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Los Angeles Has America's Most Polluted Air?

L.A is the capital of many things. Few of them are good things. At least not lately, it seems. A day after it was announced that Los Angeles is America's traffic-congestion Mecca once again (breaking news, that), we bring you the American Lung Association's annual "Most Polluted Cities" list:

David McConnell's New Book Examines Six Gay Murder Victims and the Confused, Angry Men Who Killed Them

Steve Mullins, a straight man in Sylacauga, Ala., didn't know what to say when his closeted gay friend, Billy Jack Gaither, told him out of the blue that he'd like to suck his dick. So Mullins remained speechless. But his mind was racing. In fact, the 25-year-old Mullins would later tell author Davi ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America

[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.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>

Matthew Kenney's New Culinary School in Santa Monica Stirs The Local Gourmandise Pot

There's a new cooking school coming to town: chef Matthew Kenney's eponymous vegan culinary school is opening in Santa Monica this month (soft opening is Saturday), along with his vegan restaurant, M.A.K.E. The chef's growing empire includes restaurants in Chicago and Oklahoma City (where he also ha ... More >>

Rollins Announces "Capitalism" Tour, Will Hit Each State Capital

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday.] Henry Rollins doesn't keep his political opinions quiet; in a column last fall about the Occupy protesters he recounted how senator Rand Paul "made a fool of himself trying to compare them ... More >>

Alfonso Ribeiro's 'Carlton Dance' Flash Mob Attempts Record (For Dorkiest Moves): VIDEO

Updated at the bottom with crowd estimates. First posted at 5:30 a.m. Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might do the nerdiest, preppiest dance of all time. But that didn't stop hundreds if not thousands of followers from joining him yesterday at Universal CityWalk and other locales in ... More >>

The Flaming Lips Releases New Music in Life-Size Gummy Skulls, Teases Gummy Wayne Coyne Statue

The Flaming LipsGummy skull​Silver trembling fetus ornaments and posters screen-printed with human blood--the colorful antics of The Flaming Lips' promotions are well documented. In January, Lips singer Wayne Coyne announced the band was planning to release small batches of songs in unorthodo ... More >>

Many 'Monogamous' Los Angeles Couples Have Outside Lovers, Lie

Agelenos like their relationships, and their outside lovers.​Being exclusive, it seems, is in the eye of the player beholder, especially here in L.A. A recent study of young couples in Los Angeles and Oklahoma City found that 40 percent of the pairs surveyed included one partner who thought i ... More >>

NFL Stadium: One 'LA Weekly' Reader Uses Catholic Guilt to Get Your Support For Tim Leiweke's NFL Dream

The Gensler firm's vision for NFL downtown.​After we reflected Wednesday on Staples Center chief Tim Leiweke's pitch to an L.A. City Council committee for an NFL stadium downtown, he got at least one show of support from a Weekly reader. The $1.3-billion-plus stadium would take over a part of ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Loveland, Blithe Spirit, The Butcher of Baraboo

Also, Hamlet, Prince of Puddles and more

Firefighters To Run Cross-Country From Los Angeles To New York In Honor Of 9/11

​In commemoration of 9/11, a team of 30 American and Australian firefighters are attempting a cross-country run from Los Angeles to New York. According to KPCC (89.3 FM), the "Tour of Duty" is a relay run with six hours of pounding the pavement and 12 hours off intermittently. The cycle contin ... More >>

U.S. Mayors Pass Villaraigosa's Resolution Condemning Arizona Immigration Law

​A resolution by L.A. leader Antonio Villaraigosa urging Arizona to repeal its controversial immigration law was passed this week at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Villaraigosa's document, which called the desert state's legislation "unconstitutional and un-American," also encouraged federal i ... More >>

SXSW Wrap-Up: L.A.'s Signals Road Album, Featuring UFOs, Motel Bedspreads, and Jaeger Shots!

Road to SXSW: L.A.'s Signals investigates UFO's, motel bedspreads, and Jager Shots

Evolution of the Dodger Dog: A Life In Pictures

The Dodger Dog is one of the most famous hot dogs in American sporting (and eating) history. It's iconic, storied and quintessentially Los Angeles. So in honor of our hometown team still holding the best record in the National League, we take a look at the history of L.A.'s most beloved dog, through ... More >>

The Flaming Lips at the Greek: Better Than Woodstock

Woodstock, schmoodstock. That was a one-time event. It rained, people were messed up on bad acid, and most of the performances, as evidenced by the new 6-CD Woodstock box set, sucked. And yet, and yet, every five years we get the same damned baby-boomer inculcation, a bullshit NPR/NBC/Rolling Stone ... More >>

LA People 2009: Working Out the Kinks — Daniel Davies

Wayne Coyne Debuts Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars, Adam Goldberg Tries to Steal the Thunder

Doin' the Cow-Bop Boogie

Swinging into Memorial Day weekend at LACMA, Jazz Bakery, Papa West and more

Off-White Like Me

Biracial? Tell it to the hosts of Fox and Friends. Obama is black.

Leading Women: Damages and Saving Grace

Glenn Close and Holly Hunter commit to series TV

The Big Red One

What’s the matter with Oklahoma?

Drag Princess

Mendy Fry, the nitro-burning CPA

The Rohrabacher Test

Congressman questions Terry Nichols about Oklahoma City bombing

Right-Wing Political Correctness

Shut Your Mouth

Rockie Horoscope

Letters

Secrets of Timothy McVeigh

Lingering questions about the Oklahoma City bombing could get answered during Terry Nichols’ second trial

Beat Bush

But don’t lose your sanity

Letters

Vinyl Fetish

The often weird, sometimes sad and occasionally wonderful world of song-poems

No One To Tell

FBI whistle blower gets turned away

Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

New evidence that the Bureau quashed another terror probe before 9/11

The Terrorist Motel

The I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta

An Oklahoma Mystery

New hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists

The Last Defender of the American Republic?

An interview with Gore Vidal

Dodge City

Unanswered questions about the Oklahoma bombing

McVeigh et al.

Congressional hearing to examine possible Middle East link to Oklahoma City bombing

Home Grown?

If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

Paranoia Runs Deep

Thank$ a Million

Uncomfortable questions about the outpouring of disaster donations

Heartland Conspiracy

Unanswered questions about Timothy McVeigh’s and Terry Nichols’ possible links to the Middle East

Apocalypse, Tuesday

Letters

Big Top Brainville

Cherry Street

A music giant remembered on the anniversary of his death

Print Ed

Ruscha’s Editions: 1959–1999 at LACMA

The Name Game

Etoy: Art as corporate branding

Spare Parts

A new play about the ethics of organ transplant

Accident of Timing

Circle X Theater Company's disturbingly topical Show and Tell

Blacklist Backlash