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May 25, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Live With a Ton of New Records
KCRW Broadcast #166 for Saturday, May 26, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! South Africa's Present and Future Fanatics! What a show! So many new tracks! Besides that, we give our thanks to some great musicians who have recently passed away. The last few weeks have been very tough with all ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister
[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.] Still in Australia, get used to it! I will be here for quite a while. Things are going very we ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! Down Under and  Hard to Find
[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 am currently in Australia. This will mark my 30th trip to this country since I first came her ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
Why This Song Sucks: Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," featuring Kimbra
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: *Gotye Tells Us His Life Story *The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One Song: Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," featuring Kimbra History: "Somebod ... More >>
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April 13, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Aussie Tribute
KCRW Broadcast #160 for Saturday, April 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Japanese Guitar Freaks From Outer Space Fanatics! I am Australia bound. At this moment, I am in Wellington, New Zealand with show #60 for the year a few hours behind me. I will be in Australia for quite a long sp ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
Gotye: His Life Story
See Also: *Our Review of Gotye at the El Rey Theatre, February 2, 2012 *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Raised in Australia, Gotye has a completely sold out US tour, over 140 million YouTube hits, and a single ("Somebody That I Used to Know") so potent it h ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Meat 101 at Nick & Stef's: Demystifying Meat Wine Pairings
At the farmers market, a couple digs through the coolers at the Jimenez Family Farm stall, unearthing plastic-encased cuts of goat, lamb, pork and rabbit. They're shopping for dinner, but looking a little less than confident. "What do you do with this again?" asks the lady, bespectacled, gray-bunned ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Q & A With Survivor Coach Benjamin Wade: The Survivor Diet, Eating Termites $320 Chicken Parmesan
The very thought of choosing to be deprived of food for money is completely mind-boggling to us. Doing that for the amusement of the American television viewing public rockets that plan straight to the top of the absolutely never list. Yet, for Benjamin "Coach" Wade, that's exactly what he did - thr ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Cupcakes Continue World Domination and Other Lessons from Google's 2011 Zeitgeist
R.E.~/FlickrCupcakes were one of the most Googled terms of 2011Much to our chagrin, the cupcake is a trend that just won't die: according to Google's 2011 Year-End Zeitgeist, cupcakes were one of the most popular Food and Drink search terms of the year. Other fascinating revelations about ou ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Michael Ruhlman, ~~ColLAboration~~, Irregular Wine Tasting, Tonga Hut Reopening, Pig & Pints
Guzzle & NoshA pint of beer and a pig's head.[UPDATE, 12.02.11, 4:56 p.m.: This weekend's ColLaboration Winterfest Beer Garden has been postponed due to the Windpocalypse.] In addition to the Master Food Preserver fundraiser happening on Sunday afternoon at Homegirl Cafe, there are plenty of ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Dannii Minogue Is The Superior Minogue
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was the wee hours of the morning about ten years ago when I first saw Dannii Minogue, on Top of the Pops. Chains ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
It’s Creepy and It’s Spooky: The (West) Adams Velaslavasay
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was the wee hours of the morning about ten years ago when I first saw Dannii Minogue, on Top of the Pops. Chains ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview
Interview by Roselle Chen "It's a beautiful fucking day in Boston," says punk-cabaret performer Amanda Palmer from her home. She is best known as one half of The Dresden Dolls, and has a wildly-popular solo career, but she's on the phone mainly to talk about her work with the David Lynch Fo ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Top 5 YouTube Noodle Commercials: James Brown, Dancing Roe Sac Babies, and the Moa Ostrich
If the cavemen and frogs taught us anything it is that commercials don't have to have much to do with the products they promote. Some wares lend themselves to absurdity more readily than others, particularly those whose nuances are tough to render in just a few seconds of color and sound. Like insu ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
Flickr/dubh What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
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March 31, 2011
Tempest Without a Body
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March 18, 2011
$80 Wine Beats $5,000 Wine in Blind Pinot Noir Taste Test
A bottle of New Zealand pinot noir edged out several high-profile French and Californian wines to take the top spot in a recent blind tasting. Talk about bottle shock. Courtesy of World's Top 20 Pinot NoirsTim Fleming judges a pinot noir.Proving that price is no guaranteed determiner ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Henry Rollins! The Column: Listening to Ramones in Tehran
Timothy Norris[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 Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
The Writing Is On The Food: What Australia Tried To Do To Amanda Palmer...
Cathy Kirkpatrickfan food, with mysterious message A few days ago, we ran a couple of photos of punk-cabaret singer Amanda Palmer, her fans and what Palmer calls "fan-prepared food." In the background of one of the photos was a mysterious shot of something -- a casserole? a nut-loaf ? -- with ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
I Bring The Music, You Bring The Food: Backstage With Amanda Palmer Her Catering Fans
Cathy KirkpatrickAmanda Palmer (center) at a backstage family meal in Australia A couple of weeks ago, we learned how comedian Kathy Griffin enhances the quality of what she eats on the road by getting her more than half million Twitter followers to direct her to small mom-and-pop restaurants ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Australia's In-N-Out: Oporto, Coming to OC
Various burgers served at Australian chain Oporto. Australia's answer to In-N-Out is coming to the United States, and its first stateside location opens tomorrow in Orange County. Founded in 1986, Oporto, which serves Portuguese-influenced Australian fare, "supposedly has a cult following in ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Sanctum
Various burgers served at Australian chain Oporto. Australia's answer to In-N-Out is coming to the United States, and its first stateside location opens tomorrow in Orange County. Founded in 1986, Oporto, which serves Portuguese-influenced Australian fare, "supposedly has a cult following in ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Compton Cricket Team 'Homies & the Popz' to Rep U.S. in Tourney Down Under (BONUS: They Rap About It)
Compton Cricket ClubThis is not a jokeA dozen dreamers from the hood, one geographically displaced athletic passion. Dare we say Jamaican bobsled team? Nah, but the Compton Cricket Club is nine times as street. Even streeter: These guys might actually have a chance at beating "comparably com ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
I'M BOUQUET, YOU'RE BOUQUET
Compton Cricket ClubThis is not a jokeA dozen dreamers from the hood, one geographically displaced athletic passion. Dare we say Jamaican bobsled team? Nah, but the Compton Cricket Club is nine times as street. Even streeter: These guys might actually have a chance at beating "comparably com ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
Top 10 (Mainly) Local Edible Stocking Stuffers
K.RobbinsDark 8Fudge Like movie previews or Hendrix opening for the Monkees, sometimes the intro act can overshadow the main event. Such is the case with a really well-stocked stocking. We're particularly partial to the pre-tree practice because holiday stockings tend to be crammed full of lo ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Tonight: The Naked and Famous, Dar Williams, My Chemical Romance, Chasing Kings, Black Apples, Dirt Dress
The Naked and FamousEven the coolest of cool kids -- you know, the ones who can eloquently extol the virtues of MGMT's second album Congratulations -- have a soft spot the size of Brooklyn for hits like "Kids" and "Time to Pretend." That's the kind of chewy, sweet electro-pop that New Zealan ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Wine Vending Machines: Coming To A Supermarket Near You
Inhabit.comComing Soon: Pump-Your-Own Wine Vending Machines In the past few months we've heard of all sorts of wine innovations, from single-serve wine glass to canned wine to Hello Kitty branded booze, and now there's another one to add to the list. Courtesy of the French, who led the world ... More >>
Film+TV
July 8, 2010
Out at the Movies
From bisexual bromance to lesbian Marines to Le Tigre: 15 picks for Outfest
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July 8, 2010
THEY SAY GOOBER AND GOMER WERE JUST COUSINS
From bisexual bromance to lesbian Marines to Le Tigre: 15 picks for Outfest
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June 29, 2010
How 16-Year-Old Abby Sunderland Overcame Fear As She Faced Death On The High Seas
Say what you will about Southern California sailor Abby Sunderland -- that her parents put her up to a perilous attempt to sail around the world, that she did it for a reality television show, that her rescue cost hundreds of thousands of tax dollars in Australia. Whatever. She's one tough g ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"
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June 11, 2010
Abby Sunderland Reported To Be In 'Good Spirits' As Efforts To Reach Her Were Underway
Southern California teen sailor Abby Sunderland was reported to be in "good spirits" after an airliner spotted her aboard her distressed sailboat and a rescue plane subsequently circled overhead as she awaited sea-bound help in the Indian Ocean Friday. The 16-year-old from Thousand Oaks, who ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Will Mourn For Food: Man Attends Funerals For The Grub
Signagistics/Christie Bishop Most of us have stolen food at one time or another. Maybe it was a Snickers bar from your neighbor's house when you were a kid. Maybe it was bubble gum from the school's candy jar. Or maybe it was the counter-intuitive lollipop at your dentist's office (scratch t ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Top 10 Baffling Wine Labels
Whether you accept the notion that a single nose and its acclaimed-or-reviled 100-point scale have transformed the way wine is marketed and sold, especially in the United States, today there is a superabundance of bottles at American retail and more wine neophytes are earnestly cultivating a taste f ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
The Death By Caffeine Calculator: Or, How Many Espressos Are Just Too Many
The next time you're sitting at the beautiful caffeine lab that is Intelligentsia, your MacBook open, your dog at your feet, your hands shaking as you happily knock back your fifth double espresso, consider this hilarious Death By Caffeine calculator. Energy Fiend is a site that allows you to calcul ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Most Popular Soccer Squad In U.S. Is Team Mexico?
What's the most popular soccer team in the United States? The New York Times says it's El Tricolor a.k.a. the Mexican national squad. Huh? In the land of Palin-favorin' soccer moms? Guess so. And the paper says more women are attending team Mexico events in the U.S., too. A breakthrough mome ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Australian Cookbook Typo: "Salt & Freshly Ground Black People"
BCCNo, cannibalism has not gone mainstream, even in Australia. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the publishing house Penguin Group Australia pulped and reprinted thousands of copies of a cookbook after discovering that a recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" in the i ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Ten Techno Jams We Still Love
Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
PICTURE THIS
Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>
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March 26, 2009
Just Don't Say "Jew Zealand"
Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
I'D LIKE TO THANK MY STUFFED ANIMALS...
Whether it's IDM, minimal, electro, acid or whatever other name you want use to pinpoint a sound, we love techno. We love the way it forces us to dance, even when we're sitting in front of a computer in an office trying to finish a story. We love the way it affects our walk when we enter a party. W ... More >>
News
February 5, 2009
Morgan vs. Foretich Twenty Years Later
A mother and daughter whose abuse story gripped the globe are making it in L.A.
Eat+Drink
June 5, 2008
Looking for Curry Laksa: Penang in West Covina
Happiness is a bowl of coconut broth and noodles
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April 3, 2008
Daughters of Heaven
Happiness is a bowl of coconut broth and noodles
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November 15, 2007
Dining à la Cart at Whole Foods
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December 23, 2004
Call me Nostradamus
10 signs of the apocalypse
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July 8, 2004
Ask Mr. Gold
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