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Honestly, sometimes it all seems like a mutant Agatha Christie novel, in which the party guests disappear one by one. It started quietly enough back in October, when art director Heather Swaim left, politely declining to discuss the why's and wherefore's of her decision to leave. Lately, the body count has skyrocketed. And now the …
The wickedly clever musical Urinetown should be as hot on the local theater circuit as that burning sensation produced after your friendly neighborhood gonorrhea shacks up in your urinary tract. It's ironic and smart enough to appeal to enlightened souls (those who usually loathe musicals) and tuneful, silly and “musical” enough to appeal to those …
Contemplating the career of Eric Clapton reminds me of Pauline Kael's famous line that she could not believe Richard Nixon had been reelected because she didn't know anybody who'd voted for him. I don't know anybody who's voted for Eric Clapton. In the course of an average American adulthood, I have literally never encountered one …
The question of which Nguyen won is about to be answered. Or maybe not. The Los Angeles Times reports that OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley has finished the recount of the February 6 special election, and determined that Janet Nguyen is the winner. Republican Nguyen's margin of victory over Republican Trung Nguyen is said …
Birds have been dying in suspiciously large numbers near the mouth of the Santa Ana River. Since February 4, approximately 60 dead and dying birds from the area have been brought to the Wetlands and Wildlife Center, and the bodies of more dead birds have been spotted in the area around the river's mouth. No …
Wednesday, February 14 Valentine's Day is a time for lovers and, to a lesser extent, skip loading, but mostly it's for lovers and so I find myself eating a shrimp saladat a Long Beach diner with Dave Wielenga. No, Dave and I are not lovers; he has a “girlfriend,” whom none of us have ever …
It's shaping up as another warm winter day in the San Bernardino Mountains, but that's not what's bothering the people who run Big Bear Mountain Resorts. They've summoned reporters to a dining room in Little Bear Lodge at Snow Summit for a morning of hot coffee, cold eggs and corporate spiel—and the promise of a …
Most art disappears some time after it's hung, once your eyes grow accustomed to and stop seeing it—which thankfully is not a problem for those of us confined by our paychecks to Dogtown posters and Pizz prints. It's the rare artist whose work engages you more the longer you look at it, but Chuck Close …
Garden Grove city councilmember Janet Nguyen is seems the winner of yesterday's special election in the Board of Supervisor's First District. The vote count currently on the Registrar of Voters website gives Nguyen a 52 vote margin of victory over second place finisher Trung Nguyen. The big story out of yesterday's election seems to be …
The Little Hoover Commission* (the bipartisan, independent state commission dedicated to “promoting economy, efficiency and improved service in the transaction of public business”) has issued a new report on the state prison system, one that neatly dovetails with recent Blotter posts on sentencing and politics. And for such a nice bunch of technocrats, the Lil' …
GAME TIME Mater Dei is Latin for “Mother of God,” but the Santa Ana Catholic high school's mascot is the lion, and in gymnasiums around the nation, Mater Dei High School's boys' basketball team has displayed nothing of the Virgin Mother's nurturing qualities—her meekness, mildness, mercy—instead mauling its opponents on the way to becoming a …