But Shakespeare in the summer is...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/culture/summer-theater-long-beach-playhouse-hunger-artists-mysterium-garage-chance-plummer-auditorium-garden-grove-festival-amphitheatre-maverick-stages/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/culture/trendzilla-stand-up-paddle-yoga-airobics-piloxing-bombay-booty-aerial-yoga/ I know, I know. Exercising is hard. Especially when it's not fun. And how can it be when you've been stuck on that elliptical machine for the past 40 minutes, flipping through the same old issue of Us Weekly? (Yep, Jessica Simpson is still talking about her baby.) But s...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/culture/trendzilla-stand-up-paddle-yoga-airobics-piloxing-bombay-booty-aerial-yoga/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/food/brasserie-pascal-foie-gras-olhats-newport-beach/ I had my first real piece of foie gras as everyone usually does: at a French restaurant, seared and served with fruit to cut through the inherent richness. In celebration of one of those birthdays that ended in a zero, I paid a premium for it at the time.

When I ate the first chunk, an imm...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/food/brasserie-pascal-foie-gras-olhats-newport-beach/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/food/hole-in-the-wall-ochoa-chorizo-santa-ana/ Every couple of weeks, I get an urge to try the best damn tamales in Southern California, moist, fluffy masa bricks wrapped in banana leaves, rubbed with mole negro and served the Oaxacan way. It's the type of foodstuff that would spark a visit from Bourdain, that would obsess the crazy Yelp kids...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/food/hole-in-the-wall-ochoa-chorizo-santa-ana/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/summer-concerts/ Ah, summer, that special time when the sounds that seeped through our earbuds into our brains turn to tangible, aural bliss in the form of tours beckoning us to part with our hard-earned cash that's not going to pay off student loans. In these Great Recession days, it's all about knowing which co...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/summer-concerts/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/film/summer-film/ In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create—and, maybe more significantly, studios still distribute—summer entertainment for grown-ups. Not that those buckets of popcorn are going to empty thems...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/film/summer-film/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/film/men-in-black-3-barry-sonnenfeld-will-smith-tommy-lee-jones-josh-brolin/ Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men In Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their original releases and have as little memory of the experience as if I'd been mind-wiped with one of those "neuralyzing" flash sticks ...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/film/men-in-black-3-barry-sonnenfeld-will-smith-tommy-lee-jones-josh-brolin/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/film/moonrise-kingdom-wes-anderson-edward-norton-jason-schwartzman-frances-mcdormand-bill-murray/ It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp, absconding with a couple of bedrolls and an air rifle, leaving...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/film/moonrise-kingdom-wes-anderson-edward-norton-jason-schwartzman-frances-mcdormand-bill-murray/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/bassnectar-lorin-ashton-lightning-in-a-bottle/ The low-end nihilist known as Bassnectar started in the underground death-metal scene, influenced by the likes of Metallica, Megadeath and Nirvana, before moving on to the rave scene in the mid-'90s. He has spent the past 13 years escalating his electronic music career, blurring the lines between...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/bassnectar-lorin-ashton-lightning-in-a-bottle/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/hot-water-music-jason-black/ The dry spell has ended. In May, Hot Water Music will release Exister, their first new record in almost a decade. Home from a recent mini-tour of Europe, Jason Black says reaction to the new material was as good as ever. "We haven't put out a record in the era where people stream music,"...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/hot-water-music-jason-black/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/locals-only-ghostlimb-buena-park-justin-smith/ The crew at Vitriol Records is an incestuous bunch, and at the middle of it all is Justin Smith, a.k.a. Jason Schmidt, the label president and guitarist/sometimes vocalist in three of its bands: Graf Orlock, Dangers and Ghostlimb—the latter of which caught national attention last year for t...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/locals-only-ghostlimb-buena-park-justin-smith/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/ask-exene-cervenka-punk-lifestyle/ DEAR EXENE: I've never been the kind of guy who's afraid to be judged. As someone caught up in the romanticism of the LA punk scene in the '80s (seen quite a few of your shows!), I was of the opinion that people can live how they want and dress however they damn well plea...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/music/ask-exene-cervenka-punk-lifestyle/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/moxley-confidential-tom-fuentes-republican-party-secrets/ In the Weekly's infancy in the 1990s, Thomas J. Fuentes, chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, tried to lead an advertising boycott of this newspaper. We weren't surprised Fuentes wanted to silence our voices. We had just begun to pull back the curtain hiding rampant hypocri...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/moxley-confidential-tom-fuentes-republican-party-secrets/ http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/tom-fuentes-catholic-church-pedophile-priest/ The Catholic Diocese of Orange under Bishop Tod D. Brown and its pedophile-priest problems is much like the only great line from The Godfather III: Just when they think they're out, it pulls them back in. While Brown and his circle continue to gloat over their last-minute purchase of the...]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.ocweekly.com/2012-05-24/news/tom-fuentes-catholic-church-pedophile-priest/