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Chance Theater’s recent loss of some grants and foundation support means the Anaheim Hills landmark is in need of help from the local community. For 24 hours straight, the theater is putting on a variety of live entertainment, including musical revues, one-act performances and a magic...
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Anaheim
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Arts, Theater, Benefits |
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Legendary poets never die old and happy—they go out tragically, seemingly a prerequisite to literary glory. Sylvia Plath put her head in an oven; a freaking dune buggy killed Frank O’Hara; Dylan Thomas died from alcohol poisoning at the White Horse Tavern. It’s a tough...
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Long Beach
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Opera, Arts, Theater |
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As the snow melts from the crochet needles and die-cut machines, crafters and DIY-ers slowly awake from their post-Christmas hibernation—it's time for the Patchwork Spring 2012 Indie Art and Craft Festival! Presented by Grand Central Art Center and Road Less Traveled, the craft fest...
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Santa Ana
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Craft Events, Festivals, Arts |
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A Highland Fling is not a quickie in the heather with Heather. Please try to remember that if you’re feeling all frisky after scoping out the bonny young lady dancers performing Flora MacDonald’s Fancy and the Sailor’s Hornpipe. Instead, go drown your sorrows at the Whisky...
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Costa Mesa
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Cultural Events, Festivals |
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Say what you will about Sutra's colorful patrons, there's no denying that the venue wrangles in the most prominent and talented DJs in the world. Rounding out the club's 5ive +1 Memorial Day dance marathon is DJ Armin Van Buuren. The Dutch musician's 2008 Imagine album broke into music charts...
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Costa Mesa
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Memorial Day, Music |
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Chicago's phenomenal sketch comedy theatre company The Second City introduces its unique and famed “Laugh Out Loud Tour” to the Laguna Playhouse. The show combines improvisation, songs and scripted elements in an evening of stomach-pain-inducing laughter. So come experience...
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Laguna Beach
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Benefits, Theater, Comedy |
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Been so long, says the song, so let’s get together and do it again—and so for the first time since at least the '80s, Brian Wilson is reunited on the road with Beach Boys co-founders Al Jardine and Mike Love, and all those unhappy days discussing whether a certain someone should...
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Out of Town
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Music |
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Think about all the bands who've traveled through Southern California—how many are never heard from again? The list is endless. But this Monday, hear a Seattle-based band you won't forget as The Head and the Heart engrave their music into your unconscious. This isn't a...
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Santa Ana
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Music |
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The tagline reads "Remember Prohibition?" but, thankfully, most of us missed that cruel, cruel time when decent folks couldn't legally catch a proper buzz. As far as retro decades, though, the '20s and early '30s had some darling fashion, swingin' music and excellent dance crazes. Harvelles in...
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Out of Town
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Music, Libations |
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Strip Strip Hooray is possibly the absolute perfect name for this titillating, celebration-worthy event coming to the Yost Theater. Miss Dita Von Teese, hands down the most famous burlesque dancer alive, is shimmying into Orange County for one of her ultra glamorous performances. And the...
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Out of Town
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Burlesque, Arts |
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Taking their inspiration from concept albums like The Who’s Tommy and rock musicals Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jesus Christ Superstar, pop punkers Green Day produced their own rock opera American Idiot in 2004 and sent it to Broadway six years later. Following the twisted lives of...
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Costa Mesa
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Theater, Music |
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AR4T Gallery :
Every Sat. from June 2 until June 23
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One thing definitely admire is an artist who unabashedly exposes their soul—both the bright and dark parts—public judgement be damned. Meet Robert "Sticky" Shaw, the first artist to partake in AR4T Gallery's summer "commotion/camaraderie/uproar" series of shows. His visions are...
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Laguna Beach
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Arts |
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Vocalist Byron Blocker's delivery has the gravelly texture of Tom Waits—and it's a good thing. His lyrics are riddled with clever double entendres and his guitar is crisp and swinging. We especially gravitate toward his lyrical material, which focuses on sultry women and their various...
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Long Beach
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Music |
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Like their song says, the Avengers were second-to-none—a fireball punk quartet out of San Francisco in 1977, who opened for the last-ever Sex Pistols show and who put out the most popular record on the legendary L.A. label Dangerhouse. They were fast, they were ferocious and they had...
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Long Beach
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Music |
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Everlast is best known for scattering the spit with hip-hop act House of Pain. Following that band's break up, he branched out into folkier fare hitting heavy radio rotation with the song "What it's Like." With his distinctive gravelly voice, he relies more on the acoustic guitar than the sampler.
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San Juan Capistrano
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Music |
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It didn’t happen in Treasure Island, it didn’t happen in the The Pirates of Penzance, and it certainly didn’t happen in any of the Johnny Depp Caribbean flicks—but now the fiction must be righted because what should have happened in all those swashbuckling sagas finally...
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Long Beach
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Expos, Dance, Arts |
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Born out in the Valley—possibly a Sherman Oaks Food Court, though specific evidence is murky at best—comedian Christina Pazsitzky (pronounced with the curse word as the middle syllable, hilariously) is a California girl gone wrong in all the right ways. As a writer and frequent...
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Brea
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Comedy, Arts |
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It's time for everybody's' favorite metal cover band. But unlike other cover bands, Metalachi forgoes conventional instruments in favor of the Mariachi's tool collection. Rocking the accordion and Guitarron Mexicano, these guys re-imagine such classics as "Crazy Train" and "Master of Puppets"...
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Fullerton
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Music |
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The name Diego Garcia can refer to an atoll in the Indian Ocean used as a satellite station and emergency landing strip for the space shuttle. But today, we're writing about the Latin folk singer and former Elefant frontman whose going to grace the Constellation Room with his presence. His...
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Santa Ana
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Music |
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Witnessing a group of masked faces scream while banging on objects may sound a lot like the type of activity you’d find at your grandmother’s house on Sunday, but take away the freshly baked cookies and you’ve got a Mushroomhead concert. Known for donning their distinctive...
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Santa Ana
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Music |
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Jennifer Marcus is the heroine of The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, a comedy written by Rolin Jones. The play, however, isn’t about human evolution as conventional wisdom might suggest. Instead, Marcus, an adopted 22-year-old Chinese-American girl and maniacal computer genius, decides...
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Long Beach
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Theater |
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Detroit Bar :
9:00 p.m. every Mon. from May 7 until May 28
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Thou shalt not use the lord's name in vain, but thou shall head to Detroit Bar for May's Monday residency featuring Names in Vain. The indie progressive, alt rock team of Michelle Ashley and Richie Aquino have perfected tight beats and sleek sounds from regular instruments into a very laid back...
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Costa Mesa
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Music |
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Theatre Out :
Every Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun. from May 16 until June 9
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What if existence was like a comic strip? The boring parts would be white space, every other moment would be a punch line, and the heaviest problems in life would be trying to kick a football held by a mischievous girl. This play, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, wants you to...
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Santa Ana
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Theater, LGBT Events |
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Muzeo :
10:00 a.m. daily from February 8 until September 9
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There is perhaps no piece of literature more influential to human existence than the Bible. And despite having been authored thousands of years ago, it is still relevant and, remarkably, still in existence in its original form. View portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls along with leaves from the...
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Anaheim
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Museum Exhibits & Events, Arts |
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Yes, the geeks have just about inherited the earth. Go ahead and ask Mark Zuckerberg or J.K. Rowling. Geeks Who Drink is an organization that pairs brains with booze; it currently hosts weekly bar events in 14 states across the country. Modeled after traditional Irish-pub quizzes, this is more...
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Long Beach
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Music, Games, Contests, Cheap Thrills, Barhopping, Arts, Adult |
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