Subject: Pulitzer Prize Committee

• ArtistsHouseMusic.org Launches Today

  Herb Alpert horns in on this internet jazz. Pop-jazz trumpeter and former A&M Records exec Herb Alpert flexes his philanthropic and entrepreneurial muscles with a new project called ArtistsHouseMusic.org, which goes live May 1. It looks like a comprehensive, one-stop resource for aspiring musicians and those seeking entry into the business side of the industry. Many kinds of practical advice will be provided by a learned panel of music-biz vets (including Randy Newman, Eurythmics' Dave S

  May 1, 2007

• Weekly Writer Wins Pulitzer Prize

  Food critic Jonathan Gold of our sister paper LA Weekly has won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, it was announced today. The Pulitzer Board noted Gold's "zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater." The two other excellent nominees were both from the Los Angeles Times. Congratulations to Jonathan for earning this news organization's FOURTH Pulitzer Prize. (The Orange County Register has won three.) In 2000, Mark Schoofs of the Village Voice--an

  April 16, 2007

• Ask a Mexican Contest Time!

  Question: Which Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright recently mailed me a book with the note, "All the Best"? The only hint: The book sent by the laureate was Raul Morín's Among the Valiant: Mexican-Americans in World War II and Korea, which is in the same vein of macho swagger for which the Pulitzer Prize present-giver is famous. The first person to post the correct name of the playwright here, PLUS the name of the WWII hero mentioned in Morin's book whose life story was given the Charlton

  May 19, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Dana caught a wave!

  Where Do Broken Hearts Go? Orange County, it seems. This week singer Robert Barisford Brown—better known as Bobby Brown--filed suit against his wife, Whitney Houston, in OC Superior Court. His grievance? She won’t let him see his 14-year-old daughter. Why file in OC? Brown, 38, claims Houston, 44, moved here for her latest attempt at drug rehabilitation and is living large at his expense in some “posh” hotel. (Montage?!?!) Not sure how far the case will go. A judge has already given Hou

  August 30, 2007

• Stupidest Accusation of Plagiarism Ever

  We here at the OC Weekly have been accused of many things over the years: libel, slander (whenever one of us appear on radio), lies, Commie-sympathizing, Reconquista cheerleading, selling ours souls to New Times, and—most memorably—"Satan instrument,"what Congressman Robert K. Dornan called the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley on television. But in my five years at your favorite fish wrap, I don’t recall any writer being accused of plagiarism until this morning. Cue a long, rambling phone message

  September 27, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 10/12

  10TH ANNUAL CHANCELLOR’S BALL, 6pm Join the Rancho Santiago Community College District administration, faculty and staff as they raise funds to give students a helping hand. In years past, funds have gone to provide scholarships and books to students “who would otherwise find higher education unaffordable.” Disneyland Hotel, 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim www.rsccd.org/apps/rpub.asp?Q=EventDetails&$1=211 SWING ‘N’ JAVA, 7:45pm Learn a bit of swing every Friday night. Get a full one hour less

  October 12, 2007

• OC Journalism Loses Reporter, At Least Temporarily

  It's a sad fact that Orange County serves as home to numerous shills pretending to be journalists, but we've also been blessed with excellent reporters who've served their time here before graduating to the national and international stage. To name a few: Dexter Filkins, who has won acclaim for his fearless Iraq War coverage in the New York Times, and best-selling author J.R. Moehringer. The next rising star might be The Orange County Register's Peggy Lowe, who has made often cynical and bitch

  July 28, 2008

• To Do Tonight 8/20

  IKEA’S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME & GARDEN SHOW, Until Aug. 24 The largest and longest running west coast home show returns to Orange County. Anaheim Convention Center 800 W. Katella Ave. Anaheim CA 92802 (714) 765-8950 A CHORUS LINE, 7:30 p.m. Winner of nine Tony Awards, including “Best Musical” and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, and the longest-running American Broadway musical ever. Orange County Performing Artscenter 600 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa CA 92626 714-556-2787 WHO'S AFRAID OF

  August 20, 2008

• HAPPY 9/11! Now Go See the Film About the Film About 9/11 That You Didn't See ... er, Check That ...

  Perhaps you remember the flap all over right-wing radio two years back about Disney/ABC's handling of the two-part miniseries, The Path to 9/11, which partly blamed the Clinton Administration for not taking out Osama bin Laden, allowing the terrorist leader to fester and then KABLOOEY! goes the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Well, the Lincoln Club and Republican Party of Orange County screen a documentary tonight that “exposes the systematic way in which the Clintons, Cong

  September 11, 2008

• Special Screenings

  June 22, 2006

• Jonathan Gold, His Brother and Whale Meat

  Here's an interesting story by the LA Times about our sister paper's venerated and Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic, his meal of whale on a trip to South Korea, and what his brother Mark, a marine scientist and president of Heal the Bay thinks about it.

  November 4, 2008

• To Do Tonight 11/10

  Veterans Appreciation Day, 12 p.m. Veterans, active duty service members, students, faculty, staff, administrators, and all members of the community are invited to attend Veterans Appreciation Day at Saddleback College in room 212 of the Student Services Center. The event will feature speakers who served during World War II, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, and the Iraq War. A panel of Saddleback College counselors and staff members will offer information on college services for veterans,

  November 10, 2008

• Rough Drafts

  February 26, 2009

• Amy Freed's 'You, Nero' Tells the Story of Telling the Story of the Reviled Emperor

  January 8, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Navidad Shopping Guide Edition

  December 18, 2008

• Take Me Out

  November 20, 2008

• Their Theater

  November 13, 2008

• Oprah-Approved

  November 13, 2008

• Eady Does It

  November 13, 2008

• [This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Thai This Now: Siam Taste of Asia

  July 10, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Lisa Alvarez's Summer Reading List

  June 12, 2008

• The Chance Theater's 'Rabbit Hole' Is a Liberating Dose of Reality

  May 22, 2008

• Peck Peck

  January 10, 2008

• A Dialectically Shaped Truth

  November 1, 2007

• The Greatest Liar On Earth

  September 20, 2007

• The Arts and Other Highfalutin' Stuff

  Actors, troubadours, campfire singers, cowboy poets & purty pictures (Please don’t  shoot the piano player!)
  

  September 20, 2007

• One Good Play

  October 7, 1999

• Fred Effing Willard!

  And other cool theater for the fall/winter season

  September 6, 2007

• The Death of Vivian Bearing

  April 22, 2004

• Out of Happy Gas

  Richard Schenkkans Miss Hollywood is a miss indeed

  November 9, 2006

• Scattered Lives

  Ridiculous Fraud goes off on a tangent

  October 26, 2006

• Practical Magic

  August 24, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 12 - April 18

  April 20, 2006

• Avert Your Eyes

  April 14, 2005

• The Great Work Continues

  November 11, 2004

• Bombs, Balls and Broads

  October 16, 2003

• Love Hurts

  October 16, 2003

• A Tale of Two Productions

  October 2, 2003

• Slight Power

  July 31, 2003

• Poof!

  June 20, 2002

• Necessary Animals?

  May 18, 2000

• Our Story

  November 11, 1999

• Ad Nauseam

  April 8, 1999

• Between the Generations

  November 26, 1998

• I Wish the Orange County Register Used the Word "Fag"

  Longtime Orange County Register theater critic Paul Hodgins is a good guy, great critic, and someone whom was once on the same panel with me judging a dog show. Yesterday, he wrote a blog post about how Westboro Baptist Church (they of "God Hates Fags" infamy) plans to protest outside Corona del Mar High School because its drama department will stage the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent (there will be counterprotests organized by the Anti-Defamation League and other groups scheduled for 2:30 in the a

  April 22, 2009

• Photographer Resented War Shot Seen 'Round the World

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo above by the late shooter Eddie Adams helped further turn public sentiment in America against the Vietnam War. For that, some would applaud him. But Adams later said he regretted what the picture wrought, and he wished he was better known for photos that eventually helped lead to the creation of Orange County's Little Saigon.This will all make more sense to those who attend Regency South Coast Village Theatre's 7:30 p.m. Thursday screening of the documentary An U

  July 7, 2009

• An Unlikely Weapon

  July 16, 2009

• Good Food's Map of Holes-in-the-Wall Includes OC Dives

  For local foodies, Good Food needs no intro; for everyone else, it's a long-running show on KCRW-FM 89.9 hosted by famed L.A.-area chef Evan Kleiman on everything food--books, recipes, trends, articles, and holes-in-the-wall. The main voice in the latter field, of course, is LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, the only food critic to ever win the Pulitzer Prize in his craft. Following him on the rotation is Fullerton's own Eddie Lin, the hilarious, infamous blogger behind Deep End Dining. And completing

  July 22, 2009

• Anna in the Tropics

  September 3, 2009

• Chance Theater Garners Six Ovation Awards

  Photo courtesy of the Chance TheaterHair: Give peace a Chance!​Blame the 40th anniversary of Woodstock this summer for the fact that the OC Weekly didn't put the Chance Theater's production of Hair on its must-review list. Just one more aromatic homage in a summer filled with Baby Boomer nostalgia.But, fortunately for the Anaheim Hills theater, lots of other people saw it--and more than several really dug it, because it's garnered six 2009 Ovation Awards.The Ovation Awards, which are chosen by

  October 23, 2009