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In 1955, Ingmar Bergman was broke and depressed, simultaneously trying to carve out a life in the theater and the film industry. His recent movie had done poorly, and the studio he worked for was threatening to cut him loose. It was either make a movie or commit suicide, he would later say, so he …
As lawyers debate whether John Urell–the former point man for the Catholic Diocese of Orange in its sex-abuse fiasco–should return from Canada after failing to finish a deposition, a intrepid Canadian reporter decided to drop in on the monsignor. Mark Bonokoski of the Toronto Sun visited the Southdown Institute and asked if he could speak …
This year, 189,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and an estimated 31,000 of them will find the disease to be fatal. Cruisin' for a Cure, a registered nonprofit California organization, is helping raise awareness this Saturday with the world's largest one-day charity custom/classic auto show. Held at the OC Fairgrounds, the event will …
Boy, we sure are getting fat, aren't we? Looking at pictures of ourselves from a few years ago, after that relationship dissolved and we started going to the gym a lot in an effort to sweat away the heartache, we looked pretty good. Sure, Atkins turned out to be a heart disease-inducing crock of a …
Click here for Tom Dumont's 7 Favorite Things. Best OC Playwright No Longer Living in OC Johnna Adams myspace.com/johnnaadams Multiple winner of various OC Weekly awards and accolades, Adams has turned her back on California for the greener artistic pastures of the Big Apple. If her blogs are any indication, she has hit the Disneyfied …
Beauty is an annoyingly subjective thing. The difference between a ravishingly lovely face and an ass-ugly one can literally be a matter of mere centimeters; one girl is so hot that she makes men weep in the street, while her fraternal twin is left sitting alone by the phone on Friday nights because her nose …
The deluge of songs that followed in the wake of 9/11, or ones that reference that day's events, range from the obscure to the omnipresent, an outpouring of music and lyrics that traps the moment in amber as much as any other number of cultural pieces since then. It's appropriate that the three-disc People Take …
Cypress thrash-metal marauders Hirax have been inducing tinnitus and whiplash among their tenacious fans since 1984 (the whiplash results as much from the furious headbanging Hirax's music inspires as it does from watching the revolving-door membership of the band over the past 23 years). Led by one of the few African-Americans in the genre, vocalist …
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“Our timing's always been a little fucked,” says VHS or Beta singer/guitarist Craig Pfunder with a sigh. Seven years ago, they were indie dance-rockers before there was such a thing; three years ago, they were '80s revivalists when it just sounded reactionary. But at least they still have a career. When the quartet released their …
It has come to our attention that the more than slightly trippy kiddie show Yo Gabba Gabba! has Orange roots. Filmed in Long Beach and produced in our fair county by the folks who brought us The Aquabats, the show is filled with funky techno beats, '70s-inspired costumes, zany characters and meaningless, far-out interludes—which often …
Uffie is ready to… what? Last night at Tapas in Newport Beach, Orange County's hipster contingent turned out in middling numbers ($15?! On a Monday?! Outrageous!) to gawk at Uffie, the sassy Ed Banger recording artist/fashionista whose best-known track is the lad-baitingly lewd “Ready to Fuck.” Unfortunately, Uff only performed two songs (including “Ready to …
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The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbadis about a couple of chronically unpopular best friends who, after four years stuck on the lowest rung of the high school social ladder, find themselves invited to a legitimately cool party. Goodbye, Friday nights chugging Old Milwaukees in their parents' …