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Fanatics! The Music Does the Talking

RADIO BROADCAST #214 05-05-13 Fanatics. I hope this finds you well. I am in the Washington D.C. area, working on some television stuff. We have a tremendous mix of music here that I hope you will like. Thank you so much for the letters you have sent in over the last several days. This show is all ... More >>

Q & A With Yisrael Aharoni, Israeli Celebrity Chef: Chinese Food In Israel, Hollywood Being A DJ

Israel Aharoni keeps himself busy. He's a chef, television show developer and host, journalist and cookbook author. Credited with being Israel's first celebrity chef and bringing Chinese food to Israel, Aharoni studied cooking in Taiwan and has owned and operated several restaurants in Israel, inclu ... More >>

Joe's Falafel: Laffa Now, Smile Later

When fresh from the oven, the variety of Israeli flatbread known as laffa is delicious enough to inspire fever dreams: a stretchable, oval-shaped length of unleavened bread -- not dissimilar to a good Indian naan -- pulled just thick enough to form a kind of textural duality between its soft chewy i ... More >>

West Hollywood City Council Considers Painting Crosswalks Rainbow

[Update: Lucas John, a well-known power gay about town who runs the WeHo Confidential news/gossip blog, says he's the one responsible for proposing the rainbow crosswalks. On May 15, he did tag multiple City Councilmembers in a post suggesting WeHo copy the Tel Aviv crosswalks. Duvander, however, sa ... More >>

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Coachella 2012: Five Must-See, Under-the-Radar EDM Artists

You're at Coachella. You love EDM. But what do you do if you really don't feel like dancing to bottle service-party staples like Avicii, Kaskade and Swedish House Mafia? Chances are, if you check out the artists listed in small print, you'll find great DJs and (hopefully) smaller crowds in the tents ... More >>

Nina Menkes: Cinema as Sorcery at UCLA

Jewish Iraqi Food: Yes, But in Los Angeles?

Dear Mr. Gold: My parents are coming to visit soon and I was hoping to do them proud by finding some authentic Iraqi cuisine akin to what my Baghdad-born father grew up eating just outside of Tel Aviv. His mother has stuffed us many a visit with things like sambusak, the sabich, kubeh, bamia and the ... More >>

Culture Collide Festival Preview: Let's Get International

See also: *Culture Collide Festival review: Liam Finn, Rainbow Arabia, Guineafowl, The Awkwards perform on October 6, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: The Death Letters and Cameras perform on October 8, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: Chad VanGaalen & Gang Gang Dance perform on October ... More >>

Fool's Gold - FYF Fest - September 3, 2011

Ben WesthoffFool's Gold​By Anna Westhoff See also: FYF Review: The Descendents, Kid Dynamite, and Ty Segall FYF review: Smith Westerns and the comedy stage FYF Slideshow! Fuck Yeah! It's the FYF SAT Quiz! FYF Preview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves FYF Preview: Drinking Tequila ... More >>

Nina Menkes' Dissolution and Phantom Love

Oscar Shorts: Brief Encounters

A showcase for Academy-anointed bite-size cinema

Henry Rollins Column: Optimism, Lemmy and 3,000 Downloads Just For You

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes 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 Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Crossing Forbidden Boundaries

Gay love in Israel and Iran

LAPD Officials Backs Off Linking Synagogue Shooting To Organized Crime

Deputy Chief Michael Downing.​Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief backed away from comments published in an Israeli newspaper last week indicating that be believed the North Hollywood synagogue shooting Oct. 30 was "a stern warning linked to a criminal organization." Two men were wounded in the a ... More >>

Israeli Mob Crime On The Rise -- LAPD

Downing​Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Michael Downing said this week that Israeli organized crime was on the rise in Los Angeles and he mentioned the Oct. 30 North Hollywood synagogue shooting as "a stern warning linked to a criminal organization." The LAPD's counter-terrorism ho ... More >>

Propaganda, War

​The Toronto International Film Festival doesn't exactly have a reputation for being a lightning rod for political controversy, but it became one in the early days of this year's edition thanks to a new festival sidebar, City to City, designed to explore "the evolving urban experience by immersing ... More >>

Stone Ground Bakery in Agoura Hills: Handmade Challah for Rosh Hashana

Drive up the 101 past the city, into the hills nearing Ventura, to a little strip mall right off the freeway in Agoura Hills, and you'll find a bakery that feels unquestionably like Europe and has some of the best challah you'll find in town or out of it. Stone Ground Bakery, which celebrated its fi ... More >>

Kosher Credentials in the San Fernando Valley

Nu, does it have to be trayf?

Ask Mr. Gold: Kosher Credentials; Nu, Does It Have To Be Trayf?

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: My son would like to go a kosher restaurant for his birthday. Do you have any recommendations? --Michael, Northridge Dear Michael: The local universe of kosher dining is better than it used to be, when nine-tenths of my meals with ... More >>

HOORAY FOR HOLY LAND!

City of Lights, City of Angels: 27 French films in L.A.

Bienvenue chez les cinephiles

Rivers' Edges: Israel's Yarkon May Reflect Opportunities for the L.A. River

Tel Aviv's Yarkon RiverMark Gold, the president of Heal the Bay, recently blogged from Israel, where he was visiting as part of an L.A.-Tel Aviv environmental exchange. While there he took note of similarities between the L.A. River and Tel Aviv's Yarkon River, once a notoriously polluted body of wa ... More >>

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Stage Raw: The Wallowa Project

Theatre Movement Bazaar's Model Behavior; i.e., The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, opens this weekend at 24th Street Theatre, and is being reviewed this weekend. Photo courtesy of CalArts Photography Check back here on Monday afternoon for that review, plus reviews of the West Coast ... More >>

Dogs of War: Waltz With Bashir

Both documentary and animated feature, and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence

Go, Greased Lightning! F Yeah Fest Tours U.S. on Veg-Fueled Bus

Is this the future of touring?

Everything Old Is New Again at the 23rd Israel Film Festival

They don't make 'em like they used to

Adam Sandler as Zohan, Mossad Baddie Turned Stylist

Hairpiece in the Middle East

Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id

Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life

Strike Up the Band

Israeli import hits the right notes

The Bubble: Make Love, Not War

Twenty-something Tel Aviv hipsters live life, have sex, befriend the enemy

Love & Frustration

At 25, Outfest is older, but not necessarily wiser

Holiday in Israel

The Unexpected Movie

A debut film enrages Arab audiences

And The Winner Is...

Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just recovered enough from the after-parties to write about it.) First I'd like to say the Los Angeles Times got fashion week wrong (more on th ... More >>

Lands of Milk and Honey

Millennium Mambo and James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Land of Milk and Honey

Millennium Mambo and James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Buzz Kill

At Sundance, indie film thrives — in spite of the “hot” industry tips

Visit Palestine

How an old tourism poster became a ubiquitous symbol of modern struggle

Rough Road, Messy Map

The all-too-human comedy of The Holy Land

Paradise Lost

The Back Story

Let a hundred pipelines bloom

Unconventional Fear

Caught in the Currents

Wading through conflicting views on the Middle East

Hope's Passing

Great Expectations

Alfonso Cuarón hits the road

Dread Again

Welcome to El Al

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