Something Happened. It's the title of one of my favorite-ever novels, by Joseph "Catch-22" Heller, and a book too often overlooked. It's a terrifically and purposefully and necessarily digressive work, not to mention a tragic mea culpa, but the two-word under-overstatement is simultaneously one of t ... More >>
Back in May, Haven Gastropub released its first batches of house-crafted beer--a double IPA and a pale ale--but to our sadness, the restaurant was only pouring the brews at its Pasadena location, where the micro-production was taking place. Finally, we'll get a taste. Haven Brewing will ... More >>
[Summer Guide 2012] Ten plays to watch in OC this summer
Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States
[SUMMER GUIDE] And more from OC and Long Beach stages this summer
Long Beach Expo
The LA Times editorial mudpatch really threw a bitch-fit over Sheila Kuehl's SB 1437, which they say would require California textbooks to "tell the stories of contributions made to history by gays and lesbians." They jest that Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) may be trying to write herself into the history b ... More >>
Slapsticky westerns filmmaker unexpectedly finds talent back home in OC
The Sheds parable for 21st-century America
The saving power of theater in a global crisis
And list in the lines in Willie Nelsons face
Tom Wolfe, chronicler of the comfort class
Films to hunt down in this year's Newport Beach International Film Festival
Inside the Fevered Imagination of O.C.'s Most Infamous Congressman
