouts of America

Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts, Updated

Earn a Merit Badge in Popular Art

This Is the End Review: The World Collapses Not With a Whimper But With a Dick Joke

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Punk Rock Straight from Washington DC

KCRW BROADCAST #204 02-23-13   See also: Henry Rollins: Embrace Your Homophobia, Boy Scouts of America Fanatics! Tonight is one of our concept shows and has everything to do with why I am in Washington DC tonight. I'm here presenting a documentary about a spray paint artist and cultural force in D ... More >>

Girl Scout Cookies: Sugar, God Questionable Math Skills

It's Girl Scout Cookie season again, and in offices across America, helpful parents will be hawking cookies to their co-workers. Come March, you'll see the girls themselves embedded in front of local shopping centers pitching their wares. Those Thin Mints are as tasty as the girls are adorable. Bu ... More >>

Ricardo Lara Wants To Remove Tax Exemption For Anti-Gay Boy Scouts

California Sen. Ricardo Lara is introducing the "Youth Equality Act" to try to remove the Boy Scouts of America's tax-exempt status because it discriminates against gays. Lara aims to pass bill SB 323, which would end 501(c)3 status for all youth groups that continue to discriminate against homose ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Embrace Your Homophobia, Boy Scouts of America

[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.] See also: Henry Rollins: Football, Violence and America I never had any interest in being invo ... More >>

Tug-O-War Severs Two Student's Fingers at South El Monte High School: Nylon Rope May be Cause of Terrible Maiming Trend

On Monday, two students at South El Monte High School tragically lost their fingers during a game of tug-o-war for Spirit Week homecoming celebrations. An unidentified male football player and senior female soccer player are today at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where doctors are trying to ... More >>

Boy Scouts Rethink Anti-Gay Rule: Los Angeles Scout Troops Lay Low as Conservatives React

The Boy Scouts of America's decision to let local chapters in Los Angeles and nationwide decide whether or not to continue a controversial ban on openly homosexual members is generating near-silence in Scouting in L.A., which has one of the nation's largest population of gay young people. The natio ... More >>

Drinking in Utah: A Road Trip

Last week my wife and I rented an absurdly large all-wheel-drive vehicle, and hit the backroads of southern Utah, a trip we make every year or two when the grim tug of professional life starts to feel like a pit we can't crawl out of. Instead, we crawl into pits and gullies, slot and box canyons, i ... More >>

Voter Suppression Efforts Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall

Hey Joel

L.A. City Council Bans Camping in Public Parks; Occupy Declares It a War on Civil Rights

Local politicians keep insisting that their new ban on camping in city parks was not in reaction to Occupy L.A. That's insanely hard to believe, considering they're smack-dab in the middle of a makeover story starring the L.A. City Hall lawn -- which got thoroughly wrecked by the hundreds of protes ... More >>

The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?

Henry Rollins: The Column! Ghosts of Los Angeles Music Past

​[Look for your weekly fix of 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.] Tonight I was driving to the Trader Joe's on Santa Monica Boulevard, east of Gardner. I re ... More >>

Go Ask Julie

Asians in the Library's Revenge: UCLA Accepts Freshman Class That's 45 Percent Asian American

'Revenge of the Nerds'Nerds.​You knew there would be some revenge of the Asians after Alexandra Wallace's racist YouTube rant about "Asians in the library" at UCLA. And here it is. The fall, 2011 freshman class just admitted by the school is a whopping 45 percent Asian and Asian American, rep ... More >>

Y2K, 2011-Style: We're Running Out of Internet Protocol Addresses

hotgirlswithiphones.comOne IP address at work.​When the precursor to the Internet was developed at UCLA in 1969, little did the pioneers know that we would all someday be connected by this thing many times over: Your computer at work has an IP address. Your laptop has an IP address. Your iPhon ... More >>

Tonight: Murder ballads, Lights, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Giant Drag

Frank Fairfield​File under Halloween-appropriate shows that you don't have to dress up for: Murder ballads -- those creepy little tomes to our dark side -- will be the fare tonight at the Echoplex for a group of artists assembled by the people behind the New Los Angeles Folk Festival. And why ... More >>

YET ANOTHER REASON TO DRINK

I was a Texas Jewboy

They ain't makin' Americans like Kinky Friedman anymore

KNOW YOUR CREEP

Once Bitten, Twice Fried: Best French Fries in Los Angeles, Part 2

Because we can't get too much of a good thing, here's the second installment of our quest for the city's most outstanding fries. This list (organized alphabetically) includes the pure, the gently garnished, and the heavily adorned in a world that's a vast, exciting terrain of Kennebec vs. Russet, pe ... More >>

Restaurant Depot: Where Professional Bakers Score 50-Pound Sacks of Flour Jumbo Cheez-Its

Should your New Year's resolutions include finally opening up the tiny French pastry shop of your dreams (yes please), we wanted to give you a sneak peak of what your daily life will likely entail. Yes, you'll be crawling out of bed at ungodly hours, paying way too much in city and state licensing f ... More >>

Can America Stop the Reconquista?

Special April Fool’s Day edition

Queer Town: LAPD Chief Bratton Imperfect "Homo Hero"

Last week, Queerty.com, one of our favorite gay Web sites, chose Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton as its "2008 Homo Hero of the Year," and today the Los Angeles Times picked up the story -- this city's paper of record loves to hand out kudos to the power establishment whenever it ... More >>

Sol's Day

On the trail to a 92nd birthday celebration in Griffith Park

All Too Hunan

Dong Ting Chun brings the heat

Theater Reviews

Including The Victorian Hotel, Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking and more

Bush the Alien

The president angers his base and his new allies on immigration

Domasan: Evening With a New Ropemaster

The Ring of Truth

Taking on Anti-Gay America

Stonewall Democrats plot a 2006 strategy

Openly Rational

A straight, Republican judge rules for the home team

Rockie Horoscope

Lying in State

This bier’s for you, Gipper

Rockie Horoscope

Builder’s Emporium

Gadgetry Galore

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

Letters

Pearl – by – Pearl

Restoring the forest one shrub at a time

The Kalish Factor

What will come of the LAPD’s gay initiatives?

Blinded With Really Big Science

Talking to L.A.'s burning men of comedy

Art and Leisure

The Curse of the Cat Person

Boy's Life

Super-8 Man

Norwood Cheek gives shelter to shorts

Gay Shame

The threat of a Bush victory

Then This Priest Says. . .