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England

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2013

    Five Wines to Seek Out in L.A. Wine Bars That You Probably Won't Find Anywhere Else

    Here in Los Angeles our embarrassment of riches wine-wise might sometimes lead to a forest-for-the-trees blindness, with too much to weed through on the shelves or the wine lists to actually find something you like. Fortunately area wine bars work hard to assemble lists that are highly focused and d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2012

    Cadbury Develops Heat-Resistant Chocolate

    If you're the sort of chocolate lover who loses sleep over things like M&M's melting in your pocket, or the fate of that bar of Godiva you left in the back seat of your car, the folks at Cadbury have come up with something just for you. (And maybe the military.) Apparently the chocolate company's R ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 25, 2012

    Awake & Shakin'

    If you're the sort of chocolate lover who loses sleep over things like M&M's melting in your pocket, or the fate of that bar of Godiva you left in the back seat of your car, the folks at Cadbury have come up with something just for you. (And maybe the military.) Apparently the chocolate company's R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Some Music Really Does Suck

    [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.] It has become a ritual. Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: British Invasion

    KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers at KCRW hit the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/18 - 6/22

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Sorry England and Germany -- if the American craft beer revolution owes its adventurous and hoppy spirit to any country's brewing tradition, it's Belgium's." Top 5 Belgian IPAs: More Fun With European Hops. "But the fact i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    A Diamond Jubilee Year: The Queen In Cupcakes, A Lamprey Pie Dilemma A Recipe For Her "Chocolate Perfection" Pie

    After Mother's Day, it seems only fitting that we celebrate the Queen Mother. More so in a Diamond Jubilee year, as Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the British throne next month (the British monarchy is the exception to the typical 75-year diamond anniversary rule). You are p ... More >>

  • Music

    April 19, 2012

    Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

    Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Kutmah's 
Deportation Blues

    [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] You can't sort 30 years of life in 30 seconds. But that's what confronted Kutmah on the morning of May 5, 2010. Except that he didn't know it at the time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    L.A.'s Idea of English Food vs. What the English Really Eat

    In honor of Downton Abbey's season-two finale on Sunday, we decided to cross the pond to explore English food with two overlapping circles that compare what Angelenos believe the English nation eats with what English folks say they actually eat. Moral of the story: Apparently, the collective gasp h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Masochism Has Its Benefits

    ​[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.] I am in Bristol, England. The cold outside has permeated the walls of the utilitarian bac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A British Invasion

    KCRW Broadcast #149 for Saturday, January 21, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Are You Collector Scum? Fanatics! Sitting on the tour bus here in raining Wolverhampton UK. I am well into the Long March Tour and things are going well. I am sorry to put you Fanatics through a pre-taped show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Made a Punk Rocker Cry

    [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.] Weeks ago, my L.A. Weekly super editor Ben Westhoff asked me about my plans for 2012. I told h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Binge Drinkers Hit The Bar Once a Week, Get Wasted: U.S. Health Officials Concerned

    America, we've got a problem. The first step is admitting it: More than 38 million of us binge drink about four times a month (only?), having as many as 8 drinks in a sitting (lightweights). In some nations across the Atlantic -- Germany, England, the Netherlands -- this is called being a pussy. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    A Christmas List for George Smiley: 5 Food Gadgets for Secret Agents

    ​What to buy for the neighbor you suspect is a secret agent? The question plagues us every year. He's quiet mostly, always watching. He's obsessed with "the Soviets." Also there's that fog that hangs perpetually around his house. So probably not a holiday sweater. Your gift must be something h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    National Geographic's Top 10 National Dishes Guess What Americans Like To Eat

    Anne FishbeinBurger Kitchen's breakfast hamburger​Food blogs aren't the only publications with endless lists or pictures of pretty things people like to eat. National Geographic, the magazine many of us fondly remember from grade school science classrooms and dentists' offices, is the latest t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Are London Riots Any Different Than L.A. Riots? UCLA Professor Says Blacks Are 'Similarly Oppressed' In UK

    Getty ImagesThe London riots​Based on the (absurdly informed) opinion of UCLA sociology professor Darnell Hunt, Telegraph correspondent Tim Stanley was right to worry that Brits -- and commentators around the world -- may be blaming this week's London riots on the moral character of the rioter ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 28, 2011

    Satanica Batcakes: Fire Eater to Hat Maker

    Getty ImagesThe London riots​Based on the (absurdly informed) opinion of UCLA sociology professor Darnell Hunt, Telegraph correspondent Tim Stanley was right to worry that Brits -- and commentators around the world -- may be blaming this week's London riots on the moral character of the rioter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Book Review: Try This: Traveling the Globe Without Leaving the Table

    ​That circumstances change the way we approach our lives is hardly a revolutionary statement -- on Saturdays, farmers' market shopping feels like a luxurious escape, on weeknights grocery shopping quickly becomes that dreaded after-work chore. And so with those 405 homebrew-friendly roadblocks ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 2, 2011

    Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, on Broadway

    ​That circumstances change the way we approach our lives is hardly a revolutionary statement -- on Saturdays, farmers' market shopping feels like a luxurious escape, on weeknights grocery shopping quickly becomes that dreaded after-work chore. And so with those 405 homebrew-friendly roadblocks ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    The Password Is "Dickhead"

    ​That circumstances change the way we approach our lives is hardly a revolutionary statement -- on Saturdays, farmers' market shopping feels like a luxurious escape, on weeknights grocery shopping quickly becomes that dreaded after-work chore. And so with those 405 homebrew-friendly roadblocks ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 12, 2011

    Post-Rapture Pet Care

    Who'll feed Rover after the rapture?

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Royal Wedding Is Amazing, Gorgeous, Stunning, Stylish, Dreamy, Bloody Delightful, Say Critics

    Getty Images​'Twas the holy matrimony heard round the world: The great Prince William wed his favorite muggle, an impossibly lacy Kate Middleton, through the wee hours (PDT) last night. As soon as Kate stepped out of the queen's Rolls Royce, Hollywood's toughest and snarkiest critics were redu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Punk Singer Steve Ignorant (Finally) Brings Crass to America: Interview

    photo by Damon Allen DavisonSteve Ignorant and band​ Crass, the commune-living, hippie anarchist punks whose DIY way of recording and promoting had as much an impact on the genre as their brand of boot-in-your face hardcore, disbanded more than 25 years ago, having never toured the U.S. beyond ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    Revisiting the Regency: England, 1811-1820

    photo by Damon Allen DavisonSteve Ignorant and band​ Crass, the commune-living, hippie anarchist punks whose DIY way of recording and promoting had as much an impact on the genre as their brand of boot-in-your face hardcore, disbanded more than 25 years ago, having never toured the U.S. beyond ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Maite Gomez-Rejón's ArtBites Heads Into the Desert for a Vegetarian Cooking Retreat

    Cary ConoverA scene from last year's Jeffersonian Feast at the Met in New York City​ From offal to potted preparations to in-house butchering to fabricated cuts, meat has been at the forefront of many recent food world trends. Anyone who has spent a few hours grazing at one of L.A.'s popular ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    The Wellesbourne: New English Bar With Old Cocktails

    Caroline on CrackThat would be a Rob Roy getting shaken, not stirred.​ To step into The Wellesbourne, a new West L.A. bar which claims the 3,000-square-foot space previously occupied by Anna's Italian Restaurant, is to be transported to a pub on the English countryside. Yet rather than smellin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    PJ Harvey: Listen to Fantastic New Song from Her Upcoming Album

    Coming soon to an e-retailer near you: PJ Harvey's Let England Shake​Last night, LA grooved to the ritual charisma of Nick Cave's Grinderman. Today we keep on grooving to one of Cave's musical fellow travelers, PJ Harvey, who has just released the first peek at her upcoming album Let England S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Q & A With Madhur Jaffrey, Part 2: Martha Stewart, The Definition of Vindaloo Collating for Ismail Merchant

    Random HouseMadhur Jaffrey​ In the first part of our conversation with Madhur Jaffrey, the Delhi-born legendary actress, award-winning cookbook author and Indian cuisine authority spoke to us about her latest movie, a foodie comedy in which she plays a peppily invasive mom called Today's Spec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 4, 2010

    BUMS RAP

    Random HouseMadhur Jaffrey​ In the first part of our conversation with Madhur Jaffrey, the Delhi-born legendary actress, award-winning cookbook author and Indian cuisine authority spoke to us about her latest movie, a foodie comedy in which she plays a peppily invasive mom called Today's Spec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Best Wartime Cookbook: M.F.K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf

    Amazon​The late 1930s and early 1940s were kind of a grim time in Southern California. The Great Depression hit Los Angeles as hard as it hit practically anywhere in the country, and the vast influx of penniless retirees from cold states put an unusual burden on the state. Although the agricul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Restaurant High Chairs Carry More Bacteria Than Toilet Seats

    Flickr user stillriversideHigh chairs at McDonald's​ The Daily Mail has reported on a new and disturbing study. According to swabs taken at 30 different restaurants, the amount of bacteria found on high chairs was significantly greater than the amounts found on public toilets. Toilets had an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Free MP3s: Local Natives Get Remixed by West Coast Sound Favorites Superhumanoids

    Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2010

    MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY: GLENN WOOL

    Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010

    IF SHE REALLY WANTS A SCARY TRAVEL MOMENT, SHE SHOULD GO TO ARIZONA

    Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    GO TEAM!

    Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 31, 2009

    WATTS NEW

    Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Top 10 Metro Stop Eats: Eating On the Blue Line

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

    Italian Illumination Lecture

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Reel Talk With Stephen Farber

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 5, 2009

    Dracula

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Pugilist Specialist

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 11, 2008

    Musical Question

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2008

    A Scholar Is Born

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 10, 2008

    Shipwrecked! An Entertainment

    In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    June 5, 2008

    Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood

    Heck's kitchen

  • Calendar

    May 8, 2008

    Office Sonata

    Heck's kitchen

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    Compleat Female Stage Beauty

    Heck's kitchen

  • Calendar

    April 3, 2008

    From the Anglo Files

    Heck's kitchen

  • News

    November 23, 2006

    The U.K. in L.A.

    or, How to be Cary Grant

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