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Gyutan Tsukasa's Tongue-on-Tongue Action

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

You won't see any English signage to indicate you've found Gyutan Tsukasa or any warning that what you're about to eat is beef tongue. If you're unfamiliar with it and don't know it's from Sendai, Japan—one of the first beef tongue specialists from that region to come stateside—you wo...

La Flor de Michoacán and Its Amazing Paletas

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

As you leave downtown SanTana south on Main Street, the scenery turns into a time machine hijacked by Detroit. Santa Ana officials deem this area the Historic South Main Business District, complete with a huge, lit sign that spans Main near Warner Avenue, but it's really a vacant, rundown area wa...

Eating Raoul: The Musical Is a Feast

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Whatever your take on the phrase "politically correct," any piece of work that disparages a person's race or sexuality is bound to raise the hackles of all PC pendejos.

Unless it's really funny. Enter Eating Raoul: The Musical. Based on the 1982 no-budget, independent fil...

Paul van Dyk Is a Dance Floor (R)evolutionary

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

For those who have followed dance music well before the EDM craze in America, you have absolutely heard of Paul van Dyk. The legendary German DJ/musician/producer born Matthias Paul has won more awards than the Pittsburgh Steelers have Super Bowl championships, ranging from the coveted No. 1 spot...

Ali Sabet: Emperor of Emoji

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The term "emoji" was spawned from the social network Mojizu, a site Ali Sabet created. He mentions this to me in passing, as if it's not a big deal that he's the reason we have a word for those adorable icons that adorn our emails and text messages. But the 37-year-old pop artist is humble like t...

How to Not Troll for Perverts on Craigslist

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The July 2009 Orange County Craigslist adult ad won more than 100 responses thanks to the headline "Looking to get by in a hard time W4M/HB" and a simple, though deceptive, message (written in punctuation-free Internet shorthand): "looking to have a good time are u :)." The men who replied receiv...

Not a G'Day for a Roofie

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

You were the shaved-headed Qantas flight attendant at the corner of the bar at the Tin Lizzie on Saturday, June 8. I was the tall, bearded ex-rugger in jeans, boots and a green work shirt. I was there while four separate men tried to convince you to go with them—and when one of them tried t...

Brad Pitt Gets His Daddy On In World War Z

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you have left and wondering how the hell you're going to fit them together. In Marc Forster's World War Z, the world as we know it—or even as we don't really kno...

Are Mexicans Violent Because of Their Aztec Blood?

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

DEAR MEXICAN: Recently, a co-worker turned me on to a website that features videos of unspeakable atrocities the drug cartels are committing in Mexico, many of them graphically displaying murders and beheadings. I just recently saw one of a woman getting her head cut off with a knife! I w...

Eddie Padilla's Escape From Lurigancho

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

When Eddie Padilla first learned he was headed to Peru's San Juan de Lurigancho Prison, he was happy.

It was the winter of 1975, and he had just spent the past few weeks locked up in a closet in an ex-drug dealer's mansion in Peru's capital, Lima, a building that Peruvian Internal Police h...

Monsters University: Wild Things, Housebroken

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pop-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom resemble gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar's junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-...

In Downloaded, It's Not Stealing, Sharing

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

"You cannot build a business on copyright infringement," points out Ian Rogers, the CEO of Topspin, not too long into Downloaded, director Alex Winter's too-breezy account of Napster, the teensy app that liberated digital music, destroyed the record industry, and swallowed some $500 mill...

In A Hijacking, the Pirate Life Is Tense

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Until 2005 or so, no one thought much about modern piracy of the high-seas variety. But then Somali pirates began attacking merchant ships with increasing frequency, seizing vessels and holding their crews hostage for outlandish sums. Danish director Tobias Lindholm's wiry, neatly crafted thrille...

The Attack: Whydidit

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Since it opens with a suicide bombing in downtown Tel Aviv, and since its mystery plot involves an attempt to track down a sheik whose public expectorations call for the slaughter of Israeli civilians, The Attack is most avowedly "about" terrorism. But that's a subject, not the ...

Disney TV Is Poisoning Your Daughters

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

I recognize that, even coming from a father of two preteen daughters, that might sound alarmist, so let me elaborate—the Disney Channel and its prime competitor, Nickelodeon's Teen Nick, are a pox upon our tween nation, corrosive forces that impart more awful messages than any of Disney's r...

Why You Should See Craft-Cocktail Documentary Hey Bartender, Now in Wide Release

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

By weaving together the stories behind New York City cocktail lair Employees Only and Westport, Connecticut, corner bar Dunvilles, director Douglas Tirola takes on the changing world of bartending and the rise of craft mi...