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Marijuana Breathalyzer Test Could Be Near

One of the problems with medical marijuana, at least from cops' perspective, is that pot is hard to detect in the field, and many drivers could be getting away with DUI because they're high but not drunk. Nearly one-third of fatal California crashes involve drugged drivers. The problem inspired one ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello Is Looking Forward to Being Finished With Swedish House Mafia

There was a moment a few years back when Steve Angello was leaving a hotel in his native Sweden and found a few reporters waiting outside. They asked him what his plans were for the day. He told them nothing much. The response made the front page of the next day's newspaper. "That was the moment," ... More >>

Sweden Dominated '90s Radio, and a New Generation Threatens to Do the Same

See also: What The Hell Is Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" About? UPDATE: Mind-blowing Shit Has Come To Light Sweden makes big hits. And we're not talking about Abba and Ace of Base songs, we're talking about American hits. In the '90s, much of the most famous (and ridiculous) pop music was ... More >>

IKEA Serves Up Midsummer Smorgasbord Friday

In Sweden, Norway and Finland, "Midsommar" -- celebrated the weekend closest to June 24 -- is an especially important holiday that's steeped in tradition and rivals Christmas in popularity. It marks the start of the summer season and celebrates joy and romance with maypole dancing, girls wearing bri ... More >>

Read This Now: Saveur 100, the 2012 Edition

If you're stuck in the check-out line right now, you might want to look further than the latest issue of People -- Lamar and Khloe are in Dallas anyway, so what do you care -- and pick up the new Saveur. This month's issue is the Saveur 100, in which that magazine's editors pick out a hundred of the ... More >>

Black Power Mixtape Documentary Review

How Swedish journalists predated hip-hop as the CNN of the streets

L.A. Rising - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 7/30/11

Torry PendergrassThis is for the people of the sun​L.A. Rising feat. Rage Against The Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 7/30/11 Better than...spending a Saturday at the beach. "Apathetic music with apathetic fans." "Do the fans even get it?" "Rage Agai ... More >>

Sparks Premiere Radio Drama "The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman" Live at L.A. Film Fest Saturday, Guy Maddin Directs the "Film-to-Be" Performance

​ L.A.'s own veteran pop duo Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, bring the world premiere of a staged version of their latest project, a radio drama called The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, to the Los Angeles Film Festival Saturday night. The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is a musical compos ... More >>

Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time: Swedish Food, "Swedishly"

The only Swedish chef we've known was all wispy eyebrows and mustache. He wore a flattened white toque tilted slightly to the right. He made meatballs, turtle soup, and frog legs. You couldn't understand most of what he said, but he was cute, strange, and creepy. At a time when New Nordic fare ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello: The Swedish Godfather

Despite the rumors, Coachella may have not lost its edge — it just relocated to the dance tent

Brick's Picks: YOU MUST GO SEE ORNETTE COLEMAN, OK?

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST

Music Picks: Free Kutmah Benefit, Amanda Jo Williams, Rosie Ledet

Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others

MP3 Exclusive: Opolopo's Funked "Mothership" Remix by Portformat, Dudley & Georgia

Portformat's 'The Repeat Factor' repeated​Some things bear repeating -- especially when they're funked up to resemble a modern beat music take on Parliament's timeless space-groove. It's no secret that L.A. residents Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow are descendents of the P-Funk tradit ... More >>

Bill Murray on No Reservations: Give This Man A Travel Show

Anthony Bourdain's traveling road show, No Reservations, is a meandering and often exhaustingly self-referential hour of television. Not so for the final 4 minutes of last night's show, when, after wandering up and down the Hudson River, Bourdain ran into and dined with Bill Murray. Bill Murray (Gro ... More >>

Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Duncan Birmingham Discusses the Suicidality of Cats and Dogs

"When I die of embarrassment, please don't bury me in this."​Duncan Birmingham is the author of the blog turned book Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves. He lives in Los Angeles, where it's happy and sunshiny every single day and yet cats and dogs and guinea pigs live in silent agony. What is th ... More >>

N'IceCream on Abbot Kinney Gets Wheels: Your Gelato Golf Cart

Who needs a food truck when you have a golf cart? Golf carts are easier to park, ecofriendly (if they're electric) and inherently cool. Just remember Bill Murray's drunken golf cart joy ride in Stockholm. So when Christian Toxboe and Laura Nielson of N'iceCream, the Abbot Kinney gelato company, deci ... More >>

AFI Fest, A to W

Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup

Secret World of Cat Ladders: What Is Next? Cat Elevators?

​ Jimmy Robertson, 37, of Stockholm Sweden blogs about cat ladders. You have to wonder: um, why? How did you become interested in cat ladders? Do you really like cats? Ladders? It started when I was unemployed a couple of years ago. I had the time to take long walks and then I discovered tha ... More >>

Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery

The Hangover: Vegas, Babies

Peter Pans head for the Strip in Old School director's latest

Iraq Features Stir Support

Arturo Sandoval at Luckman, Bruce Lofgren Jazz Orchestra (featuring Keith Emerson of ELP) at Typhoon

Also, Industrial Jazz Group at El Cid, celebrating Page Cavanaugh

Tonight at Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre: 1960s Garage Mix Film Clips Featuring Nightcrawlers, Dom Kallar Oss Mods, Obscurities Galore

The above is the intro from Dom Kallar Oss Mods, an obscure Swedish miscreant youth doc, one of a handful of intriguing garage band clips and short films being shown tonight at the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax. Sounds cool, reprinted below from the program description:

Movie Reviews: High School Musical 3, Passengers, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom

Also, The Tree of Life, Frontrunners and more

Live in L.A.: Lykke Li at the Hotel Cafe, August 25

Welcome Hunters: the Body Eclectic

Among the avant-garde fashion gatherers

Shout Out Louds: Loud, Proud 'n' Unbowed

With their upcoming performance at Detour festival around the corner, the band's singer talks about their new album, songwriting and their fellow Swedish musicians

Maude!

SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed in Austin in drizzling weather; even in a crowded airplane making four stops it's easy to single out the passengers headed here – they're the ... More >>

A Sax Supreme

Jazz picks for the week of January 19 – 25

Blonde Ambition

The Long Blondes are here to satisfy your Elastica craving (assuming you still have one)

ˇAsk a Mexican! Whistler's Madre

Bullshit! (But Thanks)

KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23

Music Picks

For the week of May 18 - 24

Spinal Column

The Butterfly Effect

Islam, cartoons and the ongoing battle

Rock & Pop Listings

For February 10 - 16

Shame of Iran

U.S. remains silent on gay hangings

Calm Down, Sgrena

The outlandish tale of the Italian journalist

Beyond Impossible Price

Pick Up the Torch

The Hives in the land of true rock & roll

Joy to the World

Hippies, ABBA and the Tet Offensive

New Music

What I Pinched on My Summer Vacation

Too Much To Dream

Expatriate 2000

Lowest one-way air fares from LAX, November 8, 2000, 12 a.m. PST

No Respect

Police Commission falters on Rampart

Impossible Price

Impossible Price

All Juiced Up and No Place To Go

The electric car underwhelms California