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Ireland

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    The Cranberries' "Zombie": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: The Cranberries, "Zombie" History: "Zombie" came out in 1994. It was on No Need To Argue, the second album from the Irish rock band that everyone spent a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Why This Song Sucks: Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," featuring Kimbra

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: *Gotye Tells Us His Life Story *The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One Song: Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," featuring Kimbra History: "Somebod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Hot Toddy Day: 3 Cocktails to Keep You Warm

    It's National Hot Toddy Day, another holiday seemingly invented for food writers who need to fill blogs with dubious copy (cough, cough). Not that we have anything against warm cocktails. They're romantic. They're old. They're vaguely medicinal. Amid the tame Los Angeles winter, however, hot toddy c ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 22, 2011

    Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

    It's National Hot Toddy Day, another holiday seemingly invented for food writers who need to fill blogs with dubious copy (cough, cough). Not that we have anything against warm cocktails. They're romantic. They're old. They're vaguely medicinal. Amid the tame Los Angeles winter, however, hot toddy c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Beer Tips: Scoring "Real" Guinness Corona "Familiar" (Ziploc Baggie Sipping Optional)

    jgarbeeGuinness Foreign Extra Stout And Black Lager​We've been hearing a lot about Guinness' new release, a shift into the realm of black lagers (historically known as German schwarzbier) that have been the microbrew buzz recently for their light body (like a lager) yet full-on dark stout flav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    National Geographic's Top 10 National Dishes Guess What Americans Like To Eat

    Anne FishbeinBurger Kitchen's breakfast hamburger​Food blogs aren't the only publications with endless lists or pictures of pretty things people like to eat. National Geographic, the magazine many of us fondly remember from grade school science classrooms and dentists' offices, is the latest t ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 23, 2011

    Radar L.A. Festival

    Anne FishbeinBurger Kitchen's breakfast hamburger​Food blogs aren't the only publications with endless lists or pictures of pretty things people like to eat. National Geographic, the magazine many of us fondly remember from grade school science classrooms and dentists' offices, is the latest t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Bloomsday Breakfast: Mutton Kidney in the Morning

    Jo Stougaard/My Last BiteFish kidney curry from Jitlada. We bet neither Leo Bloom nor James Joyce ever tried this.​It's 8 a.m., June 16th, 1904, and at 7 Eccles Street in Dublin, Leopold Bloom, the wandering hero of Ulysses, is contemplating a breakfast of offal, which we know all about thanks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/23-5/27

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The words 'authentic,' 'New York' and 'pizza' in conjunction mean nothing but trouble around here." Ask Mr. Gold: Filling the New York-style Pizza Vacuum. "Instead of the usual long, dry, and oft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    'Free Revok' Movement For Jailed Street Artist as Supporters Organize Gallery Fundraiser

    bert 23Revok, up.​Hours after spray-can artist Revok received a 180-day sentence for violating terms of his probation for vandalism, the L.A. street art community rallied and pledged to hold a fundraiser in his honor. Revok, a.k.a 34-year-old Jason Williams, was arrested last week as he attem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Revok, Famed L.A. Graffiti Artist, Arrested at LAX, Held on $320,000 Bail

    Gregory BojorquezRevok.​Updated after the jump: Revok gets 180 days for violating his probation. A "free Revok" campaign erupted on Twitter over the weekend after the Fairfax district street artist was nabbed at LAX. Sheriff's officials said the man born Jason Williams was arrested at LAX la ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 17, 2011

    Cracks

    Gregory BojorquezRevok.​Updated after the jump: Revok gets 180 days for violating his probation. A "free Revok" campaign erupted on Twitter over the weekend after the Fairfax district street artist was nabbed at LAX. Sheriff's officials said the man born Jason Williams was arrested at LAX la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

    Flickr/dubh​ What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Happy St. Patrick's Day: Dana Farner On Whiskey Sectarianism, Why It's Okay to Drink Your Dinner [The Idiocy of] Green Beer

    Anne FishbeinSommelier Dana Farner ​It is St. Patrick's Day, a time to remind ourselves while eating the traditional corned beef and cabbage (which will be popping up on every restaurant menu) that the All-American salt-cured brisket dish is as native to Ireland as fajitas is to Mexico or G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    St. Patrick's DUI Patrols, Enforcement Through the Weekend in Los Angeles

    andrew_mc_dA joke. We think. From Ireland!​What do you call an Irishman who stays out all night? Pati'o Furniture! Hah. We're all a little Irish today (and we're not just talking about our 5 foot tall grandfather). But don't count on the luck of the emerald people to intervene, even if you're ... More >>

  • Music

    January 13, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    andrew_mc_dA joke. We think. From Ireland!​What do you call an Irishman who stays out all night? Pati'o Furniture! Hah. We're all a little Irish today (and we're not just talking about our 5 foot tall grandfather). But don't count on the luck of the emerald people to intervene, even if you're ... More >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    Dublin's All City Records makes the most of L.A. beat sound

    Founder Olan O'Brien brings an outsider's perspective to defining local sound

  • News

    September 16, 2010

    MORE ON "FAMILY PROSTITUTE"

    Founder Olan O'Brien brings an outsider's perspective to defining local sound

  • Columns

    September 9, 2010

    The Ireland That Never Was

    Founder Olan O'Brien brings an outsider's perspective to defining local sound

  • Film+TV

    July 29, 2010

    Brief Interviews With Naked Men

    And other highlights of the 2010 DocuWeeks slate

  • Music

    July 22, 2010

    Villagers: One's a Crowd

    The man behind Ireland's likely lads of 2006 returns

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Tonight: The Guggenheim Grotto, Smokey Robinson, Kings of Leon, Sweethead

    The Guggenheim Grotto​The Guggenheim Grotto has been making friends and influencing coffee-drinkers ever since 2008, when their song "Told You So" appeared on Across the Pond, a sampler CD issued by a certain beverage company with a twin-tailed siren as its log. Now the Irish folk-pop duo are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Vinyl of the Week: Found Sounds and Beat Music from Take and Matthewdavid [Mp3]

    In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    L.A.'s 'Wrong Way' Corrigan Remembered On St. Patrick's Day

    ​We're not sure if he had the luck of the Irish, but we'd argue he did, because pilot Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan might have died in obscurity if he hadn't had the good fortune to drift off course and end up in Ireland en route to Long Beach from New York during a 1938 trip. Of course, wheth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2010

    L.A. Filmmaker John Ireland to Produce Prop. 8 Trial Re-Enact for YouTube

    The U.S. Supreme Court probably never saw this coming.John Ireland ProductionsLos Angeles filmmaker John Ireland​Freelance journalist and filmmaker John Ireland, who's based in Los Angeles and regularly examines gay rights issues, will produce a daily re-enactment of the Proposition 8 federal tria ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 31, 2009

    Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

    A thriving year for stage in L.A.

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2009

    DANCE THE YEAR AWAY

    A thriving year for stage in L.A.

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2009

    CAN YOU HANDEL THE HIGH NOTES?

    A thriving year for stage in L.A.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Stage Raw: The New Electric Ballroom

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedNEW REVIEW GO THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM ​The yin and yang tug and pull between expressing our condition through the absence of words versus their abundance gets ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Stage Raw: The Walworth Farce

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeNEW REVIEW GO THE WALWORTH FARCE​Photo by Pavel AntonovModern Irish theater is filled with three things: people holding other people hostage, people making up crap, and play ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    But How's the Food? Ricki Kline Talks Bar Design in L.A., Part II

    In part 2 of our interview with Ricki Kline, the designer discusses travel, his favorite local spots, and the inspiration behind his design of 213's next bar, the tequila and mezcal-focused Las Perlas, which will be located across the street from Cole's on East 6th Street. Squid Ink: What are your ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Falling Upward

    In part 2 of our interview with Ricki Kline, the designer discusses travel, his favorite local spots, and the inspiration behind his design of 213's next bar, the tequila and mezcal-focused Las Perlas, which will be located across the street from Cole's on East 6th Street. Squid Ink: What are your ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Octuplet Blacklash

    It had to happen. Immediately after the birth of the Bellflower octuplets, TV anchors cooed and newspapers trembled with feelgood reports of the miraculous C-section. It wasn't long, however, for the births to reveal the fear and anger about immigration and race that simmer just below the surface of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Euro Bulletin: Guinness to Remain in Pints

    Time, gentlemen!Drinkers in the British Isles and Ireland breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the European Parliament voted, after years-long debate, to allow pubs to continue pouring beer in pints -- and not to have to conform to the Continental metrics of half liters. Ever since Britain joined ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 4, 2008

    The Messiah is Coming, The Messiah is Coming

    Time, gentlemen!Drinkers in the British Isles and Ireland breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when the European Parliament voted, after years-long debate, to allow pubs to continue pouring beer in pints -- and not to have to conform to the Continental metrics of half liters. Ever since Britain joined ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 19, 2008

    Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight

    Author's life has inspired comparisons to her novels' passionate protegées

  • Eat+Drink

    March 20, 2008
  • Blogs

    March 9, 2008

    Movie money vs. music money. Also, more evidence of why Dylan rules.

    Glenn Hansard on the prospect of moving to LA post-Oscar: "Everybody just assumed we were going to move to Hollywood, and next year try to get another one. Dude, this is once in a lifetime. I'm going straight back to making music after this."

  • LA Life

    March 6, 2008

    Edie Sings! Sheryl Crows!

    What to do in L.A., March 7-13

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Inland Empire = Emerald Isle

    What to do in L.A., March 7-13

  • Film+TV

    December 20, 2007

    Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Now

    As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies’ most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness

  • News

    February 1, 2007

    Moz the Cat

    In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

  • Columns

    March 11, 2004

    Leapin’ Ladies

    In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    Letters

    In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

  • Columns

    November 28, 2002

    Quiet Americans

    British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire

  • Film+TV

    November 7, 2002

    As the World Turns

    Not your regular news

  • Eat+Drink

    December 20, 2001

    Our Daily Pain

    Not your regular news

  • LA Life

    May 25, 2000

    Sale Agreed

    For the love of a wee Irish cottage

  • News

    March 16, 2000

    Radio, Radio

    For the love of a wee Irish cottage

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