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RZA Headlines L.A. Weekly's Bedrocktoberfest: Here's Our Interview

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] There's no musical comparison to interviewing RZA. Having a conversation with the Wu-Tang abbot is closer to interviewing the Dalai Lama, if the Dalai La ... More >>

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 >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 305: Camille Grammer Makes All the Right Moves

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives We don't even want to rank the Housewives this week. We really don't. They should be punished for perpetuating the stereotype that when women are alone together, all they do is make out, sniff panties and moon each other. What, ladies, no naked pillow fights ... More >>

6 Great Food Museums: Food as Art, Or Not

Last week, the Carpigiani Gelato Museum opened in Anzola dell'Emilia, Italy, just outside Bologna; the first in the world, it says, to "delve into the history, culture, and technology of artisan gelato." Inside, you'll learn about the history of the frozen treat, from an 11th century recipe for pom ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/10 - 9/14

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Now we've gotta worry about what our grandmas ate?" Eating Fatty Foods During Pregnancy Linked to Breast Cancer in Offspring. "Second, and really most important, is that they do not come quickly, ever, so just put that out o ... More >>

Baking Books: A Baker's Field Guide To Doughnuts (Mock Krispy Kremes!) A Peanut Butter Glaze Recipe

Type "Field Guide" into the Amazon book search list, and you'll get, as of this typing, 39,688 results. These are the moments when we suspect the A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts, to be released in a few weeks, will come in handy. A little rainbow sprinkle, Boston cream, or old-fashioned buttermil ... More >>

Elephant Room

Beach House - El Rey - 7/3/12

Better than... that one aunt's apple pie. On the eve of our nation's birthday a very different sort of celebration occurred at the El Rey than the one that went on yesterday. Before watching tight bodies parading up and down the beach (or pale, swelling guts if you're visiting relatives in the Midw ... More >>

Deep-Fried Cereal Coming to the L.A. County Fair

Enough, Chicken Charlie. You have crossed all lines of good taste and common decency with deep-fried cereal. Charlie Boghosian, aka Chicken Charlie, is the evil mastermind responsible for the arterial onslaught at fairs throughout Southern California over the last few years. He started with deep-fr ... More >>

Party Review: 'Drop Dead CRA Day' at City Hall

Out with a bang.​Today is a very special day. Today is the day that all 400 redevelopment agencies (RDAs) across California -- including the massive L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) -- are shut down for good. And all the property taxes they've been raking in, for buildings within are ... More >>

'Drop Dead CRA Day' Will Celebrate L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency's Demise (With Special Kool-Aid)

A pack of veteran L.A. City Hall gadflies will have a little fun, this Wednesday, with Governor Jerry Brown's big bloody butchering of California's redevelopment agencies (RDAs) -- and the notorious L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency, in particular. Miki Jackson (No. 1 enemy of the slimy Community ... More >>

Deep Fried Fluffernutter at Black Market: Sandwich of the Week

Deep-frying improbable edibles is hardly new. County fair concessions maven Chicken Charlie has fried up Oreos, Twinkies, frog legs, White Castle burgers, SPAM, zucchini, Pop Tarts, brownies, ribs and Kool-Aid balls -- and that's only the beginning The combo of crisp batter and gooey center speaks ... More >>

50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

Justin Bieber's Hot Jumping Beans Video

Justin Bieber loves hot jumping beans. And bacon, pigs' feet, red Kool-Aid and ham. At least he loves them in this spoof of "That Should Be Me," which raises bad lip reading to an art form, transforming the song of heartbreak into an ode to food. Like one wag commented on YouTube, we prefer to bel ... More >>

5 Foods You Can't Miss at the LA County Fair

Guzzle & NoshA miniature version of Randy's Donuts in the model railroad town at the LA County Fair.​You can't actually order a cinnamon crumb from this outpost of Randy's Donuts, a miniature version of the iconic shop (complete with cop car parked in front!) housed in the model railroad town ... More >>

Thurz on Reinventing Himself, U-N-I's Break-Up, and Why West Coast Hip Hop Hasn't Gone Mainstream (Yet)

Thurz​In "Los Angeles," the first single from Inglewood rapper Thurz's debut solo project, L.A. Riot-- out yesterday --a girl chirps, "To me, L.A. means home, sunny skies, and happy people." But in Thurz's next verse, he flips the city over to examine its underbelly, "Cats would raise a gun b ... More >>

Your July Sugar Rush: Free Slurpees, Lollipops and Dessert A Slurpee Recipe

Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees​ Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>

Top 10 American Craft Beers for Summer

Daniel DrennonOmmegang Hennepin​ Traffic. Air pollution. Earthquakes. So why, at your local sports bar, are seemingly half the patrons transplants from New York, Boston and Chicago pulling for their hometown teams and lamenting "how great it is back home?" Four words. Bikinis. Board shor ... More >>

Review: Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes For The End A Jonestown Kool-Aid Cake Recipe

​Sure, Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes For The End, is a gimmicky new pocket-sized book by author Shannon O'Malley who boasts on her book jacket bio that she "has no previous baking experience." That's also why this book is a pretty great cure for summer workweek doldrums with its snarky recipes for ... More >>

Terrence Malick, The Too-Quiet American

A skeptic confronts the elusive filmmaker of The Tree of Life

Cookbook Review: These Paletas Will Get You Through Summer

​We might be the only cookbook reviewers who don't read press releases from the publisher before reading the book. And so when we do actually read a press release (rare), like the one for the compact little new frozen pop book Paletas (yes, of course it's stellar summer timing), we laughed ou ... More >>

Fried Kool-Aid, Fried Brownies, FryBQ Ribs: A Sneak Peek at Chicken Charlie's Newest Fried Fair Fare

Courtesy of Chicken CharlieFried fair fare trio: Totally Fried Brownies, FryBQ ribs and Totally Fried Kool-Aid​ His life's work reads like a chapter in The Fattening of America. Every year, Chicken Charlie a.k.a. Charlie Boghosian, the fried food maestro of Southern California's county fair c ... More >>

What's In Season At Clinton's Hometown Farmers Market: Fresh Black-eyed Peas, "I Miss Bill" T-shirts Kool-Aid Traffic Jams

JGarbeeYou'll Find That Kool-Aid "Traffic Jam" On Clinton Avenue ​ Around this time of year in Little Rock, Arkansas, you're likely to encounter busloads of 5th graders spending their last school days carefully doling out field trip money on bags of Clinton's favorite sugar cookie mix and McCl ... More >>

L.A. Folk People: Feather

Gadhafi Likens Protesters to Ravers on Drugs (Sort of)

Gadhafi: Nutter numero uno.​Ravers have become a powerful constituency in L.A. In 10 short years the ecstasy-fueled party has gone from underground problem to mainstream concert at public venues such as the Coliseum and Sports Arena, where some elected officials have defended the events. But ... More >>

Page Two: Music Roundup

Mayor Villaraigosa's Bike-Ride Pipe Dream Will Close Down 7 Miles Of City Streets For A Day

Mayor V. on his bike.​If you were mad about the traffic trauma created by President Obama's Westside visit last month, if the annual Los Angeles Marathon's street closures raise your blood pressure, or if you're simply tired of being passed by bicyclists as you crawl down Wilshire Boulevard, b ... More >>

Oregon Child Threatened for Selling Lemonade Without a License

Flickr/Cote​ When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, they say. But what if you make lemonade and you get slapped with a health code violation? Such is the Dickensian tale of a 7 year-old Portland, Oregon, girl who innocently set up a lemonade stand at a monthly art fair on July 29th. Becau ... More >>

Heavy Drone for Bunnies

Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones is stoked about true interdimensional living

Rock Picks: THE JOE KROWN TRIO, THE FIERY FURNACES, THE LILYS, MR. GNOME

Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others

Obama 'Joker' Poster: It's All About Race

Ted Soqui​Was it something I said?Early last week I posted a brief blog noting the appearance of those "Obama Socialism" posters, in which the president's face is made up to resemble Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight. That Batman-film derived image had been Photoshopped by Firas ... More >>

Oh, Sherry: The Bazaar's Lucas Paya Gives a Sherry Tutorial

Trends in spirits can move fast or slow, depending on which alcoholic beverage you're talking about. When some people think of sherry, for instance, the associations might be dated, even unkind. One friend describes her parents' drink of choice from the late 1970s as "cheap [expletive], which they t ... More >>

Watermelongate and Its Discontents

The past week saw the meteoric flaring and passing of one of those stories about race and the Obama presidency that have occurred regularly since the start of the 2008 election season and which will be with us until at least 2012. This one took place nearby, in Los Alamitos, and involved the mayor's ... More >>

The Tao of Jim Jones' "Pop Champagne" Ft. Special Guest Ignorance from Juelz Santana & Ron Browz

Thanks to O-Dub for putting me onto this gleeful bit of idiocy. If one cannot convince Rihanna to leave her Caribbean Chris Brown love nest to writhe in your video, one must do the next best thing: get her low-budget, Kool-Aid haired, tatted up, Trinidad & Tobagian equivalent. If ... More >>

Reflections on Haneke; Cinema Cynicism

Also, Obama's rightward tilt, Rothchild's "Divorce" and McDonald's "Skid Row"

To Get to the Other Side

Response to articles on Southwest Museum, Obama and more

Ship's Secrets, Powers Back On

G-Funk Week: 10 Questions Raised By “Game Don’t Wait” Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

In honor of Nate Dogg (who's currently recuperating in a rest home after somehow having a stroke at 38)) and because I really just want to watch old G-Funk videos for the rest of the week, the next couple days will be dedicated to excavating random Nate Dogg songs. Happy New Year. 1. Let it be sa ... More >>

Film Reviews: The Last Winter, The Jane Austen Book Club

Also Resident Evil: Exintction, Over the GW, Sea of Dreams, Sydney White and more

Tribal Purge

State Dems back gambling-rich Indians� greedy wars of expansion

Red Dawn

The second coming of Chung King

Theater Reviews

C for Castration

Some Candy is harder to swallow than others

The Day-Glo Effect

Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

Frankophilia

Jonestown for Democrats

Liberals follow Gray into the big nowhere

His Grand Majistery

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Whip It