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Best L.A. Novel Ever: A Single Man vs. Golden Days, Round 2

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading check out: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups The battle b ... More >>

From Lolita to Elvis: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event films: Saturday, Nov. 17 Do dinner and a movie Stanley Kubrick-style with LACMA's new pop-up dinner series, RED. Tonight, one ticket gives you a chance to guzzle a forbidden feast-themed dinner by chef Jason Fullilove, then see deviant Humbert Humbert ache oh so poe ... More >>

Got a Reality Show Idea or Documentary in the Works? Here's a Festival Where You Can Pitch It

Anyone who's ever played certain junior high party games knows a lot can happen in seven minutes. It can be heaven, maybe, if it goes well. And if you happen to be a participant in the annual WESTDOC Pitchfest, and your seven minutes goes really well, you may walk out with a prize package worth $25 ... More >>

The Problem With the Best, Most Authentic Food

On Tuesday, National Geographic released a list of the 10 Best Burgers in the country. Because, you know, National Geographic is such an expert on ... burgers. But the list got a lot of chatter and Internet play, simply because it's a top-10 list and it named a BEST (L.A.'s Apple Pan, incidentally). ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Stop Whining About How Today's Music Sucks

[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 lucky to be someone who is easily contented. For me, listening to music is the best thing ... More >>

He's Randall

Alejandro Gamiz, North Hollywood Sears Employee, Admits to Videotaping Women in Dressing Rooms -- for 3 Years

Have you tried anything on in the women's dressing room (or gone to the bathroom) at the janky old Sears in North Hollywood, anytime in the last three years? If so, bad news: You might have been on candid camera. While inspecting their fitting rooms, Sears security personnel recently discovered th ... More >>

Study: Popcorn Eaten 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

Did cavemen sit around the fire stuffing their hairy faces with popcorn? After analyzing recently unearthed ancient corncobs, researchers say people in what's now Peru were eating popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously thought -- up to 6,700 years ago, National Geographic reports. Previously, ... More >>

Full Metal Jousting: Will Riding Horses While Stabbing People Ever be Cool?

"Why are cowboys cooler than knights?" Gary Kuchan asks himself, cradling the plastic pint of beer he's just picked up at a Honda Center concession stand. "Knights got their fair share of tail, don't get me wrong, but not like a cowboy." Over ten thousand spectators clad in Wranglers and Stetsons l ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Coni'Seafood

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Considers Mariscos Chente, Now Called Coni'Seafood

Anne FishbeinThe snook at Coni'Seafood​This week, Jonathan Gold considers the moveable snook feast orchestrated by chef Sergio Peñuelas, whose Inglewood restaurant Mariscos Chente has recently been renamed Coni'Seafood. Same restaurant, same chef, even kind of still the same name (it hasn't b ... 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 >>

National Geographic's Top 10 National Dishes Guess What Americans Like To Eat

Anne FishbeinBurger Kitchen's breakfast hamburger​Food blogs aren't the only publications with endless lists or pictures of pretty things people like to eat. National Geographic, the magazine many of us fondly remember from grade school science classrooms and dentists' offices, is the latest t ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Holy Music

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Cookbook Review: For Cod and Country (Kale, Too)

bartonseaver.org​Barton Seaver isn't your average National Geographic fellow. For starters, the Washington D.C.-based chef didn't earn his chops covering war ravaged coastlines, investigating dolphin atrocities or some similar magazine-worthy massive reporting project. The author of For Cod ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dax Riggs

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #118 for Saturday, June 11. Fanatics! It is 1600 hrs. PST. I am in Los Angeles, in the back of a taxi, speeding back to the office. I am in the third day of next to no sleep. I don't know what is keeping me up. I got a few hours in the early part of last Thursday ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Sound Trekking

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Good Fish Is A Good Read

​As far as book release timings go, Seattle private chef Becky Selengut really got the raw end of the omakase deal when her new cookbook, Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast, was released this month. Glance at that subtitle and how can you not think of the recent trag ... More >>

Saveur, Cooking Light are National Magazine Awards Finalists

WordRidden/Flickr​The National Magazine Awards finalists were announced yesterday, and aside from the usual suspects (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire), never-before-nominated Cooking Light was a finalist in the Leisure Interests category -- alongside Golf Digest, Runner's World and Los ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins on Komodo Dragons (They Blow His Mind!), Deerhoof and Orange Republicans

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: How to Talk to Right Wing Talk Show Callers

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Out of Africa and Into the Land of Acting Without a Script (with Cameo Appearance by Princess Leia and His Favorite Dylan Song)

Timothy NorrisHenry Rollins' Weird Record Academy for the Open of Ears: Last night at the Echoplex​ [For more exclusive shots from Henry Rollins' event last night, see Timothy Norris' slideshow 'Henry Rollins @ The Echoplex'.] I am back from Africa. That was a long haul. From Entebbe, Uganda ... More >>

Restrepo: Film Is a Battlefield

Journalist-filmmakers go to war

Peek Inside the Doomsday Seed Vault Tonight

Mari Tefre/Svalbard Globale Seed VaultSeed vault entrance​ The National Geographic channel is offering a rare glimpse inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) tonight at 9 p.m. as part of the final installment of its How The Earth Changed History three-part miniseries. Nicknamed the doom ... More >>

Jonathan Gold LAFF Artist in Residence: Udon, The Movie

What do Paul Ruben, Jonathan Gold, and Quincy Jones have in common? They are all Artists in Residence at the LA Film Festival (LAFF) this year. Each was asked to select a film that has inspired his work: Jones will present The Color Purple, by Steven Spielberg; Reubens offers up You Can't Take It W ... More >>

Water: Our Thirsty World

And In Calamari News: Giant Squid Fishing at Newport Beach

Giant squid, something that we're particularly interested in here at Squid Ink, are right now invading the waters off Newport Beach. Fishermen first started reeling in the catch last Thursday, some of which have measured up to 4 feet long and weighed in at 60 pounds. According to the L.A. Times, Rob ... More >>

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

East of the 5: Mas Exitos Unearths Underground Latin Cuts at Verdugo Bar

DJ collective Mas Exitos unites North and South America in a delectable melange of musical styles at Verdugo Bar.

JOURNALISM'S DEAD-- LET'S LEAVE TOWN!

Pan African Film Fest gets deluxe new digs and a stellar lineup to go with them

Movin' on up

Bollywood Goes East — Far East — for Chandni Chowk to China

Kung fu pandamonium

Filthy Waters Run Black

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Musical Ruminations

Hafez and Shahram Nazeri

Hey There, Lobster Girl!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

From Venus to Venice

Crazed Catholics

Hustle & Toboggan

In the 2005 summer movie season, slow but steady wins the race

Beached Bones

Crowe Becalmed

Master and Commander drifts, Carnage delivers

Saddam’s Last Days

Dreaming About Big Cars and Tax Cuts

Bush’s economic plan for Lamborghini owners

Universal Recycling

Midnight Movies at the Planetarium

Peace operatives Super Furry Animals’ non-proliferation treatise

The Back Story

Reading list: Week 8

Green Eggs and Lawsuits

Artists, contracts and money

Be Here Now

GPS means never having to say 'Where the fuck are we?'

Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn

Music Reviews

Moving Violations

Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.