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Henry Rollins: The GOP's Disdain for Women Is Appalling

[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.] Only a few short weeks into the new year and the GOP is busy. The president's recent inaugurati ... More >>

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 >>

School Bullies Are The Cool Kids, Says UCLA Researcher

The old read on school bullies was that they were making up for low self-esteem. Every punch in the shoulder, every atomic wedgie was a cry for help and attention. Right? Wrong, says UCLA professor of developmental psychology Jaana Juvonen. She argues that your local campus bully is, indeed, the c ... More >>

Susan SurfTone Is a Female Guitarist and Was a Gun-Toting FBI Agent. Boys Are Jealous

Watching the Republican debates recently, Susan SurfTone bristled at Newt Gingrich's revisionist history. "He said he and Ronald Reagan took down the Soviet Union," the female guitarist, who plays this Saturday at the Redwood Bar & Grill, says over the phone from her home in Portland. "No. Ronald Re ... More >>

$5.59 Gas in Los Angeles: Fuel Reaches High Not Seen Since 2008

The jobless rate is down. People are starting to spend money again. Some of Wall Street's biggest stocks, like Apple, are trading at record highs. Damn, this Great Recession might have just turned a corner for the better. Finally. Wait a minute. Did you say $5.59-a-gallon gas? Right here in L.A?

'Occupy 90210' Protester on Bicycle Hit by Car Along Sunset Boulevard (VIDEO)

UstreamDown and out in Beverly Hills.​The Occupy 90210 protest last night, to call out President Obama for accepting big campaign cash from Hollywood donors, got a little chaotic when a protester was thrown from his bicycle by a Smart Car flying by. (Scroll down for dramatic video of the downe ... More >>

Investigating the Choice to Be Gay, Straight or Sexually Ambidextrous

During the 19th century, the Victorians began scientifically labeling their natural surroundings. They came up with 26 elements for the Periodic Table, 7 taxonomic ranks for biological organisms, but only 2 categories for human sexuality: hetero and homo. Years passed. Alfred Kinsey made a scale; ... More >>

Lou Reed on How His Attempt at Career Suicide, Metal Machine Music, Became an Art Show

Lou Reed is a rock & roll legend. That is an indisputable fact. And he doesn't bless Southern California with his downtown swagger very often. So when he takes part in a staged conversation, it is only fair that he gets to pick the subjects. Unfortunately for many who paid 45 bucks to hear Reed's ... More >>

South L.A. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Wants to Send Black Youth Back to Plantation

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich helped win over South Carolina last week with a pretty condescending suggestion for lifting black American youth up by their bootstraps: Hire them all as janitors! "They'd be getting money, which is a good thing if you're poor," he argued, to standing o ... 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 >>

Newt Gingrich Announces Republican Presidential Campaign Do-Over to Commence in L.A. This Weekend

Newt.​Forget New York. If you can re-make it here, you can re-make it anywhere. And plenty of people, from L Ron Hubbard to Conan O'Brien, seem to have relaunched their careers in this City of Angels. You can now add Newt Gingrich to that list. Yeah, despite what you might have heard about t ... More >>

David Meiklejohn, Director of My Heart is an Idiot: What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted

David Meiklejohn's My Heart is an Idiot​ David Meiklejohn was an aspiring filmmaker in Austin when editor Davy Rothbart tapped him to shoot Found Magazine's national tour, which mainly consists of dramatic readings of found letters, birthday cards, and other real-life ephemera. Instead, Meikl ... More >>

Modernist Cuisine: How to Score (Um, Borrow) Stunning Cookbooks Via Twitter What Nathan Myhrvold Does With His Blow Torch

A. ScattergoodModernist Cuisine​ Twitter can be a beautiful thing, for zamisdat poets, for Middle Eastern dissidents, for Newt Gingrich. It can also be a very useful emergency button. So when we recently found ourselves needing the answer to a specific question from the copy desk, we put out a ... More >>

Shira Lazar Discusses Her New Show What's Trending, Daniel Tosh and Arianna Huffington

We hear Shira Lazar knows Keyboard Cat personally.​Today at 10 a.m. local media maven Shira Lazar will step in front of an HD camera in a swank new Hollywood studio and debut What's Trending, a live online show devoted to what's hot on the internet. We spend a lot of time online (you don't wan ... More >>

Newt Gingrich and the NAACP, Together Over Criminal Justice Reform and Century Blvd. Billboard

NAACPPremiering on Century Blvd.​What do Newt Gingrich and the NAACP have in common? Starting today, it's a new billboard in town. The latest addition to LA's sea of giant-ass signs is on Century Boulevard, compliments of the NAACP, and states that in the past 23 years state spending on jails ha ... More >>

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

I WANT YOUR MONEY

I Want Your Money review

Tip of the Spear: An Interview With Generation Kill Author Evan Wright

Former Weekly writer talks ass time, crack highs and why roadblocks kill

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 3: Why "1st of Month" is the Greatest Song Ever Written About Welfare

Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today. I can't even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would've been had I been forced to listen to "A Bay Bay" and "Low" everywhere I went. We got "Regulate," and "Hip-Hop Hooray," they got the Soulja Boy dance. And of course, there wa ... More >>

A Vision of Our Own

Four ideas for the left to redefine itself

Frame This!

Will George Lakoff’s linguistic ideas help Democrats regain the White House . . . or are they just the progressive flip side to conservative Luntzspeak?

Right-Wing Political Correctness

Shut Your Mouth

Bush’s Big Number Two

What’s the Matter With Cheney?

My Life on the Couch

Bill Clinton’s Oprah Moment

Anger Management

The Growing Pains of Liberal Talk Radio

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

Devil’s Island

Letters

Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

It’s the Governor, Dahling

Arianna gathers her friends to talk about Sacramento

Neocons Run Amok!

Republicans not with them are now the enemy, too

The Back Story

Walk Like a Man

Apocalypse, Tuesday

The Natural

Despite his deficiency of backbone, Bill Clinton was the greatest pol of his generation

Make Nice

The GOP goes gooey

Clinton's Wedge

China cracks the Democrats

Establishment Boys

Bush, Gore and the limits of orthodoxy

Faith Made Visible

Believers take divine inspiration to tasks

James Rogan: Rogue Prosecutor

In — but not of — the district

Deadbeat Duds

Banana Republicans

By any other name, seizing power in defiance of popular will is a coup

Impeach the President!

Well, not really, but it sure as hell would screw the GOP, and might just save Social Security

Conservative Collapse

From Gingrich to Lungren, the right is routed

Our selections in Tuesday's General Election

Endorsements 98

Matt Fong is no Boxer

So who is he, anyway?

The Last Liberal

Barbara Boxer's toughest campaign

Congressman Jim Rogan

Famous Victories

How labor won on Tuesday; how Gray Davis can win this fall