Sydney (Australia)

Weiner Sexter Syndney Leathers Offered Porn Gig in L.A.

Sydney Leathers, the young woman who appears to be Anthony Weiner's most-recent sexting partner, has been offered a gig taking it to the next level: L.A.-based Vivid Entertainment, the king of adult video production companies, has offered Leathers a job doing porn, the Weekly has learned:

Goldie's Review: Thomas Lim's New Mid-City Restaurant Delights

The setting is oh-so-L.A., but the food may surprise you

Is There Any Such Thing as Australian Cuisine?

This week, I reviewed Outback Steakhouse, and one of the main takeaways of the piece is that the food served at Outback is in no way Australian. This prompted an email from Jason Kessler (the same Jason Kessler who writes the Nitpicker column for Bon Appetit that prompted our recent post on touchy-f ... More >>

RedBall Art Project Comes To Los Angeles (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

A huge red ball on the streets of downtown? Is it a stray from Coachella? Did the beach just move east? No, it's an art project from New York called RedBall. And it's here through Thursday:

What 10 Celebs Would Look Like As Old-Timey Criminals

Drug possession, driving under the influence, vandalism and theft are just a few of the crimes celebrities commit to earn them a mugshot that lives on forever on the world wide web. Celebrity mugshots have become a part of pop culture due to the poses or distraught looks they have. But in the 1920s, ... More >>

Marijuana Withdrawal Can Be As Bad As Quitting Cigarettes

Here in California, marijuana is medicine. Yes. And we know it might be good for what ails you. A new study out of UC Irvine even suggests that marijuana-like chemicals could help behavioral issues related to autism. Wow. Even so, good old Mary Jane, she's not without her demons. A recent study fr ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Live With a Ton of New Records

KCRW Broadcast #166 for Saturday, May 26, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! South Africa's Present and Future Fanatics! What a show! So many new tracks! Besides that, we give our thanks to some great musicians who have recently passed away. The last few weeks have been very tough with all ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister

[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.] Still in Australia, get used to it! I will be here for quite a while. Things are going very we ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: World Debut of J Mascis/Heavy Blanket Album

KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Down Under and 
Hard to Find Fanatics! Hello from beautiful Sydney, Australia. I am a few hours away from another show here. I have been finding some great records here that will find themselves in our upcoming ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Down Under and 
Hard to Find

[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 am currently in Australia. This will mark my 30th trip to this country since I first came her ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Who Put Random Pianos All Over L.A.?

On a sunny but breezy Saturday, 10-year-old Diego Grijalva of Gabriella Charter School in Echo Park found himself at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, seated at a piano designed by local artist Evan Skrederstu. Diego, who has played on his school's piano, was intrigued by the street piano and playing a simpl ... More >>

Getty Museum Gets a New Director: Timothy Potts

Timothy Potts is the new director of the Getty Museum, and will begin the job on Sept. 1. Potts, a native of Sydney, Australia, has been director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, since January 2008. He also has been director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and before ... More >>

Compton Cricket Team 'Homies & the Popz' to Rep U.S. in Tourney Down Under (BONUS: They Rap About It)

Compton Cricket ClubThis is not a joke​A dozen dreamers from the hood, one geographically displaced athletic passion. Dare we say Jamaican bobsled team? Nah, but the Compton Cricket Club is nine times as street. Even streeter: These guys might actually have a chance at beating "comparably com ... More >>

OUTSTOMPING!

Live Review: Freddie Gibbs at Crazy Girls

Deidre CrawfordFreddie Gibbs Has A Lot To Smile About​ A strip club crowd's a tough crowd. When the inked, mohawked "Malice" is prancing and preening like she's the lead in Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls" video; and the acrobatic "Jojo" is languidly folding herself into origami around t ... More >>

Russian Circus Act Cruel to Fish, People as Well

Charlie Brewer/FlickrFish at Sydney Market​ Restaurants can be circus acts. You know the type: massive, splashy, loud, with iffy, over-priced food and, more often than not, some off-putting, over-wrought theme. Still, even Ninja New York can't hold a candle to a real circus act, especially o ... More >>

The Biggest Hamburger in the World

The debate concerning who makes the best hamburger in Los Angeles continues, of course, as it is by nature an ongoing question. Just who makes the biggest hamburger in the world is, however, a much more straightforward question. Less Zeno's Paradox, more Guinness World Records. At the moment, the re ... More >>

Nightranger: In Bloom

45365: The Mysteries of a Zip Code

Bill and Turner Ross’ award-winning doc about their hometown impresses with craft and patience

For Monsters & Artists: The 'Where The Wild Things Are' Gingerbread House. Or Not A House.

Via @Atlantic_Food ("you might need an engineering degree for this one"), we found this post from the Australian blog A Table For Two: a gingerbread house based on the recent Spike Jonze' film Where the Wild Things Are. It's not really a house, but a recreation of the house-cave from the movie. A ne ... More >>

Outback Renaissance

The unlikely creation of an international art movement

I Love You, Man: Eteral Flame

Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance

Last Night: Tech Industry Geeks Barrage Knitting Factory for Digg.com Meetup L.A.

Hundreds of Diggnation fans, Diggers and general tech industry geeks barraged the Knitting Factory last night for the Digg.com Meetup L.A. -- the crowd on Hollywood Boulevard started lining up at 8 a.m. with attendees setting up folding chairs, the general vibe reminiscent of a Star Wars or LOR prem ... More >>

The Saga Behind Harvey Weinstein, Scott Rudin and The Reader

A $1 million offer I couldn't refuse

LA Weekly talks to Presets' Julian Hamilton re: their Detour gig

photos by Timothy Norris L.A. Weekly caught up with the Presets' Julian Hamilton (pictured left with co-founder Kim Moyes) prior to their set at Detour on Saturday night. He was very buzzed about the prospects for a kind of deeper, darker dance dementia during his group’s time onstage; the Austr ... More >>

Noriyuki Sugie guest stars at Breadbar

But hurry ... Crudobar lasts just until May 15

Rock & Roll Power Outage

Few and hard between; Kitty come home; Bra Boys roll in

Brownout Is the New Black

L.A.�s bid to copy Sydney feels like a humiliating replay of Millennium Eve

Film Reviews: The Last Winter, The Jane Austen Book Club

Also Resident Evil: Exintction, Over the GW, Sea of Dreams, Sydney White and more

Live in L.A.: Tokyo Police Club at the Troubadour

Driven by sporadic guitars and pulsating urgency, their danceable garage rock has been compared to the Strokes. They opened with lead singer/bassist Dave Monks screaming through a fog of distortion, “Operator! Get me the president of the world. This is an emergency,” the intro for “Cheer It O ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of March 8 � 15

Theater Reviews

Including The Heiress, The Berlin Blues, and this week's pick, 1 to 10?

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Star Powder

Napoleon Perdis gives L.A. a make over

Lights Out, Spud Dick

Ask Mr. Gold: Australian Cuisine

10 Questions With The Lovetones

The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming!

In the midst of their 'Yes, Bush Can!' campaign, the busy pranksters spread faux Republican cheer on their way to L.A. for the opening of their new movie

Bare Beyond the Bone

A striptease at Black�s Beach

Letters

Those Little-Town Blues Are Melting Away

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

The Day the Sky Fell

This time, it was impersonal

I Can Dig It, You Can Dig It, We Can Dig It

In the Mood for Movie Love

The Fifth Pusan International Film Festival

Olympic Anti-Doping an Uphill Battle

Next Time, It Might Kill You

The coming flu pandemic

In Search of ''Hollywood''