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Hyongsoon Kim: The Koreatown Advocate

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.On the 24th floor of Century Plaza Towers, in his office at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, attorney Hyongsoon Kim enjoys expansive views of West L.A. and the Pacific Ocean b ... More >>

Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The ones who were around were mocked as whitewashed wannabes. After all, skateboarding was born when beach k ... More >>

UCLA's Festival of Preservation Unearths Gems From Thom Andersen and Jimmy Cagney, Among Others

Echo Park: Greatest Neighborhood in Los Angeles, Which has 87 of Them

By Hillel Aron Echo Park is, depending on your point of view: the poor man's Silver Lake, the rich man's Highland Park, the Williamsburg of the West Coast, a 40,455-personl working-class burg full of diversity and a wee bit of gang violence. Or, it's that strange little neighborhood you drive throu ... More >>

Nobu Malibu Review

The oceanfront sushi restaurant has a beautiful new home – and the same classics that made Nobu Matsuhisa famous

Gay Happiness, the New Frontier

Are mental and physical health problems really a reaction to bigotry?

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me

[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 writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

Fabio Will Make L.A. Hot And Wet: Tropical Storm Remnants Could Bring Summer Rain

Tropical Storm Fabio is headed to Los Angeles, and he's bringing a hot, wet, stormy evening with him. Possibly. Readers of the romance novels baring the bare-chested likeness of Fabio Lanzoni will appreciate the steaminess. The rest of us will think it sucks. Here's the forecast:

Kater-Crafts Bookbinders Practices an Ancient Art While Feeding the Hollywood Beast

In the workshop of Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, Bibles from the 19th century, calculus textbooks and medical journals on digestive diseases sit in stacks, reinforcing the reputation of books as arcane, unsexy, packed with esoteric information. But two shelves tell a different story. Lined up here ... More >>

The Beach Boys - Hollywood Bowl - 6/2/12

The Beach Boys The Hollywood Bowl 6/2/12 See also: A Tour Of Beach Boys' Haunts In Their Hometown Of Hawthorne, California - With Pictures Better Than: Your average Carnie Wilson show. This year in the UK, Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee is bringing together millions of her subjects (and pl ... More >>

California Assembly District 50: Where All the Rich, White, Liberal People in Los Angeles Live

In the current issue of L.A. Weekly, the feature story "Democratic War for L.A.'s Richest" takes a look at the hard-fought, highly contentious political race for California Assembly District 50 -- one of the wealthiest, most celebrity-packed, left-winger districts in the entire country. It also ha ... More >>

It's The Hottest Year Ever, America

If your face melted off in March, you nearly died during the second weekend of Coachella in April, and now you're wondering if there is hell on earth in May, you're not that crazy. And it's not just an Inland Empire thing either. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said recently t ... More >>

Amtrak's Ancestors: The Huntington's Exhibit on the History of the Transcontinental Railroad

Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life. Two years after California struck gold in 1848, it became a part o ... More >>

Why I'm Fine With the 'Hipster Flip' Phenomenon

As the lease was set to expire on the Pasadena condo we're currently renting, I, my husband and our young spawn were in the market for a home to buy. Spring selling season is upon us and we wanted to buy while the market is still crapped out. Plus, having just closed escrow on our old place back in ... More >>

LAPD Officer Jeffry Quinton Charged With Stealing $300 Bedsheets on Hotel Night Watch

The LAPD's insane retirement package apparently wasn't bounty enough for veteran officer Jeffry Quinton. Not only did the 48-year-old cop take up a job as night security for the Surf and Sand Resort in Laguna Beach, but -- according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office -- he used his exc ... More >>

Rap Industry Fan Fiction: Here Are Some Freestyled Stories About Tyga And Tyler, the Creator

Sure, you have your cosplay and your Star Trek, but Rap Industry Fan Fiction takes the genre to a place that it isn't know for going -- hip-hop. The brainchild of UNC history major Kate Davis Jones and grad Drew Millard, the site makes good on titles like "Ice Cube Shows Ice-T His Model Train Set" a ... More >>

San Pedro's Ugly-Tank Cleanup is Finally a Reality: 136 Westway Tanks Will be Demolished at Port of Los Angeles

Good bye to these hideous Westway tanks in San Pedro​Way, way good news for folks in San Pedro living within breathable proximity of the abandoned, Westway tank farm, which the Port of L.A. will finally demolish. Locals hope that dirty industry on this fill-dirt pier will give way to beautific ... More >>

War Over Marina Del Rey Remake

A broke county government seeks dramatic growth of seaside district

L.A.'s Sewage Crap Export Flap

Each week, enough black sludge to fill Staples Center arrives in Kern County

Drive Thru by Coffee Commissary to Bring Craft Coffee to Laguna Beach

R.E.~/Coffee CommissaryA cappuccino at Coffee Commissary's West Hollywood location. Imagine this in a drive-thru setting.​ Tyler King, co-owner of Coffee Commissary, wants to bring great coffee to Laguna Beach, one car at a time. That's right, one car at a time: the West Hollywood craft coffe ... More >>

Page Two: The Best of Mowest

NASA's SoCal 'Glory' Satellite Launch Ends Up As $424 Million Paperweight

APUp, up, and way expensive: Glory heads for the sea.​As epic fails go, this one's a doozy. Call it a $424 million Glory hole. Because that's how much it cost to develop, build and launch the Glory mission satellite that ended up dunking in the water off of the Southern California coast early ... More >>

The Second Monday In October In Canada: It's Thanksgiving, Eh

Margy RochlinFarmer's Market in Vancouver's West End​ We have often studied the notation on our Day-At-A-Time calendars -- Thanksgiving (Canada) -- and wondered what the festival entails. As it turns out, it's a national holiday that lands on the second Monday of October and mirrors our nation ... More >>

Dogtown's Good-bye

Farewell to an original zephyr

Sounds of the Skin of a Rabbit

And other West Coasty musical predilections

Build an Ark’s Covenant

An L.A. collective conjures “California creative soul music with a lot of improvisational elements”

KCET scoop: FEMA shakes down South Central for "flood insurance" ten miles from ocean

KCET is about to unleash, tonight, a stunning expose of FEMA and Los Angeles City Hall that involves an unintentional but outrageous shakedown of South Central Los Angeles residents for "flood" insurance costing an eye-popping $900 to $1,700 a year. Mostly black and Latino homeowners in virtually no ... More >>

DOING THE DOUBLE FELIX

An excerpt from John O' Brien's novel, Better

Poor Bob Dylan and His Malibu Outhouse Debacle

Until yesterday, the most common keywords on Google linked to Bob Dylan were probably words like folk singer, blues, and songwriter. Now the words are "poo," "defecation" (New York Magazine)," "crap" (TMZ), "stinky" (Hollywood Rag), and "stank" (Celebitchy).One thing the non-Malibu crowd should reme ... More >>

Linda Perhacs' Parallel Universe

How a Topanga dental hygienist who worked on Paul Newman's teeth created an acid-folk masterpiece (and one of the year's best reissues)

Mark Lane, Resynthesized

Pioneer of L.A.'s electronic minimalist past resurfaces

Rehab or Bust: A Guide to L.A.'s Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers

Shop Till Everybody Drops

What the well-equipped survivalist will be wearing

Music Picks

For the week of July 20 - 27

Music Picks

For the week of July 13 - 20

5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

Beached Bones

Ready To Rumble

The Northern California seismic threat to the Southland

Life as Music

John Adams goes public

Rarotonga or Bust

How We Packed Up the Kids and moved to Paradise— Or So We Thought

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

Pranks and Beans

You may already be a wiener

In the Belly of the Whale

The true stories of Moby-Dick

Letters

Frida, Friduca, Mami

My Chilean Jewish Mother

Landscape Desired

Los Angeles, past and future

'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

Remembering Claude Bessy, a.k.a. Kickboy Face

Corridos Prohibidos

Los Tigres del Norte, Idolos del Pueblo

Marry Me Before I Get Fat

Elizabeth Wurtzel wants to be bad, but not all by herself