Netherlands

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a 28-Foot-Tall Dog Urinating on a Museum

This week, one artist makes paintings that smear and explode while another makes an ancient monument look lively and a third installs a Dutch living room in a storefront. 5. The better to hear you with Elana Mann, who has spent the last few years thinking about how to make listening and hearing mor ... More >>

Horse Meat Found in IKEA Swedish Meatballs

Across the Atlantic, the horse meat scandal continues to rock Europe -- and now it appears that IKEA's Swedish Köttbullar meatballs are the latest ready-made product found to contain horse meat. The Czech State Veterinary Administration alerted the public to traces of horse DNA found in meatballs p ... More >>

Two Awesome Improv Teams. Each Won UCB's Cagematch 44 Straight Times. And Then They Faced Off...

An unprecedented battle of improv awesomeness took place at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater two nights ago. Since its LA chapter opened in 2005, UCB has been hosting a Cagematch every Wednesday night at 11 p.m. Two teams compete by performing one 20-minute improv set each. They can do whateve ... More >>

Why Are So Many International DJs Moving to Los Angeles?

Los Angeles has recently experienced a heavy influx of international dance music producers, DJs, and label chiefs. Brits like Michael Cook and Mark Lewis were throwing raves in the Southland in the late '80s and early '90s, while French dance royalty Daft Punk arrived at some point in the late '90s ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An All-Kill, No-Fill Show

KCRW Broadcast #186 for Saturday, October 20, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing Fanatics! Tonight we will enjoy an unbelievably cool mix of songs. The weather is cooling slightly and we will take advantage of that and unleash some deep heaviness. If you notic ... More >>

Eat More Chocolate, Win a Nobel Prize

What is the secret to winning a Nobel prize? A genius IQ? Long, lonely hours in the lab or library? An unfaltering commitment to establishing peace in the Middle East (good luck with that)? Actually, it turns out that Nobel prizes are within reach for all of us, because the secret may be eating a ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green

[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 came back to Los Angeles a few days ago with 32 shows behind me on this tour, in England, Ir ... More >>

Scientists Say They're Close to Lab-Grown Hamburger

Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with which they say they will be able to produce the first lab-grown "hamburger" by the end of the year, BBC News reports. Their goal is to find a more efficient (and cruelty-free) way to produce meat than rearing animals. At ... More >>

Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Crosher, and the Art of Disappearing People

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Zha Jiang Mian Food Fight: The Dragon vs. Malan Noodle

In case you haven't noticed, we really like noodles here. But while spaghetti and meatballs, pad thai, and ramen seem to get all the attention, other heavyweights are left to languish in relative obscurity. Zha jiang mian, for one, is amongst the all time great noodles in human history. So why is it ... More >>

Cook For Your Hamster: Mathijs Van Der Paauw's Happy Hamster Rodent Cookbook

​Do you love your rodent? I bet you don't love it more than Mathijs Van Der Paauw loves his hamster. Van Der Paauw (yes, that's really his name) cooks for his hamster Lucy. He makes teeny tacos for her, and itty bitty pizza, and pine seeds in a tiny bell pepper bowl, and micro-cheeseburgers, a ... More >>

Fruit, Foregrounded

DJ Q&A: Benny Benassi Bikes His Way To Music Box In Hollywood

​The latest, most-successful-yet wave of electronic dance music (Deadmau5, Kaskade, Will.i.am) might not have been if Benny Benassi hadn't unleashed his own brand of cross-over electro house in 2002 with his robotic hit "Satisfaction." Suddenly the hip-hop-loving club world understood the synt ... More >>

Andrew Lord at Santa Monica Museum of Art

Cookbook Review: Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi His Summer Eggplant Recipe Step-By-Step

​Summer is the season of love. Or so we like to remember. And so while cookbook publishers tout their latest releases as easy, spend-no-time-indoors cookbooks (they'd rather you be grilling), we prefer the opposite -- books that entice you to spend entirely too much time in the kitchen covetin ... More >>

Brown Wants Return Of 'Desperate Housewives' Art Taken By Nazis During World War II

Norton Simon Museum​California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Wednesday said he filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing in favor of a Connecticut woman's legal attempt to get two paintings looted by Nazis during World War II. One of the pieces, "Eve," appears to be the inspiration f ... More >>

Q & A with Najat Kaanache: Apprentice to the World's Best Chefs

Najat Kaanache in Alinea's Kitchen​ Spanish-born Najat Kaanache, 32, is a woman on a mission to learn from the best chefs in the world. In just two years, Kaanache has apprenticed with chefs Grant Achatz at Alinea in Chicago, Thomas Keller at French Laundry in Yountville, and René Redzepi at ... More >>

Norm the Lego Stormtrooper Tours Globe with Crystal Method

When Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method left for tour last May, his young son gave him two Star Wars Lego figures to keep him company. One went missing. The other, a small Stormtrooper named Norm, went on to have the adventure of a lifetime. Scott KirklandNorm Trooper at Buckingham Palace​

Poken: The Next Next Really Cool Thing, Like a Kindle for Business Cards

Erin Broadley No, it's not the new Twitter (according LAWeekly.com sources that's mobile phone app foursquare) but a Dutch woman giving away weird things in the Hilton lobby is so totally #SXSW that we thought it was newsworthy. Why? Because when you have to ask someone "is that your stack of busin ... More >>

Rated "G" For Globalization

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Rated "G" For Globalization

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>

Let the Listing Begin: Ten Great Folk Records of the Past Decade

You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>

Pucker Up: Best and Worst of Sex 2007

Tristan's annual roundup of toothbrush vibrators, anti-porn ribbons, and a kinky kingdom

Lasting Impressions

Anton Heyboer, Han Dai-Yu

Ojai: Survival and Revival

The return of "the wondrously indescribable festival-like-none-other"

More or Less

It's Baroque: Why Fix It?

The Coronation of Poppea and Triumph of Beauty and Deceit

Best Dispatches From Captain's Quarters

Beyond the Rocks

Days 5 & 6: The Midpoint

Halfway through this year's Toronto Film Festival, gossip about the festival's hits and misses has reached something of a fever pitch. As far as I've been able to gather, a few movies — Bennett Miller's Capote, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain among them ... More >>

The Oldest Living Most-Promising Theater City in the World

Two festivals converge in L.A.

12 Art Moments

New York Journal: Love in the Time of Catastrophe

How To Be a Rock Promoter

And not get punched in the face more than once

The Fleiss Family Bed

Pete Wilson in Gray Pinstripes?

Unreal

The creepy Fantasyland of Survivor, Temptation Island and The Mole

Bush Web Intrigue

To Protect and to Serve Political Art

Joltin' Joe and the Holy Man

Hard Times for Net News

The Divine Child

Offer They Can Refuse

Boys 'R' Us

Star power

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Letters

...Marc Haefele's negativity seems inspired more by a poor reporter's attachment to controversy than by an honest look at the issues....