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Editor's note—J. Hoberman reviews Art School Confidential here. As in a dream, Jesus brings me a side of scrambled eggs. He wears a big smile and a shiny name tag, every hair in place. Brings me coffee, too. All around us are ancient hardwood, marble and finery, windows looking north onto the sidewalks of downtown Beverly …
Orange County culture mavens not yet exhausted by the 10-day Newport Beach Film Festival will find some solace in the five-week Orange County Imagination Celebration. Though the local annual arts festival is geared primarily toward parents and their tiny tots and young adults, the 21-year-old Imagination Celebration features more than 50 performances, concerts and film …
we recommend ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL See Film feature. (Edwards University, Irvine) SIR! NO SIR! David Zeiger's impassioned documentary remembers the GI anti-war movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a powerful phenomenon that's been more or less erased from the record by neo-con revisionists trying to put a heroic new face on the ugliness of the …
The '70s disaster-movie canon kicked off proper with The Poseidon Adventure—the first and certainly the best, in spite of a piss-poor sequel, innumerable Shelley Winters parodies and Wolfgang Petersen's equally starry yet wholly unnecessary upcoming remake. We've got old Wolfie's redux to thank, however, for a spate of classic disaster movies being rereleased this week: …
The Loved One. Loosely based on his experiences in America during the filming of his book Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel The Loved One took on both Hollywood and the funeral industry with Waugh's characteristically withering gaze. Tony Richardson's 1965 film version set out to be the film with “something to offend everyone”, and …
Worried that “Nuestro Himino”, the new Spanish translation of “The Star Spangled Banner”, will bring down the government, causing anarchy in the streets? Or prevent your children from getting that lettuce picking job you've always dreamed they'd have? Or irreversibly pollute the precious bodily fluids of real Americans? Fair enough. Here's what you do: go …
Yes, it's true. Even Balboa Peninsula's ultimate ennui establishment has been forced to close its doors. Alta Coffee, home of stunning baristas, live music, freshly brewed coffee and – as written about in Best of OC 2005 – a damn fine vanilla soy chai latte, is closed this hazy Monday. What could force me into …
One day after the Weekly published photos of Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona embracing a Mafia associate and handing out official badges to two other Las Vegas businessmen, a top challenger in the upcoming June election demanded that Carona resign immediately. As dark clouds loomed overhead, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Commander Ralph Martin stood …
THURSDAY, APRIL 27 Kim Shattuck and her Muffs riders stampede the HOB, and Ray Barbee wings back from Japan with hopefully an armful of rare vintage guitars for a show at Detroit. FRIDAY Once-Wonderlove singer/strummer and current Gypsy Lounge light fixture Chris Paul Overall has a fresh-stamped album out today: The Bruiser(mocked up with fakey …
we recommend AKEELAH AND THE BEE See Film feature. (Countywide) UNITED 93 See Film feature. (Countywide) also opening HARD CANDY See Film feature. (Countywide) LOOK BOTH WAYS An unassuming, unadventurous, but likable dramedy about dying and grief, Sarah Watt's debut feature has been something of an audience-pleasing award repository, in Australia and abroad. It's not …
Your favorite TV Time Tracker figured one of those knuckleheads at The Blotter would have already, uh, blottered this, but in case you missed it: Orange County's very own right-wing whackmaster Hugh Hewitt was on The Colbert Report the other night–and he wasn't even being punked like some other recent OC politicos were by a …
In his 1838 poem A Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (once America's most popular poet, now an item on every high school's forced-feeding menu), wrote We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Yeah, well, maybe… But what is certain is that we're all leaving …