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On FX's The Bridge, Serial Killers Are a First-World Problem

The Bridge's Elwood Reid on Juárez-Style Ceviche, and Why The Best Place to Eat in Hawaii is at Chicken Fights

It's easy to embrace FX's atmospheric new series The Bridge as a darkly compelling crime drama. But the part we love, the part that makes The Bridge feel so exotic, is how vividly it captures life on the U.S.-Mexico border. Set in the neighboring towns of El Paso and Cuidad Juárez, The Bridge (like ... More >>

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

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, June 24 Justin Bieber STAPLES CENTER Can millions of Justin Bieber fans be wrong? Yes! But the point is, those panting hordes exist; they're not going away (not just yet, anyway), and neither is The, uh, Man himself: ... More >>

Taking Back Sunday - Club Nokia - 10-25-12

Taking Back Sunday Club Nokia 10-25-12 Although Thursday night was a school night for most of the attendees at Club Nokia, it didn't stop them from getting rowdy for Taking Back Sunday. The New York-based pop-punkers 2002 debut, Tell All Your Friends has become somewhat legendary to many people in ... More >>

At the Drive-In: "We Found Love Together, We Lost Love Together"

See also: *At the Drive-In Speaks! Why They Finally Reunited (Hint: It Wasn't the Cash) *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Our At the Drive-In profile yesterday focuses on the reunion of the seminal post-punk legends, who dissolved in 2001. Before they hit th ... More >>

At the Drive-In Speaks! Why They Finally Reunited (Hint: It Wasn't the Cash)

See also: *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Mars Volta and At the Drive-In's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard *Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is One Meandering Interview Legendary post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In is reuniting to perform at Coachella this ye ... More >>

Mars Volta and At the Drive-In's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard

Cliff Shepard, LAPD Detective Who Helped Nab the Grim Sleeper, on the Cases He Cracked and the Ones That Got Away

Detective Cliff Shepard has served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 37 years and 13 days. He retires today, bringing to a close a career spent tracking and catching some of the most notorious serial killers in L.A.'s history. There was Rodney Acala, the handsome and charismatic UCLA gradu ... More >>

Margarita Cabrera at Walter Maciel Gallery: Trying to Bridge the U.S.-Mexican Border

Courtesy of Walter Maciel GalleryCabrera's butterflies are each stamped with an impression of the U.S. penny​Farm implements and tools made of clay and decorated with ceramic birds, flowers and butterflies greet viewers entering the Walter Maciel Gallery, works from the Arbol de la Vida (Tree ... More >>

Leisha Hailey Issues Statement Regarding Her Controversial Airplane Kiss

​Leisha Hailey, who formerly starred in The L Word and is currently a member of Los Angeles indie pop duo Uh Huh Her, has issued a statement regarding being asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight. Yesterday, the singer/actress wrote a series of Tweets about the incident. She said that sh ... More >>

Heroic City of Juarez: Nice New Name, But What About the Violence?

​You know what was missing from the image of the city of Juarez, Mexico? A commemoration of violence. Something to apprise would-be visitors of the border town's long, bloody history. A reminder to pack the Kevlar as well as the sunscreen. In honor of that glaring omission, Chihuahua state legis ... More >>

Obama Disguises Campaign Donation Website as 'Immigration Reform' Fundraiser, the Sneaky Bastard

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Snoop Dogg To Texas Sheriff Who Arrested Willie Nelson For Six Ounces Of Weed: 'Leave Willie The Fuck Alone!'

This one's for the elders​Another day, another way for Snoop Dogg to tell the world how much he loves smokin' deh weed. This time, though, he's not speaking for himself. Not even Prop. 19. Last night, it was country-music legend and "Dukes of Hazzard" sell-out Willie Nelson whose back Snoop h ... More >>

Juarez's Children: Drugs, Death, and Fear

Asylum Denied

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories

I was a Texas Jewboy

They ain't makin' Americans like Kinky Friedman anymore

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs

A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs

Mexico A No-No For Spring Break?

Acapulco.​After two Americans connected to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez were gunned down, the U.S. State Department issued a warning regarding travel to Mexico, particularly its northern cities and states -- including Tijuana. The attack in the city opposite El Paso, Texas, included on ... More >>

West Coast Sound: A Stroke Chokes (And Nearly Goes Broke)

Mars Volta Ax-man Makes Directorial Debut

​We here at West Coast Sound, existing as we do at the geographic crossroads of the music biz and the film industry, like to make a point of keeping readers abreast of inspired audio/visual intersections. For instance, exactly one month ago, we alerted you to yet another outgrowth of Maynard ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. LYDIA Stephanie Beatriz and Onahoua Rodriguez in Octavio Solis' ethereal drama, Lydia,  now in rehearsal at the Mark Taper Forum. Swirling around a Latino family in 1970s El Paso, ... More >>

Mika Miko Announce Release Date for We Be Xuxa on PPM Records

Mika Miko: They be xuxa. Given that they've been around since 2003, it's kinda shocking that LA's Mika Miko have released only one proper full-length. Yeah, they've had their cassettes and demos and 7-inches and compilation appearances and their fantastic 666 EP on Post Present Medium. Last year's ... More >>

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The Coffee Table

Pachuco: The Linguistic Origins

Plus, the story on Orange County's ahistoricity

Well Suited: The Legacy of the Pachuco

Plus, the Mexican explains turista traps and babies as burritos

Special Tortilla Contest Edition

Corn vs. flour: Cual es mas masa?

LA Weekly Road-trips to Catch Tom Waits in Phoenix

Tom Waits, Orpheum Theater, Phoenix, Arizona, June 17. By Peter Gilstrap And so it was that Tom waits came to Phoenix after a three-decade absence on the first night of the American leg of his Glitter and Doom tour, an expedition that will take him to such exotic ports o’ call as El Paso, Tul ... More >>

Not As Seen on TV

Hispanics and high-speed chases — bad boys, bad boys, or just a bad rap?

Ministry's Last Sermons

¡Ask a Mexican! Recipe From the Melting Pot

Who came up with Tex-Mex or New Mexican food names?

¡Ask a Mexican! Brown Pride

Bush the Alien

The president angers his base and his new allies on immigration

Deport Congress

Taking names when wave of immigration reform crashes

Eastside Story

The day we caught the night stalker

Eyes Wide Shut

Glenn Spencer, frightened by what he saw in L.A., moved to Arizona to keep watch over the border

Fear of Music

South by Southwest 2005, as told by its survivors

Rock in Total Retrograde!

How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?

On the Border of Hypocrisy

The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration

Sí, Se Puede!

L.A.’s new Freedom Riders take their quest for immigrant equality on the road

Overcoming in Texas

INS delays freedom ride

Realm of the Senses

Secrets of the Sun

The Mars Volta in space and time

Chucos Suaves

Jump blues ‘n’ hoodlum talk from the kings of Latin boogie

Cine: Introduction

Breaking Ranks

A Mexican officer defects, seeks asylum in U.S.

Vicissitudes of the Victor

Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition

Letters

...Loved "I Am Not From Venus" [First Person, March 20–26]! Judith Lewis captures the essence of searching for passion and independence amid a sea of pedestrian relationships....

Making Tracks

Bobby Fuller, beyond "I Fought the Law"