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Patti Smith Talks About Her Greatest Success

By Jessica Baran Profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer Patti Smith may be best known as the Godmother of Punk. Her groundbreaking album Horses, released in 1975, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Born in Chicago, she was raised in Sout ... More >>

One Day Boyle Heights Artist Fabian Debora Tried to Take His Own Life on the I-5. That's When He Had an Epiphany

Fabian Debora stood on the railing of a busy I-5 Freeway, just beyond Hollenbeck Park, watching the cars zoom by. Blood spewed down his mouth and onto his water-soaked shirt -- consequences of the manic escape from his mother's home where she had discovered him doing meth. Haunted by his children' ... More >>

NationBuilder, a Downtown L.A. Startup, Explodes onto Scene in Los Angeles Mayoral, City Council 2013 Elections

Also see "Emanuel Pleitez, the Most Amazing Person Who Won't Win the March 5 L.A. Mayoral Primary." By Amanda Lewis Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel isn't using it, but candidates Eric Garcetti and Emanuel Pleitez are. So are five of 12 candidates vying for City Council District 13, and ... More >>

Kate Anderson vs. Steve Zimmer LAUSD Board Race: Mother of Twins, Lawyer and Activist Goes After Anti-Charter Zimmer

The heat is on. Kate Anderson, an activist mom and successful attorney with political chops -- she worked for Congress members Henry Waxman and Jane Harman -- will try to oust Steve Zimmer, the Westside's man on Los Angeles Unified School Board, in March 2013. Zimmer has emerged as a fierce oppone ... More >>

Graham Nash Is Now a Mixed Media Artist, With His Second Gallery Show in Santa Monica

"I'm just a fucking hippie trying to get on with his life and to have a good time, trying to make sure other people have a good time and trying to speak my mind," says musician Graham Nash sitting in the Santa Monica office of Gallery 169, host to Nash's new photography exhibit "This Could Be You," ... More >>

Gypsyhawk Is Interested in Shit Like Quantum Physics

August 15th, 2008 was a tumultuous day for Eric Harris, who was then bassist for Ohio-based death-thrashers Skeletonwitch. Rising tensions with the rest of the band came to a head. Having just played a raucous show at the Troubadour, the group kicked Harris out and left him in Los Angeles. During ... More >>

An L.A. Riots Video Game Concept in Which You Can Be Rodney King

See also: *The Problem Solverz Creator Ben Jones: Using Video Games 'Like Religion' *Five Cheap Ways You Can Support Your Favorite Artists *UCLA Game Art Festival Features Caine's Arcade Made by a 9-Year-Old, and More With E3 ready to take over downtown Los Angeles this week, it makes sense that G ... More >>

WeHo News Editor Ryan Gierach Talks About Struggles and Return to West Hollywood

For years, WeHo News, a spunky online community newspaper, has been a must read for anyone interested in all things West Hollywood, with major news outlets often picking up its breaking stories. Recently, the operation shut down for several weeks, but started up again on Monday. Readers have wonde ... 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 >>

Maná - Staples Center - 4/19/12

Maná Staples Center 4/19/12 Better than ... Britney Spears at selling out Staples Center. Seriously, though. With this round of concert dates Maná has now surpassed Brit's record. Staples even held an official press conference about it Thursday afternoon. But let's talk about the show. Ultra hu ... More >>

Taking Physics Class 
with Professor GZA

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Our review of Wu-Tang Clan's January 21, 2012 show at Club Nokia The Wu-Tang Clan once said if we picked up their double album, Wu-Tang Foreve ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Food Fare: Great Chefs, Great Cause

If watching a gaggle of the country's most arrogant, clueless and regressive men discuss the reproductive fates of millions of American women -- with almost no input from women themselves (apparently, we aren't "qualified") -- left you utterly appalled, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Plann ... More >>

True Religion, Gucci, Nike -- $4 Million of it -- Fake And Now Safe From Holiday Shoppers, Thanks to ICE Crackdown

CelebfashionLATrue Religion shorts? Lord have mercy.​We'll give you a peek into our last-minute Christmas shopping list: Fake True Religion jeans. Lots of them. (Note to self: Check Craigslist). Dang it: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced it has seized $4 million worth ... More >>

On Holy Ground

Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

Joel DaavidTony Gatto and Lulu Brud, in Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" at the Lillian​Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. ​ Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo performance abou ... More >>

Janet Reitman's Inside Scientology: Author's Packed L.A. Talks Reveal Why Angelenos Still Want Answers About the Controversial Religion

Courtesy of JanetReitman.comJanet Reitman​Every folding chair at Skylight Books in Los Feliz is taken, and standing-room folks jam into any available spot offering a sight line to the front.The questions pop out."What is the political agenda of the church?" asks an audience member."What's th ... More >>

Dennis Hopper Lives: As Legend, or Corporate Slogan for Vans?

Photo by Silje at siljeohlalaThe Hopper posters that are popping up all over town.​ You must have noticed his eyes, with their slightly mournful, softened edges. And his beard, which looks like a bristling, black-and-grey hedgehog. Or at least the slogan in giant white letters, spelling out a ... More >>

L.A. Council Threatens To Boycott Delta Airlines Over Non-Existent "No Jew" Policy

​The L.A. City Council is contemplating another boycott -- this time against Delta Airlines.Councilman Paul Koretz has introduced a resolution to boycott the airline over its controversial "no Jew" policy.Wait. What?

The Princess of Montpensier

Music Picks: Tift Merritt, Clinic, Microscopic Septet

Also, J. Cole, the Crazy Squeeze, Wild Flag and others