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  • News

    May 24, 2012

    Proposition 29 Cigarette Tax

    Why it may fail in liberal California

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    The California Homemade Food Act: A Progress Report

    Imagine a world where people could sell food prepared in their own kitchens. Sounds like a pre-Industrial Revolution bake sale, but it could very well be the near future. That is, if the Cottage Food Bill passes. The California Homemade Food Act (AB 1616), which is currently in Congress, would make ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 17, 2012

    California Noir

    LACMA's series The Sun Sets in the West

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Latinos Are Taking Over California (Really)

    Oh boy. John & Ken aren't going to be happy about this one. Latinos are on track to become the biggest ethnic group in California. That's right, the land of Ozzie and Harriet is being taken over by brown people. According to just-released U.S. Census figures ...

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Strawberry Festival, Mark Gold Seafood Demo, EggFest, Chocolate Lecture, Beer and Brunch Bike Ride, Hudson Block Party Smog City Beer Dinner

    California Strawberry Festival Strawberry shortcake? Boring. How about strawberry pizza, nachos or kabobs, along with strawberry beer? More than 40 food booths will offer strawberry-centric items at the California Strawberry Festival. Also expect concerts, contests, amusement park attractions and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Sex Trafficking Law Heads to California Ballot For Your Vote in Novemeber

    Backers of the CASE Act, a needless but popular proposal to fight sex trafficking (because no one ever gets arrested for that in California) declared this week that they have qualified for the November ballot: The CASE folks turned in enough signatures this spring to make the grade. Look, we don't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    This Weekend: Local Brewers' Festival A Poolside Beer Party

    Why go to LAX, get on a plane, and fly to Vegas for a pool party when you can drive to the Four Points by Sheraton LAX, park for free, and get your pool party on right here? Our weather's better -- and so is the beer. Saturday, May 12, from noon to 5:00 p.m., thirteen of the best local and Californ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Latino Journalists Losing USC Office Space

    America's first journalism group for Latinos will celebrate its 40th year in existence during its annual banquet June 1 at downtown's Biltmore Millennium Hotel. Unfortunately, this might also be its last year. The director of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (where this writer is a board me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Asians Are Taking Over America

    By presidential proclamation, it's Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. And on that note, let us reflect upon the latest U.S. Census statistics, which show that ... Asians are taking over America! And you thought Latinos knew how to procreate and or get into the United States? Check out these fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Marijuana Prices in California Plummet Following Obama's Crackdowns

    Thanks to President Obama and the federal crackdown on medical marijuana in California, gray-market weed prices are plummeting. That might be good for you guys who don't have your doctors' recommendations yet, but cannabis growers in the weed-cultivation capital of the nation, Humboldt County, are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Academia Semillas del Pueblo, a Failing School, Gets an L.A. Times Puff Piece

    Updated with response from the Times on next page. By Hillel Aron The Los Angeles Times printed an odd take on Academia Semillas del Pueblo, the failing charter whose kids are nowhere near state standards on reading, writing, adding and subtracting -- even as compared to their identical, struggli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Turtle Smuggler Busted at LAX Sentenced: Atsushi Yamagami Gets 21 Months

    Atsushi Yamagami had quite an import-export business going, according to federal authorities. Not only did he bring protected tortoises into the United States for sale, but he used that cash to export snakes, turtles and tortoises native to America back to Japan, they said. Savvy, yes, except he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    6 Phrases That California Started Using Before Everyone Else

    The Southern California vocabulary, as endearing or maddening as it can be, doesn't exactly have a reputation for erudition. And we're totally chill about that. The Dictionary of American Regional English, which you may have heard of recently, is an ambitious lexicographical project that recently r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    What To Do If Your Dog Gets High

    Okay: You've never cupped your hands over your dog's snout and blown smoke into his nose. Ever? Well stop it. A Human Society expert says getting your dog high is not cool and, worse, could be dangerous. Dogs, in fact, can't really even get "high" as we know it:

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Driving High: 5 Studies on Marijuana Motoring

    Getting high behind the wheel. It's illegal. But it's hard to prove. (There's no breathalyzer). And you're gonna do it either way. So the real question is, Is it safe? Remarkably, science in the field of stoned motoring is all over the place. Some academics contend you're actually a better driver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Day Without A Mexican is Finally Here, California

    You thought A Day Without A Mexican was just a movie. But more and more, the wildest dreams of anti-illegal-immigration activists are coming true. California's population growth is coming to a halt, says a new USC study (PDF), and much of that is the result of decreasing immigration. At the same ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Asian American Video About Deported Cambodians Rejected by Obama's White House

    A White House contest asking people to create the best video about the Asian American experience might have been rigged. An entry about Cambodian deportees appeared to have received the most views, now more than 18,000, but a half-dozen other video makers were invited to the White House. Though "My ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Food News Roundup: New Farm Food Bill, Gluten-Free Restaurants Dario Cecchini at Valentino

    The Associated Press via the Washington Post: A new farm and food bill is in the works, but it faces an uphill battle. Gilt Taste: More chefs learn to cook without gluten. Daily Dish: A recap of Dario Cecchini's visit to Valentino last night. Loud and meaty.

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Marijuana Law That Would Protect Dispensaries Passes Public Safety Committee

    At a time when medical marijuana in California is under attack both by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and cities, like L.A. and Long Beach, that want to ban dispensaries altogether, California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has answer. It's called AB 2312, and the proposed law would regulate pot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Pot Wine = Pot Wine (and a New Trend?)

    Roll up a towel, wedge it under the door, and put on a record -- Alice Coltrane or some pre-disco Bee Gees.  You may have to part the paisley curtains on your way in.  And find a comfy cushion to melt into.  Are we smoking weed?  Nah, we're drinking wine, man. According to a report in The Daily ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Food News Roundup: Ken Frank on Foie Gras, PETA Protest in Echo Park No Food Aid to North Korea

    Daily Dish: Chef Ken Frank of Le Toque in Napa Valley argues that the upcoming foie gras ban will "will create the biggest black market since Prohibition." He recommends replacing it with "the world's highest standards for humane foie gras." Reuters: In the wake of North Korea's failed missile lau ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    April 12, 2012

    Rick Steves, Famed Travel Writer and Pot Advocate: 20 Questions

    "I'm a travel writer, and for me, high is a place"

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Q & A with Gustavo Arellano: Taco USA, Mexican Authenticity Food Writing

    You might suspect Gustavo Arellano, the brain and wit behind the popular syndicated and OC Weekly column ¡Ask a Mexican!, as one of those Mexican food sticklers who bristles at ideas of yellow nacho cheese, the chimichonga, the chicken fajita pita, enchilada combination plates and Taco Bell's 50th ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 5, 2012

    Our Tacos, Ourselves: How Southern California Reinvented the Taco

    How Southern California discovered, gave birth to, reinvented and loved the taco for more than a century

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Hispanics Are Not Hispanic

    There was a time when uttering the word Mexican was impolite. Cops in Southern California would call anyone with brown skin a Mexican. And those of us who were born here preferred other terms such as Mexican American, Chicano and Latino. How could you tell if someone was born here by looking at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    An Explanation of California's Sales Tax on Foods Bonus Flowchart

    While U.K. residents are embroiled in a debate over a potential tax on certain hot foods taken to go, Joe Eskenazi over at our sister publication, SF Weekly, reminds us that in California, we already have an inexplicably arcane tax scheme that imposes a sales tax on some foods taken to go, depending ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    California Public College Students to Be Asked if They're Gay or Straight

    Next year aspiring UC and Cal State students will probably be asked, along with requests for age and ethnicity, if they're gay or straight. Why, you ask, is that any business of theirs? It's not, entirely: Whether or not you answer, as with the question about ethnicity, will be optional. But a n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    SOPA Supported, Apple Trusted, Internet Data Collection Feared by Californians

    Strange days in the world of technology: You're afraid your information is being ripped off by big internet companies. But you support the much-maligned SOPA legislation. And you trust Apple, in recent times the most valuable corporation on the planet. Huh? Those are some of the contradictory resu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    DREAM Act Application Goes Live: Undocumented California Students Can Now Apply for Financial Aid

    It's here! The day Republicans have been dreading and undocumented California students have been fighting for since 2001. College kids without U.S. citizenship can now apply for "conditional permanent residency" via the official DREAM Act application, which will allow them access to state financial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: California Love

    KCRW Broadcast #158 for Saturday, March 31, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Ugly World of eBay Hustling Fanatics! Tomorrow night we have a bit of a concept show for your enjoyment. Since I write this ahead of a show in San Diego, I thought it would be a great idea to play bands from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Sex Trafficking Law Appears to Get Enough Signatures For California's November Ballot

    Backers of a sex trafficking law say they have turned in enough signatures to put the initiative before voters in November. Organizers of the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act said today they turned in 865,000 signatures to the Secretary of State. The law would ...

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    The Chaotic Travels of the Theater Company Poor Dog Group

    Click on the image to make it bigger Zipping from Malibu to Manhattan, spending a month in Europe, regrouping and conferring with like-minded colleagues in a state-of-the-art "pleasure dome" -- it sounds more like the itinerary of a high-powered executive with a hefty expense account than a contemp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    U.S. Homeland Security May Permit Gay Couples to Go Through Customs Together

    It's not as infamous a gay-rights fight as marriage or hospital visitation, but discrimination against same-sex couples at our nation's border crossings can be just as offensive and cumbersome. As it stands, gay couples must file separate Customs forms when re-entering America. If they have childre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Arizona Lawman Says L.A.'s Wayward Porn Industry Isn't Welcome in His Town

    The porn industry has been making a lot of noise about a possible move out of town following the City Council's enactment of a condom requirement for location shoots in L.A. One of the places mentioned as New Porn Valley is Arizona, where some production already takes place. However, as we've said, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama

    [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.] If you are a fan of American history, Alabama is a very interesting place. To say that a lot has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Coors to Launch Iced Tea-flavored Beer

    Flavored iced tea has been all the rage for a while now (passionfruit-acai-goji berry comes to mind). So the brilliant minds at Coors thought: Why not iced tea-flavored BEER? Last week, Golden, Colo.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced it will launch Coors Light Iced T in Canada next month ahea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Ten Questionable Bands Everyone Listened to at My College

    See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Around the time OJ was acquitted I began college at a private liberal arts school in the lower midwest, a place where students who didn't get into Northwestern came to spend their parents' money on drugs. They also filled their dorm rooms ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style

    [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 was just in Texas for a show. Since 1981 I've done a lot of shows in Texas. Whenever I am the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 8, 2012

    How Aloha Can You Go?

    [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 was just in Texas for a show. Since 1981 I've done a lot of shows in Texas. Whenever I am the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

    No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Cellphone-Related Deaths Behind Wheel in California Down, Dubious Study Claims

    While California's cop lobbyists and legislators have claimed texting-while-driving is creating more death than the Grim Reaper in order to justify increasingly needless laws, a new study says cellphone-related traffic deaths are going down. So which one is it? This is the classic strategy of over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes: New Book Explains Hawaii and How the U.S. Became an Empire

    Writer/radio commentator Sarah Vowell comes to town to sit down with Jeff Garlin and talk about her latest book, a funny and lively history of America's acquisition of Hawaii. Here's our Q&A:

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Marijuana's Top 5 Uses, From Real University Research

    Here in California, marijuana is legal for just about any ailment you can dream up. And while medical cannabis supporters have argued that the drug is a harmless tool for grandmothers with cancer who want to forget their pain and spark their appetites, there has been plenty of academic research on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Marijuana Driving, Other Drug-Based DUIs on The Increase in California: Authorities Plan to Strike Back

    While some studies have suggested marijuana-smoking drivers might be safer drivers, California officials this week stated that "drugged driving" fatalities in the state have been on the rise in recent years. The state Office of Traffic Safety states (PDF) that "30 percent of all drivers who were ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Marijuana Can Help Prevent Suicide, Study Suggests

    Marijuana does many magical things, not the least of which is make dubstep listenable. In Los Angeles, we use it pretty much legally for back pain, nausea and hot tubbing. But a new study from Germany says that, in U.S. states like California where marijuana has become medically legit, rates of sui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    California is America's Most-Hated State, According to Public Policy Polling

    Don't hate us because we're beautiful. Or do. It turns out the left-most state is also America's most-hated, according to a recent survey by Public Policy Polling. And California's left-leaning politics seem to have a lot to do with it. The Golden State is the most-disliked in the union, and Hawai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Porn Video Shoots Leaving L.A. for ... Arizona?

    The porn industry is pissed off over L.A.'s new rule requiring condom use at adult location filming inside the city. So much so that it has threatened repeatedly to move its multibillion-dollar operations outside Los Angeles and even California. So far it's been all talk. But one porn star says th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Marriage Across Racial, Ethnic Lines Way High: Asians Do It the Most

    David Blumenkrantz​No big surprise for the people of Los Angeles or Kobe Bryant. The Pew Research Center this week confirmed what we Angelenos know and live: Marriages between folks of different racial and ethnic groups have more than doubled in the last 30 years in America. Yes we've been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Arsenic Found in Organic Brown Rice Syrup Baby Formula

    Arsenic is totally bad for you. Even if it doesn't kill you a la the classic "old lace" cocktail, small amounts have been associated with raising the risk for cancer and heart disease. Chronic arsenic ingestion in the young appears to result in dumb children (low IQ and "poor intellectual function") ... More >>

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