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'Family Guy' Ring in L.A. Area Smuggled Cocaine To Italy, Feds Say

If you thought the Southern California economy was still wobbly following the Great Recession, rejoice. People are actually exporting goods from L.A. to the rest of the world, including Europe. The U.S. Attorney's Office today announced that nine enterprising suspects, including a pair of brothers ... More >>

Divorce Party: The Musical Tries to Put a Positive Spin on Its Subject Matter

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hollywood Bowl - 10/17/12

Neil Young Hollywood Bowl 10/17/12 Any number of incarnations of Neil Young & Crazy Horse could have shown up to play the Hollywood Bowl last night. They might have done the rock-soaked musical folklore of their most recent LP Americana or the slightly-campy concept rock opera that was 2003's Green ... More >>

Aaron Sandusky, Marijuana Dispensary Operator, Faces Up To Life Behind Bars

We called him a brave man. And that he was. Aaron Sandusky, cannabis dispensary operator, is probably going to federal prison to atone for your medical marijuana sins. Over the weekend the 42-year-old was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana plants, possession of pot w ... More >>

Maná Gets Inducted Into the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk

Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... More >>

Neil Young and Jonathan Demme Discuss Their New Film, Neil Young Journeys

By Aaron Hillis Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there's something wilder--or at least, more directly stimulating and pure--about Jonathan Demme's live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking H ... More >>

Rufus Wainwright - Orpheum Theater - 5/12/12

By Oliver Wang Rufus Wainwright Orpheum Theater 5/12/12 See also: Exclusive: Rufus Wainwright On His New Album, "I've Done That Whole Ponderous, Psuedo-Genius Thing" Better than: ...the ham elevator next door at UMAMIcatessen At the Orpheum last night, Rufus Wainwright opened his show by beginn ... More >>

Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion

Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others

L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

Mendocino Farms Opens Blue Cow "Sandwich Atelier"; Closes Casa

LA Wad/FlickrMendocino Farms Mascot inspired the new concept​ Mendocino Farms is known for its quirky sandwiches -- the one that first got us was an addictive combo of duck confit with duck-skin cracklins -- and its approachable farm-to-table lunch fare at its three locations (two downtown and ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Walking Alone
 at Night

​[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 have many traditions and rituals. None of them is based in reality, but none of them is ... More >>

Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Monthy Meeting: My Name is Jim and 'I Was Abducted By An Alien'

Have you been abducted by someone who looks like this?​ A well-dressed Jim Moroney stood at a podium at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Studio City one recent evening and said: "I was abducted by an alien. I mean, how do you tell someone you're dating that you were abducted by aliens?" ... More >>

Stage Raw: Year Zero

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayMichael LamontYear Zero​Productions that garnered high praise this week are David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, about Americans in Cambodia, which Mayank Keshaviah describes ... More >>

Doug Odgers, 23-Year-Old SoCal Paramedic, Killed in Early-Morning Ambulance Crash

FacebookDoug Odgers' profile picture​A 23-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident and UCLA graduate was killed early Sunday morning when the ambulance in which he was riding crashed head-on into the base pole of a freeway sign over the 10 West, just east of Fourth Street in Ontario. California Hig ... More >>

SoCal U.S. Immigration Services Supervisor And His Son Convicted of Fraud, Bribery

Liberte, egalite, bribery.​A father who worked for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and his adult son, faced the possibility of a century behind bars after the pair profited from immigrants and travelers who wanted to come to the country. In one case the cost of legalization was ... More >>

High-Speed Train to Vegas From Victorville

Just one hitch: You have to drive to Victorville

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 >>

Theater Reviews: The Mystery Plays, The Arsonists, There Is Truth, Love Is Real

Also, Richard & Felix: Twilight in Venice, The Drawer Boy and more

County Fights City Over Control Of Palmdale Airport

Palmdale Airport's terminal.​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week called on the city of Los Angeles-run L.A. World Airports to give up control of Palmdale's airfield because the city allegedly violated a court order to develop the high-desert facility as part of a regional air ... More >>

Nosaj Thing Remixes The xx, Plots 'Magical Properties Tour' with Daedelus and Jogger [MP3]

We've been preaching the gospel of Nosaj Thing, Jogger and Daedelus individually and as a pack for a long time now, and now the fearsome LA three is converging around a mission: to make a half-circle around the continent. Beginning (where else?) in Palm Springs, the three acts, all part of Daedel ... More >>

INCHES reviews vinyl from Koushik, Avi Buffalo, Nerve City, Psychic Powers (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Gimme Shelter: U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid Iraq War

Looks like this time they picked the wrong country

Rock Picks: Raveonettes, Amebix, Thorns of Life

Also, the Head Cat, the Spanks, Jimmy Webb and others

Tokyo Police Club, Hammer Museum, 7/24/08

Tokyo Police Club Hammer Museum, July 24, 2008 By Gina Pollack Crowd surfing. Not an everyday sighting for an art museum. But if an onlooker stumbled upon the Hammer on the last night of the summer music series, they would have seen their fair share of teenage bodies floating over a riled crowd. ... More >>

Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

Movie Reviews: 30 Days of Night, Canvas, Futbaal

Also Golda's Balcony, The Price of Sugar, Things We Lost in the Fire and more

The Progress of Love

Away From Her honors the spirit of Alice Munro

Hand Jobs and Handouts

Deputy Mayor Troy Edwards became Leland Wong’s go-to boy

Clean and Sober

Olivier Assayas’ hypnotic rock ballad

Don’t Tread On Me

In two new films, foreign directors show us their vision of a gun-crazy America

Flying While Brown

Butterfly Meets Bazooka

An L.A. Times community news reporter is fired for e-mailing a congressman

An Exquisite Scar

Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor

'N Scene: Lip Gloss, Cell Phones and Justin Envy

Letters

A Natural History of Emotions

The humbling epiphanies of Alice Munro

Truly Sad, Truly Monstrous

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive

Letters

Can’t Claremont Just Get Along?

Of Rodney King, Jesse Jackson and Irvin Landrum Jr.

Borderline Thinking

W., Vicente Fox and the amnesty-vs.-guest-worker debate

Letters

Quack-in-the-Box

How did the U.S.'s biggest mail-order health-remedy peddler find my mailbox?

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds

Another Domino Falls

Conservative Collapse

From Gingrich to Lungren, the right is routed

Squinting at the Future

Playa Vista is the Westside's housing of tomorrow

The Pursuit of Hippiness

Vengeance Is His

Japan's Shohei Imamura