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Call the DoctorRx Bandits return well-traveled and with a new album and tourWith skeletal fingers tapping the glass display counter inside the Library coffee shop in his native Long Beach, bearded Rx Bandits vocalist/guitarist Matt Embree breaks from squinting hopelessly at the illegible, chalk-scrawled menu hanging behind the cash register…
As we wrote about earlier in the day, eVocal, a least in its current form, looks not to be long for the world of westside Costa Mesa. Truly disappointing to be sure, but also a good opportunity to support the few shows the venue has left.One such show took place…
What is it about the pastors of St. Norbert Church in Orange and their predilection for protecting pedo-priests? The most recent example was Cirilo Flores, who is now an auxiliary bishop under Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown; the most notorious example was John Urell, who famously cracked during…
God has blessed me with few deaths in my immediate family–my paternal grandfather of a heart attack when I was four, my abuelito de my mom's side of old age, two cousins at a young age, and the passing away of my maternal grandmother last week at age 95. We…
Really, it's almost embarrassing how much I like LA-based pop band Army Navy. After seeing them open up for the Shys last October at Detroit Bar, I pushed their self-titled record (released on their own label, Fever Zone Records) on anyone that would listen. Songs like “Slight of Hand” and…
The Back Nine, a documentary about a 40-year-old man's dream to make the pro golf tour that made its world premiere at April's Newport Beach Film Festival, returns to an Orange County screen for one night only, Thursday, at the Cinema City Stadium 12 in Anaheim Hills.The 1 hour 40…
The Iranian government now says Neda Agha-Soltan–the 26-year-old martyr in the struggle for freedom in that tense country–may have been killed by a gunman who mistook her for the sister of an Iranian “terrorist,” the Islamic Republic News Agency reports today. Rather than blaming the marksman, Iran suggested “those groups…
KCRW music director Jason Bentley and I chatted for so long, that I was left with little choice but to split the Q&A into two parts. Part one is here, and enjoy, if you will, part the second, where we talk about upcoming Morning Becomes Eclectic guests, the Stars of…
Folks with the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach are reeling over last week's death of one of their veteran sculptors, Lyle Brooks, who collapsed after a morning production meeting and died shortly thereafter of an apparent heart attack. He was only 49.”I haven't begun to accept or comprehend…
OCProgressive.com gets the credit for catching this first, but the Gay N Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation says it received complaints about the re-emergence of an anti-gay infomercial titled Speechless: Silencing the Christians–and among the stations around the country that just showed it apparently was Santa Ana-based KDOC-TV/Channel 56.According to glaadBLOG, a…
So yeah, by now I think we've all realized that this lil' Long Beach record dispensary knows how to do things right. Over the last couple months, Finger Prints has continued its reputation for amazingly exclusive in-store appearances and acoustic shows by everyone from Iron and Wine to The Aggrolites…
In April, the Weekly published this story about Craig Monteilh, a self-described FBI mole who spied on Orange County mosques and claimed that he foiled unspecified terrorist plots. No evidence has ever surfaced to bolster Monteilh's claims, and in that story, I noted that only two OC residents have ever…