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Photo courtesy OCPACChinese film director Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers opens with a drop of blood splattering against white rice paper, an image as crisp and cool as a knife's edge. The filmmaker's first take on classical ballet, on view at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, is just as cutting, and perhaps equally …
Photo by Tenaya HillsWednesday, Aug. 24 Christian strongman Pat Robertson apologizes for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; something he at first denied saying, then said was misinterpreted, claiming his call for the CIA to “take [Chavez] out” was simply a request for the agency to accompany Chavez to an affordably priced …
Illustration by Matt BorsThe more you learn, the more you realize you'll never know. The more you learn about the Transportation Corridor Agencies' (TCA's) plan to extend the Foothill-South Toll Road into San Clemente, the more you realize you want to be violently and copiously sick. The TCA's fifth annual Public Opinion Survey drives this …
Last month, on the other side of the planet from Abu Ghraib prison and 3,200 miles from Guantanamo Bay, right here in Orange County, five jail deputies handcuffed, hooded, beat and tortured a 38-year-old San Clemente businessman, according to a claim filed this week. Still in pain three weeks after the July 17 incident, Greg …
Clockwork Coker is back! The Mexican is about to get deported. So buy me a pinche driver's license, for chrissakes!: GA*******@******LY.COM Posted Monday, August 22, 10ish ORANGE COUNTY BUREAUCRATS TO VILLA PARK: DIE A couple of weeks back, we were driving through east Orange on the way to a party hosted by hot Orange County …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. ROVENATION Kudos to Rebecca Schoenkopf for her look at the Karl Rove affair [“Commie Girl,” July 22]. It was …
Hi! My name is Doran Walot, and I'm interning this summer at the Weekly. Gustavo was too busy so he had me take over Grub Guide for the week. Fear not, though: given my 17-odd years OC dining experience, I'm more than qualified. Besides, Gustavo will be back next week, so take this opportunity to …
THURSDAY,JULY7 So when CorrosionofConformitydumped their Slayer-on-Void speed-metal in the early '90s and slowed way down, serious thrashheads was bummed: What the fuck was this Allman Brothers shit? Well, we never changed, Corrosion (paraphrasing) told fans on HeadbangersBall,a now-notorious not-a-crook moment that still rankles several red-eyed guys who don't own any collared shirts. Instead (paraphrasing still) …
Photo by Deidre SchooUngainly bedfellows at best, rock N roll and musical theater have bumped uglies scores of times since the late '60s. The results have been sketchy. That's only natural, since blending a sophisticated bourgeois medium like theater, which for the most part reinforces middle-class values by either championing or ridiculing them, with the …
This is a story about a famous LA porn star, a suspicious detective and a frustrated Orange County sheriff. It's also a story about ex-Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo, who is—by his own reckoning—a devoted family man, a hard-working immigrant, and a Mormon who doesn't drink alcohol or smoke. He is, he says, a “genuinely nice …
MARISCOSLICENCIADO#2 This place sells Sinaloan seafood but lies landlocked in the same decaying commercial pocket JC Fandango calls paradise. Their best seller is aguachile, ceviche writ amazing: scores of chilled shrimp, cucumbers, red onions and tomatoes crammed onto a large molcajete—the mortar-and-pestle contraption used by Mexicans since before Jesus. Aguachile is an incredible contradiction: light …
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It's Cinco de Mayo weekend, and what better way to celebrate this pseudo-Mexican holiday than by eating at Latino restaurants devoid of Mexicans? Yes, there are some purportedly Mexican eateries on this list, but we guarantee you their crowds for the next couple of days will consist primarily of gabachos sporting “Drinko por Cinco” sombreros …
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