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The King is a certifiable Orange County storefront phenomenon, staged at more venues, and seen by more people, than any other locally generated play this side of SCR's A Christmas Carol. This fourth incarnation of Brian Newell's musical homage to Elvis Presley is the shortest, leanest and most compact production to date, with unnecessary subplots …
This is the one you've been waiting for: results from Monday's 10th annual OC WeeklyTheater Awards—13 radiant winners and 41 dejected losers, except—our lawyers insist—for the fact that, really, they're all winners. Well, kind of. These awards are entirely subjective, and from day one, their choosing—by Weekly theater staffers and a panel of local theater …
This isn't about bashing SciFi Channel; I'll be the first to cheer them for turning a remake of a beloved but lightweight genre classic into a relevant, powerful political drama. So cheers for their successes—it still doesn't excuse them for such a gaffe as taking nearly a year to pick up the BBC's new series …
THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Demonstrating on some levels of machination that no one is getting, Electric Six sounds like Culture Club or Men Without Hats on grim purpose, further proof that band discoverer Jack White has insanity and perception hundreds of orders beyond normal humans. “If money talks, then I'm a mime”? “The future is in …
recent experiments in listening to the same songs over and over and over (and over) again have proven that the following songs have pay little (to no) heed to the law of diminishing returns (which i actually know nothing about, having slept through an entire semester of a.p. economics in high school): destroyer's “painter in …
Over the years, CHP officer Stephen Robert Deck lectured countless Southern Californian motorists. But on Feb. 18, Deck wasn’t even thinking about anyone old enough to drive. According to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, the 51-year-old cop was lost in a sexual fantasy involving a 13-year-old Laguna Beach girl he’d befriended in an Internet chat room. …
Political transvestism and puma killing are in the news today, and both were implicit in posts on The Blotter yesterday. Coincidence or clairvoyance? Yesterday's first Blotter post dealt with the investigation by State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Garden Grove) into the California National Guard's spying on political activists and ended with a reference to the man …
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A year and a half ago, as word quickly circulated via radio and the Internet that Dave Chappelle was putting together a concert in Brooklyn, and that it would feature alternative-neo-indie Negro artists like the Roots, Erykah Badu, Dead Prez, Jill Scott, Common, Mos Def, Kanye West—and maybe Lauryn Hill—fan excitement grew to slightly hysterical …
State Senator Joe Dunn's (D-Garden Grove) investigation into the California National Guard's spying on political activists was featured on the KGO evening news yesterday. Whether the story on San Francisco's ABC affiliate will help raise the profile of the investigation remains to be seen, but this does answer the question of how long it takes …
WE RECOMMEND: NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR) See This Week in Russkie Fangs. (Edwards University, Irvine) SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS See Film feature. (Regency Lido, Newport Beach) TAXI 9211 It's a pleasant surprise, at a time when so many of Bollywood's hip, Westernized auteurs are insisting on going songless, to see star John Abraham (Zinda) …
Today is the 64th anniversary of a dark day in American history. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the Secretary of War the authority to declare any area of the United States a military area “from which any or all persons may be excluded”and authorizing the internment of what …
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It doesn’t matter now if Wild Kitten’s $12,000 was lost or stolen. Orange County members of the PENI gang, a subsidiary of the Aryan Brotherhood, concluded that Cory Christian Lamons had swiped the stripper’s money. Sadly for Lamons, PENI (a.k.a. Public Enemy Number One Death Squad) devised a way to right this perceived wrong. Worse …
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