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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 >>

The Ten Best EDM Singles of 2012

The term "electronic dance music" means so many things to so many people, and this year things only got more complicated. Dubstep continued its dance floor takeover, mainstream pop-oriented EDM ruled the radio, and the beat scene pushed on. Although divergent in style and ethos, here are the ten dan ... More >>

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at the Geffen Playhouse and the Plight of Black Performers in Hollywood

'Bachelor' Producers Who Met on Set Are Getting Married (and Chris Harrison's Officiating)

This is too perfect. According to Glamour Magazine's wedding blog, two producers who met and courted each other while filming ABC's hit romance series The Bachelor (and The Bachelorette) are getting married in California this summer. And Chris Harrison, career goob behind the tearful interviews and ... More >>

Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Garbage, Neon Trees, Jennifer Leitham

Also, Kitty, Slaughterhouse, James, Chairlift and others

Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord

Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others

Arune, Angsty L.A. Singer, Allegedly Runs Over Eaton Canyon Park Employee for Making Her Leash Her Dog

YouTubePark rules don't apply to rock goddesses. Duh.​We'll admit: The dog permitting/leashing rules at L.A. County parks kind of make us want to run over a random county employee with our rad vintage Mustang and never look back. Metaphorically, of course. But the punky 28-year-old frontwoman ... More >>

The Many Travels of Henry Rollins

Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy

Cookbook Review: Food from Many Greek Kitchens A Recipe For Sesame Rings

​In the cookbook world, there is a longstanding beauty versus brains dichotomy. We judge a cookbook by its stunning photographs (admiring each page, then promptly relegating the book to the coffee table) or by its encyclopedic recipe index and straightforward prose (ah, now this is going to be ... More >>

Last Night: Second Glass Wine Riot at Santa Monica Place

​ They came with their propaganda and their party fever. They welcomed everyone, invited the masses into the cavernous space where they assembled at Santa Monica Place mall, jamming to the driving beats of DJ Andie Cassette. And they poured wine. Lots of wine. Wine from all over the world. Sec ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins' Predictions for 2011 (Protip: It Gets Better)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes 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 week and make sure to tune in to Henr ... More >>

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

Theater Reviews: K2, The Train Driver

Also, Venice, On Emotion, FDR and more

Over the Weekend: Henry Rollins at Largo

Caroline Ryder​"Like being licked by a cat for four hours" is how Henry Rollins describes his own show which, depending on whether you're a cat person or not, can be a fantastic or torturous way to spend an evening. At Friday's Largo show, the first of three nights in LA, he held true to his ... More >>

Music Picks: Soweto Gospel Choir, Paul McCartney, Melissa Auf der Maur

Also, Jay-Z, Metric, Triorganico, Air and others

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

Villaraigosa Tours Like A Rock Star

If you were surprised to read that City Hall has once again put off the issue of whether to ask the owners of Staples Center to reimburse taxpayers for its ​Michael Jackson memorial show, or if you're angered after finding out that after two years of deliberations at least one City Council mem ... More >>

Billionaire Hopes To Revive Hospital Of Horrors

A doctor who says he was moved by the story of a woman who bled to death in the emergency room waiting area at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital is putting a $100 million in loan guarantees behind a movement to revive the troubled institution. The question is, on this Halloween eve, is the plac ... More >>

In the Land Where Theater Is Hip

Two Polish productions coming to UCLA

Stage Raw: Comedies About the End of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsCOMEDIES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD​Poland's Theatre ZAR rehearsing Gospels of Childhood at the Barbican in London, where they performed last month. That piece is the first third of the ... More >>

Digital Roots: Continental Rifts at Fowler Museum

Video out of Africa

Pan African Film Fest gets deluxe new digs and a stellar lineup to go with them

Movin' on up

Diamonds Are For Never

Forget blood diamonds -- for a limited time you can go straight to the color-wheel source and behold the treacherous countenance of a bloody rock -- or more precisely, a blood-red diamond, courtesy of the L.A. County Museum of Natural History. More storied than the Maltese Falcon (well, okay, smalle ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival Guide 2008

Sex and the Globe: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Discovery Channel

I ended my last post by discussing the work of film festival juries, and as it happens, this year in Toronto I find myself serving on one—not one of the festival's official juries, but rather the film critics' jury organized independently by FIPRESCI, a membership organization consisting of critic ... More >>

Loud & Proud

And ghouls on film

Turning the Tables

Lesbian, African-immigrant general manager of KPFK is accused of sexually harassing the station’s white news chief

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles

Blood From Stones

The diamond cartel's campaign against Leo's upcoming movie gets dirty

Out of Afrikaans

Phillip Noyce harvests the seeds of revolution in Catch a Fire

The World According to Sesame Street

Sod Off!

Your yard — the last sustainable frontier

14th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival

Penetration

Today’s Iron Maiden sticks it to ya

Killing Time on the Ghetto Blue

The nation's busiest- and deadliest - light rail line

Lying Along the Potomac

10 fibs by our president

Blanket Statement

Reform for the Black Robes

Ever wonder why innocent people plead guilty?

Men of Convictions

Serving time on Robben Island

Patriot Games

A Witness to Devastation and Death

A sobering firsthand view from Ramallah

Selling the Sun

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival at 10

Back to Business

A new war gives new urgency to the globalization debate

Peace of Me

Letters

Filthy Lucre

And stirring conscience

This Week Sucked

No More Raji's