Archive Search Results

1. News

   Forty Years Later, the Clash Between the Black Panthers and Santa Ana P.D. Still Influences OC Life

   By Gustavo Arellano and GABRIEL SAN ROMAN

   Published: September 10, 2009

   Murder was the CaseForty years later, the clash between the Black Panthers and Santa Ana police continues to influence county lifeLouis Martinez Jr. woke as a gunshot echoed...

2. Hey, You!

   [Hey, You!] Joy to the World

   By Anonymous

   Published: September 10, 2009

   This is to the San Juan Capistrano salon owner who gave my wife and 9-month-old daughter the stink-eye when our baby felt the sudden urge to laugh and scream in excitement....

3. Music

   Henry Clay People Rule LA With a Sound Made Possible by Yorba Linda

   By CHRIS ZIEGLER

   Published: September 10, 2009

   Your Life Could Be This BandHenry Clay People rule LA with a sound made possible by Yorba LindaIn LA, the Henry Clay People are loved—handpicked as openers for giant...

4. Film

   In '9,' Shane Acker Creates an Animated Postapocalyptic Hellscape

   By SCOTT FOUNDAS

   Published: September 10, 2009

   Thingamabob Vs. MachineShane Acker creates an animated post-apocalyptic hellscape. WALL-E would never get out aliveEarly in Shane Acker’s computer-animated debut feature,...

5. Theater

   Hunger Artists Concoct a Fascinating Brew of Sex, Death and Disease in 'One Flea Spare'

   By JOEL BEERS

   Published: September 10, 2009

   The Plague YearsHunger Artists concoct a fascinating brew of sex, death and disease in One Flea SpareNaomi Wallace is one of the finest American playwrights to emerge in the...

6. Food

   Laguna Beach's French 75 Rises Above Its Confusing Corporate Past

   By EDWIN GOEI

   Published: September 10, 2009

   The Last MusketeerThe remaining French 75 rises above its confusing corporate pastIt’s still a world of uncertainty out there, especially in the tenuous business of...

7. Calendar

   Latin American Art History Class: “The Baroque World of Fernando Botero”

   Bowers Museum

   By ERIN DEWITT

   Published: September 10, 2009

   Latin American Art History Class: “The Baroque World of Fernando Botero” As part of the Bowers Museum’s latest collection, “The Baroque World of Fernando...

8. Calendar

   Speed Dating

   Strike Orange County

   By Mark Miller

   Published: September 10, 2009

   Speed dating can be potentially terrifying or hilarious, depending on your tolerance for oddballs of the opposite sex (see: speed dating scene from The 40 Year Old Virgin)....

9. Calendar

   Tall Ships Festival

   Dana Point Harbor

   By Jack Grimshaw

   Published: September 10, 2009

   In Two Years Before the Mast , his classic, 1840 account of life aboard clipper ships, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., wrote, “There is witchery in the sea ... and in the mere...

10. Calendar

    Faust with Live Score

    Art Theater Long Beach

    By LESLIE AGAN

    Published: September 10, 2009

    There’s nothing more jacked-up than making a bet with someone about how they can ruin your life. Oh, and if you fail, you’ll be turning the world over to Satan. Who...

11. Calendar

    Jon Lovitz

    Irvine Improv

    By Amanda Parsons

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Everyone who has ever heard of Andy Dick wants to punch him in the face. So when Jon Lovitz gave Dick a proper beat-down in 2007 at Hollywood’s Laugh Factory, we all felt...

12. Calendar

    The Spazmatics

    Sutra

    By Spencer Kornhaber

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Los Angeles-based '80s New Wave revival act the Spazmatics have been playing regular gigs at the Shore Ultra Lounge in Long Beach for some time. Now, they've got a Friday-night...

13. Calendar

    Re-Inventing the Wheel

    The ARTery

    By Diep Tran

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Ever since Warhol and his soup cans, the commercial and the artistic have been eagerly blurred. Underground Orange County artist Terry Kim delivers his fifth solo show,...

14. Calendar

    Get Down OC

    Proof Bar

    By NATE JACKSON

    Published: September 10, 2009

    In the big book of nightlife commandments, sacrificing a fashionably late entrance by leaving the house early is a definite no-no. Many of you jaded night owls wouldn’t be...

15. Calendar

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Auditions

    Golden West Mainstage Theater

    Published: September 10, 2009

    The Golden West Mainstage Theater is looking for thespians, wanna-be thespians and bored people who think they can act. Come show them your acting chops and commanding stage...

16. Calendar

    KCRW's Summer Nights Dance Party

    Orange County Performing Arts Center

    By ALBERT CHING

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Is September 12 still summer? Sure, technically, it's before the autumnal equinox, so I guess it's fair play. That's the day the Orange County Performing Arts Center will host...

17. Calendar

    Putting It Togther

    South Coast Repertory

    By STACY DAVIES

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Ten years ago, Stephen Sondheim threw together a jumble of some of his favorite songs—all in a tribute to himself. What a world he must live in! Since that time, flocks of...

18. Calendar

    Exene Cervenka and John Doe

    Alex's Bar

    By CHRIS ZIEGLER

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Exene Cervenka’s writing in X and beyond helped define what LA would become and preserve what it used to be, and her new solo album, Somewhere Gone (to be released Oct. 6...

19. Calendar

    Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company

    Irvine Barclay Theatre

    By ERIN DEWITT

    Published: September 10, 2009

    With eye-popping dance techniques and gravity-defying feats requiring insurmountable strength and agility, the Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company tumbles and bounces it’s way...

20. Calendar

    Coin, Stamp and Collectibles Expo

    Long Beach Convention Center

    Published: September 10, 2009

    Two huge, historic sunken treasure gold bars with a combined weight of over 100 pounds, produced by assayers during the California Gold Rush and recovered from the 1857...