Vietnam

Best L.A. Novel Ever: Devil in a Blue Dress vs. The Black Echo, Round 2

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Ezekiel "Easy" Porterho ... More >>

The Spice Table: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Lukshon: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Homeless Vets' Tough L.A. Winter

Many reject society's lofty plans for them

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hands Are Groping Me, Breasts Are Pushed Into Me

[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.] Time becomes fluid and is then smashed, compressed, elongated by miles and then slammed into a ... More >>

The Man Nobody Knew Review

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Review

Top Five '80s Metallica Songs That Deserved Kick Ass Music Videos

​Metallica announced last week that, in celebration of their 30th anniversary, they are playing four fan-club exclusive shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco in December. Rolling back prices to 1981 levels, Met Club members can buy tickets to each show for six bucks, or to all four for the ev ... More >>

The Column! No. 2 With a Bullet

Our Man in Tibet (and Nepal): Henry Rollins on the Sad Faces in the Land of the Lamas, his Favorite Kathmandu Hotel, and the Genius of Blue Note Jazz

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing 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 Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

40th Anniversary of the National Chicano Moratorium This Weekend

​ A large crowd is expected to participate in a series of events across East Los Angeles this weekend to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the National Chicano Moratorium, a massive anti-Vietnam war protest that ended, in part, with the nearby death of a former Los Angeles Times columnist an ... More >>

Summer Cooking Classes: Mohan Ismail's Southeast Asian Flavors at Rock Sugar and Michael Beglinger's Market Bounty at Larchmont Larder

Larchmont LarderThe Larchmont Larder has set its summer slate of cooking classes. Chef and co-owner Michael Beglinger teaches Summer Salads on Thursday, June 11. Summer Baking happens on Thursday, July 16, featuring fruit sweets and ice cream from Milk on Beverly. And on August 13, students get thei ... More >>

SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

Mastergate

Luis Alfaro’s New War Story

Military theater

Cool in the O.C.

Visions of a modernist past

Seymour Hersh, the Optimistic Pessimist

On Bush, Iran and the challenges to journalism

Theater Reviews: Black Watch, Clay, Lauren Weedman, Durango

Also Goblin Market, Wendy Wasserstein's Third, Twelfth Night and more

Across the Universe: Help!

Julie Taymor’s ’60s-set musical is a bust

Theater Reviews: Ray Bradbury's Green Town, Last Call at Moby Dick's and More

Also reviews of Zombie Joe's Victims, Richard III and Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Love and Other Social Issues

Grindhouse Gang

Quentin Tarantino summons the masters to historic summit

Rock Picks

For the week of Nov. 16 - 23

Film Reviews

Animal Planet

Question time with rock legend Eric Burdon. (You can ask him just about anything — but please, quit bugging him about Hendrix!)

Theater Reviews

Worse Than Vietnam

Bush wages a war for future presidents to end

An Ambivalent Hero

Gene McCarthy and standing down a president and his war

Everything but the Bird

How I Lost the War in Iraq

Vietnamese

On the Street

Who are you voting for and why?

Southeast Asian

Pimps and Wimps

Swift boats and briar patches

Kerry Shoots for the Hip

The candidate know what’s cool, but are the kids buying it?

Channel Surfing

The five best surf movies ever, really

The Cutup

Bob Hope, piece by piece

Upscale Activism: Raquel Welch Rallies Beverly Hills Behind the Troops

Soldiers of Fortune 500

The Eyes of Perpetual War

James Nachtwey has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of the world’s worst calamities. Here, the photojournalist talks about the burden of documenting war, famine, poverty and human-rights abuses.

A Year Later

Only fear and loathing remain

O Brodard, Where Art Thou?

A Man Without an Army

Futile Force

Better ways to fight terrorism than killing people

Confessions of a Celebrity Dope Fiend

From Spaetzle to Saimintosoda

The world on a string

The Real World Organization

Why being against the WTO isn’t enough

Ghetto Star

'Monster' Kody Scott and the Culture of Ornament

Reds

Post-communism with knife and fork

Le Misérable

The awful life of Thom Jones

From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage

A brief history of Progressive Los Angeles