Subject: The Bronx

• Gotcha, Kajima!

  March 9, 2000

• Activists Emerge From Their Foxholes

  An Aaron Haley just emailed us the following: Hello, I am hoping someone from the OC Weekly would cover our local 9/11 truth event in Huntington Beach. It will be an outdoor screening of 9/11 films including discussion. This is a very local event, the first of it's kind in Huntington Beach. It will be the first of many to come, where OC residents can gather and discuss the many anamolies of the 9/11. I believe it would make a very interesting story in the next OC Weekly edition as there are seve

  June 19, 2006

• Sage Francis' Death Dance Tour

  What: The Death Dance Tour When: Saturday June 16 Where: The Glass House, Pomona Maybe this should be called the Scions of Anticon Tour (although Alias still records for the Oakland underground-hip-hop label). He and anticon alumni Buck 65 and Sage Francis are now seasoned vets of the stage and they commandeer it with ruthless authority while subtly tinkering with hip-hop's DNA. I missed most of Buddy Wakefield's set, but what I did catch revealed a spoken-word performer of considerable energy

  June 18, 2007

• Beach Break: Pump It Up

  The Grunion Gazette and Press Telegram have been be trumpeting the success of the water department's quick fix for the estimated 90,000 gallons of polluted storm drain water being pumped directly into Alamitos Bay (widely known for its poor water quality) every day. Too bad the victory over the pollution will be short lived. Sorry folks, but come September the water will be right back where it was, floating in the popular recreational area. According to Kevin Wattier, co-chair of the Water Q

  August 21, 2007

• Hip-hop Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa Coming to OC

  Afrika Bambaataa—pioneering hip-hop DJ and founder of the Zulu Nation—will perform (in DJing mode) at Detroit Bar on Friday Feb. 22. The only man to collaborate with James Brown ("Unity") and John Lydon ("World Destruction" as Time Zone), Bambaataa is revered for his eclectic DJ sets and for exerting a positive force in the Bronx's rougher enclaves in the '70s and '80s after giving up his status as leader of the Black Spades gang. Oh, and he also helped to popularize electro by co-writing "

  February 5, 2008

• InDELible: An Interview with Del the Funky Homosapien

  Del, in his more bizarre days. [We didn’t have space in the paper to run this feature by Ben Westhoff, but we think it’s worth posting on Heard Mentality in advance of West Coast underground-rap luminary Del’s appearance Wed. Feb. 20 at the Vault 350.] Richmond, California emcee Del The Funky Homosapien was a weird rapper long before Lil Wayne, Andre 3000 and Kool Keith made it, well, kool. He’s not quite so bizarre these days, and that’s a shame. The release of his fifth solo albu

  February 19, 2008

• Because You're Ugly: Chanel Robertson Collection

  Most women's personal nail polish collections contain only shades of pink—you know, mauve, pastel pink, and if you're feeling adventurous, maroon and scarlet. This summer, however, bright polishes most women usually stray away from are now in style in a whole new way. Candy pinks, eye-popping turquoises and even yellows are a fun, easy way to incorporate color in the wardrobe if you're a color phobe like me. While my pick for a good summer pink is OPI's "I'm India Mood For Love" (I know, bu

  July 1, 2008

• Make it Rain

  "Making it rain" is the act of wantonly tossing stacks of cash into the air. Normally this practice is performed in a club, and dancers clamor for the bills, pick them up, and then forever worship the rain man for the demigod that he is. The concept is discussed ad nauseam on hip hop radio. Rhapsody lists a dozen artists with songs entitled "Make It Rain," including Atlanta snap music group D4L. As they so eloquently put it in their version: Make it rain I ma

  August 14, 2008

• Hurley's Top Girlie: Lian Murray

  April 22, 1999

• The Bad Old Days

  November 11, 1999

• Bronx Cheer

  January 23, 2003

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "The Reformer" Matt Coker educates us about longtime OC GOP legislator Ross Johnson finding a new life as a campaign-finance watchdog in Sacramento. R. Scott Moxley explains the reason behind Mike Carona's smile in "The Crooked Sheriff Chuckled". And Matt Coker dictates departing OC Register columnist, Gordon Dillow's final screed in "Dillow Unbound".

  November 14, 2008

• Galaxy Theatre Update: De La Soul Moved, Bronx Canceled

  The planned reopening of the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana--scheduled for March 14 with legendary hip-hop trio De La Soul--has been delayed.The De La Soul show has been moved to the Brixton in Redondo Beach on that same day, and a scheduled gig with LA punks the Bronx, slated for March 26, has been straight-up canceled.  Bronx publicist Carise Yatter informs me, "this show has been cancelled due to problems with the venue."What kind of problems? An e-mail to Galaxy and Coach House publicity a

  March 6, 2009

• Robert Schimmel

  September 25, 2008

• [CD Review] Del the Funky Homosapien, 11th Hour (Definitive Jux)

  February 14, 2008

• Dions Still Struttin

  August 17, 2000

• Guilty of Being Goth Behemoths

  Type O Negative test positive for skeletons

  January 18, 2007

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Brand Upon the Brain!, DOA: Dead or Alive, The Golden Door, Nancy Drew

  June 14, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  'Theyre always little bit more rambunctious'

  June 14, 2007

• Its a Gas, Gas, Gas

  October 21, 1999

• Hits!

  August 10, 2006

• Criticize Larry Agran, Go to Jail

  September 22, 2005

• Art for Arts Sake

  May 19, 2005

• Beverly Center? Weve Got Two of Those!

  March 31, 2005

• Give Him Some Water so He Wont Die

  March 24, 2005

• This Week in Super Pies

  February 3, 2005

• Its All Geek to Me

  January 20, 2005

• All the Evil in the Cartoon World

  January 6, 2005

• Kids These Days

  May 27, 2004

• Youre So Gay You Probably Think This Short is About You

  April 15, 2004

• Episode 13

  December 4, 2003

• Butt-Probe Rawk!

  June 19, 2003

• Hungry Hearts

  May 8, 2003

• Pitches Aint Shit

  March 27, 2003

• Stoned and Dethroned

  March 13, 2003

• Bloody Tube Steak and Cherie Blair

  January 16, 2003

• Old School Politics

  January 9, 2003

• Any Lengths

  March 28, 2002

• All That Scratchings Making Me Bitch

  March 14, 2002

• Bronx Bomb

  February 1, 2001

• In a Lonely Place

  December 28, 2000

• Real Purty

  December 28, 2000

• Learning Swerve

  February 18, 1999

• 'Shadow of Suspicion'

  December 24, 1998

• WEDNESDAY: Burlesque Body at Continental Room

  Just the news you wanted to hear the day after Mother's Day...there's a burlesque show coming to town! But the only thing more intriguing than news of Miss Dakota's Burlesque Body show coming to The Continental Room is the question of how the hell they are gonna pull it off. And those of you who have ever seen the smoldering, half-naked acrobatics of Bronx-born performer Miss Dakota should be asking the same question. Known as a featured performer at Forty Deuce Burlesque Club in Hollywood and L

  May 11, 2009

• Last Night: Burlesque Body at Continental Room

  Last Night: Burlesque Body starring Miss Dakota and Quetzal Guerrero and The WarriorsBetter Than: The shame of withdrawing strip-club money from an ATM on a Wednesday.There were lots of things I could have done on a Wednesday night: read a good book, work on my next story, see a live band, etc. Of course the "seeing a live band" option might have warranted the kind of Last Night Reviews you're used to seeing on this blog. This review however, is not one of those. Of course there are ways of desc

  May 14, 2009

• Incoming: Bajofondo, The Bronx at the Glass House

  Couple new shows coming to the Glass House in luxurious downtown P-town, like South America's Bajofondo (pictured). Having a bad day? Just say "Bajofondo!" Cheered you up, huh?

  July 2, 2009

• John Reis Is Among Familiar Faces With His Latest Project, the Night Marchers

  August 27, 2009

• Go Rilla! Gallery in Santa Ana Closed?

  ​After a late night-ish trip to the Barnes and Noble in Santa Ana the other day (is there any cooler Tuesday night activity?), I made a distressing discovery: it looks like Go Rilla! Gallery across the street from Main Place mall in Santa Ana with a downstairs vinyl toy shop called Go Zilla!, has closed. And by all indications, has been closed for a while.

  August 28, 2009

• Because You're Ugly: A.P.C. Basement Sale

  ​Fave French brand A.P.C. will be hosting a basement sale this weekend. Though the label has only (somewhat) recently opened up a west coast location, their one and only Californian retail location is still  in LA--but trust us when we promise that it's worth the drive.From a Trendzilla published in September 2007: "The only time you'll ever get me to admit that brand-name jeans are actually worth their price tag is when it comes to raw denim.Essentially, raw denim's just denim that

  November 13, 2009