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Often referred to as the most neglected humanitarian crisis in the world today, the war in northern Uganda has lasted for more than 20 years. In an attempt to overthrow the...
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If you haven’t heard, Spamalot is a musical reinterpretation of the 1975 film Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail . With that kind of promise of such...
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Playwright Robert Harling sure knows how to write a strong, complex female character. Aside from his smash Broadway play, Steel Magnolias (which was turned into one of the...
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As the longtime director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino and a former NYPD officer and legal counsel for the Southern Poverty Law...
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Orange County native Danny Love (a.k.a. Danny Venegas) has spent the past 20-something years of his DJ career watching Orange County evolve from a bland suburb of Los Angeles...
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Forget the vagina talk and Chicana diatribes; Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble is forging an innovative theater experience that engagingly subverts any and all...
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Standing 6 feet, 9 inches tall, waiter Rick Jones cuts quite a figure at the old warhorse of oceanfront Orange County fine-dining establishments, the Villa Nova in Newport...
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Come and GoDan Deacon returns to UC Irvine as Sam Farzin, the man who brought him there, heads off on tourThis isn’t a tale of two cities, but it is a tale of two...
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The youngest of Hurley International founder Bob Hurley’s three kids has long been a shadowy, conflicted local figure. Ryan Hurley’s life as second-generation...
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The Secret GardenIf you don’t have a friend who reads Chinese, get one, and a whole new world of Taiwanese tastes will unfold for you at May GardenThe queen’s...
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House RulesMark Knight can make even a record label look modernThe dance-music scene has always been a few years ahead of the rest of the record industry. DJs invented the...
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With its cutesy frocks reminiscent of 1960s and ’70s girls’ clothing updated for the modern gal, the Dainty June line proves that Jen Johnson is no stranger to the...
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Beautiful Burgers In the ’BurbsThis joint would be a natural in Anaheim or Costa Mesa—but Lake Forest? Yet it has stood on Muirlands for years, in the kind of...
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All Dressed Up . . .We’ve written in the past about the lack of shows being booked at the Yost Theater in downtown Santa Ana, and now it looks like another ornately...
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Legendary vert skateboarder Christian Hosoi started skating when he was just 5 years old, hanging out with some of the biggest names in the industry. Hosoi turned pro at 14...
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Chemically BalancedIt’s a nice surprise to find a band who know exactly how to describe their sound. Any band who can create a genre that sounds half as entertaining as...
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When her 8-year-old daughter asked her what “sexy” means, Collette Kakuk didn’t flinch. “I said to her, ‘What do you think it...
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With the release of The Sound the Speed the Light, Boston postpunk heavyweights Mission of Burma have now released three times as many albums since reuniting in 2002 as in...
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Another Look at LaramieTen years later or 100 years later, the murder of Matthew Shepard and The Laramie Project will remain relevantWhen Matthew Shepard met the two men in a...
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I know: Damn the Man. But until someone you probably really like dies or you win the lottery (watch out for those taxes), you’re probably going to have to deal with the...
