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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Prancing Horses on a Stage the Size of a Football Field

The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry National Center, and for a revival of Carlos Murillo's Dark Play (or Story for Boys) at the Whitmore-Lindley The ... 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 >>

Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion, Terry Jastrow's Play at Edgemar Center

Henry Rollins: The Column! Sound Trekking

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Nha Trang

The Column! No. 2 With a Bullet

Jane Fonda at LACMA: Barbarella Barbie

Series spotlights the many costumes of a single search for meaning

Henry Rollins: The Column! Rollins on How The Doors, the Velvet Underground and The Stooges Beat the Sophomore Slump

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

Red Medicine

Jordan Kahn's Vietnamese eatery deserves notoriety for its food, too

Eat This Now: Vien Dong's Cha Ca Thang Long

K. RobbinsVien Dong's cha ca thang long​ When you order cha ca thang long at Vien Dong, the bright bustling Northern Vietnamese specialist in Garden Grove, you will be forgiven for a moment of confusion. "I thought I ordered fish," you might think as you gaze at the sizzling platter of dill a ... More >>

You Can't Go Home Again: Henry Rollins on Being Back in the USA, Autumnal Feelings and his Favorite Thomas Wolfe Passage!

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Hanoi Henry: Henry Rollins Grooves to Funkadelic in Ho Chi Minh City, Bears Witness to the Still Open Wounds of America's Most Controversial War and Broadcasts Straight Outta Vietnam's Busy Streets

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Our Man in Tibet (and Nepal): Henry Rollins on the Sad Faces in the Land of the Lamas, his Favorite Kathmandu Hotel, and the Genius of Blue Note Jazz

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

A Culinary Tour of Vietnam Tastings and Wine

Amazon​Taste Vietnamese food prepared by author Kim Fay this Wednesday, July 14th, at a celebration for her just-published book, Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam. Fay's sister, Julie Fay Ashborn, whose photos appear in the book, will also take part. The time is 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. ... More >>

Live Review: Hanoi Rocks' Michael Monroe @ the Viper Room

Word came in that Michael Monroe, longtime frontman for pioneering sleazo-glam-metal outfit Hanoi Rocks would be playing the Viper Room last Friday, in a rare LA show before heading out to SXSW. As the mastermind of Hanoi Rocks, Monroe (born Matti Fagerholm in Finland almost 50 years ago) is the mi ... More >>

Propaganda, War

​The Toronto International Film Festival doesn't exactly have a reputation for being a lightning rod for political controversy, but it became one in the early days of this year's edition thanks to a new festival sidebar, City to City, designed to explore "the evolving urban experience by immersing ... More >>

Chef Robert Danhi Leads Culinary Tours of Little Saigon

Emma CourtlandA labyrinth of foreign labels​Los Angeles' ethnic neighborhoods often feel impenetrable. Navigating the seas of strip malls signed by foreign characters, and market mounds of various exotic herbs all labeled "peppermint," is a disconcerting task for even the most adventurous flav ... More >>

Pho Town: Noodle Stories From South El Monte

Vietnamese beef noodle soup — it's all about the broth

Election '08: The Terrorists Strike, the Markets Crumble . . . Plus, McCain's Radical Dance

BY MARC COOPER We had been told since the beginning that the Taliban, al Qaeda and jihadists in general worked on what was called a "biblical calendar." None of this faster, quicker B.S. They would take their time in restoring the Caliphate. Fair enough. But who knew the Weather Underground had ... More >>

Forgotten Ideals, and Forgotten Movies About Them, Resurface at LAFF

In search of lost films

Daisy Mint: Fusion ...

... without pretention

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

Sunset Serenade

Summer Festival at the Huntington

Santa Monica or Saigon?

A tale of two brothers

Exorcising Demons

Satan Smoke Filters Through Hollywood

Where Are They Now?

An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni

Letters

Coming Back to Earth

The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

The Year in Film

Republic Relations

Anti-Americans abroad and Bumble Ward's meta-PR

Personal Wars

Pho West, Young Man

Real Vietnamese-style noodles come to Brentwood

O Brodard, Where Art Thou?

Steal This Hoffman

Sort of red, arguably white, very blue

Words of War

Journalists on Vietnam

The War at Home

Orange County’s Little Saigon confronts the ghost of Ho Chi Minh