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Sam EricksonThe blues is the best music, and Martin Scorsese is the best film director—I shan't consider arguments to the contrary—and so you'd figure that the Scorsese-produced film series The Blues (commencing Sunday on KCET and airing over the next six nights) would be the best thing ever to warm your cathode, correct? Negatory, mojo …
Photo by Jessica CalkinsIs this a great country or what? Manhattan Beach-based website MyRedHotDeals.com is hawking a cubic zirconium replica of the $4 million ring Kobe Bryantbought his wife, Vanessa, to make up for cheating on her. The sterling-silver shank with a six-prong setting holds a “sparkling lavender” fake stone, and just to prove this …
William Fitzgerald says his neighborhood looks like a “war zone.” Every night from June to August—as well as weekends and holidays during the off-season—the nearby Disneyland Resort sets off a massive fireworks display. Within minutes, a 100-foot-tall cloud of smoke rolls through the streets and homes in Fitzgerald's neighborhood. “The smoke usually goes north down …
Illustration by Bob AulLocal hotels aren't just for immigrant workers, illicit expense-account noontime trysts and tourists from Lichtenstein. They're for us. Some feature high-class restaurants with award-winning chefs that could probably make your couch taste like filet mignon at five-star prices. The following are among the best. SAVOURY'S, 1287 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, (949) …
Republicans have done a masterful job demonizing Gov. Gray Davis, but they've been suspiciously vague about how GOP control of the governor's mansion would clean up a political system corrupted by both major political parties. Sure, gubernatorial hopeful Tom McClintock is running TV commercials that ask voters to imagine a Republican victory and a state …
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Illustration by Robert PokornyIn the Aug. 22 Orange County Register, longtime local Republican gadfly Art Pedroza Jr. used the better part of a 655-word guest editorial to argue from stereotypes that Cruz Bustamante would be very, very bad for Latino Californians. Bustamante, remember, is our lieutenant governor, a Democrat and one of 135 gubernatorial candidates …
In an effort to demonstrate he's more than just the slab-like face that launched a thousand action figures, Arnold Schwarzenegger finally held a press conference on August 20. Criticized for preferring celebrity schmooze-fests like The Tonight Show and Access Hollywood, where he can avoid giving substantial answers to important questions, this time he faced the …
When Uncle Al cooks up catfish po'boys and hush puppies, he's thinking of the Volta Delta, not Mississippi. “These meals are not Mississippi-style, they are not New Orleans-style, they are African,” explains Uncle Al, a.k.a. Albert Fadonougbo, the Benin-born owner and chef of his namesake Long Beach restaurant. Uncle Al says the Beninese adapted their …
Illustration by Robert PokornyTony Rackauckas is the closest you get to God in local government—not the nice God who hands out benedictions, bountiful harvests and mercy, but the God whose word can book you space in a lake of fire for eternity. As the county's district attorney, he's the guy who makes the decisions that …
Photo by Jessica CalkinsIslamic Chinese cooking is a rarity in Southern California, eclipsed by $1 combo plates, fried rice and a nice side of MSG. But there it is in Tustin: Jamillah Garden, an expansive, always-crowded oasis where customers speak Arabic as often as Chinese, where bread is king. Inside, photos of Mecca and bamboo …
SLOWRIDER HISTORIAS EN REVISIÓN NOMADIC SOUND SYSTEM East Los Angeles jam geniuses Slowrider have proven during their three-year existence that jamming isn't just about droning on a perfect riff forever, but that jam bands should incorporate other everlasting chords until the results are as fiendishly beautiful as a Bach fugue. Such is the main attraction …