See also: Don't Call Them Hooligans: Meet Ultras, L.A.'s Major League Soccer Superfans Ten minutes into the second half at Home Depot Center on this Saturday night, the P.A. booms "¡Arriba las Chivas!" so loud the ushers flinch. The grito over the loudspeakers whips up the sold-out house of 18,800,......
Editor's Note: This week marked the 15th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death. To commemorate, West Coast Sound is featuring Tupac stories all week. See also: *Bruce Hornsby on Tupac: "The original 'Changes' was a lot dirtier, had a lot of the n-word." *African Rebel Soldiers and Their Eerie Obsession With......
Last week, while discussing the recent uptick in apocalypse-themed videos, we spent a couple sentences discussing the angry, Mad Max-style children that stand to inherit our post-doomsday world, at least as represented in the video for Foster the People's "Helena Beat." That video was meant to exist not in an......
As the debt ceiling languishes unraised, whole regions of the US lie under floodwaters while others dry into baked earth, and the wedding cake topper industry finds itself facing major overhauls, people naturally want to know: What are music videos doing to reflect these radically shifting, changing times? Perhaps the......
"I just want a photo and the word lost and the telephone number and when and where she was lost and her name. Not like a movie poster or anything stupid." So rang the immortally frustrated words of Shannon, the secretary or assistant or generic office peon with the gall......
Without harping too much on that inconvenient thing happening on a big road somewhere in West L.A. this weekend, let us begin this modest post by agreeing that transit in L.A., in California, and in the vast majority of the US, could stand a few more efficient alternatives. As dear......
When we reported on the Skirball's double exhibits "Houdini" and "Masters of Illusion" a few weeks ago, there was one question that we didn't quite get to cover: how come so many magicians are Jewish? A few possible answers seem to present themselves right off the bat, and were repeated......
You wouldn't think, in an era before movies, TV, or even radio, that it would take much convincing to get people to a magic show. Even the cups and balls routine must have been a thrilling alternative to singing in rounds or the regular Friday night hay ride. But as......
A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us regular......
By 7:15 yesterday evening, the normally empty parking lot at the corner of Olive and 5th Streets had started buzzing. A small group of BMX'ers showed off their tricks to one another while a modest crowd of commuter cyclists chowed down at the Kogi truck in the center of the......
