Central Asia

Henry Rollins: George Bush's War Is Still With Us

[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.] See also: The Steubenville Rape Case Is a Failure The ten year anniversary of the invasion and ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Prancing Horses on a Stage the Size of a Football Field

The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry National Center, and for a revival of Carlos Murillo's Dark Play (or Story for Boys) at the Whitmore-Lindley The ... More >>

Cavalia's Odysseo

Q & A With Yisrael Aharoni, Israeli Celebrity Chef: Chinese Food In Israel, Hollywood Being A DJ

Israel Aharoni keeps himself busy. He's a chef, television show developer and host, journalist and cookbook author. Credited with being Israel's first celebrity chef and bringing Chinese food to Israel, Aharoni studied cooking in Taiwan and has owned and operated several restaurants in Israel, inclu ... More >>

Alaev in the Family

Drug War Leads to More HIV?

Updated at the bottom with some of the report's findings. First posted on June 21. In L.A. your favorite outlaw drug, marijuana, is pretty much legit and widely available (for now). But what if it wasn't? What if you had to scrounge around dirty, dark alleys, buy your fix from shady drug dealers, ... More >>

Dairyface: Do I Eat It or Put It on My Face?

Ever since we watched our mother slather raw eggs and mayonnaise on her hair and smashed avocado on her face, the idea of using food as beauty treatment has held a certain appeal. So we were kind of excited to try Dairyface, a new line of skincare products that looks like cartons of yogurt (because ... More >>

Dziga Vertov Retrospective at UCLA

Molonay Tubilderborst Pops Up at Senor Fish on Friday

Courtesy of Nick CoeA dish from Molonay Tubilderborst.​Molonay Tubilderborst, the oddly named pocket restaurant we told you about last month from Black Cat Bakery chef Nick Coe, launches this Friday. More an embedded mini-restaurant than a temporal pop-up (Coe hopes), Molonay Tubilderborst sp ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil's Gymnasts and Dancers on Their Work and Lives In L.A.

Jonathan Gold Recommends Omar's Xinxiang Restaurant

Noodles From The "-stan" Countries

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​Dear Mr. Gold: I dearly miss the hand-pulled lagman noodles at the long-shuttered Uzbekistan in Hollywood. The significant chew and the hearty accompanying lamb and vegetable sauce still haunts my memories. I've yet to find a replacement of the Cent ... More >>

Camper Van Beethoven - Pappy's And Harriet's in Joshua Tree - 9-16-11

Joel Sheposh​Camper Van Beethoven, Gram Rabbit Pappy's and Harriet's September 17, 2011 Better Than: Seeing Camper Van Beethoven in boring old L.A. When Camper van Beethoven was a hot alterna-band at the beginning of their career in the mid-'80s, David Lowery sang with the defiant nasal snee ... More >>

Space Clown Adventures: Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil Founder, Discusses His Outer Space Photography

Courtesy of AssoulineGuy, on the bottom row, second from left, with the rest of his crew in space.​ Guy Laliberté has had many lives -- he's gone from fire-breathing street performer to poker shark to the multimillionaire head of Cirque du Soleil. In his latest incarnation, he's become a "spa ... More >>

Timur Bekbosunov: The Reform Tenor

The Music PEOPLE: Who made it into LA Weekly's 2011 PEOPLE Issue?

Kevin ScanlonJ*Davey​Los Angeles is for music lovers. We could have chosen enough characters just from L.A.'s music scene to fill the entire PEOPLE Issue, but there are too many fascinating folks in L.A. for us to hog all the space. Here's who made our list his year:

The Desert of Forbidden Art

Battle of the Year: Deep Inside the World Cup of Breakdancing

Dov RudnickHow do you say it, "le breakdancing"?​Report by Dov Rudnick, Exclusive for LA Weekly "Hip-hop is about a party, its not about a competition," DJ Skeme Richards says over breakfast. We are sitting in the lobby of the Citadines hotel in Montpellier, France, on November 20, the mornin ... More >>

You'd Better Like Lamb

Omar's Xinjiang Halal Restaurant is far from the usual Chinese

Take Me to Your Apple Breeder

Jessica RathDeacon Jones​ A Deacon Jones is a large, oblong apple with juicy, coarse-textured flesh. A Kazakhstan Elite refers not to the ruling class of Borat's home-country, but one of the original, edible apple varieties hailing from its wilds. They're all part of Jessica Rath's Take Me t ... More >>

Behzad Zaman, Beverly Hills Resident, Helped Overseas Prostitutes Obtain Student Visas

​His schools, the Concord English Language Center and the International College For English Studies, had registered way more students than they had room for, leading authorities to suspect Behzad "Ben" Zaman was up to something fishy. Indeed, the 52-year-old from Beverly Hills was sentenced t ... More >>

A View of The Room

Live Review: Timur and the Dime Museum at the Central Library

http://www.myspace.com/timurandthedimemuseum​ In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bek ... More >>

Your Latest Dietary Law Kitchen Gadget: An Instant Pork Tester

Flickr/agtwo​ At last, a portable kitchen gadget for anyone trying to keep halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, or any combination of the above. Scientists in Kazakhstan have come up with an instant pork tester. The plastic-stick test, which changes color rather like a pregnancy test, detects fo ... More >>

Textiles Exhibit

LUENELL NEEDS KATHY GRIFFIN TICKETS

A Question of Degrees: Boiling or Roasting?

Featured Photographer Emilio Morenatti Injured in Afghanistan

Ipalpiti the Fool Who Doesn't Love This Music

Photographer Emilio Morenatti Recovering from Bomb Blast

By Steve ApplefordBalazs GardiEmilio Morenatti and Marta Ramoneda in Pakistan​Emilio Morenatti was a reluctant visitor to Los Angeles last month, here to accept his award as 2009's Newspaper Photographer of the Year. The Spanish-born photojournalist was uncomfortable being away from his post in P ... More >>

In the Wurst Way: Downtown's Wurstkuche Serves Up Bohemia on a Toasted Roll

Sausage that demands beer

Where to Eat Now

The Chosen Pancake

From Iran to Uzbekistan, the foods of the Jewish Diaspora

Brick's Picks: Spiritual Sounds

Jazz picks around L.A.

99 Essential - List Only

How I Lost the War in Iraq

I Am Arak

Russian Roulette

On election eve, should Putin’s power be feared?

Letters

To Protect and to Spin

The ex–LAPD cop who became a 9/11 conspiracy king

Caregivers

The Beauty Confessional

Pure War

Desert Foxes

The Oil War

UNOCAL’s once-grand plan for Afghan pipelines

City Beets

A Mantu for All Seasons

Mapping the Afghan menu

The Left Responds: Fear and Hope

Cinnamon, Cloves and Cardamom

The biryanis of Hyderabad

Sheep Thrills

In the spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of lamb

The Cuisine That Came In From the Cold

So where do you send a nostalgic CIA agent for a taste of the old days?