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Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, fax to (714) 708-8410 or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, P.O. Box 10788, Costa Mesa, CA 92627-0247. WASTED Rebecca Schoenkopf captured the absurdity of the Bush administration's war on marijuana [“George Bush's Joint,” Sept. 26] better than anything I've ever read. …
So here comes Denzel Washington with his hungry lope and his wary eyes—and a movie, at last, in which to lighten up. In Out of Time, an elegant new thriller directed by Carl Franklin from a cunning script by novice writer Dave Collard, Washington plays Matt Lee Whitlock, a small-town Florida police chief who's up …
Photo by 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? …
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 …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, fax to (714) 708-8410 or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, P.O. Box 10788, Costa Mesa, CA 92627-0247. JIMENA'S WAKE I'm still fuming over the story about little Jimena Correal and how little anyone did to save her [Nick Schou's “Killing Jimena,” …
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 …