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ne night in June 2008, a guntoting, 18-year-old Luis Alberto Sanchez committed horrific crimes—including a homicide during an argument at a high-school graduation party in an Anaheim back yard.

Sanchez now calls Calipatria State Prison home; it’s CONFIDENTIAL a dehumanizing, stark facility located in the desert south of the Salton Sea. Some might say good riddance, but for people who R SCOTT insist law-enforceMOXLEY ment officials act ethically, his 2012 conviction and punishment for the murder of Miguel Reyes are worthy of inspection.

In California’s war on crime, politicians and judges have made it easier to convict suspected gang members by weakening rules of evidence and imposing severe punishments not applied to other members of society who commit the same crimes. For example, if the government can convince a jury to believe a defendant, say, violently stole property for the benefit of a gang, that person could face an additional 10-year sentence on top of the penalty for the underlying offense. There are scenarios, such as in the Sanchez matter, however, in which the gang enhancement is even more punitive.

The Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA), in league with the Anaheim Police Department (APD), elevated the case into a special circumstances homicide by alleging it was gang-related. The result is undeniable. Sanchez, now 27, will die in prison, serving a life-without-parole sentence rather than getting a second chance after serving 25 or 35 years of incarceration. In comparison, Samantha Elizabeth Rothwell, a non-gang member responsible for a savage, 2006 Huntington Beach murder, received a 16-year term.

But the gang enhancement against Sanchez is loaded with holes: a false government declaration, bad evidence, circular logic, gobbledygook testimony and a jury willing to accept anything a cop claims.

Nobody doubts that Sanchez belonged to a small teenage group called RAW, or “Rock A Wall,” that began around 2002 in Orange County and didn’t kill, rob, rape, burglarize or sell narcotics. Its members spray-painted graffiti. Some of their efforts were considered artistic. They traded a black book containing their art, one page of which contained “kill,” a word that the cops say proved homicidal desires.

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In the game to maximize Sanchez’s punishment, OCDA needed to claim that RAW had morphed into a full-fledged criminal street gang by the time of the crime (it’s currently classified as such, with the newer name “Ready At War”), that the defendant was a member and that the killing benefited the organization. APD’s Mike Brown fulfilled that assignment, testifying as an expert that RAW met the legal definition of a gang because, at the time, it engaged in a pattern of criminal activity: felony vandalism and aggravated assaults.

Yet, according to Sanchez appellate lawyer David M. McKinney, the violence turned out to be a lone, misdemeanor, domestic-violence incident involving an ex-member. Worse, Brown—who wasn’t in the gang unit in 2008—couldn’t back up his felony vandalism claim with a single report or criminal case. He just said he’d recalled seeing it somewhere while on patrol.

“Brown was permitted to testify that post-2008, he started hearing about arrests related to robberies, aggravated assaults, weapons possession of all documented RAW members,” McKinney observed.

“And in her closing argument, the prosecutor forcefully argued that we know what the RAW crew was in 2008, on the basis of what they are now in 2012; in other words, proof by extrapolation. . . . What [this] case stands for is that the prosecution need do nothing more than put a detective on the stand who is willing to testify he or she knows the gang in question engaged in a pattern of criminal activities. This case sets a new low standard for sufficiency of evidence and virtually assures a special circumstances finding in any instance.”

There are other questions: Assuming RAW had been a full-fledged gang at the time instead of just a tagging crew, how would Sanchez killing Reyes, another RAW member, benefit the alleged gang?

Police claim Sanchez shot his victim to prevent him from quitting. But exactly what transpired between the two before the shooting is unknown because the backyard party’s DJ was playing loud music and witnesses could only hear fragments of statements. Isn’t it possible the crime stemmed from a personal dispute that had nothing to do with RAW? Prosecutor Colleen Crommett contributed to the mess by claiming in a court brief that the cops found a picture of a handgun in Sanchez’s cellphone. In truth, OCDA could not prove who owned the phone. Nonetheless, Superior Court Judge W. Michael Hayes allowed her to show the image to the jury, who likely used the photograph to conclude the defendant harbored thug tendencies.

In October 2013, the California Court of Appeal in Santa Ana labeled the government’s bad photo evidence “harmless,” affirmed that RAW had been a gang in 2008 based entirely on Brown’s testimony, vouched for law enforcement’s assumption the killing had been gangmotivated and, after tossing a lame street terrorism conviction, rejected Sanchez’s appeal as baseless. “[Brown] provided information establishing his reliability by explaining how he knew that RAW’s primary activities included felony vandalism,” Justice Richard Fybel wrote in the opinion, which also called the officer’s asserted 4-year-old memory “substantial evidence.”

This month, U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr., the former U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, dismissed Sanchez’s federal appeal, opining that if the jury and state appellate justices trusted Brown’s stance, he would, too.

But demonstrating once again that justice is a crap shoot, the California Supreme Court—the same one that denied a petition for review in the case in early 2014—announced a major ruling on June 30: There might be constitutional problems after all with merely accepting a gang expert’s testimony as the gospel without “requisite independent proof.”

That ruling stems from another Orange County case, People v. Marcos Arturo Sanchez. Santa Ana Police detective David Stow testified as a gang expert for OCDA and, based on reports written by other cops, opined gang-life details about Sanchez, whom he’d never met. The defendant was convicted of drug, gang and weapons charges.

“When the gang expert testified to casespecific facts based upon out-of-court

statements and asserted those facts were true because he relied upon their truth in forming his opinion, he was reciting hearsay,” the high court unanimously declared.

Kamala Harris’ California Attorney General’s Office suggested Stow’s testimony was a “harmless” error, but lost the point.

“Contrary to the Attorney General’s claim, one cannot deduce, merely from the evidence, that when the defendant possessed drugs for sale in Delhi territory, he was associated with the gang,” the court ruled before dismissing the gangenhancement conviction and recommending new rules.

But tinkering with the law isn’t enough when there’s embedded bias. No cases better highlight how gang cops utter nonsense to win convictions than the ones involving Henry Cabrera. Santa Ana Police Department Detective Ronald Castillo assured jurors in a 2009 trial that Cabrera was in the Highland gang. In 2012, Dectective David Rondou, Castillo’s colleague, testified he definitely belonged to Delhi, which would have been a feat given that Delhi and Highland are lethal rivals with a death toll in the dozens over the decades.

Brazenly contradictory police testimony didn’t raise red flags. When the cases reached the justices at the state appellate court, all that mattered was Castillo and Rondou were government experts they would blindly follow. The justices opinions unwittingly echo the stance that Cabrera was in rival gangs for crimes committed 17 days apart.

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» GUSTAVO ARELLANO DEAR MEXICAN: Over the years, I’ve had several different American doctors digitally violate me to examine my old prostate.

Always, before they examine me, they play Cat Stevens’ music. It explains why old American men uniformly hate Cat Stevens.

I’m moving to Mexico soon and assume that my next annual physical will be performed by a Mexican. Do Mexican doctors play Cat Stevens before they examine your prostate?

Do old Mexican men hate that guy as much as old men from America?

Culero Chris DEAR ASSHOLE GABACHO: Does anyone care about Cat Stevens besides Muslims anymore?

Certainly not Mexicans. But I can say that old Mexican men hate prostate exams far more than gabachos because they’d rather risk dying painfully from a preventable cancer than getting anything shoved into their nalgas. This ain’t just stereotyping Mexican masculinity, but rather the unfortunate truth. The awesomely titled “I Will No Longer Be a Man! Manliness and Prostate Cancer Screenings Among Latino Men” by Zully Rivera-Ramos and Lydia Buki that appeared in the December 2010 issue of Psychology of Men & Masculinity found that “prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer among Latino men. Due, in part, to lower rates of screening.” And why the low rates of digital rectal exams? Same reasons found in “Expressions of Machismo in Colorectal Cancer Screening Among New Mexico Hispanic Subpopulations” in the April 2012 issue of Qualitative Health Research: It’s the machismo, pendejo. Mexican men, such as Kanye West, only want toilet paper to touch their anuses because anything else would make them gay. And now you know why Mexico is Mexico.

DEAR MEXICAN: My husband swears up and down that Mexican men do not grant drivers

the courtesy of “cutting in” or merging into their lane. I tell him that he’s crazy, but every time he runs into this situation, the driver just happens to be a male who looks to be Mexican. What’s the deal with that? I’m out to prove him wrong, but so far, everything is working out in his favor.

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DEAR MEXICAN: Is it just my imagination, or do Mexican families tend to fiesta on Sunday evenings more than any other day of the week? If the driveway is packed full of cars, the oompah is blaring, and the kids are running wild, it tends to be a Sunday. Why? Interested Neighbor DEAR GABACHO: My saintly mami told me that when she and her siblings were picking garlic in California’s Central Valley during the 1960s as preteens, they’d work Monday through Saturday, wash clothes and clean around the house Sunday morning, then spend the rest of their domingo afternoon relaxing along with all the other Mexicans they knew.

Same with Mexicans of this era, although I would add that Saturday evenings are also reserved for weddings and quinceañeras—but since that involves navigating family and rancho rivalries dating back to the Porfiriato, the Mexican considers those evenings more hard labor than actual puro pinche pari.

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For about an hour on an overcast Sunday morning, Cathy Young alternates between catching waves and shouting encouragement at her fellow Wahine Kai Women’s Surf Club members. The action is pretty choppy right now, but even from hundreds of feet out, Young’s powerful voice and booming laughter echo all the way to the shores of Bolsa Chica State Beach.

“You got it! You got it! You got it!”

The dozen or so ladies present look as if they’re having more fun than the rest of the surfers, guys idling around and cursing the boring conditions that morning. The Wahine Kais are busy chatting about life, surfing and everything in between while they encourage one another to catch what few waves there are. And there are just as many members, from groms to vets, hanging out on the beachfront with varying sizes of surfboards, either gearing up for or winding down from a morning’s worth of waves. It’s not only a surfing session, but also a relaxation and social hour.

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Since its start in 2004, Wahine Kai— which loosely translates to “Women of the Sea” in Hawaiian—has been one of the biggest nonprofit organizations in women’s surfing. Rich, working-class, young, grandmotherly, tall, short—the more than 130 members go on surfing trips together across the world and enjoy nights out on the town, but they also assist with programs such as Waves of Valor, which helps patients from the VA hospital in Long Beach get back into the water and surfing.

And while it’s rare if more than a few dozen Wahine Kai members gather on a beach at any given time, that’s the whole point: The organization is a safe space for women to surf with one another and participate in a sport notorious for treating females as little better than something to fill a bikini or cook for the guys.

“In 1980, I started to surf, and I didn’t see hardly any women in the water,” Young says. “In high school, I had friends who told me, ‘You know, the guys would like you better if you didn’t surf’—but then it meant they didn’t like me.”

A native of Florida, Young says she always knew she wanted to check out the West Coast. “Moving to California was part of my destiny,” Young says. “When I was a little kid, I told my mom that I was going to move to Southern California. When I was in high school, I wrote in my yearbook that in five years, I was going to be an artist living in Southern California, and in 10 years, I was going to be a famous artist living on the beach in Southern California.

Now 53, Young serves as the electrifying spearhead for the Huntington Beachbased chapter of Wahine Kai and the president of Wahine Kai International. Filled with energy, personality and a passion for outdoor activity, she shreds well enough to show up any of the twentysomethings in the water up and down the coast.

Though Young spends as much time in the ocean as she can, she has a full schedule away from the beach, too, with a

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or much of the first few millennia of surfing’s documented existence, sexism wasn’t even a thought in the sport. According to legend, the Polynesian men and women of roughly 3,000 years ago realized it was way easier to ride waves back to shore after a long day of fishing than trying to swim through them.

Over the next several hundred years, as travelers brought surfing to the islands of Hawaii, the artistic expression of riding waves and “becoming one with the liquid” evolved to feature more aerodynamic boards, which more skilled people would stand on. Everyone from kings and queens to kids and fishers partook in the tradition, pursuing larger waves—eventually making a challenge out of who could catch the biggest wave.

By the time Captain James Cook stumbled upon the islands toward the end of the 18th century, Polynesians throughout the Pacific were already masterful in their surfing prowess. It was the first time European Christianity had been introduced to the culture and the sport. “When the Christian settlers tried to colonize [the Polynesian] area, that’s when they started poohpoohing women surfing,” Young says. “In Hawaii, there was a female queen who had her own break just for herself, and people used to surf naked back then. Then when the Christians came along, they banned it.

They banned all of the cultural stuff in that part of the world, and they didn’t want the females surfing.”

But such perceptions have changed.

While the Gidget series brought the image of a girl on a surfboard into pop culture in the late 1950 and ’60s, it wasn’t until 1992, when Quiksilver debuted its Roxy brand and began sponsoring female surfers, that it gained wider popularity. (That

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said, the company’s current Wikipedia entry points out that its “advertising tends to feature young women in bikinis instead of engaged in meaningful actionsports activities.”) Even more headway was made with the 2002 film Blue Crush, which depicted female surfers as more than mere beach bunnies.

Even so, women continue to make up less than 20 percent of the surfing population, with the highest concentrations on the other side of the globe in Australia and New Zealand. In the United States, however, it remains a bro’s club of snide remarks and outright misogyny: This year, during the World Surf League’s XXL Big Waves awards ceremony in Anaheim, surf legend Greg “Da Bull” Noll drew hoots and hollers when he cracked a joke about cunnilingus—this, after a slew of women’s champions explicitly talked about the challenges they’ve overcome in the sport.

“I grew up surfing in Maine and was the only woman in the water, and it was incredibly intimidating,” says Wahine Kai founder Aimee Vlachos. “This was before you could walk into a surf shop and sign up for a camp or lesson. I was teaching myself, and it took two months for me to stand up on a board. The local surf-shop owner wouldn’t help me pick out a board.

He simply said, ‘Girls don’t surf’—and this was before there were women’s wetsuits.”

Vlachos figured Surf City, USA, would be more welcoming when she moved there in 2003. “I went out surfing [in Huntington Beach] and still felt intimidated by the men,” she recalls. “I took a surf lesson from a man in Newport, and he yelled at me the entire time. I realized that it was still not the most supportive environment for women surfers.”

Undeterred, Vlachos began working at HB Wahine, a surf shop dedicated to women. While there, the young surfer heard

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story after story from women who were experiencing the same prejudice; there was no support system or community available for female surfers. When she asked her boss for support, he deemed the new organization “wasn’t conducive to his business,” Vlachos claims.

So the club started meeting at her house in October 2004. “I wanted to create something so that women could come together,” Vlachos says, “a network of surfers who supported each other in and out of the water.”

Only a dozen women showed up to the first Wahine Kai meet-up. They rode some choppy waves for the evening and ate some local Mexican food—an inauspicious debut to what would become one of the largest women’s surfing clubs in the world. Within its first year, Wahine Kai had already shown up on USA Network during a showing of Blue Crush, on Food Network’s BBQ With Bobby Flay, and within the pages of Huntington Beachbased surfing website Surfline, where Vlachos had originally posted an ad asking other local women if they’d be interested in forming a surfing club.

When Vlachos moved back to Maine in 2006, Niki McDevitt—one of the women present at the inaugural Wahine Kai surf session—took over the leading role for the club’s California chapter; Vlachos meanwhile founded an East Coast chapter out of Kennebunkport. A year later, McDevitt put the group into Young’s hands, and it has since grown into an internationally recognized organization, with Vlachos as the executive director of Wahine Kai International.

Unlike many exclusive surf clubs, which have private clubhouses and brag about bogarting beaches as much as possible, Wahine Kai invites any woman interested in catching waves to join, regardless of age or experience. With an initial membership fee of $30 and a $15 annual renewal cost, most anyone who can afford a surfboard can foot the bill.

One of the nonprofit’s main efforts is to make the surfing community a better, friendlier place for everyone. “I’ve never been a part of anything like Wahine Kai before,” says Ohio native Karie Toporowski. “Everyone is always so welcoming

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fter a decade of steady growth, Wahine Kai is more about the intangible network and sense of community than the actual number of members in any given chapter. Although the Coalition of Surfing Clubs represents about 50 of the most prominent clubs around the world, only a few of them— including San Diego Surf Ladies and Women of the Water—are exclusively for women. Wahine Kai doesn’t belong to the coalition because it doesn’t seem necessary, as it doesn’t enter competitions. The group is more concerned with teaching newbies how to surf and enjoying one another’s company.

With everyone maintaining their own busy schedules, it can be daunting to find something that works with the ever-expanding calendar posted in Wahine Kai’s private Facebook group; many end up surfing on their own or in small groups outside of the major sessions, which the club tries to host about once a week. Laura Klees, the activities director for Wahine Kai, spends much of her time traveling while she rents out her home to vacationers.

Angel Yap uses surfing with her Wahine Kai sisters to get away from the stress of working as a doctor.

“I have three kids, so I’m usually out here at 6 in the morning and home by 8, so my husband can go to work and I can take care of the kids,” says Pam Knoll, a Wahine Kai member for three years. “I just love being in the water. There’s something calming and de-stressing about it.

You don’t think about anything else.”

Hanna Kubiak works in a field that’s literally out of this world. “I work for Virgin Galactic on the LauncherOne program, so I sell rights to space,” Kubiak says.

“It’s my dream job, and I just moved here to California for it. Meeting this group of women has really been phenomenal because they’re just cool surfer chicks and everyone loves getting out in the water. It can be a little intimidating if it’s a bunch of guys out there, so having familiar faces around you is great.”

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That friendliness extends beyond its own membership. A few weeks ago, Kimberly Roberts—co-editor of the Wahine Kai newsletter—was in the midst of her surfing session off the coast of Newport Beach when she noticed something big floating in the water not far from her location. After a moment, she realized it was the unconscious body of a fellow surfer—a man who would surely drown without someone there to save the day.

Roberts dragged the man to shore.

The Wahine Kai members, many of whom have taken surfing safety courses, are all fairly certain the guy survived— the unanimous belief is “We would’ve seen it in the news if he died!” But they also became concerned for Roberts’ mental and emotional well-being after the potentially traumatic experience. “These girls were just an amazing support system,” Roberts says. “One of them was with me in the water when it happened, but every day for the next week, I was getting text messages, Facebook messages and phone calls asking if I’m okay and how I’m doing, even though I was fine. Just them knowing how traumatic it could’ve been, it was amazing to have that support system of other women of all different ages to constantly be checking in on me was awesome.”

The brush with death also served as a reminder for Wahine Kais to keep their basic medical information on them at all times. As with most surfers, the unconscious man didn’t bring his wallet or ID with him into the ocean, so no one at the scene knew who to call other than the paramedics. To combat that, Young encourages club members to wear special waterproof bracelets with at least their name and an emergency contact on them. It’s advice that many of the women follow and that Wahine Kai wants to see implemented on a bigger level. “The girls started getting these bracelets after we saw them online,” Young says. “We try not to surf by ourselves, but sometimes you paddle out, and you can’t find anyone. If you don’t know somebody out there, nobody will know who you are unless you have one of these bracelets on.”

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branch of the club with active groups in Huntington Beach, San Diego, South Bay and beyond that allows mothers to trade surfing time with beachside babysitting.

The women also make time to hang out together, whether it’s at the beach, over a few drinks or at a charity event.

“I was just looking for people to paddle out and surf with, but I found a family,” says Toporowski. “Everybody’s supersupportive, and we do a lot of social activities in and out of the water. . . . I was never in a sorority in college, but I think this is the closest I’m going to get to that.”

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olly Beck looks out at the ocean as her almost-2-year-old daughter Luna digs in the sand. The pro surfer and model doesn’t get into the water quite as often as she used to; her focus has shifted to her family, building ecofriendly sustainable habitats in Nicaragua, and generally making the world a better place.

With the impending birth of her second child, Beck only spends about 30 minutes in the water with her Wahine Kai crew. “I just think [Wahine Kai] is really

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cool,” Beck says. “I learned to surf in the late ’90s, and back then, there were hardly any girls surfing. My mom told me that surfing was for boys, and it was definitely something that intimidated me to go out into the water as the only girl. I just think it’s the coolest thing ever to have these women’s surf clubs popping up.”

The Palos Verdes native has seen how the competitive scene has grown for women over the years. Some of surfing’s biggest governing bodies, such as the World Surf League and English Surfing Federation, are becoming athletic trendsetters by offering more parity in prize money for male and female divisions.

With one of sport’s biggest events—the

U.S. Open of Surfing—beginning Monday in Huntington Beach, Beck believes women’s surfing is at an all-time high.

“It’s great to see the high level of surfing [at the U.S. Open],” Beck says. “I know the past few years, the level of competition here has been very high, which is a little different than when I was competing in it. I think it’s inspiring for girls of all ages to come down and see the very best girls in the world surf the waves that they surf on a daily basis.”

While Beck won’t be competing in the event, Santa Ana’s Courtney Conlogue will. The 23-year-old just starred in ESPN the Magazine’s Body Issue, and she’s currently among the favorites to win the U.S

Open. Though she previously won the women’s division in 2009, she’s looking to cement her dominance over the field with another win this year, her best professional year to date.

But this morning belongs to Beck. Just moments after paddling out to meet her friends, a small swell rolls in, and the 30-weeks’-pregnant Beck catches her first wave of the day. Most of the other surfers watch her shoot off to the left, away from the pack. While many are struggling to catch anything that morning, Beck makes cruising halfway down the beach look effortless—something to be shared with the future surfer inside Beck.

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Skateboarding and hip-hop enthusiasts should find their way to the Long Beach Convention Center this weekend. The Dew Tour stops in the South Bay, bringing with it 45 of the world’s biggest shredders. On Friday, watch Luan Oliveira, Nyjah Huston, Ryan Sheckler, Sean Malto and more practice T H I S CO D E for the next two days’ TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE worth of competition, OCWEEKLY guide a drone through IPHONE/ANDROID APP an obstacle course in the FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT ocweekly.com Dew Tour Experience, then head to the Terrace Theater for the world premiere of Guerreiro: The Tiago Lemos Story—and perhaps even meet “Brazil’s gift to skateboarding” himself.

The Dew Tour at the Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, (562) 436-3636; www.dewtour.com.

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Enjoy a free outdoor movie with a side of ecoconsciousness at the Riverbed Farm’s ongoing film series. On the big screen tonight is the literally and figuratively campy film Wet Hot American Summer, a sendup of 1970s and ’80s teen movies taking place at summer camp, with hilarious self-awareness of its use of older actors playing teenagers, including Amy Poehler, Janeane Garofalo, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Michael Ian Black. Bring some camping chairs to view the film in this friendly urban farm; before the screening, you can learn about the Riverbed’s sustainable aquaponics farming system, used to grow fresh vegetables for the community. And if that ain’t enough to enjoy Camp Firewood’s teenage romps, there’ll be craft beer available from Ambitious Ales, as well as food from vegan taco truck Tacolepsy and waffles from Waffle-icious.

Wet Hot American Summer at the Riverbed Farm, 1426 Vermont Ave., Anaheim, (714) 698-9106; www.renewablefarms.com.

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Despite the controversy surrounding his graphic lyrics, good-time rapper Action Bronson continues to defy naysayers.

Critics of his “Consensual Rape” track see Bronson as someone who uses shocking words and stories for attention, contributing to him getting banned from several schools, but he is actually wellknown for his raps about food. Bronson’s wild live shows have seen him throw bags of weed to the crowd and jump into the audience while performing, antics that help build his legend.The Queens native is set to release The Human Highlight Reel this year, which will undoubtably get people talking about his slick rhymes once again.

Action Bronson and E-40 atTerrace Theater at the Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, (562) 436-3636; www.dewtour.com.

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Woman Scorned The Medea Project

Of all of Greek mythology’s tragic figures, Medea stands out. The scorned wife of Jason (of the Argonauts fame) commits the most atrocious act of jealousy: killing her and Jason’s children and setting his lover aflame. Euripides immortalized her story in an eponymous play focusing on Medea’s perspective and personal pain, while Kristina Leach’s The MORE Medea Project ONLINE takes a more OCWEEKLY.COM contemporary approach. Here, Medea and Jason are ad execs who live in a fast-paced world, and we follow their relationship from love-filled beginnings to its demented conclusion. Catch Theatre Out’s performance of this powerful play, which still manages to instill heartwrenching grief at every turn.

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Vintage Flea Market Every so often, the world delivers us little treasures. Sometimes, it’s puppies; other times, we get coffee and pie. And on the fourth Sunday of every month in old town Tustin’s Jamestown Village, we get the Vintage Flea Market. From 8 a.m.

to 3 p.m. on this most glorious of days, more than 60 vendors offer their wares, antiques, collectibles and vintage treasures for your perusing and purchasing enjoyment. Will you find a nice broach?

Perhaps a comfy armchair? Who knows?

What you’re certain to find is joy among the items of the past that can easily become part of your present.

Vintage Flea Market at Jamestown Village, 474 El Camino Real, Tustin, (714) 573-1025; www.vintagewhimzy.com.

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The Curse of Capistrano The clever folks at San Juan Capistrano’s Camino Real Playhouse know how to put the community in community theater, adapting a famous, if joyfully arch story of swashbuckling heroic action and romance. Johnston McCulley’s classic The Curse of Capistrano is staged outdoors, with families encouraged to bring kids and picnic dinners, and help the

masked hero El Zorro to defend the poor and outsmart the villainous overlords of Old California. The 1919 serialized novel introduced the handsome justice-seeking character later featured in movies, comics and TV. This show promises dance, swordplay, vivid costumes and plenty of opportunities for locals to cheer their hometown (fictional) hero.

The Curse of Capistrano at Camino Real Playhouse, 31852 El Camino Real, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 489-8082; www. caminorealplayhouse.org. 7:30 p.m.

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Recently, each brother put out full-length solo albums on Burger under the names Puzzle and Enjoy. But then the Garden proper came roaring back with the aggressively iconoclastic new song “Play Your Cards Right.”

Unexpected? Or just business as unusual?

The Garden with Surf Curse, Sadgirl and Wu-Wu at Constellation Room, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com. 9 p.m. $13.

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The Sound of Music

Everyone knows the iconic 1965 film that forever cemented Julie Andrews into the hearts of millions, but before the silver screen immortalized the von Trapps, et al., musical theater told the heartwarming tale of the coolest Nazi-hatin’, ex-nun governess (then stepmother!) who ever lived. The stage version also features numbers that were cut from the award-winning film, including two sung by the pitiable Baroness Schraeder, such as the comedic “How Can Love Survive?” Come long for the days when children could be kept in line with a whistle.

The Sound of Music at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 556-2787; www.scfta.org.

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But don’t expect to just see Baby Boomers in the crowd; youthful audiences of all ages are expected to sing along with American music’s living legends.

Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons at the Pacific Amphitheatre, 100 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa, (800) 745-3000; www.pacamp. com. 8:15 p.m. $30-$60. —AIMEE MURILLO

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What sexier, hotter funk guitar god was there than Prince Rogers Nelson? He departed from this Earth much too soon, leaving behind a sizzling discography for us to enjoy. While tribute bands for the Purple One run the gamut, Erotic City promises a different experience. Musician Julian Stefoni heats up the stage with a cadre of musicians playing all of Prince’s hits, while scantily clad dancers and cabaret stars perform to his lyrics with their own striptease numbers. It’s just the right amount of sleaze and steam you’d expect from a show called Erotic City—watch them honor Prince right.

Erotic City Prince Tribute at Harvelle’s Long Beach, 201 E. Broadway, Long Beach, (562) 239-3700; longbeach.harvelles.com.

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More affectionately known as KEFE, Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock are an interesting contemporary-art couple who have merged artistic styles to create a whimsical array of aquatic-themed works that depict the intersection of surrealism, sketch drawings and graphic expression.

Tunstall’s cutesy, feminine cartoon figures with extra limbs and doll eyes contrast with Plock’s monsters on plain wood panels, and there’s something curious and sinister about their dull color palette and suspension in negative space. Figure it out for yourself at Artists Republic Gallery—or perhaps just fall for KEFE’s cute, expressive series of characters.

“Aquatics: KellyTunstall and Ferris Plock” at Artists Republic Gallery, 1175 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, (949) 9880603; artists-republic.com. Noon.Through Aug. 14. Free. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Gander into wilder, more adventurous frontiers with these artists as your guide.

“Summer Colectiva” at Salt Fine Art Gallery, 1492 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, (949) 715-5554; saltfineart.net. 11 a.m.

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Sichuan Impression brings the burn of its fiery cuisine to Tustin

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turned numb—a weird paralysis analogous to it being snapped by a rubber band, stung by a bee and injected with a dental anesthetic. At that exact moment, a tingly sensation also rose up near ground zero, a chill not unlike the kind you get after a Listerine breath strip.

Two other friends experienced their first Sichuan peppercorn the same time I did, and it was messing with them. A tablemate reached for her water, but she found that no matter how much she chugged, it had no effect. In fact, what the peppercorns did was to overload the pain receptors; even the spiciest dishes that came afterward felt kind of tame. There were thick-skinned wontons slicked with chile oil, as well as tangles of cold spaghetti-like noodles dressed with crushed peanuts and a sluicing of more chile oil.

Neither registered a Scoville’s blip and actually tasted dull when I slurped them.

Yet, despite the orders of cold cucumber pickle spears and the Taiwanese lettuce I asked to be stir-fried with nothing but garlic, I remained in a constant state of hurt. The water refills weren’t coming nearly fast enough, which I was sure was a breach of Geneva Conventions.

But it may say something about the flavor of the cumin-crusted lamb that we didn’t mind it was only compounding the fire burning our mouths. One of the best dishes of the night, it was presented as a dry stir-fry with a mess of cilantro and an excess of dried red chiles, each chewy morsel skewered on toothpicks and caked with cumin and chili powder—a dish that all the great Sichuan restaurants seem to

serve as a staple, even though its origins are actually Uyghur.

There was also an excellent but oily twice-cooked pork dish, with tender slices of pork belly wok-tossed with what the menu calls “garlic bolt,” the stem of the plant that tastes akin to leeks. Instead of kung pao, we opted for the Dry-Fried Farm Chicken; its pieces were battered and deep-fried to a light crisp and served over parchment paper with dried chile pods and slivers of crunchy celery.

And then there was the dish that made me gasp for air more than any other: the Boiled Fish With Rattan Pepper. Since it had one chile pepper icon on the menu instead of two, I thought it would be milder than the Boiled Fish With Chili Sauce. But it turned out to be the hottest dish of them all. The snowy fluffs of fish were essentially floating in the soup, which was the equivalent of hydrochloric acid—a fact I only realized after I gulped down half a bowl of the innocent-looking yellow broth in one go.

After dinner, we stood around outside, letting the cool breeze soothe our flushed faces. But as I was wringing out the sweat from my terry-cloth towel and felt my tongue return to normal, the endorphins kicked in; I wanted to go back and do it all over again. Next time, though, I’ll have to bring an entire gym bag of towels.

SICHUAN IMPRESSION 13816 Red Hill Ave., Tustin, (714) 505-9070.

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f I were a little apprehensive about trying Sichuan Impression, the first OC branch of the highly regarded San Gabriel Valley restaurant, it wasn’t because I don’t like spicy food; it’s because of my tendency to sweat profusely when eating it, so much so that rivulets of perspiration would gush down my face as though a dam broke at the top of my head. In the past, especially at Thai restaurants, there were instances when waiters would ask if I was okay, concerned that I may be suffering some sort of attack.

But this time, I came prepared. I brought an absorbent towel and warned my tablemates what would happen the instant anything spicy came within range.

It didn’t take long. When the Leshan Bobo Chicken arrived—a pot of chilled red liquid with dozens of bamboo skewers sticking out of it as though porcupine quills—I was already blotting my forehead. As I told my friends, most of whom have never tried Sichuan food aside from the occasional kung pao chicken, the dish was fondue crossed with Russian roulette: You don’t know what will be skewered at the end of your stick until you lift it out of the soup.

The two girls scored pieces of shrimp.

My other friends found a plump chicken heart and beef tripe. I fished out a wiggly piece of kelp. But what hid between its folds set off alarm bells in my brain and told it to turn on the sprinklers at full blast.

The culprit was a lone piece of Sichuan peppercorn, hardly the size of a shotgun pellet. Yet when I bit into it, it released an electric jolt so shocking it short-circuited my entire mouth. My tongue immediately

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hat’s going on with the shopping plaza across Edinger Avenue from Golden West College in Huntington Beach? Most of the businesses have temporary plastic banners in place of marquees, and scaffolding and fencing are everywhere. Just the other day, as I was enjoying a mound of goat biryani at Curry & Kabab Bistro, I saw a bulldozer carrying a pillar or something toward a scrap heap, with hard hats looking on as if they were witnessing the destruction of the Sands Hotel and Casino.

The area is going through a muchneeded upgrade, looking to attract the younger entrepreneurs in the city flocking to Pacific City and points beyond.

That’s a rat race, though; instead, the landlord should concentrate on getting delicious mom-and-pops such as Curry & Kabab. Its lunch buffets draw in folks ranging from Huntington Harbour society ladies to beach bums to students from across the street. Dinner brings expats excited to try some of the better subcontinental food in the city. While the restaurant does serve its eponymous dishes, which are worthwhile, go beyond those in favor of the rarities.

Although ostensibly Indian, a close reading of the menu reveals meals ranging from Afghan (rice pellow is related to the country’s Kabuli palow with its sumptuous grains of saffron rice) to Pakistani (Peshawari naan finds the flatbread stuffed with nuts and golden raisin, a sweet counterpoint to the naan’s smoky savoriness) to the span of Northern India, from vindaloos to tandooris to lamb, goat and more. The lamb bhuna reeks of garlic and ginger, each bite a jolt to the sinuses; the aloo methi, a type of fenugreek potatoes, refreshes down to the soul. There’s even a section devoted to dishes prepared with cashew paste, which is like peanut butter turned to 100.

There is no hipness to Curry & Kabab; the dining room is ethnic via Anthropologie, the televisions tuned to ESPN, the wine-and-beer bar serving tried-and-true booze. And who cares?

The food world isn’t all food porn, you know. Oh, and I found a Psyduck here— how cool is THAT?

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abachos now eat breakfast burritos the way their grandparents gobbled up chicken and dumplings. They buy more tequila than Mexicans. They purchase tortillas as though they were white bread nowadays. And hot sauce? No contest. But if there’s one facet of Mexican food that gabachos have yet to fully embrace, it’s fresh salsas. Oh, they love Pace and other jarred shit, but I’m talking small-batch gems made by just a couple of people in a kitchen—and those people often include either a mom, an abuelita or a gossipy tía.

Enter Salsa Bandolera. The woman who whips these up at the East End Kitchens in downtown SanTana must be a mami because there’s nothing but love in her three salsas. The green version is tangy and floral; the red one deceptively

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» GUSTAVO ARELLANO spicy with its judicious mix of chile de árbol and Japanese chiles. But her true star is the salsa de aceite: smoky, clingy and caliente AF. Use Salsa Bandolera’s products on everything from stir-frys to tacos to your eggs; better yet, just buy a big ol’ bag of chips and plow through a couple of containers. You can only find them right now at Alta Baja Market (full disclosure: the wifey is a partner) and the Santa Ana Farmers’ Market on Sundays, but start buying it and make Salsa Bandolera as much an OC obsession as Gringo Bandito.

Follow Salsa Bandolera on Instagram: @salsabandolera.

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id you attend our Summer Fest this past weekend? You bastards! Wait, you went? Our heroes! Hopefully, you rolled into the Tito’s Handmade Vodka VIP Cabana for a few additional sips from some of our very special guests. One of them hailed from Macallans Public House in Brea: the beautifully named Miss June ’75.

The curiously named beverage begins with a healthy dose of Tito’s, followed by equal parts cantaloupe simple syrup, fresh lemon juice and Chareau Aloe Vera Liqueur. Its effervescence comes from a splash of sparkling wine, topped with a juicy melon wedge to bring it all together. This light, refreshing sip will

keep you moving while the bands play on. It paired well with the Taco Throwdown entries everyone noshed on. Didn’t go to Summer Fest? Make it up to us by heading to Brea and sipping a couple or 28 of Miss June ’75s.

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SARAH BENNETT

Happy Elephant Vegan does meatless right

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o meat-eaters, vegan restaurants are forever burdened with overcoming the flavorless stereotypes of most animal-free cooking. I know it sounds horrible, but sorry, veganos: It’s true. The subtle beauty in texture approximations and wannabe meat are often lost to those of us with access to the real thing, and we are often secretly wishing the smushed tofu had the real fluffy yolkiness of scrambled eggs or that the tempeh came with the filling umami of a slab of fatty pork belly. Indeed, most vegan meals (or vegan food festivals, for that matter) have ended with an al pastor-filled taco run.

That’s why having Happy Elephant Vegan a few blocks from my house has been such a blessing. It not only debunks many of the vegan-food-is-boring myths, but it also does so with a selection of pan-Asian food that draws out much of the inherent tastiness in each country’s cuisine. The restaurant opened a year and a half ago on a block of the Broadway Corridor that’s as much the Gayborhood as it is Long Beach’s own miniature Thai Town. With the stalwart pad-Thai-takeout expert Thai Silk a few doors down and a wall shared with the recently opened Jitlada-family-owned Spicy Sugar, Happy Elephant serves as the strip’s token vegan place, perfect for those craving a soy-milk Thai iced tea or an order of curry lacking the dash of fish sauce dropped into most traditional dishes.

And Happy Elephant doesn’t stop at Thai.

Chef Danny Siridechakul (a.k.a. Chef Danny V.S.), who is promoted on the website but rarely seen by diners, also relishes in turning seafood-reliant Japanese and Vietnamese food into vegan masterpieces. A plate of vermicelli noodles becomes a deconstructed bún served with bean sprouts, dried chiles,

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some salted pickled Chinese kale and fresh vegetables, all topped not with fish sauce, but a pungent, spicy coconut curry that is as thick and herbaceous as the chip dips found at any righteous British pub. Steamed gyozas filled with a savory blend of tofu, noodles and spices make a good starter, and a giant bowl of salty mushroom-broth udonnoodle soup features a mound of tempurafried vegetables, from soft kabocha squash to fresh eggplant.

Siridechakul’s magnum opus, however, is a thoughtful line of vegan sushi rolls, complete with soy spicy tuna (which resembles stringy imitation crab) and vegan salmon caviar (which are the size of individual bulbs of a blackberry).

Vegan food of this caliber costs money and takes time, so it’s helpful that while you’re waiting, you can help yourself to a buffet of soup (miso, hot and sour), salad (complete with nut and topping bar) and dessert (melons and a sweet-ish tapiocalike goop), complimentary to all customers during weekday lunch hours.

On a recent visit, the woman who always answers the phone (and appears to be Happy Elephant’s sole server) mentioned the menu is being updated to add some new dishes and remove ones that are too timeconsuming to make. Now that’s something even meat-eaters can look forward to.

HAPPY ELEPHANT VEGAN 532 E. Broadway, Long Beach, (562) 4917429; www.happyelephantvegan.org.

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eventually focusing on discussing movies for movie-minded people.

Callahan left his co-hosting role after four years, so Kaspar continued on his own. In the decade he’s been at the helm, the growth of his PR connections has led him to memorable interviews with guests including Julie Delpy, D.A. Pennebaker, Todd Solondz, Ava DuVernay, Guy Maddin, Noah Baumbach, Philip Glass, Albert Maysles, Frederick Wiseman, Duncan Jones and Haskell Wexler. “Harmony Korine was an interesting interview,” Kaspar says. “He called from the basement of his house, where it was flooded, and the signal strength of his phone was weak, so I could barely hear him. It was weird but so normal for Harmony Korine, so it was perfect—especially since I had just seen his film Julien Donkey-Boy.” Another standout was Errol Morris, one of the first renowned directors he and Callahan interviewed that they were able to leverage for access to other highprofile filmmakers. “We were so excited to have him on, but what we didn’t know about Morris is when you ask him a question, there’s a five- to 10-second pause of silence,” Kaspar says. “Apparently, he’s

pretty well-known as a guy who’s deliberate in his answers. Meanwhile, I wasn’t sure if I had insulted him or something.”

According to Kaspar, whatever film or director he talks to depends on his interest and access to a film and its creator.

Now, he’s able to measure the success of his show by the interest agents take in him, instead of having to reach out himself. It’s Kaspar’s dream to take his show to a larger platform, but in the meantime, he doesn’t take for granted his role in getting people in movie theaters to support indie filmmakers.

“Nowadays, I’m more comfortable in my own skin talking to them, so I feel like these conversations are more natural.

There’s a level of trust I can convey to them,” Kaspar says. “I think I’m finally at a point where I sit down with these people, and I feel like I do belong here, like, I deserve to be talking to this guy. I’m going to ask him some good questions, and we’re going to have a nice conversation.”

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house screened everything from classic to experimental to foreign films, and in his downtime, the now-Newport Beach-based Kaspar would often get into nerdy cinephile arguments with the other employees.

“It really set me into that mode of understanding what good films are,” he says.

Fast forward to 2002. While driving, Kaspar tuned into the humble college station KUCI just as a service announcement calling for new DJs to join the station aired. Interested, he underwent the station’s training program and eventually started Weekly Signals, his own weekly news show with friend and colleague (and old-school Weekly contributor) Nathan Callahan. Years later, the station needed to fill the 9 a.m. time slot during the summer quarter, so Kaspar and Callahan pitched another show that would bring in an eclectic group of authors, artists and filmmakers, including Terry Jones (of Monty Python and the Holy Grail fame) and John Sayles (director of The Brother From Another Planet and Lone Star). Through their collections of PR contacts from working politicalcampaign jobs, Callahan and Kaspar were able to connect with multiple filmmakers,

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ot many people can say they’ve interviewed more than 800 filmmakers, yet that’s how many Mike Kaspar has spoken to in the 10-plus years he has hosted his Friday morning show, Film School Radio, on KUCI-FM 88.9. He has conducted an array of illuminating interviews with directors and actors of independent, foreign and art-house feature films.

Through call-in segments and prerecorded interviews, Kaspar engages with his subjects about their artistic choices, character development and technical shop talk. Yet the only film school Kaspar has ever known were Andrew Sarris’ weekly film reviews in the Village Voice and his job at the now-defunct Balboa Cinema during his college days during the 1970s.

Hailing from Long Beach, Kaspar worked the Balboa Cinema for two years; he recalls the owners’ discerning hiring process. “I think they wanted people [working at the theater] who knew a little bit about films,” he explains. “The interview consisted of the basic questions and ‘What are your five favorite films?’”

Kaspar’s choices included Duck Soup, Dr. Strangelove and Citizen Kane. The movie

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RAWsalt Gallery’s ‘Aya Kakeda: Other Worlds’ explores all things kawaii

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tering floats in the air nearby. The pink squishiness of the airborne Kana reminds one of levitating cotton candy viscera, as if the child’s raw emotion was spilling out into the atmosphere. The title of another piece, Dog Who Forgot Her Pants, made me laugh out loud, and the sculpture itself furthers that joy: A tiny brown dog, floppy ears sticking out of its cowl, covers its eyes in embarrassment, naked legs pulled up and bent at the knee as if she’s being tickled. It’s the kind of work that will draw out an “awwwww,” even if you’re not normally disposed to uttering such fawning. In Reflection, there’s a small, flat pond and a figure in black pulling a Narcissus, this figure unfortunately unable to see himself in the water. Interpreted as an individual losing face, the piece can pack a depressing wallop, but a lighter interpretation could see it more positively, as a person unaware of who they are but still searching.

The artist moves into different territory with her installation based on Shinto creation myths, ISE GODDESS. The grotesqueries present in the source stories aren’t on view in Kakeda’s fluffy-bunny version, her roughhewn gods looking as if they’ve been hacked out of PlayDoh and aimed at delighting children.

Some are unfinished, flat, while others are shiny with glaze; most are decorated with tiny, multicolored puffballs designed to resemble socks or loincloths.

Remedial at best, they lack the polish of the rest of her work, more in progress and still needing fine-tuning than something an adult might consider buying to adorn a child’s bedroom wall.

Finally, your enjoyment or admiration of Kakeda’s work will depend a lot on your tolerance for kawaii, the Japanese fondness for the cute and manipulatively endearing. On the surface, I found her work sentimental and comforting, similar in a way to the recent obsession with Pokémon Go. Is this a walk back to childhood to avoid the scariness of the world we live in?

I don’t think so. In the end, the work is less about giving up and cocooning away than an active embrace of the positive among the terrorist shootings, political squabbles and internet rage du jour. To my way of thinking, anything gentle and kind should be uplifted and considered something of worth, even if it feels potentially lopsided in the never-ending battle between the somber and the shallow. Kakeda’s work brings us back to decency, compassion, imagination and joy. If we reject that for the politics of seriousness, then what are we fighting for in the first place?

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eeing the words “Santa Ana vs. Everybody” on a T-shirt, the average person might think it’s a hostile catchphrase created to divide the city from other people.

But for Benjamin Vasquez, the meaning is more political than confrontational. “Some people are like, ‘Oh, my god, this is so violent,’ but why don’t [they] ask me about the kids who are deported that [they] never stood up for or the 50 percent of kids who aren’t graduating from school?” he asks.

The man knows what he’s talking about: He’s a teacher at Valley High School, a volunteer with El Centro Cultural de México, an event organizer and a lifelong santanero. This infernal rag has reported Vasquez’s previous efforts to combat the heavy stream of youth deportations, poverty and gentrification affecting the city beneath its image of hipsterfriendly hotspot. He coined “Santa Ana vs. Everybody” as a hashtag playing off the Eminem song “Detroit vs. Everybody” (itself a riff on a popular Motor City boast). The hashtag took off, and Vasquez decided to print the words on T-shirts so santaneros can wear their pride on the outside. He also printed shirts that say, “Santa Ana Looks Like This,” hoping to dispel the stereotype that SanTana is riddled with “fighting gangster cholos.”

The shirts will be sold for $20 each as a fund-raiser to benefit El Centro at the Música en Movimiento Art and Music Festival. The event, which Vasquez helped to organize, will include bands, poets, live artists, dancers, public speakers and vendors. Vasquez doesn’t discount the possibility of producing more shirts in the future, but for now, they’re offered this Saturday only. So go support Vasquez and El Centro in their mission to bring more culturally relevant, socially conscious events to their beloved city.

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urated by RAWsalt Gallery director Suzanne Walsh and owner Carla Tesak Arzente, “Aya Kakeda: Other Worlds,” a modest exhibition of work by the Tokyo-born New York artist, walks a divide between the sentimental and the surreal, often falling whimsically into either canyon.

You’ll need some time to decipher what’s happening in the acrylic-andgouache-on-wood Micro Chan and a smaller, related work on paper, Micro Chan Mini. Kakeda’s mixture of selfhealing meditation, Gray’s Anatomy and Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory features the internal workings of the human body manned by white blood cells that resemble tiny girls. These girls are chased through arteries, dotted with platelets, by bile-colored, cycloptic protozoa that look like something out of Fantastic Voyage, with the rest of the body’s microscopic flora and fauna visualized via crimson roses, diatom shrubbery and tiny trees of pale, broccoli-shaped alveoli, infused with circulatory systems. Our heroines sit in healing circles or embrace paramecium with affection, ready to engage at a moment’s notice as they float in a chocolatey bloodstream.

Tiny armless aardvarks lay about on mushrooms, tonguing one another and their surreal surroundings in some kind of drug haze in The Land of Shadow: Land Sea Sun. There isn’t a shadow in sight in the triptych, just a river of white snaking its way through the three canvases, past friendly mushroom ladies, to a kaleidoscopic sun bursting with fractured shards of color. The entire milieu is warm and fuzzy, a friendly, drug-induced wink at the audience that can connect the dots, with the remaining painted canvases a clitoral sun cresting atop mountainous labia, baby unicorns getting hugs or sleeping inside something that vaguely resembles a penis-shaped amoeba and another sun, this time with a face, navigating its way through a field of rainbowsuppurating fungi.

Kakeda’s lone graphite-on-paper piece, Spirit, feels less stoned, resembling fanciful prepatory drawings for a Hayao Miyazaki film, with its small female heroine and its gargantuan animal (a black cat here), who collects children when not hiding in a forest too small to hide its bulk.

I connected most with the tenderness of Kakeda’s ceramic work: Hajimuri (The Beginning) is a small child snugly wrapped in a sweater, its mouth open and eyes closed, talking in its sleep as another ceramic of pink Japanese let-

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OC-born producer built a haven for LA’s psych-rock royalty

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yle Mullarky mentions that we’re meeting on one of the first quiet days he’s had in more than a year—not accounting for the occasional pig squealing or dog barking from somewhere on his 2-acre back-hills property. The traffic of creative talent drawn to the secluded Topanga Canyon estate has been constant, Mullarky explains, with the two married members of VUM living in the back house; Matt Taylor (guitarist for the Growlers) occupying a small side-house; and bands such as Allah-Las and Glitterbust, filmmakers including Taylor Bonin, and many music-industry friends often writing and recording or camping out somewhere on the hillside.

Mullarky started life in Huntington Beach, and later settled in Laguna Niguel. “[I] grew up in the peaceful little suburbs of Southern California—like every other kid, surfing and, I don’t know, failing out of high school,” he recalls, laughing. His laid-back demeanor belies his professional experience, which includes songwriting, producing, playing multiple instruments, engineering, scoring, mixing, commercial recording, and capturing live performances from concerts such as the Growlers’ annual Beach Goth festival. All of which make him a sought-after artistic mind for bands looking to capture a variety of vintage and psychedelic sounds.

He started on this career path 20 years ago, when Mullarky was about 15 and playing alongside longtime friend Warren

BY KIM CONLAN Thomas in his first bands. Those early outfits eventually morphed into the Grand Elegance, then into the Abigails in 2011. “From the beginning, I was always recording,” he says. “I was kind of the ‘default’ guy—as they always are, right? I was attracted to it, and it was easy for me, and I had patience.”

When the Grand Elegance began booking shows outside the Dana Point area, Mullarky recalls, “it’s what brought me out of Orange County. We would go play Santa Ana and San Diego and Long Beach.”

When the group members reached the end of high school, most of the band moved to Long Beach. But Mullarky decided to reside in Echo Park. Soon after that, his LAbased band the Shore signed with a label.

Alongside the Shore were groups such as Beachwood Sparks, Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Tyde and the Warlocks on the forefront of the scene. “Those were the type of people [who] were just such a thriving force in Echo Park at the time,” Mullarky says. “They were musical encyclopedias, all those guys, ’cause they’re all such music enthusiasts. I learned so much from hanging with those guys.”

Of his early days in Los Angeles, Mullarky says, “I started interning at studios; I was working a day job at the coffee shop, and then [spent] nights in the studios, just trying to absorb whatever I could out of whatever situation it was.”

When the Shore went to record with Rick Parker (known for working with bands such as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), Mullarky

asked to be part of the studio’s crew. “Parker became my mentor, and through him, I was really able to get into engineering, once the band kind of fizzled out,” he says.

After working full-time in the studio with Parker for a year, Mullarky scored a steady position for almost seven years with Brian Lapin at Transcenders, a film, TV and music production company. There, he contributed to projects such as Gossip Girl, and worked with outside composers including Jeff Cardoni on mixing the television show CSI, films such as Finding Joy and the documentary Teach.

After moving to Venice Beach, he reconnected with the Growlers. “I’ve known Matt [Taylor] since he was 8 years old because his older brother was my best friend,” Mullarky says. “They’re family, and I think, after I heard their first recordings, I was like, ‘Well, you gotta come up and record with me in LA.’” Mullarky mastered the band’s album Hung At Heart, then worked on the bulk of their demos and recorded Gilded Pleasures.

He has continued to engineer their albums, including Chinese Fountain and one set to be released at the end of this year.

The end of Mullarky’s era with Transcenders came around the time he bought the Topanga Canyon estate, where he built a recording studio in the property’s old pump house with a mixture of analog and digital gear, amps, and instruments. “I like analog music because that sounds and feels the best to me—it’s warm, and it’s a nice format,” he says. “But digital and Pro Tools also sound

good. You have a lot more capabilities and convenience, especially when you’re blowing through ideas.”

Mullarky’s producing and engineering work has been steady; he has hardly had a moment to come up for air, thanks to the new Allah-Las album. “We started on this new record, Calico Review, January of last year. The Allah-Las are very sort of particular to having a certain aesthetic and having it be exactly correct,” the producer says. “I felt like it was an honor to be asked to do that job because it’s a really aesthetically difficult job to do, to make a record in that sort of vein and have it be, like, technically correct.”

He has also been composing for films, including Bonin’s Lacrimosa and, with Dante Aliano (Dante vs. Zombies), Viena and the Fantomes.

It’s clear Mullarky is sought after not only for his technical help, but also for his creative opinion. “It’s more like a creative zone, where the idea is more important than anything else,” he says. “Obviously, [anything is] going to be recorded really nicely, but I want it to be a good song and a creative idea, something that has its own life and has that something you want to hear.”

For now, he’s taking a brief moment to breathe, but he is always ready to record upand-coming artists. “It’s a vibe of not being in a dark studio,” he says. “You’re out in nature; you’ve got the animals and the land and the pigs and the dirt road. It’s easy to let go and feel creative.”

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xnard-based band Nails have specialized in short, frenetic bursts of sonic mayhem since forming in 2009. Band leader Todd Jones—formerly of LA hardcore act Terror—was dealing with some personal turmoil at the time, bringing to Nails’ sound a raw agression.

“I had a big falling out with a lot of people, musically and in my private life,” Jones says. “A lot of it was my responsibility. There was a turning point where a lot of people in my life didn’t want to be friends with me anymore. I felt very alienated from my peers and didn’t feel very welcomed by the people around me. I wanted to make music that put that emotion out there.”

From their 2009 debut, Obscene Humanity, up through the release of the 10-song You Will Never Be One of Us in June, that sense of alienation has carried on. Though Nails’ sound is mainly rooted in hardcore and punk, its darkness and grime has also earned them credibility with the metal crowd. “When we started the band, I wanted it to be a mixture of all three of those genres,” Jones says. “I’m stoked when we play shows and I look out into the crowds and see metal kids, hardcore kids and punk kids. All of that is music I love. I’m glad people from all of those scenes dig us.”

You Will Never Be One of Us is poised to be their most commercially successful work yet, and the venues Nails book are slowly getting larger. Even with their growing profile, Jones doesn’t want the band to be a full-time, year-round gig.

Since their 2010 record, Unsilent Death, the group have released albums every three

BY JASON ROCHE years, allowing time for Jones’ day job in IT. Nails only hit the road for intermittent stretches that go no longer than two weeks.

“I look at Nails as a very long-term thing,” Jones says. “I’d rather do the band when we feel inspired, instead of doing the band because we have to pay our bills. . . . I only want to put something out when we feel like we have enough material to put out a record that’s worthy of being released. I would hate to put out a record that isn’t very good and have our fans spend $10 to $15 on it and not feel like they got their money’s worth.”

So far, the majority of reviews of and fan reaction to their latest release has been positive. The constant barrage of angry barks and angrier riffs is the aural equivalent of a single-round UFC fight, with punches being thrown right from the opening bell, and though it ends in an early knockout, the audience and fighters are exhausted. Some reviewers have even gone as far as to compare the album’s ferocity to Slayer’s 1986 breakthrough, Reign In Blood.

“That’s a compliment of the highest order,” Jones says. “But Reign In Blood is a time-proven record. It’s been out 30 years; our record has been out for three weeks. Comparing us to Reign In Blood is a little short-sighted. I appreciate the comparisons and take them as seriously high praise. But I have to check myself and be self-aware.”

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Weapons of Mass Creation want to reach the masses. They’re building an audience base from the bottom up, rather than selling tickets to share a bill with famous rappers at the Observatory. “I wouldn’t want to put ourselves in front of a group of people we didn’t earn,” Joseph explains. That philosophy brings Weapons of Mass Creation to Música en Movimiento this weekend at El Centro Cultural de México in Santa Ana. But shows at conscious venues in their hometown are hard to come by. They call out Anaheim’s Packing District for gentrification, but the band’s attempts at re-creating hip-hop jams in the city’s parks caught heat for amplified sound.

Yet that won’t stop Weapons of Mass Creation from telling the real tales of their city. “One of the songs that we have coming out is really dear to us because it’s dedicated to Gustavo Najera,” Quiñonez says of the unarmed youth gunned down by Anaheim police in February. “I had known him; we used to tag.”

Inside a makeshift studio in the Franco home, Joseph cues up the Najera tribute, “Rest In Paint.” The track is a soulful mix of skillful rhymes and vocal harmonies, a different approach to the usual rage-filled anti-police-brutality anthems.

As with every upstart hip-hop group, Weapons of Mass Creation want to display their talents on full-length albums and springboard into touring everywhere. “We want to start a movement around our music,” Quiñonez says.

“We want social justice to be sexy and the newest thing for you to be a part of,” Julia adds.

“Let’s talk about some real shit up in the club.”

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eapons of Mass Creation like to keep their music all in the family; the live hip-hop band from Anaheim counts five siblings among its six-member crew. Luis, Jacob, Julia, Joseph and Moses Franco first came together as Franco Funktion, a jam band zigzagging through reggae, cumbia and hip-hop. Being youngsters with dreams, the band members drifted apart to study in the UC system at Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and San Diego. But they all came back in 2014, inviting family friend Josh Quiñonez, an Afro-Latino rapper formerly with the Analytiks, to form Weapons of Mass Creation, aimed at infusing innovative rhythms with deeper knowledge.

The band’s political influences are just as diverse as their musical ones. “Eduardo Galeano!”

Quiñonez shouts the late Uruguayan writer’s name.

“That foo’ has mad bars!” Jacob adds, laughing.

The Francos have long found inspiration in their mother, a strong woman involved in the community, teaching ballet folklórico in the driveway of their home, as well as their older sisters, who grew up to be educated Chicanas. Weapons of Mass Creation reflect that guiding light toward society on issues of capitalism, police brutality, immigration and sexism. The group released their debut EP, Five Out of Five, in March, showcasing the talents of individual members. Julia chose “Part of Me” to smash the patriarchy with her mic. “It was the absence of female MCs that made me feel like I had to do something about that,” she says. “I come in with feminism, and it’s something completely new to a lot of people.”

Ranging in age from 17 to 27, the youthful idealists map out a hip-hop vision not confined by the trap beats of their time. “For me to keep my job as a human, I need to do something different that robots can’t do,” Joseph says. He produces the beats and interprets them live during performances, with Luis on guitar, Jacob handling bass

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

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Deep down, I fear I will get hurt. I already am hurt. I’m falling for someone who’s not able to love me back, who’s stuck in the past, but who wishes to change that in order to let me into his life. Should I stay and wait for Peter to get better even if it hurts to know he’s in love with someone other than me? Or should I leave him as so many others have and hurt him?

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That’s probably not what you wanted or expected to hear, HELPME, and you’ll find some more hopeful/less cynical advice further down, I promise. But when a guy with “commitment issues” tells you he’s struggling with the emotional fallout of a relationship that ended five years ago and still hopelessly in love with someone he hasn’t seen for a year . . . you have to entertain the possibility that he could be lying to you.

You always have to entertain that possibility— with new loves, old loves, blue loves.

When someone tells us they have “commitment issues,” we’re primed to hear this: “This boy is incapable of committing until healed [by a therapist, by a new love, by the passage of time].” But sometimes what they mean is this: “I have no interest in committing—not to you, not to anyone, not now, not ever.” But instead of owning up to that (because people who want to remain single are viewed as damaged?) or telling you he’s not seeking anything serious (because you might leave him, and he’s not done with your ass?), Peter invents/inflates a pair of past loves that render him incapable of loving you the way you deserve to be loved and blah blah blah and off the hook. Not a child-man who won’t commit, but a victim who would commit if he could commit, but—sob!—he can’t commit.

But, hey, maybe he’s telling you the truth. Maybe he’s in love with Mr. One Year Ago. So tell him he can love you and love the other guy at the same time. Established gay throuples, stable straight poly quads, bi men with GFs and BFs, married lesbians who U-Hauled an adorable baby dyke—there are examples everywhere you look these days of people in love with more than one romantic partner. I don’t see why a person can’t be in love with someone and still in love with an ex—think of it as a sort of semi-posthumous/semi-poly relationship.

You’ll be pioneers.

Give Peter permission to love his ex (pathetically and abstractly) while loving you, too (intimately and tactilely), HELPME, and you might be able to love a commitment out of him.

I’m a gay male in my late 20s. My little sister’s husband, “Peter,” is my age and bisexual. I’m not one of those gay men who thinks bi guys don’t exist. And I know bi guys are just as capable of being monogamous as other guys—

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which isn’t that comforting when you think about it—and I don’t have a problem with my bi brother-in-law being bi. More important, my sister doesn’t have a problem with it. But whenever I’m alone with Peter, however briefly, he starts telling me how much he misses dick.

He wants to hear about the last “really great dick” I sucked and tells me he misses sucking dick. I smile and say dick is great, for sure, and make a halfhearted attempt to change the subject. The last time it happened was after my grandfather’s funeral. I’m pretty sure Peter wants to suck my dick, and I’m tempted to let him. I know it’s a bad idea, but Peter is hot. This is torture. What should I do?

Boy Is Lost Stop smiling, work harder to change the subject, avoid being alone in a room with Peter, and repeat after me: “My sister might be able to forgive her husband for sucking a dick, but she’ll never forgive him—or me—if that dick is mine.”

I’m a gay guy in an open relationship, and I’m on Recon, a gay hookup/dating site for guys into leather/fetish/BDSM. My partner, who isn’t kinky, knows I have a profile there, and it’s not a problem. Today, I got a message from a new guy, and when we exchanged face pics, I saw that he looks exactly like “Peter,” my boyfriend’s best friend’s fiancé! I asked him if that was him, and he stopped responding. What should I do? My BF doesn’t want to know much about my extracurricular activities, but this could make our next double date extremely awkward. We see this other couple a fair amount, and even though I think this guy is good-looking, I would never sleep with him because of the social situation. On the other hand, if I’m wrong and they’re not the same person, bringing it up with them could make things awkward, especially since I’m pretty secretive about my kinks and have zero desire to discuss them with my BF’s friends.

Requires Educated Consultation On Next Step P.S. Additional information that might be relevant: Our engaged friends aren’t having sex, we’ve been told, and they’re making no moves toward actually planning a wedding.

Going silent after you asked, “Is that you, Peter?!?” is a pretty good indication that it was indeed Peter you were talking to. But while you know Peter was on Recon, RECONS, you don’t know exactly what he was doing there. Maybe he goes online to fantasize, swap pics and jack off.

Maybe Peter is on Recon with his fiancé’s blessing, just as you’re on Recon with your partner’s blessing (but, like you, he’s not comfortable discussing his kinks with friends). Maybe their relationship/engagement is on the verge of collapse, and your partner’s best friend’s fiancé is trying to line up a new relationship before pulling the plug on the one he’s in now.

Since you don’t know what’s going on in their relationship, RECONS, keep your mouth shut and refrain from making assumptions or judgments. And the next time you have to interact with Peter and his fiancé socially, slap a smile on your face and talk about the weather, the election, the estrogenenhanced, better-than-the-original Ghostbusters reboot, the new season of Difficult People, Zika, the Olympics—basically anything other than Recon, kinks and wedding plans.

On the Lovecast (savagelovecast.com), Dan chats with Wonkette’s Rebecca Schoenkopf about Bernie and Hillary and love and hate. Contact Dan via email at mail@savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter: @fakedansavage.

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