UPDATED WITH EYEWITNESS REPORT ON DJ MOM PANTS!Johnny Cash, the revenge-minded father of a dead teen porn star, Bijou Phillips, Julius Shulman, Kelly Lynch, "Kevin" from The Office, Vilmos Zsigmond and a sour-faced Kristen Scott Thomas. No, these are not my ideal players in the perfect poker game but just some figures who have rocked my world so far at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which has reached the halfway point and continues through Thursday. Friday began with a bout of deja vu all over
There is a ton of stuff happening around our towns tonight, not the least of which is former Grandaddy lead singer Jason Lytle at the Art Theatre in Long Beach.Sounds like a promising show, just for the venue alone. I was at Greater California's album release concert there a couple of months ago, and, somewhat unsurprisingly, it turns out that a cool movie theater is really a novel place to see a gig. Doug Wallen interviewed Jason Lytle for last week's OC Weekly (check that out here), and our go
The heat has been wilting the attendance numbers at the OC Fair, so the Fair, concerned that Noël Coward may have gotten it right when he claimed that only "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" and realizing that the rabid and the British form a very limited fair-going demographic, is making a special effort to attract locals who value a bargain more than their core body temperatures. So, if like Coward's Englishmen you "detest-a siesta", you can print out a coupon (here) for
