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The Borgen or Eat, Drink, Love Flowchart: What to Watch This Weekend

Sunday marks the premiere of Bravo's Eat, Drink, Love, a reality show that follows five (pointedly) single women in Los Angeles as they go about their various food-related jobs. But, as there are so many television shows and so little time, maybe you need a little help deciding whether you should sp ... More >>

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 >>

Porn Doesn't Influence Teen Sex ... That Much

It's widely believed, at least by female comedians and men's magazines throughout the land, that porn has led to a new generation of male swine that thinks sex should be done with lights on and a stack of fresh towels nearby. Not true, says a new study out of Denmark. Well, not entirely true. Porn ... More >>

Pork Contamination in IKEA's Moose Lasagna

This past weekend Swedes woke up to news of a pork contamination in the moose lasagna previously sold at their local IKEA stores -- in addition to 18 other European countries. Reuters reported that a little over 17,000 packs of the frozen entrees were quietly pulled from shelves after they were foun ... More >>

The Best L.A. Metal Concerts To See In April

Tuesday, Apr 2 Ensiferum, Tyr House of Blues Sunset Strip The annual Paganfest tour has become one of our favorite regular metal tours. Finland's Ensiferum is grounded heavily in orchestral folk metal, but maintains a galloping pace that keeps headbangers moving in the pit. Denmark's Tyr has more in ... More >>

Married Gay Men Live Longer, U.S. Supreme Court Should Read Danish Study

So apparently gay married guys live longer than unmarried or divorced men. That's what Danish researchers recently found after going through decades of statistics, and something conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas should consider when ruling i ... 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 >>

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

Q & A With Professor Amy Rowat: Food and Science at UCLA, Danish Gastro-physical Societies Experimental Cakes

If you've been attending UCLA's Science & Food lectures, which began in April and continue through next month, you'll know who Professor Amy Rowat is. She's the one who put the series together, whose happy task it was to find sand fleas and an old electric blanket for Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams ... 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 >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... 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 >>

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

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/3-10/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'Not me, but it's been fun having people think it is. I'm on my way to tour a rice plantation in South Carolina.'" [Updated] Ruth Bourdain's Identity: The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema? "It was ten meringue whites on top o ... More >>

Culture Collide Festival Preview: Let's Get International

See also: *Culture Collide Festival review: Liam Finn, Rainbow Arabia, Guineafowl, The Awkwards perform on October 6, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: The Death Letters and Cameras perform on October 8, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: Chad VanGaalen & Gang Gang Dance perform on October ... More >>

Denmark Taxes the Fat

Enjoying fatty food in Denmark just became more expensive. The country's new "fat tax" charges around $3 per 2.2 pounds of saturated fat. Prices on food items like burgers and butter are set to go up in a country that also pays more for its sodas and sugar. Any item with more than 2.3% saturated fa ... More >>

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 >>

Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 2: The Best Thing He Ate at Noma, Plus Foraging in the Castle Yards

Photo by Shauna Miller​In Part 1 of our interview with chef Sean Ehland, we learned his thoughts on the ever-present culinary school debate, as well as how he pestered his way into a stage at Noma via the restaurant's reservations email. In Part 2, we learn what working in such a sophisticated ... 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 >>

reliq, SYMBOLCLUB and More: Berlin Goths Keep It Up All Night

grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

Lithuania's Rebel Radio Station Neringa FM--Bringing Gaslamp Killer To The Baltics

​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her first stop was a national forest on the Baltic Sea where Lithuanian DJs celebrate their country's liberation on air. After the Soviet ... More >>

Now Open: Paradis's Danish-Style Ice Cream in Los Feliz

T. Nguyen​ A great number of great things have come from Denmark. Hamlet. The Killing. Legos. To this we add: ice cream. Now open in Los Feliz, Paradis Ice Cream replaces the space vacated by Pinkberry on Vermont and brings Danish-style ice cream to the neighborhood. Paradis actually is ... 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 >>

Red Medicine

Jordan Kahn's Vietnamese eatery deserves notoriety for its food, too

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.

The Madlib Mystique

An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer

NOT THE SWEDISH MEATBALLS YOU'RE USED TO

Copenhagen, Langston and Nicolas, Tempodyssey, The Women of Brewster Place

Also, Trog and Clay, The Philadelphia Story, Chicago and more

Copenhagen

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 >>

Ash Cloud Over Europe Disrupts Travelers and Fish Industry

The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

City Hall’s Revenge on Cecilia Estolano

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

Darwin Dawkins The Knife = "Tomorrow, in a Year"

​ On February 2, The Knife, in collaboration with Planningtorock and former L.A. resident Mt. Sims, will be releasing a studio recording of the opera "Tomorrow, in a Year" that they were commissioned to write for Denmark's Hotel Pro Forma. The opera is based on the life and work of Charles Dar ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and 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 >>

Novelist Per Petterson on Voice, Landscape and His "New" Novel, To Siberia

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Film Reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Blades of Glory

Also, The Hills Have Eyes II, Air Guitar Nation and After the Wedding

The Pusher Trilogy

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The Butterfly Effect

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Fading Lines

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Lars Attacks!

Von Trier in Trollywood

Amy Inouye

Graphic designer and mother of Chicken Boy

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