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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 >>

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello Is Looking Forward to Being Finished With Swedish House Mafia

There was a moment a few years back when Steve Angello was leaving a hotel in his native Sweden and found a few reporters waiting outside. They asked him what his plans were for the day. He told them nothing much. The response made the front page of the next day's newspaper. "That was the moment," ... 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 >>

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 >>

Act of Valor Review

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Over the Weekend: Henry Rollins at Largo

Caroline Ryder​"Like being licked by a cat for four hours" is how Henry Rollins describes his own show which, depending on whether you're a cat person or not, can be a fantastic or torturous way to spend an evening. At Friday's Largo show, the first of three nights in LA, he held true to his ... 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 >>

Indo Café: Out of the Ashes

... and into the urap

Wo Können Wir Essen

Sprechen Sie hipster?

Featured Photographer Emilio Morenatti Injured in Afghanistan

99 Essential - List Only

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Studies in Chocolate

Abode Restaurant and Lounge

Master of Budgets

Karen Sisson

Chapter and Verse

Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop

Our Russia, Ourselves

Sleeping with the enemy . . . then scolding her

The Eyes of Perpetual War

James Nachtwey has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of the world’s worst calamities. Here, the photojournalist talks about the burden of documenting war, famine, poverty and human-rights abuses.

Mexico and Y2K

The U.S. stands to lose if millennium bug strikes south of the border

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