Subject: The Gestapo

• The Woman with a Limp

  When her Aunt Virginia died in 1982, Lorna Catling had no idea that forty years earlier the Gestapo had declared her aunt "the most dangerous of all Allied spies" in France, and issued orders to "find and destroy her."  Virginia Hall seldom spoke about what she had done during World War II, and didn't even bother to collect all the honors she was entitled to for her heroic service.  Tomorrow one of those long overdue honors will be presented to Catling as her late aunt's representative

  December 11, 2006

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Blame Game!

  Your Tax Dollars Wasted: The Daily Pilot says that Costa Mesa officials admit they’ve spent at least $127,000 in public funds to prosecute Benito Acosta, an Orange Coast College student who had the audacity last year to demand the right to address the city council for the same three-minute period allotted to everyone else. Acosta wanted to criticize a policing plan suggested by Gestapo, errr, Mayor Allan Mansoor (R-Dusseldorf) when Mansoor prematurely turned off the public microphone, suspend

  November 10, 2007

• The Stasi Who Came in From the Cold

  Listening in on The Lives of Others
  

  February 8, 2007

• Rachel Stein, Showgirl

  Back home in Holland, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft slick Holocaust thriller Black Book

  April 5, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 13, 2002

• The Year in Letters

  Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

  December 28, 2006

• Lyndon LaDouche

  Followers of crackpot felon accuse Weekly of being Cheneys tool

  November 23, 2006

• Ending War 101

  September 7, 2006

• A Death in the Family

  August 10, 2006

• Psychotic Reaction

  July 27, 2006

• Letters

  'Look at the bright side: if you leave the fungus there long enough, you might be able to harvest mushrooms from your toe someday'

  July 6, 2006

• Che Kolasinski

  November 10, 2005

• SEX!

  April 28, 2005

• Romance and Resistance

  September 16, 2004

• Diary Of A Mad County

  June 3, 2004

• Remember the Maines

  July 24, 2003

• Horror, Hiding and the Holocaust

  June 22, 2000

• I am a Fish Murderer

  June 15, 2000

• The Talking Drug

  June 24, 1999

• TOMORROW: Sweet Relief Concert at eVocal w/ Living Suns and Many More

  Now here's a flier with some potential. If you want people to show up to a concert hosted by the Sweet Relief musician's fund, why not go the literal route? Between the cigarette and the finger banging, we've got ourselves quite a visual metaphor here (looks like sweet relief to me). Impressive. Almost as impressive as watching bands like The Living Suns and Audacity create some sweet chaos inside the walls of what may be the smallest music venue in Orange County (if you can call it that). In th

  June 24, 2009

• [Sound Guy] The Best of the Music Blog for the Week of June 15-21

  June 25, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Two Orange County Music Business Vets Revamp Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

  June 18, 2009

• La Chupacabra Records Posts New Music

  So in my last post about the newly minted La Chupacabra Records, I left you with the promise of "more news on this mysterious label as it develops". Well, it's developing, kinda. To start, the label recently posted some new music, a demo version of a yet-to-be titled Living Suns track. By the way, you'll probably be able to catch it live when they head to the Gypsy Lounge starting this Thursday for their July residency.In other news, the label founded by Tyler Jacobs, Alex Ahmadi and Kyle Schust

  July 7, 2009

• Interview Extra: Alex Ahmadi, Tyler Jacobs and Lucas Drake of La Chupcabra Records

   This week, as you're doing your usual perusing through the Weekly's music section, you should come across a story penned by yours truly about the scrappy upstart indie label La Chupacabra Records out of Placentia.Hanging out in front of a Starbucks in their native P-town, I sat down to discuss the finer points of starting a regional label with founders Alex Ahmadi, Tyler Jacobs ( both pictured) and Lucas Drake, resident sound engineer and keyboardist of two La Chupacabra bands: The Living

  July 23, 2009

• The Two Placentia Teenagers Behind La Chupacabra Records Hope Success Is More Than a Myth

  July 23, 2009

• TONIGHT: Gestapo Khazi, Wounded Lion, Frustrations, and Tijuana Panthers at The Prospector

  ​As much as all of us music writers would like to believe it, we know that sometimes readers don't always get to the bottom of every article. And even if you manage to make it all the way through the story, sometimes the awesomeness of what you just read prohibits you from going further down and looking at the plug for the show that the artists is playing that week. Well, in case you missed that small part of Chris Ziegler's article on L.A. band Wounded Lion this week, have no fear. This is yo

  August 11, 2009

• Free Speech Triumphs Over Gestapo in OC!

  Oppression didn't end in 1945​Folks are always complaining that Congress and state legislatures should not be allowed to meet except for a couple of weeks a year. It's an idea to help curtail the nanny-state notions of politicians of both major political parties. Good enough. But what about city councils?Take the San Clemente City Council, for example. It decided that it could outfox the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court rulings that rigidly prevent the government from restricting free

  October 2, 2009

• What You Missed: Surfrider 25th Anniversary Gala and Sunny Dal Real Estate

  Chris VictorioDave Navarro being Dave Navarro.​ Funny thing how plans don't always work out. Like take this weekend for instance: Photographer Keith May was totally DEEE-NIED from Oktoberfest celebrations at Old World Village in Huntington Beach. Reason? "Here's the deal... You're not on the list and your magazine did a fucked up story on us." Despite the fact that... we were actually on the list. But that's okay. Fine. Another funny thing? Photog Beth Stirnaman arrived at a Sunday night show

  October 12, 2009

• Flier of the Week: KUCI Fright Night at the Yost Theater

  ​Open wide. Not to scream, like this weirdo to the left, but in preparation for the consumption of a forceful spoonful of the OC/LB garage punk scene in all it's frighteningly good permutations. Tomorrow, our friendly neighborhood college radio station KUCI is luring audiences into the Yost Theater for "KUCI Fright." If you want rock-n-roll that will scare the shit out of you, apparently this is the place to go.​Much like the flier,all the bands on the bill are working a stripped d

  October 28, 2009

• Have One Helluva Happy Halloween

  ​ Find yourself all trick-or-treated out? Too tired to bedazzle your buttocks and head out to the mayhem in West Hollywood? Well, get a load of this list of the Halloween hi jinx taking place right here in Orange County before you decide to retire your cleverly constructed Ben Bernanke costume to the closet.

  October 29, 2009

• Happy Drunken Halloween

  October 29, 2009