"Now why do I care about the Port of Long Beach?"
This is something an average person in Orange County might say. Out of sight, out of mind. But in reality the busy ports of both Long Beach and Los Angeles, with all the shipping and trucking involved, generates a truly lung-busting amount of pollution. Surely people would leap at the chance to minimize such pollution and try to decrease the shocking amount of pollution-related disease in Long Beach, right? Right?
Think again. Hot off the trans
I'm still trying to absorb a lot of last night's Bruce Springsteen show at Honda Center -- I'll have more on Wednesday, a less-deadline-intensified day 'round these Weekly parts. But in the meantime, enjoy this from-the-nosebleeds clip from the gig, with special guest Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, doing Bruce's "Ghost of Tom Joad" (which Rage itself has covered many times live). Watch it all the way till the end for some of Tom's skullcrushing guitar acrobatics...
Also, the setlist
(Warning: rambling diatribe ahead on Bruce Springsteen that may or may not make sense, but that's what blogs are for, no?)
I’ve had moments of superfreak Springsteen fandom before. The bumper sticker on my car that proclaimed AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY GOD CREATED SPRINGSTEEN. The time I rented a car for one day (cost: $155.78) on my first trip to New York City in 1989 and drove down to Asbury Park to pocket a few splintered pieces of the wooden boardwalk, and to see where the “Tunnel of Loveâ€
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I don't care what kind of music you came to see, thirty four bands, in thirty two acres of space turned a hot weekend in Chinatown into a non stop sonic binge.
Last saturday, thousands of fans from all over So Cal trucked into the dust bowl parking lot across from L.A. Historic Park for the ___annual We The People Festival. In case you didn't catch that little reference to the Constitution, the event was designed to do two things: entertain and inform. In addition to rocking your socks
Better Than: Pretty much any other concert you could have gone to last night.In the canon of legendary punk bands, it is pretty much impossible to fuck with the furious, dred-wielding four piece that is Bad Brains. And for hoards of die-hard O.C. punks young and old, a chance to see them in action for the first time in god knows how long was an early Christmas gift. At the very least, it was a gift big enough to make fans forget that we were at Disneyland for 2 solid hours.Monday night's Bad Br
In "War & Water" Matt Coker interviews Hasan Nouri, the developer who pitched plans to stabilize Aliso Creek and his native Afghanistan, but no one listened. News
has Matt Coker explaining why rising radio star Leyla Fatima is a patron saint for parents of drug addicts in "Lady Fatima."And R. Scott Moxley takes a look at the top 16 witnesses for the prosecution in the Mike Carona corruption trial in "Moxley Confidential."
Plus...
• The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!
​Oh, hello there. So what'd you miss this weekend this time?Well, first off: It was the annual nuuuurd pilgrimage to Anaheim Convention Center on Friday through Saturday--that's right, BlizzCon!The official gathering for all things Blizzard (you know, that giant video game company based in Irvine that's responsible for putting out everything from Diablo and Starcraft to World of Warcraft?) attracted thousands and thousands of attendees seeking the latest in news from the world of Blizzard--oh,
