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Good Judges and Bad Dogs: Readers Write In

Oksana Marafioti

Kelly Clarkson's "Mr. Know It All": 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: Kelly Clarkson's "Mr. Know It All" History: "Mr. Know It All" is the first single from Clarkson's fifth* album, Stronger. *Since this is the "History" t ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Three for the Price of One -- Engineer X, the Young Will Bentley, and Henry

KCRW Broadcast #147 for Saturday, January 7, 2012 Fanatics! Just so you know, this set was specifically engineered and put together with great care in order to bring you the maximum enjoyment as we gather together live for the first time this year. 2012 promises to be interesting to say the least ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Comedy Central Roast: The Fort Knox of Comedy Gold

Charlie Sheen at his roast​If you didn't know better, you'd think that Charlie Sheen spent all this time sabotaging the highest-paying gig in TV just so he'd wind up the guest of dishonor at his own roast, specifically, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, airing Sept. 19. For the show' ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

Domino's To Open Pizza Shop on The Moon

Source images from dominos.jpThe Japanese out-innovate America? Yes, they do!​ MEMORANDUM From: Shuji Sakai, LA Weekly To: Scott Oelkers, C.E.O. of Dominos Pizza Japan In re: Your wacky video to build a Domino's on the moon. Dear Mr. Oelkers: We realize you planned and spent the money on y ... More >>

Michael Trujillo's "bullet in forehead" email: Squirm-inducing antics by Jose Huizar aide take Los Angeles politics to new low

Michael Trujillo, right, at 2008 DNC, before his foot got wedged in his mouth.​Michael Trujillo's creepy, self-obsessed email to 28 insiders in the Jose Huizar campaign, in which he strutted and proclaimed like Captain Queeg: "We are about to put a political bullet in between Rudy Martinez's f ... More >>

Two Cheers for Anonymity

Red Medicine panicked in outing Times' Virbila, but did no lasting harm

Henry Rollins' 'Rare Cuts And Conversation': Records And Stories You've Never Ever Heard ... Live!

Maura Lanahan​ Just announced: KCRW DJ, L.A. WEEKLY columnist (and soon-to-be-published interviewer) and all-round musicologist Henry Rollins will host a KCRW-sponsored night at the Echoplex on Thur., Dec. 9, where he'll share stories and--most crucially--play the records he says are too rare ... More >>

F Yeah Fest: An Effing Food Nightmare

E. CourtlandStill early, this is a shorter line at Lee's Philly​ For those at this year's F Yeah Fest, an annual concert held last Saturday in Los Angeles State Historic Park, time existed only in musical signatures, dictating the tempo of their collective movements, willing them to dance or ... More >>

Meat as Sculpture

Introducing the Maillol burger

Wuthering Heights

Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap-salsa-calypso musical sashays into the Pantages

Abandoned Russian Mine...or Darth Vader's Death Star?

Coincidence? Have you ever noticed how much the Mir Mine in Russia looks suspiciously like Darth Vader's Death Star? The airspace above the mine apparently is closed to helicopters because "of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow." Holy crap. That probably does not ... More >>

The Martini Doctor Is In: Manny Aguirre

Bartender icon, whose bar-side manner has soothed generations of Hollywood's elite at Musso and Frank and beyond, turns 75

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Oscar Nominations Announced The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads pack but, Dude, where's my Gran Torino?Van Nuys Community Seeks Asylum -- In Sherman Oaks L.A. Daily News' Rick Orlov reports on an another group of Van Nuys residents who want to break away from V.N. and be rebranded as part of S ... More >>

Novelist Per Petterson on Voice, Landscape and His "New" Novel, To Siberia

Out stealing readers

Yes We Did: What we know and what we don't about our new American era

Our moment of national redemption

Election '08: Sealing Reagan's Tomb

BY MARC COOPER Republican strategists are now privately admitting they face the real possibility of an historic down-ticket catastrophe come November 4th. The demise of the entire Reagan Era could possibly be certified by the Democrats winning a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Re ... More >>

The Wrestler wins Venice. Next stop: Toronto

Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler won't screen publicly here in Toronto until Sunday evening, and won't be shown to the press until Monday afternoon. (In its latest concession to Hollywood, the festival has this year decided to hold press screenings for many high-profile movies only after those films' ... More >>

Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere

Hurricane Sarah

Reviving Dead Kennedys, Rolling Over Beethoven and Revisiting Tennessee

What to do in L.A., August 15-21

Van Morrison Once Again Ventures Into the Slipstream

SXSW Day 2-Formed a Band, Everyone Formed A Band

Hey, Aren't You Juliette Lewis? Walking down 6th street yesterday, you had to wonder if everyone in the world somehow heard that Art Brut song, "Formed a Band" and decided that if Eddie Argos could do it, how hard could it really be? I've seen telephone directories thinner than the official SXSW ... More >>

The Purpose of Theater in Absurd L.A.

The Glory of Living and Variation #50 : Slow birth on the killing floors

Close to the Flames

Tehrangeles’ best kebabs

The World According to Hutz

Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello’s mastermind

Will You Marionette Me

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Sebastião Salgado's Search for the Pristine

The shift from human degradation to unexploited nature

Face Off

After all these years, David Henry Hwang finally sees himself

Black Donnellys Kinda Gray

Crash’s Paul Haggis gets his Irish up

Tête Offensive

One brainy farce and an angry debate

Mad Politicians' Disease

Democrats’ mooing is what’s wrong with this race for governor

Of Rocks, Creeks and Broom-Tailed Horses

Will California’s own wild mustangs ever return to Coyote Canyon? Should they?

Feodor Dostoyevsky’s Christmas Carol

Circle X visits The Brothers Karamazov

They Will Drink It All

Local Color

The Big Chill

The Reagans takes a right hook

Fashionation

Gloria Ohland on the dog days of fashion

Alix Lambert, Inkterpreter

Four, Five, Six

Dreaming in Chinese

Cristina Garcia on culture-bending, poetry and her new novel, Monkey Hunting

Students Against Old Ladies

And Man vs. Beast

Santa is a Wildman!

Jeffrey Vallance in The Land of Hoarfrost

Who Wants To Be a Popsicle?

Psychotropic Delights

Sadie Plant on Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and the drug jones in all of us

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

Guy, Interrupted

Writer-director James Mangold

Brooklyn! or Bust

And a bunch of other zines along the way

In the Eternity Known as Winter

Andrei Makine's Divine Siberiade