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Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster Has Been Cut Down for the U.S. — But Is Still Grand

The Best Albums of 2013 So Far, in Haiku Form

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] A list is essentially an argument in numerical order. By nature, it's a reflection of personal taste and limited time. It's easy to forget that the sound ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Jorge Cham: The Overeducated Cartoonist

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Jorge Cham got his introduction to cartoons as a child in Panama. His parents were engineers who worked on the Panama Canal. When an American family they knew moved away, they l ... More >>

Brady Corbet Explains How A Nice Guy Became Simon Killer

Aras Baskauskas: Survivor Winner Is Now a Singer-Songwriter

Aras Baskouskas, the grandson of soap opera star McDonald Carrey, won Survivor's Panama edition, which aired in 2006. He was 24 then -- he's now 31, lives with his girlfriend, model Christy Peterson, and has a career as a singer-songwriter. But there have been a lot of adventures along the way. Ha ... More >>

86 Company in Los Angeles: A Spirits Company Moves West

Dushan Zaric and Simon Ford of the 86 Company were in town this week prowling around the bars that sell their hooch and getting their bearings -- in fact, this duo of drink slingers with a New York pedigree as long as a tattooed arm is here to stay -- both have officially moved west, to develop the ... More >>

Los Rakas: Rappers From Panama, Proudly Hood

Oakland hip-hop duo Los Rakas spent the early years of their lives in Panama City, Panama before settling in the Bay Area and immersing themselves in hip-hop culture. Joining forces in 2006, Raka Rich and Raka Dun coined the term "PanaBay" to describe their music, a mix of the Latin rhythms of Pan ... More >>

Study: Popcorn Eaten 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

Did cavemen sit around the fire stuffing their hairy faces with popcorn? After analyzing recently unearthed ancient corncobs, researchers say people in what's now Peru were eating popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously thought -- up to 6,700 years ago, National Geographic reports. Previously, ... More >>

Don Ferrarone: The Ex-D.E.A. Badass Who Finds Stories for Hollywood

In the credits he's usually listed as associate producer. What it really means is that he's the guy who finds stories. Don Ferrarone, ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agent, finds the real-life people -- the bodyguards, serial killers, narcs, dealers, soldiers, assassins, snipers, henchmen, sp ... More >>

Erin Cooney's Project Collects 300 One-Minute Videos, All Taken During the Same Minute, at 8 a.m. PST on Nov. 13, 2010

A day begins at a research outpost in snowy Alaska. The scientist on duty steps out into the darkness, gazes longingly at her warm cabin, then wonders why her sled dogs aren't barking. Elsewhere in the world, at that precise instant, a child tries to distract her father, a jazz musician, from h ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Wild, Moaning, Screeching Jazz

Erika Podest: The Future of Weather

The Beat's the Thing

Cocaine-Soaked Rope Didn't Fool Feds at LAX, They Say: Suspects Jonathan Cottrell and Leanthony Henderson Arrested

Yay.​Ah, great smuggling attempts through history. The classic surfboard de coca. The plaster snowman. And, now, coke-on-a-rope. That's right. Start your banjos. Because the pair of suspects is from Arkansas, a place, maybe, that would inspire one to dream that one day you could smuggle coc ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Food Bans, Mozza's Pig Fest, Canned Whisky More Fun With Jamie Oliver

-- New fast food restaurants banned from South L.A. [mother nature network] -- Jamie Oliver speaks to California food nutritionists. [Los Angeles Times] -- How to make your own baking powder. [Fuss Free Cooking] -- Canned whisky! Made in Panama! [Grub Street via Daily Mail UK via Gawker] -- Moz ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​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 ... More >>

Best Syphon Coffee

Hario Glasspersonal coffee syphon​ Tendered on a mirror-like tray alongside a spare cup of water and a complimentary dish of nuts and dried fruit, your Wallenford, Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee arrives in a slender glass mug, tawny and fragrant. You are encouraged not to drink it.

New Boyz's "You're a Jerk" As Interpreted by Panamanians and Nigerians [MP3]

Jennie WarrenNew Boyz go global​Well, the New Boyz "You're a Jerk" might be one of the biggest pop/rap tracks of 2009, but it's still making its way across the world and inspiring MCs and producers with its weird, minimal style. More evidence that the world is shrinking, and the sound of LA ca ... More >>

Nacional Records on Fire: The Ten Best Spanish-Language/Latin Albums 2009

By Christopher Lopez It's been a year of surprises in "Latin music," (whatever that catch-all genre term for Spanish-language music means in 2009). Reggaetón continues fading, albeit slowly, and the industry's mainstays aren't garnering the attention they used to. Case in point: Don Omar's summer ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: (Far) Eastern Swing

Intelligentsia Brings Home the Gold: Free Hacienda La Esmeralda Tasting Today

tonx via Flickr​In Mendocino, outdoor farmers are busy harvesting the last marijuana crop of the season, and in Los Angeles, the folks at Intelligentsia Venice are relishing in their portion of the Geisha varietal coffee crop from Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama, where a very limited amount is ... More >>

Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

The U.S. Marine Corps Discovers the Greeks

Tip of the Spear: An Interview With Generation Kill Author Evan Wright

Former Weekly writer talks ass time, crack highs and why roadblocks kill

Van Halen: Reunited (and It Feels So Good)

Van Halen at Staples Center, November 20

Rock Picks: Puffy AmiYumi, the Dickies, the B-52's, Fear, Van Halen

For the week of November 16 - 22

The King Is Dead. Long Live the King!

James Brown, 1933–2006

Best Underwater Treasure

Survivor's Amazing Race Theories

The Lottery of the Sea

Inside Job

Spike Lee puts a new spin on an old formula

Old Black Magic

The retro pleasures of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, plus The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl

Terminal Viscosity

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I smell poo

Truth, Reconciliation — and Lots of Speeches

John Boorman’s In My Country

Mock the Vote

The recall gets game

Art of Darkness

Susan Sontag on photography and suffering

Quiet Americans

British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire

Letters

The Accidental Witness

Puzzling run-ins with NBC and the FBI

Pure War

Men of the Old School

A thin gray line regroups

I Spy

Espionage unbound in The Tailor of Panama

The Learning Tree

Danilo Perez’s new-world Latin jazz

A Vine Afternoon

Winetasting on the Urban Edge

Targeting the Assassins

School of the Americas faces its toughest test

In the Skies and in the Streets

The war, and the anti-war protests, go badly

The Wild, The Innocent, The Pugilistic Shuffle

Isabella Rossellini in Central Park, Don Cheadle in Louisiana, Jon Favreau in the ring

Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997

Feeding Frenzy

Meet the team behind the Belmont Learning Complex, California's most expensive high school