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Cookbook of the Week: Home Made Summer (Almost) A Recipe For A Negroni Ice Pop

If the recent weather has you already craving a fantastic Home Made Summer, good news: Yvette Van Boven's latest book is almost here. Van Boven is a Dutch food stylist and illustrator who owns a popular café in Amsterdam; her husband, Oof Verschuren, is an award-winning photographer (for the Dutch ... More >>

Junk Food Tied to Higher Colon Cancer Risk

People with a genetic susceptibility to colon cancer increase their risk by eating junk food, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer on December 17. "These patients have this very high risk because of this [genetic] mutation they have, but it might be that they could reduce the nu ... More >>

Westvletern 12: World's Best Beer Finally Released in the U.S.

Today marks the release of Westvleteren XII in the United States. The most highly-acclaimed, rarest beer in the world, "Westy" as it's known to beer fanatics, hails from Brouwerij Westvleteren in the Trappist Abbey of St. Sixtus in Vleteren, Belgium. The reason its release is so significant, why you ... More >>

Mumford & Sons - Hollywood Bowl - November 12, 2012

Mumford & Sons Hollywood Bowl 11/12/12 It's been four years since Mumford & Sons played their first show in Los Angeles, and in that time the London-based quartet's career has skyrocketed. Since then the folk rockers have released two chart topping albums, been nominated for a slew of Grammys, and ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Saturday, July 28 Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak WILTERN What few critics there were of Dirty Projectors' 2009 magnum opus, Bitte Orca, took issue with the LP's idiosyncrasies. As thrilling as those songs were, they clearly weren't written for anyone other than main brain David Longstreth. But on new al ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Food Safety Bill, Eating With Ozomatli Saveur's Food Blog Awards

The Washington Post: The landmark food safety bill signed by President Obama more than a year ago is stuck in limbo. Gourmet Live: Ozomatli's global musical tastes match their culinary appetite. Saveur: The Best Food Blog Award Winners. Because "In their infinite variety and extraordinary depth, [ ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet

​[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.] A few days ago, I was sitting backstage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, in the same area ... More >>

The Ig Nobel Awards: Researchers Invent a Wasabi Fire Alarm

Anne Fishbeinwasabi, etc. at Kiyokawa​ The Nobel committee has been awarding their coveted prizes this week, which fact may have overshadowed the announcement of the 21st annual Ig Nobel (get it?) awards, sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research and handed out last Thursday at a Harvard ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Muse Til Midnight, Sander Kleinenberg, The Lot

Check out the Tim Burton exhibit and hear Dublab DJs at LACMA; see Sat. ​For those who like to party, Summer's soiree schedule still shines pretty bright even as the seasonal shift begins. This week offers plenty of opportunities to get down 'ti' the leaves turn brown. It's in fact a very colo ... More >>

Planes, Trains, Citroëns French Fries: Air France to Fuel Planes with Cooking Oil

Flickr/ldrose​ If you needed another reason to book an Air France flight to Paris, you can now do so in the name of environmentalism. Well, at least if you ignore the carbon footprint part. According to Mother Nature Network, Air France-KLM has announced that this fall it will start fueling pl ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle and Hard Place Members Objectify Themselves for LICKER LICENSE

still from Sweet Balls by Hazel Hill McCarthy III​ LA's Hazel Hill McCarthy III outdoes herself (and her gender) with LICKER LICENSE, a touring one-night event of all-female video and performance featuring Kristy Fenton (Modern Witch), Actually Huizenga (Hard Place, Wet Look, et al), Genesis ... More >>

Show Cave Kisses L.A. Goodbye With Denzel Washington-Inspired Girl-On-Girl Art Show 'Licker License'

photo by Douglas McCarthyShow Cave curator Hazel Hill McCarthy III displays the tongue shaped glow-in-the-dark "Licker License" hard drives​ After five years and three locations around Los Angeles, notorious Show Cave night gallery closes with a gleefully gynocentric event entitled "Licker Lic ... More >>

Short Skirt-Wearing Bicyclist Too Sexy For New York Cops (But She'd be Welcomed in L.A.)

New York Daily News​In our ongoing series of posts called "New York Shitty" we've repeatedly documented the superiority of Los Angeles over the Big Apple. But none of our jabs could make the point as well as this story: A cop in New York actually stopped a short-skirt wearing tourist who was ... More >>

SlutWalk Los Angeles Happens Saturday in West Hollywood

Anton BielousovWalking the walk.​There are perp walks. And power walks. Now there's a SlutWalk coming to West Hollywood tomorrow. But before you line the parade route, Charlie Sheen, note that the participants aren't embracing your kind. Rather they're protesting the notion, uttered this spri ... More >>

Test Kitchen: Horse Fat? The New Perfect French Fries

Farid ZadiNew Perfect French Fries​ No one knows who invented French fries, although most food experts agree that deep fried potato strips were almost certainly invented in Belgium or France. There is a popular internet meme about a Belgian journalist who allegedly documented the existence of ... More >>

Winter in Wartime

New Year's Eve Ravers: If You Forgot What (Or Who) You Did At 'Together As One,' You Might Want To Check Craigslist

Caesar Sebastian / Insomniac EventsYou might not remember this kiss in 2011.​It's time for Missed Connections: New Year's Edition. In this episode we take a look at ravers who were apparently so blissed out they forgot to get the phone numbers of people they just tongue wrestled with. And so, ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins' Predictions for 2011 (Protip: It Gets Better)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[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 Henr ... More >>

A Holiday Survival Guide for Nondrinkers: Top 10 (Mostly Legal) Coping Mechanisms

Flickr/erik jaeger​ It's the holidays, the season of giving, family gatherings, and coping mechanisms. So what's the number one way people traditionally survive the holidays? Alcohol. Which is great for many people, not so great for those who do not drink. Why you don't drink -- religious prin ... More >>

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

Agwa: Liqueur or Mouthwash? It's Hard to Tell

Elina ShatkinAgwa, Bolivian coca liqueur.​Be careful leaving bottles of Agwa around. The new, mint-green liqueur made from coca leaves that are grown in Bolivia then processed and bottled in Amsterdam, looks and tastes remarkably similar to mouthwash. Perhaps you're a dental hygienist who wan ... More >>

Soul Legend Solomon Burke, Dead at 70

Solomon Burke. RIP​Solomon Burke, one of the great soul survivors, died yesterday on a plane in Amsterdam at 70. Burke started off in Philly as a straight-up preacher/gospel singer, but after a move to Atlantic Records -- at the time the label for sophisticated, urban soul -- he produced a se ... More >>

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Says It's L.A.'s Turn To Host World Cup

​You put away your vuvuzelas. Your favorite team lost. The late-morning hangovers have worn off. But that soccer high remains. Channel your energy here: It's a long shot, but Los Angeles could be in the running to host the 2018 World Cup. Last year the City Council voted to submit a bid to h ... More >>

Kulov's 10th Annual Tea Festival at Royal/T

Kulov Tea Festival​ Sipping rare and aged teas may not be as mainstream as getting your triple espresso caffeine fix, but then neither is learning proper tea drinking etiquette whilst being served by cute little Asian-girl waitresses dressed up as French maids. On Saturday and Sunday, May 1-2 ... More >>

Mars Volta Ax-man Makes Directorial Debut

​We here at West Coast Sound, existing as we do at the geographic crossroads of the music biz and the film industry, like to make a point of keeping readers abreast of inspired audio/visual intersections. For instance, exactly one month ago, we alerted you to yet another outgrowth of Maynard ... More >>

1974 Called: It Wants Its Magic Bus Back

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced that they just recovered a Volkswagen van that had been reported stolen in 1974. The 1965 Bus was found in at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports, in a shipping container bound for the Netherlands, Customs authorities said. They ran the van's vehi ... More >>

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All-Star Gamers

Jazz in L.A., February 27-March 5

Diamonds Are For Never

Forget blood diamonds -- for a limited time you can go straight to the color-wheel source and behold the treacherous countenance of a bloody rock -- or more precisely, a blood-red diamond, courtesy of the L.A. County Museum of Natural History. More storied than the Maltese Falcon (well, okay, smalle ... More >>

In Control

Anton Corbijn masters the moving image

The Missing Rice Table

You can’t rijsttafel in L.A., but there is Indo Kitchen

Tiësto in Concert

Elements of style

Guerrillas of Orange

Paul Verhoeven opens the Black Book on World War II

Sudden Shock

The Seventh Annual Polish Film Festival

Duke and Duck

The Instant Composers Pool Orchestra and more

Page Turner

Hollywood screenwriters get ready for talks

Our Big Fat Gay Year

Our Dark Blue Places

Ellroy via Shelton, plus Till Human Voices Wake Us

The Year in Film

Nine Kick-Ass Dishes of 2002

Letters

Olympic Anti-Doping an Uphill Battle

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

DON'T CRY FOR ME, MEXICO

Salivating SoccerEse

Poppycock

Then This Priest Says. . .

My Vincent

R.B. Kitaj on van Gogh

Soap Box Derby

Must we cry in all the right places?