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Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer–vinyl single, full length album, CD, cassette–we want to hear from you! Send copies, along with any photos and PR material, to Beat Blvd., c/o OC Weekly, 2975 Red Hill Ave., Suite 150, Costa …
Continue reading “Local Record Review: Northern Labour Party”
Welcome back to the next installment of our weekly feature that searches the darkest, scariest and orangiest corners of the Interwebs to find out what outsiders and insiders have to say about and from Orange County. Where Am I? So overblown by the talent of Disney Channel songstress Selena Gomez was a reviewer that …
Continue reading “The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show II”
When I scribble a good review, the people on the receiving end are generally so grateful for the kudos, they never question or bother to ask about my internal criteria that determines how their work was superior (or just more interesting) than another's. They're just relieved they dodged a public crucifixion. A negative review …
Continue reading “Talking to Myself: Dave Barton Interviews Dave Barton”
It may have taken five years, but the members of Dynamite Walls can finally say the band are ready to blow up—for real this time. A couple of weeks ago, lead singer/guitarist Tom Pritchard’s midday drive through San Diego was interrupted by his band coming over the airwaves of local station XTRA-FM 91.1. Listening to …
Dang it. Shortly after they played one of the Weekly's Locally Grown concerts and got a mention in the this week's cover feature about Orange County's music scenes, South-County rockabilly artists the Faraway Boys have decided to hang up their guitars and tasteful hats. We received this e-mail from the act, which formed in 2005: …
Several Orange County cities outright ban 'em, the County of Orange looks the other way at 'em and our neighbors in Long Beach hold lotteries to allow 'em. 'em are medical marijuana dispensaries, and as California marches toward possible legalization of the devil's weed this November, existing clinics are finding their right to exist …
Continue reading “Loving, Loathing, Ignoring Medical Pot Clinics”
The title says it all… Mickey Mouse was at SanTana's Mexican Independence Day Festival yesterday, wearing a costume of imperceptible ethnicity and a sarape. That's the best you can do, Disney, to Mexicanize the Mouse? Even Minnie wore a baile folkórico dress, for chrissakes. Disney should've contacted us–we have muchos tips to make Mickey …
Continue reading “Four Ways to Make Mickey Mouse More Mexican”
Today begins what will hopefully become a weekly Monday feature, although that may depend on if there is enough content to make that happen. Otherwise, it will go up when there are enough items to make it so. What am I yammering on and on about? The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show, a collection …
Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer–vinyl single, full length album, CD, cassette–we want to hear from you! Send copies, along with any photos and PR material, to Beat Blvd., c/o OC Weekly, 2975 Red Hill Ave., Suite 150, Costa …
Continue reading “Local Record Review: Brook Lee Catastrophe from Long Beach”
Consider the clown. Though clowns, in some shape, have manifested in all kinds of ancient cultures–from Native American myths of the arch-trickster to the ithyphallic satyr choruses of third century B.C. Greek drama–their image has taken quite the hit in the past 50 years. Most of us tend to view them as either garishly made-up …
The announcement that UltraStar Cinemas at GardenWalk in Anaheim will be the official theater venue for the inaugural Anaheim International Film Festival (AIFF) packs all the wallop of heavily favored Jeff Bridges getting the last best actor Oscar. Seeing as how the festival office and its May preview party were held mere steps from that …
Continue reading “Anaheim International Film Festival Theater Site is a No-Brainer”
Courtesy George Katzenberger Protected Species As Billie Holiday sang the blues over the Starbucks speakers, I paged through a box of George Katzenberger's serene landscape photos as he sat next to me, sharing anecdotes about the individual pictures. Shot in Infrared (IR), the photos are hallucinatory, serene postcards, until you suddenly notice hidden (in plain …
Continue reading “You Can't Fool Mother Nature: A Talk with Photographer George Katzenberger”