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PTSD-stricken Marine vet faces five years in Oklahoma prison for growing six marijuana plants

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ristoffer Lewandowski doesn’t exactly fit the profile of a pot baron. A veteran of three tours of duty with the U.S. Marines, including stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Laguna Niguel resident divides his time between architecture classes at Saddleback College and helping his wife, Whitney, raise their three young sons.

But thanks to a 2-year-old episode of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that occurred in Oklahoma and led to a guilty plea for growing six marijuana plants, Lewandowski now faces an Oct. 19 sentencing hearing that could land him in state prison for five years.

If that sounds like a heavy sentence for half a dozen scraggly plants, consider this: Thanks to the Sooner State’s notoriously retrograde policy on cannabis—it’s one of a dwindling number nationwide that offer no protections for medical use of marijuana—Lewandowski at one point was actually facing life in prison for the plants.

(The local media even hyped his arrest as a “major pot bust.”)

Lewandowski’s problems began in Geronimo, Oklahoma, just outside Fort Sill, where he had been teaching field artillery classes until chronic pain from a back injury finally took him off active duty. The sudden transition from several years in Middle Eastern combat zones to a sedentary life in rural Oklahoma simultaneously triggered an onset of PTSD. As an artillery officer, Lewandowski had fired off countless rounds in support of combat troops, and the psychic weight of the carnage he knew he’d wrought was coming back to haunt him. “In Afghanistan, what gets me more than anything was the acceptance of death and of taking life,” he recently explained over pizza at a Lake Forest Chuck E. Cheese. He sat next to Whitney, who carried their baby, while their two older children played nearby. “It was completely acceptable. It almost would have been unacceptable not to celebrate a successful firing operation, but now to think about every one of those rounds and what they did, I have a big issue living with that.”

Lewandowski signed himself up for psychological counseling, but talking about his problems didn’t seem to help. One night, a friend sleeping on Lewandowski’s couch watched his sleepwalking host clearing the house of imaginary intruders. Then, on June 1, 2014, he got into an argument with Whitney about the marijuana plants he was attempting to grow in the house. After she destroyed one of the plants, Lewandowski grabbed a knife and Whitney fled to a neighbor’s house with her kids.

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A brief standoff with police followed, and upon the discovery of the plants, sheriff’s deputies charged Lewandowski with cultivating marijuana. According to Whitney, deputies told her that if she didn’t press domestic-abuse charges against her husband, they’d send her to jail for the plants, too. To keep from losing custody of their children, Whitney followed their advice, but after 11 days, when child-welfare workers determined Lewandowski didn’t pose a threat to his family, the couple reunited and haven’t had an issue since. (Whitney says her husband has never laid a hand on her or the kids.)

Still, deputies weren’t quite done with Lewandowski. “The original incident led to a couple of other incidents where I feel I was unjustly harassed,” he says.

Deputies arrested him for driving without a license, and later, they stopped and searched him while he was on foot, busting him for the less than a gram of cannabis in his pocket. While the family tried to raise money for a defense attorney, they received permission from the judge in his case to move to her parents’ house in Irvine. A few months later, they found an apartment in Laguna Niguel.

Adjusting to civilian life in California wasn’t easy, however. In January 2015,

Lewandowski checked himself into the Veterans Administration’s Long Beach mental ward. It was during his time there that Lewandowski first became familiar with the Weed for Warriors project, which provides free cannabis to veterans suffering from PTSD. After leaving the hospital, Lewandowski became an activist with the group in his free time, helping to promote its message on social media.

But on June 20, 2015, a team of armed federal marshals arrested Lewandowski near his home. Because he had failed to appear at a pretrial hearing in Oklahoma— Lewandowski says he wasn’t aware of it—he’d officially become a fugitive. As he was picking up his son from a church-run daycare center, they tackled him to the ground in front of his family and a group of stunned parents. Lewandowski spent the next week shackled in a bus on his way to Oklahoma, a trip extended for a day when several inmates were injured when the driver slammed the brakes to punish a mouthy prisoner and had to be taken to the hospital for an examination.

As soon as Lewandowski appeared in court, the judge ordered he be allowed to return to California pending trial; on July 20, 2015, after more than a month in jail, he returned to Orange County.

Sean Kiernan, president of the Weed for Warriors project, says that the group is fighting to publicize Lewandowski’s case because of how outrageous it is, but it’s far from unique. “The problem is this: The judicial system is broken,” Kiernan says. “I see this every week. They run it like a business. They have to tell America they are tough on crime, and they don’t care about right or wrong or what the just thing to do is. Kris was facing life in prison, and that’s why he had to plead guilty, even if he shouldn’t have.”

Lewandowski made what is known as a “blind plea” in May, accepting responsibility for his actions and throwing himself on the court’s mercy. “The state made it clear that I had to plead guilty [to avoid life],” he says. “But the thing is, I was using cannabis because of ailments I received in the military. I never joined the Marine Corps because I thought I would be in a situation where I could say, ‘I am a veteran and shouldn’t be dealing with this,’ but I don’t know what else to do. I don’t want to go to jail for cannabis. I really don’t.”

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What really frustrates me is their English is not all that great. I don’t want my child pronouncing shoes as choos, and chicken as shicken, and I don’t want her using double negatives. My husband and I speak English very well, and we can teach our child English. What we don’t do is speak colloquial Spanish, which is where I had hoped these ladies would help us.

The frustrating parts are they speak Spanish to each other all the time, just not to my child, and one of them is convinced my child will grow up speaking Spanish and comments on it, even as I ask her repeatedly (and pointedly) how will that happen when she barely speaks two words to my daughter in Spanish the whole time she is in my house?

I don’t get it—why will they speak Spanish to each other and not to my baby, even when I have asked them and asked them to? As I understand it, even if she doesn’t grow up speaking Spanish, just hearing it now will develop neural pathways in her brain that will make it easier for her to learn foreign languages later in life.

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DEAR GABACHO: Did you know that conservative icon William F. Buckley’s first language was Spanish? Taught to him in Mexico by a nanny.

I’m sure Buckley’s parents didn’t hover over the niñera every moment, demanding she teach their son a certain Spanish to their exacting standards; after all, the nanny was the person who knew Spanish, not the parents, so they knew to stay the hell out of the way. Do you think your toddler doesn’t listen to the ladies speaking Spanish and absorb it all? You’re insulting the help and your child—and hating Spanglish? Vete to pinche hell, pendeja.

DEAR MEXICAN: I’ve noticed a pattern among Mexican men: they seem to be able to focus on large breasts and asses to the exclusion of everything else on a female.

She could be the fattest, ugliest, nastiestlooking chick in town (often, she doesn’t even need to be Mexican), and they’ll still go nuts for her ample T and A. In the past, I’ve even heard lascivious remarks about Rosie O’Donnell! Rosie O’Donnell? Please shed some light.

More of an Eyes Guy DEAR POCHO: Mexican men are so obsessed with tits and ass that we coined the sacrilegious puns “chichis Christ ” (“Tits Christ,” a play on “Jesus Christ”) and “nálgame Diós” (“Ass me, God,” from the expression “¡Válgame Diós!” or “Oh, my God”). Why the curve addiction? Nature, son—same reason nearly all the Paleolithic Venus figurines were of BBWs and not a flaca.

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IT TAKES THREE Did Orange County’s justice system jail an innocent man for murder?

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fter eating dinner and watching television at his girlfriend’s Santa Ana apartment on Spurgeon Street, 17-year-old Charles Honea went to sleep outside on the second-floor balcony, his makeshift bedroom. It was an August night in 1992, and gunfire half a block away at a 7-Eleven parking lot eventually woke him.

“I heard several gunshots, and it echoed, so it sounded like it was very close, so I was definitely brought to attention,” Honea recalled in 2011 for Mark Geller, a prosecutor in the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA). “I was like, ‘I just don’t want to get shot.’”

The 6-foot-7, Boise native gazed over the balcony. “I’m standing there, and I’m looking around trying to figure out what was going on,” he said.

“Shortly after, I heard a vehicle kind of screeching. I heard running and somebody making a comment as to, like, you know, ‘Let’s get out of here.

We got to get out of here!’”

That person jumped into the vehicle, which sped down the alley and turned onto 16th Street. Honea told Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) officers he’d seen the man from a distance of 30 yards, with dim lighting from a lone streetlight, and provided details: the person was an African-American male with a “braided and twisty and scraggly-looking” hairstyle and wearing jeans and an oversized jersey.

Just moments before, a red SUV with three young men tied to the Crips—driver Stephan Strong and his cousins Scotty Strong and Terry Ross—had pulled into the 7-Eleven parking lot and backed into a space facing 17th Street. Scotty exited to purchase snacks and sodas, unaware that four angry males, all members of the rival Bloods, were walking side-by-side from an alley toward the SUV. In less than a minute, five 9 mm bullets slammed into the vehicle, leaving Stephan seriously injured and Ross, 20, dead.

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It Takes Three » FROM PAGE 9 As the assailants fled on foot, Scotty left the store and asked his cousin, who was lying on the pavement bleeding from a bullet hole to the abdomen, if he knew the identity of the shooter. Stephan immediately replied, “Unknown,” which was the Bloods’ moniker for Tommy Haslip, who had several underworld tattoos, including “CK” or Crip Killer. Haslip’s personal motivation for the 7-Eleven assault isn’t a mystery: Several hours earlier, Crips used a 40-ounce booze bottle to brutally maul the face of his half-brother Michael.

He simply wanted revenge, an angle the SAPD oddly didn’t pursue.

Instead, five weeks after the murder, cops asked Honea to identify the suspect.

They showed him 48 photographs, but wrecked the credibility of the process by including just two pictures of men with Jheri-curl style hair. He searched through the images looking for someone with braids and, with 50-50 odds, confidently selected photo number 9: Darrell Lynn Booth.

Given the sloppy police work, as well as the lack of legitimate facial recognition and no physical evidence tying Booth to the crime, the identification didn’t provide enough evidence to file charges. The investigation quickly waned and transformed into cold-case status. For 18 years, the file sat untouched, until Santa Ana police detective David Rondou and Geller, his OCDA pal, may have concocted a ruse to validate the faulty photo lineup implicating Booth.

How Tommy Haslip escaped accountability for two decades and pinned the shooting on Booth— whom multiple individuals insist wasn’t even at the 7-Eleven during the incident—is a fascinating tale of how wily police officers and prosecutors can misuse eyewitness observations, rob jurors of key facts and doctor photographic lineups to secure highly questionable convictions. And in Orange County Superior Court, we have judges who wink at such moves all the way.

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artly thanks to a history of aggressively pushing the boundaries of constitutional protections while interrogating suspects, Rondou is legendary in Orange County law-enforcement circles. He began his career at the Los Angeles Police Department in 1993 and seven years later transferred to SAPD, where he says he investigated “thousands” of gang-related incidents, including murders, attempted murders and assaults. That experience once prompted him in open court to boast he knows “what makes [gangsters] tick.”

Before retiring in 2015, Rondou won “gang expert” status in more than 100 tri-

als. It wasn’t just deputy district attorneys who cherished his work, especially his ability to dodge probing questions about police mischief. Superior court judges, usually former prosecutors, praised his “credibility.” Even justices at the California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana have eagerly accepted his word as gospel, regardless of dubious circumstances.

For example, according to court records, defense attorneys have accused Rondou and fellow SAPD detective David Rodriguez of employing a corrupt police tactic known as a “two-step strategy” to violate well-established Miranda protections for suspects. In such schemes, officers question a target without advising him or her of his or her right to remain silent.

Later, having collected incriminating statements, cops return to the suspect, utter the Miranda warning, re-ask the already-answered questions and make an arrest. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Republican presidential appointment, believes “that a deliberate two-step technique . . . present[s] inherent temptations for police abuse” to circumvent the constitution.

While investigating a 2007 crime, Rondou and Rodriguez interviewed Jose Juvenal Camino without advising him of his Miranda rights. An unschooled Camino made damning admissions— including creating a document helpful to the government—under verbal pressure.

The veteran cops then waited about a half-hour, moved the suspect to a different room, finally read him his rights and re-asked the same questions.

To explain away the two-step move, Rondou claimed he’d launched the intense, police headquarters interrogation without bothering to learn if Camino was a victim, witness or suspect. Never mind that SAPD internally listed the defendant as having onetime ties to the Hard Times gang. Or that patrol officers arrested him fleeing the crime scene in a car with its lights turned off. Rondou, who taught investigation strategies to fellow cops, alleged he didn’t realize he was speaking to a

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For Superior Court Judge John D. Conley, a former OCDA gang prosecutor, the key question in the Miranda dispute harkened back to Kennedy’s use of the word “deliberate.” Rondou testified he didn’t intentionally withhold the warning to gain unethical tactical advantage. Conley— who does not mask his pro-government tilt—accepted the assertion and admitted the Camino confession into evidence. He reasoned that the cop’s demeanor on the witness stand seemed so genuine he must

have been telling the truth.

When the issue landed at the state appellate court in 2010, a three-justice panel of Raymond Ikola, William Bedsworth and Richard Fybel enthusiastically backed Rondou, too. They declared, “Substantial evidence supports [Conley’s] finding that the officers did not deliberately use a two-step technique.” Were the justices privy to secret, supportive information? No, in their minds, the “substantial” evidence was unimpeachable: Rondou’s own cheating denials.

There were derivations in Rondou’s tactics. In a 2008 investigation, he questioned Damien Leonard Galarza and provided a Miranda warning only after already encouraging the suspect to selfincriminate. Defense lawyers once again viewed the incident as another two-step game, but they also believe the cop violated another constitutional tenet. Police are required to cease interrogations once the right to remain silent has been invoked. That’s not what happened to Galarza.

Here’s an abbreviated summary of that exchange: “I’m done [answering questions], man,” Galarza told Rondou and SAPD detective Charles Flynn.

Rondou replied, “You won’t talk to us anymore?”

Galarza: “I’m done.

I got nothing more to say. That’s all.”

Rondou: “Okay.”

Galarza: “I’m done.”

Rondou: “You don’t want to talk to us anymore?”

Galarza: “No, I’m through, man.”

Rondou: “You don’t like us? Talk to us.”

Galarza: “That’s all I got to say.”

Rondou: “Okay.”

Galarza: “I’m done.”

Rondou: “You’re done.” [Rondou then placed Galarza under arrest.]

“You want to talk to me. I’ll spend all night talking. . . .”

Galarza: “I’ll talk.

Rondou: “You want to talk to us?”

Saying he was tired, wanted to go home and was innocent, Galarza added, “Yeah, but I, I, homie, I don’t want to go to jail for murder.”

Galarza was eventually convicted for first-degree murder. Judge James A. Stotler—a former lawyer for the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, a politically influential police union—decided Galarza hadn’t intended to invoke his constitutional rights eight consecutive times to Rondou, as the record shows.

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hroughout most of modern history, Orange County lawenforcement officials maintained stellar reputations in the community, while citizens dismissed sporadic corruption scandals as freakish but nonalarming deviations from the norm. That image began to erode in late January 2014, when Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders filed a 505-page brief exposing the largest courthouse scandal in county history. Naming names, Sanders outlined how cops, sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors had been winning cases for decades by operating unconstitutional jailhouse scams with informants, burying evidence of their deeds and committing perjury when necessary.

A 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case known as Massiah established that the Constitution prohibits law-enforcement officials or their agents from interrogating pretrial defendants with legal representation about their charged crimes. Sanders discovered Orange County officials didn’t see the well-established ban as a law to respect, but rather one worthy of disingenuous lip service. While simultaneously

Nobody questions the use of informants to legitimately solve crimes, but Sanders found long-buried evidence of the tainted deals cops and informants made. For example, in February 2009, Rondou and Flynn met with Oscar Moriel, a Mexican Mafia serial killer.

Moriel, who would become one of the most prolific snitches in the Orange County jail system, wanted a sweetheart deal that would put him back on the street. The officers wanted evidence to claim they’d broken unsolved cases.

As the Weekly previously reported, a bombshell audio recording revealed how Moriel promised the quality of his testimony helping prosecutors depended solely on perks, though the governmentbacked reason for his snitch work was ultimately listed as a God-fearing conversion to living a law-abiding life.

“Options would be nice,” Moriel was recorded saying. “Right now, I’m in a place with no options. . . . I’m looking at a third strike. I’m looking at life in prison. So the more options I have to work with and to chose from, the better position I’ll be to think more clearly. . . . I might be able to help you out if my memory can fall back in place. It might not be able to fall back in place because it’s a long time ago. People forget.”

If properly enticed, he suggested he could become the government’s star wit-

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say?’” said Stotler. “I do not interpret that to be an invocation of the right to remain silent.”

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The offer proved enticing. With Rondou by his side, Flynn promised a deal, saying, “You’re going to get consideration for the level that you perform.”

Sanders described this as “pay for play” and noted that Rondou never disclosed the memory trade in two homicide cases in which Moriel testified.

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working on two death-penalty cases (People v. Scott Dekraai and People v. Daniel Wozniak), he pieced together a series of puzzling facts that unraveled the systemic use of benefits-seeking informants, who’d question unsuspecting targets and relay incriminating statements back to the government. Pretending Massiah hadn’t been violated, prosecution teams would then introduce the evidence into trials by swearing snitches collected information without their knowledge.

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It Takes Three » FROM PAGE 11 According to court records, special evidentiary hearings resulting from Sanders’ findings produced evidence of Rondou’s misleading testimony—“I don’t work [confidential informants]”—as well as his ties to numerous tainted cases, including: • In People v. Luis Vega, the detective left the 14-year-old defendant locked up for two years, long after obtaining convincing informant evidence of his innocence.

• In People v. Guillermo Brambila, the detective identified Henry Cabrera as a participant in a drive-by murder done by the Delhi criminal street gang.

Meanwhile, in a separate case, People v.

Henry Cabrera, Rondou colleague Detective Ronald Castillo successfully assured jurors that Cabrera belonged to the Highland Street gang, a lethal enemy to Delhi.

• In People v. Eric Ortiz, Rondou claimed he’d found a person who would testify that Ortiz confessed to a murder.

When those claims fell apart, the cop found a separate informant to make the same assertion. Those statements collapsed, too, and—what luck!—SAPD found a third individual who claimed he also managed to capture an Ortiz confession— one used to win a conviction that was later overturned when Superior Court Judge Richard M. King figured out he and a jury had been played.

But perhaps People v. Leonel Vega best demonstrated Rondou’s mindset when he asked veteran snitch Mark Cleveland, who also carried out jailhouse informationcollecting missions for District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, to violate Massiah.

Here’s a portion of the transcript: Rondou: Let’s cut to the chase, man. No sense playing games. Would you [snitch on Vega]?”

Cleveland: “Yeah, if the situation was right.”

Rondou: “The situation is right. . . . You know what I mean?”

Cleveland: “Yeah.”

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o allege Darrell Lynn Booth shot Terry Ross, Rondou formed an unholy alliance with someone he knew was undoubtedly tied to the killing, had been in the 7-Eleven parking lot during the crime, had run in the alley to the getaway vehicle and wore Jheri-curls at the time.

That man was the aforementioned Tommy Haslip, whose half-brother Michael had been assaulted hours before the attack on the Crips.

Six years after the murder, Haslip, a founder of the Bloods El gang in Santa Ana, moved out of state without ever having been interviewed by SAPD about the shooting. He got married and had six children by 2010, when U.S. marshals arrested him on a warrant from OCDA. There was no new solid evidence in the cold case, but deputy district attorney Geller nonetheless charged him with murder.

In April 2010, Rondou and a fellow detective flew to Arkansas to “take a run at Tommy Haslip and see what he had to say,” Geller later recalled in court. That run included the officers voicing an unmistakable willingness for him to implicate Booth as the shooter. Here’s an abbreviated version of their discussion: Haslip: I didn’t shoot anybody, sir.

Rondou: I agree with that . . . You’re stand-

ing next to the guy that’s doing the shooting and people think it’s you. That’s not fair.

The cop then claimed he sympathized with Haslip “being at the wrong place at the wrong time” and stated that “doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in trouble.” The ruse worked. He named Booth the shooter.

Rondou: How do you know it was Darrell?

Haslip: [Pause] . . . I don’t remember seeing him shoot. But I know he shot him.

Rondou repeated his question.

Haslip: [Pause] . . . I’m thinking.

Rondou: Take your time. We got all night.

Haslip: [Pause] . . . Can I get some water, please?

After pondering his situation, Haslip said he’d approached the Crips’ SUV without carrying a gun even though he knew

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o Sanders, corrective action is needed. He said, “OCDA turned a blind eye to Rondou’s conduct because he helped get convictions, and now it should be their burden

prove he didn’t cheat on every single case he investigated.”

The case now sits in a place fawningly cozy with Rondou: the state court of appeal in Santa Ana. In July, the parties offered oral arguments. Booth is seeking to overturn the conviction, while Kamala Harris’ California Attorney General’s office accepted Haslip’s statements and Honea’s identification as accurate.

“The denial of the new trial motion was rational because [Hawkins] may have had a strategic reason for choosing not to present a weak [alibi] defense,” Deputy AG Meagan J. Beale advised the justices. “The trial court found ‘that the defense was very competently and skillfully presented.’”

But Suzanne G. Wrubel, Booth’s Pacific Palisades-based appellate attorney, is equally passionate in insisting that a travesty of justice occurred. “The prosecution’s case was extremely weak, and [Hawkins] admitted he was ineffective by failing to investigate and produce critical defense witnesses that could have established that Booth was not involved in the shooting and that the prosecution’s chief witness was lying,” argued Wrubel, who says Haslip’s account defies common sense. “The only way that Strong, who was in the driver’s seat, and Ross, who was in the back seat, could have been hit by gunshots to the front of their bodies was if the shooting came from the front of the car [where Haslip was standing].”

The appeals court is scheduled to rule on Booth’s conviction in coming weeks.

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of Booth’s photo-lineup identification, saying, “Whatever.”

In his closing argument, Hawkins said, “The prosecution has presented a case to you which is based entirely on Tommy Haslip’s testimony.”

The deputy DA acknowledged that neither the Honea testimony nor Haslip’s contribution alone could meet the beyond-areasonable-doubt standard, but he believed that when used in conjunction, they produced “sufficient” evidence of guilt.

On Dec. 6, 2011, after less than a day of deliberations, the jury indicated it didn’t fully buy either side by convicting Booth of second-degree murder and rejecting the gun enhancement. They’d somehow believed Tommy Haslip’s placement of Booth at the crime scene, but not that he’d been the gunman.

Following the verdict, Judge Daniel J. Didier heard about unused alibi witnesses and Hawkins’ frank admission of botching the defense by rushing to trial, but he rejected a 2013 motion for a new trial filed by attorney Mitchell Haddad of Palm Desert. Adopting OCDA’s argument, Didier opined that Hawkins’ trial performance had been more than adequate. He sentenced Booth to a punishment of 15 years to life in prison.

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ost often defense attorneys delay trials to search for holes in the prosecution’s case. But Early Hawkins, Booth’s Huntington Beach-based lawyer, thought the charges were so “weak” he rejected a private investigator’s advice to delay the late-November 2011 trial while alibi evidence from 20 years earlier could be developed. Consequently, jurors didn’t learn that multiple witnesses said Booth couldn’t have been the shooter because they had been with Michael Haslip for four to six hours at a Riverside County Kaiser hospital following the Crips’ attack that prompted the murder. Michael, Tommy’s half-brother, confirmed the information for the defense. Michael Sellers, a panhandler who saw the killing, didn’t recognize

Booth as a participant and poked a hole in Tommy Haslip’s story, observing he saw no punches before the shooting and said the shooter fired while standing near the front of the SUV, where Haslip placed himself.

Ellis Bradford, who knew Booth from high school, claimed he witnessed the incident too and didn’t see Booth present. According to court records, Terrance Timms admitted his role in the crime, cleared Booth of involvement and named Haslip the killer.

Going into trial just three months after charges were filed, Hawkins believed he didn’t need an alibi defense when he could use a “cut-and-dry” strategy to “destroy” the government’s case. “They had one witness [Haslip], who I believe was a liar,” he explained in a 2015 post-trial hearing. “And I believe I could get a jury to not believe him, and if that were the case, then my client would walk.”

For the jury, Geller took the opposite stance about the credibility of Haslip, who pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and accepted a 14-year prison deal for testifying that Booth committed first-degree murder, deserving a prison term of 26 years to life.

“The bottom line is there’s absolutely no incentive—an absolute absence of incentive for [Tommy] Haslip to frame a family member in this case,” he said. “Why in the world is he laying it on his own flesh and blood, his own cousin, unless, in fact, it was true?

Unless, in fact, it was Mr. Booth who was [the shooter]?”

Geller also ridiculed Hawkins’ challenge

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his rivals were almost always armed. He recalled repeatedly punching Strong, who was sitting in the driver’s seat. That’s when he heard gunfire and supposedly saw muzzle flashes coming outside the passenger-side, rear-door area. Haslip claimed he, Booth, and two other cousins, Lemaine Timms and Terrance Timms, then ran back to the getaway car. As they fled, Booth put the weapon in the glove box and threatened to kill everyone if they didn’t keep their mouths shut, Haslip alleged.

Weeks after the Arkansas talk with Haslip, Rondou arrested 47-year-old Booth.

SAPD celebrated itself to the news media.

KCBS broadcast that “good, old-fashioned detective work” had unmasked a killer.

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The annual Tall Ships Festival at the Ocean Institute welcomes a fleet of historical ships to the Dana Point shores, a wondrous homage to California’s maritime traditions. To christen the nautical-themed weekend off right, patrons can celebrate at the special Sails ’n Ales Kickoff Party. Expect beer tastings from Valiant Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Bottle Logic and Mother Earth Brewing Co., plus various food trucks and the folkheavy sounds of L.A. Edwards, as well as the chance to party it up with the mermaids of Sheroes Entertainment. The event is open to all ages, so you can bring the junior sailors along to this seaside soiree.

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Jazz Night at Envy Lounge, 4647 Macarthur Blvd., Newport Beach, (949) 287-8270; envyloungeoc.com. 9 p.m.

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When it comes to magicians, it’s hard not to think of Arrested Development’s Alliance of Magicians, who simply demanded to be taken seriously. While the cadre of illusionists performing today at RibTrader aren’t all that strict about their image, they are talented and serious about their craft, bringing you a full-on variety show of live comedy and magical entertainment.These magicians are either working on new acts, amateurs getting the hang of performing before an audience or surprise guests. Either way, it won’t be hard to engage with this pack, who definitely have a bit more than some trick cards up their sleeve.

OC Magic Showcase at RibTrader, 2710 E. Chapman Ave., Orange, (714) 744-9288; www.ribtrader.com. 7 p.m.

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How many people can say their exercise routine includes getting free prizes? That’s more or less the conceit of today’s Adventure Run, a 60-minute running and/or walking course that allows attendees to bring their friends and collect raffle tickets for a chance to win up to $3,000 in prizes along the way to the finish line. Once there, they can party it up and collect even more raffle tickets and libations at the beer garden; post-Adventure Run, the location of the after-party will be announced to attendees, who can go to another avenue to work up a sweat. Arrive early to register, then get into the groove of this low-key, fun fitness escape.

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Speak It Easy: Creative Food for the Soul at Callaloo Caribbean Kitchen, 4137 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 230-7530; callaloocaribbeankitchen.net. 7:15 p.m.

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melting smoked gouda, cradled by leafy lettuce, and snug inside a shiny onion bun, the burger feels as if it’s worth exactly that much. Most important of all: The meat is griddle-seared just until the middle reaches a rosy shade of pink. When you eat it, the beef doesn’t crumble in the mouth— it melts as though it’s steak tartare.

Though PRIME sells some gardenvariety shoestring fries separately for $4, the burger doesn’t actually need them. It already comes with a refreshing housemade pickle that offsets the grease as though it were designed to do just that.

Customers order the fries anyway, often ignoring the excellent potato salad that has bits of Benton’s bacon and diced red onions. With big chunks of skin-on boiled potatoes coarsely tossed in just the right amount of dressing and sold for the exact same price as the fries, it’s one of the better potato salads outside a Korean barbecue.

The restaurant bills itself as a Southern eatery, but apart from the prodigious use of the Benton’s bacon, it doesn’t seem committed or tied to the label. The slowroasted boar it served with grits one week has since been diverted into the “boaritas” tacos, its version of carnitas. In fact, if you judge PRIME by most of the menu items, it’s less Southern and more south of the border. It’s constantly running out of the elote (one of its most popular side dishes), and when you order the mac and cheese, you get a substantial plate of white-Cheddar-slicked orecchiette pasta with some fried potatoes and a big mound of crumbled green chorizo on the side.

It’s one of PRIME’s best and most filling meals. Skip the unmemorable fish tacos, though; they’re kind of dry. Opt instead

for the wonderful smoked-brisket tamales zigzagged with tangy barbecue mole sauce that might warrant a redefinition of the term “Tex-Mex.” Then there are dishes so good that you don’t care where they came from. If it weren’t served on a paper plate, the pork and apples—two slender pieces of pork pan-fried as though chicken, covered in a bacon-flecked gravy, and served with a cup of cognac-spiked applesauce—could pass as a Top Chef-level dish. And so would the salmon bruschetta, since it’s essentially a perfectly seared salmon steak crowned with peaches, paired with sautéed spinach, and drizzled with a complementary cream sauce. Halfway through, you forget there’s a piece of griddle-toasted bread at the bottom.

Despite these gourmet dishes, eating at PRIME still feels akin to being invited to a neighbor’s backyard barbecue. The tables are covered in butcher paper; the napkins are tied in twine. And when you want a refill of the fruit-infused waters, you get up to pour it yourself from sweaty jugs into red Solo cups.

A trio of terrific pudding-based desserts, ranging from strawberry shortcake and banana pudding to s’mores, comes in disposable plastic cups and tastes as if somebody’s mom made it for a picnic. It’s the kind of thing that a person might get nostalgic about 60 years from now—and perhaps be wistful for the time when burgers cost only $11.

PRIME BY SHENANDOAH 3701 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 4390605; primebyshenandoah.com. Open Tues.Sat., 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

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ocated on a Belmont Heights sidewalk and smack in the middle of a residential street next to apartments and houses, PRIME is little more than a curbside walk-up window. It has a small seating area shaded by umbrellas in a patio no larger than a twocar driveway. According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, this shack by the road has been home to eateries in one form or another since the 1950s. Back when it first opened, it was called Whistle Stop, which doled out burgers for 11 cents and became something of a local landmark.

In the late ’90s, another burger joint, MVP, took over the spot. And last summer, when MVP moved to bigger digs on Retro Row, a new set of owners restored the shack and the Whistle Stop name.

Fueled by nostalgia, the new owners not only revived the signature hand-smashed burgers the first Whistle Stop served, but also the blinking-arrow sign original to the property. Unfortunately, this second incarnation of Whistle Stop didn’t last long. It changed ownership earlier this year and closed permanently shortly thereafter. But the upgrades made to the shack remained.

When the family that owns Shenandoah at the Arbor came in and opened the spot as PRIME about a month ago, they inherited the blinking-arrow sign as well as the red-white-and-blue fence that walled off the patio from the residential property behind the structure. PRIME still offers burgers on its menu—dripping, greasy ones made from Piedmontese beef smashed to twice the thickness of an In-N-Out patty—but they’re now $11, not 11 cents. Still, since it’s covered by slow-

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ast month, I wrote a rant online that defended the honor of Mexican-American chefs, the young men and women who dare play around with abuelita’s carnitas recipe to create dishes hailed by critics but reviled by many Mexicans as somehow not “authentic.” Nothing against other chefs in OC, but anything I can do to raise the profiles of those culinary Zapatas—Carlos Salgado and Roland Rubalcava at Taco Maria, Gabriel Zambrano at Soho Taco, Anepalco’s Danny Godinez, and precious few others in OC—I absolutely will because our people gotta work some things out, you know? And in that vein, let me praise Urbana in Anaheim.

It just celebrated a year in a food hall down the street from where I grew up, initially wowing people with an awesome cocktail menu and keeping them with dishes that have improved with time.

Customers usually gorge on the tacos, and they’re good—try the marlin taco, as it’s one of few sit-down places in OC to offer the beautiful fish. But what I like best about Urbana—and what relates its chefs back to my rant—is how they consistently nail working-class and high-end Mexican food. So not only will it offer paisa dishes like the Gringa (a glorified quesadilla) and aguachile straight outta Sinaloa, the kitchen will mix it up with a silky squid-ink risotto or pork-belly tacos that approximate the juiciness of al pastor. The street dog, while delicious, is a bit too food-porn-y (instead of burying your hot dog in a thick bread, do like Tucson and get a smaller, lighter bolillo), but the flavors work. And the pozole de camarón, when on the menu, is one of the best Mexican dishes in OC right now.

Urbana’s happy hour is when to visit, but make sure to enjoy a full dinner amidst the chill music and great artwork.

And full disclosure: It once offered a drink named after my ¡Ask a Mexican! column on the menu. I appreciated the gesture, but I refused to visit because of that— conflict of interest, you know? Now, with the drink long gone, I’m going at least weekly, excited for the desmadre ahead.

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ight around the time customers stopped going to Bambuco, Long Beach’s then-only Colombian restaurant, El Paisa opened as a spacious, superior alternative. The quality and portion sizes of arepas and bandejas at poor Bambuco had been rapidly declining since we reviewed it a few THE ULTIMATE years ago, and the lack of COMBO PLATE business (more likely due to its isolated Westside, portSARAH BENNETT adjacent locale than anything else) caused a steep increase in prices.

Bambuco closed sometime in late 2014 ONG EACH UNCH (RIP), and the location is now a Nayaritstyle seafood restaurant, leaving El Paisa to » SARAH BENNETT reign supreme as Long Beach’s only—and thankfully best—Colombian restaurant. frutería at which newbies to the cuisine can It’s a title the East Coast-bred owners discover its complexities alongside colomdon’t take lightly, and over the past year bianos getting a taste of home, the place is and a half, they’ve succeeded in making a miniature grocery store (where you can El Paisa a one-stop cultural shop that’s buy imported goods such as coffee, spices, worth the drive (yes, even from Orange candies, toys and clothes), a panadería that County) for the area’s small-but-proud keeps a display case stocked with everyColombian community. The hallmarks of thing from pan de coco to buñuelos, and typical Colombian cooking are all on the an event space that often hosts Colombian menu here: loaded bandejas, those smorgasbord platters that usually include some singers and other excuses for Colombians to get together and hang out. (And just in combination of meat (beef ), meat (chocase your cellphone is about to die when rizo), more meat (fried pork belly), fried eggs, beans, rice, arepas and avocado; vari- you enter El Paisa, there’s a charging station on the counter because . . . why not?) ous cuts of beef and pork either drenched If the worth of a good ethnic restaurant in spice-rich salsa de criolla or served can be gleaned by the percentage of peostill-sizzling on cast-iron skillets; and, for ple of that ethnicity who dine there, then snacks, the nation’s signature deep-fried El Paisa is pure gold. Colombian couples empanadas, golden yellow and stuffed rattling off conversations in the country’s with spiced ground beef and chicken. distinctive accent while on their lunch But then, El Paisa goes beyond, with breaks greet the owners by first name, entire portions of the menu dedicated to the and entire Colombian families have been seafood from Colombia’s coastal regions, known to treat the restaurant as their own such as whole fried red snappers, shrimp dining room, lingering for hours as they placed upright, as if dancing, on a plate eat full, multicourse, traditional dinners. of creamy garlic sauce, and some sort of Gabachas and other non-colombianos such South American jambalaya loaded with as myself are not an uncommon sight, but mussels and clams and served with a juicy we are definitely not the target audience. half pollo à la brasa on the side. Every meal This is saying something now that Long comes with a small side salad, and if there Beach’s only Colombian restaurant isn’t are enough people at the table, you’ll likely buried halfway into the Westside indusalso net at least a few servings of Colomtrial zone, but is instead in the heart of the bia’s plentiful side dishes: mushy grilled city’s densely populated Eastside. Where plantains, soft white rice and the country’s famous frijoles, made here with giant stewed Bambuco failed to connect with either Colombians or outsiders, El Paisa is thrivred beans, flavored with cumin, achiote ing with a space that welcomes both. powder and—you guessed it—more meat.

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Thinking about why Son of Zorn creators Reed Agnew and Eli Jorné, who also co-wrote “Return to Orange County,” do not have a live person playing Zorn, I came to the conclusion their hybrid is full of winking-at-the-audience potential, as their previous show Wilfred did with Jason Gann in a dog suit. A character who is muscular; dons long, red locks; and wears only boots, briefs and a thick belt that wraps around his waist and chest also presents a casting problem since the Rock is busy doing Ballers.

What we get instead for the Zorn toon is the voice of Jason Sudeikis, who speaks with just the right mix of heroism, self-importance and ulterior-motive-making. From Saturday Night Live, Horrible Bosses and We Are the Millers, we already know Sudeikis is a master at comic timing and shading.

What brings his Zorn to the OC (bitch) is the 17th birthday of his son Alangulon (who goes by “Alan” and is played by 21 Jump Street’s Johnny Pemberton), but what the superhero really wants to do is reinsert himself permanently into the lives of his boy and former wife. However, much changed during Zorn’s decade apart from his family. His ex-wife (Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Cheryl Hines) now has a fiancé (SNL’s Tim Meadows), and Alan is

a sensitive vegetarian not given, like dad, to wielding a mighty sword to slice off the heads of foes, animal and humanoid alike.

However, “Return to Orange County” ends with a shot that hints at much more to come from Alan (thus, the program’s title).

I’m bullish on Son of Zorn maintaining the momentum in future episodes. First, I’d watch just about anything with this cast, which also includes the delightfully deadpan Artemis Pebdani of Scandal and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame. Second, the show is solid behind the camera.

Executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directed Pemberton in the surprisingly hilarious 21 Jump Street.

Another executive producer is Seth Cohen— not the wiseacre teen character played by Adam Brody on The O.C., but, along with Lord and Miller, an executive producer on Fox’s live-action comedy hit The Last Man On Earth, which co-stars Sudeikis. Eric Appel, who directed “Return to Orange County,” is also an executive producer on Zorn and Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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Oliver Stone. Wednesday’s one-night-only show is presented by Open Road Films, the indie studio producing the flick, and Fathom Events, which beams live performances into movie theaters.

In the thriller that opens nationwide Friday, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the former CIA contractor and controversial whistleblower who famously leaked classified information to the media. Sadly, West Coast theaters get Stone, speaking from New York, and Snowden, via Skype from Russia, on tape delay, unlike the rest of the country. It could still be a kick in the britches, though.

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The cancellation, coupled with Son of Zorn being set in Orange County, which Fox has a track record of disparaging (check the Weekly archives for my long-ago column “The O.C. Watch” for details), means I should really hate the network’s new animated/live-action mash-up. Alas, I laughed early and often while viewing the pilot episode, “Return to Orange County.”

Setting the show here, even fictionally, services the fish-out-of-water comedy.

“Return to Orange County” begins in the faraway Pacific island Zephyria, which is totally animated in a style reminiscent of the mid-1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoons Birdman and The Herculoids. Zorn, “the Defender of Zephyria,” leaves to reunite with his estranged family in a place that is the exact opposite of his brutal world.

Cut to the upscale, suburban, vanilla County of Orange. The people, place and things of Zephyria are all animated, all the time, and though living in Orange County can sometimes feel as if we’re stuck in a cartoon, it is presented through

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Cinema Orange, the free film program put on by the Orange County Museum of Art and the Newport Beach Film Festival, presents Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary on the art (and artist) collector who was ahead of the time (20th century) she helped to define. (For more on the film, see Marsha McCreadie’s Nove. 2, 2015, Weekly review, “She Built the

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Orange County Museum of Art, 850 San Clemente Dr., Newport Beach, (949) 759-1122. Fri., 7 p.m. Free (as is museum admission).

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asked the poster for the 1962 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial hebephilia novel. Answer: Kubrick hired Nabokov to write the screenplay, filmed far away from Hollywood, politicked various censorship organizations and compromised when he had to. Did somebody say “calculated”? The then-little-known filmmaker and his producing partner bought the film rights for $150,000— before the novel found an American publisher and became a best-seller in 1958. Fullerton Main Library, Osborne Auditorium, Room B, 353 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, (714) 738.6327.

Thurs., Sept. 15, 1 p.m. Free.

Sonic Sea. Presented by EarthShare California, the documentary posits that oceans are a sonic symphony and their sounds are essential to the survival and prosperity of marine life.

But as the footage shows, manmade ocean noise threatens this fragile world. Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Imaginary Forces, in association with the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Diamond Docs, the film is narrated by actress Rachel McAdams; features music by Sting; and includes as talking heads Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Paul Spong, Dr. Christopher Clark and Jean-Michel Cousteau. The Guidance Center Long Beach, 1301 Pine Ave., Long Beach, (562) 595-1159; www.sonicsea.org.

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Now in its 23rd year, Long Beach’s oldest continuous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning film festival kicks off with C. Fitz’s documentary Jewel’s Catch One, which celebrates the oldest black-owned disco in America and its owner, Jewel ThaisWilliams; Bobby R. Poirier’s short The Radical Fairy Prince: A Love Story; and Rob Williams’ dramedy Shared Rooms, which intertwines the stories of six gay men. Audience Q&As with casts and crews follow. The fest continues Friday through Sunday with many, many more films, after-parties and more. Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435; also at LGBTQ Center of Long Beach, 2017 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 434-4455; www.qfilmslongbeach.com. Thurs.Sun., Sept. 8-11. Visit the website for show times. $12; five-film pass, $50; all-access pass, $150.

Made In Venice. Forty-plus years of skateboarding in Venice—from the formation of the iconic Z-Boys to the creation of the iconic Venice Skatepark—are captured in Jonathan Penson’s new documentary.

Krikorian Buena Park Metroplex 18, 8290 La Palma Ave., Buena Park, (714) 826-7469; also at Krikorian San Clemente Cinema 6, 641 B Camino de los Mares, San Clemente, (949) 661SHOW. Thurs., Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. Call for ticket prices.

mostly Latino high school in Phoenix winning first place over M.I.T. in the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center’s 2004 remotely operated vehicle competition (MATE ROV).

As revealed in Joshua Davis’ Wired magazine article “La Vida Robot,” which was the basis for director Sean McNamara and screenwriter Elissa Matsueda’s film, three of the high school students were undocumented from Mexico. George Lopez plays the teacher who leads them to the competition, although in real-life, two other non-Latino instructors were also part of the group. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Sun., 11 a.m. $1-$5.

After Auschwitz. Remember the six women who shared their unforgettable stories of surviving the Holocaust in Jon Kean’s 2007 documentary, Swimming In Auschwitz? The Santa Monica-based filmmaker shoots the next chapters in the stories of the ladies, each of whom immigrated to the United States, settled in Los Angeles, built new lives—and found themselves asking, “Why did I survive?” This screening is presented by Chapman University’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education. Chapman University, Memorial Hall, 1 University Dr., Orange, (714) 532-7760. Tues., 7 p.m. Free.

Lolita. Three Kubrick films in one Special Screenings? I’m in heaven! “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?”

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Because as [we come] to work and we’re listening to or reading the news, we can’t help but be caught up in how things have changed and how they’re still the same.”

An obvious similarity is complicated, often-divisive racial relations. And an obvious difference is the way government worked—and doesn’t. “This was an era when the art of compromise was really in practice,” Masterson says.

“Johnson was a great politician, and one of his skills was that he was able to get people to find a common ground. But currently, we may have lost our ability to compromise. Congress is so frozen by intractable positions that the way legislation gets made seems almost crippled.

So it’s interesting to see [compromise] in practice. Everyone—from Dr. King to Northern liberals and Southern democrats—lost something critical and were upset about the result, but when you look back, the result had a huge impact on society that, I think, was positive.”

All the Way offers a challenge not only with its large cast and scope, but also with the issue of audience familiarity.

Even if people didn’t live during the era depicted, most have some awareness of several of the characters, which presents a stylistic hurdle. “You need to be as true to the spirit of these people as possible, to be evocative of the historical characters without being slavishly true to them,” Masterson says. “And that’s part of the stylistic balance of doing this play. It takes very skilled, passionate actors to pull that off.”

According to Masterson, cast members studied their characters in depth, whether by watching archival footage or plowing through the four-volume biography of Johnson by Robert Caro that Schenkkan used as a template. “The first thing you want to get right is the accent,” Masterson says. “You don’t want to do an impersonation, something that skims the surface by capturing a few different mannerisms or patterns of speech. That’s what comedians do, and it is evocative of the person you’re imitating. But that’s not enough in a play. You have to understand the characters’ motivations, their psychology. But [the actors] also need to know their characters’ personality, their traits, what made them who they were.”

As for those who think they need not bother with a staged version after watching the Emmy-nominated film starring Cranston?

“First and fundamentally, this is a piece of theater,” Masterson says. “And while it lends itself to making a film, with short episodic scenes that seem cinematic, when you see it onstage, it’s a very different experience. So, for those who have seen the movie, [this production is] a great opportunity to experience the power of theater.”

ALL THE WAY at South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 708-5555; www.scr. org. Tues.-Wed., 7:30 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2:30 & 8 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.

Through Oct. 2. $22-$79.

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omade-wearing hombres and rucas have been pining for Santa Anabased hair-care brand Suavecito to open a brick-and-mortar for years, and that day is about to come. The flagship store, scheduled for a mid-September grand opening, carries all of the company’s grooming and clothing products from both the Suavecito and Suavecita brands in one place, lumped together with its headquarters, factory, and shipping and receiving sections in a giant warehouse behind Iglesia de Cristo church in Santa Ana. Suavecito products have always been carried in numerous salons and clothing stores, but Suavecito executive secretary J-Bird says the decision to finally open a storefront was simply based on demand.

“People locally were always asking us, ‘When are you going to open a store?’” he says. “And it’s funny: When we released the news [about our store opening] on Instagram and all our social media, people were like, ‘Great! Now open one in San Antonio!’ or ‘Now open one in Florida!’”

The warehouse, formerly an abandoned Carpenters Union building, is located across the street from the neighborhood J-Bird and fellow Suavecito chingones Tony and Pete Adame grew up in. Once you enter, you’re greeted by giant shelves displaying memorabilia such as shirts, mugs and toys emblazoned with its greaser skeleton mascot. Suavecito products are easy to spot, but Suavecita ones, which you’d never find in stores or in public except at booths in rockabilly-themed festivals, can be found deeper into the store by the cash register. There are hair clips, body sprays, shower gels, pomade and new lipstick shades, including a soft nude color fittingly named “Santa Ana.” In the works, according to J-Bird, is a space in the showroom to house the company’s souped-up, sponsored trophy trucks, as well as holding meetings for wholesale buyers and hosting art shows.

The first such show, which will feature fine art by tattooers such as local hero Tim Hendricks, is set for Nov. 19.

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If only.

Yet, that’s what we had 50 years ago, with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office. And although the decade would be marred by riots, the Vietnam War and conflict at every level, for one brief, shining moment, American government got shit done. The accidental president worked with both sides of Congress his first few years in office, twisting arms and bellowing obscenities in determined pursuit of monumental legislation, much of it inherited from his predecessor. And while some would argue that LBJ’s Great Society did more long-term damage to the country than helped it (Welfare State anyone?), no one could argue that the force of his stubborn and strong personality played a pivotal factor in fundamentally altering America.

Johnson’s personality, as well as perhaps his signature achievement—persuading Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964—is the backdrop of Robert Schenkkan’s sprawling, epic play, All the Way, which kicks off South Coast Repertory’s 2016-17 season. How sprawling and epic? Try 18 actors playing some 50 characters with more than 150 costumes and wigs. The play, which won the Tony Award in 2014 and was recently turned into an HBO film starring Bryan Cranston, features iconic characters including Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover, along with a slew of other notables such as Robert McNamara, Stokely Carmichael, George Wallace and Hubert Humphrey.

It’s a big show with an enormous canvas, following Johnson’s ascendancy in November 1963 to his landslide election victory the next November. But it’s all rooted in the complicated psychology of a man who is portrayed as both needy and vulnerable, a major reason why it’s much more a play than a history lesson. And though it is steeped in events a half-century old, it’s also quite contemporary, according to SCR Artistic Director Marc Masterson, who also directs this production.

“The plays deals with the passage of civil-rights legislation and the political circumstances and personalities involved, but I think it also has a lot to say about the political world we live in today,” Masterson says. “At a time when our country is in the middle of a presidential election, it gives people, like myself and our cast, a lot to reflect on.

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The Brawl of the Century

When Ice Cube left his record label and trash-talked his replacements, a public fight of Old West proportions broke out

BY BEN WESTHOFF

The story of the 1990 New Music Seminar brawl has been whispered about for decades but never fully told—until now. This excerpt comes from Ben Westhoff’s upcoming book Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, which focuses on LA gangsta rap.

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ce Cube left N.W.A in 1989, alleging he hadn’t been paid what he was worth. Considering Cube’s songwriting chops and mammoth persona, it was a big loss for the group and its label, Ruthless Records.

The rapper Eazy-E, who owned Ruthless, hoped a recent signing would fill the void: the gangsta-rap group Above the Law. Hailing from Pomona, they were nearly as tough as their image.

Front man Greg Hutchinson is known as Cold 187um, referencing the California penal code for murder. (The “um” means “untouchable murder” and is also a pronunciation cue for the number 7, “sevum,” similar to how, say, “5th” means “fifth.”) The group was rounded out by DJ Total K-Oss and rapper/producer KMG the Illustrator.

Cold 187um and Ice Cube were label mates briefly, and initially, they were tight. Cold 187um respected Cube’s style.

But there was a difference: If Cube were rapping stories of the ne’er-do-wells he observed growing up relatively middleclass in South Central, Cold 187um and his group mates were describing their own upbringings. “We created Above the Law with street money,” Cold 187um told me.

With Cube and N.W.A now at odds, Above the Law sided firmly with the latter camp.

During the promotion of the group’s debut, Livin’ Like Hustlers, released in 1990, Above the Law escalated tensions with Cube. In a Los Angeles Times interview that April with Jonathan Gold, Go Mack questioned Cube’s street credentials.

He said Cube’s rowdy first-person rhymes were actually about their lifestyles.

Cube shrugged off the criticism. “New jacks [poseurs] from Pomona should only talk about the 10 freeway,” he responded, referencing the transportation artery that cuts through Above the Law’s home base.

Upon the article’s publication, Ruthless owner Eazy-E called up Cold 187um. “Did you read the paper?” Eazy asked him. “He trying to get his clown on.”

“I’m gonna beat your boy up when I see him,” Cold 187um responded.

“Don’t do it, homie,” cautioned Eazy.

Insisted Cold 187um, “I’mma beat his ass.”

As it turned out, he would see Ice

Cube that very night—April 7, 1990—at the Anaheim Celebrity Theatre, for a show headlined by Above the Law. The 2,500-seat venue was an important one for Ruthless acts, who had a hard time finding places to let them play. Cube was there backstage, doing a magazine interview, and he and Cold 187um exchanged words in the hallway. Initially, nothing came of it, but then Cube popped into Cold 187um’s dressing room, addressing him from the doorway.

“I guess he tried to come to my dressing room to apologize to me, but I’m thinking he still wanna fight,” Cold 187um remembered. “Soon as he stepped in my dressing room, he said, ‘What’s up?’ and I give him a right. He tried to give me something, and I give him another left. And then security rushed us.”

“They were throwing punches,” said Krazy Dee, an early N.W.A affiliate who witnessed the altercation. “We grabbed Cube and said, ‘This isn’t the place.’”

Accounts of the damage vary. “Cube had a little scratch on him,” said his friend J-Dee. After leaving N.W.A, Cube recruited reinforcements: Da Lench Mob. The South Central-based crew were rappers, activists and tough dudes you shouldn’t fuck with, all at the same time. The group consisted of Cube’s high-school friend T-Bone, Cube’s childhood rhyming partner J-Dee, and J-Dee’s friend Shorty, who was initially brought on for security after release from Corcoran state prison on a robbery conviction. J-Dee and Shorty were tatted-up Crips, and the trio made for an intimidating presence.

They came with Cube to the Marriott Marquis in Times Square for the 1990 New Music Seminar. The four-star hotel had no idea what was about to hit it.

That July some 7,000 music-industry types descended upon the annual conference to network and listen to speakers. Cube himself spoke on a panel about the ongoing media controversy over hip-hop lyrics.

Da Lench Mob were hoping to prevent a reprise of the Anaheim Celebrity Theatre fight. Their crew also included Cube’s producer Sir Jinx, a not-yet-famous Coolio, 6.5-foot rapper King Sun, and numerous Sun affiliates from the hip-hop activist group Zulu Nation, who had joined them with the intention of providing moral support, not to rumble, “We didn’t know it was going to be like West Side Story,” said Sir Jinx.

Above the Law was also rolling deep at the seminar, with rapper Kokane and a

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large contingency of locally based affiliates. The majority of the seminar passed without incident. But just before the final panel, the two Los Angeles crews encountered each other.

“They were like, ‘Wassup?’” remembered Cold 187um. “I was like, ‘Nuthin’, but if you want to make it something, we can make it something.’” The camps soon encountered each other again on the Marriott’s escalators, one going up and one going down.

By this time, Cube had left to speak on the panel. “We sent Cube out. We told him disappear—we don’t want you to get in no trouble; we got this,” J-Dee said.

The parties agreed to fight in a bathroom, away from cameras. But they didn’t make it, instead squaring off amid the terrified convention crowd, who scampered off. Shorty remembered tossing the first punch at Above the Law’s Total K-Oss, and J-Dee took on KMG the Illustrator.

“Then the melee exploded,” said J-Dee. Something like one of those old-timey saloon fights, chairs were flipped and furniture went flying. King Sun picked up a long banquet table—“like the Incredible Hulk,” said Shorty—and smashed people with it. T-Bone lost his Air Jordans in a wrestling match.

At some point, Cube emerged from his panel to witness the chaos, but he didn’t participate in the fight. The squabble continued until Ice-T and Afrika Bambaataa emerged and warned them that the police were coming, at which point everyone

scattered. T-Bone cut out via a side door and found himself in the middle of Times Square, with only socks covering his feet.

When I talked to Cube about it, 25 years after the fact, the incident no longer felt so raw. “I was more upset that we came all the way to New York—finally getting the respect we deserve—and we fucking up their seminar,” he said.

Who won the fight? “Da Lench Mob got they ass rolled up,” Kokane told me.

“Rolled up.”

Not true, counters J-Dee, who maintains that Above the Law were “lumped up” and sought medical attention.

Shorty noted that Da Lench Mob’s aggression had its intended effect: “After that, they left Cube alone.”

Cold 187um chalked the whole thing up to young artists feeling the pressure. “We [were] kids,” he said.

J-Dee said rapper WC quashed the beef at his listening party the next year. “[Cold 187um] and I shook hands and embraced each other. . . . He said they did that to show loyalty to Eazy,” he said.

Cold 187um added that he and Cube later performed together.

“I talked to KMG before he died,” in 2012, reportedly of a heart attack, said J-Dee. “We laughed about this.”

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From hardcore to shoegaze, Title Fight pledge to remain versatile

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rom their early efforts as a melodic hardcore band to their recent foray into shoegaze, Title Fight have had an active, versatile career.

The Kingston, Pennsylvania-based band’s first releases were melodic hardcore in the most literal sense; early singles were exercises in sheer musical endurance that married anthemic vocal hooks to breakneck rhythms and layers of cacophonous guitar. Their first proper LP, Shed, signaled artistic growth—the songs were longer, the melodies became more refined, and the lyrics took on an anxious, existential weight.

In late 2012, they released their sophomore LP, Floral Green. As with many great albums that were ahead of their time, it threatened to alienate its creator’s core fanbase. Title Fight had dialed down their sound, borrowing more from alternative rock and bookish emo than hardcore, and audiences accustomed to windmilling at their shows weren’t really sure what to think. “It took a while for those songs to sink in with people,” says Ned Russin, the group’s bassist and co-lead vocalist. “We toured [in support of Floral Green] with Pianos Become the Teeth, and the Shed songs did really well, but the Floral Green songs would only do okay. It was hit or miss, and we never really knew what we were getting into when we would play a new song.”

Only a few months after the release of Floral Green, during a stretch of dates that saw Title Fight open for punk giants Quicksand, a paper airplane struck Russin mid-show. “It said, ‘You are the worst fucking opening band I’ve ever paid $30 to see in my entire life,’” he recalls. “There was some backlash [to Floral Green], and I’m not going to say that [those sort of things] don’t take up space in my mind— because they do. I remember that note because it sucked and hurt my feelings, but

at the end of the day, it’s not going to stop us from doing what we’re going to do.”

But most fans came to accept the band’s move into more tuneful territory. “We did a tour a year after the record came out with Balance and Composure, and by then, the Floral Green songs were getting the same reaction, if not a better reaction, than the songs we would play off Shed,” Russin says.

In early 2015, Title Fight released their third LP, Hyperview, challenging fan expectations again. The first track, “Murder Your Memory,” begins with a trickle of reversed guitar before abruptly cascading into a reverb-laden, dream pop dirge. On more aggressive songs, such as “Chlorine” and “Rose of Sharon,” the group plaster their signature, throaty punk with the warbling aesthetic of early British shoegaze. “Right now, the Hyperview songs are sort of in the same boat that [the songs on Floral Green] were in at first,” says Russin. “People react to this new stuff really differently, and I like that. It creates a cool mood throughout the set because there are moments of extreme energy, and then there are moments of contemplation.”

Despite the stylistic makeovers, Title Fight have largely retained their fan base.

With the exception of paper-airplanechucking hardcore dogmatists, everyone grows up. “It’s never been our intention to alienate people or ‘move beyond’ people,” says Russin. “I guess the goal of being in a band in the long term could be reduced to ‘you want to grow, and you want people to grow with you.’ We’re fortunate that enough people have grown with us.”

TITLE FIGHT perform with Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive, Underoath, and many more at Chain Fest at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; www.observatoryoc.com. Sept. 17, noon. $50; VIP, $199. All ages.

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creeching feedback echoed through the dark, sticker-filled Doll Hut on some cold night in the early days of the recession. The smell of piss and stale beer emanated from everything and clung to my smoke-drenched cardigan, even as the crisp air begged to freshen everything within its reach. I stumbled out of the bathroom just as Last Gang vocalist Brenna Red looked up from tuning her cream Telecaster and shook pieces of her overgrown Mohawk from her pale face—half Joe Strummer, half Courtney Love.

I looked at my flip phone, saw the time, and must have looked a little stressed-out and definitely fucked-up from the stage. Red looked at me sympathetically and said, “No matter what, we’re both gonna be tired and miserable at work tomorrow, so we might as well make the most out of tonight,” and proceeded to blow my mind with some of the most arresting live punk hooks and energy I’d ever witnessed behind the Orange Curtain.

Flash-forward nearly a decade, and Red remains a force to be reckoned with, sporting brightly dyed hair and an arsenal of guitars cool enough to make South County dads bow down in jealousy. These days, the Last Gang are revered for their infectious energy and punk-meets-polished aesthetic, still packing the old-school punch that made them staples of OC punk-flier lineups in the mid-aughts. Red, longtime friend and drummer Robert Wantland and new addition Sean Viele are kicking ass intentionally and collaboratively, promoting their recent EP, The Split, and gearing up to release their first full-length album since 2006, tentatively titled Salvation for Wolves.

“Our music is relatable,” says Red, a punk veteran and multi-instrumentalist from Stanton who formed the Last Gang in 2004. The band went on hiatus in 2011, reforming two years later, with

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“When Brenna and I decided to start the band up again, I told her this time was going to be different,” Wantland says.

As a songwriter, he hoped to stay true to their punk roots while expanding what the group could do in the medium. Before reforming, Red wrote most of the musical material on her own, a habit she was finally ready to challenge. She and Wantland worked on close to 80 potential demos, boiling the ideas down to 10 solid arrangements. They loved some of them so much that they decided to put two on a split with Bristol to Memory, which was released in July. Last month, the Last Gang finally started production on their new full-length at Maple Studios in Santa Ana with producer and engineer Cameron Webb and editor Sergio Chavez.

Each song on the album has its own identity.

“Karla,” for example, is a tribute to Karla Munoz, a Santa Ana woman tragically killed in a motorcycle accident in 2013. “If you knew Karla, you understand how hard her death was,” Red says.

“She was absolutely perfect. . . . It doesn’t feel like she can really be gone.” In addition to pulling out all the stops themselves, the Last Gang even managed to get Motörhead guitarist Phil “Wizzo” Campbell to shred a solo over a track on Salvation for Wolves.

The Last Gang have grown up: Their punk angst has matured instead of going stale or sour, their tastes refined and their sights sharpened.

“Our new music is [still] punk at its core,” Red says. “It’s punk, and it has a purpose.”

Hey, Orange County/Long Beach musicians & bands! Mail your music, contact info, high-res photos & impending show dates for possible review to: Locals Only, OC Weekly, 18475 Bandilier Cir., Fountain Valley, CA, 92708. Or email your link to: localsonly@ocweekly.com.

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BLONDIE: 7:30 p.m., $64-$145. Wally Parks NHRA

Motorsports Museum, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, (909) 622-2133; museum.nhra.com.

DJ ESCO: 8 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

FIFTH HARMONY: 7 p.m., $19.95-$71.95. Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, 8800 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine, (949) 855-8095; irvineamp.com.

JULIETTE LEWIS: 8 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

LUNEAUX AND GRIM SLIPPERS: 8:30 p.m., $10.

Diego’s Rock-N-Roll Bar & Eats, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; rockandrollbardtsa.com.

MICK ADAMS & THE STONES: Rolling Stones tribute, 8 p.m. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 4968930; thecoachhouse.com.

RIDE THE UNIVERSE: 9 p.m., free before 10 p.m.; $5 after. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

SEGA GENECIDE: 10 p.m. La Cave, 1695 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, (949) 646-7944; lacaverestaurant.com.

THE VIBRATORS: 9 p.m. Underground DTSA, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; underground-dtsa.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 10

DIERKS BENTLEY: 7 p.m., $25-$49.75. Irvine Meadows

Amphitheatre, 8800 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine, (949) 8558095; irvineamp.com.

DTSA SATURDAYS, FEATURING KENNEDY JONES: 9:30 p.m., $15. The Yost Theater, 307 N.

Spurgeon St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; yosttheater.com.

EPIPHANY OF HATE: 3:30 p.m., $15. Malone’s,

604 E. Dyer Rd., Santa Ana, (714) 979-6000; facebook.com/MalonesConcertVenue.

FELIX CAVALIERE OF THE RASCALS: 8 p.m. The

Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

GREEN TODAY: Green Day tribute, 9 p.m., $10. Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 596-4718; thegaslamprestaurant.com.

IGGY AZALEA: 7:30 p.m., $64-$145. Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, (909) 622-2133; museum.nhra.com.

THE MEAN SEASON; THE EULOGY: 7 p.m., $5-$8.

Diego’s Rock-N-Roll Bar & Eats, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; rockandrollbardtsa.com.

NOT ANOTHER SKA FEST 2 WITH TIJUANA NO!; LA BANDA SKALAVERA: 7 p.m., $5. The

Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

SAM OUTLAW: 9 p.m., $10-$12. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

SHORELINE JAM, FEATURING JOSH HEINRICHS; THE MOVEMENT; HIRIE; BAD APPLES: 1 p.m., $35-$1,500. Queen Mary Events

Park, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 472-4562.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 11

FAMOUS DEX WITH EDDY BAKER: 9 p.m., $20.

Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

FULLY FULLWOOD REGGAE SUNDAYS: 3 p.m., $5.

Don the Beachcomber, 16278 Pacific Coast Hwy., Huntington Beach, (562) 592-1321; donthebeachcomber.com.

RUSTY JOHNSON: 7 p.m., $15. Spaghettini Rotisserie & Grill, 3005 Old Ranch Pkwy., Seal Beach, (562) 5962199; spaghettini.com.

STRUNZ & FARAH: 7 p.m. Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 5964718; thegaslamprestaurant.com.

SUNDAY SERVICE: 8 p.m., free. The Federal Bar, 102 Pine Ave., Long Beach, (562) 435-2000; lb.thefederalbar.com.

THE SUNDAY SOCIAL: 2 p.m., free. Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 434-8292; alexsbar.com.

WRIGHT RECORDS BATTLE OF THE BANDS II:

5 p.m. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

MONDAY, SEPT. 12

CFM: 9 p.m., $8. Constellation Room at the Observatory,

3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

COUNTRY DANCIN’ WITH DJ PATRICK: 6:30 p.m., free. The Swallow’s Inn, 31786 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 493-3188; swallowsinn.com.

DELTA DEEP: 8 p.m., $20. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

JOE BLANCHARD: 10 p.m., free. Auld Dubliner, 71 S. Pine Ave., Long Beach, (562) 437-8300; aulddubliner.com.

SUPER WHATEVER: 8:30 p.m., free. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 13

JAZZ NIGHTS AT ENVY LOUNGE: 8:30 p.m., $10.

Envy Lounge, 4647 MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach, (949) 287-8270; envyloungeoc.com.

SLEAZY T’S SHIT SHOW: 9 p.m. Que Sera, 1923 E. Seventh St., Long Beach, (562) 599-6170; queseralb.wix.com.

SONGWRITERS @ SUNSET: 8 p.m., $10. Schooner at Sunset, 16821 Pacific Coast Hwy., Huntington Beach, (562) 430-3495; schooneratsunset.com.

WIFISFUNERAL: 9 p.m., $15. Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14

THE BIG DRAW: DJ Abeltron, 8 p.m., free. The Copper

Door, 225 1/2 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, (714) 543-3813; thecopperdoorbar.com.

BLUES WEDNESDAYS: 7:30 p.m., $5. Mozambique, 1740 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, (949) 715-7777; mozambiqueoc.com.

DEATH GRIPS: 8 p.m., $27. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

THE HIGGS: 9 p.m., $5. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

MODERN DISCO AMBASSADORS: 10 p.m. La Cave, 1695 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, (949) 646-7944; lacaverestaurant.com.

OPEN VINYL NIGHT: 9:30 p.m., free. Diego’s Rock-NRoll Bar & Eats, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 8629573; rockandrollbardtsa.com.

THURZ; APOLLO BEBOP; ASLEEP AT THE GATE:

9 p.m., $8. Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 15

BAND WARS: 7 p.m., $10. Malones, 604 E. Dyer Rd.,

Santa Ana, (714) 979-6000.

DNCE WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUNCHMONEY LEWIS: 7:30 p.m., $54-$125. Wally Parks NHRA

Motorsports Museum, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, (909) 622-2133; museum.nhra.com.

EXPANDING OC HIP-HOP: 8 p.m., free. Doll Hut, 107 S. Adams St., Anaheim, (714) 533-1286.

GUITAR ARMY: 8 p.m. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 4968930; thecoachhouse.com.

NIPSEY HUSSLE: 8 p.m., $20. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

SEGA GENECIDE: 9 p.m., $5. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

THE SLOP STOMP: 9:30 p.m., free. Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 434-8292; alexsbar.com.

THRASHER THURSDAY: 8 p.m., free. The Karman Bar, 26022 Cape Dr., Laguna Niguel, (949) 582-5909; thekarmanbar.com.

TUSTIN TUNES IN—WALK LIKE A MAN: tribute to Frankie Valli and the music of that era, 8 p.m., $15$20. Community Center at the Market Place, 2961 El Camino Real, Tustin, (714) 573-3326; tustinca.org/depts/parks/marketplace.asp.

UGLY GOD WITH YUNG JAKE: 9 p.m., $15.

Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

Milk Money My husband left the picture recently, and I’m now a single mom supporting an infant in Toronto. I work a retail job and am drowning financially. I hooked up with a guy I met on Tinder, and I didn’t warn him that I’m still nursing because I didn’t even think of it. Luckily, he really got off on it—so I was spared the awkwardness of “Eww, what is coming out of your tits?!” Afterward, he joked about there being a market for lactating women in the kink world. My questions: If I find someone who will pay me to suckle my milk, is that prostitution? And if I advertise that I’m willing to be paid, can I get into trouble for that? The possibility of making some money this way is more appealing every day.

Truly In Trouble

says it’s not personal, it’s when I’m not available, and it’s a good way to take a nap. I trust him and don’t think he’s doing anything wrong, but how do I feel okay with it?

Sees Problems On Understanding Spouse’s Electronics You don’t have a good sex life, SPOUSE—you have a great sex life. You two are raising three kids, you’re getting sex on an almost-daily basis, and at least one of you is getting naps? You’re the envy of all parents everywhere. It’ll put your mind at ease if you remind yourself now and then that no one person can be all things to another person—sexually or in any other way—and that the evidence your husband still wants you is running down your leg four to five times per week. Now please pass the paper/tablet/ phone to your husband, SPOUSE, I have something to say to him.

Hey, Mr. SPOUSE, here’s a handy life hack for you: CLEAR YOUR FUCKING BROWSER HISTORY. Use the “private browsing” or “incognito” setting in your web browser, and spare your wife—and yourself—future scrutiny and smut shaming.

Via text, I asked my (gay) husband of 10 years if he had any sexual fantasies he hadn’t shared with me. He replied, “I want to cheat on you.” I was out of town when we had this text exchange.

He wrote the next morning to apologize. He said he was tipsy when I texted him and didn’t mean what he said. I explained that I wasn’t upset but turned on. If he wanted to sleep with other people, he could, provided it was someone safe and not someone in our social circle. The idea of being cheated on, frankly, appeals to me. (That makes me a gay cuckold, correct?) I even told him I jerked off about it already. He did not react the way I expected. He got upset and said he thinks about cheating on me only when he’s drunk and he would never want to do it in real life and he’s angry that I would want him to. Advice?

Chump Under Cloud Keeping Silent Years ago, my then-boyfriend cheated on me while I was out of town. He didn’t like my reaction when he confessed (“Was he cute? Can we have a threeway?”) and got angry at me for not being angry with him. We wound up having a fun threesome with the other guy shortly before we broke up for other reasons, CUCKS, and I suspect the day will come when your husband fucks someone else—if he hasn’t already—with your permission, which means it’ll be cuckolding, not cheating. Just apologize for now, roll your eyes when he’s not looking, and bide your time.

And speaking of gay cuckolds . . .

Way, way back in 2008, a reader asked why I described cuckolding as a straight-male fetish.

“The cuckolding fetish is the boner-killing lemons of straight-male sexual/paternal insecurity turned into deliciously perverted bonerade,” I responded.

“Gay sex doesn’t make babies, only messes (which is all straight sex makes 99.98 percent of the time).

Which may explain why, as a general rule, gay men aren’t as threatened when our partners are ‘taken’ by other men.”

But gay cuckolding has emerged as a porn genre over the past few years—right after marriage equality was achieved in the United States (hmm)—and now sex researchers David Ley and Justin J. Lehmiller are looking into it. So if you’re a gay cuckold—an experienced gay cuck or just someone who fantasizes about it, please take a few minutes to fill out this anonymous survey in the name of both science and your kink: tinyurl.com/gaycuck.

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“Allowing clients to suckle her breasts is, of course, sex work,” said Angela Chaisson, a partner at Toronto’s Paradigm Law Group. “But sex work is legal for everyone in Canada, new moms included.

The new sex work laws here—the 2014 Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, an Orwellian title for a draconian piece of legislation—prohibit sex work close to where minors might be. So if she’s engaging in sex work close to kids, she is risking criminal charges.”

No one wants sex work going on around minors, of course—on or around minors—so that’s not what makes the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act an Orwellian piece of bullshit.

Laws regulating sex work in Canada were rewritten after Terri-Jean Bedford, a retired dominatrix and madam, took her case to the courts. The Supreme Court of Canada ultimately ruled—unanimously—that criminalizing sex work made it more dangerous, not less, and consequently, the laws on the books against sex work violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But instead of decriminalizing sex work, Parliament made it legal to sell sex in Canada but illegal to buy it, a.k.a. the “end demand” approach to stamping out sex work.

“By making a sex worker’s body the scene of a crime,” writes sex worker and sex-workers-rights activist Mike Crawford, “the ‘end demand’ approach gives cops full license to investigate sex workers, leaving sex workers vulnerable to abuse, extortion and even rape at the hands of the police.”

Chaisson, who helped bring down Canada’s laws against sex work, doesn’t think selling suckling will get you in trouble, TIT. “But Children’s Aid Society [CAS] would investigate if they felt there was a child in need of protection,” said Chaisson. “So the safest thing would be for her to stick to out calls only and to keep the work away from kids and anywhere they might be.”

To avoid having to worry about CAS or exactly where every kid in Canada is when you see a client while still making some money off your current superpower, TIT, you could look into the emerging online market for human breast milk. There are more ads from breast milk fetishists (204) at OnlyTheBreast. com (“Buy, sell or donate breast milk with our discreet classifieds system”) than there are from new parents seeking breast milk for their infants (159).

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