Gerry Serrano has dual ambitions this election season. As president of the Santa Ana Police Officers Association (POA), the powerful union at his helm is spending almost half a million dollars this year to get a slate of preferred City Council candidates to join cop-friendly council members Jose Solorio and Juan Villegas and Mayor Miguel …
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WILL KATIE PORTER UNSEAT MIMI WALTERS IN THE 45TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT RACE? Attending a Democratic candidate’s town-hall meeting in the Age of Trump can be a disorienting experience because our shared political rhetoric has become largely meaningless. “Our rigged political system has reached a crisis point,” Katie Porter, a UC Irvine law professor challenging incumbent …
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Local ska and rocksteady legends Hepcat played at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Oct 20 along with the Aggrolites. All images by Mary Bell. 1/35 2/35 3/35 4/35 5/35 6/35 7/35 8/35 9/35 10/35 11/35 12/35 13/35 14/35 15/35 16/35 17/35 18/35 19/35 20/35 21/35 22/35 23/35 24/35 25/35 26/35 27/35 28/35 29/35 …
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds performed at the Forum in Los Angeles on Oct 21, 2018. Cigarettes After Sex opened. All images by Mary Bell. 1/24 2/24 3/24 4/24 5/24 6/24 7/24 8/24 9/24 10/24 11/24 12/24 13/24 14/24 15/24 16/24 17/24 18/24 19/24 20/24 21/24 22/24 23/24 24/24 ❮ ❯
When a gay male Santa Ana high school student asking his straight male best friend to go with him to homecoming hit Instagram, it went viral. That’s pretty impressive when you consider that Santa Ana joins Garden Grove as the least LGBTQ-friendly city in Orange County, according to recent rankings. Anaheim was the most LGBTQ-friendly. …
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Patricia Loughrey wrote Dear Harvey in 2008, in large part because Dan Kirsch, the former director of the Diversionary Theatre Company in San Diego, the third oldest LBGT theater in the country, was concerned that with the 30th anniversary of Harvey Milk’s assassination coming up in November of that year, younger members of that community …
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By: Nate Jackson, Niyaz Pirani, Cynthia Rebolledo and Nelson Rodriguez Saturday, September 29 12:45 p.m. Forest of Tongue is playing a set full of progressive, emo-ish rock tunes that has 2006-me in geek-out mode. 2018 me approves, too. Throw Saves the Day, Tomahawk, Fall of Troy and Talking Heads into a blender to get a …
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