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Pacific Rim Review: Guillermo del Toro Tries to Make a Better Blockbuster

We Hang Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

Coachella can be brutal: Dry desert heat, sand storms, endurance tests. It's hard for folks to survive with their health intact. That is, unless you're in the Marine Corps. Jimmy English and Tidas Friday (not their real names) repair tanks and other military vehicles. They recently returned from a ... More >>

I Competed in a Geek Trivia Night (and Lost)

Tuesday night, Geeks Who Drink, a pub trivia night, launched at Complex in Glendale. The night served up lots of alcohol and some really tough trivia questions on topics ranging from geography to comic books. I went down to the event thinking that, as a pretty nerdy lady, I could probably do well at ... More >>

Yoshinoya Beef Bowl: What Does It Really Taste Like?

Let me preface all of this by saying that I've never been to a Yoshinoya Beef Bowl, and I'm willing to bet that you haven't either. In fact, I don't know anyone who has dined at a Yoshinoya Beef Bowl, and my contacts folder reads like a who's-who of questionable eaters. Yet, inexplicably, those oran ... More >>

Doing Drugs, Lots of Drugs, With Myka 9

8:55 PM: I arrive at Corner Bakery Cafe in Westwood to pick up 43-year-old rapper/producer/MC Michael Troy (aka Myka 9) and his Canadian producer Graham Murawsky aka Factor. For some background on Myka, peep our story on his seminal group Freestyle Fellowship. 8:57 PM: "How are you, beautiful?" My ... More >>

Trend Watch: The Small-Plates Debate

Yesterday, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells had some thoughts about small plates, which is a trend that has, thus far, stood the test of time. And yet the trend-complaint I hear the most is, "I'm so sick of small plates." Wells contends that the intent behind small plates -- that they are ... More >>

5 Lessons Learned at Tales of the Cocktail 2012

This year marked the 10th anniversary for Tales of the Cocktail, the massive cocktail convention that takes place each July in New Orleans. It's an outrageously sweaty and boozy event that transforms the French Quarter into a sea of fedoras and waxed mustaches. Bartenders come from around the world ... More >>

Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "I'm blaming you if I puke later." "Fine. But admit it in the story," Hanni El Khatib replies, passing a vodka and soda that I didn't order. We've been ... More >>

Four Loko To Be Turned into Ethanol: From Fueling Frat Parties to Fueling Your Car

Flickr/Darby RoseFour loco, etc.​ You may remember the relative chaos over Four Loko, the energy drink that contains up to 12% alcohol, which debuted in US markets in 2005 and provoked a warning letter from the FDA this past November. The FDA called the caffeine and alcohol combination an "un ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/3-1/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We regret that we didn't hold our First Bite off until March, giving 37 bloggers, 138 tweeters, the Windward School newsletter and Miss S. Irene Virbila the chance to weigh in first." [Updated] First Bite: The Platonic Ideal ... More >>

Monday Night Football at Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey

A. SimmonsMo of Mo's Place​At Mo's Place in Playa Del Rey, the television pageantry of Monday Night Football is no match for the debauched live-action carnival Mo concocts. When you first walk in, you see a typical sports bar. Faded pennants and posters plaster every speck of the interior ... More >>

Exclusive Interview: Megadeth's David Ellefson on Thrash Metal, his Favorite Bible Story and the Status of That Elusive American "Big Four" Tour (Yes You, Metallica. We're Waiting.)

Valerie McRobertsDavid Ellefson enjoying a stiff Starbucks before Megadeth's set​Megadeth are undoubtedly one of the biggest thrash metal bands of all time. Fronted by Dave Mustaine, founder, guitarist and vocalist, the band was formed in the early '80s after Mustaine was kicked out of Metalli ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The Boozy Baker And Her Sweet, Sweet Cocktails

​Wouldn't it be glorious if the parentheses of dinner -- cocktails and dessert -- collided to form one sweet, liqueur-infused moment? In the just-released The Boozy Baker cookbook, that's almost what happens. Author Lucy Baker (yes, her real name) delivers 75 recipes for spirits-infused cake ... More >>

Slayer’s Bloody Template

More tales of serial murder and psychosis, state oppression, snuff films and endless war over oil

Sing Mit Heino: Marc Hickox Celebrates a Teutonic Superstar ...

... and his “wanderlust” songs

Drive, Baby, Drive: Obama Voter's Car Gets a "Drill, Baby, Drill" Paint Job

Practical joke forces liberal to explain to female Prius driver, "It's not my fault!"

The Melvins Take Us on a Tour of Their Los Angeles

Rolling with Dale and Buzzo

Rock Picks: Beirut, The Cure, Jonathan Richman

And other May 29-June 5 shows

Josh White

Documenter

The Black Rock Diaries

Reports from Burning Man

Jeffrey Vallance: The Art of Self-Worship

Hey, somebody’s gotta do it

Deaf & Dead

Music Picks

For the week of June 8 - 15

After This Show, Our Writer Did Jäger Shots With Gogol Bordello & Talked About Fugazi

Cake, Tegan and Sara, Gogol Bordello at Unlimited Sunshine tour at the Wiltern, Jan. 31

For Those About to Rock

Seven nights at the Whisky, where dreams still die hard

The 2nd Annual List Issue

Dive In

The Drinkin’s Fine

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more

Def Hef