Bruce Lee

RZA Headlines L.A. Weekly's Bedrocktoberfest: Here's Our Interview

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] There's no musical comparison to interviewing RZA. Having a conversation with the Wu-Tang abbot is closer to interviewing the Dalai Lama, if the Dalai La ... More >>

Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster Has Been Cut Down for the U.S. — But Is Still Grand

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Yes, Polka

Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. Also, recommendations for Theatricum Botanicum's new work Merlin: The Untold Adven ... More >>

Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including One Actor's Excursion into Peruvian Drugs

Michael Kass' one-man show, Ceremony, about his journey to spiritual enlightenment via Peru, is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and this weekend's theater listings, see below. This week's theater feature, on the shadows that govern our lives, looks at Shakespe ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unlikely Oscar Winner

Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is this week's pick. For all new theater reviews, plus this weekend's stage listings, see below.This week's theater fea ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Ionesco Vaudeville Musical

This week in L.A. theater, Ionescopade, the vaudeville musical based on Eugene Ionesco's plays, was our pick of the week, while Alcestis at the Boston Court also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. As Steven Leigh Morris is on vacation this week, our stage feature is a piece on L.A.'s bo ... More >>

Starry Kitchen Coming to Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown

In only a few short weeks, Nguyen and Thi Tran will be opening Starry Kitchen inside the Grand Star Jazz Club. The couple ended their almost 10-month run at Tiara Café on 9th Street last week. Their website now has a photo of the Bruce Lee statue right outside the lounge hyperlinked as the location ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Watson and Holmes, Together Again

This week in L.A. theater, Jamie Robledo's Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini was our pick of the week, while ModRock at the El Portal also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. Our stage feature is an interview with Val Kilmer about his new Mark Twain solo show at the Kirk Douglas T ... More >>

Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, June 21 Sea Wolf EL REY THEATRE On the third Sea Wolf album, Old World Romance, lone wolf Alex Brown Church embraces adulthood. These beautifully crafted songs showcase Sea Wolf's signature emotive nature by turning ... More >>

Poor Bruce Lee, His Chinatown Statue Goes to Storage Until $150,000 is Found

A 7.6-foot bronze statue of Bruce Lee, the first in the U.S., was unveiled in L.A.'s Chinatown over Father's Day weekend as part of Chinatown Summer Nights festival, creating a buzz among locals, tourists and fans who came to the historic Central Plaza to pay tribute to the martial arts icon and ac ... More >>

How Kevin Eastman Invented the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The owner of Heavy Metal magazine is returning to the comic that made his name.

Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock

[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.] Hats off to Washington state where, recently, hundreds of same-sex couples were legally married ... More >>

Life of Pi Star Irrfan Khan on Crossing Over From Bollywood to American Film and TV

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, September 24 Lavender Diamond THE ECHO Lavender Diamond are back, and they come in peace, as usual, and also with synthesizers, which is a bit more unusual. The heartbroke piano-folk they made on their one-and-a-half beautiful albums about five years ago is still there on the new Incorrupti ... More >>

Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus

Sam McPheeters, of the '90s Punk Band Born Against, On His Bizarre Novel About L.A.'s Angriest Chevron Owner

"I wanted it to be like a firework show," Sam McPheeters says about the crescendo of energy and tension in his debut novel, The Loom of Ruin. "It just gets more and more insane." Co-founder of the legendary hardcore punk band Born Against, McPheeters' first novel was just released via Mugger Books ... More >>

Fred Weintraub, Former Warner Bros. Exec, On His New Memoir Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me

"I started at the top," Fred Weintraub says of his film career. With no previous studio experience, the former baby furniture salesman and Greenwich Village coffeehouse owner was hired in 1969 as the vice president of creative services at Warner Bros. Pictures, placing him at the top of the studio d ... More >>

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Fight in Downtown L.A. Caught on YouTube: Nobody Moved, Nobody Got Hurt

YouTubeDowntown's fight club.​Forget amateur singers. The hottest thing on YouTube lately seems to be Southern California fist fights. And they're not just for taco shops, either. The latest comes straight out of downtown L.A., where a bevy of boozed-up onlookers at a bar appeared to be treat ... More >>

Alexandra Wallace: Was UCLA 'Asians in the Library' Video One Big Publicity Stunt?

Co-Ed MagazineThe infamous Alexandra Wallace​Update: Wallace drops out of UCLA, right after school officials announce she will not be punished for her racist rant. Details after the jump. Alexandra Wallace may not be as dumb as she acts. For a UCLA pity admit whose poli-sci career is obviousl ... More >>

Angry Black Cowboy Responds to Alexandra Wallace: 'Bruce Lee Was Asian!!' (VIDEO)

YouTubeMess with the Asians, and you mess with this guy​Not to keep giving some racist chick from UCLA way more attention than she deserves -- and we know how bad she wants it! -- but we've recently been made aware of the best YouTube response yet to Alexandra Wallace's viral "Asians in the Li ... More >>

The Green Hornet on TV

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival: Subculture Within a Subculture

A banner year for the event

HOORAY FOR HONG KONG, ET AL

Lalo Schifrin: The Cool Maestro

On the eve of the Oscars, film's premier composer offers thoughts on the state of the art

10 Uniquely Noteworthy Posthumous Performances on Film

Stage Raw: You've Come to the Right Place

Stage Raw: Latino New Works Fest

Be Like Water

Theater Reviews: Joe's Garage, Sea Change, Fatboy

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A Noble Throttling

Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, the Melvins, and the Locust August 4 at the Echoplex

Where the Crowds Are

What to do in L.A. this week

Steve Byrne

Music Picks

For the week of May 25 - 31

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Sexy Beasts

Larry Clark, John Waters and Bruce Hainley on their big, big . . . books

Feel Better

A new Medicine to blow out your system

Private Faces in Public Places

Hanging Lucian Freud

Auction Heroes

Money No Enough

Asia's financial crisis has its filmmakers scrounging for dollars

Fallin' Up

Black Eyed Peas' rap to the rescue