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Movie of the week: The Wild Bunch. Sam Peckinpah's ultra-violent western remains one of the classics of the genre. As the American West changes irrevocably around them, a gang of aging outlaws attempts to get away with one last score with disastrous results. Featuring a cast of heavy hitters, including William Holden and Ernest Borgnine. …
When you think “Wyatt Earp,” what comesto mind? Depending on your age, it's either the historic gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a musical parody by Spike Jones, Kevin Costner's lousy movie, or . . . a big fat zero. Did the women-folk the Earp brothers were involved with cross your mind at any time? Nope-didn't …
We get many, many books sent to the Weekly HQ, and most of the time, what winds up on my shelf is a mixed bag of fun diversions, crap, interesting concepts and more crap. But of the six books I read this month, there was no crap. It's like Christmas! With better presents! The standard …
A little more than a year ago, Cal State Long Beach came into a nice little chunk of money—$2.8 million, to be exact. The money is given to universities that qualify as “Hispanic Serving Institutions” (HSI), which means the Latino population exceeds 25 percent, and half of those students are low-income. HSI grants are meant …
Three weeks after flames erupted near the intersection of Santiago Canyon and Silverado Canyon roads, the so-called Santiago Canyon Fire is officially 100 percent contained. Meanwhile, a multi-agency task force including the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), California Department of Forestry, ATF and FBI are investigating what—or more precisely, who—caused the fire. Chris Conception, an …
A couple of weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times published a story about how 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese were modernizing Little Saigon's restaurant scene by introducing friendly customer service, better-quality food, and higher prices. Reporter My-Thuan Tran wasn't particularly generous to the hundreds of restaurants that make Little Saigon one of the country's great ethnic …
In 2005, our sister paper, the Phoenix New Times, published Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's home address on its website and was subsequently threatened with felony prosecution. After an adjoining jurisdiction declined to press charges, the sheriff's political pal, Attorney Andrew Thomas, convened a grand jury to “investigate” charges the paper broke the law when …
“Beautiful” and “cruel”—that's how director Ang Lee describes Eileen Chang's 1979 short story about obsessive love and effortless betrayal in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, a tale upon which Lee has based his epic-length Lust, Caution. Writing in the afterword to a recently republished version of the 54-page story, which took Chang more than two decades to complete, …
Ray Donley clearly fancies himself as a man born a few hundred years too late. Seriously, in 2007, who the heck paints lush, moody oils of aristocratic types in funny hats? Well, Ray Donley does, that's who. Modern art—with its heavy concepts and its blobs and squares—that stuff just ain't for Donley. Donley is so …
Relax, It's Just a Game: Scott Glover and Matt Lait at the Times reveal today that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies have been playing on-duty law-enforcement competitions. According to an internal department e-mail obtained by the reporters, one game was called “Operation Any Booking,” in which the goal was to see who could make the …
Continue reading “Thursday's Headlines N Surprises: Is An OC lawyer also a Slumlord?”
Photo by Craig Coppola/Courtesy Surfrider. A poll released this morning shows that OC voters are generally in favor of more toll roads, but not when they go through protected state parks. The poll, which was financed by the California State Parks Foundation, asked 400 voters from each of the county's five supervisorial districts several questions …
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Heal the Bay's annual summer report card for California beaches is in and 96 of the 104 monitored spots throughout the county earned “A's”. The non-profit environmental group surveyed data from local health agencies from Memorial Day through Labor Day and averaged the results to come up with a grade for summer 2007. The West …