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near the trigger area, and Villegas did not point the gun in the officers’ direction.”

The notion that a quick-draw shootout was about to happen isn’t consistent with statements by Bennallack’s fellow officers, none of whom could provide details of the time between police commands for Villegas to raise his hands and drop the weapon. “Viewing the facts in this light, deadly force was not objectively reasonable,” Owens continued. “The district court erred in holding that Bennallack’s use of deadly force was justified as a matter of law and in granting summary judgement on that basis.”

In defense of the officers’ actions, Anaheim assistant city attorney Moses Johnson argued that the diamond formation and apartment-complex layout account for the inconsistencies in their statements, with Bennallack’s recollections being the most accurate. While weighing the potential truth of that, the Ninth Circuit called it a “quintessential jury question.”

The appellate court didn’t scrap all of Carney’s work. The oft-used legal doctrine of qualified immunity grants protection if officers don’t knowingly violate a person’s rights at the time of the alleged misconduct. “We agree with the district court that it was not clearly established on Jan. 7, 2012, that using deadly force in this situation, even viewed in the light most favorable to Plaintiffs would constitute excessive force under the Fourth Amendment,” Owens wrote.

Qualified immunity doesn’t shield the officers against state law claims, though, and with that, the Ninth Circuit essentially revived the Villegas family’s lawsuit. Traveling back from San Francisco, arguments in the case resumed July 28 before Carney in Santa Ana’s Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse. “Judge Carney asked me what I wanted to do, and I told him I want the case remanded back to Superior Court,” says Federico Sayre, an attorney for the Villegas family. The judge agreed, pending Johnson’s request that the case be appealed before the United States Supreme Court.

The Villegas reversal joins a list of wrongful-death lawsuits involving Anaheim police in recent years that the Ninth Circuit brought back to life. In March 2014, the court revived the excessive deadly force claim for Adolph Anthony Sanchez Gonzalez, citing a “significant inconsistency” in officers’ testimony. In that 2009 shooting, Anaheim officers Daron Wyatt and Matthew Ellis pulled over the 21-yearold, even though he committed no traffic violation. They claimed Gonzalez refused police commands and tried to sneak something into his mouth. The cops entered his

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van and pummeled Gonzalez with their fists and flashlights, but he managed to put the van in drive with Wyatt still in it. Wyatt feared for his life and shot Sanchez nearly point-blank to the head.

Originally, two out of three circuit judges affirmed a lower court’s decision to toss a wrongful-death lawsuit in 2013.

Later that year, judges re-opened the case after the National Police Accountability Project called into question the speed and distance the van traveled, while noting the only non-police witness, Gonzalez, is dead. The hearing went before the entire bench of the Ninth Circuit before being given a second chance.

In August 2014, the legal battle over the death of Caesar Cruz landed in the Ninth Circuit. In that case, five Anaheim police officers tailed Cruz into a Wal-Mart parking lot in December 2009, then opened fire when, they claimed, the 35-year-old reached for his waistband. The OCDA justified the killing, and a district court judge tossed out the wrongful-death lawsuit that followed. But the Ninth Circuit cited “curious and material factual discrepancies” in the police account, asking why Cruz would reach for a gun not on his person. The Cruz family settled with the city last year for $175,000.

“I don’t think it matters much,” Sayre says of the Ninth Circuit reversals. The court revived a lawsuit he previously handled in 2003 for Brian Drummond, a man Anaheim police left in a permanent vegetative state for more than seven years.

Sayre lost the civil trial that followed, but

he negotiated a $145,000 settlement for the Drummond family in 2009. “Anaheim lives in Neverland,” he says. “It’s millions for defense, but not a penny in tribute.”

Anaheim’s city attorney’s office declined to provide a comment for this story.

Meanwhile, another reversal from the Ninth Circuit in an Anaheim case may yet still be in the works. Seven months after killing Villegas, Bennallack slugged an unarmed Manuel Diaz in the butt and back of the head during a foot pursuit, a deadly shooting that sparked riots in Anaheim that summer. After losing a civil trial in 2014, the Diaz family attended a July 7 hearing in San Francisco. Johnson faced tough questions from the panel of judges about why Bennallack feared for his life before opening fire.

“It was either a black cloth, a black bag, nobody was certain exactly what it was,” Johnson muttered about what Diaz allegedly pitched.

“These gang members aren’t using cloth guns these days, are they?” Judge Algenon Marbley sardonically asked.

“No, but the gun could have been wrapped in a black cloth,” Johnson replied.

“Okay, well, if he was throwing it away,” Marbley followed up, “what’s the point in shooting him?”

A decision is expected in the coming months.

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n the classic 1983 film A Christmas Story, adults repeatedly caution a boy named Ralphie he will shoot his eye out with the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun he covets. And once he received the toy, he somehow manages to hurt himself, though without permanent injury. But in Anaheim, an after-dark incident involving the same make of toy gun carried much deadlier real-world consequences.

On the night of Jan. 7, 2012, Bernie Villegas and Tristan Rosal turned the visitor parking lot of an Anaheim apartment complex into their own personal firing range. Villegas, a 36-year-old father of two, had given a Red Ryder BB gun to his son, but he wanted to have a little fun with it himself. At 10:49 a.m., when he and Rosal began blasting pellets at a proppedup plastic Pine-Sol bottle, a concerned neighbor phoned the local police with the description of a known drug dealer toting a shotgun.

Within minutes, four officers arrived on the scene, parking their patrol cars on West Ball Road. Policemen Nick Bennallack, Brett Hietmann, Matt Ellis and Kevin Voorhis advanced in a military-style “diamond formation.” Turning a corner, they happened on Rosal and Villegas, who was holding the BB gun by the end of its barrel, with the wooden stock resting on the ground. Bennallack and Hietmann ordered Villegas and Rosal to put their hands up. Villegas raised the BB gun pointing upward with his hands. In quick succession, Bennallack fired five shots, which ripped through Villegas and killed him instantly.

The Villegas family filed a $20 million federal lawsuit against the city of Anaheim and its police department in October 2012, two months before an Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) report cleared Bennallack of wrongdoing. The complaint alleged that Bennallack had an itchy trigger finger, gunning down Villegas without warning or provocation. In 2014, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney sided with police by blocking a civil trial and sticking the Villegas family with the Anaheim Police Department’s legal costs.

In late May 2016, when the case reached the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a three-judge panel in San Francisco reversed a critical part of Carney’s decision. Judge John B. Owens pointed to key discrepancies in the officers’ recounting of the shooting, particularly that of Bennallack. “In Bennallack’s account, Villegas moved quickly to grab the gun near the end of its barrel with one hand and lift it about a foot off the ground,” Owens wrote of his judgment. “His other hand was not

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Meaning you might not get spit in your burrito if they understand your whiteness doesn’t preclude your shared status as enmigrantes.

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Why this victim/oppressor ambiguity? Is it a mirror of the legacy of La Conquista? The Stockholm syndrome of your non-consensual Aztec-hottie (great times 15) grannies for your bearded Euro forefathers? Once you get your standard canned-insult response out of the way, please enlighten us all on this point.

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DEAR MEXICAN: I occasionally stumble upon news articles about your compadres sneaking in hundreds of pounds of illicit bologna and cheese from Mexico. The thought of eating bologna that’s been lying in a hot car for a couple of hours is enough to make me gag. So what’s the deal? What is it exactly?

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Cheese It DEAR GABACHO: I would’ve answered this question, but I have to pay for my wheels of illegal queso de pata from Zacatecas. So I threw the pregunta to Javier Cabral, West Coast correspondent for Munchies and a fellow zacatecano. “It’s a little-known fact that most of the cheeses that you find at supermarkets in the U.S. are pasteurized, rubbery garbage,” Cabral told the Mexican.

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Until that day comes, you best bet that the underground Mexican cheese trade will be as rampant as the Mexican poppy trade.”

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La Habra Heights’ Walthall, a quirky whitecollar swindler, told Rodriguez, a narcotics trafficker, he’d researched home addresses for targets they’d have kidnapped, tortured and murdered. “What I envision,” Walthall said with authority, “sounds fucking crazy. . . . Start with the judge . . . Guilford.”

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Trial By Wood Chipper » FROM PAGE 11 Court judge. After the American Bar Association blessed his selection with its highest rating, the Senate confirmed the lifetime appointment in a 93-0 vote. He is one of five judges who preside inside Orange County’s Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse, a 10-story, Art Deco-style glass-and-marble edifice that dominates Santa Ana’s skyline.

It didn’t take long for Guilford, a sports enthusiast with a gregarious disposition and an encyclopedic mind, to establish his character. In a one-party locale where top officials have long tolerated public corruption, Guilford stepped up in April 2009.

That’s when he spent 28 minutes voicing his disgust with a sensational criminal defendant: Sheriff Mike Carona, once the most popular Republican in the county, a pal of then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a wannabe lieutenant governor who was convicted of trying to sabotage a federal grand jury investigating felonious hanky-panky inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. A smirking Carona anticipated he’d get a wrist-slap punishment such as probation.

“This is a very serious offense,” a sternfaced Guilford told the felon before sending him to prison for 66 months. “I do believe the victim in this case is our community and the criminal-justice system. . . . Lying won’t be tolerated in this courtroom.”

Behind the scenes at that moment, the FBI had unwittingly set in motion the impetus for the Lompoc plot to kill the judge by wrapping his body in plastic and feeding him feet first into an industrial wood chipper.

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rom his earliest memories, Walthall failed at social interactions under his birth name, Arthur John Haas. The Buffalo, New York, native, who claims a doctor’s forceps disfigured his nose during his 1955 birth, couldn’t figure out why his classmates mocked him. “I had to hide a lot,” he recalled in a 2012 diary entry. He was, he said, “like a near-sighted person without a map, forced to involuntarily drive while colorblind, attempting to navigate busy intersections unable to discern signals and social cues others may take for granted.

Is [the traffic light] green? Red? Or yellow to go slow?”

Because of his “autism,” Walthall called himself “an accident waiting to happen,” regardless of his intentions. “This is what I’ve experienced my whole life,” he wrote. “I normally have always been friendly, abhorred violence, vulnerable, a timid science nerd, easily overwhelmed, continuously puzzled, always studying and longing to fit in.”

To find safety growing up in the Oakland area in the 1960s, he fled to public libraries, routinely spending hours there alone. At the ages of 6 and 7, he devoured a Winston Churchill biography, as well as Greek and Roman mythologies. In 1963, his mother, Gilberta Lee Trujillo, married Alister Walthall, and he adopted his stepfather’s name. There aren’t many stories about his

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parents, but he blames their second-hand smoke for his asthma.

Despite his ailments, Walthall graduated from Dublin High School at the age of 17 and found a job as a night janitor while he attended the Bay Area’s Chabot Junior College. In 1976, he worked to improve his social skills by enrolling in the Dale Carnegie sales-training school. He struggled, taking the course three times. That year, he also landed his first job in finance with Prudential Insurance Co. Walthall climbed the career ladder in the insurance industry during the next decade and, in 1986, got married before opening a stock brokerage in Danville. Living comfortably, he and his then-wife raised four kids.

In his time line, the 1989 junk-bond crisis on Wall Street prompted him to opine that the world’s currency systems were controlled by the Illuminati, the legendary secret society formed in 1776. Fearful of a Great Depression worse than the one in the 1930s, he believed gold possession equaled financial stability. By 1996, he actively pursued creating technology to find the precious matter in abandoned Nevada mines. Walthall also sought wealthy investors, moves that landed him under arrest in November 2009 and in Guilford’s courtroom.

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n Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 awardwinning film, Fargo, a bizarre kidnapping/ransom plot created by a moneyhungry Minnesota car salesman ends in

disaster. The most memorable scene happens when one of the plotters, a deranged hit man who feels double-crossed, feeds the body of a co-conspirator, played by Steve Buscemi, into a wood chipper. It’s unknown if the scene inspired the real-life plot against Guilford.

We do know his would-be killers were to study the judge’s habits and determine the best chances for taking him without causing a public spectacle. They’d handcuff and toss him into the back of a Ryder rental truck after an ambush with handguns and stun guns. Because of a suspicion that U.S. marshals implant federal judges with tiny GPS tracking devices beneath their skin, the plotters thought they had no more than 40 minutes to perform all of their tasks.

According to the plan, Guilford would be forced to confess on video that he was part of a conspiracy to convict innocent defendants and steal their assets, that he felt ashamed of his deeds, and that he was fleeing to either Russia or Brazil. After uploading the footage to the Internet for worldwide consumption, the killers devised secondary insurance. They’d make the judge sign 10 affidavits outlining his crimes so he wouldn’t be able to use a botched signature. Bed sheets hiding the walls of the constantly moving Ryder truck would confuse Guilford’s potential rescuers about his whereabouts, they thought.

The final stage: rendezvous the judge with

the wood chipper, first cutting out one of his eyeballs as a souvenir, and dumping ammonia to mask the bloody crime scene.

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early a decade ago, Walthall proved the notion of an individual getting rich quick from gold mining hadn’t died a century and a half after the height of California’s historic rush. He worked on building his own water-tooxyhydrogen (HHO) generator connecting to an 8,000-degree torch to recover sizeable quantities of gold more traditional mining systems had failed to locate in already-explored mines. At Walthall’s request, Kansas-based businessman/ scientist Terry Galyon built a prototype and acknowledged his initial doubts were unfounded. Galyon believed Walthall had thoroughly researched the project.

According to court records, a private detective interviewed the businessman in 2012 and observed, “The process envisioned by Walthall would pass ore containing amounts of metal too small to be collected by conventional mining under the HHO torch, which would superheat and melt metal deposits while shattering the rock ore. The molten metal would then drip through to a water trough where the metal would re-harden and be collected as small spheres similar to BBs or lead shot.”

In 2006, Walthall—who owes monthly child support and nearly a quarter of a

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On June 21, 2011, prosecutors filed a motion to revoke his bail. The next day, Guilford ordered him to appear for a June 27 hearing. Walthall fled and adopted an alias, Art Langford. When law enforcement (using GPS tracking) captured him on Interstate 15 in Mesquite, Nevada, on July 27, he possessed seven cellphones, one of his guns, pepper spray, a handcuff key and the book How to Be Invisible.

Arresting officers heard him whine about his decrepit health.

At trial, Walthall’s defense included assertions that the mining plan hadn’t been given enough time to succeed, the Ganjes signed off on his actions and his spending complied with the partnership agreement. As the court clerk announced each of the five guilty verdicts on Dec. 11, 2011, the defendant couldn’t remain silent.

“No,” Walthall said. “No, no, no. I’m not guilty. Oh, no. No. You’re wrong! I didn’t do this!”

Guilford replied, “The jury has spoken.

Under our system, this is how we determine these types of questions. I again commend counsel for both sides, and the jury is now discharged. We are in recess.”

Walthall kept talking as the jury left the courtroom. “I didn’t do this,” he said. “I didn’t do this. Congratulations, you get to destroy somebody who is innocent.”

Officials in the U.S. Probation Office recommended a punishment of 11 years in prison. However, the Department of Justice (DOJ) officials labeled the 57-year-old Walthall a “pathological liar” prone to target vulnerable victims. They produced a 2006 binding-arbitration settlement that outlined how he committed deceptive practices to swindle hundreds of thousands of dollars from a different elderly couple: the Millers, ages 86 and 89. Prosecutors Ivy Wang and Mark Takla pushed for a term of nearly 20 years.

James Riddet, the defense lawyer, argued the Ganjes disingenuously played suckers and suggested a sentence of no more than five years. Guilford settled on a term of 14 years, plus $2.5 million in restitution.

There are differing views about what happened next. Nobody questions the hostility Walthall felt for everyone involved in his case: the judge; assistant United States attorneys Wang and Takla; FBI agents Howard and Frank Bernal; his own defense lawyer, Riddet; and Riddet’s

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million dollars on a loan—advertised his financial services in a magazine, attracting the interest of Tony and Mary Ganje, a wealthy Dana Point couple in their eighties and in declining health. He soon told them he considered them his parents. In early 2007, the three created the goldmining partnership Advanced Recycling General Partners, an operation totally funded by a series of checks totaling $5.5 million from the couple. An FBI report obtained by the Weekly describes a “persistent” Walthall showering attention on the Ganjes—even calling once from San Diego to claim he was working with Navy SEALs and training in martial arts to protect the alleged mining operations.

Meanwhile, without the couple’s knowledge, Walthall funneled the couple’s money into dozens of bank accounts and paid his personal living expenses, which included credit-card debts, maid service, a 52-inch flat-screen TV, rent, a trip to Australia, dinners, a clothes dryer, alimony to his ex-wife, salon services, gifts for family members and a girlfriend, New York film-school tuition for his son, three vacuums, clothes, several dozen Amazon book purchases such as Secrets of Seduction for Women, $15,000 on firearms training, a sexy Snow White Halloween costume, hair extensions, plane tickets, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and $9,000 on gas in one year alone.

The scheme lasted nearly two years because the couple was unaware alleged periodic proceeds from the gold mining were in reality part of their original investment, according to the FBI. In the fall of 2008, the Ganjes began to doubt Walthall’s veracity. A Wells Fargo account that should have contained $2 million had been quietly emptied except for $16,000.

The couple filed a lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court and won a civil settlement of $670,000 from Walthall, who denied any wrongdoing and erroneously assumed the matter had concluded.

However, the FBI, federal prosecutors and a grand jury believed his actions constituted wire fraud and money laundering.

After his 2009 arrest and while out of custody on $500,000 bail, Walthall repeatedly sought to stall the case by claiming serious medical conditions had rendered him unable to function mentally or physically. Dramatically gasping for air each time he spoke, he said he needed at least 18 months until he was capable of assisting in his own defense. Doctors at Hoag Hospital believed he’d snorted crushed Tylenol capsules to fake symptoms.

Weeks later, four undercover FBI agents—Tony Alston, Jessie Murray, Brad Howard and Candace Corte—documented the charade. They photographed Walthall driving himself, walking the lengths of several football fields without aid, pushing another man in a wheelchair, loading the wheelchair into a car, smiling, dining at BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse during an hour-and-a-half lunch, and talking easily on a cellphone. During the period, he also purchased three .45-caliber handguns in the name of an associate,

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Trial By Wood Chipper » FROM PAGE 13 Newport Beach law-firm partner at the time, Al Stokke. But did Walthall mastermind the assassination plots that followed his sentencing?

This past spring, a jury couldn’t agree on the answer.

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Relaying an alleged confession to, say, a robbery might mean extra phone or recreation time. Relaying an alleged admission to murder likely means cash and reduced punishment. On this market, exposing an assassination plot against five federal officials is hitting the figurative jackpot.

According to Timothy Scott, Walthall’s San Diego-based defense lawyer who won the hung jury, two wily Lompoc inmates— Antonio Rodriguez and Crisanto Diego Trejos—planted the mass killing idea with his increasingly unhinged client, then notified authorities, claiming to be heroes preventing a disaster by supposedly solving their own devious creation. Scott told a second jury in July that Rodriguez, a cocaine and methamphetamine dealer serving a 30-year sentence, and Trejos, serving a term of 15 years for illegally trafficking high-powered rifles to Colombia, were calculating liars routinely looking for ways to win punishment reductions. The government concedes both men worked as paid snitches while also committing crimes.

To bolster his assertion that Walthall had been set up, Scott summoned two other Lompoc inmates convicted of running financial fraud schemes: Henry Jones and Glenn Bosworth. Jones testified that Rodriguez and Trejos approached him first with the idea of plotting to kill the judge in his case. The duo then suggested the idea to Bosworth, who also rejected it as nuts.

Scott says Rodriguez and his pal found the perfect “mark” in their third target: Walthall, described by fellow inmates as “a loner,” “odd,” “a nut,” and “an outcast” who was often ridiculed. “Rodriguez and Trejos enjoyed getting [John] going [about his government conspiracy theories],” Scott said. “They would laugh at him, and then one day, the light bulb went on. . . . They mixed their judge scam into his delusions. They nursed the flames of his anger.”

Jones alerted a prison official. “I said, ‘These men are trying to frame an innocent man,’” he recalled. ‘It’s a set up.’” But the official told him to mind his own business.

Bosworth advised jurors, “This was a big entrapment scam. . . . [In prison,] you are either predator or prey. Mr. Walthall was prey.”

According to Scott, Rodriguez and Trejos “pressed” Walthall for months to memorialize their plot in writings. They then contacted Trejos’ sister, a Los Angeles Times advertising representative, who tipped off the FBI’s Howard. The defense lawyer labeled the informant’s incriminating statements against his client as “testimony for hire.” He also predicted the rats will win “Christmas presents” in the form of early release in coming months.

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iven the seriousness of the assassination plot, FBI agents in Orange County, already aware of Walthall’s violence-themed rants, went on high alert. In 2012, a Santa Ana Jail snitch claimed Walthall, then awaiting sentencing in his wire-fraud case, wanted the Aryan Brotherhood to spray machine-gun bullets at the Ganjes and his ex-girlfriend after Molotov cocktails drove them out of their homes. Agents focused on Lompoc maneuverings gave Rodriguez a recording device to wear in the prison yard. Walthall’s voice was firm as he complained that Guilford had “rigged up the [court] system” in a conspiracy with the Catholic Church, FBI, federal prosecutors and criminal-defense lawyers. To expose that corruption, he wanted another “Rampart” scandal that would free hundreds, if not thousands, of wrongly convicted inmates, such as himself.

“I’m going to have [Guilford] admit, confess [on video] that he was picked as a federal judge because he’s corrupt,” Walthall stated. “Then I’m going to kill him. I want him shoved feet first in a fucking wood chipper. I want his eye cut out of his head, so then we can see eye to eye. . . .

Next, I want to take out the agents, Brad Howard and Frank Bernal.”

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I want his eye cut out of his head, so then we can see eye to eye. . . .

After saying he wanted Howard’s father, wife and son killed, too, he named prosecutors Wang and Takla as wood-chipper targets. “I want to kill them and make their bodies disappear,” he said. “The only thing that pisses me off is treachery.”

Rodriguez asked Walthall if he understood the “magnitude of this” plan.

“Yes,” he replied. “It’s war.”

Before he finished, he added, “The Illu-

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nutty.” When Scott echoed that sentiment while describing his client’s “absolutely crazy” delusions about the NSA, Opus Dei, Star Wars, Edward Snowden, light sabers, Ron Paul, the Archdiocese of San Bernardino and the Illuminati, the defendant leaned into a microphone. “Enough

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“I was extorted to do these things,” he said. “My throat has been cut. . . . I’ve been defamed.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Sheppard made no secret of his contempt for the defendant, conceding in his opening statement that Walthall’s views were “at times

of this!” he said. “You don’t represent me.

I terminated this man.”

U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney told Walthall to be quiet.

He refused, adding, “This is a false defense” before he was temporarily removed to a cell until he calmed down.

Jurors looked shocked. Sheppard, his DOJ colleague Adam Braverman and FBI agent Steven Wrathall smiled knowingly.

Reporters wondered if the scene had been a sneaky way to support an insanity or diminished-capacity defense.

In his final argument, Scott—who solicited inmate testimony that his client regularly spent “hours” shaving until his face bled, defecated in his pants if he wanted a cellmate relocated and wore all of his clothes at the same time, regardless of hot weather—confronted the ruse issue, asking, “If somebody’s trying to pretend to be crazy, why work [at] cross purposes with your attorney?”

But Braverman reminded jurors that Walthall took several college courses at Lompoc and belonged to a book club. Also, no government experts who’d interviewed him found serious mental illness. “Everything this defendant does is with purposeful intent, including the outbursts in court,” the prosecutor said. “The only disease he suffers from is the disease of revenge.”

The second jury agreed, taking only about two hours to issue unanimous guilty verdicts. Walthall’s temporary home will remain the Santa Ana Jail. On Oct. 11, Carney is scheduled to announce punishment.

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louched in a wheelchair at the defense table during the July retrial, Walthall stared at jurors and spectators day after day. At other times, his eyes darted around the room as though he heard voices coming from different directions. On more than a dozen occasions, he complained to his lawyers, snorted, rocked his head and muttered.

To rationalize the prison-yard recordings, he insisted on the witness stand he’d known he was being taped and had concocted a wild, implausible revenge tale as code for future investigators unraveling how Rodriguez and Trejos forced him into the scheme.

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minati, it’s real. . . . The ones who run the show are the Masons, the Illuminati.”

“Okay, John,” a dismissive Rodriguez said.

Three weeks later, Walthall met “Juan,” a Lompoc visitor Rodriguez claimed was his cousin, an underworld figure who could supervise the Colombian killers.

But the man was undercover FBI agent Manuel Rodriguez (no relation). In a rambling, three-hour session, the defendant claimed a $100 million net worth and anticipated the murders would cost $10,000 for operational equipment, plus another $5 million each for the killers.

He said, “[Antonio Rodriguez] and I have talked this over for more than a year.”

Near the end of the discussion, a chatty Walthall grew solemn before uttering, “If you are an FBI agent, I just committed suicide by talking to you.”

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Wonder what they’ll do for an encore. . . .

Labretta Suede & the Motel 6 with Wyatt Blair, Rats in the Louvre and the Black Mambas at Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 434-8292; www.alexsbar. com. 8 p.m. $5. 21+. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Late Anaheim Hills artist Nicolay Paskevich’s approach through quick gestural illustrations in minimalist black ink and color paintings evoke speed and glance at life in action. Anaheim’s Muzeo will exhibit a hefty survey of Paskevich’s work stemming from the private collections of Michael J. Stanley and Paskevich’s daughter Alyja Kalinich. See for yourself the skill and expertise in which the artist was so easily able to render the flow of movement and human verve for life.

“Vitality of Line: Works by Nicolay Paskevich” at Muzeo, 241 S. Anaheim Blvd., Anaheim, (714) 956-8936; muzeo. org. 10 a.m.Through Sept. 11. $5-$7.

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Summer Slaughter Tour 2016 at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; www.observatoryoc. com. 2 p.m. $29.50. —AIMEE MURILLO

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There’s a wonderfully crunchy, overloaded Cuban sandwich layered thick with moist roasted pork and ham, stacks of pickles, an excess of vinegary onions, and mustard so coarsely ground the seeds resemble buckshot.

Nearly every dish came out exactly as it was described on the menu. There are no superfluous attempts at making anything look fancier than it already is.

Nonfunctioning garnishes are nowhere to be seen. And I’ve not yet seen there a plate smeared with skid marks of sauce.

Perhaps the best example of Coastal Kitchen’s back-to-basics style is the rotisserie chicken. Described on the menu as “half rotisserie chicken, house-made rub, fried cauliflower,” what appeared before me was exactly that. There were two pieces. The breast had the wing attached, while the dark-meat had a drumstick that came off cleanly with just a tug. Juice spurted out when I plunged a knife into the plump breast. Most important, the chicken was served so hot steam plumes billowed from the drumstick as I bit into it. I also liked the fried brie and the salad that came with it. When I sliced into the breaded crust on one of the cheese wedges, out oozed a slow-moving white lava. I ate it in concert with the lightly dressed greens, mint leaves, fried

garbanzo beans and grapes, realizing what this was: the rare restaurant salad that’s actually worth the $17 price tag.

If you consider $28 a bargain for the cioppino, it’s probably because of the perfectly seared cylinder of diver scallop sitting atop mounds of shrimp, clams and mussels. But it was only after I started digging into the dish that I realized the real money meat was the chunks of sweet crab interspersed in and soaking up the salty tomato broth. I enjoyed it better than the short rib, which was merely fine and came in two humongous falling-apart hunks enough for at least two meals—but the side dish of roasted Brussels sprouts were soggy. And if there’s anything a modern American restaurant such as Coastal Kitchen needs to get right these days, it’s how to make Brussels sprouts not taste as though they came from the boil-everything era of America’s cooking past.

The best thing you can order at Coastal Kitchen is the pork belly bites. The kitchen staff takes braised pork belly chunks, dips them into a corndog-like batter, then deep-fries them, only to dip them again into a chive aioli. Is it also the unhealthiest thing you can eat? Probably. But just imagine yourself during the carefree Roaring Twenties, before doctors knew about bad cholesterol. You’ll be fine.

COASTAL KITCHEN 34091 Pacific Coast Hwy., Dana Point, (949) 449-2822; www.coastalkitchendanapoint. com. Open Sun.-Thurs., 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Dinner for two, $50-$100, food only. Full bar.

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here’s a bit of history on where Coastal Kitchen now sits. It was the first commercial building in Dana Point, constructed in 1924 and surrounded by empty fields.

Old black-and-white pictures of the Blue Lantern Fountain Lunch, as it was then called, a rest stop on the long journey between San Diego and LA, hang on Coastal Kitchen’s walls. The city of Dana Point as we now know it literally grew around the building in the past century.

I only knew a little of this history going in, but I think it speaks of how good a job owners Michael and Christina Grant have done in renovating the space that I would’ve believed it was all brandnew construction if someone hadn’t told me otherwise. In fact, the flow of the rooms feels so thought-through and its interior design so modern it’s hard to imagine what the original restaurant might have looked like back in the time of Calvin Coolidge.

Coastal Kitchen is separated into four seating areas, which include a bar, a patio and two long dining rooms. One dining room looks out to Pacific Coast Highway. The other has a wide-screen view into a glass-encased kitchen, where the staff sauté and make pies from scratch. Chandeliers made from nautical rope dangle above the booths in each room. And bright-red pepper mills injected into the motif of dark-blue banquettes and stark white walls draw your eye. It’s a breezy, classy-looking space, but above all, the restaurant feels as if it has always belonged here.

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eard the stereotypes about SanTana being rundown, superMexican and sketchy AF? First-timers will think of them when they visit the intersection of Standard and Edinger avenues—the Florence and Normandie of Orange County. Rows of aging apartment complexes stand nearby, with drunks and meth heads stumbling around the alleys even in the morning.

Working-class Latinos stream into the awesomely named Estandar Lavandería to wash their clothes; cantinas legal and not dot the area. Drop in someone from the Orange County Business Council, and they’d probably melt in fear and call for a Town Car. I describe the above not to sensationalize—the drunks are nice, the residents hustling, and the meth heads will leave you alone if you don’t gawk—but because I don’t want anyone complaining about the scenery if they visit El Picante. And all y’all absolutely should: Here are some of the boldest, most delicious Mexican flavors to come out of a hole-in-the-wall in years. Its trick is twofold: It specializes in the food of Michoacán, and most of the dishes are guisados. Stews are made every morning and kept bubbling throughout the day. Chicharrón is simmered until it’s so fatty it makes pork belly seem as rich as a pencil. Huilotas (squab) come bathed in a bright tomatillo salsa; birria arrives in a bubbling bowl or dry, the better to put inside tortillas so fresh that when you bite into them, the inside of the thick beauties can scald you. The chavindecas (here, spelled Michoacán-style as “chividenkas”) are stuffed quesadillas with your choice of meat and those amazing tortillas. Even better is the aporreadillo, the best huevos rancheros ever: The meat is cecina (dried, salted beef that’s like jerky but sweeter), and it’s in a red salsa that will burn you if you’re not careful.

There are burritos and tacos here, but why bother? El Picante is spectacular, homey—and, yeah, it’s in a tough neighborhood. So? Move to Scottsdale if this bothers you, and leave SanTana to us gentle cabrones.

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ne of South County’s newest eateries is tucked in the back of Mission Viejo’s Union Market. Hummus Bowl’s concept is simple enough: a delicious base product you can build upon. Selections range from wild mushroom with caramelized onions to a Market Bowl with cauliflower, charred Brussels sprouts and red cabbage.

The place is friendly and family-owned, and each order is crafted with a certain amount of care.

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HUMMUS BOWL 27741 Crown Valley Pkwy., Mission Viejo, (949) 625-6282; www.facebook.com/hummusbowl.

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Built into a former fried chicken restaurant (not an old-school burger stand), Qrious Palate serves burgers, fried-chicken dinners, and bacon-and-egg sandwiches all day all for less than $10; it’s the sole spot for people living near the corner of Anaheim Street and MLK Boulevard to grab an all-American counter-service breakfast, lunch or dinner on the cheap. Its timid exterior—proclaiming “teriyaki” and showing the same generic Coke-sponsored combo-advertising window posters as every other burger place—gives no hint as to what is actually in its handmade, threering-binder menu or how curious (for Long Beach, anyway) its concept truly is.

Spoiler alert: It’s all waffles, without the Instagrammable Bruxïe bullshit.

Qrious Palate’s opening last year might seem to coincide with the waffle trend’s slow slide out of coolness, but this isn’t as much about being cool as it’s about having that giddy feeling of having your dessert and eating it, too, by replacing all instances of bread with waffles. That means no buns for your pesto-sauceslathered burger, no sliced sourdough for your buffalo bulgogi sandwich, no toast with your two-egg breakfast plate, and no rolls to dip in your soup. Instead, every sandwich comes wrapped in—and every dish accompanied by—a thin, light, slightly sweet waffle, pressed to order from a custom batter recipe that includes

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Keeping the waffle guilt-free is a slick move on the owner’s part, since the novelty neither fills you up nor wears off, even when hammering through a Southern-style pulled-pork waffle sandwich or a so-called Qrious Chicken Waffle Sandwich, which pits a slab of fried chicken and tangy cole slaw against the edges of its proprietary grooved carbs. A serving of house-made spicy maple syrup, which has a serious kick of cayenne and comes with the helpful staff’s urging to dip away, also helps to make otherwise-ordinary deli selections such as a tuna melt or turkey club an entirely new adventure, bringing out all the sweet, savory, spicy flavors our palates crave in one bite.

Qrious Palate’s obsession with waffles seems to always find the employees fielding the same question from confused first-time customers (including myself, once): “Why?” But after multiple satisfying lunches there over the past year and a half, the better question to ask might be “Why not?” Pushing the dessert side of breakfast into every meal might be the best improvement to the all-American burger stand since the invention of Cajunstyle fries. And by serving even salads and soups with a side of the whipped-buttercoated breakfast treat (honey maple syrup is available, too), Qrious Palate is turning this once neighborhood-only spot into a citywide destination.

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Having also written and directed his 2012 debut picture Sleepwalk With Me, Birbiglia says he wrote several drafts of the Don’t Think Twice screenplay before his cast was assembled, and the script was further refined during readings in his living room.

As the leader of the Commune, Birbiglia balances the charm and smarminess found in his Orange Is the New Black privatizedprison official and his standup in Sleepwalk With Me, which was based on his

one-man, off-Broadway show. Compassionate about the troupe, Birbiglia’s Miles is also a man-child who lives in the bowels of the theater, sleeps with his first-year improv students and clings to having once been invited to audition for Weekend Live.

Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele fame is Jack, the most ambitious of the Commune players. A much-in-demand actor who bounces between roles in major movies and television shows (as well as a long and growing string of indies), Second City alum Key squeezes pathos out of a Don’t Think Twice role that does not always cast him in the best light.

Kate Micucci (who, along with Riki Lindhome, makes up the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates) plays Allison, a trouper who could probably find fame and success as a cartoonist, if only she’d let herself. The same can be said of stoner Lindsay, just substitute “writing” for “cartooning”; she’s played by Tami Sagher, who in real life was the youngest player ever to make the Second City main stage and is now a writer on Girls, Broad City and Inside Amy Schumer.

The actors who bring the most believability to their roles are Gillian Jacobs, who has been Britta for all six seasons of the cult-adored sitcom Community and currently stars opposite Paul Rust on Judd Apatow’s Love on Netflix, and Chris Gethard, a New York UCB regular who hosts The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion.

As Samantha, Jacobs moves beyond Birbiglia’s written words to expertly use her face, body and aura to evoke a debilitating fear of success. She is arguably the best troupe member and inarguably the one most resistant to stepping up to the next level. Jacobs’ winning turn in Don’t Think Twice solidifies the notion that she is an actress to watch.

Gethard’s Bill is the Commune member you see struggling most with whether someone his age and in his low station in life should just chuck all this improv nonsense, especially when he must deal with sudden tragedy. Despite playing the troupe’s perpetual sad sack, Gethard peels off the film’s funniest lines.

Unfortunately, such scenes are few and far between, as Birbiglia bathes his characters in more darkness than light. I can’t recall one funny-out-loud moment. As “Mrs. Birbigs” knows, standups are miserable SOBs offstage. But wasn’t Don’t Think Twice supposed to explore why improv actors are not?

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nyone who examines the long roster of not-ready-for-primetime players beyond their Saturday Night Live sketches knows that many came to the NBC warhorse via Los Angeles’ Groundlings, Chicago and Toronto’s Second City, and Chicago/New York/LA’s Upright Citizens Brigade improvisational-comedy troupes.

Don’t Think Twice—the sophomore film from writer, director, standup comic, This American Life contributor and Orange Is the New Black cast member Mike Birbiglia—looks not at the success stories mirrored by the likes of Kristen Wiig (Groundlings), Bill Murray (Second City) or Amy Poehler (UCB), but instead focuses on six actors in their 30s standing in for the tens of thousands of troupers who never even got on SNL. Well, actually, make that five actors.

What drives the story is one member of the fictional, 11-year-old New York troupe the Commune getting plucked by Weekend Live, a not-so-subtle title that allows Don’t Think Twice producers Birbiglia and Ira Glass to avoid paying a licensing fee to Lorne Michaels.

The call up to the big leagues forces the five actors left behind to re-examine their dream chases as self-doubt, jealousy and fear of the future rear their ugly heads.

But it also leaves the Commune member who won the golden ticket feeling wistful over the uncomplicated life being aban-

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rical release of Coppola’s adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic novel. But before being treated to that, enjoy music from LA’s Sweet and Tender Hooligans, the “ultimate tribute to Morrissey and the Smiths.” Lola’s Outdoor Retro Cinema at Sunnyside Cemetery, 1095 E. Willow St., Long Beach; www.facebook.com/ lbcinematheque. Sat. Gates open, 6:30 p.m.; music, 7:30 p.m.; movie, 8:30 p.m. $10-$12; card-carrying members of the Frida Cinema, free. Parking and seating are first-come, first served.

Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht (Wednesday, May 9). Farhang Foundation/UC Irvine’s Celebration of Iranian Cinema concludes with director Vahid Jalilvand’s social drama about how people of various means react to a newspaper advertisement that seems to suggest someone needy will be given a substantial sum of money. Veteran Tehran-born actress Niki Karimi leads a cast that includes Amir Aghaei and Vahid Jalilvand. UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium Lobby; Farhang.org/UCI2016. Sat., 7 p.m. $10.

Repo! The Genetic Opera! The costumed shadow-cast troupe Addicted to the Knife returns to the Frida to dance and lip sync to the 2008 horror-musical opus filled with dirty, gory excess; family melodrama; mysterious illnesses; mindblowing future-drugs; designer organ repossessions; a few surprising cameos; and a superabundance of bloody stabs and slices. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Sat. Preshow, 11:30 p.m.; movie, midnight. $8-$10.

Labyrinth. It’s safe to assume that with David Bowie’s death, there will be fewer chances to see him in a movie on a

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The Rescuers. Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor and Geraldine Page lend their voices to this 1977 hand-drawn cartoon that was made during the lean animation years between the releases of Disney classics and Pixar blockbusters. Westminster Branch Library, 8180 13th St., Westminster, (714) 893-5057. Sat., 2 p.m. Free.

Hadji Sha (Shiftegi). Farhang Foundation/UC Irvine’s Celebration of Iranian Cinema continues with director Zamani Esmati’s drama about 50-year-old woman Hadji Sha (Roya Teimoorian), who has been living as a man for 30 years so s/he can be head of the household. When her sister’s mentally unstable granddaughter is raped, Hadji must plunge into the male-dominated world to out the rapist. Afsaneh Chehreh and Leila Zareah co-star. UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium Lobby; farhang.org/UCI2016. Sat., 4 p.m. $10.

Bridesmaids. Before director Paul Feig faced the firing squad for making an allfemale Ghostbusters, he was hailed as the genius behind this all-female wedding comedy. Go figure. Beachfront Cinema at Huntington State Beach, Beach Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach; beachfrontcinema. com. Sat., 5 p.m. $11.25-$49.

The Outsiders. This underappreciated Francis Ford Coppola flick—likely because it came out after certified classics The Conversation, the first two Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now—is about the 1965 rivalry between poor greasers and rich Socs heating up when one gang member kills another.

Being screened is the “Complete Novel” version, which features 22 minutes of footage cut from the 1983 theat-

present Michael Moore’s subversive comedy that has the creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine playing the role of an “invader” who visits nations to learn how the U.S. can improve its prospects. It turns out the solutions to America’s most entrenched problems already exist in the world— they’re just waiting to be co-opted.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Elliott, little Drew Barrymore’s scream and dudes in space suits are back for the ultimate going-home flick. Peppertree Park, 230 W. First St., Tustin, (714) 573-3326. Thurs., Aug. 4, 7:50 p.m. Free.

Dorane Asheghi (Time to Love). Farhang Foundation/UC Irvine’s Celebration of Iranian Cinema kicks off with director Alireza Raissian’s 2014 drama about a successful women’s-rights lawyer taking a curious case that changes the lives of everyone involved. Leila Hatami, Shahab Hosseini and Farhad Aslani star. UCI Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium Lobby; farhang.org/UCI2016.

Fri., 7 p.m. $10; VIP package (includes three films and opening night reception), $70.

Descendants. Not to be confused with George Clooney’s 2011 film The Descendants is this 2015 Disney TV movie about the benevolent teenage son of King Beast and Queen Belle going up against the trouble-making offspring of classic villains Cruella De Vil, Maleficent, the Evil Queen and Jafar.

Placentia Champions Sports Complex, 505 N. Jefferson, Placentia, (714) 9938232. Fri., 8 p.m. Free.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. This week’s Friday Night Freakout is the animated Japanese cult classic (presented with English subtitles) about the bounty-hunter crew aboard the spaceship Bebop seeking a 300 million woo-long reward by catching the terrorists responsible for unleashing a deadly virus on the Mars populace in 2071. The Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; thefridacinema.org. Fri., 11 p.m. $8-$10.

big screen. If that’s not enough to get you out for this 1986 family adventure film, then how about the chance to ogle Jennifer Connelly before she was old enough to ogle. Perv. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 556-2787; www.

SCFTA.org/moviemondays. Mon., dusk (approximately 8 p.m.). Free.

Max. Not to be confused with the semihistorical 2002 film about a youngish Adolf Hitler, this 2015 family adventure drama has a dog helping Marines fighting in Afghanistan. Heel, Hitler! Century Stadium 25, 1701 W. Katella Ave., Orange; www.cinemark.com. Tues., 10 a.m. $1; also at Century 20 Huntington Beach, 7777 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach; www.cinemark.com. Tues.Thurs., July 21, 10 a.m. $1.

GEN Silent. Stu Maddux’s acclaimed 2010 documentary about six LGBT seniors choosing whether to hide their sexuality to survive in Boston’s longterm health-care system. Besides the screening, service providers are onhand to answer questions at what may be the first official Orange County event geared toward LGBT seniors. Huntington Beach Senior Center, Central Park, 18041 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach; www.surfcity-hb.org. Thurs., Aug. 11, 6 p.m. Free, but email heather. dodd@surfcity-hb.org to reserve a seat.

Chasing Gold. San Clemente filmmaker Brent Deal was not a standup paddler when he made his first two documentaries on the sport, H2indO and Decade of Dominance, which made their world premieres at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival. Since then, Deal has become the go-to SUP filmmaker, and the NBFF presents the screening of his latest, which follows the U.S. team trying to win the Olympics-style, 2015 ISA World SUP and Paddleboarding Championships, neither of which had been won before by any team other than Australia’s. Deal participates in an audience Q&A after the screening. Lido Theater, 3459 Via Lido, Newport Beach; www.newportbeachfilmfest.com/event/chasing-gold-specialscreening-presented-newport-beachfilm-festival. Thurs., Aug. 11, 7 p.m. $15.

Richard III. The Frida presents its first live screening simulcast with London’s legendary Almeida Theatre, whose artistic director, Rupert Goold, directs Ralph Fiennes as Shakespeare’s most notorious villain and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Thurs., Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m. $8-$10.

Where to Invade Next. El Centro Cultural de México, OC May Day Coalition and the Green Party of Orange County

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many people who remember the movie as a profanity-laced shootout might not realize is there. One way of accomplishing that, he says, is through focusing on the violence of the film through more of a Shakespearean lens than a Tarantino filter.

“The way Tarantino uses violence—and he has said this himself many times—it’s more of a spectacle,” he says. “It’s gratuitous, so it’s almost comical. He is deflating the seriousness of the violence by taking it to an absurd point.” As for Shakespeare? “While he has some really gruesome scenes, like a protagonist stabbing a pregnant woman or making meat pies [out of humans], they are sparse and sparing,” Carlisle says. “He adds a lot of emotional weight to the violence, which [supplies] a counterweight to it. That’s what makes those violent scenes really stand out, and that’s what I’ve tried to do.”

For instance, when his play reaches its foregone climax, with the men fighting, “it’s not just a fight between men,” he says.

“It’s a fight between brothers. In the film, they are all screaming at one another, and it almost seems petty. But here, they are screaming about how much they love one another. It’s far different from the film. But what is more dangerous than people [fighting one another] who love one another?”

Ultimately, Carlisle hopes people will come away from his play considering their own lines between loyalty and betrayal, as well as reconsidering Shakespeare. “So many people say they don’t understand Shakespearean literature because they don’t understand [the language],” says Carlisle, who rewrote The Breakfast Club in a similar style last year for STAGES. “But Shakespeare is not some mystical thing. It’s something you can really play with and adapt.”

DOGS OF WAR at STAGEStheatre, 400 E. Commonwealth, Fullerton, (714) 525-7070; www.stagesoc.org.

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hosts, witches, hand signs for “Whatever Forever,” Lindsay Lohan, eyeballs, cartoon animals and skateboards: All of these objects appear in the work of Anaheim-based illustrator Sara M. Lyons, one of the biggest names in contemporary off-kilter accessories.

Lyons culls from a long list of influences, channeling them into enamel pins, patches, buttons, and even a couple of zines here and there that enable young women and girls to explore their weirder, more alternative sensibilities.

While most of her work seems to draw from the nostalgia craze currently hitting the market, Lyons explains that her interests stem mainly from youth culture, with inspirations ranging from classic Archie comics to 1980s- and ’90s-era Saturdaymorning cartoons to her teenage punk days. “My work resonates with people who are like, ‘I might not necessarily feel like I fit in, but I still like things that are traditionally feminine,’” Lyons says, “but I like to see them through a tongue-incheek lens.”

With her long green hair and matching green eyebrows, Lyons calls herself a “professional weirdo.” As with most artists, she grew up with a strong inclination to draw, even getting in trouble for doodling in the margins of school assignments. Little did she know she would become a full-time artist, taking the plunge after she lost her job at 25.

Thanks to high demand, as well as Lyons only being able to make a limited supply at a time, her work sells out. But fear not! Restocks for sold-out items happen every four to six weeks and are announced on her Instagram (@saramlyons) and via saramlyons.tumblr.com. Lyons wants to eventually get into stationary, keeping her work accessible and affordable to her target market. “I would love to sell a painting for $1,200, but that’s not as accessible, and those aren’t the people I’d like to reach—that’s not me,” Lyons says.

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e all know Reservoir Dogs, the 1992 profanity-laden blood-and-guts bath that was Quentin Tarantino’s first big splash in the Hollywood pool.

But while most people see the smalltime thugs, gasoline immolation of cops and a fustercluck of shooting as a fitting example of the over-the-top, testosteronefueled machismo of the early 1990s, Hero Carlisle sees something different.

“It’s really a beatiful story of love and betrayal,” says Carlisle, who has retooled the film in ambitious fashion with his new play, Dogs of War, which opens this weekend at STAGEStheatre in Fullerton. “Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel’s characters are star-crossed lovers.”

Say what? Don’t write off this UCLA graduate student in English so quickly.

Some with a Freudian bent maintain that the hyper-violent characters in Reservoir Dogs overcompensate for their vulnerability and emotional instability through racism, misogyny and selfishness. According to a review on randomanicac.us, the film “evokes man’s inescapable anima and the tragedy that results when two men form a bond that society can’t accept.”

Okay, so we get there may be something going on beneath the surface. But how and, perhaps most important, why uproot the story into Renaissance Italy and turn the language into Elizabethan English, basically giving it a heavy gloss of Shakespeare?

“There is beauty and substance in anything,” Carlisle says. “You can even find it in a movie that so many people think of as just gruesome. You just have to shake off the 1990s film conventions, the profanity, the absurd violence, and by setting it in a different era, I thought I could do that.

Because, really, all stories are the same.”

Carlisle, who is dyslexic and focuses more on analyzing literature in his grad work than actually reading for reading’s sake, also thought that tweaking the film would help him explore something Shakespeare never did. “I thought it’d be interesting to use [the film] as a way to explore villains [using Shakespearian verse],” he says.

“He has them, but they’re rarely protagonists, and they’re usually high characters, like kings or generals, or they’re more like comic relief. But you never see a story where the protagonist is a low-born commoner who is also a criminal. Those standard criminals are never depicted in dramatic fashion, and Shakespeare never explored the tragedy of the criminal lifestyle.”

But it wasn’t enough to up the language ante or set Reservoir Dogs in an imagined past. Carlisle also wanted to get to the emotional heart of the tale, a tale that

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hough she wasn’t on the bill at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Lindsey Stirling couldn’t help but bask in the spotlight. Joining longtime collaborator Robert DeLong during his set and flanked by saxophonist extraordinaire Kamasi Washington, Stirling’s scorching violin stood out as one of the festival’s highlights. Her performance in the mid-afternoon heat also helped Stirling prove her mettle.

“I always love doing guest appearances during other people’s sets,” Stirling says. “It’s so much fun to feed off the energy of the crowd, and it’s what you do as a performer.”

Many familiar with Stirling’s brand of merging electronic, classical and dance music together will attest to the 29-yearold genius’ artistry. Since 2007, Stirling has used YouTube as a platform for her music. Her video “Crystallize” finished as the eighth-most watched of 2012. Then she set the Internet on fire with covers of Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” with Pentatonix, which won Response of the Year in the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013. A year later, she was celebrating 1 million singles sold worldwide. As of July, her Lindseystomp channel exceeded 8 million subscribers and more than a billion total views.

Stirling’s self-titled debut album was a platinum-selling success in Europe; it was nominated for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Albums, but it was her sophomore release, Shatter Me, that won that title in 2015.

Even with all her successes, the Santa Ana-born musician won’t allow herself to get caught up in the hype. Stirling remains as focused and as driven as she’s always been. While her second album focused on her battles with anorexia, her third, Brave Enough, was marked by losing her best friend, keyboardist and audio sampler, Jason “Gavi” Gaviati, to cancer, which happened early in the writing process.

Her heartbreak over Gaviati’s death is showcased in “Gavi’s Song.”

“It was really hard to go back and write again, since I was so full of hurt,” she recalls. “At first, everything was coming out with anger, fear and pain.

Then I remembered he wasn’t a sad person and he was full of joy. So rather than closing myself off, I started making myself more vulnerable. I turned it into positive energy.”

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by Brené Brown’s books on shame and vulnerability and channeled the author’s message into her music. “I realized that I

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was breaking through this outward shell that was holding me back in the past,” she explains. “At the same time, we are all full of so many layers that I wanted to basically write about living a life with a more open heart and being more vulnerable. In the beginning, the album starts off much more closed and timid, but in the end, it has a much warmer and open vibe to it. It was really therapeutic. ” Enlisting the likes of Andrew McMahon (“I never thought I’d be writing with him”), Zedd, ZZ Ward, Christina Perri and Rivers Cuomo, Stirling continued to diversify her sound and explore soundscapes that few could pull off throughout

the album. The violinist took nine months off from her rigorous tour schedule to work on the record. “I always get nervous to write,” she says. “It’s not a process that comes easy to me. Unlike being onstage, when I come alive, writing is where I have to dig deep and get the album to come out of me.”

Earlier this year, Stirling released her autobiography, The Only Pirate At the Party, which quickly landed on The New York Times’ best-sellers list. She isn’t afraid to back away from her personal battles, and she hopes to remain a positive influence on her fans. “I really wanted to share my story, not only because I chased

my dreams despite the odds, but I had many setbacks and wanted to show that [people’s] setbacks don’t have to stop them,” she says. “I also talk about my experience with mental illness and overcoming anorexia and depression. . . . Now, I feel I’m past that, and I wanted to share that you can get past mental issues, and mental health is something we shouldn’t be afraid to talk about.”

LINDSEY STIRLING performs with Carah Faye at the Pacific Amphitheatre, 100 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa; www.pacamp.com. Wed., 7:30 p.m. $30$52.50 (includes fair admission). All ages.

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“If I had to pick a genre, I’d call it indie pop/rock,” Putnam says. “It has very soft drums and long, groovy guitar parts, but it also has heavy emotional synths and stuff.”

LAYNE is the most recent venture in Putnam’s lifelong musical career. The South Dakota native has been working on records and putting out her own music since she was 14, and once she moved to SoCal, it didn’t take long for her to find someone to fill in the other half of her musical needs. “I was making music since I was really, really little, but the actual band didn’t come together until I moved here,” Putnam says. “I ended up meeting Alex through a person who doesn’t matter now, and we just immediately knew it was going to work.”

Rosca and Putnam have been working together virtually nonstop since forming LAYNE in 2015. They share the same taste in music, many of the same philosophies on life, and have created a dystopian world as a physical and visual backdrop for their tracks. Their upcoming

BY JOSH CHESLER EP, The Black Hills, will be their fans’ first glimpse into that world. “I’m excited for it to come out because we’ve only put two songs out so far,” Putnam says. “It’ll be a good opportunity for people to hear more of a body of work and get into who we are as a band.”

While many bands struggle to get anyone to listen to their first few songs, LAYNE landed those two songs—“Good” and “Somebody”—within the top 15 on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart, both nationally and globally. Putnam’s prowess on vocals, guitar, bass and synths combines with Rosca’s skillful drumming to create a full sound on each song. But rather than attempt to re-create it digitally live, LAYNE become a quartet for concerts.

“It’s not just the two of us onstage—we play like a band,” Putnam says. “As far as recording goes, you can do anything with a computer. . . . You could make a full record by yourself from the computer, but we like to bounce ideas off each other.”

Putnam says she sees art in everyday life—or, at least, in the buildings containing everyday life. An avid fan of architecture, the multi-instrumentalist is looking forward to traveling abroad to countries such as Norway to feed her passion. “I think the thing I love about architecture is it’s similar to music,” Putnam says, “in that you’re taking different materials and building an environment.”

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During the climax of the title track, Gomez exposes his hardcore influences, screaming into the mic as his band charges heavily behind him. “I see how into it the singers [in hardcore bands] get. . . . I mostly take those hardcore influences and incorporate that,� Gomez says. “That’s why I love performing [‘Sushi No Rubber’] particularly—I just go hard and start screaming.�

The song starts off with a “Bitches Brew� undertone—experimental, moody and erratic, thanks to the sonic textures supplied by DeAndre Trevon Grover’s saxophone, Dominick Cruz’s bass, Christopher Trimmer’s guitar and Donovan Cruz’s drums. Then Gomez brings to the song something [that’s] unapologetically avant-garde.

The entire five-song EP showcases a musical vision that knows no boundaries.

The band practice two times per week, play numerous shows in the community, and have a Sunday residency at the Gypsy Den in Downtown SanTana. “We’re solidifying our presence,�

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n a saturated music scene of garage rock and Burger bands, experimental jazz band Apollo Bebop bring forth a refreshing sound of layered rhythms and clever rhymes. Since their formation last year, this self-proclaimed jazz-hop outfit from Santa Ana headline shows throughout Orange County and released in June their first EP, Sushi No Rubber (available for free on Bandcamp).

The band members are all in their early 20s and have known one another since their days in high-school band, save for 16-year-old drummer Donovan Cruz, who is the youngest.

The five-piece have created a contemporary marriage of jazz and hip-hop Ă la the Roots. During their live performances, there’s an aura of intense energy that swells the room and surges through the atmosphere. “Jazz is misunderstood, honestly. Most people think it’s noise or just soothing music—it can be anything; it can be angry. Any emotion can be expressed through jazz and its color,â€? says bassist Dominick Cruz. “ All songs on Sushi No Rubber were written, recorded, produced and mixed by the band members. “I knew there was going to be an element of grit, some rawness to it,â€? Dominick says. “It was hard trying to mix it. We found it really difficult, keeping the raw emotion of how we sound when we perform live in the studio recording. . . .

Mixing is an art on its own.�

Inspired by innovators such as A Tribe Called Quest, Hiatus Kaiyote, Chance the Rapper, John Coltrane and Miles Davis, Sushi No Rubber feeds off the stirring verses of MC Brian Gomez, a.k.a. Brian to Earth. “I’ve been to a lot of hip-hop shows, and they’re kinda boring, to be honest,�

Gomez says, “but I [also] go to a lot of hardcore and experimental rock shows, and those are way more fun for me.�

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Pokémon GO Means No Second Life, SimCity, Quake, Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft, Minecraft—it’s always something.

By which I mean to say, PGMN, Pokémon GO isn’t destroying your marriage now, just as SimCity wasn’t destroying marriages 15 years ago. Your husband is destroying your marriage. He’s being selfish and inconsiderate and cruel. He doesn’t care enough about you to prioritize your feelings—or even acknowledge them, it seems.

When a partner’s actions are clearly saying, “I’m choosing this thing—this video game, this bowling league, this whatever—over you,” they’re almost always saying this, as well: “I don’t want to be with you anymore, but I don’t have the courage or the decency to leave, so I’m going to neglect you until you get fed up and leave me.”

Let him have his ridiculous obsessions—with this game, with this girl—and when he comes to his senses and abandons Pokémon GO, just like people came to their senses and walked away from Second Life a decade ago, you’ll be in a better position to decide whether you want to leave him.

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(2) Furthermore, I’m a thirsty genderqueer girl plotting her escape from a suburban town. I’m not going to be here long enough to look for an LTR. How can I satisfy my lust safely? It seems like every time I hook up with someone, they disclose intense drug use or other risky behavior after the fact.

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There’s no need to disclose this to future partners.

Everyone makes mistakes—and the mistake you made, while a deeply painful betrayal of your thengirlfriend and presumably a violation of a premarital monogamous commitment, is a thoroughly common one. Human beings aren’t used cars—we aren’t obligated to disclose every ditch we drove ourselves into before we resell ourselves. You didn’t fuck around on your ex habitually, you’re not a serial cheater, and you never violated your marriage vows.

So there’s that. Resolve not to make this mistake again—make only new ones—and stuff that incident down Ye Olde Memory Hole.

(1) There’s no licensing board for sex workers— there’s no accrediting organization, no sex-work equivalent of the legal profession’s bar association (and most sex workers would oppose the establishment of one)—so there’s nowhere you can go to report this guy. If he confessed to an actual crime, FLAGS, you could go to the police, and they might even do something about it. But the police are unlikely to get involved if he was just fantasizing; it’s not against the law to engage in dirty talk, even extremely fucked-up/ickily transgressive/NOT OKAY dirty talk.

(2) Masturbation is the safest way to satisfy your lust until you get your ass out of that druggy suburb full of risky-sex junkies and to the big city, where we urbanites drink only hot tea, snort only in derision and use only condoms religiously.

I hooked up with this hot married couple. We’d done it before, and my expectations were shaped by previous (fun) experiences with them.

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