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He Wants to Believe: Michael Dennin - See our full OC Weekly 2014 People Issue here
You may have seen Michael Dennin featured on the History Channel's Ancient Aliens. No, he's not the dude with the nuclear-blast-blown hairdo and cocksure answers to life's mysteries. On a cable-TV series that espouses spaceship-arriving, extraterres...
by R. Scott Moxley on March 13, 2014
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Taking a Chance: Oanh Nguyen - See our full OC Weekly 2014 People Issue here
Oanh Nguyen didn't grow up with a family that would "sit around the dinner table and talk about how our days went." His parents, who live seven minutes from the theater he helped to found 15 years ago, have been there once. Considering that the th...
by Joel Beers on March 13, 2014
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Burlesque Boss: Yadi Hurtado - See our full OC Weekly 2014 People Issue here
Orange County has seen an explosion of shimmies and shakes presented in burlesque revues over the past couple of years, thanks largely to Long Beach's Miss Yadi Hurtado. She's the founder of Yadi Presents, the ambitious and imaginative burlesque ins...
by ERIN DEWITT on March 13, 2014
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Is the Lion In Exile - The UC Irvine professor sees his 1976 play, The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, produced on campus
When most Americans think of Kenya, they envision safaris, long-distance runners and the snowcapped peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro (which is actually in Tanzania). They probably don't think about bloody revolutions, warlords and dictators, topics that m...
by Joel Beers on March 6, 2014
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Supreme Skin - [Trendzilla] Osmosis Skincare and Mama's Bee Magic help to keep your skin clear of zits
I may have the answer to (almost) all of your skin-care woes. Months ago, I spoke with Dillan O'Neal about the annoying colony of zits that inexplicably found a home on my face long after puberty. The owner of Sugar Sugar By Dillan, which we named...
by LP Hastings on March 6, 2014
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Beware Any Polter-Trysts On OC's Haunted History Ghost Walks - Ernie Alonzo and Charles L. Spratley lead the interested through downtown Santa Ana and Orange's eerie past
The former home of one of Orange County's first female physicians doesn't look like your stereotypical haunted house, which explains the funereal music, discounted Halloween Store skulls on the gazebo, and dim lighting one recent evening at the Howe...
by DAVE BARTON on February 27, 2014
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Coffee Enema: Hot, or Not? - [Trendzilla] Dr. Max Gerson's innovation is still popular after all these years--but is it healthy?
Talk to anyone who has received an enema out of necessity, and chances are, he or she would never choose to take an enema again. As if constipation isn't uncomfortable enough, what sane person would inject a fairly large amount of liquid into an alr...
by LP Hastings on February 27, 2014
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Lysistrata Jones Can't Jump - The Chance Theater's latest play can't finish through on setting the Aristophanes classic on the basketball court
A legendary theater director and drama critic--let's just say it was Harold Clurman because, lord knows, he doesn't get enough props these days--once commented that every time he walked into a theater and saw musical instruments onstage, he knew he ...
by Joel Beers on February 20, 2014
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Dyeing Your Hair the Natural Way - [Trendzilla] Calendula, chamomile and other ingredients that'll help you lighten, darken and even redden your locks
It's nearly impossible to do some things the "natural" way. And dying your hair seems like one of those things because when you get down to it, changing your hair color to something other than what Jeebus intended is as quintessentially unnatural as...
by LP Hastings on February 20, 2014
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'STOCK/california' At Coastline Art Gallery Has Promising Displays Undercut By Boring Ones
As magazines, books, letters and other uses of pulp drift into the digital landscape, it's only fitting that curator David Michael Lee's "STOCK/california" at Coastline Art Gallery should honor that fade into oblivion, gathering eight artists, all o...
by DAVE BARTON on February 13, 2014
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Orn Hansen: Find the Good Hipster In LBC - [Trendzilla] Robby Roda's men's store makes hipsterdom seem frontiersy without being douchey
It's a bit counterintuitive why society makes fun of hipsters. We're definitely guilty of it at the Weekly. Besides the obnoxious ones who wear headdresses at Coachella, what's wrong with wanting to eat healthy, local food and shop small business? H...
by LP Hastings on February 13, 2014
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STAGEStheatre's Rendition of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum Entertains as the Classic Should
They may not have played football in ancient Rome, but there's an unintentional similarity between the beginning of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum and that curb-stomping NFL Super Bowl on Feb. 2. Just as that snap that sailed over a ...
by Joel Beers on February 6, 2014
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Lulu Le Men - [Trendzilla] Bizarre app lets gals rate guys without the guys butting in
One of the most bizarre, fucked-up, yet hilarious apps ever invented is now available to you and only you, ladies. Lulu (www.onlulu.com) is essentially Yelp for men. It's free to download and immediately links with Facebook to aggregate all of your ...
by LP Hastings on February 6, 2014
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'Miracle Report' at Grand Central Arts Center: The Santa Ana Gallery Takes On People's Belief In the Impossible Saving the Day
Sometimes I miss believing in miracles. Not the "miracle of life"; that's just the order of things when you neglect to use birth control. I'm not talking about the pretty stuff you can take snapshots of with your iPhone; that's just nature. I don't ...
by DAVE BARTON on January 30, 2014
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Laila Lupe: Nasty Gal Meets Streetwear - [Trendzilla] Lien Do launches her fashion website with a party in downtown Santa Ana
"I know girls are so busy working these days, and they need clothes that are easy to wear," says Lien Do in a sweet, faint accent. "Ladies need to be able to go from day to night, to feel sophisticated and sexy, but not uncomfortable." It's an ide...
by LP Hastings on January 30, 2014
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Heartful of Hollow: Exploring Love, American Hipster Style, With Trudy and Max In Love
There isn't a great deal of new ground trod in Zoe Kazan's new play, Trudy and Max In Love. Relationships are difficult. Love is complicated. People attempting to find their heart in the world are ill-equipped to do so with another person seeking th...
by Joel Beers on January 23, 2014
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Find Riches for Rover at Healthy Spot - [Trendzilla] The first outpost of this eco-friendly dog store opens in Costa Mesa
The rich are different from you and me: Their pets have more money than us. It's not that we riffraff ignore our furry buddies, but the luxuries the wealthy bestow on their animals (Reiki massage, anybody?) is almost on par with the way we spoil chi...
by LP Hastings on January 23, 2014
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'Salo Island' Offers Four Shades of Fascism At UC Irvine's CAC Gallery
The Marquis de Sade was rotting away in the Bastille of pre-revolutionary France when he wrote one of his first pornographic novels, 120 Days of Sodom. A mind-boggling litany of sexual perversion, the plot is about a foursome of wealthy French elite...
by DAVE BARTON on January 16, 2014
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The Mixing Glass: Your One-Stop Cocktails Shop - [Trendzilla] The OC Mix host bartender extraordinaire Gabrielle Dion's bartender shop
In an effort to make the world a better place for drinkers, one of the best bartenders in Orange County--Gabrielle Dion of Broadway By Amar Santana in Laguna Beach--is opening a cocktail mecca called the Mixing Glass in Costa Mesa's ever-hip OC Mix....
by LP Hastings on January 16, 2014
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Overlooked Eugene O'Neill Masterwork Long Day's Journey Into Night Occasions a Dramatic Reunion - Maverick Theater brings together onetime student and teacher Nathan Baesel and Joe Parrish
It has taken 23 years, but when Nathan Baesel and Joe Parrish walk onstage Friday for the first performance of Eugene O'Neill's epic heartbreaker of a play, Long Day's Journey Into Night, it will complete a theatrical relationship that began when on...
by Joel Beers on January 9, 2014