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Pepsi-Cola

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" Preemptive Note: Before we get into this, and I don't think this is weird to mention because it's so obviously true, but you'l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Cookbooks: Eastbound and Down's Final Episode, The (New) White Trash Cookbook Tribute A Memorable Sandwich Recipe

    How fitting, in a marshmallow salad sort of way, that 25 years after Ernest M. Mickler first published White Trash Cooking, the final season of HBO's Eastbound and Down has wrapped up. If you've missed "the best f--king show on HBO," as MTV's James Montgomery neatly summed up in Kenny Powers-appr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Coca-Cola, Pepsi Will Modify Recipe to Use Less Cancerous Caramel Coloring

    As if you need another reason to scale back on all that soda pop: NPR and Reuters report that Coca-Cola and Pepsi will change their recipe slightly to reduce the amount of 4-methylimidazole (4-MI), a chemical that, in high very doses, has been known to cause cancer in animals. In sodas, it's used t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    10 'Rare' Ansel Adams Photos of Los Angeles in 1940

    Photo of Ansel Adams by J. Malcolm Greany, ca 1950​Ansel Adams is best known for his iconic and bucolic large-format shots of Yosemite National Park, but in 1940, he also covered LA's aviation industry for Fortune magazine. The California native and photo vanguard snapped more than 200 images ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: Snoop Dogg's Player's Ball 2011 - Marbella - December 17, 2011 Song: Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free" History: "Young, Wild and Free" i ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta

    David Faustino parlayed his Married ... With Children fame into a hugely influential hip-hop party. Now he wants back into the scene.

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life

    It's hard to believe, but five years have passed since the release of Kevin Federline's debut Playing With Fire, which came out on Halloween, 2006. It was a scary night for some, but K-Fed was on top of the world. Married to Britney Spears, he was psyched to finally bring his brand of hip-hop to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    5 Awesomely Weird Japanese Soft Drinks

    B. MesirowThe Soda Case at Mitsuwa​ In recent years the Japanese people have displayed a radical and unique sense of style and an amazing ability to innovate and create in fields as diverse as clothing, video games, game shows, and urination technology, among others. It should come as no surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Ferran Adrià Partners with PepsiCo: Your Nitrogen Tank, My Convenience Food

    El BulliCan you find the vending machine in this flow chart?​ Ferran Adrià does like to play with products. And the El Bulli chef has a history of innovation and unlikely pairings. But Pepsi? Recently PepsiCo announced a partnership with Adrià, to work on procedures and techniques for new sn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    The Five Most Hilariously Offensive Misuses of Classic Songs For Commercial Purposes

    ​ We were so excited when we saw the wooden box on our desk with the words "Bob Marley" branded into the top. A CD box set? Possibly--if we are very very lucky--a box set of 7"s? With little booklets that have liner notes full of interesting and amazing facts about one of the word's seminal p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Mega-Billboards Get Slapped by the City of L.A. in Legal Action That Could be Worth Millions

    This billboard is legal. We just like it.​Updated after the jump with the billboard company saying it has cooperated with the city and is "outraged" by this suit. City prosecutors slapped a advertising company and 19 landlords with a lawsuit today for allegedly putting up illegal supergraphic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Super Bowl XLV: The V Best Least Annoying Food Commercials

    Guzzle & NoshSuper Bowl XLV as seen on television.​ Whether it was the angry Ewoks of middle earth sharing a Coke with a fire-breathing dragon or Adrien Brody crooning to bar full of weepy women (nice to see him finally bouncing back from that Oscar win), this year's bunch of Super Bowl spots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Snoop Dogg's "A Christmas Story" (NSFW)

    ​Soft drink company Pepsi, for some inexplicable reason, asked Snoop Dogg to read a peculiar version of "A Christmas Story." Audio is NSFW:

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    The Big Chill: Fro-Yo Field Not So Cold for Yogurtland & Menchie's

    Cathy Chaplin/GastronomyBlog​ While fro-yo pioneer Pinkberry has experienced a chill in the Los Angeles market over the past year or so (the West Hollywood, Venice, Hollywood and Los Feliz locations have all closed), two of its imitators are making inroads: Yogurtland and Menchie's. Yogurtla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Happy Meals Are About to Get A lot Less Happy

    Mario Anzuoni, ReutersTo our children's dismay, Happy Meals may become healthy meals​ California kids will now have fewer incentives to ditch mom's homemade organically grown, tofu steak dinners for Happy Meals, thanks to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. On Tuesday, the Board took ste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Mexican Coke: A Myth?

    Bob With​ Apparently, Mexican Coke isn't it. A collective shudder swept through diehard foodies everywhere last week, when Time Magazine and The Atlantic, among others, reported a new study in the journal Obesity that may have inadvertantly proven Mexican Coke to be no more than a myth.

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    A Glee-Inspired Slushie Food Fight: Slurpee vs. ICEE

    FOXGuilty pleasures: Glee & Slushies​ In a list of guilty pleasures about a mile long, two things rise to the top. First, the TV show Glee. Second, the slushie: a brain freeze-inducing, icy concoction sold at most convenience stores and movie theaters. Lucky for us, we can (sort of) enjoy bot ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 29, 2010

    Master of the House of Playboy

    Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Q & A With Dan Aykroyd: Why He's Making Crystal Head Vodka, Tomorrow's Bottle Signing A Cocktail Recipe

    Crystal Head vodkaDan Aykroyd, with head​If you're the sort of person who has lost count of the number of times you've watched Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child SNL skit on YouTube, find yourself lurking at House of Blues to try and catch a glimpse of the actor, have seen Driving Miss Daisy an otherwi ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 20, 2010

    From Zombieland to Indieland

    Jesse Eisenberg's excellent adventure

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- The 50 worst restaurants in the world. The fiction edition. [Chicago Tribune] -- How Alinea's Grant Achatz lost and found his sense of taste. [CNN] -- 10 Pepsi flavors you can't get in this count ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2010

    Nightranger: Everybody Talk About Pop Muzik

    Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- The 50 worst restaurants in the world. The fiction edition. [Chicago Tribune] -- How Alinea's Grant Achatz lost and found his sense of taste. [CNN] -- 10 Pepsi flavors you can't get in this count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    City Attorney Moves Against 'Supergraphic' Signs

    ​The City Attorney's office on Tuesday announced it filed civil injunctions against 27 sign companies, sign installers and property owners for illegally putting up super-sized advertisements known as "supergraphic" signs in Los Angeles. It declared that the displays are public nuisances and se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Taco Franchise Says R.I.P. To Mr. Bell

    ​The founder of Taco Bell passed away over the weekend, and stomachs across the land were upset over the news. Glen W. Bell, Jr., 86, died Sunday night at his home in the exclusive San Diego County enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, the Irvine company announced. He joins the chain's chihuahua mascot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Taco Bell And The LAPD Go Way Back

    ​After we posted today about the death of Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell, whose first franchise went to a Los Angeles police officer in 1964, we heard from sources who indicated that there are deep roots between the company and Los Angeles Police Department cops. In fact, we're told, about fi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2009

    THE AULD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

    ​After we posted today about the death of Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell, whose first franchise went to a Los Angeles police officer in 1964, we heard from sources who indicated that there are deep roots between the company and Los Angeles Police Department cops. In fact, we're told, about fi ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2009

    Jimmy On the Edge of Town

    A Homeless Christian-Muslim From Palestine Pitches a Tent Behind Bed Bath & Beyond in Northridge. Then Come the Railroad Men and Feral Cat Activists.

  • Film+TV

    July 9, 2009

    Soul Power: The Other Rumble in the Jungle

    Documenting an epic concert in Zaire

  • LA Life

    June 18, 2009

    Slackers in Gringolandia, and Other Mexican "Traditions"

    Documenting an epic concert in Zaire

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Gold Metal Press Release: Customized Vintage Soda Machines for Your Recording Studio

    Each week West Coast Sound gets thousands of emails from bands, publicists, labels, fans, writers, haters, and miscellaneous eager souls looking to spread the word about their band/label/mp3/myspace page/masterpiece. Many of these releases fit neatly into a catagory: Band has new album out. Band pla ... More >>

  • News

    May 21, 2009

    The Undercover Iraqi Asset

    An Iraqi double agent killed for America. But when he got left behind, a Marine stepped in

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Oprah Free Chicken Coupon Chaos: The Backlash, The Rain Check, The Reckoning

    Poultry pandemoniumAs our nation's saga of poultry pandemonium continues, this just in: KFC locations to hand out chicken rain checks to poor disgruntled saps who were denied free grilled fowl despite their original Oprah-website-issued free chicken coupons. Confusion reigns in the Oprah free chicke ... More >>

  • News

    May 7, 2009

    Updated: Craigslist Declassified

    Besieged by politicians and media, the founder of the popular online classifieds site finds an unlikely ally: a victim’s family

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: Cool Twist — LemonLime Agency's Robin Harrington

    Advertising America's alternative-culture darlings are quirky-cool nerds, and Harrington knows just where to find them

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    L.A. Planning Commission Approves New Sign Law

    The Los Angeles Planning Commission voted today to adopt a new sign ordinance that would prohibit brightly-lit digital billboards and giant vinyl supergraphics citywide but allow them in 21 potential sign districts. The commission also voted to establish a city task force to annually review the im ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#30-21) (Sponsored By Medieval Times)

    You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Cutters: L.A. Final Cut Pro Users' Group

    You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 28, 2008

    Movie Reviews: Beautiful Losers, Death Note

    Also, Another Gay Sequel, Red and more

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2008

    Mexican Coke vs. Pepsi Retro, Part 2

    "What does it taste like to you?" ask the promo advertisements for the new soft drink Pepsi Retro on bus stations and billboards in Mexico City. Clearly, they're asking for it. We've dealt with this question before, suggesting that maybe Pepsi is hoping its new product can dig into the market so ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 27, 2008

    Women's Art Takes to the Streets

    Outdoor exhibition features four artists

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2008

    10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

    From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable." Oh, how our collective pride in t ... More >>

  • Music

    December 20, 2007

    Rock Picks: Hank III, Joe Strummer Tribute, Wu-Tang Clan

    For the week of Dec. 21 - 27

  • Music

    December 6, 2007

    Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

    Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

  • Music

    September 6, 2007

    Decision 2007: Kanye West vs. 50 Cent

    A voter’s guide to the most important rap election in a generation

  • News

    February 8, 2007

    The Ultimate Product Placement

    Phil Anschutz takes a huge hit if Beckham tanks as L.A.’s soccer megastar. He’s not worried

  • Columns

    July 10, 2003

    Guerilla Etiquette: The 'Oops, I Did It Again!' Tour

    Phil Anschutz takes a huge hit if Beckham tanks as L.A.’s soccer megastar. He’s not worried

  • Art+Books

    June 15, 2000

    Ecstasy Without Fear

    DanceSafe uses Web site to make rave dosing less risky

  • Art+Books

    June 1, 2000

    True Grit

    To be young, gifted and a senior at Crenshaw High

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Mr. Happy Does the Dew

    To be young, gifted and a senior at Crenshaw High

  • Film+TV

    August 19, 1999

    The Hidden

    Or, how The Blair Witch Project conquered the world

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