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Jersey Boy A former Newport Beach cop’s lawsuit alleges he was fired for knowing too much about the department’s corruption

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outhern California’s status as a national fraud capital produces a steady stream of white-collar villains in and out of our courthouses. Almost always, the line between crooks and cops isn’t blurred. But the Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD), home to numerous fine officers as well as an embarrassing series of lawenforcement-corruption revelations for more than a decade, is once again ground zero in a scandal.

Like past NBPD messes—involving rigged promotions; retaliation against whistleblowers; liaisons with call girls at high-end hotels; free meals and cocktails from busiCONFIDENTIAL nessmen seeking favors; sex in patrol vehicles; evidence doctoring; perjury; racist radio codes when black citizens were spotted; and on-duty intoxicaR SCOTT tion, fistfights and MOXLEY porn usage—the current predicament isn’t exactly trivial, though it begins with a photo and a cryptic, handwritten note found in a jail cell.

Those two items sparked the current battle raging inside Orange County’s Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse, where onetime cops are accusing one another of being dirty. Because the criminal-justice system is based on the expectation that police are unwaveringly honest, the scene is worthy of public interest. Yet Eric Peterson v. City of Newport Beach undermines that rosy hope. No matter which side you pick to cheer for after studying the case, you’re stuck with a realization: Dishonesty is far too commonplace inside NBPD. As with most crime stories, there was no hint of looming disaster at the outset.

The majority of Peterson’s law-enforcement career depicts a successful, crimesolving cop with a blemish-free record. He spent his first five years at the Los Angeles Police Department before transferring to Newport Beach in 2001. After a stint in patrol, Peterson worked in the agency’s narcotics division, a spot that placed him on state/federal task forces. In 2006, U.S. Secret Service agents introduced him to Douglas Scott Frey, a then-36-year-old, Irvine-based, serial identity thief and drug dealer with extensive connections to scam artists across the nation. To win leniency for his own financial crimes, Frey became a confidential government informant for the Secret Service as well as the Bureau of

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Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Peterson served as his primary NBPD handler.

With the snitch calling and emailing unwitting law-enforcement targets while hidden in various city jails, the partnership produced multiple arrests. In 2008, department officials routinely rotated Peterson back to patrol duties. Having collected numerous commendations and enjoying what has been described as the widespread admiration of his colleagues, he won promotion to sergeant two years later and served as a watch commander while overseeing field officers.

This is where the tale turns bizarre. On Christmas Day 2011, the Seal Beach Police Department, controlled by chief Robert Luman— who’d run NBPD before turning that agency over to his buddy Jay R. Johnson— conducted a search warrant-based raid on Frey’s cell in the city jail. Officers found a color photograph of a smiling Peterson wearing a commemorative football jersey for the

but also that personal contacts between the cop and Frey continued for four years after Peterson’s transfer to patrol.

Most surprising, Peterson had revealed the snitch’s identity to Leslie Conliffe, according to NBPD records. Conliffe, a former intern for Steven Seagal, is a literary agent at Intellectual Property Group in Los Angeles who represents screenwriters, authors and directors. Peterson arranged a meeting for the trio and, thanks to Frey, received a proposed “life rights” contract from Level 22 Productions to apparently feature his police heroics.

(Authorities busted Frey in 2006’s Operation Broken Trust, which captured crooks swiping credit-card information from Orange County mortgage companies and hotels to make expensive purchases, including for narcotics. I covered his March 2012 sentencing that

alleged 9/11 charity Fallen2Light, which is tied to Frey and his exwife, Jessica Azbell, according to court records. Accompanying the image was a note stating, “Eric?” and “2k.”

If Johnson is to be believed, Luman didn’t inform him of the discoveries for more than six months, until July 12, 2012, and he did so without creating a paper trail with time stamps. Johnson’s position is that he wore the white hat throughout the controversy. His internal affairs (IA) investigation discovered not only the unauthorized 9/11 fundraising role,

let him walk out of court, with credit for pampered time served in local lockups, though he’d faced a maximum punishment of 78 months in prison.)

Peterson didn’t fare so well. The Newport Beach Civil Service Board rejected his cries of innocence after he erased his emails during his relationship with BOB AUL Frey and, in their view, feigned substantial memory loss. In November 2014, the board backed Johnson’s year-old decision to terminate Peterson, describing him as a liar whose conduct was “wrong” for a cop.

“The public and the department are

justified in expecting the highest standards of behavior and conduct from police officers,” the board’s concluding statement reads. “The failure to be truthful is incompatible with police work and violates core requirements for honesty and integrity. It is commonly known and understood in police work that the failure to be truthful justifies termination.”

But in recent court filings, Newport Coast attorney Gregory G. Petersen claims Johnson, who retired earlier this year, and city officials violated California’s Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights by concocting a false narrative that squeezed the IA probe into a time frame to fit statute-of-limitation issues and conducting a prohibited ambush interview of his client for three-and-a-half hours.

“Simply put, exculpatory evidence disappeared, exculpatory leads were ignored, [and] the investigation was, by all standards of investigatory work, incompetent and focused on finding guilt instead of the truth,” Petersen advised U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford, who is presiding in the case. “Both chief Luman and chief Johnson were known to the police labor-law community for many years as dishonest in these types of investigations and have a reputation for doing things that are somewhat shady in their investigations.”

Why target Peterson?

According to the attorney, NBPD management terminated his client to cover up presently unspecified evidence other officers committed wrongdoing “to retain high-grade informants,” evidence that may involve illegally hiding snitch records from defense lawyers in multiple other criminal cases.

Claiming the board already fairly resolved the dispute, the city’s private lawyers—who are also handling a federal lawsuit from an LA woman who claims NBPD officers stripped her and fondled her vagina after an alleged 2014 trespassing incident—want Guilford to dismiss the termination case.

But Petersen wants a fight in front of a jury, stating, “Here, a career police officer lost his future and his career by what he properly believes the evidence will show was a conspiracy to violate state and federal law in order to present a case to the civil service board that they knew, or should have known, was a fraud.”

A June 27 hearing is scheduled.

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NOT ANYMORE. Get in line in the legal way.

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Later on, Leopold kicked a drug addiction, helped break the Enron imbroglio and filed countless other stories, including ones

that ultimately produced the ongoing Hillary Clinton email scandal. His admirable refusal to depend on anonymous national security sources for his reporting—relying instead mostly on Freedom of Information Act requests—led to him being nicknamed the “FOIA Terrorist” by the FBI. It also won him a trip last year to Washington, D.C., where he testified to Congress about the need to strengthen FOIA on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the law.

Special thanks goes to both Leopold and former Guantanamo Bay prison guard Joseph Hickman, who, for reasons that sadly have yet to be accepted by the Pentagon, is exactly the kind of watchdog America needs in the war on terror.

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he dust had barely settled at the lower Manhattan site of the collapsed World Trade Center towers in September 2001 when America’s national security state began setting into motion a series of secret policies that would lead to seemingly endless war and the exponential growth of a global surveillance and detention system.

The story of how the CIA, working in tandem with White House and Pentagon officials and handpicked constitutional lawyers, created a massive spying system, an “extraordinary rendition” (officially sanctioned kidnapping) program, and widespread “enhanced interrogation” (torture) at “black sites” (secret prisons)— all outside the framework of domestic and international law—has been well-told. At the heart of this “extra-legal” system was the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, operated by the Pentagon on the oldest overseas U.S. Navy base, at the southern tip of Cuba. Since this facility held some of the highest-profile prisoners and came under the most international scrutiny, Washington put a major effort into choreographing media coverage of “Gitmo.”

“They used to bring us down there on these dog-and-pony shows to see how great the facilities were,” said Brian Bender, Politico’s defense correspondent.

Jason Leopold of Vice News, who has also made numerous trips to Guantanamo Bay, agreed the experience was essentially a media circus. “I don’t even know if

you’d call it manipulation because it’s just propaganda and brainwashing,” he said.

“Guantanamo is a place where the military is simply trying to put out its version of how great Guantanamo is: ‘Look at all these video games; look at all these books.

Look at the meals! Taste the food we give to them.’ Are you kidding me? These guys are in prison.”

Predictably, many reporters who paid personal visits to the base have all too eagerly lapped up the military’s propaganda that, if anything, the Guantanamo detainees are being treated too kindly.

In his reporting on Guantanamo Bay, Leopold said he has been careful to avoid buying into the Pentagon’s euphemistic press releases, which, for example, refer to leg irons as “humane restraints” and force-feeding, which is commonly used against hunger-striking detainees at the prison, as “enteral feeding.” Leopold can’t remember ever feeling so manipulated as a reporter than while at Guantanamo Bay. “Everything was staged; everything was rehearsed,” he recalled. “They [rehearsed] what they were going to say; they told the guards what to say; they sat in on the interviews, wouldn’t allow guards to answer questions. I have never seen more secrecy than I have when I visited Guantanamo Bay. It is a black hole.”

On one trip, in 2013, when Leopold happened to be the only reporter touring the base, the Pentagon’s metaphorical curtain briefly fell away from the stage when Leopold’s military handler left him alone for a few minutes inside the Media Operations Center on the naval side of the base. “I’m in there by myself and see all these different cards spread on the floor,”

he recalled. Leopold picked up one of the cards and read both sides. “Holy shit,” he thought. “I scored. The trip is worth it just for this.” What Leopold had in his hands was a Public Affairs Smart Card, a set of instructions on what could and couldn’t be shared with reporters.

Under the section “What You CAN Talk About” were catchphrases such as “Mission: Safe, Humane, Legal, Transparent,” as well as suggested story pitches includ-

“TWO OR THREE DAYS BEFORE THE REPORTERS ARRIVED, THEY WOULD DO REHEARSALS OF WHERE THEY WERE TAKING THEM,” HICKMAN SAID. “THEY WOULD HAVE GUARDS PLAYING THE REPORTERS. IT WAS REHEARSED TO THE TINIEST DETAIL.” ing “[A] Day in the Life of a Guard.” The card urged Gitmo spokespeople to “Own the Interview, Stay Confident” and “Stay in Your Lane,” adding that under no circumstances was it permissible to discuss “high-value detainees,” detainee “suicide,” “attorney allegations,” the “results of investigations” or “speculation on detainee release.” Finally, the card urged prison media handlers to remember that “everything is on the record and to never say, ‘No comment.’”

After Lesley Stahl and her 60 Minutes camera crew won a tour of the prison, which the CBS program billed as “unprecedented access,” Leopold called the Pentagon’s public-affairs office, demanding to know how this had been arranged. When the Pentagon refused to answer, Leopold filed a FOIA request demanding access to all emails and other correspondence relating to the 60 Minutes visit. “When [other reporters] go to Guantanamo, we are not afforded great access,” he complained. “You get to see a cell block. It’s empty. We get to observe detainees at a distance.” So Leopold couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the 60 Minutes segment. “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me,” he recalled thinking.

“They showed Lesley Stahl walking down an active cell block with detainees yelling, ‘They are torturing us; get us out of here,’” he said. “Access that was not afforded to us. How the fuck did this happen?”

Two months after making the FOIA request, Leopold received a call from the Pentagon public-affairs office complaining they were being forced to comply with his time-consuming request. “Can you explain to me why you’re doing this?” the spokesperson asked Leopold. “Can you explain to me how you would feel if I was to say to you, ‘I want to see all your emails’?”

Leopold responded by saying it was nothing personal: “I had no idea they were going to ask for all your emails. But I want to know how [CBS] got access.”

According to Leopold, the Pentagon’s public-affairs office punished him by leaking information he had requested to a rival reporter. “I had a FOIA for a document, and the document that was eventually given to me was first given to my competitor at the

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nlike most of Guantanamo Bay’s prison guards, whose average age hovers somewhere around 20 years old, Joseph Hickman was already in his thirties when he arrived on the island in 2006. A former correctional officer, Hickman enlisted in the army after 9/11; upon completing airborne ranger training, he joined the Maryland National Guard, which is how he ended up at Guantanamo Bay. “It was a huge charade; it was absolutely ridiculous how we manipulated the press,” Hickman recalled. Every time a reporter was scheduled to visit the prison, Hickman said, the public-affairs officers would begin preparing a week ahead of time. “Two or three days before the reporters arrived, they would do rehearsals of where they were taking them,” he said. “They would have guards playing the reporters. It was rehearsed to the tiniest detail.”

In order to keep reporters from realizing how thoroughly scripted their prison tours were, the Gitmo public-affairs officers would even practice supposedly spontaneous events, according to Hickman. “The public-affairs officer would say, ‘Why don’t we head this way? Let’s see what’s happening here.’ They did this the whole time.” Hickman said that the only area of the prison complex where journalists were allowed to visit was the one reserved for compliant prisoners. “If some [prisoners there] were still mouthy, they would move them to maximum-security cells prior to the reporters getting there.

They filtered out the ones they were worried about. And if they did yell out, they’d be put in maximum security.”

The one time Hickman can recall Guantanamo public affairs getting nervous about a reporter’s upcoming visit involved Ted Koppel, the well-respected former anchor for ABC’s late-night news program, Nightline, who was working at the time on a three-hour special about the war on terror for the Discovery Channel; the piece aired in September 2006. “Koppel scared the shit out of them for some reason,” Hickman said. “I don’t know if they were afraid of information he had, but they practiced for two weeks every day.” Conversely, only two days of rehearsals took place when FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly showed up. “They knew from the beginning that O’Reilly would give them a good report.”

As it turned out, the Pentagon had very little to fear from Koppel, who spent three days at Guantanamo only to depart with such penetrating observations as “the men all have long beards” and, just like prison inmates anywhere, “they don’t look nearly so dangerous as they might if you were meeting them in a different situation in which they were holding a weapon.” During an interview the TV news legend gave NPR about his documentary, when asked whether the prisoners seemed to be well-treated, he responded blandly that they “look all right.”

The headline of a New York Times review of his show noted that instead of asking the tough questions viewers might have expected, Koppel had essentially given “officials a cozy forum” to talk about terrorism.

Not only did the outside world have almost no real understanding of the conditions in Guantanamo Bay, but, according to Hickman, the same was also true for most of the guards working inside the

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prison. For Hickman, all that changed one afternoon when he and another guard were conducting a mobile patrol along the perimeter of Camp America, a sprawling area that contains the much smaller Camp Delta where the detainees are housed.

While patrolling, Hickman spotted a secret complex nestled on a hillside. The facilities looked newly built, with aluminum siding.

“I felt a really strange feeling in my gut,” Hickman recalled. “It wasn’t on any of our maps of the entire island. This place wasn’t supposed to be there at all.”

The guard who was with Hickman shared his suspicions. “You know what we just found?” he asked. “We just found our Auschwitz.” Hickman and the guard gave the secret facility the nickname “Camp No,” as in “no such camp.”

Not long after—on the evening of June 9, 2006—Hickman, while working his shift as Camp Delta’s sergeant of the guard and standing duty in a 35-foot tower, watched a prisoner being taken out of one of the detention blocks and placed in a white van that went in the direction of Camp No. The van returned 20 minutes later and picked up a second prisoner, then a third.

Shortly before midnight, the van returned and backed up to the medical clinic.

That’s when all the lights came on at the camp, and the siren went off. Hickman approached a Navy corpsman he knew from the medical clinic, who told him that three detainees had just died and that rags had been stuffed down their throats. The Pentagon issued a press release stating that in an act of “asymmetrical warfare,” the three detainees had committed suicide by simultaneously hanging themselves.

But Hickman became convinced the men had been killed, perhaps accidentally, while being interrogated at Camp No.

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fter leaving the service with an honorable discharge, Hickman continued to investigate the mysterious Guantanamo deaths, with the help of researchers at New Jersey’s Seton Hall University School of Law. Hickman and his research team found evidence that the dead prisoners had been subjected to unusually high doses of mefloquine, a powerful anti-malarial drug. Malaria doesn’t exist in Cuba, and Hickman insisted that neither he nor any of the guards with whom he had served were inoculated against it. But he found evidence that mefloquine—which at high levels can cause psychotic reactions, including suicidal thoughts—was sometimes used on interrogation subjects by U.S. security agencies.

In 2010, Hickman shared his story with journalist Scott Horton, who published a lengthy investigation of the detainees’ deaths the following year in Harper’s Magazine, which won the 2011 National Magazine Award for reporting. Horton concluded that the three detainees did not commit suicide by hanging themselves with blankets, as the military claimed, but died—either accidentally or intentionally—while being tortured.

Despite winning the prestigious National Magazine Award, the Gitmo exposé met with stiff resistance from major newspapers and TV networks.

Hickman, with his spotless military record, the Pentagon would have a difficult time discrediting him. “I had some of the highest ratings as an NCO [non-commissioned officer] you can get,” he said.

“When I was on duty in June 2006 [when the detainees died], for that quarter— April, May and June—I was rated the best NCO in Guantanamo, and prior to going [to Cuba], I was soldier of the year for the whole year in the state of Maryland.”

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The only people associated with America’s global gulag to be tried and punished were 11 low-level soldiers who served at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Those higher up in the chain of command have enjoyed legal immunity because there is virtually no public pressure in the United States for these officials to be held accountable.

The massive public indifference to these crimes stems from the fact that the corporate media has almost entirely accepted the national security complex’s rationale for the endless state of emergency imposed by the government after 9/11. The normal rules and legal constraints no longer apply, the government told the world after 9/11. And the media, by and large, continues to let this authoritarian state of affairs go unchallenged.

In fact, the only CIA officer even remotely connected to the agency’s torture program to have so far faced justice is former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who spent two years in a federal prison in Pennsylvania for leaking classified information to a reporter. “I didn’t think I was

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Joe Hickman. So I reached out to Joe.” During their conversation, Hickman told Leopold he should look into mefloquine. “It set me on a path to investigate this drug,” Leopold recalled. “It turned out to be this incredible, strange story that to this day remains a mystery.” A mystery, it should be added, that remains so thanks to military censors and media spin artists—as well as a national security press with no stomach for compelling the Pentagon to account for its actions.

In 2015, Hickman wrote about what he witnessed at Guantanamo Bay in a riveting book, Murder at Camp Delta—which also chronicled the media blackout of the story.

Unsurprisingly, Hickman’s book was also largely ignored by the press. Meanwhile, the hand of military spin artists could be seen at work on Amazon, where Murder at Camp Delta came under vitriolic attack.

A reviewer identifying himself as James Crabtree blasted the book. “The only good thing I can say about Murder at Camp Delta is that, having read many volumes about the facility, it is refreshing to find a fantasy book about Gitmo torture written by someone other than a former detainee for a change,” Crabtree wrote on the book’s Amazon page. Although he didn’t mention it in his review, Crabtree is a former publicaffairs officer at Guantanamo Bay. Fifteen years after the beginning of the war on terror, not a single U.S. official, military officer or CIA interrogator at Guantanamo Bay or any of the other post-9/11 detention centers around the globe has

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the press from ignoring his story. Veteran reporters such as Brian Ross, head of ABC News’ investigative unit, and Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News’ chief Pentagon correspondent, interviewed Hickman and his Seton Hall Law School researchers but suddenly dropped the story without explanation after talking to Pentagon officials.

Besides the Harper’s award-winning cover story, the only exception to the media blackout of Hickman’s exposé was a December 2010 story by Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye for the online news site Truthout. Leopold learned of Hickman while pursuing his own inquiry into the suspicious deaths of Gitmo inmates. By interviewing lawyers for detainees, Leopold had already learned of longstanding allegations of torture at the prison. So when he heard that three detainees had all supposedly committed suicide at the same time in an act of “asymmetrical warfare,” he didn’t believe it for an instant.

“That was obviously a turning point in the history of Guantanamo Bay,” Leopold said.

In 2008, Leopold discovered that a man named Scott Gerwehr—who said he worked for the CIA at the prison and had apparently just begun reaching out to reporters about what he knew—died in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles. “I had learned he was working for the CIA, setting up the cameras there, doing what was called ‘deception detection’ during interrogations,” Leopold recalled. “In the course of that investigation, I learned that one person who may have information about him was

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Saint Paul’s will also offer tours of the church grounds, while the Philoptochos church community group will be baking baklava throughout the day. With the low price of admission, you and your family can experience the most out of this exquisite cultural feast.

A Taste of Greece Festival at Saint Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church, 4949 Alton Pkwy., Irvine, (949) 733-2366; irvinegreekfest.com.

5 p.m.; also Sat.-Sun. $3. —AIMEE MURILLO

Enjoy a free classic movie night out, courtesy of the Orange County Great Park. Tonight’s feature is the hilarious 1938 Howard Hawks comedy, Bringing Up Baby, which paired popular RKO Pictures star of the day Katharine Hepburn with then-up-and-coming heartthrob Cary Grant. Hepburn plays the whimsical and independent Susan, the comedic foil to and eventual love interest of Grant’s mild-mannered paleontologist, Dr. David Huxley. Watch as Susan and Dr. Huxley squabble, flirt, land in jail and look for Susan’s lost leopard, Baby, in this timeless screwball movie. Hunker down with your own low-back lawn chairs, blankets and food, or purchase snacks at the available concession stand and food trucks.

Bringing Up Baby at Orange County Great Park, Sand Canyon Avenue and Marine Way, Irvine, (866) 829-3829; www.cityofirvine.org/orange-countygreat-park. 8:15 p.m. Free.

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OC Pride has been going through a major resurgence in the past few years, answering the need for local LGBT communities to express themselves and raise awareness of gay, lesbian, transgender and queer issues.

But don’t forget, this is a celebration—with musical entertainment; drag performances from RuPaul’s Drag Race alums Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja, Courtney Act and other queens; a Women’s Dance Party sponsored by lesbian group So Many Women, So Little Time; a country and western dance; standup comedy; several DJ dance parties scattered throughout venues in downtown Santa Ana; crafts, games and music for the kiddies; and, of course, the much-anticipated, triumphant parade stretching the length of Main Street.

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More than 40 years after teaching the world how to get down to funk, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic are giving fans another journey to outer space. Though the band’s wildly successful and influential salad days are behind them, Clinton and company still can make a crowd get down. The band’s greatest hits remain as important and danceable as they were in the 1970s, and even at 74, Clinton is as charismatic as ever. Drawing rave reviews even at this late point in his career, Clinton’s tireless tour schedule with P Funk continues to introduce a younger generation—who may know him from his appearance on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly—to hits such as “Flashlight,” “Atomic Dog,” “Get Off Your Ass and Jam,” “Aqua Boogie,” and “Give Up the Funk.”

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at City National Grove of Anaheim, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 712-2700; www.citynationalgroveofanaheim.com.

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Summer Solstice Festival You know it’s officially summertime when Fullerton’s most majestic mansion on a hill, the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, hosts its annual Summer Solstice Festival, a feelgood, community celebration of the sunniest stretch of the year. Expect icy craft beer from Bootlegger’s Brewery, plus savory eats served up by a variety of food booths, gal-

lery tours, an arts-and-crafts fair, art workshops, storytelling, and—get this—lawn bowling! And Grammy nominee Lisa Haley and the Zydekats, the Bastards of Belleville, the Darden Sisters, and the Salty Suites Americana are ready to enchant attendees with their jazz, swing, folk and country.

What better way to enjoy a summer Sunday than in this picturesque 1920s atmosphere?

Summer Solstice Festival at Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton, (714) 738-6595; themuck. org. Noon. Free. —DENISE DE LA CRUZ

Pirate Invasion & Mermaid Festival For one weekend this summer, you can go back to the rummy roots of old-school privateering at Long Beach’s Pirate Invasion.

Besides presentations of such fundamental piratical arts as swordsmanship and gunfighting—black powder gunfighting, of course, including cannons and muskets— there will also be a whole . . . school? Flock?

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Pirate Invasion & Mermaid Festival at Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier, 15 39th Place, Long Beach; alfredosbeachclub.com/ seafest-pierdaze.html. 10 a.m. Free.

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The multicity Taste of Chaos festival will hit Southern California in late July, and although the lineup features rock luminaries Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional, Saosin, the Get Up Kids, Senses Fail and others, the full list is incomplete. The Slidebar hosts a special battle of the bands tonight, with the crowd favorite landing a spot on the roster. Hopefuls include Los Angeles-based Rival Tides; Long Beach’s pop-rock, female-fronted unit Eye the Realist; and post-hardcore, pop/punk group In Urgency.

Battle for Taste of Chaos at the Slidebar Rock-N-Roll Kitchen, 122 E. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, (714) 871-7469; www.slidebarfullerton.com. 8 p.m. Free.

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Sawdust Art Festival The next time you’re told you have sawdust for brains, take it as a compliment. The annual Sawdust Festival promotes renegade artists and craftspeople, so the insult could actually mean you’re a gifted artist, exploring a path all your own through color, shape and design. The nonprofit organization celebrates local OC art and is designed to both educate and entertain its nearly 20,000 visitors each year. Witness glassblowing, participate in hands-on workshops, let the kiddies paint at the children’s booth, listen to live music and shop your crafty sawdustfilled brains out at the 50th anniversary of this Laguna Beach staple.

Sawdust Art Festival, 935 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, (949) 494-3030; www. sawdustartfestival.org. 10 a.m. Through Aug. 28. $4-$24. —AMANDA PARSONS [CONCERT]

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Cumbia music makes hips sway and acid trips come in waves, andThee Commons combine the two vibes in East LA. Since 2012, brothers David and Rene Pacheco have anchored the band’s psychedelic cumbia punk sound. With indefatigable determination,Thee Commons continuously crank out new music and hit the road to wherever crowds are willing to tirar chancla. At the Wayfarer tonight, the band kick off a tour in support of the 14-track LoteriaTribal, a blend of Sonora Dinamita and Pink Floyd.

Thee Commons with the Hurricanes and Blue Flowers at the Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; www.wayfarercm.com. 8 p.m. $10. 21+.

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Venerable star of television, radio, stage and screen, David Alan Grier is a household name. You might remember him from comedies such as In Living Color, Jumanji, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Martin, or even his cameo in the Wayans brothersproduced Blaxploitation parody I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, in which he steals the scene as an overly enthusiastic news reporter. But whether he’s in a bit T H I S CO D E part or a leading role, TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE Grier always leaves his OCWEEKLY humorous mark—and IPHONE/ANDROID APP FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT is ready to do so again ocweekly.com at the intimate Brea Improv. Don’t miss a weekend-long engagement with the actor/ comic legend, who’ll surely slay audiences with the magnetic personality and wit that landed him on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.

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Whiskey Wednesday with Gregory and the Melody at Marine Room Tavern, 214 Ocean Ave., Laguna Beach, (949) 494-3027; www. marineroomtavern.com. 3 p.m.; band, 8 p.m. Free. 21+. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Alicia Whitney’s SeaSalt Woodfire Grill perfects Santa Maria-style barbecue for OC

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of spices (only salt, pepper and granulated garlic), Santa Maria-style barbecue requires a firmer grasp of the fundamentals. And SeaSalt’s chefs make it look easy.

The tri-tip, sliced in thick wedges, offered an intense flavor-packed charred outer crust, but a tender chew everywhere else. The linguisa sausage, which came as part of a combo with the tri-tip, was sliced into bevels and had casing turned crisp in the heat. A well-brined pork chop with a crispy, golden-brown exterior was also freckled with bits of sweet char and so moist it wept juices when I cut into it.

Per Santa Maria tradition, every meat plate SeaSalt served came with ranchstyle pinquitos, beans of Lilliputian proportions indigenous to the Santa Maria Valley that tasted as though they came straight from a campfire cookout.

And though the meats didn’t necessarily require anything extra, the house-made salsa and the eight different choices of finishing salts sprinkled by tiny spoons only added to my enjoyment.

I also loved any vegetable the cooks passed through that oaky fire. The grilled cauliflower was literally that: the outer

heads were singed black after being roasted over the flames, its smokiness permeating down to the stem. I dipped each piece I hacked from the whole into a manchego fondue until I discovered a shower of the big crunchy grains of the Black Diamond volcanic salt worked even better with them. Also excellent: the grilled broccolini, which absorbed so much of the smoke I smelled it coming out of my nostrils.

For dessert, an over-the-top banana pudding that looks like E.T.’s spaceship required at least four people to finish. But a true devotee of Santa Maria-style barbecue should always end a meal with strawberry shortcake, which is to Santa Maria what cupcakes are to LA. And to drink: a Pinot Noir, of course. SeaSalt’s wine list leans heavily to Central Coast vintners, with not a single Merlot in sight. If Miles from Sideways were an actual person, he’d approve.

SEASALT WOODFIRE GRILL 21214 Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach, (714) 804-5545; www.seasaltwoodfiregrill. com. Open Tues.-Sun., 5 p.m.-midnight.

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he best local food story this year is the continued rise of Burritos La Palma, a SanTana-based food truck with a brick-and-motor in El Monte that has done the impossible: turned a burrito into Southern California’s best taco.

Lemme explain: Earlier this month, I was the lead judge for Tacolandia, the mega-taco festival curated for LA Weekly by our own Bill Esparza. More than 100 taqueros—from Los Angeles to San Diego, Baja California to Nuevo Leon, London (!) to OC’s own Taco Maria, Anepalco and Slapfish—served up special creations to upward of 8,000 people near Olvera Street. There were tacos of stingray and tacos of carnitas; tacos made from cured jícama slices that bent like a tortilla and the protean taquitos of Cielito Lindo. Taco Maria’s sturgeon taco was a favorite, as was Anepalco’s short rib. But when it came to awarding the Vendy Cup for the best street taco, Burritos La Palma’s birria de res burrito won, just barely edging out the extraordinary al pastor of Tacos Tamix.

The victory started with its regional style: from Jerez, Zacatecas, in central Mexico, the borderlands between Mexico’s flour and corn tortilla regions.

Owner Alberto Bañuelos knows that to capture taco lovers, he needs to offer a flour tortilla that doesn’t taste like onion paper, and his are disks of beauty: soft, buttery, pliant. Bañuelos wraps them around birria de res, a spectacular preparation of shredded beef so dense and saucy it’s almost like a curry. Yet even more revelatory at Tacolandia was his burrito de chicharrones—not the crispy pork rinds gabachos know, but a sautéed version so light it was almost as if I were eating savory cotton candy. “I usually don’t like cooked chicharrones,” said fellow Tacolandia judge (and legendary cartoonist) Lalo Alcaraz while our dozen or so fellow judges deliberated. “But Burritos La Palma does it good.”

The biggest miracle Burritos La Palma has accomplished? It’s still mostly a hipster and zacatecano obsession—I’ve seen Mexicans, upon noticing they don’t sell cuts like chicken and carne asada, storm off in disgust. So be better than a Mexican: Eat the greatest taco in the land—a burrito! It’s that good, gentle cabrones.

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ave you had Santa Maria-style barbecue before?” our waiter asked the newcomers who were seated at the table next to us at SeaSalt in Huntington Beach. The group of four shook their heads no.

It wasn’t the first time he encountered newbies. Despite Santa Maria being a mere three-hour drive from where we were, no group he asked that night had any idea what it was. So, just as he did for the previous three parties who said they weren’t familiar with the style, he started to tell this new group all about it.

It originated in the Santa Maria Valley on California’s Central Coast, he said. And the one thing that’s special about it, its all-important tenet, is the firewood. Every slab of meat is cooked over an open-pit fire fueled by logs from native California red oak—the same wood that ranchers in cattle country used to cook feasts for vaqueros more than a hundred years ago.

Earlier, when he asked us the same question, my reply was “Yes, we went to Hitching Post II last year.” I didn’t tell him that its Santa Maria barbecue wasn’t the main reason we went. As with a lot of out-of-towners, it was because the film Sideways was filmed there, and I’m a sucker for stuff like that. It did, however, allow our waiter to move on from the basics and talk more specifically about SeaSalt itself, which is former Weekling Alicia Whitney’s follow-up to her highly successful SeaLegs Wine Bar across the same parking lot.

For starters, he revealed that the two guys tending the grills were hired away from Jocko’s and Shaw’s, two of the more highly regarded barbecues in Santa Maria Valley.

I saw them work behind the haze-covered window to the left of the doorway as I entered the fashionably rustic restaurant.

I also saw the leaping fires of the oak logs.

The hot, orange flames licked the ribs, sausages and thick slabs of beef that dripped, hissed and charred themselves black on lattice-patterned grates. Above that, two metal hand-cranks that resembled Model T steering wheels were used to maneuver the cooking platform either closer to or away from the fire. It was the same kind of set-up I noticed at Hitching Post II. But unlike the steak I had at Hitching Post, which didn’t exactly endear me to the style when I tasted it, SeaSalt’s food finally made me a believer that the Santa Maria school is in the same pantheon as the barbecue traditions of Memphis, Kansas City, Texas and the Carolinas. In fact, I would argue that since it uses a particularly fickle heat source and the bare minimum

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his Little Saigon churro shop sticks out like . . . well, a churro shop in Little Saigon. The line of people stretches far beyond the doors of the neighboring salon, everyone drawn not only by the welcoming aroma of fried cinnamon wafting out of the small storefront, but also by the Loop’s promise of endlessly customizable churros.

A plain churro comes with a thick sauce of dulce de leche, Nutella, strawberry or tiramisu. A buck more gets the churro glazed. Coat the treat in either chocolate, white chocolate, Matcha or strawberry.

For an extra crunch, top it with either almonds, crumbled Oreos, Fruity Pebbles or sprinkles—or all four. Looking for a next-level churro? Try one stuffed with soft serve, doused with syrup, then filled with toppings ranging from caramel popcorn, cookies and cream, Cheesy Berry, or Choco Puffs—or customize your own for

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Regardless of choice, the churro will feature a warm, crispy outside and an even hotter, gooey inside (unless it’s from the “chilled” offerings). By the time you finish scarfing one down, you’ll think you’re in dessert heaven. But as you approach those big white gates, you realize it’s actually just the entrance to a Vietnamese strip mall.

THE LOOP 9729 Bolsa Ave., Westminster, (714) 7138570; theloopchurros.com.

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Flavored spirits are always a risky proposition—just ask bartenders what they think of Absolut. But Horsethief de Pacana shines. It starts strong, then settles down as the pecan flavor takes over, creating a hooch that’s buttery and almost tastes like a liqueur—except it’s 80 proof. I’m going to stock up on some bottles next time I’m in town because Mr. HiTime doesn’t offer Horsethief de Pacana—yet.

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very time I’m in Albuquerque, I stop by Jubilation Wine and Spirits, the Hi-Time Wine Cellars of New Mexico. In addition to stocking booze and beer from across the world, it has an awesome sales staff and a great selection of spirits from the Land of Enchantment: absinthe, vodka, agave drinks, whiskey and more.

Albuquerque has a strong craft brew and distilling scene, but my favorite drinks are those that use New Mexico’s home flavors: green or red chile, juniper, piñon and the like. That’s what led me to Broken Trail Spirits + Brew’s (formerly Distillery 365) Horsethief de Pacana: pecan-flavored rum.

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Study, Sip, Snack, Repeat

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iccups is a new kind of Asian tea house, smartly located in the buffer zone between the Cal State Long Beach food court that is the outer Traffic Circle and the Long Beach bedroom communities beyond. As with the Chinese-based chain Cha for Tea and Little Saigon’s Tra Teahouse, there is a dizzying selection of brewed iced teas, iced slushies and milk teas that can be gussied up with boba, grass jelly and aloe vera. There are even the standard snacks such as popcorn chicken and calamari, which students can inhale as they park themselves at tables for hours, poring over textbooks surrounded by a splay of papers and multicolored pens.

But Hiccups isn’t just a place for study snacks like Cha for Tea. Nor is it a dessert spot like Mio in Garden Grove, nor a bakery like Taiwanese chain 85˚C. It’s a locally bred alternative (with a second location in Carson) that’s secretly a fullon restaurant, with a menu of filling Thai, Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese dishes that draws in families, office workers and more than its fair share of non-Asians.

If its most popular drinks are any indication of the diverse clientele, look no further than the chamoy mango—basically a mangoneada with big chunks of the fruit in it—and horchata mocha, a blended, chocolate, rice-milk drink with whipped cream and cinnamon. Both can come served in a half-gallon mason jar for $12 (refills are charged as a large).

The Long Beach location is small and gets busy during lunchtime, so expect a small wait before it’s your turn to order at the register. This should give you plenty of time to browse the picture-filled, mul-

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tipage menu and decide on whether to get a plate of egg-topped kimchi fried rice, a basket of Cajun fries, a bowl of hot and sour tom kha soup, or a dozen spicy Hiccups wings. Keeping it classy, Hiccups might also be the only place where you can get your boba with a side of filet mignon; the pricier beef cut is available bo luc lac-style (a.k.a. shaking beef ) with a plate of buttery garlic noodles or in a big bowl of approachable (read: not too aromatic) pho. Closer to the counter, there’s a flat-screen TV on a stand flashing the day’s lunch specials ($9 with a tea included), and with any luck, what you’d already decided to eat is on there.

Along with your order number, you’ll be given a coffee-shop milk steamer filled with chopsticks, napkins and silverware.

Find one of the wood tables in the small dining room, then let the friendly Hiccups staff take care of the rest. One employee is always assigned to handle the floor, and that person will run your food, bring you water and come by to check on you as if there were full table service.

With sugary drinks for every palate, food ranging from bar snacks to filling pan-Asian comfort food, and customer service that doesn’t stop at the counter, could Hiccups be the future of Americanbred Asian tea houses? We can only hope!

HICCUPS TEA HOUSE 1946 N. Lakewood Blvd., Long Beach, (562) 597-5099; www.hiccupsteahouse.com.

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exacerbated by the infinite information available on the web, having raw exposure to a new philosophy combined with religious practice and traditional eastern culture is enough to make some people’s hair stand up. Gurukulam, which strings together images of ritual, meditation and teachings of the Bhagavad-Gita, forces one to contemplate the way other people live. “People want to compartmentalize things in boxes of ‘Oh, I know this’ and ‘Oh, I know about that,’ causing them not to strive to learn more about something,” says Elizabeth. “We purposely leave things open-ended in our film so people think and do their own researching. We don’t want people to come to a very specific set of conclusions—that’s when people stop wanting to learn about a topic.”

One of the themes displayed throughout Gurukulam is simplicity. No one in the ashram is in a hurry, each aiming to go about his or her daily duties with ease.

But it’s not because they’re lazy, or that the Hindu religion promotes a laid-back way of living. The documentary captures the idea that, for those in the ashram, moving this way emphasizes the importance of even the smallest of chores and can lead to a beautiful path of inner peace.

As Dalal says, we live in a fast-paced world that makes it hard for people to slow down and tune in with those living around us. The pace of the film is meant to replicate a meditative state within the viewer, according to Elizabeth and Dalal.

“Creating this meditative yet cognitive connection between film and viewer,” says Elizabeth, “is a way for the viewer to in turn connect, appreciate and hopefully respect that way of life.”

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The film aims to give people a firsthand, experiential understanding of the complexities and depth of the religion.

“The moment you have someone explaining everything, you’ve kind of ‘other-ed’ the foreign culture,” says Dalal. “The way in which we decided to create this film causes people to actively think and participate as a viewer.”

According to Dalal, Gurukulam makes some people who are unfamiliar with Hinduism feel uncomfortable. “I think when most people encounter religious traditions that are different than what they’re familiar with, they want to chunk it down to really easy consumable bits that they can digest and feel like they have a working knowledge of,” he says. “But we resist that. So much nuance, depth and complexity of religious tradition are lost when films are created that way—we made it our focus to make those aspects the basis of our film.”

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he word Gurukulam refers to a school in India, where knowledge of sacred texts, the science of Ayurveda, yoga and Vedanta—or Hindu philosophy—are communicated orally by a teacher or guru to a devoted group of seekers. Thus, the film Gurukulam focuses on what life in a forest ashram (a place of religious retreat for Hindus) is like for a teacher and a group of students. Filmed in Southern India, the documentary explores spirituality around the concept of non-duality and confronts questions regarding the nature of reality via study, meditation, daily chores and ritual.

Gurukulam, however, isn’t your typical documentary. There isn’t a narrator or scholarly expert holding the viewer’s hand, spoon-feeding them information about Hinduism. Because of this, filmmakers Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal say Gurukulam often leaves people with a lot of questions.

And that’s exactly what they intended.

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BY MATT COKER Jaws. Cinema’s first summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 adventure/thriller is timely all over again thanks to the multiple shark sightings off the Orange County coast. It’s just unclear who our Quint is. The Frida Cinema hosts the outdoor screening.

4th Street Market, outdoor patio, 201 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; thefridacinema. org. Thurs., June 23, 8 p.m. Free; also at Regency South Coast Village, 1561 Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 5575701. Wed., 7:30 p.m. $9.

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Proving that the Frida Cinema is not ignorant of its upstairs neighbor LGBT center or this weekend’s OC Pride Fest returning to downtown Santa Ana, the community movie house presents director Stephan Elliott’s hilarious, poignant 1994 comedy about drag queens on a road trip.

The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org.

Fri., 11 p.m. $8-$10.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Thanks to Beachfront Cinema, which presents cinema on the beachfront (duh!), you can smell sea spray as Han Solo finally (spoiler alert) stops grimacing. Huntington State Beach, Beach Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach; beachfrontcinema. com. Sat., 5 p.m. $11-$49. Also at Village Green Park, 12732 Main St., Garden Grove, (714) 741-5200. Thurs., June 30, 7 p.m. (movie starts at dusk). Free.

Madonna: Truth or Dare. Close out OC LGBT Pride with a stunning new 4K transfer of this documentary, celebrating its 25th anniversary (and yes, we are so old). Filmmaker Alek Keshishian followed the bleached blonde on- and off-stage during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour. Al Pacino, Antonio Banderas, Sandra Bernhard, Kevin Costner and Mad’s then-boyfriend, Warren Beatty, pop in. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Sat., 10 p.m. $8-$10.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Shadow casters Midnight Insanity strip down for Lingerie Night. Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435. Sat., 11:55 p.m. $8-$11.

Modern Times. Filmmaker Steve Elkins introduces the 1936 film that was filled with sound effects, even though Charlie Chaplin’s character the Tramp did not speak. Ask Elkins during the post-screening discussion if that still qualifies it as a silent movie.

Hibbleton Gallery, 223 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton; www.hibbleton.com.

Mon., 8 p.m. Free.

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are time-lapse videos of animals and vegetables decomposing, allowing you to dial past the swell and burst of decaying flesh quickly, in slow motion or even backward.

Whether any of this is intriguing to you at all is, of course, dependent on your sensibility. The 1.5 millionth visitor occasionally took his mother’s hand, let go at others, rushing forward and pressing his face against the housing protecting the bodies.

He asked quiet, insistent questions, as his mom answered what she could after reading the very accessible curation, as well as reminded him to not touch the glass.

Your experience is likely to be similar.

Afraid of death? Take someone’s hand, as every corner you turn will be a reminder of things to come. Fascinated?

Get a glimpse of what has happened to others, all in the safety of scientific detachment. This important exhibition—and the 90 minutes it takes to walk through—demystifies life and death, leaving the fearful a tad less scared and the wary more reconciled about the inevitable as they head into the afternoon sunshine.

“MUMMIES OF THE WORLD” at Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 567-3600; www.bowers.org.

Open Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Sept. 5. $10-$27; children younger than 3, free. Because of demand, the museum recommends purchasing tickets in advance via mummiesoftheworld.com/ plan-a-visit/information.

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displayed nearby, with curator’s notes detailing what her last meal was before she passed on.

Deeper into the exhibit, there are the bodies of children from South America, one preserved by the hot air and wrapped in bandages to absorb moisture; another is in a bag tied in a lattice of knotted rope, just the skull exposed, flesh peeling as if a sheet of yellowed paper. Nearby lies a female adult from Peru, hands to face as in Munch’s The Scream, curled in a ball, her knees to her chest. There are flayed medical-school cadavers rescued from oblivion (including a corpse that showed up on eBay); sarcophagi; shrunken heads; the University of Maryland’s modern mummy made from a donated cadaver; and the Orlovits family (husband, wife and 1-yearold) from Hungary, discovered when an underground crypt was opened in 1994 (along with a note to the potentially fearful that the tuberculosis that felled the wife wouldn’t affect anyone currently viewing the show).

The interactive portions throughout play to both adults and young people, with quizzes on mummification procedures/ terms, videos asking via multiple choice how someone died, and detailed X-rays and 3D CAT scans explaining how the cause of death was determined. There’s one part of the exhibit that engages the sense of touch, providing the sensation of bandage, the dry husk of embalmed flesh and the rubbery feel of bog skin. There

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o get an idea of the popularity of the “Mummies of the World” exhibition that is currently making its way through the museum circuit, consider the fact that the 1.5 millionth visitor—an 8-year-old boy, accompanied by his mother—walked through the front doors of the Bowers Museum two weeks ago. The morbidly entertaining curator’s notes are chockfull of delicious, grisly, horrifying tidbits: Details about child sacrifice, exsanguination and how to remove a brain without cutting open the skull are delivered in a cool, detached narrative belying their gruesomeness. (Hint: Use a metal hook up the sinus as a primitive blender first.)

Did you know mummies were once pulverized and made into a paint called mummy brown? That mummies were shipped to the United States so that the linen could be used for paper, with the bodies tossed in a dustbin after? That shrunken heads were so popular with tourists that Ecuador and Peru had to ban them? Before the Bowers lets you in on this fascinating, must-see exhibition, however, you’ll have to watch a brief PSA reminding you that you’re about to see human remains, telling you to be thoughtful, admonishing against selfies with the dead, and asking you to shut off your cell phones. What follows is tasteful, informative and respectfully quiet, with the museum never letting in so many people that it becomes crowded or loud.

Walking into the space where the first mummy is kept—the Baroness Schenk von Geiern—is like entering a sacred space.

Dating from the 17th century, the Baroness lies in a protective cradle that prevents her severely bowed corpse from snapping in two, the lower half of her body modestly covered with cloth. Naturally preserved by a constant flow of air going through her crypt, her brown body has the texture of dried leaves. A few of her teeth peer out from underneath her thin lip, skin flakes spotting her forehead, her fingernails like little chips of porcelain pushing through the desiccated flesh. The Baron von Holz, from the same crypt and similarly draped, wears expensive leather boots that go up to his knees; they’re cracked and split, but otherwise intact.

Explicating the difference between environments is a female mummy from the late 1st to 3rd century A.D., discovered in a Netherlands bog. It barely resembles anything human: flattened, missing much of its head, the skin black and rubbery, more a tar spill than what would be recognizable as human flesh. There is a splat of similarly mummified intestines

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The historic King Eddy Saloon has a 100-year reputation as a home for outcasts of all kinds, cherishing its Skid Row location and the legacy of patrons from all walks of life including Charles Bukowski, drug dealers, queer dancers and everyone in-between. So of all the reasons to be kicked out of this spot a few weeks ago, he never expected being gay would be on the list.

While inside the club with his friends, Raul pulled out a geisha-style fan and, with an exaggerated, flamboyant flip of the wrist, started fanning himself. “And all of a sudden, the bouncer walks up to me and said, ‘Can you NOT do that in here?’” When Raul questioned him about what he had done wrong, the bouncer reportedly said, “It’s fucking annoying. We don’t want that shit in here; take that shit somewhere else.”

A bit later, Raul stepped outside to get some air, and then the bouncer refused to let him back in. “Before I even walked back up to the door, he saw me coming and started shaking his head at me . . . and he just said, ‘NO. You can go somewhere else.’”

Raul says he was upset and shocked. “I have never experienced discrimination [like this] in my life, especially in a place that I had been going to over and over

BY CANDACE HANSEN for the past three years. I’m never going there ever again.”

When asked about the incident, King Eddy Saloon stated it only ejects patrons for causing problems and that the matter is being investigated.

With increasing visibility in media and after the Supreme Court of the United States’ 2015 ruling in defense of gay marriage, many people believe such discrimination against the LGBTQ community is a thing of the past. However, just this month there was a mass shooting, the deadliest in American history, in which 49 perished and 40 more were wounded at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. And locally, a transgender woman was shot in the back at the corner of Harbor and Westminster in Santa Ana; she is expected to recover.

Besides brazen attacks on LGBTQ people, there are thousands more silent, less deadly ones that build the foundation for the very ideology that breeds such hate that bystanders often ignore. The unfortunate reality is that in dark clubs, bars, parties and shows, homophobia and transphobia can rear their ugly faces without fanfare or concern, leaving many LGBTQ community members feeling unsafe and alone. For queer and trans musicians, the conversation surrounding culture, safety and physical space is heightened.

Gentrification has made it difficult for safe spaces in Southern California to keep their doors open. In 2015, the queer- and women-centric underground Heart of Art Gallery shut its doors, as did the Inland Empire’s Blood Orange Infoshop. This year isn’t looking much better for Los Angeles; both the Smell and Pehrspace

were served with papers threatening the closure of their spaces in the near future.

Orange County has been without an explicitly defined DIY safe-space venue since the closing of Koo’s Café in 2001, but spaces such as the LGBT Center OC and Programme Skate & Sound have hosted events by groups including South County’s OC DIY, which is set to open a physical location next month.

The other issue wreaking havoc in DIY scenes is the battle over whether safe spaces are necessary interventions or the overreaching of “PC culture.” These spaces are commonly anti-racism, -homophobia, -sexism, -transphobia and -violence, instead promoting fair treatment, respect and participation for everyone.

Drew Arriola-Sands of local queer hardcore band Trap Girl is grateful for Heart of Art Gallery, which provided the group a place to grow. But even with a safe space to cut her teeth in, Arriola-Sands received threats, hate voicemail, comments and, most recently, a private Facebook message from a stranger asserting that “once she just realizes she’s a man and gives herself to God, the attacks will stop.”

“When you’re queer, you quickly come to terms with the fact that discrimination can actually happen to you when you’re [at] a co-worker’s birthday dinner or just trying a new bar in your city,” she says. “The reality is scary sometimes, but we must continue to talk about it and find some kind of understanding for everyone.”

In addition to swatting away pesky transphobic critics, Santa Ana’s Josie Wreck has had to defend herself physically from male attackers at shows in

Orange County on multiple occasions. In 2008, one local man from the Santa Ana arts scene attempted to assault the bassist/front person of Popsical. After being pressed against a car, Wreck began playing into his sexual advances, grabbing his hand—then threatening to break it if he didn’t let her go.

Wreck was harassed at a Santa Ana house show in 2009 by a stranger who followed her from the back yard and into a secluded space. “He wouldn’t stop talking about how disgusting I was for dressing and being the way I was,” says Wreck. The man would not leave her alone and ended up urinating on Wreck; once he finished, she says, she “socked him square across the face. After some friends and I chased him out of the house, I walked myself to my car; I sat in it and just cried.”

And just two years ago, a Rosemead club hosting a Goth show refused to let Wreck use the women’s restroom without providing identification.

Some members of the LGBTQ community continue to have their reservations.

“I’m not sure having safe spaces is helpful in the long run,” says Jill, an OC-based, musician with more than 30 years of experience with local rock and punk bands.

She was recently heckled onstage at a punk bar for being transgender and was not helped by the staff as a man screamed at her to leave during and between songs.

“It’s nice for people to get their feet wet, but ultimately, the world isn’t safe. I think the answer is visibility, unity and education. And it’s obviously a long-term thing.

I think safety is a matter of perspective.”

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The city’s annual series Summer and Music starts Saturday and continues through September, when the recently announced Music Tastes Good festival starts. But the lineups for both reveal a lack of local artists representing the genre Long Beach is most known for: hip-hop.

“I just wish there was more of a discussion with artists when they organized these festivals,” Kenfe says. “I mean, people feel slighted. Especially thinking about the cultural impact of this town musically, it’s almost unparalleled to a lot of places.”

The most obvious example of that impact is Snoop Dogg, who, along with fellow Long Beach natives Nate Dogg, Warren G, producer BattleCat, and groups Dove Shack and Tha Dogg Pound, dominated the music charts in the early to mid-1990s with a laid-back, funky sound called G-Funk, also found on Dr. Dre’s album The Chronic.

“We wanted Music Tastes Good to look and sound like Long Beach,” says Josh Fischel, one of the curators of the festival.

“If you drive down the street, you’ll hear one person bumping Chance the Rapper and another person bumping Hanni el Khatib, and we wanted to reflect that.

There’s a lot of good hip-hop acts here, and a lot more that I heard about after because I didn’t book them. . . . That’s something we’re going to do more of next

year. This is a learning process.”

An official representing the Summer and Music festival stated, “Summer and Music is hearing that criticism [about its lack of hip-hop], and we’re trying to adjust to it.”

But Kenfe argues it’s not just about music; it’s also about politics, real estate and gentrification. “Long Beach sees other cities around us, like Santa Ana, as models for ways to rebrand and revitalize past downtrodden neighborhoods, and music and art are being used to portray a ‘new Long Beach,’” he says, “and rap music doesn’t play a part in that image.”

Both the Summer and Music and Music Tastes Good festivals are hosted in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, with Music Tastes Good occupying Pine Street in downtown and Summer and Music taking over Pine Street and the Fourth Street corridor (a.k.a. Retro Row); many young people are drawn there because of a series of thrift- and vintage-clothing shops, chic restaurants, and the Long Beach Art Theatre.

“It makes me feel that my music is only relevant when it could be sold or commodified to sell real estate downtown.

Outside of that, I feel like the city couldn’t care less,” Kenfe says.

Hip-hop artist Rillo Wright puts it a slightly different way: “They’re just making us feel like we’re not welcome in our own city,” he says, “but I love my city, and I ain’t gonna let them push me out. I’m trying to get to a position where my words have sway and power in this city. I love it out here.”

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an exchange program between artists in Orange County and Copenhagen, as well as recurring showcases and red-carpet events. In a nod to its success, the company recently became a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. “This was never something that I planned, but I met a handful of teenagers that had tremendous potential and I wanted to see what my experience and business connections could do with that,” Barsoe says.

This summer, OC Hit Factory’s songwriting camps will each culminate in a showcase event, in which celebrities will judge the results. Barsoe pledges to produce the winning songs. At the May 29 showcase, “When You Get Back” by Cloi Crider, Ashley Maietta and Jeremy Grinacoff won the best song of the night. “I was inspired to write a song for my friend Jake, who was flying to New York to have a major surgery on his spinal cord,” Crider had shared with the crowd.

The 16-year-old singer/songwriter, who has been playing the piano since she was 5 and guitar since she was 13, will have her first song published via Sony to iTunes next month.

Crider—who counts Adele, Melanie Martinez and Lana Del Rey among her influences— describes the song being selected as surreal.

“My aunt and cousin were visiting from New Jersey, and I was really happy they got to be there,” she says. “Jake and several of my friends also came to show their support, so it was amazing to win on this particular night.”

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OC Hit Factory is the brainchild of Thomas Barsoe, a pop star in his native Denmark. After moving to the U.S. from Denmark with his new wife, Anna, an Anaheim native, Barsoe was slated to begin work on his third album, but he was feeling a bit burned out after years of touring.

He started contacting local schools to ask principals, “Why are we teaching clarinet and flute, but not songwriting?” At Tesoro High School, he started working with choral-music director Keith Hancock, and after giving a speech at the Orange County School of the Arts, he connected with an artist who had auditioned for The X Factor. Barsoe brought the artists he met on these ventures to his home for impromptu songwriting sessions. “I was blown away with how much raw talent there was and continues to be.” he says. “They might not know exactly how to turn something they write into the structure of a hit song, but they have all the raw material.”

At OC Hit Factory’s first official songwriting camp in 2010, sisters Catrien and Dixie Maxwell wrote their first song, “Monster,” which was played during the credits for the 2013 film Killer Holiday. “If it’s possible for a couple of amateurs writing for the first time to get their songs out there in a professional environment,” Barsoe recalls thinking, “then maybe we should become a publishing company and represent the songwriters and artists.”

Barsoe’s company now provides music education, songwriting, recording, mixing, mastering, producing and artist management. And Barsoe continues to add layers to OC Hit Factory, such as

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EROTIC CITY—A TRIBUTE TO PRINCE: 9:30 p.m., $20. Harvelle’s Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach, (562) 239-3700; longbeach.harvelles.com.

FUNK FREAKS: 8 p.m., $10. Original Mike’s, 100 S. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 550-7764; originalmikes.com.

THE HELLERS: 8 p.m., $10. Underground DTSA, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; underground-dtsa.com.

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I’M GLAD IT’S YOU: 7:30 p.m., $5. Beatnik Bandito Music Emporium, 417 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, (714) 835-3313; beatnikbandito.com.

THE MOONSHINE LIBRARY: 8 p.m., $5. Marine Room Tavern, 214 Ocean Ave., Laguna Beach, (949) 494-3027.

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

THE OFFERING #4: 10 p.m., $15. Underground DTSA, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573; underground-dtsa.com.

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

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

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SNOW THA PRODUCT: 11 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

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There is a guy at my work who is into puppy play. I know this because I have some friends in the gay puppy community. I don’t give two shits what anyone I work with does to get off. It’s all well and good, except . . . he wants us to call him Spike, his puppy name. Isn’t this a case of him involving everyone at work in his sex life, whether we want to be involved or not?

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Amp, who is 26 and lives in Seattle, got into pup play about five years ago. “A daddy and his pup joined a group of friends on a gay camping trip,” said Amp. “Their bond just seemed to glow, and their relationship stuck with me as something I wanted in my life. For me, yes, pup play can get sexual with my Daddy, but Amp is just who I am when I’m out and about.”

As with your co-worker, DOGGONE, Amp goes by his puppy name socially and professionally. So I put this question to him: Does he get a secret thrill and/or a visible boner when a co-worker, barista, casual friend or rando calls him by his pup name?

“God, no!” said Amp. “If someone calls me ‘pup’ in a really sexual way or an aggressive way, maybe, but not when someone is simply using your name. A pup name is essentially a nickname, and people use nicknames socially and professionally.

So long as the kinkier aspects of pup play—tail wagging, barking, ball chasing—are kept out of the workplace, DOGGONE’s co-worker using his puppy name at work doesn’t involve the office in his sex life.”

A quick thought experiment, DOGGONE: Let’s say a female co-worker married a man—a really hot man—and later confided in you that she married him because the sex was great. And let’s say she took her new husband’s last name. Would using her new last name involve you in her sex life? Being married partly defines who she is, it led her to take a new name, and sex is an important part of her marriage. But her new name isn’t just about sex—it’s about identity, intimacy, connection and sex.

Pup play isn’t as serious a business as marriage, of course, but you should be able to extend the same courtesy to Spike that you wouldn’t hesitate to extend to your hypothetical straight female co-worker—that is, use the names you’ve been asked to use without obsessing over their respective sex lives.

“DOGGONE should always respect how someone identifies and asks to be named,” said Amp, “and regard the sexual or kink aspects of someone’s name choice as a separate detail.”

You can—and should—follow Amp on Twitter: @Pup_Amp. I recently synced my phone contacts to my Twitter account. When I was scrolling through the list of people who turned up from my contacts, I saw a username that looked out of place. It was the account of a low-key, traditional-guy friend of mine. To my surprise, on the account, he was dressed as a woman in a few of the pictures and was with another Twitter user who is a popular dominatrix in the area where he lives. I’m sex-positive and support people who are gender nonconforming, and I work for a porn company, so I don’t judge anyone who participates in BDSM. My con-

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My name is Peter, and I’m a longtime fan. I’ve also been very involved with the Human Rights Campaign and its work in getting the Equality Act passed. I’m 21 and only recently out of the closet. I opened up about my sexuality after the passage of marriage equality last June and have since been a proud gay man. It seemed that since marriage equality, our community was only going up. Even the passage of House Bill 2 didn’t make me cynical about the future. But this recent shooting has changed my world completely. Fighting for equality in housing, education and employment seems like a joke after this massive act of violence in Orlando. I’m looking to someone in the community for guidance.

Peter They don’t win—the haters don’t win—when they chase us, beat us or kill us. They win when we stop fighting.

Please don’t stop fighting.

And please don’t despair. Hundreds of thousands of us died in the 1980s and ’90s when hate, fear, greed, racism and negligence intersected with a deadly virus. A lot of us felt then the way you do now—that it was over, that it was hopeless, that the coming out and the organizing and the fighting had been for nothing, and that everything we had won up to that point was meaningless. And then we got up off our butts and showed them—we showed those motherfuckers—that the fight in us was greater than the hate in them.

We showed them we were stronger and smarter than they were, we showed that fucking virus that we were stronger and smarter than it was, and we made it clear to them that we were not going to shut up and die quietly or go back into the closet and die alone.

And we had only one another for a while there—for a long while. For years we fought alone.

Look at who is on our side today—all good and decent people everywhere. The president of the United States and the next president of the United States. Look at the rallies; look at the vigils. Look at the outpouring of love, sympathy and support.

Don’t look at the killer. Don’t look at the haters.

Don’t look at the vile comments left by shit people on Twitter and Facebook. Look at the good. Look at the love. Look at the good and loving people inside and outside the LGBT community, and take strength from their love and support.

Then get out there and fight.

On the Lovecast (savagelovecast.com), all hail superhero drag queen Panti Bliss. Contact Dan via email at mail@savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter: @fakedansavage.

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