Haiti

Exploiting Haiti

Capturing the Carnage

Apres le Earthquake

37: The Island Combo at TiGeorges' Chicken

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 37: The Island Combo at TiGeorges' Chicken. One imagines George Laguerre, who opened his Haitian restaurant TiGeorges' C ... More >>

On a Hopeful Note

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hands Are Groping Me, Breasts Are Pushed Into Me

[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.] Time becomes fluid and is then smashed, compressed, elongated by miles and then slammed into a ... More >>

9 Appalling & Tasteless Gingerbread Houses

See this gingerbread house? The one with turrets and bay windows, candy canes on the door, licorice piping on the windows and shingles lined with gumdrops and M&Ms. That's how a normal gingerbread house looks. Some people, however, like their holiday food tinged with grim reality, which is to say tr ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Curtis Mayfield
 Songs in Haiti

​[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 have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascina ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A Time Change and Curtis Mayfield

​KCRW BROADCAST #131 for Saturday, September 10 Fanatics! I'm writing to you from Port Au Prince, Haiti. I have been here for about a week now and tomorrow will be flying back to Los Angeles, getting a few hours of sleep, and then coming into the studio at our new time of 8 pm to do the show ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Henri Ford: Doctor Sans Frontieres

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Death, Sun Ra, Boris

Timothy Norris​ [For the rest of Henry's columns, go to our Henry Rollins archives. To subscribe to his RSS, click here.] KCRW BROADCAST #103 for Saturday, Feb. 26. Fanatics! Are you kidding? This might be one of the bestest examples of sonic supremacy we have ever assembled! Immediatel ... More >>

SOME ENCHANTED FAUX-NAIVE

U.S. State Department on Haiti's Food Security

United NationsChildren in Cité Soleil, Haiti receive meals​On Saturday, the U.S. Department of State released a fact sheet on the work they have been doing to improve food security in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in January of 2010. While there is still incredibly depressing new ... More >>

Haiti's Peanut Butter Miracles

Amid that country's chaos, a St. Louis pediatrician has made ending child malnutrition her life's work

Haitian Farmers to Burn Donated Monsanto Hybrid Seed

MonsantoHelpful diagram illustrating crop hybridization​ Missouri-based agribusiness multinational Monsanto's latest attempt to cultivate good press is being met with widespread reproach in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, where the GMO giant is donating 130 tons of pesticide-coated hybrid and conven ... More >>

George Laguerre: From the Ruins

George Laguerre: From the Ruins

Kevin ScanlonGeorge Laguerre​First, there was the 7.0 quake in George Laguerre's native Haiti, which destroyed houses and businesses of his friends and family. Then, on the night Laguerre was packing for his first trip back to Haiti since the disaster, an electrical fire burned his beloved Ech ... More >>

Santee's Surprising Kitchen

Cooking With George Laguerre: A Lesson in Haitian Food

On Wednesday, George Laguerre took a break from packing coffee beans for his wholesale business in the charred remains of his restaurant TiGeorges' Chicken on Glendale Blvd., and traveled south to give a lesson in Haitian cooking to a group of high school students. Erica Z. Wrightson​

L.A. County Fire Rescuers Heading To Chile

L.A. County Fire rescuers in Haiti.​Members of the Los Angeles County Urban Search and Rescue task forces have to be some of the busiest first responders in the world. Last month they were in Haiti pulling people from the rubble of a devastating earthquake there. On Monday a task force prepare ... More >>

Bootleg of Radiohead's Haiti Benefit at the Fonda Surfaces

Radiohead Haiti Benefit Free MP3 Bootleg

Radiohead Dig Out the Big Guitars for a Haiti Relief Benefit at the Fonda

Click here to view Timothy Norris's slide show from last night's Radiohead show at the Fonda. Can we give the bassist some? Please? Let's give the bassist some. His name is Colin Greenwood, and he's not either of the two Radiohead guys that most people, such as your mom, know. He's not the strikin ... More >>

Dine Out & Bake For Haiti: More Fundraising Events Around Town

Celebrities banded together for "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" telethon on Friday, which raised $57 million and counting. And on a bit of a smaller, but no less meaningful scale, local bakers and restaurants have been rallying support for those in need, suffering from t ... More >>

Radiohead at the Fonda: Set List from a Night of Big Guitars

Here is the set list for tonight's epic Radiohead show at the Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater, which was a benefit for Oxfam International's work in Haiti. They made, according to Yorke (who prefaced the number with a shocked "fuck me!"): $572,754. We'll have a review up shortly, but figured yo ... More >>

Jenny Lewis and Friends Present 'Song Circle for Haiti'

Jenny Lewis and Friends Present 'Song Circle for Haiti' Tuesday at Largo

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: More Haiti Fundraisers Around Town

TiGeorges'​Chefs and restaurant employees around the city are generously donating their time to raise money for Haiti. Here is a list of places you can donate while you dine. The Edison will donate all door proceeds this week to the Haiti relief fund. On Friday, Jan. 22th from 5pm-8pm, the b ... More >>

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

Local Restaurants Fundraise for Haiti: A List of Places You Can Give Back While Eating Out

E.Z. Wrightson​Last week, a fundraiser hosted by George LaGuerre pulled in $14,000 for Haiti relief efforts. Following TiGeorges' lead, restaurants around the city will be donating a portion of their proceeds to Haiti relief funds. Here's a list of places you can eat while supporting the cause ... More >>

Celebrate MLK Day with Mr. Fingers and "I Have a Dream"

Nothing like dancing and preaching at the same time....Happy MLK day. To celebrate, here's some classic Chicago house for you. We're on a light posting schedule today because of the holiday, but we'll still be covering stuff as it comes up. Oh, and have you tossed $10 to Haitian relief yet? Just ... More >>

L.A. County Firefighters Make Weekend Rescues In Haiti

​The Los Angeles County Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue task force in Haiti rescued at least five women over the weekend in Haiti. The the saves, which upped the team's total rescues in the earthquake-devastated nation to nine, have put the unit "in high spirits," according to Inspec ... More >>

TiGeorges' Haiti Relief Fundrasier: More Press, Less Chicken

At the bustling Haiti relief fundraiser Thursday night, two days after Tuesday's devastating earthquake, a parade of media vans parked in front of TiGeorges' Chicken on Glendale Boulevard. Reporters and community organizers crammed into the small restaurant, and while some managed to place dinner or ... More >>

L.A. County Search And Rescue Team Locates Six In Haitian Rubble

L.A. County Fire DepartmentL.A. search and rescue crews in Haiti.​(CORRECTED to reflect that three have been rescued, not six). A Los Angeles County urban search and rescue task force deployed to Haiti Thursday has already helped to locate six people and rescued three of them tfollowing the na ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/11 - 1/15

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "There's no phone system in Haiti right now." TiGeorges' Chicken Haitian Restaurant Hosts Earthquake Fundraiser Tomorrow Night. "The fan system at Park's BBQ could ventilate the chrome off a trailer hitch, but th ... More >>

Arcade Fire, Josephine Baker, Alan Lomax, Wyclef on Haiti, Music, Love, Charity

The Arcade Fire have released a statement urging everyone to donate to help relief efforts in Haiti. Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, whose family is from Haiti, have a strong connection to the island. Friends, Haiti needs your help in her darkest hour. We just got off the phone with our frie ... More >>

Musician Tweets from Destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Musician Tweets from Destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Who's Footing L.A.'s Recovery?

File this contrast in the Just Sayin' Dept.An L.A. Times blog flagged an Argonaut story about county beach fees rising higher than today's mercury, while City News Service reports that the L.A. City Council seems ready to all but waive some business taxes. According to the Argonaut, which serves the ... More >>

Docuweek

Haiti's Hope

A tortured country searches for a future

Waiting for Preval

The would-be president urges calm amid claims of election fraud

Silent Streets

Haiti takes a break from the violence and votes

The Revolution Will Not Be Compromised

Ben Guillory and the Robey Theater Company give Haitian history its due

Water Torture

Flooding and the future of the world

Making Sense

Jonathan Demme presents Haitian crusader Jean Dominique

Aristide Development

A black population with a slave past is done in by killing indifference. Sound familiar?

Dreaming in Chinese

Cristina Garcia on culture-bending, poetry and her new novel, Monkey Hunting

No Significant Features

The Caribbean, the dark and a ghost

Let's Get Dead

Music for the modern zombie

Raising Cane

A conversation with Edwidge Danticat