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Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello Is Looking Forward to Being Finished With Swedish House Mafia

There was a moment a few years back when Steve Angello was leaving a hotel in his native Sweden and found a few reporters waiting outside. They asked him what his plans were for the day. He told them nothing much. The response made the front page of the next day's newspaper. "That was the moment," ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! South Africa's Present and Future

[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.] A few hours from now, I will be climbing onto the stage at a venue called the Bassline, here i ... 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 >>

Safe House Review: With Denzel on Autopilot, Ryan Reynolds' Bod Takes Center Stage (Again)

"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds working out flashed on the screen. She then went on to fiddle with her BlackBerry for half the movie. Based on those two actions, she is, I think, this scat ... More >>

8 Unusual Games Spotted at IndieCade

Liz Ohanesian"Invaded!" by Jason Torchinsky​Last weekend, IndieCade, the annual event dedicated to independent games, took over a stretch of Culver Blvd. for indoor and outdoor events. Whether they're 3-D video games, iPad puzzles or physical games, the products showcased at this festival aren ... More >>

Roger Ebert's Life Itself: Five Sexiest (Yes, Really) Passages in His Amazing New Autobiography

​ In America's favorite film critic's bestselling new memoir, Life Itself, we learn more about the former Siskel and Ebert host than we maybe strictly wanted to know. We meet Ebert the Catholic Schoolboy, Ebert the Intrepid Boy Reporter, Ebert the Pulitzer Prize Winner, Ebert the Cancer Surviv ... More >>

Pietro Ferrero Dies: Co-CEO of Ferrero, Makers of Nutella

Flickr/klavrjar of Nutella​ Time to get out your jar of Nutella and raise a spoonful. According to The Telegraph, Pietro Ferrero, the co-CEO of Ferrero group, the makers of Nutella, has died. The 47-year-old Ferrero died April 18th in South Africa, where he collapsed while cycling near Cape To ... More >>

Sam Lundquist of Los Angeles Asks Us to Share Our Dreams in "Hope Chronicles"

Teen Sailor From Thousand Oaks Missing In Indian Ocean

Abby Sunderland.A shot from Sunderland's yacht.​The teenager who had set off from Marina Del Rey to become the youngest person to sail around the world appeared to be in trouble Thursday as she hit rough waters, lost contact with her family and set off an emergency beacon in the Indian Ocean. ... More >>

EASTWOOD ON THE PITCH

At 79, Clint tackles Mandela in Invictus

Whisky Live Coming to Santa Monica: Some Single Malt To Enhance That View of the Pier

If you're the sort of person who stocks bottles of Oban and Talisker and Bunnahabhain the way some people hoard cans of soup, you're in serious luck. Whisky Live is coming to Los Angeles for the first time this month. It may sound like a sadistic fraternity drinking game, but it's really a rather ge ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Disgrace: Truth Without Reconciliaton

Coetzee adaptation faces the facts of post-Apartheid South Africa

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Fraiche Chef Elderoy Arendse: From Tablecloth to Table Tennis

Ask any chef what they like to do on their day off, and they'll probably answer with a single word: eat. South African-born Elderoy Arendse, chef de cuisine of Fraîche Restaurant, craves two things on his days off: food and table tennis. Brooke BurtonChef Elderoy Arendse plays table tennis Visit ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

Theater Reviews: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Coming Home, Cirque Berzerk

Also, Godspell, The Wasps and more

Coming Home

Stage Raw: Coming Home

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSFor the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS and an update from the Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, press the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK COMING HOME Photo by Ed KriegerA sequel to his 1995 post apartheid play Valley Song, ... More >>

The Last House on the Left: That’s So Craven

Rape. Revenge. Yawn

Movie reviews: House, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Also, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Also, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Dear Zachary and more

Dorothy Garcia and Tom Harding

Catalysts for change

Falling Sky: Athol Fugard's Victory

The playwright's latest premieres in Los Angeles

Victory

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Malibu Bad Neighbor

A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum

Darwin's Man in Africa

Documentarian Hubert Sauper fishes for the truth about globalization and its discontents

Peeking Through the Stage Door

Behind the scenes of Athol Fugard’s newest play

African Idol

The SLA’s Shame

Slamming the book on 1960s radicalism gone mad

White Man With Attitude

How Randy Newman went from pop music’s reigning schlub to movie-music royalty

The Boy Can’t Help It

Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer’s reductionist theory of rape

It’s Their City, Which They’ll Sell if They Want To

The Chandlers get their price

Humble Pie

Disgraced in the new South Africa

Letters

The World Festival of Sacred Music -- the Americas

Global Sacredness, Locally

Global Warming

The internationalist aesthetic, from Santa Fe

The Prime Minister of Culture

George Steiner’s sonorous solemnities

The Prime Minister of Culture

George Steiner's sonorous solemnities