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September 25, 2012
10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall
The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.
Blogs
July 25, 2012
Q & A With Kerry Caldwell, Assistant Brewer at Belmont Brewing Company: Updating Classics, Bragging Rights How To Be A Lady Brewer
In the late 1990s, Long Beach's Belmont Brewing Company was at the top of its game. With a longtime homebrewer named David Blackwell at the helm, beers from BBC -- which is the oldest operating brewpub in Southern California -- began picking up awards at local and international contests. Soon, its S ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues
KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
James Cameron's Dive Down Mariana Trench Is an 'Ego-Driven Publicity Stunt,' Says Submarine Company
In the great race between director James Cameron and British billionaire Richard Branson to the deepest point on the ocean floor, Cameron will get there first. This, according to Bruce Jones, CEO of Triton Submarines (and subject of this excellent Broward-Palm Beach New Times cover story). Jones' F ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Scientists Say They're Close to Lab-Grown Hamburger
Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with which they say they will be able to produce the first lab-grown "hamburger" by the end of the year, BBC News reports. Their goal is to find a more efficient (and cruelty-free) way to produce meat than rearing animals. At ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Tesla's $130,000 Roadster Could Become Giant Paperweight if Battery Dies
So you paid nearly $130,000 for your new, environmentally friendly, Ed Begley Jr.-orgasm-machine known as the Tesla Roadster: Al Gore will be stopping by any minute to give you an autographed driving glove. But while you're waiting for the ex-vice president to congratulate you for saving the planet ... More >>
Film+TV
January 19, 2012
L.A. Observed Preview
Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Recovering From A Stooges Coma
See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? KCRW Broadcast #144 for Saturday, December 10 Fanatics! What a show! It's the mother of all shows. It's gigantic and fantastic! It is extraordinary and wonderful in every way. It hits all the marks a ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2011
BBC Commentator Blasts L.A.'s "Money-Hating" Hippies
Look at this fucking (hot) hippie "In Elysian Park, hippie tribes gather 20,000 strong ..." And so begins this hilarious BBC commentary on a love-in in L.A. that features the Steve Miller Band when they were The Miller Blues Band. "The money-hating flower children are paradoxically, produc ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Foo Fighters: Live Review PLUS Where to Find the 'World Exclusive' CD Edition of Record Store Day's 'Medium Rare' Covers Album!
Jena ArdellHey Dave Grohl, cut your hair so we can get a better look at you! Two hundred fans who pre-ordered the Foo Fighters' new album, then raced to Fingerprints record store in Long Beach on April 4th, were given wristbands to attend an intimate show inside the store last Saturday, where ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
Hungry? With FabApps, Just Hit Print
BBCImagine you're in charge of hors d'oeuvres for the upcoming holiday potluck, and whipping up 100-some canapés just doesn't fit into your New Year's Eve schedule. Sure, buying is an option, but in the near future, there may be another one: printing. According to a recent article from BBC ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
The Globe Trottin' Mr. Rollins: Henry Rollins Visits a Dead North Korean Leader, Ponders the Relationship Between State Communism and Scientology, and Finally Finds Time to Chill Out in Mongolia (also, HR's Musings on Jimi Hendrix!)
Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins![The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing 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 Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>
Film+TV
August 19, 2010
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector: Having Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Vikram Jayanti on his new film
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Chef Murders Wife With Griddle Pan, Hides Body In Freezer For 3 Years
CastIronPotsandPans.co.ukA griddle panWant to be one of the biggest pricks on the face of the planet? Just follow these simple steps. First, cheat on your wife. Next, when she confronts you about it, get into a huge argument and beat her to death with a griddle pan. After that, tell all your ... More >>
Music
May 13, 2010
Lady Bass: Q&A With BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs
CastIronPotsandPans.co.ukA griddle panWant to be one of the biggest pricks on the face of the planet? Just follow these simple steps. First, cheat on your wife. Next, when she confronts you about it, get into a huge argument and beat her to death with a griddle pan. After that, tell all your ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
EXCLUSIVE Interview: BBC Star DJ Mary Anne Hobbs Throws "Volcano Refugee Party" in LA
Shaun BloodworthBBC's Mary Ann Hobbs: LA is "the most exciting electronic scene on the planet"Further confirmation that it is a great time to be alive and digging beats in Los Angeles: BBC's star DJ Mary Ann Hobbs (aka "the first lady of bass") will be broadcasting the next two installments o ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2010
Phoenix Frontman Scores Sweetie Sofia Coppola's New 'Ferraris and Los Angeles' Flick
The Freewheelin' Thomas & SofiaPhoenix's frontman Thomas Mars is domestic-partnered to OG hipster director Sofia Coppola. Sofia is about to release a new movie, Somewhere, where she most certainly downscaled the period-piece ambitions of Marie Antoinette. Mars, riding high on a wave of critic ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2009
Listen: Brand New Madvillain Track Leaked On BBC
DOOM, plotting.This city may not have a lot of love for the Long Island rapper known as Metal Fingerz DOOM at the moment. The notorious hip-hop villain pulled another bait-and-switch in late November, sending his goons to lip-sync in his stead for an advertised appearance at the Grand Star in ... More >>
Film+TV
November 5, 2009
Movie Reviews: The Box, A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare at Goats
Also, The Fourth Kind, The Yes Men Fix the World and more
Blogs
August 17, 2009
New Giant Meat-Eating Plant Found in Philippines: Rodents Beware!
via WikipediaGot rats? Yum yum! A new giant meat-eating plant has been discovered on a mountain in the Philippines (where the people eat fertilized duck embryos and the plants eat rodents). It is big enough to catch and eat rats. It is one freaky ass plant. The technical term is Nepenthes pit ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
Three Wolf Moon Tee Shirt: A Challenger Arises--The Ten Crazy Kitten Shirt
Here we are, Day 14 of the Three Wolf Moon Shirt News Cycle and, yes, the dorkiest most magical-est white-trashiest tee shirt ever to go viral is still the unlikeliest number one-selling shirt on Amazon with over 800 reviews and counting. For the backstory, go here to the Associated Press or here ... More >>
Film+TV
April 16, 2009
State of Play: Dead Bodies, Buried Ledes
Movie is adrenaline for a dying industry: ours
Blogs
March 30, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Film Composer Dies Maurice Jarre, whose haunting melodies for such films as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago captured the whimsy and grandeur of modern cinema, has died of cancer in Los Angeles. He was 84. BBC via L.A. Observed.Westside Lab Busted A West L.A. meth lab was discovered on a reside ... More >>
Film+TV
January 1, 2009
Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris
The way we watched
Blogs
December 26, 2008
Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008
By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>
Film+TV
November 13, 2008
The Decency Chronicles
Filth and parental control, 1960s-style
LA Life
May 15, 2008
Helen Stickler
Destroyer of myths
Film+TV
May 1, 2008
PBS's Cranford: It Takes an Eccentric Village
Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting
Music
January 17, 2008
The Eel World
For the past decade, E has created parallel universes. Turns out there's a reason why
Blogs
December 5, 2007
Banksy in Bethlehem
BBC has a video report posted on Youtube about Banksy pieces showing up in Bethlehem. There's even a brief phone interview with the artist and a couple of decent images of his works on the walls that divide the city. However, BBC won't let the video be embedded, so you'll have to visit the site ... More >>
Film+TV
September 27, 2007
Who Cares Whodunit?
Five Days asks why
Film+TV
March 15, 2007
Dark Continentals
Hollywood�s Africa fetish continues with Beyond the Gates
Columns
December 28, 2006
Freaks and Freaks
Hollywood�s Africa fetish continues with Beyond the Gates
Film+TV
December 14, 2006
Your Own Private Cable Channel
Essential DVDs for a personalized TV Land
Blogs
September 15, 2006
Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants
I wasn't at Banksy's Barely Legal opening party last night, but I did bump in to OBEY artist Shepard Fairey later on at La Cita downtown, and he told me all about it. He said that it was 'amazing' (not an unexpected response from Fairey, who believes Banksy to be one of the most important ... More >>
Film+TV
August 17, 2006
Freedom of Information
Copyright and its discontents
News
July 7, 2005
''Do Not Hesitate''
Copyright and its discontents
Film+TV
June 9, 2005
Chefs Under Fire
Is Hell�s Kitchen�s Gordon Ramsay merely the Simon Cowell of haute cuisine?
Film+TV
February 17, 2005
The Shock of Recognition
Britain�s wicked comedy oddballs, from the Beyond the Fringe crowd to thoroughly absurd Catherine Tate
News
December 25, 2003
Box Populi
TV�s top stories
News
May 29, 2003
Revising History
The real Jessica Lynch story
News
April 10, 2003
The Television War
The real Jessica Lynch story
Film+TV
January 30, 2003
Students Against Old Ladies
And Man vs. Beast
Film+TV
October 24, 2002
Atrocity Exhibitions
Bloody Sunday and The Grey Zone
Stage
February 7, 2002
Klinghoffer Reborn
John Adams at the Beeb at the Barb
News
October 11, 2001
As Afghanistan Turns
The soap opera everyone tunes in
Film+TV
October 4, 2001
The Accidental Man
An interview with Stephen Frears
Art+Books
August 26, 1999
Bonkers for 'Bleaky Blighty'
A letter from Cornwall
Stage
February 18, 1999
Sir Edward and the Sow�s Ear
A letter from Cornwall
Music
February 5, 1998
Music Reviews
A letter from Cornwall
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