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When he quit last year, Rivenburg was a 15-year veteran at the Los Angeles Times most famous for his humorous “Recall Madness” coverage of Arnold...
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Dear Readers: I don’t like to rerun columns ‘cause it makes me look like a lazy Mexican, but I realize that, as my column invades foreign terrain (Chattanooga!...
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Bring on the Dancing HorsesHot Little Pony are actually emo icons Far. Or are they? Band reunions are interesting to two types of people: the musicians cashing in on...
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Lies We Can Believe InRidley Scott’s latest is the post-9/11 tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is...
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The Fairy Godmother Never CamePaula Rubino’s girls would rather be reading Paula Rubino’s “Cerulean” show is a grim but lovely thing, offering up...
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The Sullungtang TangoThe soup at Jang Mo Gip comes two ways: spicy and really spicy When the nights get nippy, thoughts inevitably turn to soup. Anise-scented bowls of...
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Pork Pie hats, skinny neckties and Italian scooters aren't exactly the first things you think of when you're cruising through Pomona. But for all the weary Mods looking for a...
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Host of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Bill Bellamy is a familiar name to people who remember when the M in MTV began to be replaced with greenbacks, beach houses and...
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Although temperatures here in Southern California are still generally pretty fair and mild despite it being technically winter, nature (and Ecclesiastes) still understands...
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Nothing like watching huge, musclebound men in little costumes throw one another around a ring to liven up a Monday night. Fifteen years ago, the original Monday Night Raw...
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When most people think of Christopher Columbus, they think of the discovery of America, grandiose ships and pointy hats—in short, the majestic history we were taught in...
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Last season, your Anaheim Ducks flamed out in the first round trying to defend their Stanley Cup championship from the previous year. The flop was understandable—they...
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One of the best bands to spring from North Orange County’s fertile mid-’90s soil were Room to Roam, which combined Paul Westerberg-esque hooks with heavy, brooding...
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Apparently, the worst fears of cultural conservatives in the wake of California’s gay-marriage legalization actually came true years ago. Someone somewhere got up to the...
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As the outside world grows increasingly terrifying, it seems more and more people are turning to the world of gaming in an effort to take their minds off the Damocletian sword...
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Watching people on television shove roaches down their pants while eating raw cow’s balls may not sound like your idea of a good time, but it sure did make comedian Joe...
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Whatever happened to Tone Loc? It’s hard to top a career move such as providing the voice for a talking lizard in FernGully, but having the second-ever rap single to top...
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Nestled between Portfolio—one of Long Beach’s finest spots for coffee—and the myriad of vintage/tchotchke shops on Fourth Street, independent bookstore {open}...
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Once the front woman for Philadelphia-based punk band Stiffed, Santogold (born Santi White) traded in the scuff for gaudy sparkle and found success flaunting her exotic,...
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Thought festival season was over? Nope. This Saturday, one of OC's prime patches of ranch real estate is going punk. The arrival of Liskfest, a three stage shindig thrown by...
