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Not-too-early morning brought the start of the TransPacific yacht race to Honolulu, complete with free continental breakfast and pretty girls wearing leather knee-high riding boots (to a yacht race? I think we’re mixing our upper-class leisure events here, aren’t we?). Throw in Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, smiling with the whole of his catcher’s-mitt face, …
Cassandra Peterson, the little redhead beneath the big black wig and swirling eyeliner, may be 55, but her character — Elvira — will live longer than that if she has any say in it. In an attempt to put herself up there with Santa on the cultural-icon pedestal, Peterson's getting on the reality TV circuit, …
Food, glorious food! And it's all organic! You can hear the farmers (there are about 70 of them) proudly boasting of how fresh and delicious their products are. A hilarious Calypso drummer freestyles random verses — singing about you as you pass by. The sights and smells begin to flutter all around you. Inhale. Exhale. …
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Today, the Los Angeles Times ran an exposé on the sky-high costs going into Irvine's Great Park. The bulk of the story was written by now-retired Times reporter Roy Rivenburg — one he completed before he took the buyout in May. The paper decided to hold it in time for today's launch of the $5 …
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Matthew J. Price may be a 27-year-old man, with a five-o'clock shadow and a penis and everything, but he has the heart and soul of a cranky teenage girl who shops at Hot Topic. His paintings take you back to the moment when you were 17 years old and you got your first look at …
The magic has returned to the Harry Potterfranchise—albeit magic of the old, black variety. The darkest and most threatening by far of the five Potterfilms, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixis also the only series entry outside of the third, Alfonso Cuarn's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, that feels like the …
Disclaimer: On the insistence of my best friend, I attended a midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night at the Irvine Spectrum. Five full theaters had sold out, and there were lines wrapping from Edwards through the Spectrum and down the street. (Almost) unbelievably, 2,311 U.S. theaters hosted midnight …
Saturday was the annual rockabilly festival Hootenanny in Irvine, and I had a rockin' good time. There were tons of people, but not in the overwhelming I'm-going-to-die-of-heatstroke-and-no-one-will-find-me way of, say, Warped Tour or Coachella. People could actually find spots in the shade. Lots of foxy boys (I left my taste for pomps back in the …
Last month, famed Newport Beach attorney John Manly sent two associates to Monterey so they could argue before a judge why Manly should depose Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Why Monterey? Brown was the Diocese of Monterey Chancellor until 1989, and Manly represents an alleged clerical sex-abuse victim from the region. Brown, …
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Wiener-dog enthusiasts are . . . pretty hardcore. That's what I gathered sitting between Jan King of Costa Mesa (and her award-winning race dog, Stretch) and Bobbie Jeanne of Huntington Beach, who was cuddled up to her dachshund, Babyluv. Both dogs compete at the Old World Village's monthly weenie dog races and have at least …
Japanese psychedelic samurais Boredoms have arranged an amazing spectacle for what some amateur numerologists think will the luckiest day of the century, July 7, 2007. The concert happens at 5 p.m. in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, and is free, but you need to RSVP; it's probably a moot point now anyway. Led by …
If you consider yourself even slightly punk rock, Rick Griffin's art can seem like everything you hate, turned up to 11. The man was a major flower child who painted a lot of dippy, pothead surfer stuff, he is perhaps most famous for his Grateful Dead album covers, and he loaded his work with enough preachy …