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Modern art is tricky. Interpretations of any single piece can range from judging it as “the shit” to just plain “shitty.” In Yasmina Reza’s 1998 Tony Award-winning Best Play Art, three long time friends contemplate an outrageously expensive modern painting with three wildly different results. Spoiler alert: turns out the “painting” is actually just a …
UPDATE: Poop bassist Jacob Bach was arrested after the beating-death of Steven Pratt. Click to read the update. See also:*Punk Legends the Adolescents Set to Headline Kelly Thomas Memorial Concert We're sad to say that the local punk scene just suffered a major loss just a couple days ago. Police are investigating the death of …
Proving yet again that what happens in the Kelly Thomas family does not necessarily stay in the Kelly Thomas family, the father of the slain homeless man is suing the city of Fullerton. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed by Ron Thomas on the one-year anniversary of his frail, 37-year-old schizophrenic son being beaten to death …
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has tossed the lawsuit a Garden Grove couple brought against the Staples Center after their toddler son fell to his death from a luxury suite after a November 2010 Lakers game. Arena management were not duty bound to watch Lucas Anthony Tang for the 2-year-old's parents, Henry Tang …
Before he started working on a record called Nootropics, Lower Dens bassist Geoff Graham had never heard of the term, but you can hardly fault him for that. Odds are you haven't either. Pronounced “no-uh-tro-picks,” it refers to substances—usually nutrients, plant extracts and chemicals—that boost cognitive functions by playing with the brain's supply of neurochemicals, …
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Before he started working on a record called Nootropics, Lower Dens bassist Geoff Graham had never heard of the term, but you can hardly fault him for that. Odds are you haven't either. Pronounced “no-uh-tro-picks,” it refers to substances–usually nutrients, plant extracts and chemicals–that boost cognitive functions by playing with the brain's supply of neurochemicals, …
Orange County law enforcement and the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) recently took aim at a major source of beer and booze for underage drinkers: those over 21 appearing as if they won't kick the ass of kids outside quickie marts asking if the adult will buy beer and booze. But while the …
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See Also: Five Things You're Doing Wrong With Mexican Food If you're a fan of Mexican food in this country, you're most likely a consumer one way or another of GRUMA, the world's largest tortilla maker. Their American brands, Mission and Guerrero, are the top-selling brand in the United States and a favorite of Mexican …
See update No. 3 at the end of post about Cypress Police reportedly confirming Brinda McCoy tried to take her own life. See update No. 2 at the end of post about McCoy hospitalized after being found bleeding in her Cypress home. See update No. 1 at the end of post about the maximum sentence …
Rodney Alcala, of serial killer and The Dating Game fame, is no longer Orange County's or California's problem. At least not temporarily, as U.S. Marshals today plucked him from the corner of the state's Death Row he darkens to board a plane for New York, where the now-68-year-old is to make a command performance in …
I was stuck in gridlock the other day and started thinking about princesses. My older sister had wanted to be one back in 1972, flitting around the house in pink and purple veils and satin pants, but I think she was the only girl I'd ever seen do that. Most of us were just regular …
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Like Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story (2010), Kirby Dick's The Invisible War scathingly indicts U.S.-military culture. Yet the focus of each documentary is vastly different in scale: one person as opposed to one gender. Bar-Lev examines the exploitation of the corpse of Pat Tillman, the highly principled pro-footballer-turned-Army-Ranger killed by his own platoon in Afghanistan …
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