The fight against Orange County's historic Chicano murals has opened up a new front against the man who virtually invented the genre: historic muralist Emigdio Vasquez.On Feb. 25, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas filed another of his wonderful gang injunctions, this time against the Orange Varrio Cypress (OVC) gang based out of Orange's historic Cypress Street barrio (it hasn't been publicized yet, for some bizarre reason). In the more than 500 pages of evidence included to make t
Paint a beautiful mural in the barrio, and they say you're promoting gang violence around here. But scribble your chicken scratches with chalk on a sidewalk, and you're exploring "the imagination and vision of the Great Park."Clockwork hereby calls on artists "of all ages" who can draw a mean Aztec warrior, Cesar Chavez, strawberry picker, Lowrider Magazine-worthy babe or--someone really befitting those Irvine commies--Che Guevara to descend on the Orange County Great Park Corporation's jewel of
Photo by my chicaI originally wasn't going to post about this because it has no relevance to Orange County, but my jefe insists: I had a run-in with actor Benicio del Toro at last week's American Film Institute tribute to Michael Douglas. The context of why I was on the red carpet in the first place is found at the excellent gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights, but below is the part about Benicio:The guy reeked of arrogance from a mile away, grinning behind
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