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Los Angeles Reclaims Title As America's Traffic Congestion King

Among the numerous declarations that Los Angeles has the worst traffic in America, this is arguably the most definitive. Traffic information provider INRIX, which tracks real-time congestion, looked at its data for last year and concluded that L.A. is back on top as king of the road-turned-parking ... More >>

Tokimonsta on Asshole DJs and Her Twitter Game

Tokimonsta is the subject of our music feature this week; for the story, we hung out with the beat scene DJ/producer at the dinner party event celeb chef Roy Choi whipped up for her at his restaurant A-Frame. A few days later we sat down with her over green tea to talk about her recently released so ... More >>

Los Angeles Traffic Sucks The Worst (Again)

From the Department of Tell Us Something We Don't Already Know we bring you Tom Tom's latest "congestion index" data. This particular breaking news involves the GPS company's round-up of North American cities with the absolute worst traffic at the end of 2012. And you know who the wiener is:

Henry Rollins: Bored In Hawaii

[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.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Day After Bowie's The Next Day I am stationed in Honolulu. It is ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A Replay While Henry's Away

KCRW BROADCAST #208 03-23-13   Fanatics! Hello from Honolulu, Hawaii. Due to a scheduling glitch, I am out here without the means to create this Saturday's show. Engineer X and I looked over some of our older shows and settled on one from last May to roll out for you. You might remember it from wh ... More >>

Los Angeles Has America's Most Congested Traffic -- Again

No big surprise here. Every quarter, it seems, new data supports the fact that Los Angeles is the absolute worst place in the nation for traffic. This time around TomTom's annual Congestion Index gives us the crown once more. Yay!

That Musical About Veganism Starring Jon Secada and Based on the Poetry of Supreme Master Ching Hai, Explained

Kelly Packard "is well known for her acting work on Baywatch," the emcee in a tux told everyone within earshot Saturday afternoon as Packard approached the red carpet, just before the debut of a new musical playing for one day only, titled Loving Silent Tears. The musical's publicity materials said ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over 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.] I am writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

LAX Could be America's Next Top Disease Magnet

Ah, beautiful L.A., home of beaches and billionaires and Playboy bunnies. And now we are a top American gateway ... for disease. Wonderful. New research from MIT says that LAX and New York's John F Kennedy would be ground zeroes for outbreaks, such as the next ...

Free Frozen Yogurt at Universal Citywalk Tomorrow Hello Kitty

Love Hello Kitty? Love Froyo? Then you'll probably be as giddy as a preteen Japanese schoolgirl to discover that Yogurtland has paired up with Sanrio to debut their line of co-brand merchandise set for release beginning tomorrow through Labor Day weekend. All your favorite characters -- Hello Kitty, ... More >>

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 >>

Worst Traffic Congestion Not in Los Angeles, But We Have the Worst Freeway in America

We know that you've done your own research and that you're adamant Los Angeles has the worst traffic than pretty much anyplace other than hell. But you're wrong. According to the new annual "Traffic Scorecard" released today by traffic data company Inrix ...

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Mauricio Umansky Truths All Over Kim Richards

Don't you just love when double standards are disproved? Case in point: that persistent belief that when men speak their minds, they're "assertive," but when women do it, they're "bitchy." Well, last night, Kyle Richard's husband, the ever-dreamy Mauricio Umansky, decided to speak up on the subject ... More >>

The Descendants Review

Alexander Payne's Hawaiian excursion might be the feel-good movie of the year. Uh oh.

The National, Neko Case & Sharon Van Etten - Hollywood Bowl - September 11, 2011

Timothy Norris​The National, Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten Hollywood Bowl September 11, 2011 See also: The National's Matt Berninger On Shutting Down Honolulu's Airport and Finally Ending Their Tour Better Than: Listening to these bands perform on "Morning Becomes Eclectic." It was only t ... More >>

The National's Matt Berninger On Shutting Down Honolulu's Airport and Finally Ending Their Tour

Keith Klenowski​By Michael Christopher Criss cross continents for as long as the National has and weird shit is bound to happen. Take, for instance, an incident last summer in Honolulu when the band's frontman, Matt Berninger, was taken into federal custody under suspicion that he had smugg ... More >>

Summit Entertainment Sues Owner of www.twilight.com for Allegedly Stealing Robert Pattinson's Mojo

​Attention all Twihards: If you responded to a casting call that was posted on the Website www.twilight.com, and have been wondering when you're going to get that life-altering phone call telling you to prance around with Edward and the gang ... don't hold your breath. It seems we may have a huc ... More >>

Luke Monahan, Camp Pendleton Marine, Dies in 8-Story Fall From Hawaiian Hotel; Was Memorial Day Drinkfest to Blame?

tumblr via everythingmarinecorpsLuke Monahan in uniform​At only 19 years old, San Diego County's Luke Monahan had yet to put his Camp Pendleton Marine Corps training to use. But you could say he died in the field last Friday, in a freak fall apparently tied to the Corps' extracurriculars. Lik ... More >>

FINGER PICKIN' GOOD

Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

Mystery Missile Was Actually A U.S. Airways Flight From Hawaii To Phoenix

CBS8 San DiegoNothing to see here​Remember that mysterious missile-trail that had everyone scratching their heads yesterday? Turns out to have a very, very boring explanation.It was a U.S. Airways flight from Honolulu to Phoenix.Liem Bahneman, a software engineer and amateur photographer from Seat ... More >>

Women Set To Protest Topless For Equal Rights In Venice

​ A bevy of topless woman plan on marching the streets of Venice Sunday to demand that all women have the right to bare their chests. The nationwide event is being organized by GoTopless, a group trying to help women "perceive their breasts as noble, natural parts of their anatomy."

Got Mochi: Little Tokyo's Mikawaya Celebrates 100th Anniversary

A. ScattergoodMochi at Mikawaya​ Finish off a plate of hamachi sashimi or negitoro-maki at any sushi bar and you'll most likely have the option to bite into the colorful, chilled dessert that has come to be known as Mochi Ice Cream. With flavors ranging from Green Tea, Strawberry to Mango - t ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: (Far) Eastern Swing

Parsing the Mysterious Lyrical Challenges of the Animal Collective, This Year's "New Radiohead"

Vague terrain

Political Palates: Obama's Taste for Kine Grindz

And McCain's preference for poorly regarded Tex-Mex

Best Day in the 'burbs

Going carless in Glendale and Montrose

Like Fresh Cream: Al Green Teams With the Roots

Reverend re-imagines the notion of smooth soul

Rockie Horoscope

Godlike Geniuses! Jane's Addiction to reunite, solve the mystery of "dark matter"

Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Hildegard von Bingen, Albert Einstein, Susan Sontag, Manic Street Preachers: the smartest of our breed, humans whose brains teamed with their obsessions to create order where there was chaos, to make sense of this crazy world we live in. Add yet another notch to the totem o ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

For the first time since the band originally split seventeen years ago, the four original members of Jane's Addiction will play in L.A. as part of the NME Awards on April 23. Dave Navarro posted this note on his blog about the reunion. So, yes... As I posted a few days ago, Jane's has been honore ... More >>

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Brick's Picks: Living the Blues

Red Holloway’s soulful, seasoned sounds

Animal Planet

A local children’s line mixes fashion and conservation

Austin City Limits

Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at SXSW 2007

Far From Savory Dock

A Beer-slugging, Flag-waving, Double-Wilder Week of Fun

Saving L.A.

Wanted: A city planner who can organize communities

Hawk and Dove

Shake It Like a Camera-Phone Picture

Number Wonton

Ask Mr. Gold

Fajita pitas, Octopus Tacos, and the Birth of California Cuisine

25 moments — over 25 years — in L.A. restaurants

Search and Restore

Sharon Spiegelman and her irrepressible destiny

Big Love

Look out, sumo fans, Konishiki gonna sing

Pink Champagne

Dewey Terry's rock & roll party

Black Velvet Goldmine

The cultural legacy of Edgar Leeteg

Hawaiian Aye

Bruddah's island soul