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

Friday, March 29 Fol Chen BOOTLEG THEATER Fol Chen is one of the most creative bands in the local electro-pop underground, conjuring unusual sounds that flutter, mutate, shimmer and trail sparks just as colorfully as the flying fish and luminous butterflies in Oz the Great and Powerful. While the m ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope

Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Bathroom Sink

This week, a sculptor continues his decades-long reimagining of household fixtures, an art book fair debuts and the spirit of L.A. is summoned. 5. Mystery tour When artist Amanda Yates, who co-founded the Los Angeles Mystery Project last fall, hosts Happening Magic nights, she might banish unwanted ... More >>

Fidlar Tour Diary Part II: Psychedelics, Germs and Pranks

[Editor's note: Highland Park four-piece Fidlar made a name for themselves last year for their explosive skate pop-punk. As we wrote in March, they were either on the brink of getting huge or flaming out; looks like it was the former. On the eve of their just-released self-titled debut album -- and ... More >>

Fabian Thylmann, Porn King Opposing Condoms In L.A. Adult Video, Arrested

Updated at the bottom with reaction from the pro-condom camp. First posted at 9:07 a.m. The co-founder a company that backed the porn industry's fight against mandatory condoms in L.A. county was arrested in Brussels on suspicion of tax evasion, according to reports. The German publication Die Wel ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 10-1

See also: The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11 Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highl ... More >>

Porn's Condom War Gets Infusion of Foreign Cash?

Updated at the bottom: The anti-condom folks say the contribution is "perfectly legal." First posted at 7:03 a.m. Backers of the November ballot initiative that would mandate condoms in porn are questioning the largest financial contributor to the adult business' opposition campaign. That happens ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! German Metal 
Festival Time

[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.] Since I last wrote you, I have been living in hotels, hitting festival stages and spending a l ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Great German Music

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and the other two at the Jasonic Tem ... More >>

Make the Poster for Meatopia 2012

Ever see a poster for a show, or even better, one of those gluttonous, $100-a-head food events, and think, man, is that ugly? Ever say to yourself, I could do better with some gnawed-up crayons and the back of an envelope? Now is your chance. Set to go down at Randall's Island in New York on Sept ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet

​[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.] A few days ago, I was sitting backstage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, in the same area ... More >>

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

Our Venn Food Diagram series has studied the people of Thailand, Armenia, Vietnam and most recently California, comparing what they actually eat with what Angelenos believe they eat. In this edition, we turn our attention to Japan, looking past ramen and sushi to see what foods Angelenos have left t ... More >>

Trent Arsenault, Sperm Donor Extraordinaire, Also Happens to be One-Man Porn Star

XtubeTrent.​We tried to stay away from the story of Trent Arsenault. We really did. With both hands. It's an icky tale. He's the Bay Area guy who mass-donates sperm to women and couples who want to have children. He does so on his own, outside the white coats of sperm labs. And so he was rece ... More >>

Criticism of Porn's HIV Scare Sparks Outrage at Manwin, the Adult Video Juggernaut That Employed Performer in Question

mofos.com​Updated at the bottom with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's response. First posted at 5:09 p.m. The company that employed a porn star who might be HIV-positive today said the man did not continue to work, nor did he work with other performers, after a test indicated he might have th ... More >>

Maybe It Should Be Retitled Lost Weekend?

E. Coli Outbreak Update: Eat Your Salad, Nobody Knows Yet

Flickr/petitshooyou can still eat this stuff​ According to the AP, German officials have retracted statements linking a lethal E. coli outbreak to sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany. In what is now the second retraction in a week, officials said that there is no evidence that spr ... More >>

Music Picks: Prince, Amanda Jo Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Xzibit, Civet,

Also, Miguel, L.A. Bluegrass Situation, Heidecker and Wood, the Ditty Bops and others

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Soul Kitchen: Fed Up

Fatih Akin serves up light cafe comedy

$300 Million Yacht Spotted Off The Coast Of Malibu

Photo Credit: Yachtpals.com​A $300 million yacht was spotted of the coast of Malibu Wednesday afternoon, according to NBC Los Angeles. Belonging to Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, the 390-foot super yacht, known as "A" is making its way up the coast to San Francisco. The boat has 23,6 ... More >>

Michelin Stars: Not In Los Angeles, But They're Getting Scattered Around Germany

Michelinhistorical Michelin tire ad​Michelin may have declined to hand out stars in Los Angeles this year (and Las Vegas too), but they're scattering them around Europe. Yesterday the Michelin Guide to Germany awarded 24 new stars, giving out one new 2-star rating, and 1-star awards to 23 prev ... More >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

I Love You, Man: Eteral Flame

Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance

Thursday Night Music Stuff in LA: The Monks film at Silent Movie Theater, DFA at the Roxy, Rootdown Soundclash at Little Temple

I love LA. Love it love it love it (except when Indie 103 gets tossed off the airwaves). One reason: nights like tonight, when the music offerings are so far-flung and wide-open that my proto-punk gene is being pulled one direction, my turntablist strand is being pulled another, and my disco-house b ... More >>

Elvis Costello and Ballet: WTF?!

Obama: "Ich Bin Nicht Ein Berliner"

Live, from the front

Border Stories: Fatih Akin's Edge of Heaven

An interview with the German-Turkish director

Dance 2007: Opening Acts

The dance scene had its highlights, but the best is yet to come

And Justice for All

Parisian duo wins the West

Francophilia

Have no fear, the French will save cinema

Infinity Squared

Kill Them All. Kill Them All!

Music and video games: an endless, wretched love affair

Twice Fifteen

Uneasy Rider

Return to the Burning Planet

As the World Turns

Not your regular news

Wrestling With Demons

Mario Duane Gardner, 1968 - ­2002

Letters

The Davis Divide

Groups of color consider giving up on the governor

How the Leopard Got Its Bars

Jurassic Sequels

Bughouse anthropology and panoramania

An Ounce of Otello

Online Music Distribution

if you upload it, they will come – true or false?

Ticket to Rut

Heavy Traffik

Bigger picture, smaller screen

Frida, Friduca, Mami

My Chilean Jewish Mother

Rostock or Bust

Achtung!

Our selections in next week's primary