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Fan Landers: Is My Band Accidentally Aiding a Right-Wing Extremist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America

[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.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>

Ask the Audience: What Do You Want to Read About?

Have you ever turned on the television or the radio or spent the morning trolling the web and wondered who the hell is deciding the programming? Of the political scene maybe, or the Olympics. Why are you watching an interview with Michael Phelps and not something else? Why are you listening to Glenn ... More >>

Small Demons, a Website of Every Person, Place and Thing Referenced in Your Favorite Books

Outside a Pico Union gas station, Valla Vakili is reading William Gibson's Spook Country: "Close to the tents under the freeway, Mr. Sippee catered to an eclectic clientele of the more functionally homeless, sex workers of varied gender and presentation, pimps, police officers, drug dealers, office ... More >>

Kevin Bleyer

Rollins Announces "Capitalism" Tour, Will Hit Each State Capital

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday.] Henry Rollins doesn't keep his political opinions quiet; in a column last fall about the Occupy protesters he recounted how senator Rand Paul "made a fool of himself trying to compare them ... More >>

The Daily Show Writer Kevin Bleyer Rewrote the Constitution

A new, improved Constitution? The Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer took on the task with his new book Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America. He talks with Lawrence O'Donnell at a Writers Bloc event this Friday. Here's our interview with Bl ... More >>

Liz Magic Laser's Performance Art Includes Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin on a Date and an Obama-Bush Mime Faceoff

Shakespeare famously wrote, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." He was speaking metaphorically of course, but in this age of total media saturation and dominance, when everything we see on TV and in the movies is choreographed and manipulated for maximum audience res ... More >>

Bobcat Goldthwait Interview

On stand-up, leaving Hollywood, and his version of 21 Jump Street

Santorum's Fecal Sex Dilemma Puts Headlines in Whole New Light: Our Top 10 Faves

cafepress.com​As you probably already know, Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is no friend of the gay and lesbian nation. He sparked a furor in 2003 when he told Associated Press he was against gay sex and sodomy. LA Weekly (and nationally syndicated) columnist Dan Savage respon ... More >>

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

Henry Rollins: The Column! Occupy America

​[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.] My editor contacted me the other day and asked if I had an opinion on the Occupy protes ... More >>

Need Some Good Dick?

Bob Dylan Turns 70

An L.A. Weekly birthday tribute

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 Watson​Christwire.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 >>

Kevin James Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Reconfirms He's A Gay Republican

L.A. mayoral candidate Kevin James​Radio talk show host Kevin James wants Los Angeles voters to know that he's a registered Republican who wants to be the first openly gay mayor of L.A. "There's no doubt that if I became the first openly gay mayor of Los Angeles," James tells L.A. Weekly, "i ... More >>

Talk Radio Host Kevin James Is Running For Mayor

Kevin James​The insurgent candidates for L.A. City Hall took a shellacking at the polls last week. But if you thought they'd retreat to lick their wounds, think again.Today, Kevin James is declaring his candidacy for mayor.No, not Paul Blart, mall cop -- the other Kevin James.The talk radio host. ... More >>

With Godspeed on Our Side

How did an experimental political punk octet become the hottest ticket of the winter?

LA Weekly Commenting System Gets An Upgrade

Flickr/mrjoromailbox in Santa Clara County, CA ​ One of the fun things about blog posts is that you can comment on them pretty much instantly, posting your anonymous (or not) 2 cents worth for everyone to read as soon as you finish typing. Unlike the old days, when you just threw your food at ... More >>

Your Glenn Beck Update: What to Eat Now, the Apocalypse Edition

​ Once upon a time there was a hilarious British comedy group called Beyond the Fringe, in which Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook made Monty Python look, well, not as funny as they were. One of the more brilliant skits was about the end of the world, in which a group ... More >>

Jon Stewart's Los Angeles 'Rally To Restore Sanity' Rejected By City: Alternate Venue Being Sought

Jon Stewart rejected in L.A.​Journo-median Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" Oct. 30 in Los Angeles has been rejected by the city -- at least at the venue organized tried to get, Pershing Square downtown. The event was one of two twin rallies scheduled for L.A. and Washington, D.C. The ... More >>

Food Stamp Use Bigger Than Bacon Chocolate

NCReedplayerFood stamps​ Piggy chocolate. House-made pickles. New Nordic Cuisine. Food stamps. No, it's not as sexy as reindeer tartare with a lichen gastrique or a bar of fair-trade dark studded with smoked bacon bits, but the humble food stamp is really catching on. According to a Sept. ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/27-10/1

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Clifton's Cafeteria Being Taken Over by The Edison's Andrew Meieran. [blogdowntown] -- Fall Is for Food (Event) Lovers. [Chow Balla] -- Glenn Beck mocks Michelle Obama's healthy food drive at Right ... More >>

Santa Monica Based Glenn Beck Advertiser Goldline, Under Investigation, Fights Back

Nuggets​Santa-Monica-based Goldline International is already under investigation by the L.A. County District Attorney and the Santa Monica City Attorney for allegedly not delivering what it promises to customers, while also pushing them to buy overpriced gold coins instead of pure gold bullion ... More >>

Jerry 'Peace Activist' Rubin To Mark 100 Days Of Anti-Tea Party Fasting

​Jerry Peace Activist Rubin -- yes that's his real name -- says Wednesday will mark the 100th day of his "Anti-Tea Party Protest Fast" aimed at right-wing blowhards such as Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. The activist, who's running for a seat on the Santa Monica City Council, says in a statement ... More >>

Glenn Beck Seizes On Bell Salaries

​ Be sure to pick up this week's print edition of the Weekly, where we make the observation that the scandal of public employee and politician salaries in the small working class city of Bell will be used by the conservative commentariat to great effect. They'll point to Bell, where the city m ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes Arizona Policy, Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

Stephen Colbert's Lastest Forray into Cooking: iPad Salsa

Maybe the Food Network -- or any of the other networks that are currently scrambling to get their share of the reality food television audience -- should just give Stephen Colbert his own DIY cooking show. After cutting sandwiches with an ice skate at the Olympics, the host of Colbert Nation is now ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/29-4/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Wednesday is Offal Good at Palate, a 21-gun salute to innards - last week saw cardiac night, with chicken-heart fattoush, lamb-heart shwarma, and beef-heart kebabs with prawns and romesco sauce, three courses for $25." ... More >>

James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck: Fight Between World's Two Most Annoying Men

Today in Inane Squabbles Between Successful Assholes: James Cameron (ex-husband of Kathryn Bigelow and director of Avatar), and Glenn Beck, Fox News personality and mastermind behind the book and one-man-show The Christmas Sweater--yes, that really exists) are having a media feud! It started at ... More >>

More Food-O-Vision: CBS Orders Food Reality Show

This morning comes news that network television is joining the ever-expanding (like with our waistlines) genre of food reality TV. Reuters reports that CBS has ordered Beat the Chefs, with Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Find My Family). The pilot would be the first in the genre for the ... More >>

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Spreads Christmas Cheer: An Interview with Meatwad, Carl and Shake

For the bulk of this decade, the eleven-and-a-half minute adventures of anthropomorphic meal-time treats Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad and their tough-guy neighbor Carl on Aqua Teen Hunger Force have kept us in stitches. But, despite spending countless late nights watching and re-watching Aqua T ... More >>

New Snoop Tracks Leak: Is He Gunning for the Red State Vote? [MP3]

Snoop Dogg has always donned blue, but Malice N Wonderland might just be aimed at the Red States and the Fox News constituency. Snoop's always worn blue, but is he gunning for the red states?​ First came the album's black velvet-worthy cover art by Mister Cartoon, and last night Snoop hoste ... More >>

Yosi Sergant Loses NEA Post

Kevin ScanlonOusted: NEA's Yosi Sergant​Probably no one was more surprised by the news of Yosi Sergant's pending resignation from his National Endowment for the Arts post than fright-wing commentator Glenn Beck. Last week the Fox News personality went after Sergant, the NEA's director of communica ... More >>

Burn, Baby, Burn

Beck gloats while L.A. blazes

ˇAsk a Mexican! Dark Matters

"Saddam Hussein looked like my freakin’ uncle with the ostrich boots, and I can easily pass for the Iranian president. All I need is a khaki Members Only jacket."