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March 20, 2013
The Do Lab's Trip to Egypt Was Some Sort of Revolution Exclusive Video
Between political strife, rioting, demonstrations and the general cultural upheaval caused by the aftershocks of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the country seemed like a less than ideal location for a music festival and sightseeing tour put on by a group of Americans. Yet, nearly 300 people, mostly o ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2013
Q & A With Nancy Harmon Jenkins: On the Mediterranean Diet, Her Cookbook(s) What Took Us So Long
For many of us whose idea of good food is a bowl of olives, a plate of mezze, a huge dish of paella or Catalan soup or lamb with couscous, Nancy Harmon Jenkins' cookbook The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, or her newer The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, is one of the basic books of the kitchen. First ... More >>
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December 10, 2012
Happy National Lager Day A Beer Venn Diagram
Today is National Lager Day, a grassroots holiday started as a way to celebrate the many faces of the world's most produced type of beer. But what the hell is a lager anyway? Is it an ale? Is it a style of beer? Is it a corporate marketing term expertly concocted to roll off the tongue so perfectly ... More >>
Music
November 22, 2012
Making It in the Music Industry: L.A. Weekly's 2012 Music Issue
Today is National Lager Day, a grassroots holiday started as a way to celebrate the many faces of the world's most produced type of beer. But what the hell is a lager anyway? Is it an ale? Is it a style of beer? Is it a corporate marketing term expertly concocted to roll off the tongue so perfectly ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
The Afrobeat Goes On
Today is National Lager Day, a grassroots holiday started as a way to celebrate the many faces of the world's most produced type of beer. But what the hell is a lager anyway? Is it an ale? Is it a style of beer? Is it a corporate marketing term expertly concocted to roll off the tongue so perfectly ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2011
The Cure - Pantages Theater - 11-22-11
Randall MichelsonBy Siran Babayan The Cure Pantages Theater 11-22-11 Better Than....Crying home alone Tonight, Morrissey performs a last-minute gig at the Music Box where the marquee reads: "There Is No Such Thing In Life As Normal...We Love You Morrissey." If you walk past fans who've been ... More >>
Film+TV
October 13, 2011
Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace Review
Randall MichelsonBy Siran Babayan The Cure Pantages Theater 11-22-11 Better Than....Crying home alone Tonight, Morrissey performs a last-minute gig at the Music Box where the marquee reads: "There Is No Such Thing In Life As Normal...We Love You Morrissey." If you walk past fans who've been ... More >>
Blogs
September 18, 2011
Egyptian Lover & Arabian Prince - Freak City - 9-17-11
Lina Lecaro The Prince and the Lover....Egyptian Lover & Arabian Prince Freak City September 17, 2011 Better Than: Old school hip-hop Serato DJ sets we've seen lately. Though the sound and style of West Coast rap music has evolved over the years, the lyrical bravado and the boldness of bea ... More >>
Music
July 14, 2011
Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti
Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others
Music
June 30, 2011
Two Sides of Brian Eno
Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others
Calendar
June 30, 2011
After the Arab Spring
Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others
Blogs
May 11, 2011
Hosni Mubarak Spam: Hilarious Email Asks Us to 'Help Secure the Resources of the President' Amid Billion-Dollar Corruption Charges
PoliticoSoon to be ours!Good thing we checked our spam folder this morning! Because, buried among Obama scams and penis enlargers, we discovered a total gold mine: A business proposal from an alleged associate of former Eqyptian president and world-class scumbag Hosni Mubarak. The evil dicta ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Lara Logan Confirms She Was Brutally and Repeatedly Raped in Egypt: Why Did the Media Think She Wasn't?
CBS NewsThe photo of Logan that CBS originally included in its news flash, "moments before she was attacked on Feb. 11, 2011."In the hours and days following CBS reporter Lara Logan's brutal and repeated rape in Egypt, the world understandably wanted details. But Logan only released a brief state ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2011
Everyone Loves a Troll: How Christwire Fooled Rachel Maddow, Howard Stern, 3 Million Coachella Heads and Counting
ChristwireThe mega-trollers, in costume as Bryan Blake and Mike WatsonChristwire.org is a joke. IT'S NOT REAL. Not a genuine bone in its blogroll. (Except for when they also fool their Christian freelancers.) Every day, the two dudes who run Christwire read hundreds of your angry comments a ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Q & A With Yvonne & Nancy Boules: Going from Home to Restaurant Kitchen, Egyptian Fava Bean Falafel The Beauty of Bulgarian Feta
K. RobbinsYvonne and Nancy Boules trying a new recipe for Egyptian accented beignets Om Ali is one of Yvonne Boules' signature dishes at Café Dahab, the Egyptian focused Mediterranean restaurant that she runs with her daughter Nancy. Puff pastry, hazelnuts, and coconut are layered in a bless ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
Q & A With Yvonne & Nancy Boules, Part 2: Change in Egypt, The Comforts of Koshari Slimy, Slimy Jute Leaf
K. RobbinsYvonne Boules assembling koshari In part one of our interview with Yvonne and Nancy Boules, the mother and daughter team behind Café Dahab told us about going from home cooks to restaurant chefs and how they make their bright green falafel. Turn the page to read their take on chan ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Starting To Look a Lot Like Egypt: West Hollywood City Council Candidates Try To Oust Stubborn Dictator With Social-Media Uprising
PHOTO BY JENNIE WARRENWeHo City Council candidate Mito Aviles wants to send the Mubarak -- er, mayor -- packing on a private jetIn this week's cover story, "Dethroning West Hollywood's Martinets," Patrick Range McDonald documents three underdog WeHo City Council candidates who are taking a st ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Governor Jerry Brown: He's Just Like Us! Or, the Southwest Flight That Wooed a People
Byte-sized fares make for better budgetsAt a time when ex-Prez of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is private-jetting off to his sprawling estate in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikha, where a charmed life awaits the loathed 30-year dictator (free of angry mobs and full of luxury frond-fan type shit - ... More >>
News
February 10, 2011
Art-House Blues
Byte-sized fares make for better budgetsAt a time when ex-Prez of Egypt Hosni Mubarak is private-jetting off to his sprawling estate in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikha, where a charmed life awaits the loathed 30-year dictator (free of angry mobs and full of luxury frond-fan type shit - ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Egypt: Follow Map-Based Tweets About Egyptian Protests Through UCLA Project
UCLAHyperCities EgyptAs turmoil continues in Egypt, where hope met with anger Thursday as President Hosni Mubarak appeared to settle into his throne even as President Obama expressed optimism over a "moment of transformation" there, LA Observed points us to a fascinating project at UCLA that ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2011
Egyptian Hip Hop: This Is What It Sounds Like
Prompted by the current situation in Egypt, LA Weekly contributor Lisa Carver dug up a video of a collaboration between hip-hop group Mafia Boys and Egyptian hip-hop artists. In case you were wondering what kind of rap music the youth in revolt of Egypt is grooving too, here's an example of w ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Charlie Sheen's L.A. Porn Party Bumps Egypt 'Chaos' to Bottom of New York Post
New York PostThe important things in lifeWe're all about keeping tabs on the Lohans and Octomoms of the world, but Saturday's issue of the New York Post made us... well. Let's just say there may have been some guilt-laced acid reflux involved. We've been doing a lot of thinking since then. Y ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
UCLA Egypt Professor: Museum Looting, Mummy Beheading Amid Chaos Is 'Huge Loss' for World Heritage
This King Tut statue was smashed by lootersAt stake: Human rights. Freedom. Democracy. And a gilded wooden statue of King Tutankhamun. UCLA Professor Willeke Wendrich just got back from an Egyptian archeological dig in December. She says she could detect a "longstanding unhappiness" in lower ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2011
Los Angeles Shows Support for Egypt with Rally at Federal Building
Liana Aghajanian See more photos in "Los Angeles Rally Shows Support for Egyptian Protesters." By: Liana Aghajanian As protests calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak violently escalated on the streets of Egypt in what is now the fifth day of anti-government unrest, at lea ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Egyptian Unrest: Could a Total Shutdown of Internet Traffic Ever Happen in the U.S. Too?
The Daily WhatWeb traffic flatlined in Egypt.One of the more chilling aspects of the unrest in Egypt this week has been watching internet access in that country go almost completely dark. The shutdown of a web we rely on so much for the democratization of information is almost shocking. The ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
Never Say No to Panda Cheese
While we like to imagine Don Draper dreaming up the cheese commercials that have caused us to spend the last hour wheezing through laughter-induced stomach pains, Panda is a product of Egypt, not Madison Avenue. As was the case with those cavemen a few years back, all the "it" commercial elements ... More >>
Calendar
July 15, 2010
PUPPET LOVE
While we like to imagine Don Draper dreaming up the cheese commercials that have caused us to spend the last hour wheezing through laughter-induced stomach pains, Panda is a product of Egypt, not Madison Avenue. As was the case with those cavemen a few years back, all the "it" commercial elements ... More >>
Calendar
July 1, 2010
MUMMIES FOR DUMMIES
While we like to imagine Don Draper dreaming up the cheese commercials that have caused us to spend the last hour wheezing through laughter-induced stomach pains, Panda is a product of Egypt, not Madison Avenue. As was the case with those cavemen a few years back, all the "it" commercial elements ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2010
Top 7 Human-Animal Hybrids Now Illegal Under Arizona Law
Under Arizona's new (and honest-to-god real) law banning "animal human hybrids," a whole lot of pop-cultural characters would be considered illegal. The law prohibits anyone in the state from "creating or attempting to create an in vitro human embryo by any means other than fertilization of a human ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
California Science Center Prepares for "Mummies of the World"
On July 1, California Science Center will unveil an unprecedented collection of forty-five mummies and ninety-five related artifacts. The exhibit, "Mummies of the World," will feature both natural and intentional mummies hailing from collections in fifteen different museums and seven different count ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Do As the Romans Did: Turn Old Wine into a Cocktail
Supreme Council Of AntiquitiesShe'd Like Her Kir Extra Dry, PleaseCNN reported this week that Egyptian archeologists have discovered a three-foot-tall female mummy dating to 300 B.C., the first Roman mummy found in the Bahariya Oasis (southwest of Cairo). Fashionistas would be pleased to lear ... More >>
Calendar
September 17, 2009
ROLLING IN THE NILES
Supreme Council Of AntiquitiesShe'd Like Her Kir Extra Dry, PleaseCNN reported this week that Egyptian archeologists have discovered a three-foot-tall female mummy dating to 300 B.C., the first Roman mummy found in the Bahariya Oasis (southwest of Cairo). Fashionistas would be pleased to lear ... More >>
LA Life
April 23, 2009
LA People 2009: Urban Shaman — Durek Verrett
Supreme Council Of AntiquitiesShe'd Like Her Kir Extra Dry, PleaseCNN reported this week that Egyptian archeologists have discovered a three-foot-tall female mummy dating to 300 B.C., the first Roman mummy found in the Bahariya Oasis (southwest of Cairo). Fashionistas would be pleased to lear ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2009
Cake Monkey's Passover Ending
Who needs leavening?Passover begins this Wednesday at sundown, which means that cooks all over Los Angeles will be scrambling to come up with appropriate seder menus. Dessert is always the most difficult course -- flour and leavening agents aren't allowed during the seven-day holiday commemorating t ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2008
Weiss' Best Reissues & Compilations of 2008
Steve Stein and partner Double Dee, were dropping lessons on kids when Shadow and Cut Chemist were still constructing crates out of lincoln logs. Finally collected on the aptly named, Illegal Art label, Steinski's seminal singles are that rarity--as fun as they are important. Neither The Avalanches ... More >>
Music
June 19, 2008
Rock Picks: Seun Kuti, Thievery Corporation, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Also, Death Cab for Cutie, Ingrid Michaelson and more
Calendar
March 6, 2008
Orange Lemon Egg Canary
Also, Death Cab for Cutie, Ingrid Michaelson and more
Music
November 29, 2007
Youssou N�Dour's Northern Soul
Senegalese singer goes in search of an elusive muse in the backcountry's simpler, rural sounds
Music
April 27, 2006
Freaky Kinky Nation
The weird-ass, beautiful history of �80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records
News
September 8, 2005
Government and Floods
A quarter-century of libertarianism is washed away in New Orleans
News
October 14, 2004
Smoke and Mirrors
A quarter-century of libertarianism is washed away in New Orleans
News
March 18, 2004
Bush�s Middle East Problem
The case of an anti-war protester in Egypt
News
April 10, 2003
The Back Story
Why we fight
News
March 6, 2003
The Back Story
Why we fight
Eat+Drink
December 19, 2002
Ask Mr. Gold
Why we fight
Stage
December 6, 2001
Up the Nile Without a Paddle
Don�t cry for me, ancient Egypt . . .
Art+Books
July 22, 1999
Cruising for Zombies
A review of local arcade diversions
Film+TV
April 8, 1999
All Singing! All Belly-Dancing!
Wild and wiggly Egyptian musicals
Film+TV
December 24, 1998
Holy Moses!
DreamWorks spins the Bible
LA Life
April 2, 1998
La Sala dos Milagres
DreamWorks spins the Bible
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