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It’ll take a while, but with Proposition 64’s election victory, recreational pot has finally arrived

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he cannabis industry made solid chess moves in the election earlier this month. Not only did the recreational use of marijuana get a statewide green light with the approval of Proposition 64, but two local cities moved forward with medicalcannabis measures, as well. Considering California has the sixth-largest economy in the world—and the largest cannabis economy—the Golden State is now set to become the epicenter of the green rush.

That said, despite the hype, Prop.

64 grants freedom to municipalities to choose how they want to regulate cannabis within their cities. Being the conservative stronghold Orange County is, it’s no surprise that every city within the county, with the exception of Santa Ana, has already banned storefront dispensaries.

Moreover, if the county’s cities allow recreational dispensaries to open, cannabis won’t be available without a doctor’s note until Jan. 1, 2018.

“It’s going to be a long time before you see dispensaries on street corners in Orange County like you do a 7-Eleven or Circle K,” says Paul Lucas, a longtime Orange County medical-marijuana advocate and Democratic Party activist.

“Slowly, municipalities are going to start permitting [recreational dispensaries].

Some will probably be forced by citizens who file initiatives in their city, and eventually, it’s going to open the floodgates. As time goes by, it’ll become more and more of a liability for politicians to be anti-cannabis.”

Although purchasing recreational pot won’t be legal for a little more than a year, as long as you’re at least 21 years old and not smoking in public, you’re not breaking the law. But if a cop catches you waltzing down the street, bong in hand, blowing cloudy rips into the sky, you’ll be fined— and thanks to Prop. 64, the cost of a citation for smoking in public has just jumped from $100 to $250.

It’s now legal for anyone older than 21 to possess up to 1 ounce of flower or 8 grams of cannabis concentrate (i.e., shatter, wax, etc.) at one time. If you’re caught with more than that, you’ll be slapped with a misdemeanor punishable by as little as a $500 fine and as much as six months in jail. Should you get caught three times with more than an ounce of weed, the third offense would be a felony.

It’s America, folks—we gotta keep those prisons full somehow!

Prop. 64 also gives adults the right to grow up to six plants in their homes. But that doesn’t mean you can grow it outside in public. According to the new law, up to

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six plants can be grown discreetly inside your home, meaning they are not visible to the public and stored in a locked place.

If you want to grow in your back yard, you’re required to get a permit. And if you violate this law, you’ll be fined $250.

Perhaps the most significant immediate effect of Prop. 64 is that people who are currently in California prisons for nonviolent marijuana offenses can apply for a sentence reduction or parole. According to Diane Goldstein, an executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, this aspect of the initiative has already begun to restore people’s rights. “All the criminal-justice attorneys I know around the state are in court, defending or helping people get out of jail,” she says. “What we said was going to happen is already happening: So many marijuana cases are being reduced to misdemeanors, and misdemeanor cases are being dismissed.”

The election also impacted the medical side of the industry. Orange County and Long Beach have positioned themselves to become hubs of the industry in Southern California. Although Costa Mesa still doesn’t permit dispensaries within the city, voters approved Measure X, the city-backed medical-marijuana measure allowing for nonretail cannabis businesses to operate in a zone just north of the 405 freeway and west of Harbor Boulevard. According to Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer, the goal of the measure is to put the city ahead of the curve, so when Jan. 1, 2018, rolls around, Costa Mesa will

be a hotbed for the manufacturing, cultivation, lab testing, research, distribution and transportation of both medical and recreational marijuana.

With dispensary-friendly Santa Ana as a bordering city, the Costa Mesa City Council focused on an area of the industry that’s missing rather than creating more storefronts. “Quality lab testing and research aren’t easy to do, even for doctors who are involved with some of the companies making products for kids with disabilities,” Righeimer says. “Testing needs to happen, but there’s the risk of cops raiding the facility and taking everyone to jail, making people not want to do it. Safe testing facilities need to be available. Most of the time, parents don’t know what’s in the product they’re giving their kids. When you’re dealing with the lives of sick and disabled people, there is no room for error. The industry is so unregulated, which is what Measure X tackles.”

On Nov. 8, Long Beach voters passed Measures MM, the citizen-drafted medical-marijuana ordinance, and MA, the city’s marijuana tax initiative. MM will permit 26 storefronts to open at first, with a potential maximum of 32. It also permits delivery services as long as they’re connected to a dispensary and nonretail cannabis businesses to operate in the city.

Officials estimate they’ll start processing applications for medical-marijuana dispensaries in early January 2017.

The future of recreational cannabis in Long Beach will remain undetermined until the City Council votes on it. But

the language in the taxation measure addresses tax rates for “nonmedical marijuana businesses,” leaving a possibility for recreational sales. Larry King, a longtime medical-marijuana advocate and Long Beach resident, expressed uncertainty about the city opening its borders to recreational businesses, as he believes it’ll undermine the medical side of the industry. “I didn’t vote on 64, but I’m grateful on some levels, like people getting out of prison who don’t belong there and keeping others from having their lives destroyed,” he explains. “The bad news is that I think it’ll degrade the medicalmarijuana business like it did in the state of Washington—it completely eliminated the medical side after recreational grew so big.”

Although groups such as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws say denying Prop. 64 would have been a major setback for policy reform, a lot of uncertainty and speculation still exist around the new law. Goldstein says that while the initiative isn’t perfect, in regard to creating a social-justice standard and utilizing research and data to create better policies, it’s brilliant.

Despite the conflicting feelings of those in the community, one thing is certain: The cannabis industry is officially legit in California.

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¡ask a mexican!» » gustavo arellano DEAR MEXICAN: We have Mexican teenagers in my apartment building who are chronic troublemakers.

My question to you is: Why do Mexicans break the rules, refuse to be corrected and harass us senior citizens? Why is it always the Mexicans who are the worst?

Is it in their culture? Or are these just uneducated low-lifes? And because their fathers are nowhere in sight? The management here and the cops can hardly keep up with them, probably because they’re Mexicans, too.

Frustrated DEAR GABACHO: You didn’t give me specifics, so I’m not sure if the young Mexicans in question are merely playing in the hallway in violation of apartment rules or making you pay a protection “tax.” I’m thinking the former because Mexicans are taught to revere viejitos as if they were their own abuelitas, so rarely disrespect the elderly.

Since you’re claiming Mexican cops and apartment managers are conspiring to protect the kids from punishment, I’m going to mark you down as a nasty old bigot, the kind who remembers when Mexicans were referred to as “wetbacks” and everyone laughed at Sy the Little Mexican. In case you actually are a kind old soul and a bunch of asshole kids are truly harassing you, call up an old Mexican grandma: Her chancla will have them scrambling faster than a gabacho running to the restroom after eating habanero salsa.

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DEAR MEXICAN: I was in a Mexican restaurant and saw a map of Mexico on the wall with all the states shown. I’d previously assumed that Chiapas and Yucatán were cultural regions, like Appalachia or the Pacific Northwest, not states in a republic.

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Wikipedia says that Mexico’s official name is United Mexican States (in English). Cartographers might say that Mexican state names won’t fit in available space, but they still draw Rhode Island on the map of the U.S. Showing Canadian territories makes Canada seem “like us,” while showing Mexico as a single region makes Mexico seem undeveloped, undergoverned and homogenous.

Other countries also have states or provinces that aren’t shown, like Brazil and China. Mexican states probably vary more than Canadian provinces do. Is the snow in Manitoba different than the snow in Ontario?

Why do you think most maps made in the U.S. show U.S. states and Canadian territories, but not Mexican states?

‘F’ in Geography DEAR GABACHO: Because the U.S. and Canada are English-speaking neighbors, while Mexico ain’t. Meanwhile, Mexican maps don’t offer the same courtesy to its Central American neighbors in showing each country’s departments (their version of states)—further proof to chapines, catrachos, ticos and guanacos alike that Mexicans are brown Hitlers. No joke here; they really do!

DEAR MEXICAN: Why do the women on Mexican television wear so much eye makeup?

Mascara Maven DEAR GABACHA: Same reason American women on television do—patriarchy!

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cops are quick to arrest any violators. At the Great Wall, a spot might last for months, if not years—and it’ll stay up until someone else paints over you.

For more than a decade, vets and rookies (“kings” and “toys,” in the scene’s lingo), outsiders and locals have had free rein here, and no one has been able to stop it—not frustrated residents, not Caltrans, not a booming homeless population, not even Orange code enforcement or police officers.

“It’s a safety issue, right?” asks Sherman Kyles, who grew up in a townhome whose back yard is an entrance to the graffiti wall.

His mother has lived in that home for 36 years.

“People don’t know: You’re scared; someone is in your back yard.”

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Frantic calls to his cell went unanswered, as the siren got louder. Just as the crew started thinking about ditching him, Dot appeared out of the shadows, unscathed. Turns out he took off in a different direction, and the siren belonged to a fire truck passing by on the 22. After the close call, the group decided to leave for the night.

That was the last time Xces wrote in that area for fear of getting caught again. Today, he’s a 21-year-old aspiring high-school art teacher who still “gets up” (builds his reputation) at night for his street art, nowadays hitting up more discreet spots. But he remembers his years at the Great Wall fondly. “That freeway is probably one of the most popular Orange County freeways spots to hit because it never really gets buffed [painted over]; it only gets kind of capped [crossed out],” he says. “That’s as close to LA graffiti as you’re going to get in Orange County.”

In a county notorious among graffiti writers for monotonous streets and quick clean-up response times, the Great Wall of Graffiti is a legend. Its size and prominence—seen by a quarter of a million people daily—is almost unmatched in Southern California. It’s a Switzerland of sorts for OC’s graffiti scene, where beefs are set aside in the name of sharing a miraculous, communal scribble pad. Nearly anywhere else in Orange County, your tag is gone within the day—two days, max—and

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n the dead of night, six spray-canwielding teenagers waited at the base of a chain-link fence dividing the eastbound 22 freeway from townhomes near the City Drive exit in Orange. Cars zipped by just feet away from them, but the youngsters were too busy scheming to be scared. On the other side stood their prize: the city’s Great Wall of Graffiti, a nearly 1,000-foot canvas of the backside of townhomes where nearly anyone can put up their names without fear of rivals or punishment by the law.

The six teens effortlessly scaled the fence, slowing down to give a little boost to the homie Dot, the heaviest of the squad. The youngest of the crew, just 15, sprinted down a pathway behind the townhomes and sprayed four throwups—bubble letters that make up his street name, Xces. While he filled in his mark, Xces worried that the clattering sound of his aerosol can would wake up the residents on the other side of the wall, but he continued anyway; in less than five minutes, Xces had finished and moved on to help Dot. Suddenly, a siren wailed. Xces and his pals ran down the pathway, hopped the fence that divides the wall from another path that leads back to a street, and spread out. Five of them eventually met at a prearranged point: a nearby empty parking lot where a getaway driver waited. But one of them was missing: Dot.

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But that’s not what motorists on the eastbound 22 see as they inch toward the 5 freeway: Alongside the graffiti are trash, broken glass and empty spray cans. Simplistic tags scattered across the wall blend in with larger, more complex, nearly muralistic pieces. Some stylish letters have cartoon caricatures embedded within them. Graffiti pieces layer over one another, creating a palimpsest that at times spills beyond the wall and onto homeowners’ windows. A row of Italian cypress futilely try to mask the scene.

Park City inhabitants actually date the start of the tagging to the $550 million widening of the freeway that began in 2004 and ended in 2007. “Before they expanded the freeway . . . it was all huge eucalyptus;, it was awesome,” says Kyles.

“Huge sound barrier; you couldn’t hear anything. You could actually go on a little nature walk, if you felt like it. . . . The neighborhood itself wasn’t as dilapidated.”

Through Measure M funds, Caltrans, Federal Highway Administration and the Orange County Transit Authority (OCTA) built a single mixed flow and a single carpool lane to each direction of the 22. “Think about it: Caltrans is actually responsible for the mess,” says Mario Sanchez, a 13-year homeowner of a Park City residence covered in graffiti. “Once Caltrans widened the freeway . . . they took down one fence, they took down the bush, they took down all the trees, and that exposed the wall. And that’s how [graffiti writers] saw it, and that’s why they go there: because it’s visible from the freeway.”

A towering, husky man, Sanchez is the unofficial neighborhood watch of his block, sitting sentry from the comfort of

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his front lawn. The neighborhood kids endearingly call him Uncle Buck. “The [Santa Ana] riverbed is constantly getting cleaned up. Yet here, we have ‘The Gallery,’” Sanchez says with a tone of frustration. “I just call it ‘The Gallery’ because everyone does their paintings there. It’s no museum, that’s for sure.”

A few homes down from Sanchez, a married couple, who asked to remain anonymous, share that their second-story bedroom window is covered with splatters of light-blue spray paint. “I haven’t heard anyone at night,” the wife says. “It does upset me, but since I’m on this side, it’s kind of out of sight, out of mind. But when I drive by, it’s like, ‘Wow, that’s terrible.’”

While some homeowners don’t mind the graffiti because they don’t necessarily have to face it every day, most hate it.

“It makes the neighborhood look like a ghetto,” says Brian Drouillard, who has lived in the area for five years. His home isn’t part of the graffiti wall, but it neighbors the targeted Park City abodes. “I see that . . . coming off the freeway, and to me, it’s embarrassing being a resident of Orange. I was born and raised in Huntington Beach; it’s unacceptable there and here—anywhere for that matter. I mean, this is Orange County, for goodness sake.”

Drouillard says his calls to the city of Orange to remove graffiti on property near his home get responded to quickly.

But the wall on the Park City properties remains ignored. Sanchez says when he inquired about the city removing the graffiti on the backside of the townhomes, he was told the city doesn’t remove graffiti on what’s deemed private property unless it’s within 10 feet of a public sidewalk— which the wall isn’t.

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he artists who haunt the Great Wall don’t take their luck for granted. They’re glad that bureaucratic red tape leaves them alone. Who’s actually responsible for maintaining the wall is a matter of dispute. OCTA and Caltrans confirmed that the 22 freeway is owned and operated

by Caltrans; however, Caltrans’ graffitiremoval hotline does not service private property. “It’s one of those unique things because [the homeowners] are the victims, and they are responsible for removing it,” says Lieutenant Fred Lopez, public information officer for the Orange Police Department. “The owners have cleaned it, and it comes right back.”

Lopez says the city has estimated that each cleanup of the Park City wall costs $2,000. Residents of the community pay a $75 “quarterly assessment” fee imposed by the Management Trust, the firm that represents the Park City Homeowners Association. According to Sanchez, this fee is supposed to cover maintenance costs for Park City homeowners. But, residents claim, they’re expected to pay the additional expense to remove the graffiti on their property, while they feel they shouldn’t have to because it should be either the city’s responsibility or Caltrans’, given how public the colorful chaos is. Two homeowners say they’ve left multiple voicemails for the Management Trust regarding the graffiti issue to no avail. Sanchez says he once received a call back nearly three weeks after leaving a voicemail—but he was told homeowners had to fix the problem themselves. “[The homeowners association and the Management Trust] have washed their hands of it and put it on the 28 property owners,” Lopez says. “So, I ask you, how many thousands of dollars are you going to continue to throw at that problem?”

Sarah Deason, a representative for the Management Trust, says the matter was resolved in a meeting with the Park City HOA board members and representatives of the Orange mayor’s office in 2012.

According to Deason, notifications to residents were sent about their responsibility to maintain their own property walls after the decision was reached. When asked about how the mandatory assessment doesn’t cover graffiti removal, Deason said the fee only covered “common areas,” such as landscaping and lighting.

Sanchez says he never received such a notice from the city and is upset that other Orange residents are offered the city’s graffiti-removal services despite being private homes. “That’s not right,” he says. “Do I have to remove the homeless camp, too?”

Manny, a groundskeeper for a Park City homeowner, has his own way of combating the graffiti. “I painted it,” he said, “and then I put Thompson’s WaterSeal, so when [the taggers] would come back with their cans, [the paint] would run.”

Graffiti isn’t the only issue the Great Wall is causing for Park City residents.

Down the narrow pathway that runs along the backside of the Park City townhomes—the same pathway used by taggers—are the remnants of a former homeless camp. Strips of cardboard and plastic tarp create a makeshift homestand against the chain-link fence that separates the freeway and the townhomes. Parts of the fence have gaping holes that appear to have been cut out with gardening shears, and someone’s bicycle is tied with a U-lock to the fence. A short detachable hose is attached to a water faucet peeking out from a townhome’s back wall. By this makeshift shower, a large bottle of dish soap sits next to a pile of dirty rags.

But that’s not what upsets Sanchez the most. Piles of human feces topped with squares of toilet paper are a few feet away from the encampment, underneath townhome windows. And dozens of cigarette butts litter the grounds. Sanchez calls the site “a serious fire hazard. . . . If this doesn’t get fixed quick, it’s gonna be just like the riverbed.”

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“I’m not against the art form itself; I’m against the lack of respect,” says Kyles. “I wouldn’t care if they came up and talked to me and said . . . ‘Can I do some urban art?’ Just ask me or ask my mom. . . . What bugs people is just the invasion of privacy. . . . That’s all it is. If there was an area where people can graffiti, I’d be all for it.”

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“I notice homeless come through [the sidewalk in front of his house] and dig through this trashcan here,” says Drouillard, “This place is a goldmine; it’s packed every single night [with homeless people].

But I’ve never seen a homeless in the tract actually stay and set up camp.”

Even graffiti writers have noticed the uptick in homeless people. Since, an active local graffiti writer, recalls meeting a lone homeless man with an amputated arm during a late-night session on the Great Wall. “He told me a little about himself,” Since says. “He said Caltrans was giving him a hard time because he was living there.”

When Sanchez called the Orange Police Department about the encampment, it was gone within the week, he says, although the makeshift shower, cigarette butts, holes in the fence and graffiti are still there. “Any one of the owners, if they have a trespasser on their property, they can call us and ask for our assistance,” Lopez says. “All they have to do is sign a trespassing affidavit, and we can remove them from the property because [the wall and pathway around it] is private property.”

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once caught behind Park City by police officers who happened to be on patrol looking for gang members; he was let go with a verbal warning. “To me, personally, I don’t find [graffiti] to be something for me to run from, as if I was doing something wrong.”

Since proposes the Park City homeowners and graffiti artists come to an agreement. “It would be nice if they actually gave us permission to do something more meaningful—maybe a piece with a message, you know what I mean?” he says. “When graffiti artists go in there, they’re in and out. They just want to get their name up there because it’s a hot spot. I think it would be nice to let [graffiti artists] actually do something nice for the public and maybe give us a chance to break from the stereotype.”

“I like the idea of the artists coming through and making it a work of art, as opposed to tagging,” Drouillard says.

“There’s a big difference between tagging and artwork. That’s not artwork over there; that’s tagging, plain and simple.”

Sanchez and his neighbors, however, scoff at Since’s offer. “It wouldn’t last; they’ll write over it,” says one resident.

“They’re disrespectful. They’re taggers— that’s their mission.”

Some graffiti artists are quick to distinguish themselves from “taggers.”

“I skateboarded, I wrestled, I played baseball—I’ve done all those types of outlets. . . . I wasn’t ever good enough, and I hated it,” says Xces. “Something about

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graffiti, when I caught a tag, nobody knew who I was physically, but something about when they heard my name and . . . paid me some respect—something about that filled the empty gap that I’ve had throughout my adolescence.”

While the idea of an artistic mural sounded noble to Xces, he also agreed it seemed unrealistic. “Some of those guys that are on that freeway, they’re probably battling or they just want to catch a spot,” he says. “If they put up that mural, it’s going to get disrespected. But it’s a great idea. I want more public art.”

Other solutions proposed by residents have included setting up cameras on the

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Great Wall, motion-sensor alarms, even watch dogs—but all those ideas would cost money. The most effective strategy is the Italian ivy growing on the backside of some townhomes; they boast noticeably less graffiti than the other walls. But, Sanchez, an expert gardener, says the ivy roots could damage property in the long run, as the roots get into the walls, causing cracks and, thus, leaks.

In the meanwhile, the graffiti continues. “There’s graffiti in the [community] park . . . on the trees, on the light poles, on the rocks,” says Sanchez. “It’s getting worse and worse and worse.”

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Between acrylic’s plastic, fastdrying finish and oil’s, well, oiliness, artists have made masterpieces with both, so it’s mostly a matter of preference.

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New Slate at ClaireTrevorTheatre at UC Irvine, 4000 Mesa Rd., Irvine, (949) 824-2787; www.arts.uci.edu. 8 p.m.Through Dec. 3. $12-$15. —AIMEE MURILLO

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(Warm clothes and blankets are recommended.) The lights will be up until the end of the year to brighten your mood all holiday season.

Twenty-sixth Annual Lighting of the Bay at Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort, 1131 Back Bay Dr., Newport Beach, (949) 7293863; www.newportdunes.com.

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La Habra Tamale Festival at La Habra Community Center, 101 W. La Habra Blvd., La Habra; www.facebook.com/ lahabratamalefestival. 11 a.m. Free.

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Each ride varies in distance, depending on the group’s skill level, and it’s a “no drop ride,” meaning once you’re in the group, you never get out. Who knows, y’all may get so tight that you’ll be wearing matching jackets in no time.

Long Beach Road Ride at Jax Bicycle Center, 3000 N. Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, (562) 421-4646; jaxbicycles.com.

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Long Beach foursome Meow Twins will grand-finale their residency at 4th Street Vine with this show, which puts a potent local band in a beyond-friendly venue for one of those shows people are probably thinking of when they invoke concepts such as “music community.” Recent Meow Twins recordings by Jazzcats/Crystal Antlers head man Jonny Bell capture a band doing raucous first-wave L.A. Dangerhouse punk with a healthy dose of unpredictable Sonic Youth-y dissonance and their own finely honed attitude. (They could probably knock out a vicious cover of Sonic Youth’s “100%” if the urge took them!) Consider this one an old-fashioned rager.

Meow Twins with Cryote at 4th Street Vine, 2142 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 343-5463; www.4thstreetvine.com.

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Myriad hands-on activities await, including a Gingerbread Derby Competition, in which participants build and race their own candy cars; cookie decorating in the Healthy Kitchen; the Build a House Learning Station; the “A Matter of Taste” stage show (weekends only); and a host of Santa Meet and Greet opportunities. In addition, you can check out what creations local courageous culinary crusaders have baked for the annual Gingerbread Competition.

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I’m Dreaming of a White Russian at the Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 567-3600; www.bowers.org.

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Peter Murphy at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; www. observatoryoc.com. 8 p.m. $35. —AIMEE MURILLO

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includes a couple of Indian-style rotis, is enough to serve four, but bringing at least six people along is always advisable, in case, you know, a couple chicken out.

To ensure I wouldn’t face it alone, I enlisted a few friends whom I knew could handle it. It was only when one of them plunged his fork directly into the ocular cavity, popping the eyeball out of its socket that I realized I’d brought the right people.

He then sliced it in two and dunked a piece into a vinegary dipping sauce. “Mmm,” he said mid-chew. “It just tastes like pork!”

In the meantime, I carved off a chunk of flesh from the cheek, pre-scored for easier extraction. I realized then what I never knew about a pig’s face: It’s nearly all fat.

My knife met layer after layer of quivering white blubber after breaching the crunchy crackle of its skin. The cheek, the jowls— where guanciale comes from—had the densest concentration of fat. But the truth is, everywhere we played Operation, we found only scant scraps of meat. And none of it had much flavor until we applied liberal amounts of the supplied dipping sauces. Though one of those sauces—a nearly exact copy of Zankou Chicken’s garlic paste—was particularly great.

Still, it was an overwhelming amount of richness to take in. I watched as my tablemates’ initial gusto turned into fatinduced fatigue. Compared to the wholehog experience of Filipino lechon, eating just the deep-fried face of a pig turned out to be the equivalent of watching a Tarantino flick with all of the gore, but without any of the witty dialogue—initially titillating, but ultimately unsatisfying.

And my, was it greasy! Everything

else we ate that night was light by comparison. The mac and cheese into which we scraped the wiggling marrow from a roasted bone was downright ebullient—almost a palate cleanser. Even the appetizer of oil-puffed beef chicharrón we used to scoop up a dip made of a trout roe-dotted crème fraiche felt like health food compared to the pig’s head.

But with every subsequent dish we ordered, we saw the Recess Room was better than its gimmick. This is the Asianleaning gastropub OC has been waiting for, with chummy waiters, a great setting and inventive food from chef Sergioivan Ortega, who used to cook at Arc and Providence. The octopus in his delicately constructed salad with potatoes and frisee was as tender as anything served in the San Gabriel Valley. Despite tasting boiled, we had fun dragging the sugar-bursting corncobs of his DIY elote through the four different toppings. And for dessert, he offered a Monte Cristo-like masterpiece of a fried sandwich filled with banana and peanut butter, covered with coconut flakes, of which not even Elvis could’ve dreamed.

After dinner, it took me three hand washings to get the pig’s greasy film off my fingers, and it was three days more before I was able to even look at a pork chop. But I’m glad it led me to the treasure trove of truffles that is the Recess Room. Head’s up!

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hose still traumatized by that climactic scene from Lord of the Flies should be warned that the Recess Room’s signature dish is a deep-fried pig’s head. Yes, a pig’s head—with its tongue, teeth, gums, eyeball, snout and ear intact—served to you face-up on a butcher’s block. And since the skull was bifurcated lengthwise by band saw before it was fried, when you flip it over, you get an MRI-like view of its bone structure from the inside.

Ordering the pig’s head should be a litmus test for any self-professed carnivore.

But more than that, the dish is the kind of viral marketing tool for the restaurant that no amount of advertising could match.

Everyone who orders it takes a picture to post on social media. When our hog’s head finally arrived, hot from the fryer, a customer seated at the bar came over and asked to take a snapshot. We obliged him—while taking the opportunity to take a few pics for our own feeds.

The fact that nearly every table was occupied and ordered the dish despite the Recess Room’s current lack of a liquor license is proof the restaurant has hit the nail on the, um, head. The dish is its most popular item. In fact, after we ordered ours at 7 p.m. on a Friday, the party seated behind us was all frowns when informed the kitchen had just run out.

The dish is not cheap, either. At $55, the pig’s head is more expensive than anything else on the menu, and asking for one can mean up to an hour’s wait. It takes about that long to prepare—this on top of the 15-hour sous vide the head endured prior to being deep-fried. The platter, which

orget poke; next year, Orange County is going to be awash in hot chicken.

The Nashville specialty has taken over Los Angeles, and even KFC sells a version. But OC’s usually a couple of years late for one half of food trends (while we pioneer the other half), so the dish hasn’t quite hit our shores yet. Locally, only Bruxië and a couple of other restaurants have attempted it, none quite mastering the dish’s fiery sauce, its perfect crunch, the tang of pickles and a side of cole slaw.

If you want a preview of things to come, try chilli chicken, an Indian-Chinese dish available at some Indian restaurants in OC, the best at Masala Zone.

It’s in a sad shopping plaza in Orange, one whose empty Fresh & Easy casts a pall over the collection of massage parlors, optometrists, restaurants and tax collectors. Masala Zone is its sole ray of light, with bright colors and subcontinental wall designs (photos of sari-clad women, the eight-spoked wheel common to Indian religions). The menu sticks to the triedand-true of Northern Indian cuisine, albeit in a somewhat limited menu because if its counter-restaurant existence.

And this is where the chilli chicken comes in. It’s the most famous part of Indian-Chinese cuisine, an amalgamation of culinary traditions that took hold in India’s urban centers and plays the same role for Indian immigrants that Mexican meals plays for Americans abroad: an ostensibly foreign food that reminds expats of home. Masala Zone offers a couple of Indian-Chinese classics—chicken Jalfrezy (a type of stir-fry, sauced) is delicious, while the veggie chow mein’s best attribute is that it’s spicier than the Chinese-American standard tends to be. Those dishes are fine, but you need to bow down to the pulsating brilliance of chilli chicken. It resembles a giant heap of chicken strips sautéed in soy sauce, alongside ginger, garlic and chiles. Order it spicy, but beware the gradual heat cooled only by a mango lassi.

I welcome hot chicken next year, but remember kids: Immigrants do things first—and better. Just ask us Mexicans about food trucks. . . .

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with an ethereal puff of steamed Israelistyle pita bread crammed with not only a handful of the fried chickpea balls, but also a shabbat’s dinner worth of novel additions, including German-style cabbage, pickled radishes and cucumbers, onions, french fries, and more.

A spread of green tahini sauce lines the inside of the bread, and on the counter are three more sauces beckoning to be used. One is a regular tahini sauce, made from toasted sesame seeds. The second is a smooth, goldenrod liquid called amba, a curry-mango explosion of spicy turmeric and sweet fermented fruit. The third is a spicy chunky red sauce called shatta, Egypt’s answer to salsa roja. All three are worth the wait for your falafel alone, and all three are made to be combined at various weights according to preference, resulting in a tangy-tart-sweet-soursavory-spicy-cooling-herbaceous experience in each bite that sets the Israeli falafel apart from all others.

It may be small, but with the HipPea, Trochez and Azari have turned family recipes into Long Beach’s first Israeli falafel stand, where the locals now come to feed cravings for all things chickpea (including vegan chickpea cookies!). The only complaints to be logged are long lines at peak times and limited seating on the sidewalk outside (to be fair, if one person is standing behind someone while they’re ordering, the line is out the door). Not bad for 140 square feet!

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The recipe, Trochez will tell you as he hands you a sample (which he will inevitably do if you stare at the minimal menu with any confusion), is made the way Azari’s grandmother used to cook it, based on an Egyptian flavor profile but served Israeli-style.

Now, calling a falafel Israeli can get you some mean looks from Arabs who hold the fried balls as one of their most sacred culinary creations. And while it’s true the falafel is not a purely Israeli invention, that country is full of enough immigrants from the countries that did invent it (Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt) that its current title as Israel’s national dish seems as much an homage to its diversity as it is to its people’s love of the food itself.

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couple of weeks ago, someone sent in a letter for ¡Ask a Mexican! seeking a list of great books about Mexican and Chicano cinema. Rather than answer it in my columna, I thought I’d do so in our Film section, if only to make use of the film studies degrees I got from Orange Coast College and Chapman University back in the day. Buy these for the cinema geek in your family this Navidad, and don’t forget: #renewbordertown.

Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America by William Nericcio.

I recommend this 2006 book every year on my ¡Ask a Mexican! Christmas shopping list—and for good reason. Not only is Nericcio sharp in his deconstructionist takedowns of iconic Tinseltown Mexicans from Speedy Gonzáles to Touch of Evil to Lupe Velez, but he’s also ruthlessly hilarious, making this one of the best academic books ever published, period. And lest you think Nericcio is all shits and giggles, his chapter on the creation of Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Cansino, she had to undergo painful electrolysis to raise her hairline to American beauty standards) is poignant and will have you cursing the Hollywood dream machine forever for ruining so many lives. Hey, Nericcio, write your pinche sequel already!

Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos In the U.S. Media, edited by Clara E. Rodríguez. This collection of essays examines

depictions of wabs, Cubans, Puerto Ricans and South Americans in film, television and even radio. It has classic takes on the Aliens series as a parable of illegalimmigrant anxieties during the 1980s, though it doesn’t tackle the brownfacing of Vasquez, for some reason. . . .

Images of the Mexican American In Fiction and Film by Arthur G. Pettit. Not only was

Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance, edited by Chon Noriega.

Noriega is the longtime head of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Resource Center, the country’s pre-eminent department in the discipline. But before that, he was a pioneering academic in Chicano indie

cinema, and this 1992 collection brings to light a vibrant movement the Snapchat generation should study instead of wishing Snap would create a Cinco de Mayo filter.

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Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film by Herbert Biberman. Salt of the Earth is a

pioneering film of social realism, taking on the true story of New Mexican Hispanos going on strike against the mining company that simultaneously employed and poisoned them. The movie’s content was so radical for Eisenhower America that it was blacklisted—fitting, considering the movie’s makers were on Hollywood’s blacklist for their political leanings. Director Biberman recalls making the landmark.

Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography by Ryan Rashotte. Released last year, this witty

British entry takes on the insane world of narcopelículas, gloriously ultraviolent flicks informed (and sometimes financed)

by Mexico’s cartel wars. I’ve only read parts of it on Google Books, though, since it’s only available in hardback and starts at $95—hey, Santa . . .

Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983 by Charles Ramirez Berg. The University of Texas professor is

a pioneer in writing about Latino media images, combining a sharp filmic eye with a smart understanding of Mexican politics on both sides of the border. His first book, originally published in 1992, remains a classic of the genre, examining the Mexican film industry in the turbulent times after its Época de Oro (Golden Age) but before its most recent renaissance of Guillermo del Toro and his fellow chavos.

Hispanics In Hollywood: A Celebration of 100 Years in Film and Television by Luis Reyes and Peter Rubie. This one-volume

encyclopedia is severely outdated, given it came out in 2000. But in a pre-IMDb world, Hispanics In Hollywood was an indispensable bibliography of nearly every actor who had ever worked in the industry, from the silent era right up to Jessica Alba, my third cousin once removed (true story). Here’s to hoping the authors expand this tome sooner rather than later.

Mexico’s Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers, edited by Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel. Another ’90s release

(for some reason, that decade was a fruitful era of scholarship and Latino films in Hollywood), it’s a great primer on Mexico’s supremely underrated film industry and touches on all of its strong points: the films of Emilio “El Indio” Fernández and his iconic cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa, charro movies,

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even the eternally enjoyable camp of besuited Mexican wrestlers taking on monsters of all provenance.

Cine Mexicano: Poster Art From the Golden Age/Carteles de la Epoca de Oro, 19361956 by Rogelio Agrasanchez and Charles Ramírez Berg. Berg pops up again to offer

a long essay to this collection of film posters from Mexico’s Época de Oro. The overview was such a success, highlighting

the gorgeous images of Mexican genre films ranging from comedias rancheras to Cantinflas, urban drama to horror, that two sequels followed with a chingo of imitators. You don’t have to know your Dolores del Rio from your Miroslava to marvel at the dexterity of Mexican poster artists, who made their Hollywood counterparts resemble rejects from Termite Terrace.

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this 1980 book the first scholarly examination of Mexican Americans in film, but it also dives into cinema’s predecessor in the American pop-culture imagination: dimestore novels that treated Mexicans as little better than oversexed trash, creating archetypes that exist to this day. You can only buy used copies of this book, alas, because Pettit tragically passed away just before his debut published; a forward by his boss touchingly shares how Pettit was working on this masterpiece until the very end.

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women, and resolve conflicts through violence. All proceeds from this event go to support PROJECTbraincore, which helps kids find the courage to pursue their dreams by powerfully connecting to their bodies. Art Theatre, (562) 438-5435. Wed., 7 p.m. $25.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. See if you can spot Elias Koteas, who would grow up to become a great character actor, in Steve Barron’s 1990 franchise original about four teenage mutant ninja turtles that emerge from the shadows of Trump Tower to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas. Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701. Wed., 7:30 p.m. $9.

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Gimme Danger: The Story of the Stooges. See Aimee Murillo’s recent story “Iggy Pop Finally Gets His Due in Jim Jarmusch’s Gimme Danger.” The Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; thefridacinema.org. Fri.-Thurs., Dec. 1. Visit website for show times. $8-$10; also at Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435.

Fri., 11 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m. $8-$11.

Freaks. Putting the “freaks” in OC Weekly’s Friday Night Freakout is Warner Bros.’ restored and remastered 1932 Tod Browning classic revenge drama that cast circus-sideshow performers as circus-sideshow performers. Trapeze artist Cleopatra’s scheme to wed midget Hans for his fortune, then knock him off is complicated when the “freaks” find out. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Fri., 11 p.m. $8-$10.

The Threepenny Opera. It’s a live broadcast of London’s National Theatre production of the darkly comic musical starring Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear as dashing antihero Macheath, who leaves a trail of broken hearts and slashed throats throughout the London underworld. Rufus Norris (London Road) directs this bold Bertolt Brecht adaptation by Simon Stephens. Don’t worry, Kurt Weill’s unforgettable score, highlighted by “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” and “Pirate Jenny,” remains intact. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Dr., Irvine, (949) 854-4646. Sun., 4 p.m. $17.

The Mask You Live In. Jennifer Newsom’s documentary follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group and even the adults in their lives, the protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade

Blaxploitaitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in the Italian Cinema.

Fred Kudjo Kuwornu’s new documentary examines the careers of a population of entertainers seldom heard from: black actors in Italian cinema.

Kuwornu—who correlates the personal struggles classic Afro-Italian and African diasporic actors faced with the contemporary actors who work diligently to find respectable roles—attends this screening. Chapman University, Argyros Forum 209A, 1 University Dr., Orange, (714) 997-6815.

Thurs., Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Free.

One More Time With Feeling.

Back by popular audience demand!

Originally intended to be a performance-based movie, this evolved into a different kind of project when director Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Killing Them Softly) delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ 16th studio album, Skeleton Tree. Interwoven between footage of the band’s album performance are interviews, Cave’s narration and improvised rumination, all shot in color and black and white.

The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org.

Thurs., Dec. 1, 8 p.m. $8-$10; also at Art Theatre, (562) 438-5435. Thurs., Dec. 1, 9 p.m. $8-$11.

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hot, little red noses because “I can do that.

I’m famous.” Chance Theater, 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, (888) 455-5512; www. chancetheater.com. Dec. 8-23. $35; $15 rush tickets available one hour prior to show time.

Elf Jr. The Musical. Not sure if this is the musical version of the film, or if it’s a shortened children’s version of it, but we know elves tend to be short-statured.

Trump’s take: “My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well-documented, are various other parts of my body.” Attic Community Theater, 2834 S. Fairview, Santa Ana, (714) 662-2525; www. atticcommunitytheater. weebly.com. Dec. 1-18. $15-$25.

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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Yes,

it’s a live-read radio play based on the classic movie. What else do you need to know?

Trump’s take: “For a man to be successful, he needs support at home, just like my father had from my mother, not someone who is always griping and bitching.” STAGEStheatre, 400 E. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, (714) 525-4484. Opens Fri. Through Dec. 18. $18-$20. www.stagesoc.org.

Little Women. The Chancers bring back this staged version of the musicalized version of the evergreen classic written by a woman who didn’t write A Little House On the Prairie. Trump’s take: “No one has more respect for women than I do. No one.” Do you like little women, though?

“A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10.” Chance Theater, (888) 455-5512; chancetheater.com. Opens Fri. Through Dec. 23. $35-$45.

The Nutcracker. American Ballet Theatre stages the Russian ballet. Trump’s take: “I have a great relationship with the blacks.”

Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 556-2121; www.scfta.org. Dec. 9-18. $29-$299.

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. This

production, based on an inter-planetary conflict between Earthlings and Martians, always sells out. Trump’s take: “I will be so good at the military your head will spin.” Maverick Theater, 110 E. Walnut, Fullerton, (714) 526-7070; www. mavericktheater.com. Opens Sat. Through Dec. 23. $12-$22.

Theatre Out’s Big Gay Broadway Holiday Spectacular. The killer title pretty much says it all. Trump’s take: “I know many,

many gay people. Tremendous people. And to be honest with you, as far as civil unions are concerned, I haven’t totally formed my opinion. But there can be no discrimination against gays. I’m against gay marriage.” (Yes, those words, in that order, actually came out of that turd’s mouth.)

Theatre Out, 402 W. Fourth St., Santa Ana; www.theatreout.com. Dec. 2-11. $15.

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or every mouthpiece of tyranny this county has produced—Dana Rohrabacher, Barbara Coe, to name a couple—there are very real, constructive movements revolting against them, including UC Irvine’s radicalized students; the woke Latinx/Xicano protesters fighting gentrification; and the poets, musicians, writers and activists who help to organize the annual OC Anarchist Bookfair, as well as the OC Zine Fest (holla!).

In this column—and elsewhere for the Weekly—I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know local artists reflecting the times through their work. In his OC Crime comic series, Felipe Flores, who operates Trabajo Press, illustrates recent displays of police brutality, abuse of power and violence: the 2011 murder of Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, the 2015 pot-dispensary raid by Santa Ana police, and this year’s KKK rally in Anaheim. In the same medium, P. Kristen Enos and Heidi Ho’s upcoming Active Voice: The Comic Collection illuminates the writers’ experiences of growing up gay and Asian in Orange County and Long Beach.

The list of OC-based political art runs long, from Jeff Gillette’s Disneyfied slum paintings to Lizz Zuñiga’s punk clothing line Audey Thunders, which challenges unethical corporate clothing-labor practices. Emigdio Vasquez’s paintings championed the Mexican-American working class in an era when Latinos were considered second-class citizens. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art’s recent “Chicano/Latino Artists for Social Justice” exhibition brought together more than 30 artists commenting on issues from immigration to gang injunctions to labor.

Among them was Matthew Southgate’s El Teatro Del Nuevo Mundo Absurdo (Theatre of the New Absurd World), which places Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump next to each other and labeled “benevolent” and “malevolent,” respectively.

Now, as Trump is about to rule the country for the next four years, we can expect artists to continue weaponizing their pencils and paintbrushes to criticize, challenge and refute the repressive tyrannies affecting us on local and national levels. Young artists, take note—and everyone else, #fucktrump.

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A Christmas Carol. At least three OC theaters are doing some version of Charles Dickens’ timeless tale about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Trump’s take: He says he can relate to Scrooge because “part of my beauty is that I am very rich.” But what about the crippled kid, Donald? “Nobody gives more money to Americans with—you know, the Americans with Disabilities Act—big act. I give tens and tens of millions of dollars, and I’m proud of doing it. I don’t mock people that have problems.” Stagedoor Repertory Theatre, 1045 N. Armando Dr., Anaheim, (714) 630-7378; www.stagedoorrep. org. Dec. 3-17. $17-$20; Mysterium Theater, 311 S. Euclid Ave., La Habra, (562) 697-3311; www.mysteriumtheater.com. Through Dec. 18. $15-$25; South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 708-5555; www. scr.org. Opens Fri. Through Dec. 24. $28-$72.

The Eight: Reindeer Monologues. This more mature take on Santa and his fourlegged friends has been staged for more than 10 years, and it’s always racy and randy and a good time. Trump’s take: He likes to grab reindeers right on their

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The Grinch Who Stole the Election onald Trump is a yuge fan of theater! Just tremendous! It’s true! Just check out his Tweets Nov. 19 after the cast of Hamilton ended its show on Broadway the night before with an appeal to vice presidentelect Mike Pence, who was in attendance, to not deport them. Trump got mad and said it was out of line for the cast to address Pence because the theater should be a “safe and special place.”

Yes, it should. For rich, white folks who largely support it. So, with that in mind, we asked Herr Trump to be our guest analyst for our always highly anticipated round-up of OC holiday plays. So . . . away, we go. (But before we go, a shoutout to the one local theater not doing a holiday-themed play next month: the Newport Theatre Arts Center, which is staging God of Carnage through Dec. 11.

Also, while the Reverend Slappy White says that his intense fear of anything white has driven him underground, meaning there will be no A Dolt’s Only Xma$ Pageant this year, word on the street is that if he can acquire enough medical-grade sedatives, the troops may rally to do a post-inauguration hangover evening of music, theater and poetry on Thursday, Jan. 26 at the Maverick Theater in Fullerton. The working title is Hey, Donald Trump, We Wrote You a Play: It’s Called Go Fuck Yourself.)

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Why the Interrupters are the next big ska band to break out of SoCal

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or several years, there have been a multitude of cool new ska bands trying to make the fourth wave of ska happen in Southern California. Unfortunately, none has been able to crack terrestrial radio or any type of big-time radio stream. But since hitting the scene in 2012, Los Angeles quintet the Interrupters have been poised to change that.

The band’s sound and energetic angst resonate with fans. They’ve played shows such as Tazy Phillipz’s Ska Parade Lounge at the Slidebar in Fullerton, and their self-titled freshman album included hits “White Noise,” “Liberty,” “Family,” “A Friend Like Me” and “Take Back the Power.” But there’s one major factor that sets them apart from the rest of this generation of SoCal ska bands: their lead singer.

With her unbelievable pipes, Aimee Interrupter commands the stage like a seasoned artist; think Buddy Guy, Gwen Stefani or the Selecter’s Pauline Black. Once the tunes get going, she belts out a sound similar to that of Joan Jett, with the voice control of Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries.

Joining Aimee onstage are Kevin Bivona (lead guitar) and his twin brothers

By Jimmy ALvArez Justin (bass) and Jesse Bivona (drums). A gifted performer, Kevin tells funny stories between songs; his banter is very Dave Wakeling-esque. While their sound is definitely third-wave punk/ska, you can also hear an ’80s two-tone feel with some ’90s Bosstones elements.

Their first album, released in early 2015, was not only successful, but also commercially viable, with the song “Take Back the Power” featured in the Season 5 trailer of the Showtime series Shameless, as well as in a national T-Mobile television commercial, which drove YouTube hits for their music through the ceiling.

The band weren’t always the juggernaut of ska they are today. The Bivona brothers grew up in Los Angeles, listening to cool bands such as Operation Ivy, Rancid and the Offspring, as well as old-school classics the Clash and Prince Buster.

In 2005, oldest brother Kevin became the keyboard player for the Transplants, the hip-hop/punk fusion project led by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong. He later played with other bands and artists, including Travis Barker of Blink-182 fame. He has also performed on The Tonight Show With

Jay Leno and Conan. In 2011, Kevin engineered and mixed the Jimmy Cliff album Rebirth, which was produced by Armstrong; both Armstrong and Bivona won Grammy awards for Best Reggae Album.

Armstrong has worked with the Interrupters since their first album, occasionally playing alongside them at shows. While Aimee and the Bivonas consider Armstrong “the fifth Interrupter,” every now and then, you may also see such icons of ska as Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Lynval Golding of the Specials, or Rhoda Dakar of the Bodysnatchers joining the band onstage.

In March 2015, they released the EP Babylon, which did well within the ska community, followed by their sophomore album, Say It Out Loud (Hellcat Records).

The album’s release coincided with the Interrupters’ appearance on the 2016 Warped Tour. During this time, the single “By My Side” took off like wildfire. And next on deck for DJs everywhere is the song “She Got Arrested.”

The Interrupters are currently in the midst of a North American tour, with support from the all-female punk-rock

band Bad Cop/Bad Cop (Fat Wreck Chords). The tour stops at the Glass House in Pomona on Friday, and after the holidays, the band head to Europe with Green Day, opening for the punk band in support of their new album, Revolution Radio. Green Day lead singer Billy Joe Armstrong produced the Interrupters’ first two albums.

With all that’s going on, the band recognize what a great position they’re in, and they’re grateful for the opportunities they have been given. For those who have been waiting for that fourth wave of ska, the future is now. It’s just a hunch, but if you Google the term in about 10 years, you just might read, “In early 2017, the Interrupters ushered in the fourth wave of ska and became part of that pantheon of great ska bands that defined a sound, revived a movement and influenced a generation.”

THE IN TERRUPTERS perform with Left Alone, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Johnny Madcap and the Distractions at the Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 856-3802; www.theglasshouse.us. Fri., 7:30 p.m. $13-15. All ages.

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That plan can mean some interesting things will happen. “Some kid came up to sing, and he was doing his thing and puked,” Hetson recalls. “The guy was just wasted, and it’s the excitement of being that wasted. We’ve had people get into it and break bottles on their heads. . . . That doesn’t happen too often, though.”

You don’t have to be a hardcore punk fan to come up and sing your lungs out with the band. The extensive song list includes artists ranging from Iggy Pop to the Runaways and the Go-Go’s to just about every punk-rock band you’d find on a greatest-hits compilation.

Want to release your inner Henry Rollins? All you have to do is write your name on the sign-up sheet and pick a song. Once your song is called, strut to the stage and raise your voice! “You’re going to have a great time; you’re going to hear some great songs,” Hetson says. “Usually, we don’t mess them up. It’s like any great karaoke night, but with the bonus of having a live band and people who have been in other bands that people might have heard of . . . or not.”

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f you’ve ever wanted to be the lead singer in a punk-rock band, here’s your chance. At Punk Rock Karaoke, you can put all those hours of singing in the shower to use and take the stage alongside a live band composed of some guys who know a thing or two about punk rock: guitarists Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks) and Eric Melvin (NOFX), bassists Steve Soto (Adolescents) and Eddie Tatar (The Dickies), and drummer Darrin Pfeiffer (Goldfinger, Sum 41).

“It’s the original punk-rock concept,” Hetson says. “There’re no rock stars; everybody’s in it together. Everybody’s capable of getting up and doing it and having a good time. If you’re great, cool.

That’s great. If you fall on your face and mess it up, who cares? Even better.”

Punk Rock Karaoke started in 1996 as a one-time event on New Year’s Eve at the Los Angeles restaurant Vida. The idea was brought to Hetson by a friend. While Hetson was under the impression they would have to acquire a machine, his friend suggested he and a few others play the songs live. So Hetson called some of his closest pals, among them Stan Lee (The Dickies), Jennifer Finch (L7), Derek O’Brien (Social Distortion) and Bob Mothersbaugh (Devo). Thanks to the involvement of such prominent musicians, Punk Rock Karaoke became a legendary phenomenon.

The concept has surpassed the group’s expectations and has even allowed them to tour, playing without a singer. Hetson

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aniel Bonte started kicking up dust in 2014 with a weekly country night at Big’s Bar & Grill in Fullerton. More than two years later, he’s keeping his momentum alive with bigger shows, a new backing band and the EP Easy Kind of Livin.

Released last week, his sophomore effort was recorded in Tommy Lee’s Atrium Studios in Calabasas and produced by Lee’s sound engineer, Smiley Sean. “One of my buddies had recommended us to Smiley, and after he saw us play live, he approached me and said he felt like we had our own thing going on, like we weren’t trying to copycat anybody,” Bonte says. While Sean had primarily worked with rock musicians in a private studio, Easy Kind of Livin was his first endeavor with a country band. “He wanted to work with us, and of course we were excited.

After we wrapped he even played our tracks for Tommy Lee, it was rad.”

The album is a departure from Bonte’s first EP, straying from party anthems and focusing more on introspective life experiences. The singer penned the track “Don’t You Worry” for his parents, and he says “God, Flag and Country” isn’t what people may assume from the title. “‘God, Flag and Country’ isn’t coming from a conservative place at all,” Bonte says. “My brother is a staff sergeant in the Air Force, and I have friends who are Marines. . . . You have people serving who are sent away and come home to what’s going on now, and no matter what side you’re on, it’s crazy. The song is meant to be a message of unity. It’s not tied to any party; it’s a message of hope. Let’s stand together.”

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Between EPs, Bonte had assembled an entirely new backing band that includes guitarist/ songwriter Jeff Carbone. With this Bona Fide lineup, the singer has taken the main stage of multiple country-music festivals over the past year, including Shipkicker in Long Beach and Coastal Country Jam in Huntington Beach. They have also shared bills with such big-name country artists as Easton Corbin and Chase Rice.

Last June, Bonte created the BBQ Bash for the Brave, attracting hundreds of country fans to Circle S Ranch in Silverado and benefitting the Save the Brave foundation, which helps veterans struggling with PTSD. Bonte and the Bona Fide are also scheduled to perform on Dec. 15 at the third annual California Country Christmas, which acts as a toy drive for local families in need and will feature acts from across Southern California.

Bonte is also looking forward to putting together a nationwide tour in support of a fulllength album that’s set for release in summer 2017. “[This year] has been really good to us,” Bonte says. “If we keep enjoying the ride and don’t forget to have a good time, we’ve got a great shot at keeping the streak alive.”

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D.I.: 7 p.m., $10-$12. Doll Hut, 107 S. Adams St., Anaheim,

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EL TRI, MAGO DE OZ, RATA BLANCA & LIRAN ROLL: 6 p.m., $50-$75. Anaheim Convention Center,

800 W. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (708) 932-8044.

THE FAB FOUR: 8 p.m., $30-$42.50. City National Grove of Anaheim, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 7122750; citynationalgroveofanaheim.com.

THE HOLIDAY GEM: 8 p.m., $15-$40. The Gem Theater, 12852 Main St., Garden Grove, (714) 741-9550.

THE INTERRUPTERS: 7:30 p.m., $13-$15. The Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 865-3802; theglasshouse.us.

JAI WOLF: 8 p.m. 11 p.m., $25. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

LORD OF WAR: 7 p.m., $10. Blacklight District Lounge, 2500 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach.

MATAMOSKA; LA BANDA SKALAVERA; CHENCHA; MAFIA RUSA; STEADY 45’S:

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

RELEASE THE BATS: 9 p.m., $5. Que Sera, 1923 E. Seventh St., Long Beach, (562) 599-6170; queseralb.wix.com.

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

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DANIEL GOMEZ: 7 p.m., $12. The Glass House,

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HOOLIGANZ: 8:30 p.m., $10. Mozambique, 1740 S. Coast

MONDAY, NOV. 28

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.

DMT: 8 p.m., $5. Blacklight District Lounge, 2500 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach.

FAMOUS DEX; ROBB BANKS; DA$H; YUNG SIMMIE: 8 p.m., $20. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor

Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

LICK: 9 p.m., free. Que Sera, 1923 E. Seventh St., Long

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SINATRA & DINO DINNER SHOW: 6 p.m. La Cave,

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TUESDAY, NOV. 29

BIG BAND & JAZZ COMBO: 7:30 p.m., $10-$15.

Chapman University, Memorial Hall, 1 University Dr., Orange; chapman.edu/index.aspx.

KEYBOARD COLLABORATIVE ARTS RECITAL:

7 p.m., free. Chapman University Salmon Recital Hall, 1 University Dr., Orange; chapman.edu/copa/music/calendar.aspx.

MIC DANGEROUSLY: 8 p.m., free. Gallagher’s Pub & Grill, 2751 E. Broadway, Long Beach, (562) 856-8000; gallagherslongbeach.com.

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS: 8 p.m., $27. Fox Theater Pomona, 301 S. Garey Ave., Pomona, (877) 283-6976; foxpomona.com.

OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP/R&B NIGHT: 7 p.m., free.

Pie Society, 353 E. 17th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 313-6335; piesocietybar.com.

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BLUES WEDNESDAYS: 7:30 p.m., $5. Mozambique,

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DEREK BORDEAUX BAND: 7 p.m., free. Original Mike’s, 100 S. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 550-7764; originalmikes.com.

HIP-HOP WEDNESDAY: 9 p.m., free. The Karman Bar, 26022 Cape Dr., Laguna Niguel, (949) 582-5909; thekarmanbar.com.

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

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

RICK MARCEL: 7:30 p.m., $10. Spaghettini Rotisserie & Grill, 3005 Old Ranch Pkwy., Seal Beach, (562) 5962199; spaghettini.com.

UCI GUITAR STUDIES: noon, free. UC Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, 300 Arts, Irvine, (949) 8242787; arts.uci.edu.

THURSDAY, DEC. 1

ANDREW BLOOM: 7:30 p.m., $5. Mozambique,

1740 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, (949) 715-7777; mozambiqueoc.com.

DOCTOR P; COOKIE MONSTA; FUNTCASE; DISKORD: 9:30 p.m., $30-$35. The Yost Theater,

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

DW3: 8 p.m., $25. Spaghettini Rotisserie & Grill, 3005 Old Ranch Pkwy., Seal Beach, (562) 596-2199; spaghettini.com.

THE HOLIDAY GEM: 8 p.m., $15-$40. The Gem Theater, 12852 Main St., Garden Grove, (714) 741-9550.

JIM WARD: 8:30 p.m., $13. Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

LIVING LEGENDS; EVIDENCE: 11 p.m., $25. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: 8 p.m., free. Chapman University Salmon Recital Hall, 1 University Dr., Orange; chapman.edu/copa/music/calendar.aspx.

NOIR: 8 p.m. Holiday, 719 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 278-8728.

RON KOBAYASHI: 6 p.m., free. Bayside Restaurant, 900 Bayside Dr., Newport Beach, (949) 721-1222; baysiderestaurant.com.

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

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

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MISSILES OF OCTOBER: 4 p.m., free. The Whitehouse Restaurant & Nightclub, 340 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, (949) 494-8088; whitehouserestaurant.com.

94.7 THE WAVE BRUNCH: 11 a.m., $25. Spaghettini Rotisserie & Grill, 3005 Old Ranch Pkwy., Seal Beach, (562) 596-2199; spaghettini.com.

PEACE JAM III: 5:30 p.m., $30. Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 5964718; thegaslamprestaurant.com.

THE RAT PACK: 7 p.m., $20. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

SUNDAY BLUES: 4 p.m. Malarkey’s Grill & Irish Pub, 168 N. Marina Dr., Long Beach, (562) 598-9431.

YOUNG THUG; 21 SAVAGE: 8 p.m., $35-$100. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

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EPIC SATURDAYS: 9:30 p.m., free. The Continental Room, 115 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton, (714) 469-1879; facebook.com/ContinentalRoom.

FLOCK OF ‘80S: 2:30 p.m., free. The Swallow’s Inn, 31786 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 493-3188; swallowsinn.com.

THE HOLIDAY GEM: 8 p.m., $15-$40. The Gem Theater, 12852 Main St., Garden Grove, (714) 741-9550.

MAC SABBATH: 5 p.m., $18. Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 5964718; thegaslamprestaurant.com.

12TH PLANET: 9:30 p.m. The Yost Theater, 307 N. Spurgeon St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; yosttheater.com.

TWO TONGUES: 8 p.m., $18. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

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Before you can determine which way to go— assuming your boyfriend wants to “act out” his fantasies in the first place—you’ll have to get more details.

Is he into the intimacy and protection aspects of vore? Is it an extension of a mouth and/or pregnancy fetish? Does an interest in bondage factor in? Learning more about what gets him going—besides the whole being eaten alive thing—is the first step.

Once you know exactly what it is about vore that turns him on, FULL, begin your explorations with role play and dirty talk. Ramping things up slowly is always a good idea with varsity-level kinks, so try sexting each other and/or creating dirty vore stories together over email. If your boyfriend wants to get physical, start with mouthy things such as biting, licking, sucking, etc., combined with dirty talk about digesty things such as chewing, swallowing, gastric juicing, etc. If everything goes well, you can try to bring his fantasies to life using props, costumes and stage blood. Try zipping him up in a sleeping bag to simulate being in a stomach—filling it with a gooey liquid will make it feel more like the inside of some fantastical beast’s stomach—but be careful not to smother him if you do “full enclosure.” (Smothering someone to death, intentionally or unintentionally, is bad. #TheMoreYouKnow.)

Finally, FULL, I want to commend you for not freaking out when your boyfriend shared his kink. You listened calmly, you did a little research, and you gave it some thought. For that, I’m upgrading your GGG card to platinum.

Any advice for a first-time sex-toy buyer? I’m looking into vibrators, but I don’t want to spend a bunch of money on something that doesn’t do it for me.

Very Into Buying Electronics “VIBE should go to a sex shop in person so she can physically pick up and turn on the models she’s considering buying,” says Erika Moen. “If possible, go to a shop that advertises itself with any of the following words: feminist, queer, LGBTQ+, sex-positive, womanfriendly, trans-friendly or inclusive. These places tend

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to be staffed by people who are passionate and genuinely invested in helping folks of all walks of life.”

For three years, Moen and her partner, Matthew Nolan, have been making the Oh Joy Sex Toy comic, which combines reviews of sex toys with really awesome/hilarious/radically inclusive sex ed.

And Moen, who has personally tested hundreds of sex toys, wants you to rub one or two out before you go shopping.

“VIBE should pay attention to the kind of action that feels good or gets her off,” says Moen. “Does your clit like super-direct focus? The smaller the head of the vibrator, the more laser-like the precision.

Do you like lots of overall, engulfing stimulation that covers a lot of ground? The larger the head, the more surface area it’ll cover, and the vibrations will be more generally distributed across the entire vulva, from outer labia to clit.”

For best results, Moen recommends buying two toys, VIBE, if you can swing the expense.

“Get a generic bullet vibe first,” says Moen.

“They’re about $15 to $20—it’s a model that has a control box you hold in one hand and a cord that connects to a simple vibrating egg shape that you hold in your masturbating hand. Try it out at home, and then based on how you did or did not enjoy it, purchase a more expensive, higher-quality model ($60 to $120) based on the kind of vibrational stimulation you learned you want (or don’t want) from that first cheaply made model. Personally, I recommend the Minna Limon and Vibratex’s Mystic Wand for smallersized, decently powered vibrators. And then the big guns that’ll blast you to the moon and back are the Doxy and Vibratex’s Magic Wand (formerly known as the Hitachi Magic Wand). Best of luck to you!”

Oh Joy Sex Toy: Volume Three, a new collection of Moen and Nolan’s terrific column/comic, was recently released by Limerence Press. Follow Moen on Twitter: @ErikaMoen.

A friend and I want to go to the inauguration in January with the intention of standing with our backs to the ceremony as a peaceful protest statement. A handful of people doing this won’t say much, but if hundreds/thousands of people did this, it could send a message to the world that the majority of us did not vote for him and are not supporting his hate. Do you feel this would be a worthwhile action to try to organize (along with giving money and time to organizations that support social justice), and if so, would you give voice to this idea to your readers/listeners?

Peaceful Protester I’m torn. On the one hand, we need to stand against Trump and what he represents and his inauguration.

As with his campaign and his nomination, his election is an outrage. On the other hand, flying is expensive, and lodging in D.C. isn’t cheap. Perhaps our registering-our-opposition-to-Trump money could be better spent? There’s nothing about going to Washington, D.C., that precludes making a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org) or the National Center for Lesbian Rights (nclrights.org) or the International Refugee Assistance Project (refugeerights. org), of course, and symbolic acts of resistance (demonstrations, zaps, protests) often inspire people to engage in practical acts of resistance (donating money, monkey-wrenching discriminatory “registries,” urging local elected officials to not cooperate with anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim directives).

So if heading to D.C. to protest on Inauguration Day feels right and necessary, PP, you have my full support. But I’m going to spend the day making donations, baking cakes and sucking cocks.

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