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We Could’ve Been Loquat County

How the small, delicious fruit disappeared from OC—and how Mexicans saved it

BY CHRISTOPHER TOLAND

D

rive down the streets of SanTana’s oldest neighborhoods in spring, and you’ll see towering loquat trees drooping over the fences of seemingly every other house.

Hundreds upon hundreds of mysterious, pastel-orange, pingpong-ball-sized fruits are ripening on branches in tight clusters, each giving off an intoxicatingly sugary scent that drives birds nuts with hunger.

Local children run along the sidewalks gorging themselves on the sweet globes, sticky pulp covering their hands and faces as they spit the slimy pits at one another.

You’ve most likely seen loquats around Orange County, but you’ve probably never really had the chance to try one.

No local restaurant ever bothers to make something out of them, and they’re rarely sold in markets because of their delicate nature and short shelf life (you might find some at Asian grocery stores every once in a while, but that’s about it). A member of the Rosaceae (rose) family native to China, the loquat (níspero in Spanish) is a relative of the apple and pear; depending on the variety, the fruit can range in size from 1 to 3 inches, with skin that is moderately fuzzy and rather unpleasant to eat and a color and fleshy texture similar to the apricot.

“Loquats are so ubiquitous in Delhi,” says Jessica Atkins, a resident of Santa Ana whose family has lived on the same property for more than 100 years. “It comes closest to honey and apricots. My grandfather would wait until they get overripe, when they’re really syrupy, and eat them with cottage cheese or ice cream.”

Trees that are close to a century old pepper the county from Placentia to Tustin, through most of North and Central OC, and live on as remnants of a once-booming loquat industry started by horticulturist Charles Parker Taft in 1891.

Thanks to Taft, Orange County had one of the largest loquat groves in the world, and many of the superior varieties that are unwittingly grown today, including Advance and Champagne, were pioneered at his Tustin ranch.

An Ohio native, Taft was a fruit connoisseur obsessed with tropical varieties from around the world. Most known for his work with avocados and loquats, he is generally credited with the first commercial planting of each and is considered the father of the subtropical-fruit industry in Southern California. He started experimenting with loquats around 1888 and, soon after, devoted the majority of his time and land to their development.

Orange County’s climate just happens to be perfect for loquats, with the first har-

ALL THOSE LOQUATS, WHAT TO DO . . .

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vest arriving in markets at the beginning of spring, when practically no other fruits were available.

Specific varieties, such as Taft’s Early Red, were harvested and sold to the public as soon as February. Taft even claimed that a loquat grove could yield the same or larger amount of profit as an orange grove of similar size. In 1906, the fruit became so popular that the Los Angeles Times speculated the supply for loquats could double before demand was met.

By 1915, Taft had 25 acres of loquats around what’s now Orange and produced between 90 and 100 tons of fruit per year. “The loquat is, in a way, the most characteristic fruit of Orange County,” he wrote in Samuel Armour’s 1921 history of Orange County, “for it is here that it has been most highly developed and, so far as yet ascertained, has reached a perfection unknown elsewhere, not only in California, but in the world.”

By 1924, the fruit became so hyped that the Santa Ana Register’s banner headline for its farm-bureau news section read, “Predicts Loquats Will Rival Oranges.”

“The loquat, of which I am the originator of all but a few known varieties, will someday become the competitor, along with several other tropical fruits, to the orange, now the mainstay of ranchers in this part of the country,” Taft told the Reg-

ister. “These semitropical fruits are easily adaptable to this climate, and due to their freedom from diseases, of which they have practically none, they should prove very popular among fruit growers.”

Unfortunately for Taft and local farmers, the loquat trend died almost immediately after that Register headline. As the costs of labor, land and water rose, many loquat farmers had to sell their land or stick with oranges. “There was no market for them in commercial quantities, and they did not pay,” B.A. Crawford, manager of the Tustin Hill Orange Packing House, told the Register in late 1924. “Without exception, almost all the loquat trees have been taken out and oranges set instead.”

Taft ended up selling his orchard in 1926; by 1951, the loquat completely disappeared from the OC Agricultural Production Statistics report, the county’s main barometer of what farmers were growing and selling. However, one community made sure that loquats were kept alive in the county. “Loquats were a big thing in the Mexican community in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s,” Atkins says.

“Many of those people worked on farms in northern Santa Ana and would get loquat seeds to grow at home. You will find them growing in the original five barrios of Santa Ana.” Although the loquat is no longer a

staple of OC agriculture, it remains a prolific producer for those who want a fruit tree requiring minimal care.

According to Gary Matsuoka, a wellknown horticulturist and owner of Laguna Hills Nursery in Santa Ana, the loquat tree is one of the few fruit trees that will produce without irrigation as long as there is normal rainfall.

If you are thinking about getting one for your yard, Gary’s favorite variety is the Vista White, known for its intense flavor and high sugar content. Seedlings work just fine, while grafted trees that will yield fruit sooner cost more. He recommends planting at least two and pruning them heavily after the fruit is picked. “The loquat is one of the easier fruits for beginners,” Matsuoka says.

With a little care and a lot of time, you, too, can be in the same predicament that Atkins and her family face each year: What to do with all those loquats? Her trees usually yield 200 to 300 pounds every year.

“Loquats are the common man’s exotic fruit,” Atkins says. “They are in almost everyone’s yard here. We get so many that we are sick to death of them.”

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There’s a reason there is a process in place for people to enter this country. The reason is simple: If it’s not done properly, it will cause problems for people here in America! Why is this so difficult for you to understand? Donald Trump is winning for a reason. He is speaking out loud what the American people are feeling inside! America isn’t in a position to be the godfather for every failing country in the world anymore! We need to focus on the condition of this country for a while and get things back to where they need to be.

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Because then the Mexican people would stay in Mexico! But the truth of the matter is that Mexico, for the most part, sucks as a country! Instead of demeaning our political system, why don’t you go fix Mexico’s?

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But the accused was confused. Latino males in Westminster were long accustomed to cops roughing them up—but being buried in papers? “I don’t want it!” the man said, dropping the pile of legalese on the ground. The two then got into a debate better suited for a mock courtroom than the mean streets.

“You don’t have to read it, but you’ve been legally served because we are suing you in civil court,” Valdez replied.

“I want a public defender!”

“You’re not entitled to legal counsel or a public defender because this is not a criminal case; it’s a civil case.”

“You can’t sue us this way,” the alleged West Trece member insisted, as Valdez walked back to his patrol car, happy to have played his part in history.

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N A JUNE AFTERNOON IN 1993, AL Valdez approached a man with a shaved head who was wearing a wifebeater and baggy shorts while kicking it at Sigler Park in Westminster. A gang-unit investigator for the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA), he had spent hours looking for this vato, whom prosecutors believed was a shot caller for West Trece, the city’s oldest and largest gang. The gumshoe didn’t plan to question or arrest his target, though; he wanted to hand the guy a stack of papers.

“I’m here to serve you with a civil lawsuit,” Valdez announced, gun in his holster. “I’ve served some of your homeboys already.” He handed over a gang injunction, a then-novel approach in law enforcement designed to clamp down on gangs with legal arguments—the first in OC history.

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A NG INJ UNCTIONS work by district attorneys suing gangs in civil court as “public nuisances” and creating “safety zones” around the turf they claim. These days, the gang is sued as the defendant, and any gang members named in the suit are banned from committing crimes such as drinking in public, vandalism, drug dealing and physical assaults in the zone. But an injunction also stops them from noncriminal behaviors including dressing a certain way and hanging out with other named gang members in public. Violations become criminally punishable, and that’s where gang injunctions get controversial: Critics deem them as unconstitutional and fostering racial profiling, while law enforcement says they’re a critical tool in the war on gangs, helping to restore peace and tranquility in neighborhoods.

And the strategy can trace its roots to Orange County.

Scholars cite People v. Rubacava as the first effort to implement something approaching an injunction. In that 1980 case, then-DA Cecil Hicks got a temporary injunction banning gang members from their hangout house on West Henderson Place in Santa Ana; a judge denied a permanent injunction, but the tactic successfully got the cholos to move elsewhere.

Similar filings followed in Los Angeles County throughout the early 1980s. But the first full-force gang injunction in California history came in December 1987, when then-Los Angeles City Attorney Jim Hahn went after the Playboy Gangster Crips in West LA. The following year, California’s state legislators passed the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention (STEP) Act, declaring gangs a “clear and present threat to public order and safety,” making it easier for prosecutors to use injunctions as a new weapon.

Gang injunctions spread across Southern California in the early 1990s, pushed by politicians who wanted to appear tough on crime when gang hysteria was at an all-time high. They finally came back home to Orange County in June 1993, when OC DA Michael Capizzi and Westminster City Attorney Richard Jones filed People v. Amaya against the city’s West Trece gang. It was a curious choice: While West Trece had dominated city life since its founding in 1968 (originally starting as a dance club called the Gaylords at Westminster High), it was hardly the largest gang in Orange County, or even the most violent in Westminster—that honor went to the Nip Boys, a Vietnamese gang who’d get broken up later that year in a four-county raid involving more than 200 police officers.

But West Trece had a determined foe in Valdez. Now director of the Public Policy Laboratory at UC Irvine, where he teaches an “Introduction to Gangs” class, the child of Mexican immigrants belonged to the first Tri-Agency Resource Gang

Enforcement Team (TARGET) gang unit in OC and worked the Westminster beat in the early 1990s. He remembers learning about a gang injunction filed in San Jose in early 1993 and teamed up with Deputy District Attorney John Anderson to pitch a similar approach to Westminster Police Chief James I. Cook. Anderson began preparing files on people to be served, personally reviewing each one before finalizing a list of 59 alleged West Trece members to pursue. “Each file was a half-inch to an inch thick on every gang member,” Valdez says. “Anderson was a slave driver, and everything had to be perfect.”

Armed with the work of Anderson and Valdez, Capizzi and Jones argued that West Trece constituted a “sinister and coercive threat” and that constitutional rights of free association aren’t absolute, citing an old anti-union case in which injunctions prohibited picketing on the basis that workers on the line carried an inherent threat of violence. They also noted that gang-related crime—shootings, drug dealing and even robbing pizza delivery people—in the proposed injunction zone had spiked at an alarming rate over the course of 18 months: at least 39 incidents involving West Trece members in one way or another between Dec. 14, 1991, and May 23, 1993.

The injunction became active just weeks after its filing, setting up a safety zone stretching across West Trece’s claimed turf—east of Goldenwest Street, west of Hoover Street, south of Trask Avenue and north of Westminster Avenue.

“Refusal of the injunction will allow defendants to continue their established patterns of criminal gang activity, whereas granting of the relief requested by plaintiffs merely requires defendants to conduct themselves in a lawful manner,” the complaint argued. A hearing to make the gang injunction permanent was scheduled for July 21, 1993, in Orange County Superior Court.

“I helped write the injunction, collect the data on all the subjects, and I began to serve them,” Valdez recalls of handing out the stacks, including the one at Sigler Park. “These hardcore gang members that’d shoot you on sight would drop the paperwork and get scared.”

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HEN THE PR ELIMInary injunction took effect, Valdez says, it had a drastic impact on Westminster’s barrio. “For the first time, I started to see kids at the playground, at the park and people in the front yard of their house,” he says, claiming not a single violent gang crime happened that summer and that residents thanked him for his work. “We’d go out on patrol and see not one gang member.”

But the ACLU of Southern California had serious misgivings about the West Trece injunction and decided to get involved in the legal fight. The group had unsuccessfully taken on the Playboy Gangster Crips case in 1987 and another battle in Los Angeles targeting San Fernando Valley’s Blythe Street Gang. Staff Attorney Mark Silverstein had cut his teeth right out

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of the Illinois College of Law writing legal briefs for the Blythe case before appearing amicus curiae at the July 21 hearing on behalf of the Westminster defendants.

“Gang injunctions were like a prosecutor’s shortcut around the Bill of Rights,” says Silverstein, now legal director for the ACLU of Colorado. “One of the shortcuts was that the gang injunction case was a civil case, and there was no clear-cut right to an appointed attorney, even for indigent defendants.”

Silverstein began by arguing that the defendants should be given the right to legal representation. The judge retorted by asking the ACLU to take on a limited role in filing a brief highlighting legal and constitutional concerns in the case. Suddenly, Silverstein found himself digging into the merits of the injunction itself much more deeply.

The ACLU found itself mostly alone in the fight. Latino politicians didn’t want to appear friendly to criminals, and local activists had been left in the dark. Manos Unidas, a group formed after a 1988 Westminster police shooting that killed 18-year-old Frank Martinez during a birthday party in his own back yard, helped to eliminate gang violence and crime in Sigler Park in 1990 and tried to improve community relations with police. But former president Vero Palomino (whose husband, Jay, is a second cousin of the late Frank Palomino of Mendez, et al. v. Westminster fame) says, “We weren’t aware of the gang injunction. Personally, had I known, I would have questioned it more.”

Alleged West Trece members on the list ranged from ages 13 to 30, with

aliases including “Puppet,” “Bullet” and “Payaso.” After the July 21 hearing, Silverstein met 30-year-old Jose Oscar “Oso” Saldaña, the oldest individual named in the injunction, and found the perfect case study to show the court the questionable criteria prosecutors used to label someone a gang member.

The OCDA’s case against Saldaña rested on two pieces of evidence: a conversation he had in 1992 with another person deemed a West Trece gang member by police, and a “West Park” gang tattoo on his hand. But Saldaña’s name appeared nowhere in the gang-related incidents compiled by the TARGET unit. When he was served, Saldaña was working out of a Santa Ana warehouse to support his children. “We’re just a group of people that was born and raised there. They can’t get us for that,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

“The gang does exist, but they’re just put-

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week, West Trece started acting up again,” he says. “The kids disappeared from the park and in front of their houses. I felt bad for the people who lived there.”

The OCDA and Westminster city attorney’s office appealed the ruling to the United States Fourth District Court of Appeal. The ACLU agreed to take Saldaña as a client. “His defense would serve to provide defense to all,” Silverstein says.

“Relying solely on its offer to prove these two facts, the People ask the Court to infer that [Saldaña] is a member of the West Trece gang who can be held legally accountable for any and all illegal activity of the gang and its members,” read the brief filed by the ACLU. “Such inferences violate reason and common sense, as well as the Constitution.”

The case dragged on until 1997. By that point, Silverstein had left the ACLU of Southern California for the organization’s Denver, Colorado, chapter. “In my first year, the case was scheduled for oral argument,” he says. “I had plans to come back to California, but then the prosecution withdrew the appeal.”

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ting it on everybody, blaming anyone they see. We’re guilty until proven innocent.

It’s wrong.”

The ACLU filed a laundry list of general arguments against the injunction, including that the First and 14th Amendments protected the defendants’ rights of association and due process. The organization added that the court “should view skeptically the People’s allegation that each defendant is currently a ‘known, fully participatory member’ of West Trece.”

Superior Court Judge Richard Beacom presided over the Aug. 3 hearing. “They rob, they kill, they rape, they sell dope, they use it,” Beacom said of the defendants before him. “As I understand it, West Trece is a terrorist organization, and it has no lawful purpose.”

But in a surprise ruling, Beacom stated that probation terms made much of the injunction redundant for criminals and questioned the constitutionality of it all, calling the attempt an “impermissible invasion of privacy.”

The ruling shocked Silverstein. “Having a court being persuaded by our arguments was, of course, a more pleasant experience,” he says. “I was really a baby lawyer at that point. It was the first time I had the opportunity to argue in court without a supervisor there with me, holding my hand.”

Valdez was less pleased. “Within a

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Injunction Malfunction » FROM PAGE 13 Pictures of Oscar wearing jerseys of his beloved Raiders decorate the home. The Saldañas don’t know much about the history behind Westminster’s gang injunction or Oscar’s role in the legal fight. They do know he battled the demons of a troubled childhood, found faith and left gang life far behind when becoming a counselor, a feat that might’ve been impossible had the West Trece gang injunction stayed in place.

“I met Oscar in high school—I was probably 13 or 14 at the time,” says his widow, Teresa. By then, Oscar had already lived a tumultuous life. Looking for a sense of family and belonging, Oscar joined West Trece in his teenage years. He never got along with his alcoholic father, who turned abusive toward his mother. Tensions continued until a 16-year-old Oscar finally pummeled his dad out of their home. He had already dropped out of high school by the time both his parents died when he was 18.

Teresa moved out of Westminster shortly after high school in 1983, married and started a family. Oscar stayed behind, married his first wife and started a family of his own in 1982. But like destined lovers, Teresa and Oscar met up again and started dating around 1993, when she returned to Westminster. Oscar had just gone through the gang-injunction battle that summer. “I remember him talking about it,” Teresa says, “but I don’t remember him being a part of it.

“He wasn’t active in any of the gang stuff” at the time, Teresa continues. “I know for a fact he didn’t want [his children] going down the same road as he did.” But he still struggled with demons: partying hard, abusing alcohol and getting popped on a burglary conviction just a year after he had successfully fought the injunction. Teresa’s pregnancy in 1994 changed his priorities. “He knew he had

to do something with his life because of his kids,” she says. “He had to grow up.”

Had the West Trece gang injunction stuck, he never would’ve had the chance.

His last run-in with the law in 1997 underscores that. Saldaña was convicted of possessing a firearm as a felon, and prosecutors unsuccessfully tried to pile street terrorism and gang enhancements on top of it. He got eight months in prison, instead of the heftier sentence that likely would’ve come had the injunction stuck.

Saldaña moved to Anaheim in 1998 after his prison stint, mostly to escape continual harassment from Westminster police. On one stop, he got pulled over near Hoover Street in Westminster after taking his kids to Wienerschnitzel. “They made us get out of the car and sit on the curb,” Vanessa Saldaña, Oscar’s eldest daughter, recalls.

One officer peppered Saldaña with questions, seeing if he’d break his cool. “Finally, after 45 minutes, he let us go.”

In 2004, Saldaña started visiting Westminster High School regularly to speak with at-risk youth. Accompanying him was Santos Chavez, a former gang member turned pastor of Westminster’s Street Light Church. “They had a class right after lunch, and it was with a lot of the kids going into the gang in Westminster,” Vanessa says.

Her dad commanded the kids’ attention with his raw honesty, cautioning that gang life would only lead to prison or the grave.

“Listen to your parents,” she says Saldaña told them. “I know it’s hard, but they know what you need to do to get where you need to be, and it’s sure not behind bars.”

Saldaña often stayed after class to talk oneon-one with kids; a classmate once told Vanessa that she didn’t know where she’d be if she hadn’t met her dad.

Helping youth gave new hope to an old dream Saldaña had of becoming a drug-and-alcohol counselor. He worked a number of construction jobs to get on solid financial footing so he could enroll at InterCoast College in Orange, becoming a certi-

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itself,” says Caitlin Sanderson, staff attorney with ACLU of Southern California.

“It’s basically a rubber stamp for DAs to get these very powerful gang injunctions that will never get challenged.”

Despite Westminster’s failure, Valdez looks back at the overall effort with pride, saying it laid the groundwork for future injunctions. “The legacy is that non-gang members in the community got their lives back,” says Valdez. “Gangs criminalize communities; injunctions don’t.”

The ACLU continues to play a supportive role in OC gang-injunction fights, most recently in Placentia’s Plas and La Jolla barrios; there, Sanderson is argu-

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a court hearing [see Daffodil Altan’s “Orange’s Barrio Cypress Residents Fought the DA’s Gang Injunction—and Won (Sort of ),” May 28, 2009]. But it’s still in effect, and the OCDA now solely names gangs as defendants, not individuals. “It’s not so much a ‘change of strategy,’ but rather our gang-abatement efforts evolving with the law,” the OCDA wrote in a statement to the Weekly.

The ACLU sees Rackauckas’ change-up as one still wrought with problems. “In the over 200 gang injunctions brought throughout the state of California since the STEP Act passed, I don’t know of a single case where the gang has defended

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ing that one man’s intellectual disabilities should afford him court-appointed representation. Silverstein hasn’t had a single gang-injunction case come his way since moving to Colorado, but he is pleased to hear his organization is still at it in Southern California. “The ACLU has to keep fighting for civil liberties,” he says. “One of the founders of the ACLU always said civil court victories never stay won. You have to fight the battles again and again.”

The lives of the defendants in the West Trece gang injunction have followed different paths. Some stayed locked up; others got deported. Few of those still around wanted to talk about those days, even those whose lives have changed for the better. But Saldaña’s family is proud of Oscar’s legacy. “What he taught me was how important family was,” says Jose Saldaña, his eldest son. “As big and as angry as he was, to us, he was a big teddy bear.”

The Saldaña family, including Oscar’s six children and nine grandchildren, gets together on the 16th of every month since he passed to share dinner and celebrate his life.

Teresa wonders how different things might have been for her late husband if the OCDA had gotten its way and made the Westminster gang injunction permanent. “He wouldn’t have been able to move forward with his counseling,” she says. “He would always be looked at as a gang member.”

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fied counselor in 2007. After graduation, Saldaña worked at a number of counseling centers, including Twin Town in Orange and La Familia in Santa Ana. “I still remember the first day I fearfully walked into your office,” one letter of gratitude to Saldaña read. “Thank you for counseling and assisting me in my quest for complete sobriety.”

He helped those in need outside his office, too, including a brother-in-law who finally kicked his crack addiction and is now a substance-abuse counselor at Pacific Palms in San Clemente.

But Saldaña’s dream job didn’t last long.

Two years in, he started falling ill; doctors diagnosed him with hepatitis C. “The week before he got put in the hospital is when he had told us that his doctor told him that he needed to get put on a donor list for a liver transplant,” Teresa says, wiping tears from her eyes. “Being under doctor care, I didn’t know the severity of it either because I just assumed we were going to be in the right direction and everything was going to be fine.”

Oscar passed away on Jan. 16, 2012, at age 48.

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Who would the Psychedelic Furs have been if John Hughes had never heard “Pretty In Pink”? Well, probably a band like Magazine: post-punks with pop chops but a healthy affection for dissonance, too, and daring enough to discover how the Sex Pistols and Roxy Music could become part of the same thing. Luckily for

a generation of mixtapers and black-clad lunchroom loners, however, the Furs got that catapult moment that took them from a well-regarded import band to permanent adolescent touchstone—Simple Minds and Modern English sort of took the same trip—and now they’re installed forever in that top tier of ’80s greats.

Psychedelic Furs with the Church, the Fixx and DJ Richard Blade at the Hangar at Pacific Amphitheatre, 88 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa; www.pacamp.com. 7 p.m. $22.50-$52.50. —CHRIS ZIEGLER

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Of all the celebrities known to emerge from OC, the most underrated and lesser known (but equally important) is the hadrosaur, a four-legged, horned, prehistoric herbivore known to have a duck-bill-shaped mouth. Hadrosaurs are native to OC, and today at Heritage Museum’s Dinosaurs to People event, kid-

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Lucha Mexico at the Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana, (714) 285-9422; thefridacinema.org. 5:45 & 8 p.m. Through Thurs., July 21. $8-$10. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Local alt-rock unit the Shakes might not be under the radar for much longer. On 2015’s Phenomenon EP, each song stands on its own and bursts with a vibrant, upbeat energy that uplifts after each listen.The Shakes’ music isn’t the average indie-pop variety, anchored by vocalist Sean Perry’s strong lyrics and the group’s collective musical synergy.They are joined onstage tonight by another OCbased indie-rock combo, Night Air, and SoCal punk group Bear Fight.

The Shakes, Night Air and Bear Fight at the Constellation Room, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-3600; constellationroom.com. 9 p.m. $8.

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Don Siegel’s 1956 sci-fi horror story of lost autonomy when alien plants invade the Earth and bloom into human clones sounds silly until you realize it’s actually a poignant metaphor for McCarthyism, anti-Communism and the idea that post-war Eisenhower America was slipping into bland conformity. Based on Jack Finney’s novel (and spectacularly remade in 1978; less so in 2007), Invasion of the Body Snatchers put the term “pod people” into our vernacular and has been called “the clearest window into the American psyche that horror cinema has ever provided.” Check it out on the big screen—and then go home and make sure that Uncle Bud is still really Uncle Bud. Invasion of the Body Snatchers at Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701; www.regencymovies.com. 7:30 p.m. $8.

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Miles Morales web-slinging in as the new Afro-Latino Spider-Man made the comic world’s spidey sense tingle for all kinds of reasons. But even if it seems as if the ’toons are catching up with the times, there’s still a lot of color to add. Enter “Artists Assemble! Empowerment and Inspiration in Contemporary Comics” at the Museum of Latin American Art. Curated by Esperanza Sánchez, Naiela Santana, Gabriela Martínez and Nalini Elias, the exhibit looks at comics in the U.S. and Latin America that unabashedly delve into the worlds of culture, identity, community and politics via sketches, illustrations, digital images, photographs and more. Cartoonistas of color, unite!

“Artists Assemble! Empowerment and Inspiration in Contemporary Comics” at Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, (562) 437-1688; www.molaa.org. 11 a.m. Through Sept. 18. $7-$10. —GABRIEL SAN ROMÁN

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Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel is about to become the hippest canine club around at today’s monthly Yappy Hour. In cooperation with the Wounded Veterans Initiative of Canine Companions for Independence, Yappy Hour treats dogs and their owners to tasty libations: bacon, chicken, beef or vegan-flavored water for the pups, and for the humans, beer, cocktails, barbecue and wine from Mutt Lynch Winery, including Mutt Lynch Unleashed Chardonnay, Merlot Over and Play Dead, and Chateau d’Og Cabernet Sauvignon (what would this blurb be without dog puns?). While your four-legged best friends romp, sniff butts and play, feel good knowing that proceeds benefit a good cause . . . or, should we say, good paws?

Yappy Hour at Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel, 1 Ritz Carlton Dr., Laguna Niguel, (949) 240-2000; thediamondball.org/ yappy-hour. 5 p.m. Free.

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Game of Thrones fanatics and housemusic fans will collide when Rave of Thrones infiltrates downtown Santa Ana. The dance party features actor and veteran DJ Kristian Nairn, who plays Hodor on the smash HBO series.The entertainer is a native Irishman who has been playing clubs across the globe for more than 20 years, and his progressive house music has landed him on bills with Scissor Sisters and Calvin Harris. Cosplay is encouraged, so break out your long blond wigs and dragon tails—this looks like a wild one.

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now, it’s harder to say whether this young Padawan is really trying to emulate his Jedi master. Pham certainly knows how to cook seafood. He can bake a mean oysters Rockefeller with loads of butter without it ending up too rich or heavy. And he can properly sear albacore to whiten just the outer ring while the center remains red, raw and cold. But my impression of Pham’s food was that it’s designed to be more accessible than Cimarusti’s.

That albacore—which he plates on a slab of sheet rock with a dramatic line of tobiko down the middle—was nothing more than a sushi-bar dish upgraded with a thick garlic-infused cream sauce as addictive as Zankou Chicken’s toum.

And if you order the hamachi chipotle ceviche, you’d find that it is, for all intents and purposes, really just poke. This is not to say it wasn’t good. In fact, it’s probably one of the best I’ve eaten in OC. Pham dressed his cubes in a fruity cream-based sauce that reminded me of Tahitian poisson cru, which is basically poke made with coconut milk. But if you’d ever eaten poke before the recent rice-bowl trend Pokinometry started, you’d recognize that it used to be done just as Pham does it: surrounded by wonton chips.

The salmon-skin chip and dip was yet more proof that the young chef aims to please the common man of South OC rather than members of the James Beard committee. Here, he mashed avocado into a guacamole with grapes in it, then provided paper-flat glassy sheets of baked salmon skin in lieu of tortilla chips.

Though the salmon skin was excessively greasy and essentially nonexistent of flavor when I ate it with the guac, I still appreciated the germ of a great idea.

One of the most popular items is the uni pasta, a dish every Asian-fusion chef who dabbles in seafood has in his Google Docs.

Though I liked it, it was more because the ramen noodles had a fantastic chewiness, and less because the uni gravy was soupy rather than saucy.

If you’re a baller who doesn’t so much care about cost, there’s a $120 seafood tower, but to order it in a food hall at a sedate suburban mall seems inappropriately spendy, especially if you didn’t arrive in a stretch limo. The rest of us should ask the waiter if there are specials on the oysters, which get discounted by half when Pham’s trying to clear out his inventory. One night, I was lucky to score half a dozen mineral-rich Shigokus from Washington for $8.

Pham’s best dish was his tom yum agnoletti, a plate of ravioli patiently stuffed with shrimp, covered in a cream sauce that had whiffs of lemongrass, and topped with a head of foam that would’ve had Cimarusti shed proud Top Chef tears. It’s perfect in every detail: texture, flavor, presentation and originality. If cooking prowess is the same as the Force, then this dish was Pham lifting the X-Wing out of the swamp.

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don’t know if I’ve ever encountered anything in Orange County as beautifully plated as the abalone panna cotta at Anchor Hitch. It was stunning. Picture a bowl of cereal milk with four gorgeous lobes of uni hovering above it as though they were in a synchronizedswimming competition. Then imagine that showered with glistening orange orbs of salmon roe, surrounded by strategically placed leaves of green and decorated with tiny red flowers inserted so precisely into the frigid lake of jellied cream that tweezers had to be involved. Someone cared for this dish, knew that the ingredients of uni, geoduck clam and abalone—ocean treasures as coveted as ambergris—deserved a few extra minutes of primping and preening.

The first bite opened taste buds I never knew existed. In the background was the savory, almost salty panna cotta; in the foreground, the persistent crunchy chew of clam, the creaminess of sea urchin and the subtle sweetness of abalone. All of it mixed, exploded and melted in my mouth. It was then that I took stock of not only who made this dish—the bespectacled young chef working behind a glass partition directly aft of the bar—but also his mentor. If you’ve heard anything about chef Michael Pham, you know he once worked at LA’s Providence as a protégé of Michael Cimarusti, who’s arguably the most respected seafood chef on the West Coast.

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omparing dishes across cultures is always dicey, but there’s no other way to describe the gung che num pa at Royal King Elephant except as Thai aguachile. As with the trendy Mexican seafood dish, it’s raw, chilled shrimp served alongside tomatoes and cucumbers, and it’s spicy. But whereas aguachile is cold and fiery, gung che num pa (which the Royal King Elephant menu helpfully translates as “spicy raw shrimp”) is funky and hellacious. About 10 shrimp are tossed on a bed of shredded cabbage, drowned in fish sauce, then slathered in a fermented chile paste heavy on ginger and lemongrass.

Eat one shrimp, and you get equal parts sweet and tart, with just a tab of heat at the finish; eat the whole meal, and you’re left panting at the end, the chile paste gradually pummeling through your sweat glands like the end of “Bolero.”

This is exciting food in an exciting place: Royal King Elephant is the county’s third Laotian restaurant, all of which stand in Garden Grove. It’s technically more of a Thai place, though, because Americans are more used to that culture’s cuisine. So the menu currently lists mostly Thai classics: a fine crying tiger, curries, pad Thai, fried rice and the like. Ignore those in favor of the Laotian specialties, some of the boldest meals you’ll have this summer. Take the awesomely named tom zap, translated as “Lao beef soup”: It pulsates with flavors—not just the fish sauce, kaffir lime leaves, galanga and lemongrass serving as the flavor base, but also chunks of liver, heart, intestines and tripe. It’s a dish so offal-riffic it makes haggis taste like celery. A bit tamer is the khao piak; the only organ meat here is the tangy pork blood used to freshen up the chicken and noodles.

Need something more familiar? The Lao-style pho is spicier than its Vietnamese neighbor—but getting pho at a Laotian restaurant near Little Saigon is like ordering tacos in Villa Park.

And when you come here, start with the gung che num pa. Yeah, it’s technically Thai, but the Mekong wasn’t carved in a day, you know?

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McDonald has done all of this with no liquor license, but his booze game is strong AF. In addition to having one of the best bottle-to-bottle wine selections in OC, Old Vine makes one of the most deceptively strong cocktails around: the Thin Mint Iced Mocha.

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Take a sip, and it’s sweet, strong and stiff: McDonald has spiked it with soju so imperceptible you’ll be honestly surprised as you stumble out at 11 a.m., insisting all you had to drink was three chocolate mochas. One wonders what other beauties McDonald would have in his arsenal if he ever bothered with a full-fledged liquor license. . . . In the meanwhile, don’t forget that Uber exists in the mornings, and lift another glass to Old Vine!

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Plus, there are the classics: a roasted pork Cubano, a bacon-loaded BLT, an egg-salad sandwich on white bread.

The store’s best hits happen when an American classic is given the Olives twist. The tuna salad features a helping of smushed cranberries, making it sweet enough to sit on bread, but hearty enough to double as a dip. And the macaroni salad ditches the limp, mayo-y mess found at your great aunt’s potluck for puffy elbow macaroni tossed in an addictive yellow curry paste.

Order sandwiches (and whatever else looks good—check the daily specials!) at the counter, and while you wait for your name to be called, grab something to drink out of the chilled case of bottled sodas, iced teas and juices, then meander back to the single cash register to pay for it all. From there, you can take it home, eat it at the beach or nosh outside at one of the bistro tables that line the sidewalk while being thankful there’s a gourmet grocer like Olives.

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ore than a few neighborhoods in Long Beach wish they had an Olives Gourmet Grocer, the Belmont Heights shop that has set the bar for how to do posh grub without pretension for the past 12 years. Yes, there’s a fancy bythe-pound olive bar and more than a few kinds of heirloom-grain boxed pastas on the shelf, but there are also employees who remember the sandwich you tried last time you came in, jars of the owner’s favorite hot sauce out for sampling and an entire display case of prepared dishes, culled from whatever was delivered from the city’s own Farm Lot 59 that day—all inside a store not much larger than the deli counter serving as its nucleus.

For most of its existence, Olives made good on the grocer aspect of its identity, with such readily available basics as halfgallons of milk, sandwich bread and fresh produce. The main daily draw, however, was always the deli counter, filled with affordable creations such as a citrusy Brussels sprout salad, chunks of meaty lasagna, sour-cream-stuffed twice-baked potatoes and a basil-topped eggplant rotalini that you could take home and heat up as if you made it all yourself. A bythe-pound salad bar and a list of 54 (and growing!) made-to-order sandwiches also bring in the lunch crowds.

For Long Beach Lunch purposes, we’re just stoked we can still get down with those less-than-$8 sandwiches, made with the same meats you can buy by the pound and put on bread from Homeboy Bakery.

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British exchange student who is about the same age as his daughter.

One might accuse the 33-year-old writer/director of metaphorically lighting a match inside moviegoers, adding the matchbook cover to really get the flame going and, just when they can’t take their eyes off the inferno, perversely blowing it out. Another possibility is Doremus can’t shake his own fascination with impossible love and must make that love ever more impossible to achieve with each film. If so, he really put himself to the test with Equals, which opens in theaters Friday.

It’s about a beautiful young couple falling in love in a situation that forbids love.

Nia (Kristen Stewart) and Silas (Nicholas Hoult) work together in a futuristic society known as “The Collective.” At first, it seems utopian, as crime and violence have been wiped out and everyone wears similar white outfits so there’s no more fretting over what to wear after getting out of your Spacely Sprockets shower.

But the reason for this nearly perfect society is crime and violence have been genetically eliminated from human emotions. So has love. That is, they are gone unless a mysterious virus known as Switched On Syndrome infects you. Show

any signs that you are suffering from full-blown S.O.S., and you’ll be sent for a radical treatment that renders you an emotion-free fleshy robot again.

As Silas, Hoult (of Mad Max: Fury Road and the X-Men franchise fame) seems to channel his inner Real Doll right from the get-go. He follows a mind-numbing daily routine with barely a hint of emotion.

What ultimately gives him away (to the viewer) are the sly glances this illustrator aims at writer co-worker Nia. Equals is the perfect vehicle for Stewart, who has been accused of lacking emotional depth and acting by simply employing a small set of different blank stares. But her Nia, against Silas’ stiff Hymie the Robot, is our strongest cue that something brews between these two forbidden lovebirds.

Just about the time their passions hit 11, their superiors become suspicious, forcing Nia and Silas to decide between staying apart within the Collective or staying together by making a forbidden trek away from it.

Doremus, who wrote the story that led to the screenplay by Nathan Parker (writer of the underappreciated Moon), has a couple of veteran actors play-

ing infected folks who help Nia and Silas avoid detection: two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver and Guy Pearce, the aforementioned straying father in Breathe In. Each give gravitas and believability to a far-out project that sorely needs it. Having Ridley Scott among the many producers of Equals probably didn’t hurt getting this sucker made either.

My problem with the film is the same one I have with nearly every futuristic sci-fi flick: very bright lighting, something just short of sharp focus, antiseptic sets and new-fashioned surroundings (Equals was shot in Japan and Singapore to take advantage of ultramodern architecture).

These give me an immediate bout of Sleep On Syndrome.

No one wants to be overcome by an immediate yearning to crash in the middle of a love story, even the most impossible ones.

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In Spooner, the 2009 dramedy that put the Santa Ana-born-andraised filmmaker on the media’s radar after acceptance to Slamdance, a 30-yearold guy who avoided growing up tries to grow up in a hurry when he finds love, but he arrives too late. A year later came Doremus’ Sundance darling Douchebag, which centered on a douchy guy seeking to be less so to win the love of his estranged little brother, at the expense of his neglected fiancée.

A year after that came Like Crazy, which won the 2011 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and concerned a young American man and his new British love whose relationship is tested by immigration law, which ultimately keeps them apart. Doremus directed three of the six episodes of the 2012 video miniseries The Beauty Inside, which was about a man who wakes up every day as the same person inside but a different person outside, so he sees the woman he loves every day and she does not see him. In 2013’s Breathe In, Doremus follows a married man of 30 years tempted by a beautiful

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anything but pomp and circumstance. At two hours and 20 minutes, the intermissionless show is tightly paced and keenly focused on the piercing human stories that are its heart. Augmented by Hazel Clarke’s energetic but tasteful choreography, a solid five-piece live band and a remarkable ensemble, Nguyen and company have created a show that is as entertaining and mesmerizing as it is poignant and heartfelt.

Singling out anyone in the cast is unfair to the collective unit. But whoever said theater is fucking fair? Ben Green’s Zach, the director/choreographer/voice of God running the audition, is solid, equal parts drill sergeant and empathetic tour guide through the group psyche. Camryn Zelinger plays the cynical, (relatively) aging Sheila with panache and sensitivity; Kristen Daniels’ Maggie is a minor major player, but her voice is difficult to not notice. Angeline Mirenda’s saucy Diana, who gets the show’s one stand-alone number, “What I Did for Love,” kills it, and Xavier Castaneda’s achingly damaged Paul is also a standout. But, again, every performer gets his or her moment to shine, and their individual efforts are less important than the collective work.

And that seems to be the main thrust of Nguyen’s directorial vision. He doesn’t seem interested in re-interpreting or

modernizing the play as much as stripping away the predictable show-bizzy aspects and focusing on the actual story, which is truly composed of the stories of the nearly 20 main players. It’s still set in 1975, and many of the references to things such as Ed Sullivan and Ann Miller may not ping on all but a senior’s radar, but Bradley Lock’s costume design feels decidedly contemporary without making too much about it. That reinforces the point that what matters here isn’t visual trappings or phony gimmicks, but the very real, joyful and scared people yearning for some kind of break, some kind of affirmation that what they’ve chosen to expend their energies on is all worth it.

That is sweetly borne out early in the play when, after the first cut, six dancers are sent home. But they don’t leave; they peel to the sides of the stage and sit, watching the proceedings just like the audience. It’s a key indicator that this story isn’t about winners or losers, but about all those who, for whatever reason, continue to keep playing.

A CHORUS LINE at the Chance Theater, 5522 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, (888) 455-4212; www.chancetheater. com. Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 3 & 8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m.

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But this new bolo tie isn’t your Stetsonwearing New Mexico cousin’s; they now come designed specifically for younger women, embellished with beautiful stone jewelry, crystals, gems and other adornments. I recently bought a black leather one with a tiny switchblade charm as the clasp, with a fake silver bullet decking each end of the cord. You can find such edgy bolo ties at Epiq (571 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, 949-715-1734). Costa Cabana (1686 Tustin Ave., Costa Mesa, 949-338-4449) also has a selection of colorful bolo ties featuring seashells from Venice Beach jewelry retailer Turquoise and Tobacco; these cutesy cords aptly fit within the store’s Soho/beach bum aesthetic. And Lost Generation (27741 Crown Valley Pkwy., Mission Viejo, 949813-2688; shoplostgeneration.com) sells a plain bolo tie with no ornament at all, so you can wrap it more than once around your neck, styling it like a choker.

What’s most surprising about this trending accessory? Just about every gal is wearing ’em. Hell, back in 1950s London, Teddy boys and girls applied the coveted accessory to their rockabilly wardrobe, which goes to show the universality of the neckwear. So even if you don’t fancy yourself an Arizona coppermine owner, a bolo tie adds a bit of sophisticated cool to any style. And judging by the direction fashion’s headed, we’ll all be looking as if we belong at Rodeo Houston any day now. Yee-haw!

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t was inevitable the Chance Theater would eventually tackle A Chorus Line, a masterpiece of American musical theater that, while a bonafide song-and-dance extravaganza, is also a strangely anti-musical musical. No bombastic score. No elaborate sets or production numbers. No creepy phantoms, helicopters falling from the ceiling or human-sized cats. No bullshit.

It seems inevitable because over the course of its 17-year history, the Chance has evolved from a ragtag group of friends with a ridiculous notion to form a theater in the hinterlands of Anaheim Hills (the flat part) into not only Orange County’s premier storefront theater, but also a major player in the Southern California theater landscape. And musicals have played an enormous part in that trajectory. In its earlier days, the musicals were, as so many musicals are at small theaters, uneven and ungainly, relying on moxie and audience familiarity with the source material over polished professionality and singular vision.

But it kept at it, and in 2009, with its heralded production of Hair, which received a slew of Los Angeles theater nominations, it was clear the Chance wasn’t content to be a bigger fish in the smallish pond of OC theater. Every season since, some highly successful, critically regarded musicals have trod its boards, from Jerry Springer: The Opera, to its homegrown world premiere, Loch Ness.

But it all seems to have led up to A Chorus Line, which is not only the finest musical to ever tap, pirouette and gyrate across an Orange County stage not named Segerstrom, but also one of the best shows to ever be produced in the county.

The play is a Valentine to theater and the complicated weirdos who choose it as a vocation or avocation. But it’s also a metaphor for how committed people are to pursuing their individual dreams— even when those dreams are on the verge of flickering out and have become as much a curse as a blessing. It won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1976 for its honest, stripped-down account of the flesh-and-blood people who comprise the background of a big Broadway show, relaying their stories through one long day at a casting call. But its enormous success (it was the longest-running show in Broadway history until Cats upended it) has also made it a cliché of sorts, with many people rolling their eyes at the thought of watching a bunch of preening, posing performers high-kicking and jazzhanding to a bunch of cheesy songs.

But this Oanh Nguyen-directed effort is

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A Weekly scribe’s journey playing drums for punk legend Alice Bag

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uring her time with legendary punk band the Bags, Alice Bag hardly left a recorded legacy.

Only a few scattered singles from their existence from 1977 to 1981 remain available for human consumption and were nearly impossible to get ahold of unless you were there, a fact obvious to me as a young music fan chasing the traces of 1970s Los Angeles at record stores, swap meets and my friend Sara’s dad’s computer. This is why it is such a big deal that nearly 40 years after being in the game, Alice Bag last month released her debut full-length solo album, Alice Bag, on Don Giovanni Records. Little did I ever know that I would have the opportunity to not only become friends with some of the legends I looked up to, but also actually have the honor of playing with them.

I met Alice Bag last summer while volunteering at Chicas Rockeras South East Los Angeles, a rock & roll camp for girls.

She was teaching vocals, I taught drums, and we became friends during that week, pogoing and dancing with the campers at breakfast, sometimes jamming together at lunch, and mourning the Charleston tragedy together during a midweek moment of silence.

Later that summer, I went on tour with my small, weird band YAAWN. We were on the outskirts of Olympia, Washington, gassing up our borrowed 1999 Chevy Blazer at a place we were pretty sure was intended for tractors. It was cloudy outside, just as I imagined it would be—even in the middle of August. I took a minute to check my phone for any work-related notes and, at the very least, clear out another 10 junk emails from my inbox—and under all the junk mail was a message from Alice, asking me if I would be interested in recording drum tracks on a few songs for her new record. Honored and a little shocked, I accepted and spent a lot of the rest of the rocky ride home through the Oregon Trail and down the dusty, cow-filled California stretch of the 5 freeway still in awe of that message.

I would be one of three drummers on the record, including Joe Berardi (Deadbeats, Lydia Lunch, MOCA) and the amazing Rikki Watson from the LA/IEbased two-piece the Two Tens. Alice sent me some demo tracks that she wrote and recorded on an iPad (“Poisoned Seed” and “Modern Day Virgin Sacrifice”), thankfully allotting me two solid punk songs with a lot of room to be creative.

The third song she sent, “The Touch I Crave,” was something she hoped to turn into a ’60s-feeling Pink Elephant Dance meets the Bags number. I spent nearly a

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month alone in my sweaty garage, blasting the lo-fi tracks through a borrowed pair of bright-blue studio headphones, meticulously reading every note she sent, and attempting to craft each part to match what she hoped for. Blending Ramones, swing and ’70s LA punk on my little sparkle Ludwig practice kit every day, I hoped to capture the energy she wanted while avoiding a noise-complaint ticket from my suburban neighbors.

It felt good to get out of my garage and go to the LA rehearsal studio and try the songs out with actual musicians— great ones, at that: Alice, guitarist Sharif Dumani (Sex Stains) and bassist David Jones (Carnage Asada). We shared ideas, worked out parts and quickly started feeling like a real band as the songs seamlessly came together. When Alice launched her Kickstarter campaign to raise money to self-release the album, she went over her goal within a few days; she decided to use the extra money to record another song for the album. She came into rehearsal that week and talked to Sharif and me about “Inesperado Adios” (“Unexpected Goodbye”), a beautifully tragic, piano-driven song she had written about her experience as a teacher watching a student’s family get ripped apart after the kindhearted father was thrown in an Arizona detention center because of his immigration status.

Something that I really admire about Alice but hasn’t been written about very much is that she never really ever went anywhere. She moved to Arizona and has been an educator for a number of years, but she has always been creative.

After the Bags, she went on to Castration Squad and then Cholita; while teaching in Arizona, she played in a band with local women called the She-Riffs. After releasing her first book, the critically acclaimed Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, she set up acoustic shows and tours with friends. She even did some DIY archivist work via blogs. Her genre-spanning solo record is an amalgamation of her inspiration as well as her output.

The new album was recorded by Mark Rains last October at Station House Studio in Echo Park, an awesome space kept out of view by an elementary school. The studio was a nerd musician’s dream come true: Almost everything I played on my tracks was vintage, aside from my new Istanbul Agop hi-hats and ride. I was only there one day recording my four drum tracks, as well as a percussion track on “Incorporeal Life.” My shining moment came in a cabasa solo, proving that all those hours I spent staving off boredom by learning countless percussion instruments while working at Guitar Center during the recession finally paid off.

Punk drives the album, but it’s not solely a punk record. Some songs are definitely punk and punk-inspired, but the punk ethos is present in the attitude, politics and execution. Unlike the often young punk scrawlings of riot grrrl diaries, Bag’s new record is like a shoebox full of memories, snapshots, to-do notes, love letters and fantasies from 40 years of experiencing life as a Chicana punk educator and survivor, simultaneously at the center and on the sidelines of so much. These aren’t

things that were put in a box left to be untouched forever; they are things she navigated and curated over the years, waiting for just the right time to show them to the world.

We celebrated the release of Alice Bag in June with a sold-out crowd at the Echo, one of the most amazing shows I’ve had the chance to be a part of. Along with most of the musicians who played on the record, there were a few surprise guests including OG riot grrrl alum Allison Wolfe and L7’s Donita Sparks.

As I pounded the accented intro, I watched a whole room of screaming punk enthusiasts circle around a giant slam pit, bucking up against sweaty photographers.

I couldn’t help but be catapulted back to being 15 years old, watching the VHS tape of the Bags performing the same song against a pink backdrop. Music fans are suckers for nostalgia, but this show wasn’t reliving some distant glory days—it was vibrant, timely and full of life.

Fans lined up for more than an hour after the show, and had I not been onstage, I probably would have been waiting in line, too, to tell Alice how grateful I am that after all these years she’s still here, raging against the system as an unabashedly queer feminist and Chicana, going to small shows and unleashing that unmistakable scream.

ALICE BAG (with Candace Hansen on drums) performs at Viva Pomona! at the Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 865-3802; www. theglasshouse.us. Sat., 4 p.m. $20-$22.

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or the second year, Orange County will be well-represented at Rockstar Energy Drink Taste of Chaos. The festival brings back the sounds of the mid-2000s—emo, post-hardcore, pop punk and other alternative varieties—making plenty of struggling young adults look back fondly on their high school days. Newport Beach’s Saosin will carry the OC mantle this Saturday.

Saosin has been through it all since forming 13 years ago. Before releasing their self-titled full-length in 2006, they had already lost two original members— including singer Anthony Green. After a decade apart, Green returned to the band two years ago, but it’s a part of his balancing act with his solo career and more recent band, Circa Survive.

So what does the future hold for Saosin?

“As of right now, it’s kind of up in the air,” says bassist Chris Sorenson. “I think we’re definitely looking forward to exploring what we might’ve missed when Anthony was not in the band. We’re going to see what we can do creatively, and we’re going to make sure that we’re still having fun.”

Aside from sharing the stage with the bands they’re currently touring the country with—including Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional— the festival will give Saosin an opportunity to look back on their history as a band and as fans of the others. “I saw the Starting Line at a backyard party in Fullerton or downtown Orange in, like, 2000,” Sorenson says. “It’s just cool to come full circle. Some of us got married or have kids, so we’re all kind of in that

BY JOSH CHESLER adult phase. But we’re all coming back and doing it with the energy that we started with.”

Although Taste of Chaos will be quite a bit bigger than that backyard show, most of the bands on the bill resemble a mid-2000s Warped Tour lineup. Many of them are now enjoying lives as grownups, though they are as comfortable in the back yard as they are at a giant festival.

“The priorities are different,” Sorenson says. “It’s just a different perspective.

There’s not as much drinking, although there was never a lot of that. We’re just out here and stoked to play. We’re not worried about the little things.”

Anyone who’s expecting Saosin to bust out a set full of greatest hits and older material will be pleasantly surprised to get a heavy dose from their newest album, May’s Along the Shadow, and a cover of a track that helped bring the band together in the first place. After all, if you’re going to have Green sing a song he didn’t contribute to, why not make it something that influenced the entire band?

“We’re working on a very, very special song for the festival,” Sorenson says.

“Hopefully, a lot of the people who are there and in our age group will recognize [it]. It won’t be a Saosin song, but it’ll be something that we grew up being inspired by and we’re excited to play.”

SAOSIN perform at Taste of Chaos at San Manuel Amphitheater, 2575 Glen Helen Pkwy., San Bernardino, (909) 880-6500; festival. tasteofchaos.com. Sat., 2 p.m. $42.50. All ages.

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he members of Popsical have a hard time agreeing on anything, let alone what kind of music they play. Guitarist/vocalist Matt Leroy describes their sound as edgy, dynamic and flashy hard rock, while vocalist/bassist Josie Wreck prefers to call it a cross between gutter glam and puta-core, encompassing a mix of glitter, punk and take-no-shit attitude. One thing they are sure of is that their differing opinions and influences make up one hell of a style that shines on their new cassette, Yodel In the Canyon, which was released last month.

Behind her wild mane and heavy, five-string bass lines, it’s hard to believe that Wreck was ever influenced by pop music. As with so many others who grew up in post-Tragic Kingdom Orange County, Wreck had teenage Gwen Stefani-wannabe dreams of kicking ass centerstage, cloaked in bondage pants and pink hair, before adopting a darker aesthetic influenced by grunge bands such as Hole and Babes In Toyland. She cut her teeth as a solo performer and promoter at a Santa Ana dive bar, meeting Leroy and drummer Tae Kim during one of many sloppy nights spent working behind the PA system.

In 2011, after Wreck and Leroy decided to collaborate on heavier and more aggressive music than either were doing individually at the time.

Leroy remembers approaching Wreck to work on songs that didn’t fit in with the folkier stuff he was performing, while Wreck recalls “enlisting” Leroy to play guitar on her scarier, moodier solo project. Whatever the case, the two combined forces, then hit up Kim to round out Popsical’s lineup. Although he didn’t then identify as a drummer, Kim agreed, channeling his inner “Steve Cropper playing drums for Ohio Players.”

“We started this band to have fun, but also to make some unique, aggressive music,” Leroy says. With influences as divergent as each member—ranging from classic rock and funk to ’90s alternative to UK crust punk to Lydia Lunch and

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“You can have totally disparate elements and personalities that come together cohesively if the chemistry is there,” Kim says.

One of the hardest-working bands in Orange County, Popsical are one of the few local acts that can successfully play shows in differing scenes. They’ve done countless bar gigs in 2016 alone, despite rarely doing any studio recording. Their cassette coincided with OC Pride in Santa Ana. To Wreck, queerness is an important part of Popsical’s direction and identity. “Yodel In the Canyon is drenched in the homosexualities,” Wreck says, noting its John Waters and Divine references, as well as artwork by SoCal queer artists Dorian Wood and Manny Sifuentes. “I don’t know that the music I make in this band specifically reflects my identity as a transgender Xicana, [but] I think my queerness shines onstage.” (Matt and Tae are unapologetically straight and enjoy writing songs about chicks.)

Popsical are three unlikely friends meeting one another where they’re at, regardless of their differences. “Audiences seem to ‘get’ what we’re trying to do better than I would expect,” Leroy says. “I love the energy exchange, and I feel like we have a special chemistry as a band, and that’s hard to find.”

Not wanting to appear too sentimental, Wreck reminds them that ultimately, she “stick[s] around for the drink tickets.”

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

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RITUAL: 9 p.m., free. Kitsch Bar, 891 Baker St., Ste. A10, Costa Mesa, (714) 546-8580; kitschbar.com.

ROCKABELLA: 9 p.m., free. The Rush Bar & Grill, 23532 El Toro Rd., Ste. 24, Lake Forest, (949) 916-0200; rushgrill.com.

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

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Over the past few months, I’ve started dating another girl. She’s pretty, smart, sexy and kind. If I proposed, she’d probably say yes. I want to get married. The problem is I don’t have the passion for her that I had for my previous girlfriend. So do I “settle” for Girlfriend No. 2 or start my search all over? Please don’t give me the bullshit that love can happen at any age. At my age, the number of single women without kids is low. How many married people “settle” for someone who is a good person but not their true love?

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Please make a note of it. Also, NCA, while passion is a great feeling—totally intoxicating—it also tends to be ephemeral. It’s a hard feeling to sustain over the long haul, and marriage is theoretically the longest of long hauls.

You felt strongly about your ex, but she didn’t share your feelings. You don’t feel quite as strongly about your current girlfriend, but you would like to be married—to someone, maybe her—and Girlfriend No. 2 seems like a good candidate. I wouldn’t suggest proposing, as you’ve been seeing her for only a few months and most sane women view early, impulsive proposals as red flags.

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Leaks are the most common way condoms fail, and slamming your cock in and out of someone with a fully loaded condom wrapped around it will result in leaks. Even if your second load consists of nothing but good intentions, TPC, reusing a condom the way you describe is a recipe for disaster, impregnation, disease transmission or all of the above.

I have to put my two cents in about Heartbroken And Devastated, the man who discovered that his wife has been cheating on him the entire time they have been together. Her constant and selfish betrayal is egregious. Instead of being honest and giving him a chance to be in an open relationship, she chose to make a fool out of him. She is selfish and a slut. Not to mention that she could have given him an STD, AIDS, you name it. I disagree with you about the concept of monogamy—I don’t think it is a fantasy. I believe there is something that separates us from the animals, and that’s called integrity and self-control. I am happily married to a beautiful woman. I am a singer in a band, I get hit on all the time, but I don’t act on it. Some of us have a conscience and don’t betray the ones we’ve made a COMMITMENT TO. I wish HAD the best of luck, but I hope he moves on and finds someone who will appreciate him.

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Let’s say your wife screwed up and cheated— which happens all the time; it could happen to you (you do realize you’re whistling past the world’s most densely populated graveyard), as women cheat now at pretty much the same rate men do— and let’s say it was a far less egregious betrayal than the one HAD is suffering through. Let’s say it was a one-off, years from now, or maybe a twooff. Would you stay and try to save your marriage, or would you leave your wife? Staying and trying to save your marriage says, “I committed myself to this person”; leaving says, “I committed myself to this ideal.”

If your ideals are more important to you than your spouse, I think you’re doing marriage wrong. But you’re free to disagree.

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The suspect then fled on foot. After being taken to the hospital, the victim was placed in a medically-induced coma, and has since recovered from his injuries.

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