Cambodia

Four Movies to See at the L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

Ha Tien Quan: Vietnamese Gumbo in the SGV

It begins innocently enough: You have your first taste of pho somewhere like Golden Deli, the noodle shop on the outer reaches of San Gabriel, where the fragrant, stunningly clear broth is as famous as the crunchy egg rolls. Like any proper gateway drug, you soon begin to run the gamut of chintzy p ... More >>

The Exorcist at the Geffen Playhouse

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Long-Awaited Unreleased Can Tracks

KCRW Broadcast #172 for Saturday, July 7, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Some of the Best Times of My Life Fanatics! I hope you are enjoying your holiday. Tonight, again, we have put together two hours of music that works well on ever level. I have played all the songs through three tim ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: African Music

KCRW Broadcast #165 for Saturday, May 19, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Advice From Diamond Dave Fanatics! Hello from Cape Town! Before we go any further, I want to say that hours ago, I read about the passing of Chuck Brown, the legendary Washington DC musician, the founding father of ... More >>

Asian American Video About Deported Cambodians Rejected by Obama's White House

A White House contest asking people to create the best video about the Asian American experience might have been rigged. An entry about Cambodian deportees appeared to have received the most views, now more than 18,000, but a half-dozen other video makers were invited to the White House. Though "My ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Mighty Spice That Mighty Big (Recipe) Legal Disclaimer

Yes, we chose our Cookbook of the Week, Mighty Spice: Fast, Fresh and Vibrant Dishes Using No More than 5 Spices for Each Recipe, in part for the publisher's legal disclaimer (more on that later). It waives them not only from potential recipe disasters but also includes medical warnings (?!). Keep i ... More >>

"She Gets a Free Abortion": The Five Dopiest Political Punk Songs

See also: *The Top Five L.A. Punk Albums of 2011 *Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings The Iowa caucuses are being held today, which means that Republican primary season is about to kick into high gear. Spoiler alert: The candidates all suck. But you knew tha ... More >>

Nixon Was Gay?!

Richard Nixon might have been the LAest of American presidents, with a political career launched by late Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler, a Western White House in San Clemente, and a presidential library in Yorba Linda. So this news comes with particular interest to us tabloid hounds in ... More >>

Newport Tan Cang Seafood Restaurant: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Under Fire: Journalists in Combat review

Paul Koudounaris' "Empire of Death"

How an art historian became fixated on ossuaries

The Road to Freedom Review

The Many Travels of Henry Rollins

Extraordinary Chambers

Stage Raw: Year Zero

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayMichael LamontYear Zero​Productions that garnered high praise this week are David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, about Americans in Cambodia, which Mayank Keshaviah describes ... More >>

Torpedoed Science

The Lonely War

The California accountant who tried to overthrow a foreign despot

Food Celebration Dinner: Giraud, Manzke, Drago, Nugent & Ramos Fight Hunger For You

Lee Oneness Foundation​Sure, you can stalk Walter Manzke at Le Saint Amour, or trail Alain Giraud around the Santa Monica Wednesday market for details on his new restaurant project, but why not leave all that to Eater (or TMZ) and enjoy the chefs in their natural habitat, like in a restaurant. ... More >>

Steven Erik Prowler, Onetime L.A. Resident, Gets 25 Years For Having Sex With Underage Boys In Southeast Asia

FoxHerbert.​A Los Angeles man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars after an original sentence of 10 years for traveling abroad to have sex with minors was rejected by a federal judge as too light. He was convicted of having sex with underage boys in Southeast Asia and Mexico. Steven Erik Pro ... More >>

'Dad' Who Used Cash To Lure Boys Pleads Guilty In Sex Tourism Case

Sex tourism in Thailand.​A 75-year-old who dropped money in a Cambodian town as a ruse to attract boys to molest pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Friday to federal sex charges as part of a plea agreement, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Jack Louis "Dad'' Sporich, a former Santa Monica r ... More >>

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival: Subculture Within a Subculture

A banner year for the event

SHEN WEI DANCE?

Into the Abyss

Another week in the life of Jonathan Gold's belly

Rock Picks: Gabriel Andruzzi, DANNY B. HARVEY, RIOT GRRL XMAS CARNIVAL

Also, Boogie Nazis, the Growlers, Good Old War and others

Dengue Fever

Signs of the Times at UCLA

Students, faculty stage walkouts to protest budget cuts

Hearts of Darkness: The 2009 Pacific Playwrights Festival

Facing Southeast

Los Angeles Master Chorale premieres Chinary Ung’s meditative Spiral XII

Classical Pick: Chinary Ung's Spiral XII

Los Angeles Master Chorale faces southeast with program featuring Khmer Arts Academy dancers and Lou Harrison's American gamelan piece, La Koro Sutro

Sex and the Globe: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Khmer Wedding: Dengue Fever

Reminding the hipster community: There are other places to gaze besides your shoes

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Sadao City

Karaoke and Khmer flavors at Battambang

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

Good Night, and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

The French Connection

From moules frite to tom yam goong

Judith Luther-Wilder: Art Smarts

The Chilling Fields

Homeland’s ICE cools Cambodian’s hopes

The Fourth World

Frenetic leisure, acid archaeology and the new breed of travel writers

East of the Moon

Highway 6 Revisited

Dance While You Can

The Last Movie

Apocalypse Now Redux

Trippy Guru & Tipper, Too

William Wiley and Mrs. Gore, plus a Dutch, Hawkinsonian pop-conceptualist

Korean Comfort Food

Gook Soo is more than just a noodle

Kosovo Conundrum

The Collective Confusion of American Progressives

Gray Matter

Patriarch of the autobiographical monologue

Dying Declaration

Pol Pot's last interview

The Killing Courts