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Turns out that declining student enrollment, administration mismanagement or severe education spending cuts out of Sacramento aren't the causes of Santa Ana Unified's $29.8 million budget deficit after all. It's queers! On March 23, the school board voted 4-1 on a three-year contract with teachers that will supposedly help stave off massive layoffs in the …
When word came from on high—Daily Variety—that Mel Gibson's bio pic The Passion of the Christ had been usurped in that most holy of orders—weekend box office—many were shocked to discover the usurper was the flesh-eating zombie remake Dawn of the Dead.After Dawn took in $27.3 million, compared to Passion's paltry $19.2 million, word quickly …
California is the land that made fusion a phenomenon, the state that blessed this world with the pastrami burrito, orange-chicken pizza and teriyaki soda. Add to this illustrious list the nacho cheese steak at Toober's Chips, Dips and Cheese Steak, a U-boat of a sub, parts Philadelphia and East Los Angeles. Toober's bro-ish cooks sauté …
Illustration by Bob AulFast Eddie Allen pulled his ultimate fast one on Feb. 28. He died. We're pretty sure he's dead, anyway. That's what a friend's e-mail said—that Edgar Dale Allen, 73, husband of prominent Orange County Republican Party official Jo Ellen Allen, passed away at USC Medical Center. He'd been suffering from heart problems, …
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Verily it is said that few things in life are as horrible—Russian land war? Genital warts?—as trying to explain why someone is funny. And yet, here we are, you guarding your flank, me telling you the funniest people in Orange County right now are Canadian and Brazilian old-schoolers Mooky and Claudio. So perhaps I should …
Vicentico Vicentico BMG Argentina This eponymous tour de amor by Vicentico, the former leader of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, is finally appearing in the States over a year after its initial release in Argentina. But anyone hoping for LFC screeds will be disappointed. The haggard bard instead reinvents Latin lounge for the new millennium by combining …
Saddam “Madman” Hussein, the puckish, jaunty Iraqi roller, was found this past weekend to have literally gone to ground, living in a dirt hole within sight of one of his former palaces. He was a star of international impact, the jewel of United States Records' Middle Eastern roster, but when VH1 Behind the Music's cameras …
Illustration by Bob AulRobert K. Dornanfiled nomination papers on Dec. 3 to seek the 46th Congressional District seat occupied by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher(R-Huntington Beach)—meaning that, for the first time since the “Surfing Congressman” was elected in 1988, Dana won't be the craziest candidate in the race. Some of our younger readers may not even know …
Girl With a Pearl Earring signals its interest in what Fernand Braudel called the “structures of everyday life” with an opening close-up of its 17th-century teenage protag Griet (Scarlett Johansson) peeling an onion. If the spectacle of a soberly becapped young woman bathed by sunlight as she slices veggies by the kitchen window evokes the …
Illustration by Smell of SteveI drive east on Oso Parkway through Ladera Ranch, South Orange County's latest megadevelopment. Bill Hicks—the man known as the Prince of Darkness—spins in my CD player. The brilliantly bitter stand-up comedian, ad buster and despiser of charlatans is ranting about the monoclimate of Southern California. “Hot and sunny every day,” …
On the majestic stone wall outside Saint Joseph's Church in Santa Ana, a two-story mural of Jesus greets commuters speeding west on Civic Center Drive. Painted during the mid-1980s, the mural depicts Jesus standing on a mount as rays of light lift Him toward heaven. A halo swirls around His head. His wounds are fresh …