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10 Best Women's Shoe Stores in Los Angeles

Whether you're indulging your inner Carrie Bradshaw's need for Manolo Blahnik or looking for your sneaker holy grail, Los Angeles has a shoe store for you. Here's a rundown of where to find the pumps, loafers, trainers, wedges, slingbacks, flats and everything in between to satisfy anyone's retifism ... More >>

UCLA Basketball Uniforms Universally Hated

UCLA's one-off Adidas uniforms, rolled out for the school's bid at Pac-12 basketball supremacy, are supposed to "stun your opponents" and convey a sense of motion that's "crazy fast," according to the sportswear maker. But some fans think they're just plain crazy. The website Deadspin got a hold o ... More >>

2NE1 - Nokia Theatre - August 24, 2012

2NE1 Nokia Theatre 08-24-12 See also: K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown 2NE1's first international tour brought the K-pop girl group to Nokia Theatre on Friday. The show felt like a stellar girls night out, and you could tell they w ... More >>

Chicano Batman, Caped Crusader

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] With the July 20 release of The Dark Knight Rises, the iconic Batman franchise returns for its seventh summer with the usual panoply of "pows," "bangs" and Chri ... More >>

The Original Original Gangsta

Ice-T talks about his star-studded directorial debut, his famous affiliates and his life with Coco in New York

Sesame Street Meets Graffiti in 10 Awesome Artworks by L.A.'s Seventh Letter Crew

There was always something remotely hip-hop about Sesame Street. Elmo, Big Bird, the Count, Oscar the Grouch -- especially Oscar the Grouch -- looked like they'd really seen some shit in their eternal youth. They swaggered through life lessons with a knowing limp, putting some soul into the ABCs of ... More >>

Kutmah's 
Deportation Blues

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] You can't sort 30 years of life in 30 seconds. But that's what confronted Kutmah on the morning of May 5, 2010. Except that he didn't know it at the time ... More >>

10 Best Reasons to Visit Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley (Besides Coachella)

The Coachella Valley was once known as a fantastic spot for a getaway from L.A., especially during its high season in winter, when it features almost-certain sunshine and better temperatures. In recent years, Coachella has become synonymous with just one thing: Coachella. But this year, the music f ... More >>

Moshe Brakha, Legendary Photographer, Collaborates with Son on Project of Interviewing One Subject a Week for a Year

Black Flag, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keanu Reeves and Devo have all been shot by famed photographer Moshe Brakha. Charismatically colorful from the start, his photographs burst with movement and personality. He shot the cover for Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees album in '76, shot Run DMC for Rolling Stone, a ... More >>

Women! Comedy! Festival! at Room 101: Indie Improv Show Celebrates Female Comedians in L.A.

Steve LaPickle Duck, with Laura Davis (left) and Suzi Barrett​On a cold and windy Wednesday night, an army of female performers assembled at the Flight Theatre in Hollywood. The women were dispersed onstage, in the hallways and lobby doing various types of theater warmups. In one corner of the ... More >>

Thoughts From A Random Black Guy: Heathcliff, aka Raw Man Noodle

Frank Miles​[Editor's note: Odd Future member Lionel Boyce writes a weekly column for West Coast Sound. His archives are available here.] In a recent column I introduced everyone I was touring with, but I left out Heathcliff -- the co-tour manager and publicist for Odd Future -- on purpose be ... More >>

Murs On Why He Moved To Arizona: "I wouldn't feel comfortable living here without owning a firearm"

Nobody is more L.A. than Murs. But he doesn't even live here anymore. He's now based out of Tucson, Arizona, where he says he doesn't stand out. That's for a few reasons. For one, gone are the thick ropes of dreadlocks that formerly sprouted from his head. Also, he drives a Prius. And he likes watc ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Can't You Take a Joke?

Far East Movement Pays Surprise Visit to Franklin High in Los Angeles

Far East Movement surprises Fanklin High.Jena Ardell​ Remember the days when a Billboard Chart-topping Hip Hop group would perform during your lunch break at school? We don't either, but that's exactly what happened when Far East Movement paid a surprise visit to Franklin High School in Los An ... More >>

Federal and Local Police Crack Down On Counterfeit Products in Southern Califonia

This is a real iPhone​Federal and local law enforcers arrested 30 suspects throughout the Southland in connection with millions of dollars worth of fake jewelry, leather goods, sunglasses, clothing, iPhones and other items that were confiscated, authorities announced at a press conference Tues ... More >>

Adidas x Star Wars: Battle of Hoth Sneaker

Adidas (with CLOT and Illvisual) came out with this "Superskate" sneaker a while ago. It's inspired by the Battle of Hoth "with strong emphasis on fur." I don't remember what Luke and Han and the other members of the Rebel Alliance wore on Hoth--boots? Uggs?--but the Superskates certainly look appro ... More >>

Star Wars Cantina Scene, Now With More Daft Punk, Snoop, etc.

(Via Pitchfork) Three huge brands, one MASSIVE marketing exercise: The Soccer World Cup. Adidas. Star Wars. If that wasn't enough, Daft Punk, Snoop, Noel Gallagher, Ciara, David Beckham, Ian Brown and others are edited into this.

Dance Club Pick: Kid Sister, Neil Armstrong, Sander Kleinenberg to Nail It

Day 1: John Lydon, Antidotes, and PiLs

Even now and then, John Lydon likes to keep his admirers on edge. While fans thronged to Main Stage rival Jay-Z's camp (not like you could hope for a sight of Shawn Carter himself), and Jay greeted his crowd cordially by thanking them for the wait, Public Image Limited's small but devoted fanbase la ... More >>

My Date With Anonymous: A Rare Interview With the Elusive Internet Troublemakers

The new new romantics

Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed: Discusses Hip Hop and Comics For the Premiere of Afro Samurai

21 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson snagged a bit part as Leeds in Spike Lee's School Daze. Since then, the prolific Tennessean has appeared in roughly 70 films -- some of them good (Kill Bill, Do the Right Thing, Hard 8,), some not so good (S.W.A.T, Amos and Andrew, Deep Blue Sea), and some that can ... More >>

Fanning the Fame: Rapper Fannius Makes the Journey From Disney to the Viper Room

Unhappy as clean-cut rap star, Fan 3 finds new indie voice on being dropped by studio and record label for smoking pot

Addicted to Ormus: Gold Fever at the Raw Spirit Festival

Between the bee-pollen vendors and superfoods seminars, one light body gets her fill of monatomic gold

Record Reviews: Gnarls Barkley, Evangelista, No Age, Destroyer

Also, The Knux, Ghost on the Highway, The Little Ones

Rime Show at Ghettogloss

Seventh Letter crew member RIME, aka Jersey Joe, will be showing new work at Ghettogloss this Friday, March 7. The show will run for a couple of weeks, and there's a reception Friday, so mark your calendars. The gallery's at 2380 Glendale Blvd. near the Red Lion and across the street from Rockaway ... More >>

Fresh Rock: American Hip-Hop

Uprock-77

That's Wack

California’s legislature approves 1,000 new laws annually. Insert laugh track here

The Rise of the Seventh Letter

Mad society kings

Recent Spanish Cinema XIII

Including DarkBlueAlmostBlack, The Near East and Celia’s Lives

The Ultimate Product Placement

Phil Anschutz takes a huge hit if Beckham tanks as L.A.’s soccer megastar. He’s not worried

Allez les Bleus

The World Cup on the Champs Élysées

Young / Gifted / Beautiful / Black

L.A.’s Murs just wants to be your favorite rapper. Is that so wrong?

Move It or Lose It

Out With the Old

Cashing in your clothes? What to bring, what to leave and what to expect . . .

The Man in the Green Shirt

Snake Bites

More Viola! More!

Bunny Love

Rock Steady

Dandyland

Polaroids from Silver Lake

Grate & Swish

Quiet Americans

British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire

Crush and Cuddle

The sheer heart failure of Ozzfest 2002

2002 Smiths/Morrissey Convention: Still Sixteen, Clumsy and Shy

Reach for the Sun

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

Music-Driven Lifestyle. Positive?

Sweating It Out

UC’s ban on sweatshop products may be hard to enforce

Sporty Spice's Brass Ring

All About the Benjamins

Hip-hop: The need, not the greed

Los Zapatos de Yucatán