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Los Angeles Sugar Daddies Spend $5,448 A Month On Their Ladies?

The economy is dire. People are selling their used underwear on Craigslist. You've downgraded from DirecTV to YouTube. You buy your fresh produce from a freeway offramp! And yet Los Angeles sugar daddies are spending $5,448 a month on their chickadees? Yep. So says the latest annual sugar daddy rep ... More >>

Amigo the Devil Sings About Serial Killers and Spousal Abuse, With a Sense of Humor

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you never met him, you might mistake Amigo the Devil for a monster. The 25-year-old murderfolk maudit's most popular song is called "Perfect Wife." Wi ... More >>

Los Angeles Is A Boss-Dating Capital

The firm PayScale, which calculates market salaries for employees and employers, didn't rank L.A. as a top city in America for finding love at work. Nor did we make the list of top towns even for finding a workplace fling. Los Angeles is not known for coworkers who are "on the prowl." Bummer. But, ... More >>

N Sync Were the Truth, Even if Justin Timberlake Thought They Dressed Like Morons

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] In 1998 N Sync, of Orlando, Florida, became overnight phenoms. Seemingly every girl old enough to get her ears pierced bu ... More >>

Dylan's Candy Bar to Open First Shop in L.A.

If you were only one of the special people, you could join Janet Jackson, Kris Jenner and Apolo Ohno at the grand opening of Dylan's Candy Bar's first West Coast store on Sat., Sept. 8 at the Original Farmers Market, across from the Grove on the corner of Third and Fairfax. The candy emporium will ... More >>

The Star Wars Death Star Tea Infuser: Make a Cuppa with the Empire's Ultimate Weapon

Over the weekend, folks of all stripes landed in Orlando, Florida for Star Wars Celebration VI, the ultimate Star Wars fan convention that undoubtedly was more fun than the Republican National Convention will be this week. Of course, where there are Star Wars geeks, there are ingenious Star Wars-th ... More >>

Voter Suppression Efforts Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall

Free Wi-Fi Comes to Los Angeles' Comcast, Time Warner Customers (Sort of)

Five of the nation's biggest cable companies today announced they're rolling out free wi-fi hotspots for customers. The markets covered including Los Angeles, New York, Tampa, Orlando, and Philadelphia. The participating companies include Comcast and Time Warner Cable in L.A. and Cox Communication ... 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 >>

Porn Industry Says Ex-Performers (Stacie Halas, Shawn Loftis) Shouldn't be Banned From Teaching

So you did a little performing in your younger days -- like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. And? Should that mean you can't be a successful reality show star or even a teacher? The case of Stacie Halas, the Oxnard school teacher accused of having performed in adult video, has set the porn industry ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

KCRW Broadcast #155 for Saturday, March 10, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style Fanatics! I am writing you from the backstage area of the House of Blues down here in Orlando FL. The next four shows are in the Sunshine State. So far, the US leg of the tour has been going ... More >>

Harry Potter Theme Park Coming to Universal Studios Hollywood

​Updated at the bottom with a quote from J.K. herself. First posted at 11:44 a.m. Merry Christmas, nerds. Looks like Harry Potter the theme park is coming to town even though we know you've been way too nice. The place will likely be called Wizarding World of Harry Potter. And it'll be loc ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks

​[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.] Florida is a crazy place and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. I ... More >>

Thoughts From A Random Black Guy: Why Everyone in Orlando Thought Tyler and I Were the Williams Sisters

Frank Miles​[Editor's note: Odd Future member Lionel Boyce writes a weekly column for West Coast Sound. His archives are available here.] If you read my first column, you know I'm part of a TV show called Loiter Squad, which will be on Adult Swim. Recently Tyler, the Creator and I accidentall ... More >>

Eating Junk Food May Lower Sperm Count

Flickr/ebruliMore fries, less sperm?​ Eating a diet high in junk food could make sperm sparse, slow and obese, a pair of studies presented Monday at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. suggest. The research highlights an apparent link between nutritio ... More >>

First Lady Praises Olive Garden Changes

Anne Fishbeina forkful of spaghetti at the Olive Garden​ How many years does it take to set down a salt shaker? For the Olive Garden (read Jonathan Gold's review here) and Red Lobster restaurants and their four sister chains (LongHorn Steakhouse, the Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 5 ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Ewald Notter's The Art of the Chocolatier, The Ultimate Chocolate Showpiece

​As we started out the year vowing to convert our hall closet into a dry aging room after reading The Art of Charcuterie, it seems fitting that we follow up by investing in a marble slab so our kitchen table can serve as a chocolate tempering station. If only hand-dipped chocolates, white choc ... More >>

Cockroaches Found in Orange County Prison Food (No, the Other Orange County)

Flickr/Still BurningA prison cell​Multiple news outlets are reporting that on Saturday morning, inmates at an Orange County prison found cockroaches in their food. Fortunately for California prisoners and their families, this roach infestation took place in the other Orange County, in Florida. ... More >>

Get Ready for the Weekend with the TGIF DJ Mix: This Week, Jimmy Van M

​During his seminal time in Orlando, Florida and New York, DJ Jimmy Van M became one of the world's original purveyors of the bubbly, electronic "progressive house" sound. Now based in Spain, Van M is still rocking the decks with a darker, more tech-flavored vibe. In honor of Friday, we picke ... More >>

Pillsbury Bake Off Winner To Be Announced Tomorrow on Oprah

Pillsbury​What's better than dough in a can, plump and flaky in less than 15 minutes? Getting paid $1 million for baking it into the tastiest Pillsbury dish in America. What's even better? Having Oprah announce the winner, live on her show. Those two powerhouses, General Mills and Oprah Winfre ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

Big Apple Takes A Bite Out Of L.A. Tourism

What's not to like?​New York City beat out Los Angeles for international visitors nearly two-to-one to take the top spot as America's destination for foreign tourists, the office of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday. The Big Apple saw 8.6 million international tourists in 2009, twi ... More >>

Girls Gone Graff: Street Art Meets the Female Form at Body Rock '09

Aja ViaforaBody art is indeed as sexy as it sounds. Legendary street artists gathered at Leon Lounge on Saturday night to paint live models' bodies in a competition sponsored by Girls Gone Graff. The group is an alliance of models and artists that entertain parties and put on gallery shows. "The ... More >>

More Cupcakes: Magnolia Bakery Set to Open This Fall in LA

New York's Magnolia Bakery is opening a Los Angeles store this fall, according to The Nation's Restaurant News. The bakery, which was started in Greenwich Village in 1996, now has three locations in New York City. (Some people credit Magnolia, which was featured in Sex and the City and The Devil We ... More >>

LA and Affiliated (and Random) New Releases, August 4, 2009

A selection of new releases for beginning of the end of summer 2009. Los Angeles-related releases out this week: The Dub Club, which takes place every Wednesday night at the Echoplex, has brought to LA some of Jamaican music's most important and legendary figures, and has been recording and int ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Lakers Triumph, Micro-Riot Quelled The L.A. Lakers won their 10th NBA championship as a Los Angeles team, in Orlando, Florida last night, while at home jubilant fans set fires and vandalized cars. Police arrested at least 25 people near Staples Center downtown and, in a smaller action, in the Crensh ... More >>

Virgin, HSBC to Close U.S. Operations

Virgin is closing its five American Megastores, including one on Hollywood Boulevard, according to a story at The Wrap site, picked up by L.A. Observed. Virgin's other Megastores include its Times Square, New York flagship, plus one in downtown Manhattan's Union Square, along with Denver and Orlando ... More >>

Like Fresh Cream: Al Green Teams With the Roots

Reverend re-imagines the notion of smooth soul

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give their owners the ability to turn homeless people into suave and dapper, ladies men and thus realize their dreams of using P.I.M.P.O.L.O.G.Y. to lo ... More >>

Festival Beating

Day of the Drum and Watts Towers Jazz Festival

Theater Reviews: Box 27, Porgy and Bess and Rolling With Laughter

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 12 – 18

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, As You Like It

As You Like It

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, As You Like It

Chain: The Time We Killed

Mezmerized

Doomed Couples

Scottish malice, Sicilian malaise

The Tsunami

Can the Democratic ground game elect John Kerry — and create an enduring progressive movement?

The Ground War

Hanging with the Florida troops out to win — and keep — a Kerry victory

Dave the Brave

Stupid President Tricks can only be seen on Letterman

Rivers’ Edge

Pearl – by – Pearl

Restoring the forest one shrub at a time

Mommy Dearest

Oedipal dreams in The Deep End and The Others

Troubleshooters

Piercing the Gloom

Marilyn:
A Re-Examination

Letters

Long Reach