Subject: Eugene

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 11-2-07

  This week's pick is a no-brainer. It's WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY. I don't think the movie has been promoted correctly -- I haven't seen any trailers, just those annoying li'l wraparound things on the OC Weekly papers. You may have been misled. I caught this movie at AFI Fest last year, when it had no distribution, and fell in love (but didn't cut my wrists). My original review follows below:

  November 2, 2007

• The Reg-O-Meter© - week ending April 19

  Our weekly anal probing of the Orange County Register continues... MONDAY, APRIL 14: ● Not that we’re in the habit of making fun of old people, but strangely, 70-year-old columnist Jane Glenn Haas sure is. Haas, whose beat is chiefly comprised of the same curmudgeonly senior citizens who pen crazed, delusional Letters to the Reggie Editor, spends her space in today’s paper whining about people who tell old-people jokes—and then, to get her point across, she tells a couple of them (nei

  April 19, 2008

• REG-O-METER© -- WEEK ENDING MAY 17

  THURSDAY, MAY 15 ●Unusually slow week in Reggieville. The best action is online—nothing like a gay marriage legalization to send the Reggie’s Nutjob Nation a-spewin’. But there’s plenty of gold in today’s print ish, starting with the front-page list of the rag’s “must-read” stories, one of them being “Duel of the Davids.” That would be a tease of the Page 2 brief penned by poor, poor Peter Larsen on who made the final round of American Idol. A “must-read” story? Really

  May 17, 2008

• Letters

  March 27, 2003

• [Summer Guide] Twenty Summer Shows That Should Be Fun (Or Fun to Make Fun Of)

  June 4, 2009

• TONIGHT: Eugene & the 1914 at the Prospector

  There's not a lot going on around town these next few days, show-wise. Is it spring fever? The fact that everybody is at SXSW? Camping out to see Duplicity (OMG! Julia Roberts Clive Owen = Adorable!)? But there are a few shows here and there worth going to, like LA's Eugene & the 1914 at the Prospector in Long Beach tonight. I stumbled upon them mostly by chance, but was soon won over by their charms, which you can check out at the MySpace link there. Fun and folksy, and what's better than

  March 19, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Tortilla Contest Edition

  July 24, 2008

• Damnit, Eugene!

  May 1, 2008

• Hits!

  Borders Books Music & Cafe
  

  October 11, 2007

• Martini Space Noise

  April 24, 2003

• What's Up With the Guy at the Beauty Salon?

  March 6, 2003

• A Scar Is Born

  Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon pumps new blood into slasher genre
  

  March 15, 2007

• John, Long Gone

  A final introspective, before the Sympathy records founder moves
  

  February 1, 2007

• Album Review

  May 25, 2006

• Roddenberry: The Next Generation

  July 28, 2005

• This Is Pop

  March 4, 2004

• Courting Disaster

  February 7, 2002

• Nice Bangers!

  October 11, 2001

• Rob Gallas

  November 2, 2000

• Brief Encounters

  October 5, 2000

• This weeks featured game: Seattle (8-4) vs. San Diego (5-7)

  December 16, 1999

• TOMORROW: Tour de Artistes in Downtown Long Beach

  Nine bands, two DJs, 31 artists and YOU. For over 10 years Long Beach has celebrated their Tour de Artistes event hoping to drag some well-deserved spotlight on the arts and music scene thriving in the various parts of the city. Harvested together in several locations downtown on Long Beach Blvd. and Broadway, the tour continues to evolve every year as new bands, more artists and a bigger budget come into play. Taking place from 4-10 p.m., this FREE event is a full evening of walk-by exhibitions

  June 12, 2009

• Last Saturday: Tour de Artistes in Downtown Long Beach

  Last Saturday: Tour de Artistes in Downtown Long BeachBetter Than: The Tour de France (just guessing).For most downtown areas in Southern California, the term "Art Walk" is just another word for Saturday. Weekends are filled with lively urban corridors packed with artists looking to sell their pieces to those who, for the most part, can't afford to pay them what they're worth. But as beautiful and inspiring as paintings and sculptures can be, sometimes you need a little something extra to stimul

  June 15, 2009

• Buskerfest Lineup Changes: Two Bands Out, Two Bands In

  Vickie ChangDeep Sea Diver: no longer busking Friday.​We got word from Buskerfest organizer Justin Hectus today that two previously scheduled bands, Free Moral Agents and Deep Sea Diver, both had to cancel--FMA due to a family illness, and Deep Sea Diver because of another commitment. Hectus describes both bands, key parts of the Long Beach music scene, as "genuinely bummed to have to miss the event."But, as we all know by now, whenever gig God closes a door, he opens a window: in their place

  August 19, 2009

• Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier

  It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cypress discovered two girls, ages 9 and 11, who had been left alone overnight amid knee-high trash piles, toilets overflowing with human feces, frozen bugs inside a refrigerator and unfrozen bugs and m

  July 14, 2009

• TONIGHT: Eugene and the 1914 at The Prospector

  ​A lot of exciting developments are happening in the world of Long Beach folk rockers of Eugene and the 1914. Aside from the fact that you'll see their names in print very shortly, in a music feature penned by yours truly, they've also been invited to record some tracks at the historic Westlake Studios in Santa Monica, where anyone who is anyone in the music business has recorded...seriously, check out their credits.Either way, it's all well and good except for one thing: their show tonight at

  September 15, 2009

• Long Beach's Eugene Owens Parties Like It's 1914

  September 24, 2009

• TONIGHT: Free Moral Agents kick off November Tour at the Prospector

  ​Three and a half weeks ago, we mentioned that Long Beach avant rockers Free Moral Agents (featuring keyboardist Ikey Ownes of the Mars Volta) are going out on the road with El Paso band Zechs Marquise. We all found that they hadn't booked any hometown show dates yet. Excuse our tardiness, but it appears that the band has added a show at their neighborhood stomping grounds at the Prospector. And as the title of this blog suggests, you don't have much time to make up your mi

  November 3, 2009