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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 …
Photo by Keith MayPoseidon Resources Inc. says it has the solution to Orange County's chronic water shortage: a desalination plant that will run on electricity from the AES power plant in Huntington Beach. Despite the fact the city of Huntington Beach has yet to approve the project, local developers are already promising the Poseidon plant …
Photo by James BunoanDavid Nguyen's little corner of the world holds its share of dreams and secrets, most of which he'd like to keep from his mother—a formidable task given that his corner is located next to the family couch. From that corner comes AznRaps.com, the Internet's foremost Asian hip-hop website—yes, there are Asian hip-hoppers—which …
Photo by Tenaya HillsThis week's fine-dining experience takes us to the exotic burg of Fullerton and its restaurant row on Harbor Boulevard, where Ziing's “Asian-influenced” Chinese bistro makes its home. Okay, I'll come clean: I was actually in town to do a little antiquing, hoping to expand my vast collection of vintage erotica. But after …
Given his pan-intellectual dexterity and neurotically analytic zeal, his taste for vicious circles and recursive loops, his ability to locate beauty and comedy in atonal technical jargon, David Foster Wallace is the perfect parachute buddy for a free fall into the mathematical and metaphysical abyss that is infinity. Just don't expect a smooth landing—or any …
“This book,” Joan Didion announces near the beginning of Where I Was From, her meditation on the ways “California” signifies in the American psyche, “represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about California, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much …
Photo by Tenaya HillsBEST PLACE TO EXCHANGE MONEY FOR SEX Parking-lot blowjobs are so 2002. In the future, sex is just the natural progression from shiatsu at massage parlors: all you gotta do is not dress like a cop, say you've been there before and gently intimate that you want the “full service.” You even …
Photo by James BunoanThe Main Frame aren't electroclash (here's our lunch money; now, please, don't ever say the word “electro” again), and they're not quite doing the retro thing, either (although their music blissfully tugs on our we-really-do-love-and-miss-the-Manchester-sound-too heartstrings). And just because they happen to tote around a truck full of synthesizers, that doesn't necessarily …
It may all come down to how you feel about this one scene, where the gasping, asthmatic hit man known as Wheezy Joe (Irwin Keyes) mistakes his handgun for his inhaler and . . . well, you get the idea. If you find that moment riotous—perhaps even the comic highlight of this, the latest film …
Illustration by Ivan SalazarA religious broadcaster's $25 million bid for KOCE looks more and more like big business—and less and less like mere Christianity. Documents obtained by the Weekly show that Texas-based religious broadcaster Daystar Television Network promised a satellite network that it would purchase stations like KOCE—called “must-carries” in the media business—and turn them …