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Trumpet maestro WYNTON MARSALIS tends to inspire either devotion or loathing among jazz fans. His many detractors would have you believe he's a hack, wasting his formidable technical gifts by militantly endeavoring to chain jazz to its past, rather than allowing the music to thrive and grow. The other camp praises Marsalis as a savior …
Photo by Jeanne RiceFor the first time in California history, a Latina will head a county labor council. And the odd thing is it's happening here. On March 25, Linda Sanchez, a 31-year-old labor attorney and the younger sister of U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), becomes the Orange County Central Labor Council's secretary/treasurer—the top …
Photo by Jeanne RiceWhen the political history of Orange County is written, the overwhelming victory of Measure F is likely to loom large. In approving Measure F—also known as the Safe and Healthy Communities Act—local voters asserted for the first time their right to vote on huge developments, including the El Toro International Airport. When …
Photo by Jack GouldIt his party's election-night shindig at Newport Beach's swank Sutton Place Hotel, Congressman Dana Rohra-bacher delighted the crowd with a simple chant: “No more Gore!” It was an exciting moment for Rohrabacher—what with his man Dubya scoring impressive primary victories across the country. Of course, the Huntington Beach Republican's high may have …
You may one day find yourself face to face with a picture of Silver Lake's boyish four-piece Beachwood Sparks, all of them impeccably dressed in the finest of '70s country-and-western polyester, the fringes of their shaggy postmod haircuts skimming the edges of their decorated collars. And while gazing upon the photograph, you may also be …
Photo by Keith May Orange County CoastKeeper Garry Brown, who recently announced he’s seeking contributions to outfit the waterway-protection group’s patrol boat, has a judgment of more than $120,000 against him in connection with a Boy Scouts boat-donation program that he allegedly mismanaged four years ago. “Mr. Brown did not serve the Boy Scouts well,” …
Photo by Joy BastOrange County's Superior Court judges can't seem to avoid controversy. Three years ago, a judge was disciplined for telling off-color jokes during a sexual-harassment trial and encouraging jurors to buy a book he wrote. Earlier this month, a state appeals court unanimously rejected a Newport Beach-based judge's decision to allow open discrimination …
To answer this eternal conundrum, we turn to the Chinese. Generally speaking, Chinese philosophy has it that the universe and all living things are constantly at play between the extremes of the yin and yang principles. Yin represents the passive, female, fluid, dark, cold, dispersing forces and yang the active, male, fiery, light, hot and …
ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART is one of the best things to happen to the blues since people first started singing about how their sex organs tended to complicate their lives. In other words, he understands the emotional heart and traditional soul of this music rather than merely imitating what came before, as so many of his …
By Mark DanceyFADE IN [Images of attractive older couples playing tennis, jet skiing, ballroom dancing, taking romantic walks on the beach—all accompanied by energetic music] VOICE-OVER: Would you like to live to be 900 years old? Have great sex well into your 700s? Live in harmony with the Earth and heaven and finally have time …
Photo by Myles RobinsonIt's a couple of hours before showtime, and the wrestling ring in the Galaxy Concert Theatre is gridlocked—with dancing couples. They hold hands, they lift and spin out of holds, repeating moves two, three, four times, making adjustments—I'll slam you here, you pile-drive me there, what do you think about spitting in …
Our mystery begins on Aliso Creek a few miles from Laguna Beach, at the yawning end of a pipe whose origin is uphill in a part of Laguna Niguel called Kite Hill. Though there hasn't been even a light rain in weeks, water pours from the pipe like a glass tongue. The water carries bacteria—lots …