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Watch This Now: Tom Cruise Making Xiaolongbao

And here now is a video of Tom Cruise making soup dumplings, in exactly the same way you'd imagine Tom Cruise would make soup dumplings: With determination. Cruise was in Taiwan earlier this month to promote his latest film, Oblivion, and stopped by Din Tai Fung's Taipei 101 branch to learn how to m ... More >>

KDAY Is Closing? A Eulogy to the Best Station in L.A.

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," normally appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "Remember KDAY?" Tupac asked that question on "To Live & Die in LA," but the answer was obvious. Makaveli never even lived in Southern Califor ... More >>

5 Dance Events to See in L.A. This Week Including Christmas Eve at the Music Center

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Best Comedy Shows to See in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance highlights include a quintet of L.A. dance companies coming to the Music Center on Christm ... More >>

Shakespeare, Kubrick and Oprah: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week the cinephile community is focused on AFI Fest, but here are some other special event films we recommend: Friday, Nov. 2 Women have made giant leaps in history, but every so often someone tries to put them in a binder. Oprah-approved doc Miss Representation explores the correlation betwe ... More >>

The Ambassador Review: Mads Brugger Is the Sacha Baron Cohen of Denmark

Sex Farce Meets Diplomacy in Mutually Assured Destruction; Solo Show Mental Creatures Explores Artistic Ambition

Jonathan Gold's 60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know

See Also: A Google map for all 60 of the Korean dishes Jonathan Gold says every Angeleno should know, read "5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup," learn about "5 Koreatown Beer Joints: Hite Requirement," or just look at more of Anne Fishbein's beautiful Koreatown food photography. I ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Ambassador, and Experimental Methodology

Mads Brugger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010. In Chapel, Danish journalist Brugger posed as th ... More >>

Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Review

Scenes from a dictatorship in decline, in this found-footage masterpiece

Jamie Oliver: 12 Quotes From The Celebrity Chef You Won't Read in This Week's Cover Story

A. ScattergoodJamie Oliver​ You may have noticed a giant Jamie Oliver-shaped hole in our recent cover story, "Bad Lunch," about school food in Los Angeles. Oliver's antics originally inspired the piece. But we chose instead to focus on the problems inherent within LAUSD's meal program, and on ... More >>

Top 5 Apocalypse Movie Food Scenes

Alle your McDonald's are belong to us.​There's a scene in "War of the Worlds," the 2005 remake not the 1953 original, when Tom Cruise finds berserker survivalist Tim Robbins holed up in his basement. After sheltering him from the aliens, Robbins offers him peach schnapps. Even then, he (and th ... More >>

The Red Chapel Review

Swans: Forever Changes

Prodigal son Michael Gira returns to L.A. with more Swans music

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

Life Of Crime: Robbing For Records and Five Rock 'n' Roll Criminals

Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers​ Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>

Top 10 Places To Watch the FIFA World Cup

​Tomorrow begins the the most widely watched sporting event in the world, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And for the next month, from June to July 11th, even Laker mania will take a back seat to soccer. The World Cup, held for the first time in Africa, showcases 32 countries. And while you can of co ... More >>

L.A. Billionaires Still Throw Millions at Bill Clinton

Former president Bill Clinton hasn't lost the golden touch when it comes to raising big money in Los Angeles.Former U.S. President Bill Clinton​In 2009, The William J. Clinton Foundation, the former president's non-profit group that fights everything from global climate change to HIV/AIDS, raked i ... More >>

U2 at the Rose Bowl: Concert Porn for the Masses

It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

Steve Bing Hits Vegas With Bill Clinton, Cancels on Jane Fonda

Super secretive rich guy Steve Bing seems to be really getting around these days ... and in a very public way. Probably too public for his own liking.This thought struck us when we read Jane Fonda's blog yesterday -- yes, everybody has one.Rich guy Steve Bing​"Then, we all went to dinner at Craft ... More >>

Photo-Enhanced Counter Intelligence: Ginseng Soju and Other Images You Didn't See In the Original Review of Koreatown Goat-Soup Specialist Bulrocho

Anne FishbeinRevealed: ginseng soju "If you're lucky," wrote Jonathan Gold in his Counter Intelligence review "In the Midnight Hour: Late-Night Goat Supper at Bulrocho -- Dispensing Chile-Red Comfort in a Bowl of Koreatown Goat Soup," "you may be offered a taste of the house soju, a tea-colored cor ... More >>

In the Midnight Hour: Late-Night Goat Supper at Bulrocho

Dispensing chile-red comfort in a bowl of Koreatown goat soup

The Red Scare and Average Joes

What we talk about when we talk about socialism

Up in Smoke: Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Best friends get shipped to Gitmo in this forced Act 2

Never Gonna Gibbon Up

What to do in L.A., April 11-17

Gonna Party Like It's $19.99

From Krazy Straws to frozen salmon, a housewarming soiree where nothing is more than 99 cents

Night of the Living Dead

KPFK is where North Korea meets North Hollywood

Aaron Cohen: Sex Slaves, Drug Trade and Rock n' Roll

In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought he’d seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar.

This Week in World Wars III Through VI

Letters

All the President’s Problems

A blundering start to the second term

Message From Beyond

Another look at the Republican convention

Page Turner

Hollywood screenwriters get ready for talks

Nuclear Culture

Most Pakistanis see no crime in sharing the bomb with Muslim countries

Koreatown's Top 40

Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

Shanghai Nights

Mian Mian on Chinese raves, cheap taxis and why nobody wants to fuck the queen

Celebrity Justice: Winnobega Driver, Estrella

Domestic Targets

With war on, opposition to Fed’s pursuit of Iraqis and others wanes

What’s Proof Got To Do With It?

The forced march to war

Missing Evidence

Poking holes in the case for war

Letters

Your Friends and Neighbors for Peace

A weekend's march through time

Feelings of Insecurity

Inside the U.S. roundup of Muslims

Our Peace Movement — Not Theirs

Brakes of War

Signs are on that a full-scale invasion of Iraq is off

Let’s Roll!

A hot-war president for a cold-war nation

Physics of Folly

Why a missile-defense system can never work

Into the Melding Pot

Rich flavors from the old country

Running on Empty

George W. Bush’s plea for votes — and brain cells

The War Over Your Personal Privacy Is Over.
You Lost.

The top five ways the technological revolution has been a war against you