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Photo by Jeanne RiceThere's no sign of a show tonight at the Loose Moose Saloon, even though a standing-room-only crowd is gathered anxiously around the venerable club's small stage, which is stocked with guitars, drums, keyboards, turntables and a lone microphone that is drenched in a white spotlight and draped with a weirdly familiar paper …
For one bright, blue, shining moment in 1998, Viagra united us in a way Mark McGwire only thought he could. Pumped up on the drug's sales, Viagra's manufacturer, Pfizer, slipped past Merck N Co. on some stock traders' lists to become the No. 1 pharmaceutical company in the nation.When major insurers (including PacifiCare and Kaiser) …
But the shaman's visit made Fretty turn his vision inward to look for his soul instead of his eyesight. Recently, Fretty has been delving into hypnotherapy with Susan Han, a certified hypnotherapist. I've watched as she puts him in a massage chair, reclines it, and covers him up to the chin in a pink blanket. …
OCTOBER Huntington Beach city officials and coastal protectors raised glasses on Oct. 2 to announce that televangelist Pat Robertson had dropped his plans to reopen an offshore oil terminal. Praise the Lord, indeed. . . . The Orange County Board of Supervisors abandoned a key opportunity to actually supervise the county on Oct. 6 by …
The Internet, as I have been known to say, is the greatest medium for the dissemination of information the world has ever known. During the coup attempt in Russia in 1991, the Net was used to get information out to the West during a media blackout. Political activists are staging virtual protests to bring their …
HEAD SHOPPerhaps you've seen the big cannabis leaf on advertisements plastered across bus benches along major thoroughfares and told yourself, “I don't know what they're selling, but I'll take two!” Too late: Coast United Advertising pulled its 106 bus-bench ads on Nov. 2 because of pressure from Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), the national organization …
Among the endless accusations fired at Steven J. Frogue has been the notion that the embattled South Orange County Community College District trustee's words and actions have legitimized hatemongers. Last fall, Frogue tried to book a seminar at Saddleback College that would have featured the author of a controversial tome that alleges the Israeli government …
I am the Queen of Hellfire! Or, at least, I did some gay stuff this week, which in some circles is the same thing. We all wanted to get physical at Olivia Newton-John Night at Ripples. We weren't crazy about the host, a personable guy in Phyllis Diller drag; he either has low self-esteem or …
Some friends moved from Austin, Texas, to Orange County recently, and they asked me for house-hunting advice. I gave them only one piece of information: whatever you do, don't buy in South County.My advice was kindly meant, but I later regretted it. It was like acknowledging that the twerps who want to plop El Toro …
It's August, and the umpteen zillion tourists chugging through the turnstiles at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, dotting our beaches, and clogging up our freeways have got vacation on the brain.I, like most of you, shepherded throngs of visiting relatives and friends through Disneyland before I finally took a pledge of abstinence. It's as if, …
Disneyland revealed on July 29 that it will close its 39-year-old Submarine Voyage ride after Labor Day weekend and not reopen that section of the theme park until 2003. Disney Imagineering is apparently kicking around plans for a Lost City of Atlantis adventure to possibly replace the subs. Clockwork's advice? Screw Atlantis, boys, and devise …
Faced with image-scarring revelations about Ronald Reagan's dubious ethics and competence in 1986, the president's worried National Security Advisor John Poindexter astutely observed, “We have some tidying up to do.” In Orange County last week, the Feb. 19 death of Thomas F. Riley, 85, caused the local establishment's real-estate developers, politicians and reporters to tidy …