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Time to Turn OC Naranja

Forget the Democrats and Republicans! Orange County needs to create a new political party for itself

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t was late on Election Night, and I was borracho out of my mind in SanTana.

I had just spent the evening covering the Republican Party’s celebrations in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, where Dana Rohrabacher’s acolytes became broier as the Trump train rolled. Now I was trying to comfort young Chicanxs, many of whom were bawling at the reality of a president-elect who wants to deport them and their families.

As Trump gave his victory speech, I got a call from my friend at the Associated Press. We both cursed the results, and he cursed his feckless Democrats for pushing Killary instead of letting Bernie Sanders win. “But at least OC finally went blue,” he offered as consolation.

That’s when I really started cussing, blasting a lamestream media that remains clueless about us. Sure, Orange County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, the last time being when FDR beat some guy named Alf Landon in 1936. This year, Hillary Clinton won by about 5 percentage points, helped by local party registration that have Democrats just 4 percentage points behind the Republicans. The prospect of Democrats taking over Orange County—The OC! The land where we have an airport named after John Wayne!

Where Ronald Reagan said all the good Republicans go to die! And Richard Nixon!—has been a national story all year, and Clinton taking us blew away people like my friend and others in the media. The Los Angeles Times, in particular, tripped out at the news, assigning three reporters to one story that determined OC is turning blue because of minorities and collegeeducated women—what a revelation!

“But what good is Orange County blue,” I ranted to my pal, “when the Dems are as big a bunch of losers as the Republicans?”

It’s the truth. In a year when a large number of Republicans in Orange County refused to vote for Trump, when the Democrats had a motivated electorate to come out and defeat anything GOP, the Dems swung for the fences and got to first base on a dropped third strike. Election results haven’t been verified by OC Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley as of press time, but Democrats seem to have lost nearly all of the races that would’ve indicated a true blue wave in OC. Ling Ling Chang is ahead of Josh Newman for a state Senate seat, First District Supervisor Andrew Do easily beat Michele Martinez, while Congressman Darrell Issa is comfortably ahead of opponent Doug Applegate. And in Anaheim’s first district elections, a golden opportunity to take over OC’s larg-

By gusTavO arellanO est city, the Dems only mounted serious challenges to one of four seats (and more on the winner in a bit). This is a party on the rise?

The donkey squad does seem to have scored one important win (Sharon QuirkSilva is on the verge of taking back her Fullerton-area assembly seat from Young Kim, who took it from her in 2014), but that doesn’t change reality. Turning Orange County “blue” or even purple isn’t our salvation. We all know the evil that is the OC GOP, which still allows Rohrabacher to run every two years, but people forget how bad the local Dem operation is.

For too long, party officials supported OC’s two dirtiest mayors, Irvine’s Larry Agran and Santa Ana’s Miguel Pulido.

While the Democrats nationwide want to veer left, county leaders still ridiculously think that staying centrist is the way. They still promote dinosaurs such as Coast Community College District trustee Jerry Patterson (who first held office in 1969) and Jose Solorio (who carpetbagged his way back onto the SanTana City Council after a decade away) instead of fostering fresh faces. When they could’ve gone with a firebrand progressive for Loretta Sanchez’s seat in Congress with former Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen, the Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC) instead endorsed Lou Correa, who’s such a vendido that he told the Times, “[Trump] is the president, and we have to work with him.” (Does that mean Lou will mix the cement for Trump’s border wall?)

All you need to know about the OC Dems is this: In a county that’s been majority-minority for nearly 15 years, outgoing DPOC chair Henry Vandermeir and other leaders still think the future of their party is Anaheim city councilman Jordan Brandman, a gabacho who resembles Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color and is a protégé of the ever-evil Curt Pringle.

A new generation of progressives is supposed to support that?

In our 21 years, the Weekly has shown that blind party fealty is not only toxic, but also unproductive to Orange County.

That’s the point I tried to make years ago, when the DPOC asked me to give a keynote during a party fundraiser at La Hacienda in SanTana. Former OC Sheriff Mike Carona had just been convicted, and it was my task to help everyone feel good about themselves with schadenfreude.

Instead, I recited a roll call of Democratic officials convicted of corruption during the 1970s. My was Ozymandian, a reminder that no party or individual is immune from evil, but the crowd wouldn’t have it; longtime Democratic chairman

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Frank Barbaro, in particular, looked as if he wanted me to join Ron Caspers in the deep blue sea.

Enough of this blue-red bullshit. It’s time to start a third party in Orange County—not Green or Libertarian, but Naranja (because “Orange” would just be lame). Something that encapsulates Orange County at its best: pro-immigrant, pro-indie business, anti-authority, antidrug war, anti-hack. Not addicted to campaign donations. Multicultural. Done with the two-party system. Committed to putting Orange County, instead of political machines, first. And a party embracing the Left and Right—call the Naranja Party the Unitarian-Universalists of politics.

Such radical bipartisanship has happened before—and worked wonders. In Fullerton, a coalition of libertarians and leftists took down a decrepit Fullerton City Council majority in the wake of Kelly Thomas’ killing by the city’s police.

And it occurred in Placentia more than a decade ago, when suburban liberals and conservatives booted out council members who nearly bankrupted the city (unfortunately, as a group of GOP council

members aligned with mayor Jeremy Yamaguchi eventually took power and slept while millions of dollars were stolen from Placentia’s coffers). And a similar phenomenon won this year’s City Council election in Costa Mesa, when a coalition of good Democrats and Republicans, public and private sector workers, Latinos and whites alike finally broke the regime of Jim Righeimer. These voters re-elected GOP councilwoman Sandy Genis and sided with Democrat John Stephens. In all instances, citizens put their ideologies and parties aside for the greater good—a downright revolutionary concept these days, yet one with results.

The Republicans gave Orange County hate; the Democrats offer nothing revolutionary. The Naranja Party? A future we can look forward to. It’s a preposterous idea, I’ll admit, but so were the presidential prospects of a human Cheet-o a year ago—and here we are.

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» gustavo arellano DEAR MEXICAN: Math problem: If there are 20 Mexicans, 20 Indians, 20 Chinese, 20 Puerto Ricans, 20 Blacks and one white person in a room, then how many people are there in the room whose identity is used as a benchmark to establish the identities of the rest of the people in the room? (Hint: not a colored person.)

Swimming Upstream DEAR GABACHO: The 20 Mexicans—because everyone else will do everything possible to let the world know they’re not Mexican as the deportation train comes along.

OPEN LETTER TO MEXICANS AFRAID OF PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP: Gentle cabrones, fear not. Our raza has gone up against Cortés, Maximillian, Winfield Scott, Porfirio Diaz, the PRI, the narcos, Enrique Peña Nieto, Harrison Gray Otis and Harry Chandler (the founder of the Los Angeles Times and his son-in-law, who owned hundreds of thousands of acres in Mexico and published all sorts of calumny against Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero and Emiliano Zapata), Maná, the PAN, Joe Arpaio, Pete Wilson, the Salinas de Gortarís, Tlatelolco, the Pastry War, Santa Anna, Victoriano Huerta, Henry Lane Wilson, Álvaro Obregon, Plutarco Elías Calles, NAFTA, Maseca, Rick Bayless, the 1994 devaluation of the peso, the 1986 Mexico City earthquake, Arjen Robben, 7-0 versus Chile in the Copa Ámerica, Landon Donovan, Dos a Cero, Barbara Coe, Hollywood, the Texians, Taco Bell, the pinche rinches, border walls, la migra, the Zimmerman affair, femicide in Juarez, genocide against our indigenous ancestors, the pillaging of our natural resources by the Spanish, gachupines, gringos, Yanquis, Carlos Slim, Jorge Hank Rhon, the Creel-Terrazas family, José Jiménez, the Frito Bandito, “We don’t need

no steenkin’ badges,” “Go back to Mexico!,” “beaner,” “wetback,” “illegal alien savage,” “invader,” los científicos, ICE, the health inspector, soyrizo, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Linda Chavez, Ruben Navarette, KFI-AM 640, FOX News, Lou Dobbs, cholos, Ask a Chola, the Mexican Mafia, vendidos, Tío Tacos, Arizona State Bill 1070, California Proposition 187, the Sensebrenner bill, the fall of Tenochtitlán, that TIME Magazine cover about “Saving Mexico,” Ben Affleck playing a Chicano in Argo, Matt Damon playing a half-Mexican in The Good Shepherd, Operation Wetback, the Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Jan Brewer, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Gadsden Purchase, James K. Polk, John C. Frémont, school segregation, housing covenant, lynch mobs, Pikers, Ann Coulter, The Children of Sanchez, Robbery Under Law, the gentrification of mezcal, the Columbusing of elote, Katt Williams, Adam Carolla, the Republicans, the Democrats, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, “Come a Little Bit Closer,” John Wayne, the Dirty Sanchez, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón, Paul Rodriguez, the Hispanic 100, tortillas and tamales in a can, Drinko por Cinco, Televisa, Univisón, Jacobo Zabludovsky, #tacotrucksoneverycorner, and that one girlfriend who broke up with you because her parents thought you were a gang member even though you were a graduate student at UCLA at the time and working a full-time job while their itinerant daughter was mooching off her mommy and daddy, and many, many more pendejos—and have not only survived, but also thrived. Are we a bunch of whiny Trumpbros, or are we Mexicans? Pónganse las pilas, y a trabajar, banda. Oh, and #fucktrump.

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Editor’s note: In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, hundreds of thousands of Orange County residents are scared shitless at the prospect of his presidency. To offer hope and a map forward, we’ve invited some of our favorite thinkers from some of the most affected communities—the undocumented, Muslim, LGBT+, women, labor and God—to submit essays on how to resist President Pepe. Enjoy!

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We accomplish this by holding our leaders accountable and ending California’s compliance with immigration enforcement.

The greatest lesson I’ve learned is that nothing facilitates deportations like compliance from local governments. Over the years, LA County’s compliance with ICE’s

Secure Communities, 287(g), and Priority Enforcement Program has made it the leader in funneling our people into the detention and deportation pipeline. While our state government has taken steps to limit the number of people deported under these types of partnerships, Governor Jerry Brown has been too hesitant to take more substantial and effective steps.

Hesitance is not an option, and lip-service support is out of the question. Leaders across California have vowed they’ll maintain their cities as sanctuaries in response to Trump. But when they continue to comply with ICE’s requests, can we really call them sanctuaries? When Santa Ana continues to profit from detaining immigrants for ICE, we cannot call it a sanctuary.

As our community continues to show that we’ll resist whatever Trump throws at us, we must channel some of that energy into dismantling the local and state systems that will help to make his promises a reality. When unjust and racist laws persecute our communities, we must organize, resist and not comply.

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tute estimates to be around 800,000.

If our undocumented community is to make it through the next four years, there is nothing more important than to reject the narrative of the Good Immigrant and the Bad Immigrant. If we as a community accept the idea that some of us deserve relief and others deserve deportation, we’ll be locked in a race to the bottom that puts the entire community at risk. For DACA beneficiaries, it means rejecting the divisive narrative that we’re special compared to other immigrants and that our being in this country is not our fault.

It means acknowledging that when politicians talk about criminal immigrants, they are talking about our families, our friends, our neighbors, even us. It means committing to fight like hell for those deemed criminal and deportable.

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vein that he promised to scrap the DACA program, President-elect Trump recently announced his plan to immediately detain and deport up to 3 million undocumented immigrants, a number equal to Obama’s eight-year deportation record. In making this announcement, Trump adopted Obama’s well-established talking points of going after immigrants with criminal records, which the Migration Policy Insti-

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Hairo Cortes is program coordinator for Orange County Immigrant Youth United As I saw the election results [on Nov. 8] alongside my organization’s Deportation Defense Organizer, a harsh truth settled in: Donald Trump, the man who skyrocketed to the top of the Republican Party with an overt anti-immigrant agenda, will be president, and he will inherit the most robust and far-reaching deportation force in U.S. history—built by President Barack Obama over the course of eight years.

Since then, an unprecedented level of urgency has reverberated across the undocumented community. Young people, such as myself, who benefit from the work permits and deportation protections offered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program Obama was forced to implement by immigrant youth organizers find themselves facing an uncertain future; undocumented immigrants with past criminal convictions of any kind find themselves more vulnerable to deportation under policies that have quickly merged the immigration system with the systemically racist criminal-justice system. And everyone in between finds themselves asking how we will survive the next four years with our community intact.

As an undocumented immigrant, I find myself wrestling with these feelings of uncertainty and danger. As an organizer, I have a few thoughts on how to defend ourselves.

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THIS IS HOW TO RESIST TRUMP FROM PAGE 11

“WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE”

Hussam Ayloush is executive director of the LA chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations Trump’s victory sent a shock wave throughout the American Muslim community, as well as other communities.

There are many legitimate concerns about what this means for the future of our community, other minority communities and our country as a whole. In the past few days, many members of the Southern California Muslim community have contacted me to ask what’s next and what are we to expect in light of Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric throughout his campaign.

Here are a few reflections: 1. First, we need to rid ourselves of the panic mode that has overtaken some of us.

This is not the end of times. Regardless of who won or lost, American Muslims are here to stay in this country. We are proud to be American Muslims. We are not going anywhere. We will not be intimidated or marginalized, and we will continue to mobilize and strive to challenge bigotry, uphold justice, and protect our and everyone’s freedoms and rights. Muslims have been a part of the fabric of American society for hundreds of years, and we will not allow the election of any individual to change who we are or the place we call home. Keep your faith.

2. We have been through this before.

Right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft subjected American Muslims to many years of abuse, unfair targeting and backlash. Yet we did not give up. We held our ground and fought hard for our rights and freedoms. We engaged the public, elected officials and the courts to expose and challenge abuses. The community came out stronger, more confident and more organized. Today, we are even better equipped to protect our rights. We have bigger organizations, more attorneys, more activists and many more allies.

3. Regardless of what challenges the future holds for our country, know that CAIR has your back. CAIR will continue to fight for your rights, defend the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, and confront the growing atmosphere of Islamophobia in our state and country.

The Constitution provides protection for all. It is the anchor that holds the country steady during turbulent times.

4. Unfortunately, hate incidents are on the rise. If you witness or are a victim of any hate incident, report it to CAIR and the appropriate authorities.

5. The country is not anti-Muslim. In

fact, many Muslims were elected to various offices throughout the country. Half the country is vocally opposed to Trump’s divisive and bigoted rhetoric. And that does not mean the other half are bigoted; actually, the majority voted for Trump for economic reasons, sadly despite his divisiveness. Join us in working with the growing organized, vocal network of politicians, media professionals, interfaith activists and common people who are making it clear they stand in solidarity with Muslims and all others who are targeted by the Trump rhetoric.

6. Today’s challenge offers us and our fellow Americans an opportunity to continue to increase our efforts to stand for justice and challenge bigotry and injustice. Change is a long process, filled with ups and downs. Those who achieve success and realize the change they want are the ones who withstand and persevere, the ones who don’t give up, the ones who are driven by faith and hope.

Hold firm and tight to your faith; have pride in who you are. Organize, mobilize, advocate and persevere. Let us renew our commitment to work with others in order to stand for justice and ensure that all people are treated fairly, justly and with dignity in our country.

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Laura Kanter is director of Policy, Advocacy and Youth Programs for The LGBT Center Orange County For those of us who had hoped the next president would make it possible for LGBTQ people to do more than survive and perhaps, even, to thrive, we are now facing the disappointing and grave reality that we do not get to move forward, that the safety and dignity of many in our community will be directly impacted by what is to come.

In order for ALL LGBTQ people and allies to survive the incoming president, we must come together to defend those most at risk. We must increase our understanding about the intersecting systems that created and now sustain inequality and oppression, and we must work together to transform those systems.

While it will be more difficult for the new administration to undo legislation and take away constitutional rights, we will see them go after the lowest-hanging fruit. For example, if passed by Congress, Trump said he will sign the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), introduced into the House in 2015, which would legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in employment, housing, businesses and services on

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the basis of a person’s religious beliefs. He also plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, which will include a large number of LGBT people who have been unjustly targeted, criminalized and detained. We need to come together to protect all immigrants who may be targeted, detained and deported. We must be prepared to defend, for example, undocumented trans Latina women held in Santa Ana City Jail’s ICE detention center, as well as others who could be sent back to dangerous, even deadly, situations.

We must work together to ensure the full rights and dignity of transgender

people, to provide job training and opportunities. For their immediate protection, we must help transgender folks who wish to legally change their name and gender markers as soon as possible.

We need to get to know our local leaders and state legislators and find out who will be our champions and who will be our opposition. Who will fight with us? Who do we need to watch and call out when they fail to support LGBT people in every community? Demand their accountability to those who are most vulnerable. And when leaders and public figures speak or encourage others to speak in ways that

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Julio Perez is executive director of the Orange County Labor Federation, AFL-CIO I was shocked about Trump’s win. As a homegrown Orange County kid, I realized he’s been around me my whole life. In fact, Trump has been in charge the whole time. Yet Barack Obama’s political ascension at times clouded the fact that THEY have the power. As the head of the Orange County Labor Federation, I’ll try to articulate who THEY are and what WE need to do next.

First, THEY are not all racists. What is saddening about the election is not only that Trump won, but also that many voters saw this presidential vote through the lens of race. Many were even extremely vocal, insensitive and offensive about it.

But while it might sound great rhetorically to say Trump will fill his cabinet and administration with people who will put the interests and ideas of rich, powerful white operators in charge, I ask you to name a president that hasn’t.

To that point, we must defend the gains and advances of diversity and equality. We must continue to organize, come together, build power, and promote policy and change. We must do more than protect the rights of women, African-Americans, Asians, Muslims, immigrants, Latinos, the LGBT community and others. We must expand those rights. The fight ahead of us to defend immigrants, protect civil liberties and social gains will require our unity, creativity and grit. I, for one, am ready.

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government. It is not just Trump. Republicans now have all the power in Washington, and we must decide how to engage, either by protesting or with a real policy dialogue.

The President-elect is a classic empire builder who represents authoritarian capitalism, ultra-patriotism, trickle-down economics, deregulation and disdain for any government social or environmental agenda. He’s a pull-yourself-up elitist who believes power should reside in the hands of the ruling class that determine the fate of our nation. This is the agenda we in the labor movement must begin to address.

There are natural first steps for the labor movement. Trump has trashed international trade deals that harm American workers. Perhaps this is a good first step for us. If Trump is serious about renegotiating NAFTA and ending the Trans Pacific Partnership, I can say the labor movement is ready to help.

Trade deals facilitated millions of jobs leaving our country, another phenomenon furthering our race to the bottom. Even as the productivity of American workers has skyrocketed over the past few decades, the pay and benefits for them have fallen far below a level needed to support a middleclass family. We must create jobs that pay the types of salaries that builds the middle class dramatically. Infrastructure investment is a place I hope we can work with those in Washington, D.C. We must also address the growing poverty, homelessness and hopelessness in America. As we have seen a dissipation of an industrial America, we have seen a rapid rise in the service and creative economy. We must demand that the service industry share its wealth and prosperity with its workers so we can elevate millions of jobs with better pay, basic sick days, vacation, pension and health compensation. For the creative world, we must demand they open doors of opportunity to more than just their college buddies and hipster nieces and nephews. The creative industry must be pushed to draw from the plentiful talent, creativity and energy of our inner cities.

On Nov. 7, I had no illusion that change comes from the top. I am hurt and disappointed that millions of voters threw hate mustard on their hot dogs, while I was expecting tacos on every corner. The silent majority has always been here, but it’s no longer silent. We need to organize, organize and organize—not just in California, but especially in those red areas.

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Whether or not new policies impact us directly, we must mitigate against the indirect impact generated by the politics of hate. We cannot go back to a place of mere tolerance; we must be vigilant in combating increasing bullying, hate incidents and hate crimes. We must surround our youth and our transgender brothers and sisters with a wall of love and acceptance. As a community, we need to engage in a deep exploration of the racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic narratives that created a system in which LGBTQ people of color are the most at risk for being targeted, criminalized and incarcerated, or murdered.

We must work together from an intersectional lens, or all LGBTQ people will be left behind. We must reach out across party lines to those who are relatively powerless, as the world they imagined under Trump becomes increasingly remote. Our collective long-term survival will depend on our ability to learn to use our voices and power as constituents to help to create and pass policies, to make sure those policies are enforced, and to learn to dissent effectively when laws are unjust. And when the law is beyond our reach, we must fight back using the tools we have: dissent, protest, political education, and local and social media organizing. That’s what we have always done— and what we must continue to do.

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While electing Clinton wouldn’t have smashed the patriarchy, we’re about to turn the country over to a man who openly brags about assaulting women, continuously berates and abuses women in person and online, and has a decadeslong track record of spewing misogynistic, racist and xenophobic attacks at everyone from celebrities to breastfeeding mothers.

Perhaps the only thing scarier than Trump as president is knowing vice president-elect Mike Pence is his co-pilot for a ride through reproductive-rights hell.

Trump and Pence are set to grab women by the uterus, vowing to defund Planned Parenthood and to destroy the Affordable Care Act (and, along with it, the guaranteed access to contraceptives). Pence proudly proclaims he will send Roe v.

Wade “to the ash heap of history where it belongs” and has stated that women who are raped should be forced to carry any resulting pregnancies to term. In his home state of Indiana, he even signed dangerous legislation that would prevent women from having abortions, even if the fetus has severe abnormalities, which has since been blocked by a federal judge.

It doesn’t end there. On Nov. 13, Trump named as his chief strategist right-wing Breitbart exec Steve Bannon, who referred to women as “dykes.” Rumors are swirling that Rudy Giuliani, who dismissed Trump’s brags about grabbing women by the “pussy” as mere locker room talk, will be tapped for secretary of state.

Feeling the fire? Take action, and STAY LOUD! Immediate gratification. Take two minutes to send a donation, no matter how small, to your favorite reproductive rights or LGBTQ organization in Mike Pence’s name

or that of your favorite anti-choice legislator.

Make personal commitments. Vow to devote your skills, talents and expertise to rejecting misogyny, racism, homophobia and xenophobia. Systems of oppression are entwined, and the experiences of women are wildly varied based on the intersections of race, sexuality, gender expression, undocumented status, ability, religion, class and more. We need all of your voices, ideas and actions.

On the daily. Think twice about making hollow gestures. Learn and practice deescalation strategies. Think about what you’re willing to risk, and then take action.

Call out slut shaming; it’s not okay to say you support women while slut shaming Melania Trump. Find the support you need, and support others in your efforts.

Plan ahead to January. Can’t make it to the Women’s March on Washington set for the day after Trump’s inauguration? Plan local marches, but don’t let the momentum end there. Organize with fellow activists, advocates and community groups. What change do you want to see?

What are the barriers? What tools and resources do you have? Who else can you work with?

First 100 days. Ring in Trump’s first 100 days by participating in a 100 Days of Justice project. Create a list of 100 daily actions (call legislators at their local offices—emails don’t have the same impact; post articles; and engage folks on social media, by sharing your stories or hosting meet-ups, etc.), and share your actions every day using #100DaysofJustice.

Lastly, make concrete plans for organizing and action for the next four years.

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lims, the Jews, the blacks, the minorities.

It’s anyone who doesn’t fit neatly in the box of privilege—the kingdom of God is for these. . . .

I may not know how to get there today; I may not even be able to see the vision clearly for all the tears still clouding my eyes—but God knows and God sees and God calls us to it. Before the words even come out of our mouths, God is in the process of answering. So by God—with God—we’re gonna get to the Promised Land, we’re going to forge the way . . . you and me and anyone who is willing to go with us—we’re going to do our part to

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not of God’s doing, that’s not what God requires of us nor dreams for humanity’s future or present.

This is not it.

That much we know. We’re not there yet.

I can’t even promise we will be—in this lifetime, our lifetime. But I sure as heck know what God wants and what God doesn’t want, and if Jesus is any indicator of God’s heart, then I know who God’s kingdom is for: the poor, the downhearted, the oppressed, and the cast out—need we make that clearer in today’s cast of characters? It’s the gays, lesbians, transgendered, the immigrants, the Mus-

make it so. We’re gonna do what we do best: carry the light.

We’re going to shine light into the darkness. Reflecting God’s light, we’ll shine!

For all hope is not lost, all power not stripped. God’s vision is clear, so we have to do everything we can to be a part of the transformation, in little and big ways. For some of us, that will mean stretching out of our comfort zone—speaking up and speaking out. For others, it may be as simple as taking one step, one day at a time—being you and knowing God loves you. . . .

Among many things, Jesus was the great healer. And while our wounds are deep, our society divided, I have to believe that healing is possible. It starts with telling our stories, being willing to connect, finding safe circles, and creating sanctuaries, becoming sanctuaries, living love, and choosing it above all things, even fear.

But even in our fear, we know that God is with us.

And perhaps that is what gives me the most hope: that through it all, God is with us. I believe in Emmanuel—God with us in our pain, in our heartache, in our fear, in our division, and in our hopes, in our love, in the darkness. God is there, God is here. God is light.

So now, more than ever before, we will choose to live in the light, to help bring about the transformation and make the vision clear, the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. . . . Shining together, we carry the light. Amen.

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All women are superheroes, really, but the ladies of Women of Wrestling are nothing short of badass!These tough-asnails, dedicated fighters will put their brawn to the test when they go head to head in a televised match at the Seaport Marina in Long Beach. Come out to support these wrestlers who set out to be living examples of female empowerment in and out of their stretchy jump suits. Witness a tag-team tournament between Southern Pride heroines Selina Majors and Jesse Jones and the broads from the Bully Busters, Keta Rush and Stephy Slays. Food trucks, a DJ and a bar will also be on hand. Entertainment is inevitable, as is inspiration.

Women of Wrestling at Seaport Marina Hotel, 6400 Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 434-8451; www.wowe.com.

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Metal Matriarch

Ready, Set, Go!

From jailbait punk-rock teenage idol to middle-aged monarchical metal goddess, guitarist Lita Ford of the legendary allgirl band the Runaways has stayed true to the spirit of both authentic romantic hyperbole and the cringing honesty of adolescent anger and drama. As a grown-up singer/songwriter, she can still pull off Gothic angst, flirting with pathos and violence while unshyly pulling at the heartstrings.

Whether in an un-ironic power ballad with Ozzy Osbourne or in a sincere—and sincerely disturbing—love song to her kids (“I am your mother . . . and like no other until they bury me 6 foot deep”), she rocks hard, and on her iconic black axe, she continues to evoke the raw, vulnerable affirmation required of youth and, it seems, still cherished by older fans of one of the first female guitar heroes. She plays the Yost with all-woman tribute band Iron Maidens.

Lita Ford with the Iron Maidens at the Yost Theater, 307 N. Spurgeon St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; www. yosttheater.com. 6 p.m. $25. —ANDREW TONKOVICH

Running a 5K may not immediately elicit waves of enthusiasm if you hate fun or exercise, but what if we told you the event was held on a beautiful beach and you’d be sprayed with scented color powders in a festival-like atmosphere that includes inflatable props and live music? The annual Color Run 5K brings all those party vibes and more in the name of charity.

Participants can run or walk in a noncompetitive, interactive course that includes several color zones and playing areas, and there’s a Finish Festival that features games, photo booths, bands and even more color throws. Best part: This all benefits Resolution Run, a nonprofit that provides aid to OC schools, and the McKenna Claire Foundation, which raises awareness of brain cancer.

The Color Run 5K at Huntington State Beach, 21601 Pacific Coast Hwy., Huntington Beach; thecolorrun.com.

8 a.m. $44.99-$64.99. —AIMEE MURILLO

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This isn’t just some average novelty act: They’ve performed with some pretty big names in the metal world, including Sebastian Bach. Go appreciate the metal and LGBT crossover event happening in Mickey’s back yard. Who needs the Sunset Strip when you have the home of the Magic Kingdom?

GayC/DC with the Last Gang, Shake and Pop, Small Time, and Shane Secor at the Doll Hut, 107 S. Adams, Anaheim; www.facebook.com/gaycdcband. 7 p.m. $5. 21+. —JOSH CHESLER

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Native Nations Protecting Coastal Lands and Waters Now that President Pendejo Trump is threatening to scale back decades of environmental protection, making sure our state’s coast doesn’t turn into one giant Coto de Caza is more important than ever. Thankfully, UC Irvine’s ever-awesome School of Law’s

Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources is offering a two-day symposium at which everyone from Indian tribes to conservancy groups can talk about California’s disappearing wetlands and beaches, with an eye toward the indigenous side of things, plus a lot of talk about the fight to save Banning Ranch. Oh, and #fucktrump.

Native Nations Protecting Coastal Lands and Waters in California at UC Irvine School of Law, 401 E. Peltason Dr., Ste. 1000, Irvine, (949) 824-0066; sustainability.uci.edu. 8 a.m.; also Sat. Free. —GUSTAVO ARELLANO

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Mmm . . . Fry Bread 48th Annual Pow Wow

The Southern California Indian Center has a long-standing role in preserving the culture and history of American Indians by offering resources and informational services to American Indian, Alaska Native and Hawaiian Native people of all ages.

Part of the center’s slogan is “there is future in tradition,” and they’re keeping that alive

and well with the annual Pow Wow. This uplifting two-day event is open to the public and includes interactive experiences for the whole family. Check out games, vendors, authentic American Indian food, arts and crafts, and tribal ceremonies that will ensure the culture only gets stronger over time.

48th Annual Pow Wow at OC Fair & Event Center, 88 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 708-1500; www.ocfair.com. 10 a.m.; also Sat. $3-$5; children 12 and younger, free. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Keep It Healthy Warpaint

The soft, lush harmonies of Los Angeles band Warpaint are nothing short of ethereal.

As evidenced on their latest album, Heads Up, the ladies behind this venerable indie artrock combo continue to merge their creative energies to produce soothing, ambient dream pop in some songs, while kicking up dancey, disco-laden beats in others. While their last visit to the Observatory saw the group lull audiences in a collective wave of psychedelic bliss, they’ve been tremendously busy, touring and writing new music, most of which will be performed for fans old and new alike.

Warpaint at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com. 8 p.m. $25.

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Choo-Choo Chuggin’ ‘Holiday Model Trains’

It doesn’t get much more old-school than putting a model train around the Christmas tree, and Anaheim’s Muzeo is putting a little extra power back in that tradition with a lot of classic Lionel-brand O-scale model railroading—that particularly sentimental kind your parents might have unwrapped as kids—and plenty of vintage rolling stock on deck to complete the effect. Besides an interpretation of a department-store window set-up, there will also be a Thomas the Tank Engine-themed layout and a tour through California landmarks, all courtesy of local chapters of the Toy Train Operating Society and Train Collectors Association. It’s a nostalgia trip at 1/48 the size of the real thing.

“Muzeo Express: Holiday Model Trains” at Muzeo, 241 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, (714) 956-8936; muzeo.org. 10 a.m.

Through Jan. 8. $6-$10. —CHRIS ZIEGLER

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Saint Yeezus Kanye West

In an unexpected, yet delightful turn, Kanye West added a Honda Center date to his Saint Pablo tour. According to widespread reports, the always unpredictable, enthralling West has put on his biggest, boldest, best show to date. For all of his antics on- and offstage, Kim Kardashian’s husband remains one of the greatest showmen in music history. Love him or loathe him, his Yeezusness continues to wow as his music moves in a more abstract, artsy direction. West may not be the voice of his generation, but he may forever be known as the voice of the Twitter generation, which, at this point, could be more meaningful.

Kanye West at the Honda Center, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 704-2500; www.hondacenter.com. 9 p.m. $29-$459.

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ThisThanksgiving, there’s no better way to show gratitude than to give back to those in need, so lace up your sneakers and join the OC Rescue Mission’sThirdAnnualTurkeyTrotOC5K Run/Walk at the Village of Hope inTustin.

The goal is to raise enough to provide more than 30,000 meals for the hungry and homeless of Orange County, ensuring that every day, not just on holidays, our fellow humans have some of the very basic necessities of life.TheTrot begins at 8 a.m., so you’ll have plenty of time to be altruistic, then head home for your own special family meal. In fact, theTrot might even be more harmonious!

TurkeyTrot OC 5K Run at Orange County Rescue Mission, 1 Hope Dr.,Tustin, (714) 247-4300; www.turkeytrotoc.org.

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Mamma Mia!

It’s a well-known fact that Thanksgiving dinner makes people sleepy. All the tryptophan from the turkey, plus the heaviness of those potatoes, combined with glasses upon glasses of red wine, it takes just about every diner straight to nappy town. So why not add the next-most sleep-inducing thing on the planet to the mix? This year, eat a sumptuous brunch while rocking peacefully on a seaborne vessel with Hornblower Cruises in Newport Beach.

The calm ocean waves will lull you into a dream state, as you have little to no worries to keep those peepers open for—after all, the crew does all the cooking and cleaning up! There’s nothing stopping you from unbuttoning those britches and taking a face dive straight into your pumpkin pie.

Dream on, pilgrims.

Thanksgiving Day Brunch Cruise at Hornblower Cruises and Events, 2431 W. Pacific Coast Hwy., Newport Beach, (888) 467-6256; www.hornblower.com.

11:30 a.m. $67.95. —AMANDA PARSONS

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Sing along to hit songs you know and love—“Take a Chance On Me,” “S.O.S.,” “Waterloo,” “Dancing Queen”—in this enduring stage production that has captured the hearts of Broadway and theater enthusiasts the world over.

Mamma Mia! at Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 5562787; www.scfta.org. 7:30 p.m.Through Nov. 27. $29-$89. —AIMEE MURILLO

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was the garlic mashed potatoes the gauchos brought by tableside that made the buffet’s offering of hot starches kind of moot. It was the only side dish that mattered when I started in on the meats—the perfect chaser to the picanha, a fat-rimmed, C-shaped cut of sirloin cap that might be the best piece of meat Texas de Brazil roasts.

My first piece of it was thrilling: Here was a steak with the exact right ratio of char, salt, fat and ruby-red flesh—the kind of bite that reaffirmed my choice to be a carnivore and made me scan the room for the gaucho to come back with more. He would return, of course—three more times. But something happened with every subsequent piece he sliced off: Each cut was less great than the last.

Was it because I was getting fuller by the second? Or were those other pieces actually flat and inordinately chewy? I started noticing that everything else I tried that night followed this trend. There was garlic steak that was juicy the first time, but overdone and sapped of moisture the second. The barbecued pork rib, one of the first meats I had, was succulent; but the pork loin I ate later seemed to take

on the personality of leather.

It’s possible that as my appetite waned and my belt tightened, the worse everything tasted. But it’s also possible that Texas de Brazil’s meats were just cooked inconsistently. In fact, some pieces, such as the lamb chops, were glaringly overdone no matter when I had it. Also, the sausage was inedible, a sodium bomb so shockingly salty I downed an entire glass of water to counteract its effects.

As the evening wore on, I also noticed inconsistencies in the service. While the meat-serving gauchos were all smiles, the hostess was cold when we went up to her to ask why our OpenTable reservation was marked as a no-show. By the end of the night, I realized I was no longer enjoying myself. Trying to recoup the amount I paid by overeating was a bad idea . . . but try telling yourself that when you’re there.

TEXAS DE BRAZIL 13772 Jamboree Rd., Irvine, (949) 209-1500; www.texasdebrazil.com. Open Mon.-Thurs., 5-9:30 p.m.; Fri., 5-10 p.m.; Sat., 4:30-10 p.m.; Sun., 4-9 p.m. Dinner for two, $100, food only. Full bar.

arbonzai is so goddamn cute that I almost walked out the first time I visited. Menu items are streamlined into three categories—bowls, wraps and “flatbreadz”—and there’s a mini buffet where happy millennials construct your order, Chipotle-style. The design is streamlined; the color scheme, bright. And this Lebanese shopping-plaza spot even has a mascot— Bonzo, a mustachioed chickpea descended from “Garbanzians”—with his own lengthy origin story and hashtag (#thebonzocode).

It’s nearly kawaii here, which usually indicates overcompensating for bad food.

But don’t let the flash fool you: Barbonzai is not only legit Middle Eastern food, but it’s also spectacular. You know a spot is great when it offers four types of falafels (all delicious and baked) and gives you pita bread that almost floats away because of all the steam inside, so fresh out of the oven it is.

That bread becomes the base for everything: The “flatbreadz” are really manakeesh, and while there’s an Americanized version of the pizza-like flabread with egg and bacon, Barbonzai doesn’t shy away from the Levant—the zaatar is spiced just right, and the cheese blend includes not only mozzarella, but also akawi and kaval, traditional Lebanese fromages that lend a gorgeous tang. The pita also stars in the wraps, which are shaped like burritos but strictly traditional: zaatar, labneh or halloumi, a creamy Cypriot cheese you barely see in Little Arabia, let alone Lake Forest.

And while one dessert wrap offers Nutella (you can never go wrong with Nutella), another is Lebanese fig jam and is one of the most surprisingly decadent things I’ve had in a while—walnuts, jam and honey, a triptych of sweet power not experienced since Destiny’s Child.

I get Barbonzai’s marketing, but I’d point out that OC isn’t as ignorant of Lebanese food as folks might expect.

Lake Forest, in particular, has hosted more than a few great Middle Eastern places for years. And when I went in and started chatting up the owner’s son, both he and his father were impressed at how much I knew about the cuisine. OC loves Middle Eastern cuisine, and y’all have amazing food, guys: No need to have a cute garbanzo gimmick, you know?

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write this with a distended tummy, a noticeable belly bulge that I didn’t have an hour before I went to Texas de Brazil. It’s an inevitable consequence of not only this trip to this churrascaria, but also any trip to any churrascaria. Why do I always end up consuming more meat in one sitting than I do in a week? Well, it’s a matter of accounting: I paid $50, so how many pounds of cow must I eat before I tip the balance sheet to my favor?

The gauchos who came to my table bearing gigantic skewers of steak and carving machetes were more than happy to help me try to recoup the costs. Beef, lamb, pork, and chicken covered in Parmesan and wrapped in bacon. That one charred. That one bloody. Did I taste that already? Well, maybe just another slice, and sure, I’ll try a sausage link.

And then there’s the buffet, with cheeses, charcuterie and hot foods in chafing trays. And the cinnamon sugarcovered fried banana that they told me is supposed to be a palate cleanser. And the pão de queijo, baskets of cheese bread whose chew is somewhere between a fried mozzarella stick and a just-baked Pillsbury crescent roll. I knew they were all just insurance policies the restaurant takes out so that its profits stay in the black, a buffer against the insatiable. But still, I tried all of it.

Texas de Brazil has certainly made its buffet area look irresistible, with all sight lines drawn to the gigantic floral arrangement set on top of it like a Mardi Gras float. It’s also the first churrascaria buffet I’ve seen that offers sushi rolls and an entire cut wheel of grana padano, an Italian cheese favored by Brazilians. But the best of the cold appetizers were the asparagus with a jellied orange zest dressing, the marinated shrimp, and the smokedsalmon steak, in that order. And it was a nice touch that the restaurant offered the Brazilian toasted cassava flour condiment called farofa, even if it gets few takers. And was that chafing tray of black beans next to the farofa actually feijoada in disguise?

Still, for a restaurant that hails from a state that touts its bigness, Texas de Brazil’s hot foods area was magnitudes smaller than the one across town at Agora, which was, up until this year, Irvine’s only churrascaria. Where I saw meat entrées in Agora’s chafing trays, Texas de Brazil’s had only four side dishes: the rice, the feijoada, some gratin potatoes, and mushrooms with wine.

There was, however, a lovely lobster bisque that, under different circumstances, I would’ve gulped by the gallon. And there

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he hype is true: Long Beach is becoming an enviable beer destination. And I don’t just mean that it has a bunch of breweries near one another, as in Anaheim. Or that there are a lot of good places to drink craft beer, as in Old Towne Orange. With the opening of Beer Belly in a former furniture store off Long Beach Boulevard this weekend, downtown now holds the holy trifecta of craft-beer destination-dom.

Not only is the block (affectionately called “Barley Block” by locals) already home to the best brewpub in the world (Beachwood BBQ and Brewing) and its super-nerdy barrel-aging side project (The Blendery), it’s also where the mini-chain of sacrilegious-schoolgirl beer bars (Congregation Ale House) started. (Full disclosure: I used to work there.)

Now, within walking distance of all of this, is the second location of Beer Belly, the Koreatown house of duck-fat decadence and one of LA’s earliest, most beloved craft-beer bars. Opened only recently, Beer Belly Long Beach has already proven itself to be one of the sleekest, most distinctive new restaurant concepts in the city. Owner Jimmy Han brought a lot of the working formula down from his K-Town original— the all-meat drunk food, the unbeatable selection of rare local kegs—but with a few not-so-subtle tweaks, he has avoided creating an exact replica. As with Blind Donkey before it, this project might share its name with a popular LA watering hole, but it is designed to be its own beast, something distinctly for Long Beach.

Chef Wes Lieberher’s decadent dishmaking, for example, returns with a chopped-and-screwed Long Beach menu that features a few Beer Belly staples, including the Death By Duck (duck confit on duck-fat fries) and the bacon-andmaple-syrup grilled cheese alongside soonto-be-classics such as al pastor enchilada meatballs with Nutella mole, short rib poutine macaroni and cheese, and two kinds of burgers (a beef one topped with candiedbacon slaw and a turkey burger smothered in mushroom gravy).

Doubling down on the local flair, the rotating salad now features vegetables from Long Beach farms and the Asian-inspired “K-Town Cheesy Corn” served at the original location becomes “LBC Crab Corn,” which takes on a Mexican seafood slant, becoming more esquite than Korean-barbecue side dish. For dessert, an assortment of deep-fried fair food (think: batter-dunked Oreos, Pop-Tarts and Twinkies) await.

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Long Beach’s 24 taps are guaranteed to be constantly stacked with some of the best in local brews, and popular events such as the One Night Stand tap-takeover series are likely to start up in the new year. As a sample of what to expect, the opening list included special submissions and hardto-find brews from Ladyface, Craftsman, Noble Ale Works and more.

Perhaps the most surprising addition to the Beer Belly brand, though, is Long Beach’s full liquor license, which allows the prominent craft-beer bar to experiment with a whole new palate of creativity. To do that, it tapped Karen Grill (Sassafras, Bestia, the Churchill), whose current list of seven cocktails includes the whiskey-based Downtowner and the award-winning ginand-aloe mixture Lily of the Valley. To top off the experience, all this food and drink comes served inside a strikingly intimate space, designed by MAKE Architecture, the same team behind Koreatown’s crisscrossing high-beam ceilings and woodpaneled interiors. At Long Beach, the walls and bartop are an obsidian construction, with geometric accents that mimic waves undulating across the restaurant. The tables—you can either sit at a regular table near the kitchen or at high tops in the bar area—are framed by straight wooden bars arranged with angular intensity.

As a welcome supplement to downtown Long Beach’s already-solid Barley Block, Beer Belly promises to be just as much for locals as it is for beer tourists, who can easily stumble down aboard the Blue Line or drive in from OC to get a sample of this LA favorite. Belly up!

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animated film about the martyrdom of the four sons of guru/poet/warrior Shri Guru Gobind Singhji. Next is All Quiet on the Homefront, a short drama from Chapman graduate student Harjus Singh about Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind, who was honorably discharged after serving for the U.S. in World War I and granted citizenship, only to have it revoked because he was not a “free white man.” The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Waris Ahluwalia stars as Thind, who became a writer, scientist and lecturer on spirituality.

Saturday includes two worldpremiere screenings of Doctor Ji, a documentary on Thind’s amazing life.

But first comes another doc, Under the Turban, which explains what it means to be a Sikh. Eh Janam Tumhare Lekhe is a Punjabi feature film based on the life of the late Bhagat Puran Singh (played by Pavan Malhotra), the founder of a home in India for society’s castaways that still thrives today. Three short film programs also screen.

Sunday brings the documentary Sikh Musical Heritage: The Untold Story, which is about the rich and colorful tradition of Sikh music commonly known as Kirtan or Gurmat Sangeet, and Kalyan— A Servant of the Night, the first Kirtan music video. Another doc, Table for Sixty-Thousand, examines the 60,000 free meals served daily by community mem-

bers of the historic and holy Sikh site the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India. Ardaas is a drama about a city teacher (Gurpreet Chuggi) who transfers to a village school where he helps locals confront the issues facing them and rediscovers the power of prayer. It’s followed by another popular Punjab movie that came out this year, Love Punjab, a family dramedy about a kid forced to visit the heart of India’s Sikh community. Also from this year are Udta Punjab, a crime drama that reflects an insurgence of substance abuse among young people in the Indian state, and Nikka Zaildar, a rom-com about a guy’s scheme to marry a reluctant fellow student—to unexpected ends.

Besides films, the festival features the “Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind Archives Exhibition” opening Friday in Chapman’s Leatherby Libraries, Sikh music in Chapman’s Musco Center Saturday night, plus youth art and writing workshops all weekend.

See you there!

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albir Singh Sodhi was shot to death at his Mesa, Arizona, gas station on Sept. 15, 2001, by a Boeing aircraft mechanic who decided to “go out and shoot some towel-heads” in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks.

Sodhi, who wore a beard and turban in accordance with his Sikh faith, was not an Arab Muslim like those who brought down the Twin Towers. A decade before his death, Sodhi had immigrated to the U.S. from Punjab, India, home of the Sikhs, who are also mistaken here for Hindus.

With the election of Donald Trump and the anti-Muslim baggage he brings to the White House, educating Americans about Sikhs and their monotheist THE FEST HAS MUSIC, TOO! faith is more critical than ever. But organizer and founder Bicky Singh says the timing of this weekend’s SikhLens: The idea for the festival was born. The Sikh Art & Film Festival in Orange and first several runs were in Hollywood, where Santa Ana is coincidental. “it became very big; 4,000 people came,” “It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving, Singh says. “It was a very giant networking always,” says the longtime Orange resievent for people from around the world.” dent whose event falls during California’s But he wondered if the event was Sikh Awareness Month. truly “moving the needle toward fairBut Singh agrees current events make ness” for Sikhs. That prompted another his event more important than ever. Hours conversation with Hollywood friends after Trump’s victory, the Sikh American who noted the children of Sikhs do not Legal Defense and Education Fund issued study film or broadcast journalism. a press release warning the faithful “to be That got Singh thinking about starting a very careful” moving about the country, fellowship program. noted Singh, who then took on a proud Then he remembered Chapman Unitone. “We are Sikhs, we are from India, and versity is “a stone’s throw distance” from we have been living in this country for 100his home of 30-plus years and that he plus years,” he says. “We are as American as had met former president Jim Doti and anybody else. We work hard. Because of my other school officials at previous festivals religion, I have a turban and beard.” in Tinseltown. Singh called Bob Bassett, He and his wife, Gurpreet, were among the dean of Chapman’s Dodge College of the “unsung heroes” honored at the 45th Film and Media Arts, to move the festival anniversary OC Human Relations Awards to Orange County and have SikhLens last May in Anaheim, where they were Foundation fund student films with Sikh recognized for their cultural, interfaith and themes. “Through learning about Sikh culeducational programs that include SikhLens. ture, heritage and faith,” Singh says, “our A technology professional obsessed with hopes are that in 15 years, these young Sikh film, music and art, Singh had been people going through film school will contributing to art exhibitions for years become the CEOs and executives in the when he mentioned to some Hollywood media who greenlight Sikh-centric films.” friends the 9/11 backlash Sikhs were experiikhLens opens Friday at the encing. They replied the problem was Sikhs Frida Cinema in Santa Ana are rarely seen in feature films, documenwith Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of taries or on the news. “You guys don’t have Banda Singh Bahadur, a recent your story out,” Singh recalls being told.

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cemetery in an orange Chevy to a desert island in the Persian Gulf. Yep, Haghighi will have much explaining to do at the audience Q&A that follows. UC Irvine, McCormick Hall, 4100 Humanities Gateway, Irvine, (949) 8246117. Sat., 5 p.m. Free.

Branagh Theatre at the Garrick: The Entertainer. Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne’s modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an examination of public masks and private torment. The live cinema broadcast from the London stage stars John Hurt, Kenneth Branagh and Greta Scacchi. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701. Sun., 12:55 p.m.; Tues., 7 p.m. $4.50-$10.50.

Questione di Cuore (A Question of the Heart). Cinema Italiano presents Francesca Archibugi’s 2009 dramedy, based on Umberto Contarello’s novel, about two men (Antonio Albanese and Kim Rossi Stuart) bonding after each suffers a heart attack. Rome is said to look fabulous through cinematographer Fabio Zamarion’s lenses.

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Norma Kershaw Auditorium, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 567-3677.

Sun., 2 p.m. $12.

Modest Reception. Filmmaker Mani Haghighi hangs around UC Irvine for another Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture presentation. This time, he takes audience questions after his 2012 dramedy about a couple

from the city that hands out money to poor villagers in a mountainous region of Iran in exchange for odd chores they do for the pair. UC Irvine, McCormick Hall, (949) 824-6117. Sun., 5 p.m. Free.

Warren Miller’s Here, There & Everywhere. The latest snow porn from the company sprung from Warren Miller’s first ski film 67 years ago has mostly been screening next to North American slopes, so consider yourselves lucky, Orange County flatlanders. The Weekly co-sponsors this screening of the documentary that has Miller back behind the mic reminding audiences that his camera crews have truly gone here, there and everywhere to capture amazing ski and snowboard footage for decades.

Regency Lido, 3459 Via Lido, Newport Beach, (800) 523-7117; www.skinet. com/warrenmiller. Mon., 7 p.m. $18.

The Polar Express. The Cinema

Classics series continues with Robert Zemeckis’ 2004 computer-animated chestnut, based on Chris Van Allsburg’s book, about a young boy who learns about the spirit of Christmas on a magical train ride to the North Pole. Among the voices are Bosom Buddies Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Starlight Cinema City, 5635 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, (714) 970-6700; starlightcinemas.com. Wed., 7 p.m. $7.

Viva Las Vegas. Oh, Elvis, did you ever make a good movie? See what you think of this exploitation of Mr. Presley’s immense talents as he plays Lucky Jackson (ugh!), a down-onhis-luck race-car driver who lost his engine and could thus lose the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the girl (AnnMargret, in full va-va-voooom mode).

Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 5575701. Wed., 7:30 p.m. $9.

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such as Elvira the housekeeper (and Blanche’s “special friend”), nosey neighbor Mrs. Bates and her dingdong daughter Gloria. Between a preshow dinner, the flick and a postscreening audience Q&A with Clift, there will be plenty of opportunities to break out your best “But you are, Blanche, you are in that chair.” The Filmmaker’s Gallery, 2238 E. Broadway, Long Beach, (562) 433-4460. Fri. Dinner, 7:30 p.m.; screening, 8:30 p.m. $25.

Deconstructing the Beatles: The White Album. Composer/producer Scott Freiman takes Beatles fans young and old into the Abbey Road Studio with the Fab Four as they create their best-selling album, The Beatles (commonly referred to as The White Album). Released in 1968, the 30 songs—which include “Revolution,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Blackbird”—pack elements of hard rock, country, chamber music, avantgarde and recording tricks George Martin pulled out of his wizard bag.

Freiman wants audiences to see and hear the evolution of the songs and understand their lasting influence on pop music. Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435. Sat.Sun., 11 a.m. $8.50.

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Finding Dory. Oh, there she is, behind that $1.018 billion at the box office. Fullerton Main Library, Osborne Auditorium, Room B, 353 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, (714) 738.6327. Thurs., Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Muppet Treasure Island. Travel back in time to 1996 for the Muppets’ twist on the classic fairy tale. With Tim Curry as Long John Silver, Billy Connolly as Billy Bones and Jennifer Saunders as Mrs. Bluveridge. Food trucks, touch tanks and other activities abound. Ocean Institute, 24200 Dana Point Harbor Dr., Dana Point, (949) 496-2274. Fri., 5 p.m. $10; family four-pack, $30.

The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king Jack Skellington (Danny Elfman) has become bored with leading zany Oingo Boingo, so he switches to Hollywood composer and . . . Check that: Jack gets bored with scaring people in the real world before a stumble into Christmastown gives him a new lease on life. Food and beer are available for purchase at this family screening. Fullerton Community Center, Courtyard, 340 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, (714) 738-6334.

Fri., 5:30 p.m. $5. RSVP required.

SikhLens: Sikh Art & Film Festival.

The festival aims to shine a light on “Sikh-centric” talent in movies, writing, music and art. See “Sikh Preview” for descriptions of festival films, which include Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur, All Quiet on the Homefront, Under the Turban, Eh Janam Tumhare Lekhe, Kalyan—A Servant of the Night, Sikh Musical Heritage: The Untold Story, Table for SixtyThousand, Ardaas, Love Punjab, plus PDV (post, digital and visual effects) films and multiple shorts programs. The Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; sikhlens.com. Fri., 7 p.m. $30 in advance; $100 at the door (covers opening-night films Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur and All Quiet on the Homefront and 10 p.m. after-party with food and drinks included). Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Most feature films $5 in advance; $15 at the door.

Baby Jane? Taking its cues from the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford freak fest of 1962, director Billy Clift’s first feature film is about the resentment Baby Jane feels after giving up her kid-movie stardom and growing old while taking care of her disabled sister Blanche, who . . . whoa, this seems to be doing more than “taking its cues” from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? There are added characters

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THE BICYCLE TREE: Every now and then, Santa Ana-based bike shop/bike-safety nonprofit holds a large sale where you can find refurbished bicycles in working condition for cheap. The next one is Nov. 26 at 11 a.m. 811 N. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 760-4681; thebicycletree.org.

GUNTHERS: While this rad downtown SanTana store caters mostly to men, anyone can buy from its inventory of hats, Mexican blankets, pins and clothing, whether you’re a greaser, punk, skater, or just young, Latinx and proud. 324 W. Fourth St., Santa Ana, (714) 702-5002; gunthers.co.

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DEELUX: How could I not include a shout out to this sweet buy/sell/trade clothing store, which we picked as this year’s Best Clothing Store. If you’re refining your wardrobe for colder weather with cool vintage items or searching for a cool hipstery knickknack for someone, stop in. 209 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, (714) 760-4801; mydeelux.com.

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about the election, that didn’t manifest in the material onstage, which surprised him. And Eric Eberwein, director of the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and Orange County’s biggest champion of original plays, said that staged readings at Theatre Out of plays by local playwrights Erica Bennett and George Bardin Rothman prompted a discussion about “how the themes of the [plays] felt eerily appropriate . . . the responsibility of ordinary people to do courageous things in uncertain times.”

That’s good, but it’s still theater confined to performance. All too often, theaters seem satisfied to invite the community into their spaces every weekend, and that’s it. Very few actively engage with their community, making their houses feel like a relevant part of it. Two local theater producers are the exception (maybe others, too; if so, let me know): Theatre Out, OC’s bastion of LGBT theater, often holds single-night events that aren’t about a play, but more about bringing that community together. And Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble has transformed from staging plays to actively soliciting its community to help write and workshop those plays, basically bringing theater to the people rather than the other way around.

More theaters need to follow that lead

and create a sense that the local playhouse is not only an escape from the daily grind, but also a sanctuary for expression, community, catharsis and, above all else, the real, hard work that is desperately needed in times of turmoil. It’s time to, in the 1956 words of Allen Ginsberg, put the queer, artistic shoulder to the American wheel. Or, as Steven Leigh Morris, the impossibly erudite and knowledgeable former theater critic of LA Weekly who now runs stageraw.com, said in the ending of his brilliant essay about the arts in the era of Trump, “Because when the world seems upside-down and insideout, when reliable sources are no longer reliable, when reason starts to sound like babble, and babble like reason . . . there are places where actual truth can be told, little halls off back alleys, where poems are read, where songs are sung, where plays are put on. . . .

“And this is how the performing arts change the world. And there are small pockets of history when nothing is more important. And we may well be entering one of them.”

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ne August morning in the waning years of the previous century, Jerry Garcia died. On that Wednesday night, a motley contingent of actors, musicians and poets staged an impromptu memorial at a theater in downtown Fullerton. The cops were eventually called, and that gathering factored in that troupe getting bounced from the space. But, damn it, “I Know You Rider” had to be sung—and sung loudly.

I was thinking about that the night of Nov. 8 and the rough patch of days that followed. While half of America’s voters took the results of the presidential election hard, local theater folks took it way hard. My Facebook feed was overwhelmed by posters reacting as if Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris and the family dog had just been immolated in a fire set by sparking the last, recently discovered, but never read, Jonathan Larson play. Terrified, tearful, angry and apocalyptic posts were the rage, and it seemed as if the only proactive step was to affix a safety pin to your chest and keep a vigilant eye on the jackbooted thugs who would soon begin whaling on people of color or alternative lifestyles (better idea: put 50 pins on, point them outward, then jump on the dipshits doing it).

And it makes sense. Theater people, by and large, tend to be emotional and dramatic, and they, like their audiences and the writers whose work they help to bring to life, skew liberal. And any rational human being should be just a little bit concerned about the consequences of Trump’s racist, xenophobic and sexist rhetoric.

It also makes sense that so many aired their angst on Facebook, the cybernetic group-therapy session in which sympathy and smiley faces are only a click away.

But theater people, as with all creative types, have an alternative to the immediately accessible but non-physical realm of the internet: Their work and the spaces where they do it. There were no spontaneous gatherings in the days that followed the election, though. Plays and readings were staged. But considering so many creative people were taken aback by the election, it was curious that so little emphasis was placed on what is theater’s yugely greatest potential: cathartic communion in a space filled with real, breathing people.

It’s not that last weekend’s theater events operated in a vacuum. Josh Nicols, who runs an improv group at STAGEStheatre in Fullerton, said that while performers talked backstage Friday night

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Steve Aoki returns to OC to celebrate two decades of Dim Mak Records

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ong-term success is not something you can plan in the music industry, no more than you can anticipate the energy of an audience at a show or the outcome of an election. But, after 20 years, the record label named after a Chinese martial art known as the death touch has given more life to the music world than its founder Steve Aoki could’ve expected.

Dim Mak Records was the launching pad for the superstar DJ, one of the biggest names in EDM. He has even become an unexpected global ambassador, as he sat on the floor of the final U.S. presidential debate in Las Vegas last month, rubbing elbows with senators and taking selfies with Bill and Hillary Clinton. “You’re sitting next to senators and leaders of the free world,” Aoki recalls. “It was a very serious room, and you’re so focused on what they’re talking about that I really learned a lot.” Though the election results feel as if America just got a cake smashed in its face (and not in the fun way that Aoki does it at his shows), the fact that a DJ from Newport Beach was granted this sort of honor proves how far Aoki and EDM have come since he started deejaying in 2003.

Before he became a superstar, Aoki was just another kid with a guitar in his parent’s house. The son of divorced parents Chizuru Kobayashi and Rocky Aoki, the late business mogul who started Benihana, Aoki hosted small punk and hardcore shows in his mother’s living room or anywhere his friends had enough space he could fill with bands, amps, distortion and sweat. “I grew up going to shows and listening to bands in that world, and I was in bands—emo bands and hardcore screaming bands,” Aoki says.

“That was my groundwork as far as getting into the foundation of where Dim Mak started, when I was 19 and in college.”

Officially founding the label in his Santa Barbara college dorm room in 1996, Aoki’s path to success came through learning the DIY route in all aspects of business from recording to marketing and distribution. To this day, he keeps a hand on most of those areas himself (his next-door neighbor is actually Dim Mak’s primary distributor).

As bands such as the Kills started breaking big, Aoki says, he had to learn to grow his business on the fly. One such learning experience involved Bloc Party, who were a totally unknown band months prior to the release of their debut album, Silent Alarm, which initially sold 350,000 copies. That success led to a deal with Vice Records for the U.S. release.

“We weren’t even prepared to do anything of that scale and work with labels of that scale,” Aoki says. “And it was incredible

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to see it go from there. There’s no chart pathway; I just heard this demo from a band I really like.”

Even in cases where the records Dim Mak released didn’t sell well, Aoki was never opposed to taking risks on artists he deemed to be great. He remembers signing a folk band called Young People that he loved enough to give them a shot. He signed former blues band the Soledad Brothers, whom he discovered while on tour with the Kills. When he heard Brooklyn-based experimental, instrumental band Battles, Aoki jumped at the chance to put out their 2004 effort, B EP. This weekend, Aoki returns to where his music career began to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dim Mak with an all-day party on the sand in Huntington Beach, as well as a solid handful of artists in genres ranging from trap to trance. “The thing about Dim Mak is that we’re not shackled to one type of music, and we’re a music-loving

label,” Aoki says. “That’s how we survived the different epochs where labels came and went. We weren’t the coolest label, we weren’t the most popular label, but we definitely had an impact in all these genres.”

The trail of successful Dim Mak releases—which includes such recent acts as Chain Smokers and Max Styler (who is also on the bill this weekend)—show a change in music trends globally, as well as for Aoki personally, as his tastes are as vast as his travels.

“There’s a lot of luck involved with this as well,” Aoki says. “Just following your gut and following where life takes you—it’s a chooseyour-own-adventure game constantly.”

All along, Aoki has been leading his own successful trail as a DJ. In fact, he was already a budding talent in the DJ world in the years before the term EDM was even a thought. But pursuing his dream and becoming a star is not where the story ends for Aoki. He hopes to stay relevant—at least for another 20 years—and continue keep-

ing his ears open for the next big thing.

At the moment, though, he says it feels good to sit back and enjoy what he’s created with the community that helped him scratch the surface of his vision. “OC is where I was raised, my adolescent years,” Aoki says. “It’s where I picked up my first guitar, where I picked up my first TASCAM recorder, which lead to what I do now, producing music electronically. So for me to come back and do that for the EDM fans is a trip. I’m so happy it’s happening; it’s gonna be really sentimental for me.”

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started saying, ‘We can’t tell who’s who.’

Sometimes, we listen back to tracks, and we can’t even tell ourselves.”

The unity of sound also inspired a unity in the look of the band’s singers.

The two dress identically for all public appearances, often in loud colors and busy prints, their identical mod hairstyles often dyed red. “When we started out, we wanted to have a show that was a visual representation of the music, so dressing alike was a natural fit,” Wolfe says.

Though their look is uniform, the sound of their first two albums bounces all over the place, drawing from genres such as pop, synth, disco and folk. “I hope that what we put out is never as expected,” Wolfe says. “When you start to write for a specific style, you sort of like put yourself in a box—you limit yourself in terms of what you can do and what you can become.”

While being on the road and sharing the stage with heroes including Waters, Neil Young and Mavis Staples has been amazing and surreal, touring takes its toll.

Both the lead ladies are married; Wolfe’s husband is the band’s drummer, while Laessig’s husband is a musician in another band. “We have different difficulties, so we look to each other as a sort of ‘the grass is always greener’ scenario,” Wolfe says. “Do you want to be with someone all the time or none of the time?”

While the touring can be rough, the ladies believe their relationship keeps getting stronger. “Eleven years later, here we are still writing and singing songs together,” Wolfe says. “It’s definitely my longest and healthiest relationship.”

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t takes a lot to upstage a classic-rock icon during his own set. Sporting black capes and bleached-blond bob hairdos, most fans don’t know what to make of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig until they open their mouths. But singing the soulful riffs of “Great Gig In the Sky” next to Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, there’s no doubt they made an impression on the final night of Goldenvoice’s Desert Trip festival (a.k.a. Oldchella). With their heads tilted back, they unleashed their angelic harmonies with enough power to touch the dark side of the moon.

“Certainly singing with Roger Waters was one of the greatest things we’ve ever done, and our parents were there to watch,” Wolfe says. “They brought us up on that music, so it was a huge deal. That was a huge high.”

Since early March, Brooklyn, New York-based indie pop quintet Lucius have been touring the country, growing their fan base. But on Sunday, their tour closes at the Observatory in Santa Ana, giving them time to record their third album, the follow-up to 2016’s Good Grief and their 2013 debut, Wildewoman.

Wolfe and Laessig met in college, where they discovered they had similar tastes in music. “My first friend in college was [Laessig’s] roommate, and we had a group of girls that were inseparable,” Wolfe says. “One night, over wine, we talked about our influences and discovered how similar ours were. Then we got together and worked on cover songs just for fun, but it developed, and then we decided to write our own.”

The collaboration was very successful, and the twosome decided to grow to a quintet in 2005. But similar musical tastes weren’t the only commonality the women experienced. “People always say we sing like one voice,” Wolfe says. “We sing in unison a lot. At some point, people

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t’s not every day that a Christian acoustic duo evolves into a five-piece melodic hardcore band. Since the band were established, the Difference have demolished your average hardcore stereotypes. They don’t act like tough guys looking to go aggro and kick your ass in the pit or write songs about being brutal. Nor are they going to abandon the use of clean vocals in their music.

“Why set limitations on genres? It takes away from the creativity aspect of writing,” says guitarist Jordan Damasco. “Hardcore was originally based off community, brotherhood and to treat one another with respect. We try to incorporate that again in our own way,” The project began when childhood friends, drummer Nicholas Miller and vocalist Sean Todd, had an overwhelming urge to create music back in 2012. After gathering more members through social media and the LA/OC scene—the current lineup includes Damasco and fellow guitarist Shaun Eozzo and bassist Gene Ramirez—the band decided to pursue something heavier.

The Difference started off with strong Christian roots and have since added non-Christian members, though their songs maintain most of the same ideologies. Only now, they say that songs formerly based around God’s love are just about love. “Love yourself; love the person around you. You make the difference in your life and everyone’s life around you, whether you know it or not,” Todd says.

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They’re also growing their abilities, with the motto that there’s always room for improvement.

Before each set, Damasco tapes his phone to the wall to record them; he has videos from throughout the past year, which the band watch, so they can make any changes they feel necessary.

As with most scrappy local bands, the Difference don’t often make a profit playing shows; in their case, they sometimes even lose money while touring. Any money they make goes into their projects, not their pockets. But they are doing something the band are passionate about.

“It doesn’t make sense to anybody who doesn’t do this because they don’t know what it’s like to write music or to touch someone emotionally,” Ramirez says.

Despite the obstacles, the band members say the keys to any band’s success are simple: respect your band mates, respect your fans, know your worth, keep open communication with bands mates to always improve and, especially, make friends with other bands. “We just want people to enjoy themselves and feel that connection with us,” Damasco says. “We talk about getting rid of the hate that’s all going on around. We just want everybody to—no pun intended—find that common ground.”

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THE AQUABATS!: 7 p.m., $25. City National Grove of Anaheim, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 7122750; citynationalgroveofanaheim.com.

BEATLES VS. STONES: 8 p.m. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

GAYC/DC: gay AC/DC tribute, 7 p.m., $5. Doll Hut, 107 S. Adams St., Anaheim, (714) 533-1286.

THE GOOD FOOT!: 9 p.m., $5-$7. Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 434-8292; alexsbar.com.

KILL FRENZY: 9 p.m., $13. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

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NIGHT BEATS: 9:30 p.m., $12. Acerogami at the Glass House, 228 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 865-0979.

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Mourning In America I’m a longtime fan—reader and listener—and part of the 47 percent of white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared and mad about the election is woefully insufficient. I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning because I honestly felt like there was nothing else I could do. That being said, I wanted to share that I had one of the most weirdly charged, hottest, sexiest orgasms. A little buzzed (dealing with those election results) and sad, my boyfriend and I turned to each other for consolation. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, we were fucking as Trump came on the TV to give his acceptance speech. As that orange blowhard spewed more bullshit about being our president, I rode my boyfriend’s big, beautiful dick until I came.

It was the perfect way to say, “Fuck this. Now fuck me.” I encourage all your readers to fuck out the stress from this election. Yes, we should donate and volunteer and speak up and protest and vote and not give up hope, but we should also keep doing it and taking care of each other. Because love trumps hate, and fucking trumps . . . well, I’m not sure what fucking trumps. But it sure makes life better.

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but miserable, given the challenges we faced—their greed, their indifference, their bigotry—but we created and experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this awful disease. We turned to one another—we turned to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers—and said, “Fuck them. Now fuck me.”

We didn’t eradicate HIV/AIDS, the disease that was sickening us then, but we fought it to a standstill and we may defeat it yet. The disease that now sickens our nation is different. We may never eradicate racism and sexism and hatred. But fight it we will. And don’t listen to anyone who tells you that music and dance and art and sex and joy are a distraction from the fight. They are a part of the fight.

My boyfriend is undocumented. His sister married a U.S. citizen and may receive a green card. We had hoped to someday do the same. But next year, the extreme right will control all three branches of the federal government. Deportation will surely come for my boyfriend. Additionally, we’re a gay couple, and Donald Trump has pledged to repeal marriage equality, if not ban it outright. So if we were to marry now, the timing would look suspicious. And even if we did marry, that marriage is likely to be invalidated in the coming years. Is it still worth it to try? What do I do if the government takes away the love of my life?

Keep Him Home You should marry your boyfriend immediately, KHH, and do so with confidence. “There is no realistic possibility that anyone’s marriage will be invalidated,” said Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which has taken marriage-rights cases to the U.S. Supreme Court (and won). “The law is very strong that if a marriage is valid when entered, it cannot be invalidated by any subsequent change in the law.

So people who are already married should not be concerned that their marriage can be taken away.”

And Minter says the court is unlikely to overturn Obergefell, the decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country. “The doctrine of stare decisis—which means that courts generally will respect and follow their own prior rulings—is also very strong, and the Supreme Court very rarely overturns an important constitutional ruling so soon after issuing it,” said Minter. “Even the appointment of an antimarriage-equality justice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia would not jeopardize the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on marriage equality, and the great majority of Americans still strongly support the freedom of samesex couples to marry.”

I’m heartsick about the election. Today, I made a donation to Planned Parenthood. PP asked me if I wanted my donation to be in honor of anyone and noted they’ll send a card to that person to let them know I’ve donated in their name. Why, yes, I thought, I’d like to make my donation in honor of Mike Pence, vice president-elect. Until Jan. 20, 2017, his address is 4600 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208. After Jan. 20, 2017, his address will sadly be 1 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, D.C. 20008. If any of your readers are inclined to join me in honoring our VP-elect, they can donate at plannedparenthood.org.

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It’s important to practice good self-care in the wake of a traumatic event—the election qualifies as a traumatic event—and going by the definition of selfcare at GoodTherapy.org, fucking the living shit out of someone qualifies as self-care: “Actions that an individual might take in order to reach optimal physical and mental health . . . Self-care [includes] activities that an individual engages in to relax or attain emotional well-being, such as meditating, journaling or visiting a counselor.”

They’re too polite over at GoodTherapy.org to include “fucking the shit out of someone” on that list of examples, JULIE, but what you did on election night— which just so happens to be the exact same thing I did on election night—certainly meets all the criteria.

And if anyone out there who did the same on election night—fucked the shit out of someone—is feeling the least bit guilty, please know that millions of Americans did the exact same thing after 9/11. We used a different term to describe all that post-9/11 fucking: “terror-sex,” which New York magazine defined as “urgent, unguarded, end-of-the-world coitus inspired by that day’s sudden jolt of uncertainty and fear.”

I want to thank you for writing, JULIE, and I want to second your recommendation: Sex, partnered or solo, makes life better—and people shouldn’t feel guilty about fucking someone else and/or fucking/jacking/ dildo-ing themselves at this uncertain and fearful moment in our nation’s history. Yes, we must donate and volunteer and protest and vote, all while reminding ourselves daily that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. And we must commit to defending our friends, neighbors and co-workers who are immigrants (documented or not), Muslims (American-born, immigrants or refugees), people of color, women seeking reproductive health care, trans men and women seeking safety, lesbian and gay men seeking to protect their families, and everyone and everything else Trump has threatened to harm, up to and including the planet we all live on.

But we must make time for joy and pleasure and laughter and friends and food and art and music and sex. During the darkest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when Republicans and religious conservatives controlled the federal government and were doing everything in their power to harm the sick and dying, queers organized and protested and volunteered and mourned.

We also made music and theater and art. We took care of one another, and we danced and loved and fucked.

Embracing joy and art and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us feel better—it kept us sane—and it had the added benefit of driving our enemies crazy.

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