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