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What Office Trailers Can Teach Us About Los Angeles

A new exhibit at the Center for Land Use Interpretation glorifies the utilitarian

Juicy J Is Going to Make Me Forget My Problems

[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] Today, likely while you are reading this, my students will be taking the state-mandated tes ... More >>

Bar Covell's Matthew Kaner is a 2013 Food and Wine Sommelier of the Year

Taking his spot among some serious heavyweights, Bar Covell's Matthew Kaner has been named among Food and Wine's 2013 Sommeliers of the year, a distinction bestowed on only 11 wine professionals. According to Food and Wine, Kaner won ...

Q & A With USC Professor Sarah Portnoy: On Latino Food in L.A

We all eat for pleasure. Some of us also eat in pursuit of academic knowledge. "Food studies" is a burgeoning field where scholars consider food a potent tool for illuminating a vast range of topics and issues. Among L.A. colleges and universities, you'll find classes on "Animal Ethics," "Restaurant ... More >>

John Arnold And Feliciano Serrano: Two Six-Figure Contributors Make Late Plays In L.A. Mayor's Race

Two men with little previous connection to L.A. politics are putting six-figure sums into the race for mayor in the final week of the campaign.John Arnold, a retired Enron trader who made billions running a Houston-based hedge fund, gave $200,000 to the committee supporting Kevin James.More oddly, D ... More >>

NBA Players Love the Card Game Bourré. Now Some Reality TV Vets Are Plotting to Make It as Big as Poker

Get a book. Collect a stack. Raise the stakes. Repeat. That's the objective of bourré, the underground card game popular with the pro athlete set. Chances are you've heard about it and didn't even know it. Remember when Taft High School alum and ex-NBAer Gilbert Arenas pulled a gun on his the ... More >>

Hip-Hop Albums We're Excited For in 2013

The world didn't end, the new year is upon us, and it's time to get pumped about 2013. While we've all but given up hope that 2013 will be the year we see Detox, there's still plenty of releases either officially announced or highly likely to land that have us excited. It's with the boom-bap baby ne ... More >>

West Hollywood Gay Men Are Sluttiest In Nation

West Hollywood has come a long way since it was incorporated as its own city on the western fringe of Hollywood in 1984. While its Boys' Town strip along Santa Monica Boulevard can still rival New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Castro district as the gay capital of America, WeHo is a g ... More >>

Here Are Ten More Fake Bob Dylan Quotes

Last week it was revealed that New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jonah Lehrer made up a few Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. "It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you have something to say," Lehrer fake quotes Dylan about the writing o ... More >>

KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days

The Ten Best Hip-Hop Dances of All Time, With Illustrations

"YOU ARE A FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING MORON AND I AM GOING TO DO PHYSICAL HARM TO YOU WHEN I SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND." That's an email I received last week. The whole thing. That's all it said. Bolded and everything. It came from a guy I've met three times. I guess don't necessarily hate him, but I don't li ... More >>

Audrey Napoleon Performs Like She Has Sex

Audrey Napoleon is a lot to look at: all ink black precision-cut hair, pale skin, black cat eyeliner, four inch gold heels and perfectly applied red lipstick. Sitting in front of a wall of windows a dozen floors above Hollywood on an overcast Friday morning, she's a perfectly assembled goth dream gi ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

Body Art Expo: At the World's Biggest Tattoo Convention, Roving Artists Charge by the Limb

See also: 10 Awesome Tattoo Artists in L.A. Welcome to my life, tattoo I'm a man now, thanks to you I expect I'll regret you But the skin graft man won't get you You'll be there when I die -"Tattoo" by The Who People with tattoos are sentimental. Most of them, anyway. No one gets a ... More >>

Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained

Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop In our music feature this week, Jason Roche ... More >>

Franklin Sirmans: His Fun Is Showing

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The art world sometimes takes itself too seriously. Franklin Sirmans doesn't. But that doesn't mean he isn't a serious player. He just knows how to have fun, even while doing s ... More >>

Q & A With Joel Stein: The "Intolerable Foodie" on Organics, Foodie Culture Man Food

Readers of Joel Stein's column in Time Magazine may remember when Stein hobnobbed with the super-rich over bottles of wine valued more than $5,000 each. The night he sampled dishes in the Alinea kitchen inspired by Escoffier's 1903 cookbook. Or the time he gobbled up KFC's Double Down sandwich, made ... More >>

50 Cent, Eminem, and the Best of SXSW Yesterday

See also Houston Press's 50 Cent showcase slideshow 50 Cent / Eminem - Austin Music Hall Never mind that Get Rich or Die Trying actually came out in 2003; the moist and dewy crowd at Austin Music Hall last night was plenty psyched for his performance of his debut album on its "10th anniversary." Ba ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style

[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 was just in Texas for a show. Since 1981 I've done a lot of shows in Texas. Whenever I am the ... More >>

"Niggas in Paris": We Can Now Tell You With Much Greater Accuracy How Many Times Jay-Z And Kanye Will Play It At Staples Center

Sayre Berman​See also: "Niggas in Paris": Jay-Z and Kanye Will Perform It 13 Times When They're Here. Seriously. On November 29 we published a post containing the results of our "Niggas In Paris" linear regression. During the encores of their current Watch The Throne tour, Jay-Z and Kanye Wes ... More >>

Concussions Take a Terrible Toll on America's Young Athletes

Slaughter Survivors at Key Club 7/21/11

Conducting from the Grave​WHO: Slaughter Survivors Tour with Conducting from the Grave, The Contortionist, Scale the Summit, Rings of Saturn, Volumes, Structures WHERE: The Key Club WHEN: 7/21/11 Better than... Warped Tour Slaughter Survivors Tour, a blatant spin-off of the Summer Slaughter ... More >>

The Fall and Rise of the House of Pies Send Us Your Photos of Surviving House of Pies Buildings

If you've given a thought to the House of Pies, the longtime coffee shop and restaurant at the corner of Vermont and Franklin in Los Feliz, chances are its either been in contemplation of a piece of pie or noticing the unusual architecture. There was a short period when the distinctive, angular, cot ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull Talks About Aqualung, His Duet with an Astronaut and Why He Doesn't Attend Concerts

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.​In 1967, Ian Anderson traded a Fender Stratocaster that previously belonged to Lemmy from Motorhead for a flute, since he felt he would never be as good of a guitar player as Eric Clapton. The rest is history. We caught up with Anderson to chat about the album Aq ... More >>

The Tree of Life: Better Than a Masterpiece

Terrence Malick's big-budget experimental film

Newt Gingrich and the NAACP, Together Over Criminal Justice Reform and Century Blvd. Billboard

NAACPPremiering on Century Blvd.​What do Newt Gingrich and the NAACP have in common? Starting today, it's a new billboard in town. The latest addition to LA's sea of giant-ass signs is on Century Boulevard, compliments of the NAACP, and states that in the past 23 years state spending on jails ha ... More >>

Greenbar Collective's Bitters Challenge: Enter Your Bitters, Win Your Own Brand

Greenbar Collective​Need a little spare cocktail change? If you've got a good bitters recipe, Greenbar Collective wants to (potentially) pay you for it. There is, of course, plenty of fine print. You must be a bartender - one with an actual job in the hospitality industry - and you must live i ... More >>

NFL Stadium: One 'LA Weekly' Reader Uses Catholic Guilt to Get Your Support For Tim Leiweke's NFL Dream

The Gensler firm's vision for NFL downtown.​After we reflected Wednesday on Staples Center chief Tim Leiweke's pitch to an L.A. City Council committee for an NFL stadium downtown, he got at least one show of support from a Weekly reader. The $1.3-billion-plus stadium would take over a part of ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Of Grapes and Nuts, Paradise Park, The Web

This is What Jim Morrison Would Have Sounded Like if He Had Gotten Old and Bald: Stone Temple Pilots Suspend Tour After Scott Weiland's Onstage Antics

Stone Temple Pilots Suspend Tour After Scott Weiland's Onstage Antics

Rap Supergroup Alert: Bun B Cool Kids Freddie Gibbs Black Keys Other Guy = P.O.C.

Freddie Gibbs collaborates with Bun B, Chuck Inglish, Chip tha Ripper and Dan Aeurbach​Hey! It's a new rap supergroup and Snoop Dogg isn't involved this time. Our favorite L.A. (via Gary, Indiana) nü-gangsta rapper Freddie Gibbs has teamed up with an almost all-star lineup for an outfit tent ... More >>

Bun B Releases New Album 'Trill OG': Rapper Remembers Pimp C, Talks Soulja Boy Collaboration and Why Hip-Hop Can't Afford to be Lazy

Oldemar Alfaro[L-R] Talib Kweli and Bun B at the 'Trill OG' listening event​It's 9:27 AM in Houston when rapper Bun B picks up fellow emcee Dizzee Rascal from the airport. In Bun's car they cruise the streets, pull up to a house, and once inside, slide a stack of bills across a table. In excha ... More >>

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big

Restrepo: Film Is a Battlefield

Journalist-filmmakers go to war

LAPD Chief Beck Decries Arizona's Immigration Law

​Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck joined top cops from around the nation in Washington, D.C. Wednesday to decry Arizona's controversial immigration law as a hindrance to law enforcement. Beck aired his opionion to Attorney General Eric Holder, who is still considering whether t ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Download: Jneiro Jarel Remixes Brazilian Legend Arthur Verocai [MP3]

The 'Timeless' DVD box set.​The whereabouts of Jneiro Jarel are a bit of a mystery. Though the prolific underground producer first made his name in Houston opening for groups like the Pharcyde and the Geto Boys, he rose to prominence in New York as part of the extended Okayplayer posse, then ... More >>

Putting More LAPD Cops On The Streets Pays Dividends, Study States

​As budget-triggered reductions of Los Angeles Police Department cops affect the city for the first time since 2005, the union representing LAPD officers is touting a Rand study that concludes adding more badges to the force is well worth the cost. The report, issued last month, concluded tha ... More >>

L.A. Tops List Of American Cities With The Most Green Buildings

mccarthycook.comThe Trident Center in West L.A.​Los Angeles topped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of major American cities with the most energy efficient buildings, the EPA announced Tuesday. This marks the second year in a row L.A. was tops in green buildings. L.A. has the l ... More >>

Jackson Doc Facing Involuntary Manslaughter, According To Report

​The Associated Press is reporting that the doctor who was with Michael Jackson when he apparently went into cardiac arrest shortly before his June death will be charged with involuntary manslaughter by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. Conrad Murray, who reportedly admits t ... More >>

We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)

Gangsta rap is over. Clownin’ and Krumpin’ too

Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues

Lighting Ants On Fire

Go Duck Yourself

There’s just something about the crackly skin and the dark juicy meat that has us craving duck now and again...

The Gospel Hours

Networks retool primetime for religious Republicanism

Eat, Drink, Die

McDonald’s loves you — the more of you the better

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