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Mitt Romney To Help Out With San Diego-Tijuana Olympics Bid

If the U.S. Olympic Committee told you your bid to host the 2024 Summer Games was no good, you'd probably slink back to whatever corner of the earth you came from. But not San Diego, the Little Big City That Could. Uber-Democratic Mayor Bob Filner has enlisted the help of none other than ultra-1-pe ... More >>

The Killers - Los Angeles Sports Arena - 5/2/13

The Killers Los Angeles Sports Arena 5/2/13 "Tonight, the City of Angels and Sin City are getting together," said Brandon Flowers last night at the Sports Arena, lead singer of the Las Vegas based Killers. "We'll try not to corrupt you." For 90 minutes, Flowers and company danced and moved on stag ... More >>

First It Was Charlie Sheen. Now Antonio Villaraigosa Is Hanging With... Mitt Romney?

Remember the presidential campaign? Feels like forever ago, but you may recall that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was out of town a lot rounding up votes for President Obama.Cable news bookers grew to rely on him whenever they needed someone to trash Mitt Romney's "extreme" views on immigration. A ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Led Zeppelin, All Powerful

[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.] Two nights ago, I was sitting in front of my speakers listening to a very clean pressing of Led ... More >>

Romney Writes Off Latinos, Young Voters As Government Moochers

The Republican party has four years to do something thinking, mainly about how you can be elected president, as Obama was last week, without a majority of white voters. The big story there is Latinos, and how they rocked the booths for Obama, with 70 percent or so going for the incumbent, according ... More >>

Romney Campaign Would Have Been Winning 30 Years Ago, Says USC Prof

Compounding Republicans' problems (alienating Latinos, women and anyone who ever worked in the auto industry) following last week's presidential defeat is this analysis from a USC professor that seems to have gone viral. Patrick James, professor of international relations at USC's Dornsife College, ... More >>

Pig In Mitt Romney T-Shirt Dumped At Manhattan Beach Republican Campaign HQ

Is there such a thing as a sore winner? Someone celebrated Mitt Romney's presidential loss this week by dumping a dead pig on the doorstep of Republican campaign headquarters in Manhattan Beach. The oinker was, strangely, sporting a Romney t-shirt. It's head was wrapped in barbed wire:

Henry Rollins: The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans

[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 in Washington DC right now. The time before the winner of the presidency was announced wa ... More >>

Presidential Winner 2012: Obama Beats Romney

President Obama's reelection campaign took Ohio and thus the election shortly after 8:13 p.m., NBC News reported. Mitt Romney won in contentious and important states such as North Carolina and Arizona, but once the projections had Ohio and its potent electoral votes in Obama's corner, it appeared t ... More >>

Porn's Asa Akira Invites Presidential Loser To Co-Host AVN Awards In Vegas

Whomever loses the presidential election tomorrow has an additional indignity to look forward to: He's been officially invited to co-host the porn industry's annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas. Way to bounce back like Charlie Sheen after losing a job at CBS. Yeah, adult superstar Asa Akira extend ... More >>

KCRW Masquerade Ball Featuring Z-Trip and Others - 10/27/12

KCRW Masquerade Ball The Legendary Park Plaza 10/27/12 Better Than: Left, Right & Center For a party thrown by a public radio station, things got impressively rowdy at KCRW's fourth annual Masquerade Ball on Saturday night. Thrown at art-deco castle The Legendary Park Plaza, the Ball was a multi ... More >>

Who's Your Vampyr?

Gloria Allred Tries to Upend Mitt Romney, Seeking Allegedly Ugly Sealed Testimony From Staples Divorce Case 20 Years Ago

Update:The judge weighs in on the Allred-Romney-Stemberg hearing. See at bottom. Will the greatest October-surprise schemer in California history, attorney Gloria Allred, who trotted out Meg Whitman's housekeeper Nicky Diaz (actually in late September) before the 2010 election and instantly sank Wh ... More >>

Romney Says No To Bieber's Fave Car, The SoCal-Bred Fisker

The third presidential debate, this one focused on foreign policy, took a detour to Southern California when the candidates argued about the auto industry. While Mitt Romney defended his 2008 stance to "let Detroit go bankrupt," he criticized the Obama administration's federal loans for Southern Ca ... More >>

Eva Longoria's Twat Tweet Spat Ends With Apology Accepted By Latino GOP Group

Here's one of the problems with naming celebrities as campaign co-chairs: They do embarrassing things. President Obama's folks are probably holding their collective breath this week as a group of Latino Republicans accepted the apology of Obama camp co-chair Eva Longoria for saying, essentially, th ... More >>

Mitt Romney's La Jolla Beach House Site of Tax Protest Tomorrow

Updated at the bottom with photos of the action. First posted at 12:19 p.m. Friday. It was only a matter of time before Southern California Democrats descended on Mitt Romney's beach home in La Jolla: It's so close and yet so close. An L.A. labor coalition is planning a protest there Saturday to m ... More >>

Latinos, Immigration Play Big in Second Obama-Romney Debate

Watching the debate last night you'd think that Latinos (and not, as conventional wisdom would have it, Ohioans) are going to swing this thing. The issue aimed at the Latino vote, of course, was immigration. Because that's all us brownfolk think about -- getting other brownfolk across that border, ... More >>

Fan Landers: Is My Band Accidentally Aiding a Right-Wing Extremist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Porn Biz Aroused by Obama, Limp For Romney

President Obama might have been taken down a notch by Mitt Romney's beatdown in their first debate last week. But he should be buoyed, heartened and flush with new vigor after hearing this good news: The porn industry overwhelmingly supports the incumbent for reelection, it would appear. This reve ... More >>

Stacey Dash's Romney Endorsement Spawns Twitter Backlash, GOP Support

If you're a black actress in Hollywood, are you allowed to endorse the white guy running for president? Oh hell no. That, at least, is according to the massive Twitter backlash against Stacey Dash of Clueless fame, who today backed Mitt Romney for prez:

Marijuana As Presidential Debate Topic? Not Just Yet ...

How would you like to see the presidential candidates debate the legality of medical marijuana? I know, right? Not going to happen. At least not tonight. Still, a Don Quixote from the Inland Empire is at least trying to put the issue on the radar of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Being a Local, Temporarily

[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.] We are in beautiful Olympia, Wash. My shows in Hawaii and Alaska are behind me, and a few hour ... More >>

Did Mitt Romney Go Brownface in Attempt to Woo Latino Voters?

If you thought Mitt Romney's week couldn't get any worse, it just did. The blog Democratic Underground seems to have called it first: The Republican candidate appears to have gotten darker in only a day's time. Fine, you say, he has property on the beach right here in Southern California. It happen ... More >>

Mitt Romney Extols Power of 'Freedom' to Latinos at Hispanic Chamber in L.A.

See the bottom for Romney's new foot-in-mouth video and his contention that he'd have a better shot at the presidency if he were Mexican. Really. Mitt Romney embodies his party's utter hypocrisy when it comes to all things governmental: Tax subsidies for the rich, but a distaste for "big government ... More >>

Mitt Romney Cast as Tax Cheat in Ashley Madison Dating Site Billboards

Ashley Madison, the cheaters' dating site that recently clowned North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un with a billboard near LAX, is at it again. This time the target is none other than Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whom the site notes could also be a cheater of sorts. No, he hasn't ta ... More >>

Ten Rap Songs More Republican Than Nicki Minaj

Earlier this week Nicki Minaj stepped in a fresh pile of political shit when she, in an attempt to stir the pot on a "Mercy" freestyle remix, rapped that she is voting for Mitt Romney. People stupid enough to think anything Minaj does or says matters were outraged, and some even sent her death threa ... More >>

California Democratic Drunks Make a Scene at DNC in Charlotte

Props to our California delegates who made drunken fools of themselves in Charlotte even before the Democratic National Convention started there today. While Mitt Romney's prom had Clint Eastwood lecturing an empty chair in Tampa last week, the Golden State's own Dems were prepping for Obama's seco ... More >>

Latter-Day Sodas: Mormon Church Approves Pepsi Coke

Well, it's official -- after an announcement by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Wednesday, one mystery surrounding the Mormon faith has been dispelled for good: Caffeinated sodas are now fair game for thirsty church members. A statement on the LDS website states that ... More >>

Martin Crimp's The City and How Obama Got His Groove Back Show the Art of Escaping Reality

Obamacare Was a Republican Idea! 5 Obama Issues The GOP Once Owned

Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>

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Gay Republican Fred Karger Wants Your Vote, Calls Mitt Romney 'Mechanical'

Gay Republican Fred Karger, who's based in Southern California, has been stirring things up on the campaign trail this year, seeking the Republican nomination for president. The uber-underdog Karger is not going to get it -- candidate Mitt Romney will get the nod. But he's still on the ballot for Ca ... More >>

Obama's Latino Problem Might Have Just Been Solved by This Hipster T-Shirt

You're young and Latino. And, frankly, you're on the fence about this Obama guy. After all, he promised immigration reform and only recently started to deliver after continuing George W. Bush's militaristic build-up of security along the border. And by "only recently" we mean that he planned to rel ... More >>

Mitt Romney Faces Class Warfare Protest in Los Angeles Today

Mitt Romeny's fund-raising trip to L.A. today will not be without opposition from the so-called 99 percent. Yeah, class warfare is coming to Century City as the man who will probably be the Republican nominee for president of the United States returns to Los Angeles to tap some of that big money we ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Eric Garcetti's Latino-Mayor Dreams And Mexican Heritage Start in Italy

Eric Garcetti has what you could describe as a white guy's face and an Italian's name. But, in the race to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, the city councilman could use all the ethnic bloodlines he can get. It's a diverse town where political winners often have to piece together disparate coa ... More >>

Jay Leno's Sikh-Temple-as-Mitt-Romney's-Summer-House Joke Enrages Some in Indian Religious Community

Oh no he didn't. Jay Leno is in hot water this week after a quip about Mitt Romney's summer house was accompanied by a photo of the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple in India, a grand palace indeed. Romney's real summer home, or at least one of them, is right here in Southern California, and isn't half ... More >>

Beverly Hills Casting Call Wants Rich People And Their 'Help' For Reality Show

Bravo​Oh boy. If you think The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is disgusting, have we got a show for you. Well, actually, we don't. All we know is that this proposed Real Housewives poseur will focus on the relationships between the Westside's super rich and their help. Let's just hope they ... More >>

Mitt Romney: America's First Mexican President?

We always knew that, with Barack Obama blazing the trail for African Americans, someday Latinos would get their first president too. What we didn't know is that it could actually be ... Mitt Romney!? Ay, dios mio. Turns out that sometime Southern Californian Mitt has deeper Mexican roots than a ca ... More >>

LMFAO Says 'We Came Here to Party' Inspired by Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney (Really)

Original shufflers.​If you ask us Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be the last person to inspire a dance-floor anthem. After all, his biggest claim to fame so far as hopefuls vie for the GOP nomination is being a steady rocking, under-the-radar, cardboard cutout candidate ... More >>

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Calls Press Conference to Rip on Mitt Romney During Republican's Valley Visit; No One Cares

What if the mayor called a press conference and no one came?​We try to avoid ripping on the mayor merely for the sake of ripping on the mayor. Like, he can't really help that he looks half-asleep all the time -- think there's something not quite right with his eyelids -- and the six-foot fence ... More >>

LMFAO's Sky Blu Gets Into Beef with Mitt Romney On Flight, Gets the Boot

​It should come as no surprise that the rap duo LMFAO has no idea who Mitt Romney is; they're most certainly not the most enlightened, or well-read, pop stars. To them, he's not the straight-laced right wing former presidential candidate, but someone who on a flight from Vancouver to LA on Mon ... More >>

LMFAO Rapper Gives His Side Of Run In With Mitt Romney

Sky Blu.​A rapper from the duo LMFAO said he's the one who had a well-publicized run-in with onetime presidential candidate Mitt Romney on a Los Angeles-bound flight as it took off from Vancouver, and that the Republican politician is the one who started it. As the Weekly's West Coast Sound r ... More >>

Mitt Romney Assaulted On Flight To L.A.

Mitt Romney.​Onetime Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was allegedly assaulted in a non-injury confrontation during a flight from Vancouver to Los Angeles this week, but the former Massachusetts governor on Tuesday said he would decline to press charges. The scuffle happened Monda ... More >>

The Unlikely Comeback of John McCain, Maverick Warmonger

How Johnny got his groove back

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Primary colors

Grading the Campaigns

A road-weary reporter takes the primaries to school

¡ask a Mexican! Let My Gente Go

Obama Wins in Iowa, Huckabee Crushes Romney

Obama wins the Democratic Caucus in Iowa, with 37 percent of the vote, leaving Edwards and Hillary to battle it out for second. On the Republican side, Huckabee took the gold, followed by Romney, then Thompson, then McCain. All of this has been so fully gamed out that it's hard to add any new insig ... More >>

Straw Men

Republican candidates pander to baseless base in Iowa