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Under-the-Radar Acts to See at Coachella

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Beware any tutorial about the "right way" to do Coachella. Stay sentient, steer clear of phosphorescent forms in spirit hoodies, drink water, and never m ... More >>

Scrap Artist Giles Walker's Last Supper Sculpture That Looks Like Robots

Inside a candlelit space, twelve kinetic figures are seated around a large, wooden table. They are dressed primarily in leather, smoking cigarettes, turning their heads as conversations overlap. The table is lined with candles, an empty bottle or two and a few tiny creatures with birdlike heads. The ... More >>

Man One, Graffiti Artist Honored by L.A. City Hall, Sees His Downtown Mural Buffed by City

Man One and Vyal -- two of L.A.'s most respected graffiti artists -- got a slap in the face yesterday in exchange for beautifying a tagged-up brick wall downtown. Last week, with the permission of Sun Buster Inc., a sunglasses shop at Winston and Los Angeles Street, the OG writers spent two days co ... More >>

Radiohead's Artist Stanley Donwood's New Work Pictures L.A. in Flames

Stanley Donwood doesn't have the slightest objection to the term "commercial artist." Often considered the sixth member of the band Radiohead, the 44-year old Essex native is responsible for all of the band's artwork since 1994 and has the commercial marketplace to thank for part of his success. "It ... More >>

Skrillex - Cinespace - 1/24/12

See also: *Our cover story on Skrillex *Top Five Girls Who Look Like Skrillex Skrillex, Alvin Risk, Koan Sound, Dan Sena Cinespace 1/25/12 Better than... Seeing Skrillex at a festival Skrillex's six night hometown tour began yesterday, when the local boy-done-good held court before a sold out cr ... More >>

Dine à la Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center A Waldorf Salad Recipe

Banners for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time (P.S.T.) initiative appear to be on every light pole citywide. There are 60 exhibitions covering every aspect of Los Angeles' postwar art scene from 1945 to 1980 at art museums and galleries across Southern California. That post-war fixation extends to ... More >>

Portishead's Geoff Barrow: "Dance music is full of assholes. Self-promoting assholes."

Portishead​See also: The Top Five Portishead Cover Songs Thirteen years after their last North American tour, Bristol-based trio Portishead is back to, finally, tour on their latest album Third, released in 2008. They have their reasons for not doing this sooner. There have been babies and ot ... More >>

THEATER REVIEW: ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE

Stage Raw: Rock With You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

Live Review: LA 101 with Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation

timothy norrismassive attack​ See more of Timothy Norris' photos in 'LA 101 with Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack and more.' By any metric, last night's LA 101 at the Gibson Amphitheatre was a success--save for maybe the fact that the headliners didn't hail from LA. Of course, Massive At ... More >>

Free MP3s: Local Natives Get Remixed by West Coast Sound Favorites Superhumanoids

Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

Music Picks: The Chapin Sisters, Pink Martini, Freestyle Fellowship, Mark Kozelek

Also Shonen Knife, the Vibrators, Karnivool and others

Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes of Buff Monster's New Solo Show, "Beyond the Pink"

Not too long ago, Buff Monster was in Bristol, U.K., where his painting "Happy Pink Explosion" is now part of the City Museum and Art Gallery's permanent collection, working on a mural for the "Art from the New World" exhibition. Afterward, he traveled through London, Berlin and Paris, finding inspi ... More >>

LA Weekly Presents LA 101: Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation to Headline

Thievery Corporation, coming to LA 101​Thievery Corporation, coming to LA 101​LA Weekly will be presenting LA 101 at Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday, November 7th. The massive show will be headlined by Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation, with the rest of the lineup being announced Mo ... More >>

Ears to Good Friends: 5 of the Best Pigs' Ears in Los Angeles

LA Weekly flickr pool/djjewelzpigs' ears at the Lazy Ox​ When did pig's ear begin to take over the culinary universe? Was it Eric Frechon's delicate curls of pig's ear on the best-of-hog plate at the Bristol in Paris? The whole deep-fried ear April Bloomfield introduced at the Spotted Pig in G ... More >>

The Producer’s Brain: Sir Cameron Mackintosh and His Midas Touch

Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

Rock Picks: Fuck Buttons, Exene Cervenka, Imogen Heap, John Fogerty

Also, HEALTH, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Múm, Leon Russell and others

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Festen, Just Imagine, Never Land, Save Gertrude

Also, High Ceilings, The Philadelphia Story, The Blunders and more

Never Land

An Education: Higher Learning

Good marks for 1960s period piece and its star, Carey Mulligan

Tonight at Don't Knock the Rock: Mark Stewart & Pop Group Documentary 'On/Off'

​ The Don't Knock the Rock film series continues tonight at Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater with the LA premiere of On/Off, a documentary on the legendary post-punk auteur Mark Stewart, whose work in the late 1970s and early 1980s redirected post punk in a whole other direction, carvin ... More >>

Silk Purse: AT CHURCH & STATE, CHEF WALTER MANZKE TRANSFORMS A PIG’S EAR

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

Live in L.A.: Doves at The Wiltern, May 16, 2009

BY PAUL ROGERS View more photos in the "Doves @ The Wiltern" slideshow. Timothy NorrisDoves shouldn't exist. "Album" bands like this, who've sustained a theater-level following for a decade without U.S. radio hits (and on May 16 comfortably filled the 2200-capacity Wiltern), supposedly died out w ... More >>

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#45-41))

45. Joe Buhdha Presents Klashnekoff: Lionheart: Tussle With the Beast [Low Life Records/Riddim Killa] Exactly three British rappers have managed to "break" the American market in this decade, and by "break" I mean getting the American music press to hype them as the best thing since Earl Grey a ... More >>

Music Picks

For March 3 - 9

Soul Shadows

Daddy G

A Mythic Thing

Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?

Mr. Lucky

Cary Grant, star

ZIZASWIT DIT-DOT-SWIZOOT

Parks’ Department

Bernie Parks claims he’s got the Rampart scandal under control

Being Bridget Jones

Helen Fielding isn't -- really, truly

Alternative Destinations

A guide to our advertisers

Above & Beyond

The Angel rises

Music Reviews - Sloan, Other Dimensions in Music, Smith and Mighty, Ultra Bide

They're Off!

Brace yourselves for an actual sheriff's race

Concrete Junglist