PAT WEST by LUKE MCGARRY

FEATURE
Chris Ziegler sits down in the grass with Cold War Kids 10 minutes after their White Stripes tour is cancelled and 10 minutes later they’re talking about what might be on the new album. In related news, a list of second rock albums as good or better than the first: White Light/White Heat, Funhouse, Fugs, Lust For Life, Youth Of America, Leave Home, Duty Now For The Future, In Color, Paranoid, Dub Housing, ahhh . ..

NEWS
On Monday, Patrick West will officially become the most-powerful man in Long Beach—that is, City Manager—and the appointment of someone whose resume was mostly built in Paramount’s city government may signal a shift from the insiderism that has characterized the culture of City Hall. Then again, it may not. But West answers a half-dozen direct questions from Dave Wielenga without flinching and with good humor, and we’ll take that as a good omen. And, as usual, Vector Control, Criminy! and I, Fink.

MUSIC
Cavil At Rest have done remarkably well—video on MTV2, upcoming CD—for a band that does everything for themselves. Which is just the way they like it. Now they tell you how you can make it, too. (P.S. It helps to be talented musicians, singers and songwrtiers.) Also, Ellen Griley has a look at the New Pornographers, who we love and who have a new CD out. Also, She Sells CDs by the Seashore, Little Wings’s new CD and the Foxy Autopsy reunion show.

ART
Rebecca Schoenkopf says the post-feminists are “Who Killed Bambi?” at the Cypress College Art Gallery. Theo Douglas reads between the lines of Reynaldo Berrios’ new book Cholo Style: Homies, Homegirls & La Raza.

COMMERCE
Need a vintage sink? Dying for one of those claw-legged bathtubs? Theo Douglas points us to B & B Hardware, where you can score all this and more for very affordable prices. And in Buy Curious, a bitchen bike rack and bitchen-er brownie pan!

FILM
We look at Eastern Promises and Sydney White. Love one, feel sorta okay about the other!

FOOD+DRINK
Dave Wielenga takes a heavenly trip to Sam’s Steak Sandwiches, where the meat isn’t the only miracle around. Plus, Ellen Griley weighs the effects of the Pomegranate Martini: cancer-fighting antioxidants versus cancer-causing alcohol. She chooses both. All this and Blottery!

FINE PRINT
Last week was the 113th anniversary of Pío Pico’s death. But don’t worry if you don’t know the man—nobody does. Miles Clements looks into Pico’s forgotten legacy and finds that it’s a lot closer than it may seem.

SPORTS
J.J. Fiddler looks at the third week of High School Football and then recaps Los Alamitos’ victory over Wilson.