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
Last Night: Jose Gonzalez at the Orange County Performing Art Center's Samueli Theater on September 25, 2008.
Better Than: Shopping at IKEA.
Download: "Killing For Love" video from the Jose Gonzalez website
The "Off-Center" concert series at the Samueli Theater closed out their concert season with the quiet ballads of Swedish born Jose Gonzalez. It was a fitting choice as the first show of the year was Peter, Bjorn & John who also hail from Sweden.
Richard Swift kicked off the evening with
In another edition of what this writer's going to call "Free Things
to Do This Weekend" (it's unofficial!), So-Cal's own barbershop quartet, The
Alley Cats, comes home Friday night with a free concert at Chapman University. Formed in 1987 at Fullerton College, the group is
considered as "America's Premiere Doo-Wop Group" --you may have
even seen them perform at Disneyland or in Las Vegas with Jay Leno.
There's just something about a bunch of
guys in matching suits and top hats, sing
From the "well, you kind of had to see this coming" department: Kanye West and Lady Gaga have canceled their much-publicized, co-headlining "Fame Kills" tour, which was to stop at Anaheim's Honda Center on November 15. (Yes, surely a lot of people are going to be using "'Fame Kills' Killed." Who could resist?)
It's battle of the sold-out shows! Two of the genuine biggest artists in rock and/or roll are playing in our coverage area tonight, and tickets to both shows are more scarce than people saying nice thing about last night's premiere of The Jay Leno Show.
