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How USC Grads Freddie Wong and Ryan Coogler Became the Future of Filmmaking, Via Two Very Different Paths

Fruitvale Station was a hit at Sundance, while Video Game High School has millions of teen fans

Fanatics! This Sunday's Show Will Go Long

See also: Henry Rollins: Why I'm Not Playing Music Anymore RADIO BROADCAST #216 05-19-13 Fanatics. I am sitting in a Starbucks in Washington D.C. in my old neighborhood. I am on my second pass of the last few singles the Buzzcocks recorded for United Artists. I don't know why I trip on them so oft ... More >>

YouTube Stars Fight Back

Machinima and Maker Studios, two of YouTube's most high-profile networks, have come under fire from their own talent

Henry Rollins: The Column! Summer Be Gone!

[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.] September is upon us. In its final weeks, August was staggering crookedly, profusely bleeding ... More >>

VIDEO: Historic Pickfair Studios in West Hollywood Torn Down by Demolition Crane

One of the most gorgeous old silent-film-era relics in West Hollywood -- the Pickfair Studios, on a plot of land known as "The Lot" -- just got ruthlessly gouged by a demolition crane. The redevelopment gore can be blamed on CIM Group, the real-estate investor who owns the historic cluster of build ... More >>

Ace Hotel Comes to Downtown Los Angeles: Hipsters Rejoice

As if downtown could take one more hipster, the Ace Hotel chain is opening a venue on Broadway. Post-hangover, you might retain some memory of the Ace Palm Springs bar from your last trip to Coachella: Yeah, that place. The office of City Councilman Jose Huizar this week announced the development ... More >>

Bingham Ray, Indie Film Distribution & Marketing Legend, Dies While Attending Sundance

Jaw-dropping news came down around noon Park City time Monday, when Sundance issued a press release confirming that Bingham Ray -- indie film legend, co-founder of seminal '90s indie distribution outlet October Films and current executive director of the San Francisco Film Society -- had died. Ray, ... More >>

Last Night: Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe and Mayer Hawthorne at the Gibson Ampitheatre

Sarah BennettBruno Mars​ Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe, and Mayer Hawthorne June 12, 2011 Gibson AmpitheatreFresh off their smashing performance at this year's Grammys, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe linked up once again to tour. With the addition of Mayer Hawthorne, you've got three of the truest pu ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column!

Plastic fantastic: why vinyl still matters

Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Here: Preview of the First Henry Rollins Column, Exclusive for the Print Edition of the LA Weekly

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes 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 Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

Superstar of David (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

TOO BAD IT'S SOLD OUT!

GO LA: Let's Play Fuck, Marry, Kill With Morrissey, Molly Prather and Christoph Eschenbach

And other reasons to not go straight home after work, May 22-28

Survivor, Hollywood-Style

MGM Tells Fiscal Truths, William Morris Lays Off, Chris Hemsworth Lands Thor

Leave Him to Heaven: R.I.P. Steven Bach, 1940-2009

Hunting and Gathering: UCLA’s Preservation Fest Salvages Forgotten Gems, Endangered Indies

Event features array of genres, periods and themes

Should We Listen to Stuart Klawans' Call for a Moratorium on Holocaust Movies?

From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust

Yes, When I Think of Christmas, I Think of Nazis

Young Turks Purge at CAA, Sleazy Bribe at WGA, Sour Grapes at ABC

When upheaval at the L.A. Times is the good news

Credit Crunch Hits Hollywood Studios

Paramount Is First to Feel Financing Woes

Major Comings and Goings in Hollywood's Big Leagues

For Whom the Ax Falls

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

Miss a week of Deadline Hollywood Daily? Here’s your fix!

Secret Agent Men

How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

Lions for Lambs: Dull Roar

The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest war drama

Strike Happy

The writers want it, the moguls want it... what a bunch of idiots

They Must Be High

Spacing out with Ben, Chris, Tom and Tom

The U.K. in L.A.

or, How to be Cary Grant

Director's Cut Series: Heaven's Gate

Still a Working Stiff

Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

The Secret Lives of Cheetahs

Despite critical raves, Carroll Ballard’s Duma may go quietly into the night

Artifact

Hollywood Lived Here

The semi-glorious and sometimes gory history of Hollywood apartment living. (Part of LA Weekly's special apartment-living package.)

Terminator Genes

Repetition in politics, news, big business and human suffering

Ties That Blind

Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda

Genetically Modified Desire

Sex and science in Michael Winterbottom's Code 46

On the Margins of the Middle East

The non-persons of Osama and Crimson Gold

Finding Fante

An encounter with one of L.A.'s literary ghosts

Our Dark Blue Places

Ellroy via Shelton, plus Till Human Voices Wake Us

Out From (Down) Under

Women's liberations in Rabbit Proof Fence and Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity

Secret Agent Men

The Quiet American and the explosive Mr. Bond

A Man Escaped

Sandler runs with Punch-Drunk Love (plus Bowling for Columbine)

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

The View From the Black Tower

Lew Wasserman, 1913–2002

Can the Lion Roar?

'Everyone’s Too Stupid!'

Ghost World, plus America’s Sweethearts

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Out and About Food

Tasteful summer adventures that redefine Saturday afternoons at the ballpark

Only in West Hollywood

Wild at Heart

Lovesickness in Winter Sleepers; cardiac arrest in Return to Me

Sound + Vision

Music and the movies