Pyongyang

Four Movies to See at the L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

The Movies of Kim Jong Il, Now Available Via Bootlegs and YouTube

The Ambassador Review: Mads Brugger Is the Sacha Baron Cohen of Denmark

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Ambassador, and Experimental Methodology

Mads Brugger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010. In Chapel, Danish journalist Brugger posed as th ... More >>

Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Review

Scenes from a dictatorship in decline, in this found-footage masterpiece

The Red Chapel Review

Welcome Back, Pyongyang BBQ Truck: We're On To You

​To quote the ever articulate George W. Bush, "Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again." Yes, the taco truck/marketing ploy that duped a lot of us last summer is back in L.A. slinging cheap tacos and promoting Communist ideals, as well as shoot 'em up vid ... More >>

The Globe Trottin' Mr. Rollins: Henry Rollins Visits a Dead North Korean Leader, Ponders the Relationship Between State Communism and Scientology, and Finally Finds Time to Chill Out in Mongolia (also, HR's Musings on Jimi Hendrix!)

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 >>

Our Man in Pyongyang: Our Intrepid Reporter Henry Rollins Ventures Into North Korea

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 >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/19-7/23

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Even the third or fourth time around, Fu-ga seems like a discovery, a small piece of a better downtown preserved 20 feet underground."

Top 10 Places To Watch the FIFA World Cup

​Tomorrow begins the the most widely watched sporting event in the world, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And for the next month, from June to July 11th, even Laker mania will take a back seat to soccer. The World Cup, held for the first time in Africa, showcases 32 countries. And while you can of co ... More >>

Soul Food Meets Seoul Food, Courtesy of Next Food Network Star Finalist

Food NetworkDebbie Lee is making good old fashioned soul food, by way of North Korea.​Starting September 10th, "Next Food Network Star" finalist Debbie Lee will unveil a new menu at Culver City restaurant Gyenari, which will draw from both her Korean and southern U.S. heritage. "We are showca ... More >>

Freed Journalists Arrive in Burbank

Perhaps  Burbank was the last destination Laura Ling and Euna Lee had figured for a fantasy getaway, but for the two Los Angeles journalists imprisoned in North Korea, it was the happiest place on earth. They and former president Bill Clinton arrived at Bob Hope Airport at dawn today, ending a ... More >>

Laura Ling and Euna Lee Face Silence

In L.A., the Current TV employers of the imprisoned local journos duck and cover

Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts

Sandow: "So why am I telling this story? To introduce my thought that art and the arts aren't the same thing." ALSO, some kid in a diaper covering The Beatles.

Movie Reviews: Berkeley, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust, Caution

Also this week's pick, Colma: The Musical

North and South

Visions of the DPRK at Pusan 2006

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

Filtered

Letters

Koreatown's Top 40

Courts, Coups and Clinton Too: Priceless

The California recall, Visa style

A Nuclear Standoff

Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

Rummy’s Secret Hand

The Shrinking Saddam

Bush blows off CIA report that cites higher risks from al Qaeda

Mr. Monster

Korean pulpmaster Kim Ki-young