Egypt

3 Kentucky Products That Should be Smuggled Instead of KFC

As recently reported in The Washington Post, al-Yamama, a Palestinian delivery company, has been sneaking Kentucky Fried Chicken into the Gaza Strip from Egypt: a three-hour journey and an extra $20-30 for cold chicken, which admittedly can be good. Of course, if Colonel Sanders knew that the red-a ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Here Comes a Regular

[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.] Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please I try to get myself up and moving ... More >>

S.S. Coachella: Getting My Nails Did Like Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss

By Liz Tracy Fashion and music are the funniest-looking twin sisters. They're always together, always kinda sloppy. Sometimes they dress up like a swan or wear a big mouse head. Together, they're always looking to make a bold statement. If you follow Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss on Instagram (@Kra ... More >>

Top 5 Gifts for Bread Bakers: Your Kitchen, My Boulangerie

For some of us, baking bread is something that we do without much thought, whenever it's cold enough to crank the oven, for giving to friends, when our kids demand it, or as a coping mechanism (see: the recent election, long distance relationships, Steve Nash). The smell of bread baking is a fundame ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Terrorist in the Museum

This week, an artist deconstructs the pom-pom, two holes get cut in gallery walls and an exhibition suggests the wrong man took the blame for murder 83 years ago. 5. Wallflower whirlpool Jen Stark cut a hole the shape of a water lily into the northernmost wall of Martha Otero gallery, then built u ... More >>

L.A. Coptic Church, L.A. Muslim Group to Denounce Innocence of Muslims

The anti-Islam video that set off a fire storm in the Middle East appears to have been made by a few fanatical Coptic Christians right here in Southern California. But the Coptic Orthodox Church of Los Angeles will join hands with the Muslim Public Affairs Council today to denounce the almost-silly ... More >>

American Idol Meets the Museum

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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Alien at MOCA

The artists on this week's list have endearing idiosyncrasies: James Lee Byars' obsession with the perfect atmosphere, Cai Guo-Qiang's spiritual pyromania and Dasha Sishkin's perverse approach to glamour. 5. Clothing-optional fantasies If Shel Silverstein, who brought the same twisted humor to his ... More >>

Stephen Sondheim's New Book Look, I Made a Hat Unloads on Theater Critics With Both Barrels. Here's Where He's Wrong

​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Das Bunker, Bar Sinister, Studio 69, Psychedelic Desert

Matador y TorosBoa-dacious at Club AM/FM​Cosmic rave-like excursions, fetishistic extravaganzas, undead dance orgies, Chinatown birthday blowouts... it's another week in party picks. Enjoy! Fri., Aug. 12 A decade ago Club Underground opened its doors at Tempest on Santa Monica Blvd. Unlike m ... More >>

Carmageddon Survival Guide: 10 Artsy Ways to Salvage Your Weekend

Cult soul singer Evie Sands in the 1960s; Sands is performing at Viva Cantina this Sunday.​ With the impending shutdown of the 405, everyone's unsure of what to do this weekend. Quoth a friend: "Should I leave? Should I stay? And if I stay, what should I do?" Have no fear, we've got you cove ... More >>

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Kristeen Young, live at the Hotel Cafe, 5/16

Falling James​The St. Louis singer-provocateur Kristeen Young put on quite the fascinating one-woman show at the Hotel Café, defying the boundaries of technology, the laws of gravity and the mood swings of a fussy soundman. She was decked out in a style that was truly all her own, with a witc ... More >>

Lara Logan Reveals Rape Details, Moves On to Report Osama Bin Laden's Death in Same Night

CBS NewsLara Logan, back in action​"I don't want this to define me," CBS News correspondent Lara Logan told the New York Times on Thursday, previewing a solemn Sunday-night interview on "60 Minutes" in which she meticulously recounted her own February 11 gang rape in Egypt. A couple hours la ... More >>

A Passover Cocktail Recipe: The Sangria Haroset

Photo courtesy Rosa Mexicano.A traditional Passover food takes many forms, including the Sangria Haroset.​ Charoset -- also spelled haroset, charoses, haroses, charoseth and so on, depending on your phonetic preference -- comes in many forms and textures. Some traditions cook and pulverize dri ... More >>

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Lara Logan, CBS Reporter and Warzone 'It Girl,' Raped Repeatedly Amid Egypt Celebration

Lara Logan, the "60 Minutes" firecracker who was raped at the moment of Egypt's overthrow​Updated after the jump: Commenters respond to bloggers respond to reporters respond to Tweeters respond to the inexcusable crime against Lara Logan. Breaking news: South African TV journalist Lara Logan ... More >>

Could Hosni Mubarak End Up in L.A? He Reportedly Owns Property in Beverly Hills

Hosni of Beverly Hills?​Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down Friday after weeks of unrest on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. The question for us is, could he come to L.A? Mubarak is widely reported to own property on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills -- and somewhere on that ... More >>

We Met Outside The Mummy Ride: The Best Of Halloween Weekend's 'Missed Connections'

PHOTO BY NICHOLE O'CONNORDon't be fooled -- he's as lonely as Mark Zuckerberg​The only thing harder than making a lasting connection in L.A. is making a lasting connection when you can't recognize the person the next day. In the tradition of our sister news blog at the Village Voice, we've be ... More >>

Mick Jagger's Topless Daughter Stars in Hedi Slimane Video, with Music by Rising UK Stars Egyptian Hip Hop

Hedi Slimane for Harper'sMick and Jerry's baby, all growed up!​Once upon a time, Hedi Slimane was a queer kid who was way into the cover of Bowie's David Live album. Then he ran Dior for a while. He lived the high-fashion life. Made stylish, tailored and androgynous hip and viceversa. Then h ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: First Interview with LA DJ Kutmah after His Controversial Deportation

​ Two months ago, news broke that the popular Dublab and Low End Theory-affiliated DJ, Justin "Kutmah" McNulty had been detained by Department of Homeland Security authorities for failing to honor a voluntary deportation notice that he had signed over a decade earlier. The arrest triggered a ... More >>

Momed Explores the Eastern Mediterranean

Momed, the new Mediterranean restaurant in Beverly Hills, was lucky. It inherited a wood burning oven from the previous occupant, the Italian restaurant Rosti. And so you can have Turkish flatbreads straight from that oven with such toppings as oven-roasted wild mushrooms, akawi cheese and broccoli ... More >>

Update: LA Marathon's hidden disaster: utterly incompetent logistics went unreported by L.A. media

Tina Dupuy over at Fishbowl LA has a stunning report on what the Los Angeles media left out of their Los Angeles Marathon coverage on Sunday, apparently after dozens of print and broadcast journalists quietly decided that the only marathon story they should air or publish  should focus solely o ... More >>

Dancing "the Dark Side" at Gothla US 2009

View more photos in the Gothla Belly Dance slideshow. Christopher Victorio When New Jersey-based dancer Tempest created the Gothic Belly Dance Resource in 2003 as a means to "codify" the east-meets-west, modern-meets-traditional style of dance that was developing organically across the United State ... More >>

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Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the central theme behind a new temporary exhibit at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. It is one of those "mega-shows" that have been sorta tre ... More >>

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