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5 Festive Things to Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews Feeling the need to get out and do something different? Perhaps with large swaths of similarly-interested people? L.A. is going positively festival-crazy this ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland

Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also Bill Raden had good things to say about S.O.E. -- Jami Brandli's clever, three-character riff on the venerable ... More >>

Trainspotting

Winter Drinks, Part Two: The Toddy A Cocktail Recipe

There are drinks that, as the saying goes, hit the spot, and then there are those like the toddy, the warm concoction for winter nights with a capacity for comfort-making that seems almost erogenous in its acuity at landing in the spots needed to be hit. A well-made, well-seasoned, well-heated tod ... More >>

From Trainspotting to Mean Girls: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Thursday, Sept. 13 Comedian Mike Birbiglia has what appears to be a permanent befuddled expression that is both self-deprecating and endearing. Same can be said about his feature debut, Sleepwalk With Me. Although the semi-autobiograp ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! German Metal 
Festival Time

[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.] Since I last wrote you, I have been living in hotels, hitting festival stages and spending a l ... More >>

Comedian Rick Shapiro on Surviving a Health Scare, and His Comedy Store Benefit to Help Pay the Bills

Gruesome fact: most stand-up comedians don't have health insurance. Thus Louie actor and firebrand comic Rick Shapiro not only remains in the thick of prolonged effects from a heart scare, he's also facing a 60-day hospital bill. Fortunately most stand-up comedians also look out for their own, whic ... More >>

Kristina Wong's Solo Satire Going Green the Wong Way

Going Green the Wong Way

Ready, Set, Laug

Gay Bashing Beat-Down by Club Bouncer in West Hollywood Caught on Video

Updated at the bottom with reaction from the owner of Fubar, where the doorman on the video worked. First posted at 9:01 a.m. Video of a man being punched by a bouncer near a famed West Hollywood nightclub made the social networking rounds this week. One of his captors appears to utter a homophobic ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New York Dolls, Fugazi, Motörhead and more

​KCRW BROADCAST #1248 for Saturday, August 20 Fanatics! Beaming in from Edinburgh, Scotland. The weather is great and the streets are full of people. It is time for the annual Edinburgh Festival. You might remember that I wrote you from here last year. This year, I am only here for two shows. ... More >>

The Inspirational Effects of Coffee, or: What to Drink at a TED Talk

R.E.~/FlickrA cup of inspiration​ In what is both fodder for a future article in The Onion and an actual survey, leading "coffee retail brand" Don Francisco asked some 1,000 Americans to quantify their level of inspiration on a scale of 0 ("not at all inspired") to 100 ("extremely inspired), t ... More >>

Radar L.A. Festival

Stage Raw: Somewhere, Over the Radar

COMPLETE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE : A Case for Small Theater​The Groundings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show has a one-night only tenth anniversary performance (Wed., June 22, 8 p.m.) featuring (pending cast availability) Kristen Wiig, Kevin Nealon, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen, Will ... More >>

Hollywood Fringe Festival

L.A. Theater's Moment of Truth

In the national spotlight this summer, will we show we've grown up, or just embarrass ourselves?

Top 5 Old School Indie L.A. Health Food Stores

J. Ritz​ Close your eyes and breathe. Deeply. Smell those bulk whole grains commingling with the aromas of spirulina, alternative pastas, sprouts of all types, and freshly juiced wheatgrass? Now take a look around. See the earnest hand-painted signs promoting health tips? Notice the knotty pin ... More >>

THE ILLUSIONIST

Somewhere, Under the Rainbow

The Rollins Machine Turns You On (to Some Amazing Long Jams): Henry Rollins on the Velvet Undeground, Fela Kuti and Sleep's "Dopesmoker"!

Maura LanahanOur new columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune in ... More >>

The War Within Us

Bringing Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's play cycle about Iraq and Afghanistan to the stage

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Theater Reviews: Friends Like These, The Crossing, Peace, Somebody’s Somebody

Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

Propaganda, War

​The Toronto International Film Festival doesn't exactly have a reputation for being a lightning rod for political controversy, but it became one in the early days of this year's edition thanks to a new festival sidebar, City to City, designed to explore "the evolving urban experience by immersing ... More >>

The Crossing

Stage Raw: Baby It's You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUTHE LATEST NEW REVIEWSBABY IT'S YOUThe jukebox musical that's been playing since the spring at the Coast Playhouse, will be the final entry in the Pasadena P ... More >>

Los Angeles Mirror: What People Say About Us

What was it Oscar Wilde -- oh, never mind. Something about not being talked about. Whatever. Here's a roundup of recent quotes about Los Angeles, as others see it, our Land of Hope and Failure."Living in Los Angeles, I really miss those days where it feels almost . . . it just goes black in the midd ... More >>

Possible Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins Cars Found

Buena Park Police are reportedly examining a car, found in the parking lot of the West Hollywood Trader Joe's, as possibly belonging to murdered model Jasmine Fiore. Fiore was strangled late last Friday night and her teeth extracted and fingers cut off, before her corpse was stuffed into a suitcase ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Kabluey, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Meet Dave

Also, Homo Erectus, Garden Party and more

Portishead at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Scotland 4.12.08

Photos by Rena Kosnett Claiming that I just happened to catch a Portishead concert during my recent visit to the UK would fashion me a liar. The trip was pretty much planned AROUND the Portishead show in Edinburgh. I probably wouldn't have gone up to Scotland at all if not for the concert; so fo ... More >>

Queen Week

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Genre and Gender

Kate Atkinson on mystery, her new novel, One Good Turn, and, of course, her hair

From Russia With Love

Best auto bodywork for the bourgeoisie and proletariat

Mr. Burns in Scotland

The Third L.A. Weekly-Hosted Roundtable on New Play Development

Into the Boosh

Heavenly Creatures, Infernal Attachments

Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love

It’s Alive!

Art of the Living Dead

Rutting and Nothingness

Edging Your Bets

Edgefest holds the answers to those handicapping the future of theater in L.A.

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

Republic Relations

Anti-Americans abroad and Bumble Ward's meta-PR

Sir Donald and His Ideal Listener

Working on the Fringe: A Local Runt Wows the Scots

Yobs to Men

The Scottish Lowlands of Irvine Welsh

Good, Bad, Beautiful, Etc.

Moist 'n' Meaty

A hairy Palm Pictures production

Hypeless in Toronto

Haggis, Guinness and a Couple of Plays

Excerpts from the Edinburgh Festival