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Coffee Drinkers May Outlive Us All: Thank You, Malcolm Gladwell The AARP

Anyone who habitually reads The New Yorker along with their equally habitual morning cup of joe will remember with great fondness Malcolm Gladwell's 2001 story "Java Man," in which Gladwell considered "how caffeine created the modern world." Now comes yet more evidence that Sweden's King Gustav III ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I came back to Los Angeles a few days ago with 32 shows behind me on this tour, in England, Ir ... More >>

The New Sex Flick

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

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

Porn Legends Who Love Vinyl, Part 2: Jasmin St. Claire on Record Store Day (and Being Metal 4Ever!)

Diamond Bodine-FischerJasmin St. Claire at The Rainbow Room​Yesterday we found out where crossover porn queen/indie musician Shash Grey goes to get her vinyl (read "Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!") Today we were lucky enough to corner one of West ... More >>

Top 10 Metal Shows in LA in 2010 (with Bonus Video Evidence!)

Timothy NorrisThe 2010 LA Weekly poster children for LA Metal posing at Sunset Strip Music Festival​ "THE" 10 best LA Metal shows of the year? How dare we? Alright--we're gonna go there. It wasn't easy but after a few hours rummaging through the desk drawer that finds my old drunkenly discard ... More >>

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

What's Your Dirtiest Jason Bentley Sexual Fantasy?

Jason Bentley: sexxxy voice, sexxxy look (wait, isn't that "Blue Steel"?!?!?!)​We were talking to an acquaintance (female, late 30s, educated, divorced) and she was telling us that one of the main reasons she listens to NPR every morning has to do with... well, the tingly feelings she gets fro ... More >>

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

The American: As American as Existential Dread

Anton Corbijn turns the tried-and-true thriller inward

Last Night: Amon Amarth at the House of Blues

Váli, Norse god of vengeance paid Los Angeles a visit, and he brought his boys. Last night, under Hoth's moon, Sweden's melodic-death-metal sons of Thor, Amon Amarth, (and Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie) played House of Blues. Everyone looking for a metal photo-op was at Club Nokia checking o ... More >>

Karlsson's Gold Vodka Tasting: A Potato Farmer, A Chef An Open Container

Vodka is defined by U.S. law as "without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color." Delicious. So Squid Ink was rather intrigued when a bottle of Karlsson's Gold vodka arrived on our doorstep this week, with a teaser claiming the spirit is made from seven potato varieties from Cape Bjäre, a pot ... More >>

Q & A With Marcus Samuelsson: His New Book, Cooking as Prozac, & Why We Should Eat Pickled Herring Hot Dogs

AmazonMarcus Samuelsson's New American Table​Chef and cookbook author Marcus Samuelsson, born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, calls New York City home, not Los Angeles. Although he does come to town often, to check in on his burger operation at South Coast Plaza's Signature Kitchen at Macy's ... More >>

Producer/DJ Switch Interviewed: On M.I.A., Santigold, Major Lazer, Amanda Blank and 'Fidgit House'

British-based Switch is one artist who lives up to his name. Known in the super-club world for his left-field, tech-flavored up-tempo sets, the DJ born as Dave Taylor has also become a certified name-brand pop producer, having working with the likes of M.I.A., Diplo, Santogold and up-and-coming rap ... More >>

Thursday-is-Still-the-New-Friday Agenda: Hatchi Series at Breadbar, "Juniper in June" at Ammo, Simon L.A.'s 3rd Anniversary

In an ever-changing world, Breadbar is still into chef's series that give traveling talents a temporary place to hang their toques. The Third Street location is already home to LudoBites, and the "Hatchi" guest chef pro ... More >>

Camera Ready: Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments

Framed like a Rembrandt, film looks great, but misses the big picture

The 10 (or 17) Best Films of 2008

Coming soon to a theater, er, HDTV near you

Weiss' 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (A-L)

Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

Bulbous Noses and Painted Grins: Clowns! at Corey Helford Gallery

By Liz Ohanesian Colin Christian "Freaky Deaky" Clowns. Once their bulbous noses and painted grins adorned living rooms and children's bedrooms across the nation. But times changed, and the great clown painting became a relic of mid-twentieth century Americana, the faces meant to provoke smiles ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival Guide 2008

Those Skinny Britches: Grabbing L.A.'s Thinnest Jeans ...

... before the wide-bottoms take over

Movie Reviews: College Road Trip, CJ7

Also Girls Rock!, My Name is Albert Ayler and more

The Hives, Wiltern, 2/19

The Hives, Donnas Wiltern, Feb. 19 Photos by Timothy Norris It's been eight years since the Hives started telling us they were going to take over the world. Back in those heady days of early 00's, rock bands were back out of the garage and into the spotlight big-time, scoring bonus points if they ... More >>

Extreme Downsizing

Heads roll in satirical Severance

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Skid Row

Sunset Rising

With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

Careful With That Ax

David Ornette Cherry, jazz infinity and Monk in a tree

Music Picks

For the week of April 7-13

Nightranger at SXSW

Male in the Maghreb

Leaving Home

In defense of secession

Whips, Whacks and a Whole Lotta Love

White Muslim

From L.A. to New York to... jihad?

Military-Industrial Complex, Anyone?

Chaos at the Greasy Spoon

South by Southwest: Music, money and madness

Dangerous Liaison

From mathematics to war

Sing Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace

Where are the new protest songs?

On Their Own Authority

Sahara Hotnights: Butter, not margarine

Reach for the Sun

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

Off and Running, Maybe

Abba Dabba Doo!

Stockholm syndrome at the Shubert

Unreal

The creepy Fantasyland of Survivor, Temptation Island and The Mole

bLAnd LAnd

Sitegeist’s semiannual scene column (with special guest editor Rita Elkbrute)

Global Warming

The internationalist aesthetic, from Santa Fe

Soul Stirrer

The gospel according to Bobby Womack

Art For God's Sake

The Gospel According to Reverend Ethan Acres

Liberation Frequency

Punk's not dead, it just needs a wash

Downloadable Dreams

Specialty shops in cyberspace