At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the brief news item that appeared in the July 5 issue of the Daily Pilot: "A Costa Mesa man was arrested on suspicion of...
The eerie ability to suck the noise out of a room has long been a specialty of the Cold War Kids. With four records, a handful of EPs and countless tours in their back pocket,...
Among the Avengers, Thor should reign supreme. Sure, Captain America is the de facto leader, but even he—as with the others—is just a jacked-up human. Thor is a...
Adam Whobery is doing what he has done for the better part of a decade: concentrating deeply while staring into a flame. The thirtysomething craftsman, wearing a black cutoff...
If you've been to your share of sushi bars, White Wasabi Sushi + Beer will resemble most of them. Take the floor plan of a random neighborhood joint, then overlay it on top of...
For nearly 45 years, the Dance Theatre of Harlem has brought the inspiration (and, in some cases, a much needed outlet) of ballet to children in New York, New Jersey and...
Touted as "the moment you realized who you were, who you are, who you were born to be," tonight's art party is all about breaking down the limitations of what people think...
Mexican band Zoe’s just-out new album Programaton is less a return to form than a refinement of form. In the five years since their last full-power full-length, they...
Sci-fi comics get the live theater treatment with The Intergalactic Nemesis series, now performing at the Samueli Theater. Combining old-fashioned radio drama (three actors...
Ah, 1999. The year Y2K scared thousands into stockpiling toilet paper and ammunition; the year George Lucas lost all our respect by introducing Jar Jar Binks to the world; and...
West gnocchi potatoes meet East boiled potatoes when Brooklyn-born Italian lady maestro JoAnn Falletta and the Irish Chamber Orchestra welcome world-renowned Northern Ireland...
Our favorite ball-busting, electric organ-drenched, sinister-vocaled garage rock band of all time plays an exciting two-night run at the Observatory this week. A Murder City...
Bay area world-tronica band Beats Antique are going old school on their newest album—actually, they’re kind of going primordial, with a two-part treatment of the...
Seen doing sets on shows like The Tonight Show, Evening at the Improv, MTV’s Half Hour Comedy, and gracing more a dozen Budweiser commercials, Don McMillan’s humor...
The Halloween season came to a close, but that doesn't mean you can't still get spooked. Washington Irving’s classic tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is equal parts...
Two zany British thespians, Dan and Jeff, go for the absolute lowest common denominator telling of everybody’s favorite epic about the wizard kid with the lightning bolt...
Amy Herzog's family-centric dramatic comedy may have eluded Broadway by a few streets, but that didn't stop the two-character narrative from winning the 2012 Obie for Best New...
You were the idiot taking a nap in a parked car with the engine running next to a neighborhood park, and you actually had the nerve to be angry when a good Samaritan came by...
The zombification of America got its start in 1968, when George A. Romero and a bunch of his friends and colleagues released Night of the Living Dead, the scrappy little...
It's Nov. 2, Día de los Muertos—the Mexican Day of the Dead. I've spent the early afternoon with friends on Fourth Street in Santa Ana for the annual Noche de...