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Solemn Mockeries, a Solo Show About the Man Who Tried to Forge a Shakespeare Play

Solemn Mockeries

Krapp's Last Tape and Blue/Orange, Reviewed

Olympic Drinking: Beer, Gin Whisky

By now you're fully ensconced in the full-on drama of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, a global event featuring feats of human skill so thrilling that you're likely to have to endure a few marathon sessions yourself -- in front of the telly, that is, unspooling TiVo recordings hour after hour, devotin ... More >>

Fred Willard Caught at Filthiest Adult Spot in L.A. Committing Lewd Act -- LAPD

Eat, Drink and Be Leopold

L.A. Gay Pride 2012: Actor-Writer Doug Spearman Answers 'What Does It Mean To Be Gay?'

"What does it mean to be gay?" A seemingly simple question, but one that's not often asked. With Los Angeles Gay Pride starting this Friday, various gay folks give us their answers in a weeklong series. Doug Spearman is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, producer, and activist -- he sat on the boar ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 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 >>

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 >>

Radar L.A. Festival

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

'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 >>

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 >>

Cracks

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 >>

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 to Pick Up/Download

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

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The Ireland That Never Was

Brief Interviews With Naked Men

And other highlights of the 2010 DocuWeeks slate

Villagers: One's a Crowd

The man behind Ireland's likely lads of 2006 returns

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 >>

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 >>

Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

A thriving year for stage in L.A.

DANCE THE YEAR AWAY

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 >>

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 >>

Falling Upward

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 >>

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 >>

Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight

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

A Week in the Life of Jonathan Gold's Stomach

Dear Diary

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."

Edie Sings! Sheryl Crows!

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

Inland Empire = Emerald Isle

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

Moz the Cat

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

Leapin’ Ladies

Letters

Quiet Americans

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

Our Daily Pain

Sale Agreed

For the love of a wee Irish cottage

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