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End of the LineFor some, OCTA’s soon-to-be-eviscerated night-owl bus service is a lifelineOn a bus heading north on Harbor Boulevard one drizzly December night past 1...
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You’re the creep who parked your car right next to mine in the deserted Home Depot parking lot early one morning. As I approached my car, you asked me, a woman,...
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A Real Guitar HeroDuane Eddy has twangy guitar, will travel to AnaheimYou know Duane Eddy. Even if your parents weren’t old enough to buy records during the “King...
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Kicking Ass for JesusThe Book of Eli’s post-apocalyptic theology is a little warpedDirectors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and an...
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Back In BleakProdigal daughter Johnna Adams’ work is back on an OC stage with the wrenching, intimate Sans MerciIn recovery-speak, “pulling a geographic”...
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The In CrowdIf you want to enjoy the raw and cooked bliss on offer at Ohshima Japanese Cuisine, call ahead, so you can waltz past the throng of poor saps who...
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Inspired by Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, director Paul Verhoeven sent post-Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger and pre-Basic Instinct...
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Life’s biggest questions going unanswered—that’s the everyday turmoil of young adults in the midst of a quarter-life crisis, the awkward and anxious period that...
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Three things you know you totally could’ve done back in 12th grade—quarterbacked the football team; hooked up with the Homecoming Queen; become a guitar god. Too...
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There’s a lot of suffering and pain depicted on stage during any production of the super-popular musical Rent. But the fictional slings and arrows that befall its cast...
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The hilarious quintet of madmen behind Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest, Broken Lizard turned frat boy humor and beer drinking into massive careers. They hit it big...
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Kim Kylland is called Ghost Town Jenny—maybe because of the high-lonesome in her voice and the little Sandy Bull/Richard Bishop flourishes she’ll do on her acoustic...
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This “CaliMex” band, “featuring Kid Ramos,” is unlike most covered in this space. It’s not indie rock performed by shaggy-haired twentysomethings, for...
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Truly great men are few and far between. But it is these men, the ones whose messages change humanity and whose words linger within our souls for generations, who can truly be...
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Keb'Mo' is the self-proclaimed (and not so missing) link that connects us to the spirit of the Delta blues. The sound, made famous by the likes of Muddy Waters, has traveled...
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In safe places all over planet Earth, beautiful things are just waiting for the time to be right, and besides London After Midnight and a moldering ball of Gnostic papyrus...
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Legendary composer George Gershwin is resurrected in this Ovation-award-winning musical portrait by the onetime “first husband” of Canada, Hershey Felder (he’s...
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No matter your age, unbridled fun awaits as the Aga-Boom clowns spin circus wizardry that will bring you back to the excitement, pure delighted amazement, and wonder of...
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The self-proclaimed “greatest Elvis impersonator in Fullerton, Brea and Whittier,” Kirk Wall knows how to rock a white, sequined jumpsuit like nobody’s business...
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Night FlightOn the late, late bus with hookers, strippers, poets, paranoid schizophrenics and one bleary-eyed photographer“Hi, how are you tonight? . . . Oh, I’m...
