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November 20, 2008

[CD Review] Isobel Campbell N Mark Lanegan, 'Sunday at Devil Dirt' (Vagrant)

The central appeal of the Isobel Campbell-Mark Lanegan pairing is simple. Their contrasting singing styles—hers is always soft and sweet; his, frequently gruff and gravelly—mesh with surprisingly effective results, like olive oil and vinegar or MSNBC pundits Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan. What Sunday at Devil Dirt isn’t is anything like the bands that former …

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November 18, 2008

Album Review: Isobel Campbell N Mark Lanegan, 'Sunday at Devil Dirt'

Though Sunday at Devil Dirt, the second collaboration between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, has been out overseas for months, it's just seeing a US release today. We've got a review in this week's Weekly, but here it is a few days early. Magical! Isobel Campbell N Mark Lanegan Sunday at Devil Dirt (Vagrant) The …

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November 6, 2008

Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

Orange County Sings the Obama BluesElection night: Frolicking Dems, Dana unbound, praying for fag hags, and booze all around ELEPHANTS IN THE WILDERNESSThe mood is understandably morgue-like at the state GOP’s “Victory Party” at the Hyatt Regency Irvine Tuesday night. An array of party leaders and elected politicians give obligatory thanks to John McCain, …

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November 6, 2008

Last Night: She N Him, Lavender Diamond at the House of Blues

(photo by Christopher Victorio) Last Night: She N Him, Lavender Diamond at the House of Blues, Anaheim, Nov. 5, 2008. Better Than: “The Happening,” this summer's M. Night Shyamalan flick that co-starred Zooey Deschanel. But really, what isn't? Download: The eminently likable “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” from She N Him's Volume One. …

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November 5, 2008

No on 8: Liveblogging from the Tin Lizzie

Currently at Costa Mesa's Tin Lizzie—Deep Purple's “Knocking At Your Back Door” is playing overhead, heh—where CNN just projected Barack Obama as president and where a loud round of “Woooooooo”s, “YEEEEEEEAH”s and claps just erupted. Sure we knew this was coming (sort of), but a packed-in Tin Lizzie and yours truly are now more concerned …

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November 5, 2008

Live from the Banana Republic…

MSNBC just called it for Obama, and the crowd at Memphis at the Santora—the New Immigrants of this city: the hipsters and artists and yuppies (scratch that, Chuppies, and buppies and guppies) go wild. But down the street, the Gomorrah that is SanTana—its power structure—gears up for what will inevitably be a victorious night for …

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November 5, 2008

Red County Nearly Turns Blue!

. . . and if that happened, would the righty Red County blog have to change its name? Final election results from OC: PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Completed Precincts: 2109 of 2109 Vote Count Percentage JOHN MCCAIN / SARAH PALIN (REP) 430,360 50.8% BARACK OBAMA / JOE BIDEN (DEM) 401,605 47.4% BOB BARR / WAYNE …

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November 4, 2008

Election Night Music in OC/LB

Sure, it's fun to sit at home on election night and watch the results come in. I mean, think of all the great moments: Russert with the whiteboard, Florida “erroneously” being called for Gore, and, uh, other things that happened in years other than 2000. But what if you could watch these things – and …

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October 31, 2008

OC Register to Lay Off 110, Including 30 in Newsroom

*Bumped to the top, with new info as it comes on the bottom… The following letter from Register publisher Terry Horne landed in my junk folder this morning, right about the time it apparently reached LAObserved. Not a whole lot to add to this, except our wishes that all this self-destructive madness will stop. Orange …

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October 16, 2008

Gay Marriage Foes Find Latino Mouthpieces in OC

Where should a conspicuously anti-family, anti-civil rights, anti-gay marriage political “coalition” go when it's looking for Latinos to sound alarms and corral other Latinos to vote for their anti-gay marriage proposition in November? None other than Orange County, of course, where hatred doesn't merely extend to those who are Mexican among us. The defenders of …

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September 25, 2008

The Women of the Long Beach Craft Mafia Know the Handmade Revolution Will Not Be Televised

DIY Or DieThe women of the Long Beach Craft Mafia know that the handmade revolution will not be televised—it’ll be on Etsy.com “I used to crochet pasties,” explains a pigtailed Steph Calvert. The pasties resembled Hostess cupcakes—swirly white icing, chocolate frosting and all. “Cupcakes for your cupcake,” she smiles. “They were great. People would …

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September 18, 2008

The future, Now Past, Looks Like the Present in the Newest Philip K. Dick Anthology From the Library of America

Time PieceThe future, now past, looks like the present in the newest Philip K. Dick anthology The problem with fiction set in the future is that the present always catches up. Take, for example, A Scanner Darkly, the best-known of the five novels in the Library of America’s latest collection from science-fiction writer Philip …

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