Vancouver

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

See also: Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer Friday, August 17 Charli XCX TROUBADOUR This young London lass arrives in L.A. fresh from opening a string of Midwestern arena shows for Coldplay, which has to rank among the least appropriate bookings ever: On You're the O ... More >>

6 Great Dim Sum Dishes at Sea Harbour

Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant in Rosemead is the embodiment of Chinese haute cuisine. The management runs the show, and everyone else from the chefs to the waitstaff is at their call. Walk in during slow hours and you'll probably see a group of men dressed in crisp suits exchanging business cards a ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: The Near Death Experience, Felt Letters

KCRW Broadcast #167 for Saturday, June 2, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Globetrotting Blues Fanatics! Hello from Vancouver, Canada. The Canadian dates have started and I am glad to be back on the road. Tonight's show is a great one all the way through. A great warm weather mix tape tha ... More >>

LMFAO Says 'We Came Here to Party' Inspired by Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney (Really)

Original shufflers.​If you ask us Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would be the last person to inspire a dance-floor anthem. After all, his biggest claim to fame so far as hopefuls vie for the GOP nomination is being a steady rocking, under-the-radar, cardboard cutout candidate ... More >>

The Whale Review

Mini Sneak Peek Of L.A.'s Best Coffee App: 4 Coffee Bars

T. NguyenEspresso Cielo in Santa Monica​ If you read our interview with Mark Lamberton earlier today, you'd know that the London-based younger brother of Blue Crow Media's Derek Lamberton was recently dispatched to Los Angeles to swig untold cups of coffee as research for their upcoming L.A.'s ... More >>

10 Places to Get a Damn Good Cup of Coffee

T. NguyenA pretty cup from Espresso Cielo in Santa Monica.​ Intelligentsia's founder, Doug Zell, told us in 2009 that "LA got a later start in terms of the very best coffee can offer, but they seem to be embracing it with the religious zeal of a convert." The conversion didn't happen overnight ... More >>

Jontahan Gold Reviews Frysmith

Artist Camilla d'Errico Talks Femina & Fauna, San Diego Comic-Con and Her Anime Fan Secret

Camilla d'Errico is part of a generation of artists whose work is as recognizable in art galleries as it is at fan conventions. Equally known as a painter and comic book creator (Tanpopo), d'Errico frequently depicts female characters that appear both hauntingly beautiful and fearless. Her new book ... More >>

Tonight: Black Mountain/Black Angels, Talib Kweli, Take, Too Rude, Fantasia

Black Mountain​Just in time for Black Friday, Black Mountain and the Black Angels hit the El Rey Theatre tonight. It's one of the stops on something called the "Dropout Boogie Tour" that pairs the Vancouver psych-rock quintet with the Austin psych-rock quintet, and, cosmically speaking, the s ... More >>

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

L.A. Troubadour Sea Wolf Sets Out on First Ever Solo Tour

Terried Sake House Closing After 25 Years

Arin LarsonYour last chance for Tofu Steak II​ Terried Sake House, the much loved hole-in-the-wall Japanese izkaya operating in West L.A., will be closing its doors after 25 years. We spoke briefly with current owner Katsuhiko Terada over the phone, who informed us that a new buyer will be tak ... More >>

Hot Hot Heat: Born-Again Indies

Band relaunches itself as a Dangerbird Records act

ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

Top Chef Canada Coming Soon

​ If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Hot Pants, Cold Feet, Liberty Inn, Side by Side by Sondheim

Also, Rock 'n Ridicule, The Story of My Life, Tales of an Urban Indian and more

A Very Special Episode Evening

With the recent disappearance of Andrew Koenig--AKA Boner from Growing Pains--80s TV has surely been on all of our minds lately. What a golden era it was, when actual teenagers could learn life lessons just by watching TV teenagers make seemingly minor mistakes, only to suffer catastrophic consequ ... More >>

Cut Chemist Performs An Intimate Set For Aspiring DJs

​Vancouver can have the Winter Games. Here in sunny Southern California, land of the endless summer, our Olympic feats our perennial, and so much cooler than ice dancing. Take DJing for instance -- turntablism, or the art of scratch. Influential as New York was in getting the wheels (of steel) ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Nosaj Thing Remixes The xx, Plots 'Magical Properties Tour' with Daedelus and Jogger [MP3]

We've been preaching the gospel of Nosaj Thing, Jogger and Daedelus individually and as a pack for a long time now, and now the fearsome LA three is converging around a mission: to make a half-circle around the continent. Beginning (where else?) in Palm Springs, the three acts, all part of Daedel ... More >>

Rock Picks: Pink, the Grates, Doug Paisley, Ooh La L.A. Festival

Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others

Brick’s Picks: Jazz and the Abstract Truth

Twice the Madness from BIRTH! This Week

Liz OhanesianBIRTH! live on Hollywood Boulevard, Summer, 2008​ Over the past two years, we've managed to catch BIRTH! play at everything from dance clubs to house shows to the corner of Hollywood & Highland and one thing is for certain, Douglas Halbert, the force behind the one-man project, ... More >>

Os Mutantes to Launch U.S. Tour in Los Angeles

Legendary Brazilian tropicalia group Os Mutantes, whose work in the late 1960s fused Brazilian samba rhythms with Beatle-esque baroque pop, will perform at the Echoplex on August 28. The band, who recently signed to the LA-based Anti- imprint, are getting ready to release their first studio album in ... More >>

Leonard Cohen to Gig at the Nokia a Week Before Coachella

Leonard Cohen just announced an extended spring tour, and will hit the Nokia Theater on Friday, April 10 -- a week prior to his Coachella appearance. Which is great for those of us who were a little worried about seeing one of our favorite songwriters surrounded by a bunch of drunken/tripping/coke ... More >>

Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy For So Many?

The charge of the unknown

Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl: August 24 and August 25

Yep, just announced: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl on August 24 and 25, which is a little weird because it's a Sunday and a Monday. Presales begin April 9. The entire second leg of the American tour: August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Li ... More >>

Ship's Secrets, Powers Back On

Everything’s Gone Green: Gen Ex

everythinCoupland struggles in his second act

Film Reviews

Including Alpha Dog, God Grew Tired of Us and Black Gold

Rock Picks

For the week of October 20-26

Music Picks

For the week of June 8 - 15

The Holy Body Tattoo

Chain: The Time We Killed

We Rule, You Don’t!

Lovin’ L.A., angrily

Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Diamonds and Dust

Möbius Trip

Rodney Graham comes round again. And again. And again

Abstinence Is for Quitters

But Germany’s “drug-consumption rooms” keep addicts safe until they’re ready to kick — or not

The Terror War on Drugs

The martyrdom of Steve Treleaven

Outer Limits

Twyla Tharp and the Holy Body Tattoo investigate endurance

Love That Chris

The rock & roll sitcom

Boob Tube

Second-rate television for women

The Suck '90s and So You Do

Battle of the Bads

To Be Young, Different and/or Black

No Future for You

Hardcore decline