Nazi Party

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

Michael Mann's Long-Lost Film The Keep Rises Again

Ten Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die

By Alex Distefano When you're talking about something as all-encompassing as heavy metal, you might as well be talking about something as infinitely complicated as the universe. It's that vast, and the amount of territory to cover is seemingly limitless. From black metal and thrash, death metal to ... More >>

Here are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237

Two Plays About Big Ideas

Cassiopeia and Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ruminate on Heaven and Earth

UCLA's International Theater Program Is Back With a French Production of Rhinoceros

Comments: Aliens Among Us

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Series at American Cinematheque

The Pianist of Willesden Lane

Paul Koretz, L.A. City Councilman, Threatens to Punch Man Over Hitler Comment

Updated at the bottom: Ron Kaye captured video of the clash! First posted at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday. L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz threatened to "clock" a man who said "heil, Hitler" to the council during a public comments period at City Hall today, according to The City Maven. The Westside city lea ... 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 >>

Occupy L.A.: The Revolution Is Being Televised

After 46 arrests for civil disobedience, Occupy L.A. feels its oats

Black Women Are Scientifically Proven to be Less Attractive to Other Females?

Psychology Today​When we saw links to this piece on Facebook we wrote it off as a hoax or a hack. The headline read, "Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women ... ?" Didn't make sense to us in the age of Beyonce and all her womanly features, which seem to be admir ... More >>

The Good Prisoner

Brooklyn, USA

JEWISH SUMO WRESTLERS? WHO KNEW?

Weirdest Book Titles: The Food Edition

Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich, by James Yannes​Books aren't dead, they're just getting weirder. Maybe blame Jeff Bezos, who admits reading his Kindle in the bathtub. The Diagram prize, a prize established in 1978 by the trade magazine The Bookseller for oddest book title, just announce ... More >>

Circus Welt

District 9: Divide and Conquer

Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor

East of Berlin

Stage Raw: Time Stands Still

TIME STANDS STILL Time Stand Still (photo by Michael Lamont) is Donald Margulies' newest work, being given its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It would be nice to see our institutional theaters dip a bit deeper into the lake of American playwrights (perhaps lesser-known ones) ... More >>

Divided We Stand: Art of Two Germanys

Both sides now at LACMA

Should We Listen to Stuart Klawans' Call for a Moratorium on Holocaust Movies?

From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust

The Reader's Long and (Oscar-) Worthy Road to Redemption

Reading Is fundamental

Mex-Emo News Coverage Explodes

L.A. Weekly blogger and former staff writer Daniel Hernandez uncovered a wild story about attacks on "emo" youths in Mexico City on LA Daily and his own blog Intersections. Besides getting linked on Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic and Canada's Exclaim, there were plenty of other places who ... More >>

It's a Woman's World

Hannelore Baron, Judith Linhares, Cherie Benner Davis

It Can't Happen Here (Again)

Saul Friedlander receives a peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Film Reviews: Dynamite Warrior, License to Wed

Also Joshua, Vitus and more

Black Book, Grindhouse and the Relativist Hole

Film Reviews

Including G.I. Jesus, Smokin' Aces and Verdict on Auschwitz

Spy vs. Spy

Britain’s attempt to crack American isolationism in William Boyd’s Restless

Skid Row

Theater Reviews

Pound of Flesh

New theater reviews

Thug Lives

Tsotsi and Sophie Scholl examine the moral quandaries of modern South Africa and Nazi Germany

God’s Spokesperson

Last Laughs

How to fail in show business by really trying

You Vill Vatch!

Or, maybe you won’t: Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Beat Bush

But don’t lose your sanity

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

Fetal Frenzy

How the embryo in amnion became the strange icon of anti-abortionists

America's Most Unwanted

Shame, Embarrassment, Fear

Paragraph 175, The Taste of Others, Last Resort

Earthly Delights

Song and dance from around the world

Obscure Objects of Desire

Cinecon 35

They Saved Hitler's Head

The Führer as model tyrant

Fatuous Fascism

Benigni and Singer give Holocaust lite

My Own Private Nuremberg

C.P. Taylor looks at the evil of banality