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Henry Rollins: Jetlagging

[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 Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Nelson Mandela's Legacy Just wrapped a great and fairly sleep-free week ... More >>

Iceage - The Echoplex - 3/29/13

Iceage The Echoplex 3/29/13 Better Than... Throwing elbows to meet Joy Division's Peter Hook at his book signing in Silver Lake a couple weeks ago. To say that the lads in Copenhagen band Iceage don't give a fuck would not be entirely accurate, but it goes a ways in expressing the group's effortl ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 15 The Black Ryder THE ECHO The Black Ryder come from Australia but sound like they're from 13th Floor Elevators' own personal Texas, a land of endless desert where the guitars echo to eternity and where it's too hot to move fast. The Black Ryder concoct psychedelia that bleeds and bo ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 8 Nickodemus SUBSUELO AT KOBO'S Nickodemus' multicultural Turntables on the Hudson compilations and New York City-based events have brought together flavorfully funky house and Latin-based sounds from around the world. The DJ then took the series global with his creation of the ongoin ... More >>

Cooking With Charcoal: At Hinoki & the Bird and ink., the Coal Is in Your Food, Not Underneath it

In Japan, a restaurant recently served an entire tasting menu of dirt -- dirt soup, dirt dressing, dirt risotto ... you get the idea. At Copenhagen's Noma (aka the Best! Restaurant! in the WORLD!!) you will eat burnt hay in any number of ways: coating tubes of leeks in a layer of black ash, accompa ... More >>

Copenhagen Pastry: Marzipan Pigs A Recipe for Danish Rice Pudding

There are many reasons to stop by Copenhagen Pastry, the bakery and retail shop in Culver City owned and operated by Danish native and longtime Angeleno Karen Hansen. The dark, seed-covered loaves of rye bread. The little bags of holiday sugar cookies. The LAMill coffee. The trays of freshly baked f ... More >>

A July Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

After a five-year run in Culver City, the eccentric Japanese maid cafe/art gallery Royal/T closed in late July, celebrating its final days with tea ceremonies and pop-ups. "It was successful beyond my imagination," says owner Susan Hancock, who plans to take her brand on the road with pop-ups in New ... More >>

Eats at the London 2012 Olympics

LONDON -- Game on for eating well during the Olympics, which begins today, July 27, and run through August 12. Already one of the best dining cities in the world, London has been spiffed mightily up for the Olympic games. Billions have been spent on new athletic venues; streets have been reconfigur ... More >>

Exclusive: Unearthed Photos of the Beatles in the Mid-'60s

In 1964, U.K. photographer Harry Benson was headed to Africa on assignment for the Daily Express when he got a call from his editor, saying the plans had changed. He was now going to Paris to photograph the Beatles. Benson was less than thrilled. "I thought of myself as a serious journalist," he say ... More >>

Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams at UCLA: Seaweed Ice Cream Cricket Sauce

The crowd that gathered last night at UCLA's Moore Hall to hear chefs Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams and Professor Amy Rowat give a lecture on food and science had more fun than is customary at most academic gatherings. Redzepi, the chef and founder of Noma in Copenhagen, and Williams, the head of ... More >>

Top 10 Street Art and Graffiti Stories of 2011

Shannon CottrellJR in L.A.​Yes, year-end lists. Not even street art is exempt. But hey, 2011 was a banner year for the Los Angeles street art and graffiti communities, as they enjoyed plenty of worldwide attention. LA Weekly put together the ten L.A.-related street art and graffiti stories th ... More >>

Bäco Mercat: An Exam in Culinary Poststructuralism

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​Some new small-plates restaurants are content to serve you hamburgers and fries. Others bring in influences from Singapore, Copenhagen or Tokyo. But the menu at Bäco Mercat, the new restaurant from Joseph Centeno of Lazy Ox, reads almost like a graduate exam in culi ... More >>

Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 2

​If your tonkotsu-stained pages of the first issue of Lucky Peach are no longer functioning reasonably well and you're tired of ramen (okay, right), you can get over to your nearest applicable bookstore (or Momofuku restaurant or Whole Foods) and buy a copy of the new food-as-lit magazine. T ... More >>

Red Medicine: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

Shepard Fairey Beat Up in Copenhagen, Called 'Yankee Hipster' and 'Obama Illuminati'

Shepard FaireyFairey's claim to fame -- and possible downfall.​Don't worry: L.A. artist Shepard Fairey, 41, only has a "black eye and a bruised rib" after a pummeling he received in Copenhagen, Denmark last weekend. But the implications for Fairey's international street cred as a graffiti and ... More >>

vegetation: planting thoughts: Rene Redzepi Wants to Make Chefs Smarter

aliciazs/flickrThe kitchen at Noma​ Are you a chef or a farmer? Can you fly to Copenhagen in late August? If so, and you act quickly, you can join René Redzepi's club. On the 27th and 28th of that month, the celebrated Noma chef will host vegetation: planting thoughts, an exclusive symposi ... More >>

The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again

Noma​Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the second year in a row, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Two years ago it was ... More >>

S. Pellegrino Names Anne-Sophie Pic World's Best Female Chef

Jeff Nalin/Maison PicAnne-Sophie Pic​Every year S. Pellegrino names the world's 50 Best Restaurants, and in advance of this year's awards, the water company has announced a new award: the World's Best Female Chef. The winner, unsurprisingly, is Anne-Sophie Pic, whose restaurant Maison Pic is i ... More >>

Red Medicine

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Free Tickets Ain't Got A Thing On Mayor Villaraigosa's $120,000 European Vacation

​Eric Spillman at KTLA News pried the details out the mayor's office regarding Antonio Villaraigosa's European vacation working trip last December that cost you, the taxpayer, $120 Gs.

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Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

Food & Wine's World's Top 10 Life-Changing Restaurants: How About L.A.'s? Nominations Open

Food & Wine Magazine just came out with their list of the World's Top 10 Life-Changing Restaurants. Proving once again that we all seem to fantasize about the same restaurants, and that all narrative should now just be written in list format. F&W's Top 10? ElBulli, The Fat Duck, Pierre Gagnaire, The ... More >>

City Hall’s Revenge on Cecilia Estolano

Villaraigosa and his boys pushed out the one woman who topped them all

L.A. City Looking At Near $100 Million Deficit For Fiscal Year

​While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was jetting around Europe for a $120,000, taxpayer-funded trip this month, City Controller Wendy Greuel was counting the city's money, and what she found isn't not even half has pretty as Copenhagen in December: The city is now looking at a 98.1 million defici ... More >>

Cost Of Mayor's Vacation, Er, Trip To Europe: $120,000

​A mayoral spokeswoman confirmed to LA Weekly Friday that the mayor's trip to Europe this week to attend a climate conference and meet with world leaders and European dignitaries in Copenhagen, Berlin and London cost taxpayers "approximately" $120,000. While in Europe Mayor Antonio Villaraigo ... More >>

Fear And Toking: Pot Convention To Tap Into Growing Industry

Cannapalooza​Gentleman, start your bongs: Cannapalooza, "the international marketplace for all things cannabis," will make L.A.'s vibrant marijuana shops a virtual ghost town for three days in March as the the smoke scene heads to Vegas for this inaugural pipe dream. The convention at the Man ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: --Before Venice went vegan. [Eating LA] --Sara Lee goes lo-so. [Chicago Tribune] --Smell, don't swallow: Can food aromas satiate hunger? [POPSCI] --Climate change affects our food, too! Food secur ... More >>

At Global Climate Summit, Mayor Touts City Program That Barely Exists

​Leave it to Mayor V: If there is hyperbole to be had, it shall be his. And so it was at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Tuesday: Instead of staying home to take care of potholes, budget deficits and mushrooming pot shops, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was on a European tour, hobno ... More >>

Villaraigosa Tours Like A Rock Star

If you were surprised to read that City Hall has once again put off the issue of whether to ask the owners of Staples Center to reimburse taxpayers for its ​Michael Jackson memorial show, or if you're angered after finding out that after two years of deliberations at least one City Council mem ... More >>

An Infusion of Danish and Neighborhood Character into South Park: Hygge Bakery

From a storefront located in the highly controlled, non-spontaneous South Park district of Downtown glows a business that is actually an important piece of any real neighborhood: the local bakery. Open since June 30, Hygge Bakery is stocked with fresh traditional Danish baked goods, including the ... More >>

Piero Golia

Dreamer, realist

Nekromantix, Fangoria Convention, 4/25

Nekromantix / FreakShow Deluxe LA Convention Center April 25, 2008 Could there be a less spooky place for the Nekromantix to play? Even late at night, walking through the parking structure of the Convention Center, through the huge empty hallways, there isn't a bit of menace to the place. You hav ... More >>

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Sound and Silence

Stockhausen’s Stimmung and the new book Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM

The Pusher Trilogy

The Butterfly Effect

Islam, cartoons and the ongoing battle

The Sound of Truth

Albert Ayer

Skulls and Flowers

Lars Attacks!

Von Trier in Trollywood

The Collectors

Rosamond Purcell and Olaus Worm, together in time

Heir of the Dogma

Group 101 goes global

Curtain Calls, Stage Frights

The year in theater

Big Science, Little People

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen

New York, New York

Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

Expatriate 2000

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