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Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead

Ecstasy Use Can Increase Your Chance of Having a Baby Boy (And Other Bad Things)

Ah, yes, ecstasy: The drug that makes you feel good before you feel really bad. Turns out there's another reason for E users in this rave capital of the nation to consider sticking with marijuana: A recent Case Western Reserve University study found that a pregnant mom's ecstasy use could be bad ... More >>

5 Great Foods of Great Britain: Spotted Dick More Hilarity

Jodi Louie, via Flickr​The United Kingdom has such a confusing culinary reputation. At once birthplace to a few of the world's blandest dishes, and yet, the same place that brought us Gordon Ramsay and some of the most hilariously named foods imaginable. It's those foods that we honor today: ... More >>

Michael Jackson Tribute Concert Offers Buy One Get One Free; Desperation Grows

​Update: In a sign of further chaos, the tribute organizers have abruptly canceled the buy one get one free ticket promotion. Stay tuned for more updates. In July told you about how (part of) the Jackson Family announced the Michael Jackson tribute concert -- scheduled for October 8 in Wales -- in ... More >>

Worst Press Conference Ever: Jacksons Announce Tribute Concert in Friggin' Wales

Ben Westhoff​"Reminder to photographers: If you get out of your seat, you'll get kicked out," warned the flack at the Beverly Hills Hotel, shortly before the arrival of five Jacksons and three white guys, there to announce the details of the big Michael Jackson tribute concert. Only, they rea ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con 2011: Torchwood Miracle Day

Dianne Garcia​ Torchwood: Miracle Day is about a day when people keep aging or getting hurt but no one on Earth dies. Having already established itself through its Doctor Who following and growing as its own show, Torchwood is taking this unique sci-fi series from the BBC to the United State ... More >>

Organic Water? Straight Outta West Wales

​Wales, that wee country that perches on England's lap, is known for its harpists and sheep. But if llanllyr SOURCE has its way, it will be adding organic water to its portfolio of admirable assets. For the past eleven years, the company has been sucking water from under its swath of certifi ... More >>

Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, on Broadway

Royal Harpist Gears Up for Royal Wedding

​Pictured here is royal harpist Claire Jones, along with her harp. Claire Jones is from Crymych, which--for those of you who aren't in the know-- is a small village of around 400 inhabitants in the north of Pembrokeshire, Wales. She became the official harpist to the Prince of Wales in 2007-- ... More >>

Speak Softly, Drive a German Tank: Lemmy Kilmister at His Documentary Film Opening

Today Is The Most Depressing Day Of The Year: Welcome To 'Blue Monday' In L.A.

Here's one way to deal with the blues.​Welcome to the most depressing day of the year. Statistics indicate that y'all are bummed out. Your bank account is drained after the holidays. You still have a post-ecstasy fog from that New Year's eve bender. And it's still almost six months until summe ... More >>

Music Picks: Amy Kuney, Whispertown, the Civil Wars, Jake Bellows, Plan B

Also, Thom Bresh, Pictureplane, James Intveld and others

INTIMATE AMAHL

Doritos Invade Britain: Or UFO's Shaped Like Them

Daily Mailan object over Wales ​ If you wanted another sign that we're all eating far, far too much junk food, consider this story from Britain's Daily Mail. There have been many UFO sightings, it seems, in the English Midlands: at least three in the last three years. But what is perhaps more ... More >>

Live Review: John Cale Performs "Paris 1919" at Royce Hall

John Cale​John Cale's album before Paris 1919 was called The Academy in Peril. Last night, at UCLA's Royce Hall, the academy was never in real peril. Sure, there were a couple of moments (see below), when the academy was under a vague risk of being slighted soiled, of being smeared a little w ... More >>

Tonight: Lost in the Trees, Brahms and Smetana, The Joy Formidable

​"This young North Carolina-based outfit recently signed with L.A.'s Anti- label, which just yesterday released a newly reworked version of Lost in the Trees' 2008 debut, All Alone in an Empty House. Full of dramatic string arrangements and folky acoustic guitar, Empty House belongs to the sam ... More >>

Out at the Movies

From bisexual bromance to lesbian Marines to Le Tigre: 15 picks for Outfest

Giddyup

Channeling their inner pony

Chrissie Hynde Premieres New Band on KCRW

Chrissie Hynde Premieres New Band on KCRW

Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- The 41 Deadliest Fast Food Meals in America. [Daily Beast] -- Woman becomes first person to be banned from drinking in every bar in England and Wales. [Daily Mail] -- The British finally discover bá ... More >>

6 Cheese and Beer Pairings For St. Patrick's Day

Wine-and-cheese is such a classic combination that you might not think of going beyond it. But beer is a pretty terrific match for cheese too, and this is just the week to switch out your glass of Cab for a pint. Consider it an homage to the biggest beer drinking holiday of all: St. Patrick's Day. ... More >>

Ariel Pink Signs To 4AD, Readies Euro Tour

Ariel goes Juggalo?​Local freak-folk ambassadors Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti only just returned from touring Europe, and they're looking to head back across the pond on Friday. Consider this trip a victory lap, however, as the psychedelic five-piece has just been announced as the latest sign ... More >>

The “All About Me” Show?

Take Everything With a Grain of Salt: A Brief History of Salt (Kurlansky's) A Conversion Chart

Morton's SaltMorton's 1917 ad​Homer and Plato both described salt as divine, although Lot's wife wouldn't have thought so, having been transformed into it. According to Tacitus, certain Germanic tribes believed prayers were heeded somewhat more if they were offered in salt mines; during China' ... More >>

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Grim Sleeper Web Site Creator Unmasked

Ever since the L.A. Weekly broke the story about the Grim Sleeper serial killer in August of 2008, the news about his ongoing killings, which began in 1985 on the streets of South Los Angeles, has gone global. We dubbed the male suspect the Grim Sleeper because he took a 13-year break before sudden ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Heavy Meddled: Gavin & Stacey

New British TV comedy is all about the friends and family who get in the way of true love

Neon Neon Set DeLorean's Story to Music

Boom Bip and Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys spin a stainless steel tale of Detroit

BBC's Gavin & Stacey Heading to NBC?

A fine romance

Miss Julie

The long and short of a Hollywood icon’s movie career

No Sympathy for You

Splitting town was one thing, but now, is indie icon Long Gone John really swapping his label for some llamas?

Pictures From the Past

Film Reviews

Including Jesus Camp and American Hardcore

On the Road with Bernadette

Present: A day in the life of a working actor

Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894–1941

Smash The Rock

Flying high with Daedelus

Revelations

The best photography books of 2003

Letters

No Said Fred

Edited by Kateri Butler

Transports and Transplants

Affairs of the heart in The Good Girl and Blood Work

Midnight Movies at the Planetarium

Peace operatives Super Furry Animals’ non-proliferation treatise

Motor City Breakdown

Freeways’ hot fahren in the summertime

Letters

Glamour Guys of Geezer Gulch

The beautiful butt-ugly truth about Space Cowboys

What's Welsh for Zen?

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

The Citizens Band

Omnivorous Welsh art-poppers Super Furry Animals use guerrilla tactics

Get Out and Vote