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Huell Howser, Remembered

Huell Howser died last night and there's never been a night I wished more I was in California. For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School -- Did It Close?

See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School archives Perhaps you noticed Squid Ink was covering Martha Stewart's Cooking School on PBS -- watching her program each weekend and employing her expertise in our own kitchens, learning to make salad dressings and emulsions, stocks, and getting terrorized b ... More >>

Squid Ink Signs Up For Martha Stewart's Cooking School

In a world where food TV is dominated by ticking clocks, mystery ingredients, blindfolds, curve balls and culinary hijinks, it's incredibly refreshing that Martha Stewart is bringing something completely opposite, and totally simple, into the mix by way of Martha Stewart's Cooking School, premiering ... More >>

A New Documentary About Lucha Libre: 'Like Bill Simmons Channeling Octavio Paz'

In the long, tortured, maddening relationship between Southern California and Mexico, we have only wholeheartedly accepted three things from the Empire of the Sun: "96 Tears," the taco, and lucha libre. From the moment Mexican wrestling movies started airing on late-night movie matinees during the 1 ... More >>

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

America's for-profit colleges use students in their greedy quest for federal bucks -- then leave them holding the debt.

Sex Farce Meets Diplomacy in Mutually Assured Destruction; Solo Show Mental Creatures Explores Artistic Ambition

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

Caltech Nerds Discover Key to Universe, Higgs Boson

They might not get the chicks (or studs), but nerds might have just figured out the key to the universe. While you were gargling beer and lighting streamers in your pants over the holiday, a global consortium of scientists was celebrating over juice boxes: They might have discovered the long-predic ... More >>

La Tienda Launches Spanish Food and Culture Learning Site

Do you ever find yourself having this reccurring nightmare in which you're hanging out with Ferran Adriá in San Sebastián and he starts showing you these crazy ingredients but you can't understand a word of his thick, heavily accented Catalan? Uh, yeah, us neither. But on the off-chance you want ... More >>

American Idol Meets Arts Journalism, in KCET's Artbound

Ever been inside a disco ball-esque "steam egg" with a bunch of sweaty, half-naked strangers? Talked to Filipino inmates who wrote, directed and starred in their own musical, filmed within prison walls (and that went viral with more 50 million YouTube views)? Writers for KCET's new arts journalism ... More >>

Martha Stewart to Debut Martha Stewart's Cooking School' on PBS

Martha Stewart, who in recent years has been seen most often on the Hallmark Channel, is making the move to public television with the debut of Martha Stewart's Cooking School premiering on PBS this fall. As the title suggests, this show will be largely instructional. Martha isn't the gimmicky type ... More >>

Food Forward: New PBS Food Show Airs Tonight

When you think of food shows, you're stuck between formulaic cooking contests, bacon-huffing Canadian bozos on YouTube, and the flecks of tartar sauce trapped in Guy Fieri's beard. There's not all that much else. But tonight a new food show debuts on PBS, and it promises (though this is not to say ... More >>

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Twitter: 10 of Our Favorite Food-Related Tweets

Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>

The Unseen Side of Mister Rogers

If you were a child anytime in the last 40 years, or the parent of one, at some point you've had a moment with Mister Rogers. Perhaps many. And in those moments, through the lens of TV, he looked you straight in the eyes, and in his soft-spoken manner told you, in one set of words or another, that h ... More >>

Reality Bites: The Ultimate Sellout?

Irony behind celebrating the movie as an indie classic

Best General Cookbooks of 2011: 3 Cookbooks For 3 Very Different Cooks

jgarbeeThe Well-Stocked Cookbook Bar​Because kitchen skills are exactly that -- skills that take time to master -- we offer the best three general cookbooks this year for three very different cooks. Even we never would have thought we would put Ferran Adrià's latest cookbook in the "general" ... More >>

Sesame Street Tackles Hunger Issues: Lily the "Food Insecure" Muppet

2011 Sesame Workshop. Photo by: Gil VakninNew Muppet Lily with Brad Paisley and Elmo​ Cookie Monster probably is going to rethink those cookies: on Sunday, Sesame Street will air a primetime special, Growing Hope Against Hunger, in which the Sesame Street residents learn about hunger issues in ... More >>

The Top Korean Chef Isn't Korean: Two Orange County Guys Share the Title

B. HansenGuillas's prize-winning deconstructed bibimbap​ Not a single Korean competed in last Thursday's Top Chef Korean Food Challenge at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center. The idea was to see what would become of Korean ingredients in the hands of chefs who don't ordinarily cook this t ... More >>

"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others

​ In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>

Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS Le Bernardin's Numbers

A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont​ Eric Ripert was in town a few weeks ago on a book tour for his fourth and most recent cookbook, Avec Eric, a sort-of companion book to his Emmy award-winning PBS show of the same name. We met Ripert at the Chateau Marmont, his customary hang-ou ... More >>

National Public Rollins: Henry Rollins on the Pleasures of Voting, his New Favorite Documentary, and What Happens When You Give Him Your Band's CD-R (Yes, He Might Play It on his Radio Show!)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Q & A With Chris Kimball of Cook's Illustrated: Jello, Calf Brain Appetizers His New Book

J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Meeting of Minds

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Survivor, Hollywood-Style

MGM Tells Fiscal Truths, William Morris Lays Off, Chris Hemsworth Lands Thor

Funny Stuff, Then Not So Much

What to do in L.A., January 9-15

The Decency Chronicles

Filth and parental control, 1960s-style

Hot Week for Latin Lovers

Latin Jazz Festival 2008 at the Greek, plus spicy fare at Catalina, Jazz Bakery

The Kite Runner: Grounded

Controversy aside, this movie doesn’t fly

Nothing Like a Dame

Helen Mirren takes on The Queen

Lion’s Den

Facing down pediatric cancer in a Cincinnati hospital

Jericho's Ghosts

PBS’s newest man of Mystery!

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

Chefs Under Fire

Is Hell’s Kitchen’s Gordon Ramsay merely the Simon Cowell of haute cuisine?

Hail Mary

And why John Kerry has nothing to do with it

The Pelican Briefs

Hollywood is not messing its shorts over FBI investigation

The Seasons Unseasoned

Peaceful Warmongers

Firesigns of Life

The search continues: Set your clocks forward

Answering Back

Shards

Techno Time Travel

Nova TV series uncovers secrets of Easter Island idols

Villagers

Watch global, live local

Family Matters

This year's blockbuster domestic documentary

Hoops, Hogs and High Speeds

Moss Gathering

Seeking the Heterosexual Within

many ex-gays find themselves back in the closet