Indonesia

Making Sure Your Kopi Luwak Coffee Is The Real Sh--

If you're paying $225 a pound for civet poop coffee, you want to make sure you're getting the real sh ... deal. Some say that the taste of the world's most expensive coffee beans, which pass through the digestive tracts of Asian palm civets when they eat coffee cherries in such countries as Indones ... More >>

Rape Survey Finds 1 in 4 Men From Select Asian Countries Have Done It

Phew. It looks like parts of Asia might have a rape problem. A new study published in the journal Lancet Global Health found that, on average, more than 1 in 10 men (11 percent) from China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea admitted to having raped someone who wasn't t ... More >>

The Act of Killing, 2013's First Masterpiece

The Road to Bali

5 Great Indonesian Restaurants In Los Angeles

Indonesian food is fundamentally earthy: Think of spicy red sambal sauce paired with ayam goreng (fried chicken), or fish paste balls and a creamy peanut sauce over lean bean sprouts and crispy green vegetables. Meals are sometimes served on banana leaves, and each dish is designed to stuff you ful ... More >>

Touche Amore's Southeast Asian Tour Diary: "I Cannot Put Into Words How Terrifying the Drive Was"

Los Angeles hardcore group Touche Amore is sharing their tour diary from their recent trip to Southeast Asian. Yesterday vocalist Jeremy Bolm described their wild times in Singapore and Malaysia, and for part two today he talks on their time in Indonesia. See also: Touche Amore's Southeast Asia Tou ... More >>

Kula Sushi: Conveyor-Belt Sushi in Little Tokyo

Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, or kaiten-zushi as they're known in Japan, are big business these days. You might not think so when plates of sushi are priced at just $2 each, as they are at Little Tokyo's Kula Sushi, the newest and most ambitious kaiten joint to hit the L.A. scene. But arrive on a ... More >>

How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival

The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Killing -- made with Danish support and directed by American Joshua Oppenheimer, executive produced by ... More >>

Los Angeles a Top 10 Twitter City Worldwide, Number 1 in Followers

Los Angeles is the city with most Twitter followers: 285 million people watch what we tweet. And by "we" we mean celebrities, mostly. But for sheer "number of posted tweets" we slide down the global ranking to number 8, with the likes of Jakarta (number 1), New York (5) and Paris (7) beating us. # ... More >>

L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

Act of Valor Review

15,000 Faux 'Paul Frank' Pirate Pajamas Seized at L.A. Port (Could Have Fooled Us)

U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionJulius just got a little uglier.​They must really be hurting for new things to counterfeit in Indonesia these days. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port just intercepted a 20-foot terminal container filled with -- get rea ... More >>

The Many Travels of Henry Rollins

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Barbie, 7 Kens Scale Mattel Headquarters in El Segundo, Protest Doll Boxes Made From Indonesian Rainforests

Molly Peterson/KPCCProtest Barbie has brief wig malfunction​Apparently inspired by last month's super meta Disney protest -- in which Burbank activists dressed as Mickey and Minnie chained themselves to the front gates of corporate headquarters and hung a banner reading "Disney: Destroying Ind ... More >>

Sutan Amrull: King of the Queens

PHOTOS: Mickey, Minnie Mouse Chain Themselves to Disney Headquarters in Defense of Indonesian Trees, Tigers

Rainforest Action Network via FlickrMinnie Mouse takes on the Burbank PD​Here's one way to get half-lidded 7 a.m. commuters to notice your niche environmental campaign: Dress up as Mickey and Mickey Mouse, chain yourself to the gaudy front gates of Walt Disney studios and force a team of loca ... More >>

2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Fast Five and beyond

G20 to Address Rising Food Prices

Flickr/John Rohana grocery aisle in Korea​ How long has it been since you thought groceries were cheap? Everyone has noticed the increase in food prices, and now the G20, a group composed of the heads of state of 20 of the world's largest economies, is poised to do something about it. Accord ... More >>

Silk Road Storytime

Take a Sip from the Dark Side: Darth Vader Has Coffee

ThinkGeek​We suspect that if Darth Vader were around to see the way his name has been shamelessly used to sell coffee to Empire drones, he'd Force choke the lovable nerds at ThinkGeek faster than bringing an overconfident Imperial Commander to heel. But, like Jesus, a lot of things have been d ... More >>

The Latest Buzz: The Birth of Coffee at the Craft and Folk Art Museum

Photo: Daniel Lorenzetti from The Birth of Coffee. All rights reserved.Woman from San Juan Atitlan​With support from Gaviña Gourmet Coffee and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, The Birth of Coffee exhibit at the Craft and Folk Art Museum takes us from the coffee industr ... More >>

The Orangutan Angel

Birute Galdikas' quest to save a vanishing habitat

Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival

​Do you want to save some orangutans? Do you like to run? Twenty-five bucks buys you a ticket to run in Orangutan Foundation International's upcoming fundraiser Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival on September 26. I know it takes a lot for us to get off our asses and do something truly ... More >>

Happy National S'mores Day: Top 6 Local S'mores

Al Merion PadronBakeLab S'mores​S'mores are a simple backyard pleasure (particularly during relatively cool, campfire-suited summers such as this one) so we're pleased to have another excuse to get our marshmallow toast on today in celebration of National S'mores Day. Where to go to find your ... More >>

Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia

Squid Ink Special: Chocolade Hagelslag

N. GalutenDutch sprinkles via Indonesia via Chinatown​ Welcome to another edition of Squid Ink Special, in which we highlight a great deal or specialty ingredient found on a grocery store shelf near you. Today's special is a container of Ritz brand Chocolade Hagelslag found in Chinatown's Ai ... More >>

L.A.'s Gap Between Rich And Poor Widening

​Los Angeles County. Home of The Hills, Rodeo Drive, and arguably the most exotic and high-end cars in the world. California has more billionaires than any other place on earth besides the rest of the United States. And we'd gamble that most of them live in SoCal. L.A. is also a place with a h ... More >>

Munching the Unmentionable

Where to find the foodie's equivalent of a snuff film. Or not

Ask Mr. Gold: Munching the Unmentionable. Where to Find the Foodie's Equivalent of a Snuff Film. Or Not

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Is there a food equivalent to a snuff film? I mean this quite literally. Is there some kind of food that is underground, illegal to the max, that is only rumored even among the foodiest of foodies? I suppose eating human fle ... More >>

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

... and into the urap

This Weekend: Paperrad, Extreme Animals Bring Music and Animation to The Smell, Silent Movie Theater

One of the great moments of my tedious existence was playing host to Paperrad's Summer of HTML tour when it rolled through St. Louis in 2003. The art-collective-cum-musical project did a house tour with the 8-Bit Construction Set and artist Cory Arcangel, and over the course of four glorious hour ... More >>

Sacred Sounds

Kingdom Come

Best Tidal Refuge

Infuzion Café

Studies in Chocolate

Abode Restaurant and Lounge

Micro-Ritmia

The World Chokes

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10

The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy

They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

Bill’s Gong Show

The art of Kraft

The World on a String

Davos, American Style

The state of global protest

W Transformed!

Bush, new and improved, except where he’s old and rotten

Of Carnage and Hope

Independence vote for East Timor follows U.S. complicity in 24 years of killing

Roots of Terror

The terrible price of independence in East Timor

The Prisoner

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's leading writer, out on tour

Let's Get Dead

Music for the modern zombie

Five Big Ideas

War Without Borders