Hurricanes and Cyclones

Three People Laughed for Six Hours Straight at LACMA on Saturday. And It Was Mesmerizing

I suppose your first thought on walking into a cyclone might be "what the ----?" Or it might be nothing at all. You might be so overwhelmed at trying to orient yourself that your brain snaps into some other mode of consciousness. Spanish artist La Ribot's six-hour performance Laughing Hole performed ... More >>

Hump Whale Sushi Case Sees Federal Indictments; Kiyoshiro Yamamoto Charged

Santa Monica's late Hump restaurant and two of its sushi chefs were accused by a federal grand jury of selling endangered Sei whale meat, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles announced this afternoon. The jury's nine-count federal indictment names parent company Typhoon Restaurant, Inc., as we ... More >>

Jon Hamm and Adam Scott Host Sandy Benefit, With Performances by Aziz Ansari, Sarah Silverman and More

See also: *Dick Jokes for Jesus at Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week "Ladies, please prepare your vaginas," announced actor/comedian Aziz Ansari Monday night at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, introducing masters of ... More >>

Great Dane

Fabio Will Make L.A. Hot And Wet: Tropical Storm Remnants Could Bring Summer Rain

Tropical Storm Fabio is headed to Los Angeles, and he's bringing a hot, wet, stormy evening with him. Possibly. Readers of the romance novels baring the bare-chested likeness of Fabio Lanzoni will appreciate the steaminess. The rest of us will think it sucks. Here's the forecast:

Braised Short Ribs at Seongbukdong

A. FrougGalbi jjim at Seongbukdong​ When talking about braised meat, phrases like "melt in your mouth" and "so tender I could cut it with my spoon" shouldn't mean anything. Because of course it does and of course you could. All that's needed to make tender, melting beef/chicken/pork/goat/lamb/ ... More >>

Have a Deadpan Easter!

Movie Review: The Big Uneasy

SHEARER GENIUS

Hurricane Surf In SoCal This Weekend?

​Stranger things have happened, but the website Surfline has a rarity for June: possible hurricane surf hitting the Southern California coast. Hurricane Celia is rotating 750 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and, although she's getting weaker as water to the north gets cooler, Celia c ... More >>

Santa Monica Whale Sushi Restaurant Closes

The Hump and Typhoon restaurants.​The Hump, the Santa Monica restaurant that faces a federal charge for serving endangered whale meat, announced it's closing its doors effective Saturday. "The Hump hopes that by closing its doors, it will help bring awareness to the detrimental effect that il ... More >>

Anti Whale-Sushi Campaign Waged Against Wrong Restaurants

​The owners of a chain of Thai restaurants in the Pacific Northwest say they've been wrongly targeted by activists upset over the serving of whale meat: Apparently the eateries are in the cross-hairs of animal lovers because they happen to have the same name as the parent company of the Santa ... More >>

Breaking News: Restaurant's Owner, Sushi Chef Charged In Whale Meat Scandal

​Federal charges were filed Wednesday against a Santa Monica restaurant and its sushi chef for allegedly serving sei whale, an endangered species projected under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act, the U.S. Attorney's office announced. The criminal complaint charges the The Hump's parent c ... More >>

Rap Me Like a Hurricane

Hillary's Emoluments Problem

One of the many learning perks of the recent election cycle was watching how political arguments would form in the blogosphere, whirl around a bit and then burst into the mainstream media. Like tropical depressions forming off the coast of Africa before they rolled into the Caribbean as hurricanes, ... More >>

Trouble the Water: Hard Rain

Katrina, stark and surreal, in a remarkable documentary

Randy Newman, Katrina, The Fourth of July and "Louisiana 1927"

Randy Newman, Katrina, The Fourth of July and "Louisiana 1927" By Alex Rawls In April in The New York Times, Geoffrey Himes described Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927” as “more than an anthem, ... it’s also a modern-day folk song that gains new lyrics as singers adapt it to new circumstance ... More >>

Lil Wayne to Play House of Blues on June 16

I'll post Lil Wayne's incendiary anti-Bush song, "Georgia Bush," any chance I get, as most people don't know one of the best protest songs of the 21st century. Released as the last track on DJ Drama and Lil Wayne's Dedication 2 mixtape that dropped in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Weezy, a New ... More >>

Theater of the Absurd in New Orleans and on the Campaign Trail

Waiting for Godot

Like Wildfire

Fanning the flames of hate and stupidity

Please Turn Out the Lights When You Go

A Lesson Before Dying and Safety

When the Saints Go Marching In

Because They Have No Words

This week's theater pick. Also reviews of Fences and This is Our Youth

Ninth Lives

Aftermath of the Deluge

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Stormy Weather

Katrina in Words

Running Hot and Cold: A Dozen Weird Weather Moments

The Rogue Cetacean Death Squad

Running Hot and Cold: A Dozen Weird Weather Moments

While We Were Sleeping

Who will save New Orleans?

The Gambler�s Index

Reborn To Rescue

When disaster struck, washed-out pro surfer Matt George didn�t ask permission to start saving people. Now he can�t stop

Shame. Shame. Shame.

But can Democrats fill the vacuum?

Look, but Don�t Touch

On helping Katrina survivors escape the Astrodome while Rita bears down

Hurricane Katrina Benefits

All Eyes On New Orleans

A look at what the rest of the world is saying

Hello, Mr. Soule

A Louisiana family comes West... again

Walls of Indifference

The campaign continues to ruin the future of New Orleans� poor

A Decent and Simple Home

Washed Away

New Orleans is an ancestral home for many Angelenos... what happens when there�s nothing to go back to?

What Would You Do?

Saved... by Rock & Roll

Katrina Blues

The displaced musicians of New Orleans

Week of the Living Dead

How Not to Manage a Crisis � The Timeline

�There�re Alligators and Snakes in the Water�

E-mails from the apocalypse

No Second Line for New Orleans

Cause C�l�bre: Green Carpets and Ancient Elves

Mud means new woes for benighted Chiapas