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Kool-Aid

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Skrillex's 'First of the Year': 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: Skrillex's "First of the Year" History: There were some remarkable musical things happening in London right around the beginning of this century and a guy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Randolph's Smoke House: The Taming of the Hog

    If you happened to be the kind of guy who takes his pair of Stacey Adams for a weekly polish at Chambers Shine Parlor and Shoe Repair -- proudly serving South Central since 1955 -- you may have noticed a change in atmosphere recently, an intoxicating plume of meaty smoke wafting from the space next ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012

    Two thousand eleven was a year of peaks and valleys for Katy Perry; she made a run at pop supremacy, performed at huge venues for tiny fans, and made gobs of money. Unfortunately, half of that could go to Russell Brand, who filed for divorce at the end of the year. (They're not believed to have a pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2011

    GWAR - House of Blues - 11/12/11

    Lina Lecaro ​See also: Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot found dead on tour bus this morning following show in Minneapolis GWAR House of Blues, Sunset Nov. 12, 2011 A piece of sad news threatened to cast a pall over last night's GWAR concert. The band's guitarist Cory Smoot died on November 3 during ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    June 9, 2011

    Terrence Malick, The Too-Quiet American

    A skeptic confronts the elusive filmmaker of The Tree of Life

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 24, 2011

    L.A. Folk People: Feather

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    January 13, 2011

    Page Two: Music Roundup

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2010

    Heavy Drone for Bunnies

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

  • Music

    November 19, 2009

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

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

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Inauguration Day Extravaganza: The First Hip-Hop President?

    Image via Hip Hop is Read Unless you've been living in the Madagascan Rain Forest or are a cave-dwelling ignicolist in Outer Mongolia, you're well aware that today marks the inauguration of Barack Obama. To the delight of the rap world and the chagrin of the social security set, Obama has been bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Celebuspeak: My Neighborhood is a Hybrid, Driving the Westside and Beyond!

    BY HAL SPARKS When I'm not on a stand-up tour of the country, thrilling people in the Bible Belt with my razor sharp wit and polysyllabic dissections of pop culture and socio-political shenanigans, I live in Los Angeles. I have loved here, I have lost here... I shot Dude, Where's My Car?, Spider- ... More >>

  • News

    April 3, 2008

    Reflections on Haneke; Cinema Cynicism

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

  • News

    March 27, 2008

    To Get to the Other Side

    Response to articles on Southwest Museum, Obama and more

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    The O-boomers

    Even hardened veterans of the '60s have to hand it to Obama

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Ship's Secrets, Powers Back On

    Even hardened veterans of the '60s have to hand it to Obama

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    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+TV

    September 20, 2007

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

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

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Tribal Purge

    State Dems back gambling-rich Indians greedy wars of expansion

  • Film+TV

    May 24, 2007

    Is There a Doctor in the House?

    Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

  • Eat+Drink

    July 13, 2006

    Red Dawn

    The second coming of Chung King

  • Stage

    May 4, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    The second coming of Chung King

  • Film+TV

    April 13, 2006

    C for Castration

    Some Candy is harder to swallow than others

  • Stage

    March 24, 2005

    Tiny Malice

    John Patrick Shanleys nuns story

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    The Day-Glo Effect

    Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

  • Columns

    September 30, 2004

    Frankophilia

    Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    Jonestown for Democrats

    Liberals follow Gray into the big nowhere

  • Music

    August 14, 2003

    His Grand Majistery

    Liberals follow Gray into the big nowhere

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    The Untold Story

    How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Consume Part II:

    [Mostly] Not Food

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    Whip It

    [Mostly] Not Food

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