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If You Think Stanley Kubrick Faked the Moon Landing, or Even if You Don't, You'll Love Room 237

Salt Linked to 2.3 Million Deaths Annually

It's the ultimate salt vs. sugar smackdown! On Monday we reported that sugary drinks have been linked to 180,000 deaths worldwide annually. Now a new report presented at a conference yesterday says that eating too much salt kills 2.3 million people every year, CBS News reports. Researchers looked ... More >>

Chessboxing: Brawn Meets Pawn in This Bizarre Sport at a Downtown L.A. Warehouse

See also: *Chessboxing Comes To Downtown Los Angeles *50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best City in America *Top 10 Weirdest Stores in L.A. Last night, in a downtown warehouse, pugilists and pawns united to raise money for a worthy cause. The unorthodox fundraising organization Tuxedo Tyrants teamed ... More >>

We Attended the KCRW Pledge Drive - And Lived to Tell the Tale!

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

20 Movies You Need to See at AFI Fest 2012

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

Celeb Coffee Showdown: Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Will Oldham

Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince" Bill ... More >>

Pan African Film Festival 2012

Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince" Bill ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/10-10/14

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Want to make a grown woman blush? Suggest that the reason she wants to go to Gjelina, the serene patio restaurant on Abbot Kinney, is because she wants to gaze deeply into a scruffy waiter's eyes." ... More >>

Top 5 Athlete Diets: Wade Boggs's Chicken-a-Day, Kenyan Ugali Steve Nash's Nuts

Wheaties may be the breakfast of champions, but plenty of athletes don't swear by dry flakes for their daily sustenance. Lakers forward Ron Artest used to drink Hennessey at half-time. His teamate Lamar Odom likes jelly beans and gummy bears. Former Yankees slugger Babe Ruth once inhaled 24 hot d ... More >>

Hollywood Faces a Heroin Summer

A promising Kenyan-American dies amidst a risky Hollywood club scene

African Cats

A promising Kenyan-American dies amidst a risky Hollywood club scene

Susan Boyle Is Far More Influential Than Julian Assange in Time's Popularity Contest

​ Yes, folks, it's about that time. What time, you ask? Time for Time's 2011 Top 100 Poll, wherein readers like you vote for the most influential leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes in the world. With voting closing on Thursday, we took a look to see who is in the running. Sadly, K ... More >>

Born to Be Wild 3-D

​ Yes, folks, it's about that time. What time, you ask? Time for Time's 2011 Top 100 Poll, wherein readers like you vote for the most influential leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes in the world. With voting closing on Thursday, we took a look to see who is in the running. Sadly, K ... More >>

Pan African Film Festival 2011

Documentaries shine at 19th annual event

Rob Zombie vs. Darth Vader vs. David Lynch: Celebrity Coffee Showdown

Rob Zombie's a freaky guy. Darth Vader's a frightening one. David Lynch is just plain strange. As diverse as these three figures are, they have one venture in common: They have each lent their name to a brand of coffee. Having recently discovered these celebrity roasts, we wondered: How special ar ... More >>

Food Celebration Dinner: Giraud, Manzke, Drago, Nugent & Ramos Fight Hunger For You

Lee Oneness Foundation​Sure, you can stalk Walter Manzke at Le Saint Amour, or trail Alain Giraud around the Santa Monica Wednesday market for details on his new restaurant project, but why not leave all that to Eater (or TMZ) and enjoy the chefs in their natural habitat, like in a restaurant. ... More >>

Putting out for Hitler: America's craziest preacher claims Axis powers infiltrated our underpants

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. The Truth About Juvenile Deliquency Author: Dan Gilbert Date: 1943 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapid ... 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 >>

Santa Monica Based Glenn Beck Advertiser Goldline, Under Investigation, Fights Back

Nuggets​Santa-Monica-based Goldline International is already under investigation by the L.A. County District Attorney and the Santa Monica City Attorney for allegedly not delivering what it promises to customers, while also pushing them to buy overpriced gold coins instead of pure gold bullion ... More >>

Jerry Brown v. Meg Whitman: Back To Dead Heat

​About two weeks ago we told you how it seemed like Republican Meg Whitman had finally broken through against Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown in the governor's race, opening an 8 point lead in a Rasmussen poll. But the race has already tightened.

Maximum Intelligentsia

And you thought the coffee and the architecture and the hep baristas were enough, right?

BETTER LIVING THROUGH FREE MUSIC

And you thought the coffee and the architecture and the hep baristas were enough, right?

First Bite: Maximum Intelligentsia in Pasadena

Christie BishopJonagold apple, minus first bite​And you thought the coffee and the architecture and the hep baristas were enough, right? Is it possible to get a caffeine contact high? Because when you walk into the newest Intelligentsia, in a stripped, high-ceilinged storefront hard by the Foo ... More >>

President Obama's Campaign Manager David Plouffe Talks 2010 In Hollywood

David Plouffe, Obama campaign manager​ Democrats as a species are nearly always filled with dread and doubt, like Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy. Except when they win, in which case they turn on each other with nearly as much venom as on their Republican opponents. David Plouffe, Pre ... More >>

"Seasonal Depression Was a Big Inspiration": An Interview with High Places

Katelyn Reeves​"If we lived in LA, people would be stoked," High Places Rob Barber said in an early interview. And despite lots of love for their debut album for Thrill Jockey from East Coast tastemakers like Pitchfork and the Village Voice, and from the blogosphere, soon enough, Barber and HP ... More >>

Free Screening: 'The Bitter Taste of Tea' Exposes Not So Fair Trade

Bitter Taste of Tea​As part of its International Institute Human Rights Film Series, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will host a free screening of The Bitter Taste of Tea: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade tonight at 6:30. A documentary by Danish journalist Tom Heinemann--named "Best Investi ... More >>

Expression Under Wraps

Bitter Taste of Tea​As part of its International Institute Human Rights Film Series, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will host a free screening of The Bitter Taste of Tea: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade tonight at 6:30. A documentary by Danish journalist Tom Heinemann--named "Best Investi ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Ninja Assassin, Old Dogs, The Sun

Also, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The End of Poverty? and more

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Anticon And Dublab Team Up For Vinyl Series And Show (MP3)

The "In the Loop 5" EP, a co-release between Dublab and Anticon​ As the Dublab radio collective approaches ten years of exceptional service to this city's music-loving denizens, things only seem to be heating up. First the announcement that '70s folkie Linda Perhacs will be performing at Redc ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Some Came Running Kenya's Wesley Korir set a finish-time record for the 24th Los Angeles Marathon, which got very lucky with cool weather despite its latest start yet in the calendar. L.A. TimesFootball Prospect Shot Dead Dannie Farber Jr., a promising football player who had just graduated from Nar ... More >>

Digital Roots: Continental Rifts at Fowler Museum

Video out of Africa

New Theater Reviews: The School of Night, The Joy Luck Club

Thystes' Feast, and more

Obama vs. Baldilocks

A blogger's African dad came here on the same airlift as Obama's dad. All similarities end there

David Hinnebusch

The outsider

At Nigerian Eatery Saaris, America Is Turning to Fufu!

Dunkin' dough

Meet the Antipress: La Mill Coffee

The caffeine obsessive's newest laboratory

Kenya's Constitutional Crisis

While press fixates on tribal strife, Kenyans fight for their democracy

Film Reviews

Including Alpha Dog, God Grew Tired of Us and Black Gold

Things to Do Before You Get Pregnant

Take folic acid. Buy a new house. Get your mercury tested.

The End of Species

The startling Darwin’s Nightmare assesses the new world disorder

Breathing While Black

Confessions of a 'post-Negro'

8 Terrifying Advances in Biological Warfare

Confessions of a 'post-Negro'

When Moore Is Not Enough

The Oscars give peace a glance

Chronicles of Love and Pain

Divine Intervention and Nowhere in Africa's displaced persons

Protest: Rat Trap

Divine Intervention and Nowhere in Africa's displaced persons

Uneasy Justice

Why a trial makes more sense than war

Global Beat

The heritage of African music