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Attack of the Blob, er, BlogOC Weekly’s staff news blog Navel Gazing gazes back at 2009 As everyone knows, daily newspapers are pretty much dead. Local alternative...
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To all those doughnut luggers, coffee stirrers, bagel benders, ice-cream scoopers and the rest of you who put a tip jar on the counter: You were hired to serve the customers,...
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The Greatest Concerts of 2009A month-by-month look at the past year’s best live musicPerusing the hundreds of concert reviews posted during the past year on our...
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GroundedUp In the Air director Jason Reitman has a good sense of where he’s from and where he’s headedUnlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up In...
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By BRADLEY BEYLIK, STEPH CALVERT, DAVE BARTON and JOEL BEERS Published:
December 31, 2009
The Arts & the Crafts & the WavesFrom paddle-outs to homemade stockings to theatrical closings to tattoo-art shows: A year of online and dead-tree cultural coverageWhile our...
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Truckin’ in the ’00sIf you read our Stick a Fork In It food blog in 2009, you’d know that two, maybe three things happened in OC dining that didn’t...
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Tuesday nights are all about karaoke—and all about “monkey drink, monkey do.” With no cover charge and tasty drink specials all night long, the boys come out and...
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The Orange County High School of the Arts- (OCHSA)
Visual Arts Conservatory is having its annual Winter Exhibit (grades 9 through 12) at the OCCCA Gallery.
This exhibit...
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Not as much uncommon as it promises to be uncommonly good (cute girls doing cheeky strip-teases is pretty standard burlesque fare), the Commonwealth Lounge’s monthly...
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The first time many of us heard Frankie Valli was during the opening credits of the mega-hit film musical Grease. For others, those who were conscious from 1962 to 1967, as...
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She’s been named one of the greatest female stars in the history of American cinema, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and, last month, Judy Garland was declared the...
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In 1992, a film about an underdog hockey team was released, and the sporting world was never the same. It was such a hit that the Walt Disney Co. decided it would be a good...
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1990 Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz Lozano is often remembered for his writing that the Nobel committee referred to as “impassioned with wide horizons, characterized by...
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Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. President, artistic director and resident lecturer of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County Dean Corey...
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With lead singer/songwriter Dave King hailing from the Emerald Isle, the band’s music is most aptly described as LA-based Celtic punk—but the raucously entertaining...
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Who in their right mind wants to spend New Years Eve freezing their ass off while corralled in Time Square without a bathroom for five hours? Sure, you get to see a giant...
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Enjoy a phenomenal 4-course dinner prepared by Executive Chef Yvon Goetz, live contemporary R&B by Deborah Flores & Friends, party favors and a toast of Pierre Sparr, Rose....
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Come and enjoy New Year's Eve at the Improv. What could be more fun than laughing your way through to 2010? The package includes complimentary champagne, balloon & confetti...
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A volume-hungry pioneer of reverb and electrified twang, guitarist Dick Dale—who was raised in Orange County—single-handedly kicked off the surf-rock craze of the...
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On their MySpace page, U.K. band the Humans list the White Stripes among their influences. We don’t hear it. Bauhaus, maybe. Or perhaps a Warhol-produced avant-garde...
