Last Night: Ink-N-Iron Festival at the Queen Mary June 1st, 2008
Better Than: Getting a tattoo from a shady parlor.
Download: The First Vietnamese War from their first album Passover.
I thought I was in a hornet's nest when I heard the consistent buzz of tattoo needles as I walked into the Queen Mary. The Queen Mary had been transformed into a giant tattoo parlor with multiple floors of artists with bottles of ink at their disposal. The Ink-N-Iron festival was already in full swing.
After c
BritWeek sounds smashing. It naturally makes one think about all the
local reminders of Great Britain. Never having been to England (something that's scheduled to
change very soon), these evoke memories of that jolly old
land.1. Westminster.
There's a city by that name sandwiched between Huntington Beach,
Fountain Valley, Garden Grove and Seal Beach. Strange but true: there's
one in England, too. Someone named Abbie lives there.2. The other Olde Ship.
The
British owned and operated Santa Ana pub
UPDATED WITH PHOTOS FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING . . .
Photo by Keith MayCounty Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana.He's got a gift. Donald Bren, the secretive, aging multi-billionaire who chairs The Irvine Co., has an undisputed gift for preservation. He sets aside, and preserves, and then preserves yet again the mostly steep, landslide prone, unbuildable portions of his spr