Mahatma Gandhi

Seven Mosh Pit Techniques

The mosh pit lives! Here in Los Angeles, in particular, you can get down and dirty at venues across the city, both legal and not-so-much. Whether it's punk, hardcore, ska, metal or a show in another genre, there's a pit with your name on it almost every night of the week. But don't go unprepared. B ... More >>

Cesar Chavez vs. Jesus Christ: Google Weighs In

Cesar Chavez was no saint, but he did do the very Christian thing when he saw an entire class of people, Latino and Filipino farm workers, suffering in slum living conditions, putting in grueling hours under the sun, getting paid illicit wages, and soaking in pesticides in Central Valley fields. He ... More >>

Behaving Badly: Bad Apples, Empanada for a Dream and Slice, Reviewed

Gay Happiness, the New Frontier

Are mental and physical health problems really a reaction to bigotry?

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, August 27 Summer Twins THE SATELLITE Summer's here and the time is right for a pure-pop escape. Sisters Chelsea (lead vocals and guitar) and Justine Brown (drums) lay down a simple, unabashedly irony-free form of pop that layers '60s garage rock with dreamy harmonies. "I'm just a piece of g ... More >>

Music Picks: Diana Krall, Concrete Blonde, Herbie Hancock

Also Echo Rising, Shlohmo, Divine Fits and others

A Hipster Guide to Weight Loss: Check Out Martin Cizmar's Chubster

Martin Cizmar lost one hundred pounds in less than a year, and all he had to do was give up Slurpees. Well, he also biked to work occasionally. And quit drinking full-calorie beer. What he didn't do was try the Paleo Diet, the Atkins Diet, the Cookie Diet or Jenny Craig. He didn't join a gym, and h ... More >>

Jeff Baoliang Zhang: Chinese Consulate Shooting Suspect Turns Self in After Allegedly Firing 9 Rounds And Missing

Google MapsStuff happens on Shatto.​Updated at the bottom with Zhang pleading not guilty -- and with some possible background on him, including that he might have feared for his life in China after outing the Chinese secret police in a plot to kill Falun Gong prisoners. Maybe. First posted at ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks

​[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.] Florida is a crazy place and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. I ... More >>

Daddy Issues

Here Comes the Sun King: Philip Glass' Akhnaten

L.A. Clubs Get Ready: Lindsay Lohan To Be Released From Rehab

This kiss is for you, SBE.​2010 felt like a rock-bottom year for the economy, even in velvet-rope clubland. But venue owners should rejoice. 2011 is looking up already. Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to be released from rehab Monday. That's right, the actress who actually found a way to make a tr ... More >>

Santa Monica's Jerry Rubin Says 'Dunk The Tea Baggers'

Ted Soqui​This week we told you how the Tea Party invaded the Westside in that bastion of working-class rage, Beverly Hills. Well now it looks like our favorite living liberal named Jerry Rubin is fighting back this weekend. That's right, Jerry Peace Activist Rubin (his legal name) welcomes y ... More >>

Today in WTF: Arcadia Developer Goes on Hunger Strike For Looser Zoning Rules

​Henry Nunez, a 51-year-old real estate developer, has a dream for the city of Arcadia. A dream of a dense, urban downtown with five-story mixed-use developments around a light-rail station. Unfortunately, it seems Arcadians do not share his dream.So he has taken a page from movement leaders like ... More >>

Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Duncan Birmingham Discusses the Suicidality of Cats and Dogs

"When I die of embarrassment, please don't bury me in this."​Duncan Birmingham is the author of the blog turned book Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves. He lives in Los Angeles, where it's happy and sunshiny every single day and yet cats and dogs and guinea pigs live in silent agony. What is th ... More >>

Philip Glass, Interviewed

The composer talks soundtracks, composition and Gandhi.

Farewell Sophia Petrillo

By Siran Babayan A wise person once said, “Life is like a piece of shredded wheat.” No, it wasn’t Gandhi. It was Sophia Petrillo, aka Estelle Getty. Sophia came to this country a poor Sicilian immigrant with nothing but a pizza recipe and a dream (she was robbed by Mama Celeste). Her son wa ... More >>

Misspent Spoof: The Love Guru

Mike Myers' cosmic goof

Best Westside Meditation Spot

Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

Also this week's pick, Encounter Point

Deaf & Dead

Immigration Rites

Requiem for a movement. The real aliens are in Congress

Faking It

He�s the outdoor type, you�re . . . not

Give PEACE^� a Chance

Oh, the Shameman

This GI Joe Won�t Go

Ex-soldier resists backdoor draft into Iraq war

Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

Hitting the Wall

The West Bank barrier � and the Palestinian Authority�s inaction

Invisible Man

Bayard Rustin and the other civil rights struggle

Saving Dugongs

The U.S. military faces a battle of another kind in Japan

Students Against Old Ladies

And Man vs. Beast

Peace Gets a Chance

Holiday cheer for the anti-war movement

The Internationalist

Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

Teenage Cassandra

To be young, pacifist and living in Orange County

2001 In Review

The Coffee Table

Back to Business

A new war gives new urgency to the globalization debate

Flag Days

A new generation prepares for war

Planet of the Apes: A Space Odyssey

This Week: Special guest star Jerry Falwell!

Paradise Lost, Paradise Found

Sexy Beast, Atlantis and the perils of adventure capitalism

Communion

Survival

Or not: Death and nonviolence on PBS � plus, a very purple Hendrix

Mother's Milk

What�s the best gift for a Latina mom on Mother�s Day?

The Quiet Man

Actor Om Puri, from Bombay to Britain

Burning Man

Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

Fuck Different

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic