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Friday, April 20 The Call THE TROUBADOUR The Call couldn't have imagined its rousing song "Let the Day Begin" would be the rally cry for not one (Al Gore) but two (Tom Vilsack) presidential campaigns. The Northern California group, who came into their own in the 1980s, haven't had a release since 2 ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Arrested, Headed to Federal Court in Downtown Los Angeles

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the producer behind the incendiary if not silly Innocence of Muslims anti-Islam film has been arrested, a federal official said today. The Cerritos man was headed to federal court downtown this afternoon, said U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Thom Mrozek in an email blast ... More >>

Cindy Lee Garcia Sues Google, Innocence of Muslims' Maker

Cindy Lee Garcia, made famous after Gawker tracked her down and got from the actress that she felt duped into performing in the controversial Innocence of Muslims film, is suing the producer and Google, parent of YouTube. The filing, made yesterday in L.A. Superior Court and forwarded to the Weekly ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Questioned by Federal Authorities in Los Angeles

As TV news crews camped outside his Cerritos home, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Coptic Christian widely believed to be behind the incendiary, anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims, was taken away in a sheriff's vehicle to be questioned by authorities tonight. An L.A. County Sheriff's Department o ... More >>

Tim Dax, Amina Noir: Adult Performers Acted in Innocence of Muslims

Updated at the bottom: Well, that makes sense. The film's director is reportedly a soft-porn veteran. First posted at 1:08 p.m. It was only a matter of time before some of the D-list actors in the almost comical Innocence of Muslims were outed as porn stars and adult models. We would laugh except ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula Behind Innocence of Muslims? Film Had L.A. Permit, Production

Yesterday we asked if the person or people behind the incendiary film Innocence of Muslims were religious zealots. The answer might be yes. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune broke the news last night that the permit for the flick's production was taken out by a Duarte group called Media for Christ:

Innocence of Muslims: Gadfly John Walsh Warned Us of June 30 Hollywood Screening

City Hall gadfly John Walsh, no stranger to controversy, warned the L.A. City Council about the possibility the local film that would become Innocence of Muslims was "alarming." The locally produced, anti-Muslim film, or rather a YouTube trailer for it, is being blamed for a rash of anti-American v ... More >>

Death Valley Now Officially Hotter Than Libya, Former Record-Holder for Hottest Place on Earth

Southern California is giving the Middle East a run for its money this week, in the arena of hottest sociopolitical scandal: In case you missed it, a group of L.A.-area filmmakers and apparent anti-Muslim zealots have singlehandedly thrown international relations into a state of upheaval. And now, ... More >>

Sam Bacile, L.A. Producer Behind Innocence of Muslims, Pseudonym for Evangelical Zealots?

The Muslim outrage that led to the fatal attack on the California-native U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, might have very well begun right here in Hollywood. The filmmaker who calls himself Sam Bacile might have made the source of some Muslims' ire, Innocence of Muslims (video after the jum ... More >>

Q & A with Anthony Bourdain: The End of No Reservations, CNN Throwing a Drink in Alan Richman's Face

See also: Anthony Bourdain: 5 Unexpected Lessons He Taught Us Last Night. See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. Anthony Bourdain has a lightness to his voice. It's jovial, almost, which is unnerving. "This is the longest I'v ... More >>

Back to the Future's $500,000 DeLorean and Darth Vader Costume Sell at Hollywood Auction. Ruby Slippers Still Available

A fully functioning hoverboard...y'know...for the kids​Local memorabilia-selling powerhouse, Profiles in History did another one of their epic auctions this weekend at the Paley Media Center in Beverly Hills -- and the nerds cleaned house. Again. Compared to Debbie Reynolds' series of show-st ... More >>

Thoughts From A Random Black Guy: A Poem About Herman Cain, aka H-Money

[Editor's note: Odd Future member Lionel Boyce writes a weekly column for West Coast Sound. His archives are available here.] "Stupid people are ruining America" is probably the smartest thing I've heard Herman Cain say. Unfortunately, I believe he belongs in that group. When I first saw this guy ... More >>

A Drinking Game at Molly Malone's: Actors Perform Live Readings of Classic Movies. While Drinking. Chaos Ensues.

Simone PazBrett Schlank, left, Natalie Lynch and & Tara Jayn, producers of A Drinking Game​Never let it be said that the actors in A Drinking Game refused to suffer for their craft. A live reading of classic movies turned interactive drinking game, the monthly production features actors sit ... More >>

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African Rebel Soldiers and Their Eerie Obsession With Tupac Shakur

Haitian 2pac, a leader of an armed Port-au-Prince gang called Chimères, recruited by Haiti's former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide​Editor's Note: Tomorrow, September 13, 2011, marks the 15th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death. To commemorate, West Coast Sound will feature Tupac stories all ... More >>

Chris Jeon, Insane UCLA Student, Joins Qaddafi Rebels in Libya for 'Real Revolution'

FacebookChris Jeon just upgraded from Coachella to Libya.​[Update: Chris Jeon may be cooler than the rest of the senior class combined, but he's apparently not cool enough for Libyan rebels. Perhaps they caught on to his gimmick, and realized their life's fight had become a mere summer-vacatio ... More >>

Craig Huey Warns Of Obama's "Internet Kill Switch" At Congressional Town Hall

Craig Huey​Craig Huey, the Tea Party candidate for the 36th Congressional District, hosted a town hall last night in Torrance at which he touted his seven secrets for jump-starting the economy.They are -- spoiler alert -- a bunch of conservative talking points about cutting spending and repealing ... More >>

Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies From the 'Crazy 4 Cult' Book and Art Show, Including Fight Club, TRON and Back to the Future

​Sometimes life imitates art. Or maybe it goes the other way around. But at Gallery 1988, art imitates art at the annual "Crazy 4 Cult" exhibit, a conglomeration of pieces inspired by some of the most celebrated cult films in history. The show, which opens again on July 8, has featured art ri ... More >>

Woody Allen Interview

The Midnight in Paris director on the dangers of "Golden Age" thinking, "that thing with Mia" and his latest film

The Lonely War

The California accountant who tried to overthrow a foreign despot

Lara Logan Confirms She Was Brutally and Repeatedly Raped in Egypt: Why Did the Media Think She Wasn't?

CBS NewsThe photo of Logan that CBS originally included in its news flash, "moments before she was attacked on Feb. 11, 2011."​In the hours and days following CBS reporter Lara Logan's brutal and repeated rape in Egypt, the world understandably wanted details. But Logan only released a brief state ... More >>

Barack Obama is Definitely Not a Socialist, Says Joseph Kishore, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party

Joseph Kishore, an actual socialist.​Socialism returned to the United States in an odd way three years ago when pundits took to the airwaves to scream about gulags and breadlines, but the talking heads never actually explained what Socialism as a political ideology stood for. What better way t ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

Low Levels of Radiation Found in West Coast Milk: Far Below Levels of Concern, According to the EPA

Flickr/Ashley R. GoodNo need to fear milkshakes.​ According to reports from the New York Times and Associated Press, low levels of radioactive iodine from the compromised Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan have been found in milk in California and Washington state. Last week, tests of mi ... More >>

Rowlands, Forster and Sid: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Belarus Free Theatre, Free Speech and Thought Control

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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 >>

Los Angeles Shows Support for Egypt with Rally at Federal Building

Liana Aghajanian​ See more photos in "Los Angeles Rally Shows Support for Egyptian Protesters." By: Liana Aghajanian As protests calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak violently escalated on the streets of Egypt in what is now the fifth day of anti-government unrest, at lea ... More >>

Dam-Funk Drops Juicy Groove From the Year 3000 [MP3]

Dam-Funk Drops Juicy Groove From the Year 3000 [MP3]

Tinariwen Unleashes a Saharan Dance Party

Tinariwen Unleashes a Saharan Dance Party

The Spider and the Wasp

John Updike and his Terrorist

Emotional Truth & Brother Leader

In the Land of the Brother Leader

Vacation in Libya? Totalitarian tourism and the search for truth... and a good meal

Finishing Off Bush

His sentences, that is . . .

Nuclear Culture

Most Pakistanis see no crime in sharing the bomb with Muslim countries

Notes From a Defeatist

Domestic Targets

With war on, opposition to Fed’s pursuit of Iraqis and others wanes

Snubbing the U.N.

The cost of waging a lonely war

Washington, We Have a Problem

Watching Big Brother

Volunteers monitor round two of Ashcroft’s “special registration” program

Feelings of Insecurity

Inside the U.S. roundup of Muslims

Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

New evidence that the Bureau quashed another terror probe before 9/11

Indecent Executions

Considering death row's mentally retarded inmates

An American in Berlin

Taking hits from the left and the right

Stop the World

Joe Strummer’s rebel waltz

Mood Indigo

The LAPD’s big test

Woman on the Verge

Love, rebellion and islam

Kosovar Conundrum

All options are bad — but the worst is leaving Albanians to the mercy of Milosevic

Iraq Is Not Question