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Kaiser Permanente’s mental-health screenings for preteens expand beyond OC

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“H

e tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge at 14.”

Dr. Vincent Valenzuela is reading a hospital report regarding a young patient he saw two years ago at Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Ana medical offices. The pediatrician’s eyes skim through the report in disbelief.

“At his last physical, there weren’t any red flags, but we also didn’t have this screening tool,” Valenzuela says, referring to a mentalhealth questionnaire for preteen patients that Kaiser now gives during annual physicals. “Had we had this screening at 11 or 12, maybe we could have gotten him some help before he tried to do something.”

In 2014, four Kaiser medical offices in OC—Santa Ana, Brea, Mission Viejo and Huntington Beach—began the practice of screening 11-year-old patients, in addition to teenagers and later 12-year-olds, for signs of depression and suicidal ideation. By doing so, they defied the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, which cited a lack of evidence on the benefits or harm of mental-health screenings for children younger than 12 in not recommending the practice, a stance that remains today. “There is essentially no evidence involving 11-year-olds directly, so that’s why they haven’t endorsed it,” says Dr. Alan Cortez, who introduced the Kaiser PHQ [Patient Health Questionnaire]-Adolescent survey when serving as chief of the pediatric department. “There’s virtually no evidence involving 12-year-olds, either.”

But Cortez is hoping that will soon change. “As of three weeks ago, I got approval for a research study at Kaiser Permanente to delve deeply into the work we’ve done to try to establish that evidence,” he says. Though conclusive findings will take time, Cortez is encouraged by what he has already seen. The review of hundreds of charts in the past suggests that 25 percent of the screenings result in a beneficial intervention. Starting and reviving conversations between families and their children about mental-health issues is the most common outcome, but a third of such interventions involve direct referrals to mental-health professionals.

“These numbers are approximations, and we might find different results when the research is done,” Cortez says. The findings could propel other health care providers in California and nationwide to follow the Kaiser model.

Over the past three years, the program has been expanded to include all Kaiser facilities in Southern California, which serve 1 million children—120,000 in OC alone.

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Receptionists hand out the questionnaire to 11- and 12-year-old patients, who are asked to fill it out away from their parents. The children are asked if they’ve felt depressed or better off dead in the past two weeks, as well as how often they’ve felt that way. “People respond so much more in writing, particularly youth,” Cortez says. The survey also tries to identify poor sleep patterns and eating habits.

Parents initially met the practice with guarded skepticism but are learning to embrace it. “It has opened up the dialogue about depression between parents and their children,” Valenzuela says. “In the Latino community, we don’t really talk about that kind of stuff, especially with a lot of the dads and their sons.”

According to the 2016 Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County, the number of children and teens with a serious mental illness leading to hospitalization is up 47 percent from 2008. Major depression and mood disorders account for 64 percent of holds.

White youth are the most impacted in the county, with Latinos following second.

Cortez presented his model before

CalOptima, the health-care provider for OC Medi-Cal recipients; CalOptima launched an incentivized Screening for Clinical Depression in Adolescents project two weeks ago but kept the earliest age at 12 because of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation. “We chose that age for [the] incentive program because of that,” says Dr. Donald Sharps, medical director of CalOptima’s Behavioral Health Integration, also noting the Task Force’s recommendation.

As part of the new incentive program, pediatricians are now eligible to be paid $50 upon each completed screening during annual visits. “It created quite an interest in its first week of release,” Sharps says. “We’re looking for as many overtures and interventions that we can have, and one of them is to identify people through screening and referral.

We do know that our kids will do better if they get out of that depressed mindset as they’re growing up.”

Doctors gathered at a recent pediatrics department meeting at Kaiser’s Santa Ana medical office recounted office talks in which preteens revealed they turn to cutting, but saw it as a normal coping mecha-

nism for stress. “With all the media coverage of kids getting bullied, I think it’s hard not to address it,” says Dr. Yvonne Bach. “It takes time. When you get a positive screening, it takes a lot longer than 15 minutes.”

The questionnaire also opens up discussions with pediatricians about puberty, dating violence, drug use and sexuality.

Last year, Kaiser added in-house social workers to each of its medical offices in Orange County.

“I believe that this should be the national standard so that we can identify mental-health issues early and provide treatment that can potentially prevent long-term [problems],” says Dr. Eric Handler, a county health officer who supports the program.

Cortez anticipates his studies will show the benefits of preventative mental-health care for preteens. “This is not about just medicating youth, as many have said,” Cortez says. “We’re preventing depression.”

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» gustavo arellano DEAR MEXICAN: In the St. Louis area, less than 3 percent of the population is Latino, and less than 4 percent of St. Louisans are immigrants. This is very, very, low, and it actually makes St. Louis look pretty bad. Why does everyone here feel like they have a say in the illegal-immigration discussion?

Gaga for Gibson DEAR GABACHO: It gets worse than what you wrote. Of the 25 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, St. Louis is the only one with a Latino population less than 5 percent—and the latest info from the American Community Survey clocks the Gateway City with a whopping 2.9 percent. I could fit more Mexicans in the cab of my ’79 Ford Ranger than there are in St. Louis. The easy answer is to presume the city is muy racist, but it’s also home to the largest Bosnian Serb population in the world outside the Balkans—and most are Muslims. Yet it’s easier than that: St. Louis is just a bit more than four hours away from Chicago, the ciudad with the second-largest Mexican community in the United States after Chicago, a community with roots that go back nearly 125 years. Nothing against the Lou, but why would Mexicans stay in the Jalostotitlán of the Midwest when they can move to the Jerez?

DEAR MEXICAN: Why is it that people in this country seem to think that randomly sprinkling accent marks over something makes it Spanish, rather than realizing that an accent mark marks an accent? Right after reading your column, my eyes fell on an ad for a restaurant serving “authentic Mexican food,” including “molé.” ¿Qué cosa? Sounds like a cross between comida poblana and a bullfight.

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DEAR GABACHA: You know what’s the weirdest thing about this phenomenon? How gabachos will put a tilde over habanero to incorrectly turn it into “habañero,” yet they always neglect the tilde in jalapeño. And then when they pronounce their mistakes! “Habañero” in an American accento to the Mexican ear sounds like someone who likes restrooms, while “jalapeno” sounds like someone who likes to pull pitos. But it’s not a surprise that gabachos do such butchering—according to English, only French is worthy of proper diacritics, while the rest of the world’s language can go jala pene.

DEAR MEXICAN: I’m from Bent, New Mexico (no kidding, and no pun intended), and my dilemma lies in my own idea for a performance piece. To simultaneously transcend all cultural AND sexual borders, I will be in blackface, lip-synching (flawlessly) a rather vocally challenging Sarah Vaughan song, draped in an evening gown made from nothing more than the Mexican flag itself. (And plastic, gold high heels, of course.) As political correctness goes, I understand it’s okay for a black person to perform in blackface, but is it okay for this brown mexicana hombre to go so far?

And garbed in the Mexican flag? Will I be offending or enlightening?

Piña Culera DEAR POCHX: Do it in the American flag, and Hollywood will give you an overall deal—just ask Carlos Mencia.

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CHAPTER ONE Undercover Canadian police couldn’t believe their eyes at the Tycoon Club in Vancouver. Oblivious to the surveillance, law-enforcement colleagues, including two from Southern California, partied inside a hangout for the Big Circle Boys, a violent, Asian, organized-crime family. The Guangzhou-spawned syndicate specialized in extortion, home-invasion robberies and narcotics trade—particularly heroin, international human trafficking and prostitution. At 10:55 p.m., agents watched as a pimp drove up and introduced a female escort to Police Constable Murray Phillips, who guided the summoned woman inside.

Minutes before midnight, 37-year-old Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) detective Ken L. Hoffman, in Vancouver with detective Mark Simon ostensibly on

official public business, emerged from the Tycoon. Officers spied Hoffman as he walked to his brown Budget RentA-Car vehicle, opened a door, grabbed a bottle of cologne, sprayed fragrance over his upper body and re-entered the bar. Not exactly a charmer, the veteran deputy with a nearpermanent scowl didn’t want to smell odorous for the wee hours of his Aug. 28, 1998, carousing with an Asian female.

Tracy Singer, who arrived at the Tycoon on Phillips’ invitation, later told police she believed her constable friend and a “loud and pushy” Simon displayed obvious signs of cocaine use. She felt positive, however, all three cops were intoxicated by alcohol while in the presence of three prostitutes, according to law-enforcement reports obtained by OC Weekly.

She also told investigators that Simon, who’d stripped to his underwear, danced around the club wearing a pink feather boa. Officers observed Hoffman—who’d consumed multiple Jack Daniel’s cocktails, tequila shots and beer— drive his colleague and a woman away at 2:55 a.m. By then, Simon had dressed and given the boa back to his date.

The trio’s excitability didn’t always end near sunrise.

A police report memorialized the displeasure of Teresa Mitchell-Banks, a Vancouver prosecutor handling the Canadian portion of the investigation into a July 1998 robbery/murder at the Jewel Garden Jewelry Store in Lake Forest. Mitchell-Banks recalled, “They were like cowboys, all three of them.”

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The Corruptors » FROM PAGE 9 Phillips, Simon and Hoffman felt they’d earned congratulatory celebrations for supposedly solving the then-three-weekold homicide. Nouhad Sleiman, one of the store owners, died. Her husband, Michael, suffered a gunshot wound, though he did manage to shoot one of the two bandits who robbed him of rings, watches and bracelets worth more than $60,000 on the black market.

In reality, the OCSD probe didn’t require Sherlock Holmes. A telephone call to a Crime Stoppers Tip Line in Canada correctly identified one of the two thieves as James Jordan Wayne Priel, a 21-yearold Vancouver and Laguna Niguel resident. Deputies merely needed to apply elementary Cop 101 practices to wrap up the case. After all, Priel confessed after apprehension, and a physical examination revealed a bullet wound to his waist.

Only one question lingered: Who’d been Priel’s accomplice? Initially, Simon and Hoffman suspected Michael Hanus, whose criminal history included “beatings, breaking and entering, and torturing people,” according to court records.

Hanus helped Priel commit a 1993 robbery. Hardened cops feared him; he once stabbed a live cat to a wall with a knife.

Two eyewitnesses who saw the bandits identified them as white males, but Priel refused to implicate Hanus, a Caucasian from the Czech Republic. He instead fingered 23-year-old David Valladares of Dana Point and minimized his own culpability by naming the Latino of Mexican descent as both the mastermind and killer.

He even claimed Valladares took all the jewelry, an assertion undermined by his own efforts to hide and fence the stolen loot in Vancouver. Seven months after the murder, Simon visited Michael Sleiman and recorded an updated memory: The victim, who’d been shot in the head and had recovered from a coma, now believed one of the assailants had been Mexican.

Forensic testing lifted Valladares’ palm print from the jewelry-store display case, but who knows when it was left? Why were fingerprints of a third man possibly tied to Priel found in the ditched getaway car, a Honda Passport stolen from an Irvine Spectrum shopping mall valet?

And who could trust the unconventional OCSD investigation?

Believing their Canadian conduct would be forever cloaked in secrecy, Phillips, Simon and Hoffman performed three stooge stunts that jeopardized the case from the outset and prompted multiple lengthy probes in two countries. Allegations included falsifying a search-warrant affidavit, illegally seizing evidence, threatening a key witness in a bathroom, misusing taxpayer funds, committing vice acts, driving drunk, confiscating cocaine during a search but failing to book it into the evidence locker, and ordering four pizzas during a house raid in which all three eventually fell asleep.

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While the trio denied wrongdoing, we will likely never know exactly what happened in Canada. Efforts by Valladares’ defense attorneys to decipher events met a roadblock with OCSD internal-affairs officers, including deputy Michelle Hill.

Unlike Vancouver police officials, who took the allegations against Phillips seriously, Hill and her partner, Sergeant Leo Vandor, wrote reports that attempted to largely defend Simon and Hoffman as victims of unfounded allegations. Phillips retired with benefits. The OCSD deputies received wrist-slap punishments of temporary loss of their positions in the homicide unit.

Hill then took the unusual, unauthorized step of taking files on the Canadian exploits home and locking them in her garage for several years. When forced to respond to a court-ordered subpoena, she claimed she’d destroyed the original records but offered a replacement: a heavily redacted version. Hill blamed memory loss for not knowing why she didn’t keep the originals, why she made so many edits and what evidence she’d deleted.

Prosecutors inside the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) harbored a similar desire to protect the deputies’ reputations. Deputy DA Dan McNerney, who nowadays is a superior court judge, refused to meet Vancouver police officials hoping to share their discoveries, evidence he would have been forced to surrender to defense lawyers. In 2005, with prosecutor Mike Murray in charge, the messy case resulted in the two defendents escaping the death penalty or sentences of life in prison without the possibilty of parole. Priel, who’d confessed, received a term of 25 years to life for first-degree murder. Because OCDA knew a trial against Valladares would likely produce more ugly disclosures, he received an even more discounted punishment that allowed

him to be eligible for parole after 15 years for second-degree murder.

Taking a $59,000 annual pension, Simon retired before completion of the case. He is now director of security and investigative services at FULKRA Inc. in Costa Mesa. Meanwhile, fate put Hoffman on the path to plunge into a deeper ethical swamp. And, once again, he’d get OCDA’s protection of himself and his colleagues.

CHAPTER TWO When Michael S. Carona—the topranking bailiff in local courthouses—campaigned for Orange County sheriff in 1998, he assured me his victory would translate to the most ethical law-enforcement management in California. Carona and then-first-term district attorney candidate Tony Rackauckas, who used the same high-powered political consultant, won.

Both soon created fundraising strategies based on selling official agency badges to wealthy contributors. After nearly eight years’ worth of documented revelations of Carona’s corruption, Rackauckas, worried the U.S. Department of Justice would gain interest, held a press conference and, though he’d never made the sheriff a subject of any real investigation, cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Nevertheless, the FBI and IRS criminal division arrested Carona in 2007 after a federal grand jury indicted him for thwarting its efforts to inspect OCSD operations.

During the trial, we learned how the sheriff won office and why he’d named Don Haidl, a gruff if rich and hard-drinking Rancho Cucamonga used-car salesman without a minute of police training, assistant sheriff, overseeing about 4,000 employees and a $700 million annual budget. Haidl gave Carona briefcases loaded

with $100 bills, luxury trips to Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas, a boat, an expensive suit, a bar tab and gambling cash, and use of his private jet to rendezvous with out-of-town women who were not his wife. The sheriff, once the darling of Southern California Republican circles and a man who’d aimed to unseat U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, landed in prison for 66 months.

Carona prefaced his arrest a year earlier by winning national ridicule for his mismanaged jails. Incarceration deputies ran a carrot/stick system that required inmates to divide by race and to obey a boss, known as a shot caller, as well as his assistant, known as a mouse. If an inmate annoyed a deputy, the officer notified the shot caller and expected to have the offender pummeled by a group of other inmates for about 10 or 15 seconds while deputies, who possessed powerful incentive for their wishes to be executed, looked the other way. Failure to carry out a beating meant every inmate in a particular barracks could lose their most prized daily privilege: access to the day room, phones and TV. As Nick Schou, the Weekly’s managing editor, reported in award-winning coverage, deputies were also known to torment inmates facing sexcrime charges by asking them about their cases in front of other inmates, then walking away, creating plausible deniability about a forthcoming assault.

Inside Theo Lacy Jail’s F Barracks West in early October 2006, pretrial inmate John Derek Chamberlain, a 41-year-old Rancho Santa Margarita computer-software engineer facing misdemeanor childpornography-possession charges, called his ex-girlfriend, asking her to have his lawyer, Case Barnett, get him placed in protective custody. A panicked Chamberlain, who couldn’t afford to pay a $2,500 bail fee that would free him from custody until his trial, feared being outed and attacked. Barnett

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firing non-lethal rifle rounds at unsuspecting inmates using toilets, denied revealing Chamberlain’s charges to Petrovich or seeing any hint of a frenzied killing while he sat in a nearby guard station.

Despite the victim’s call to his ex-girlfriend, the deputy produced another selfserving nugget: Before his murder, Chamberlain told him and Chapluk he didn’t want a transfer because he felt “safe.”

Even to some OCSD insiders, the situation appeared to be a mess inside a cesspool. Who could be trusted to figure out the truth or, depending on desire, cover it up? Remember Hoffman from that Canada scandal? OCSD selected him to head the investigation.

The compromised choice of Hoffman couldn’t have been lost on prosecutors or at the sheriff’s department. Murray, who recommended against charging deputies in Chamberlain, saw Hoffman’s Canadian misconduct impact the Priel and Valladares case. Blackburn, who was the OCSD’s point person in the Chamberlain probe, oversaw the internal investigation into the deputy and shared the results with OCDA. Hoffman—who’d seethed in response to the probe into his own conduct in Canada—quickly accepted his co-worker’s denials of giving a “green light” for Chamberlain’s assault, a move accepted by Ebrahim Baytieh, the prosecutor assigned to the case. Their efforts focused on laying all the blame on Petrovich and other inmates while protecting deputies from criminal charges that could have ranged from obstruction of justice to manslaughter or murder. After all, if the PetrovichCarlstrom-Aguilar statements were honest, Petrovich and Taylor were in the same culpability boat: Both purposely uttered statements resulting in the natural and probable cause of placing Chamberlin in grave danger.

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called OCSD and notified deputies.

Hours later, a deputy found a crumpled Chamberlain in a pool of blood. For as long as 30 or 40 minutes, waves of inmates fractured countless bones by punching, kicking and stomping him to death. They’d mocked him as a freak; stripped him of clothes; banged his skull on a steel bunk bed; sodomized him with a pencil, toothpaste tube and spoon; urinated on him; and poured scalding water over his body.

At the time of the incident, Jared Petrovich played shot caller for the barrack’s white inmates. Stephen Carlstrom served as his mouse. Garret Aguilar shared a bunk with Petrovich. All three claimed in the aftermath that deputies Kevin Taylor and Jason Chapluk summoned Petrovich to a pre-assault powwow. According to Petrovich, Taylor asked him if he spoke English and could hear. When he got affirmative answers, he turned to Chapluk and said, “There’s a child molester in J7 . . . and you know what happens when there’s a child molester.”

Chamberlain slept in bunk J7.

For the first time in its history, OCSD defied a formal legal agreement that OCDA take the lead investigatory role in in-custody homicides to prevent a glaring conflict of interest. DA investigator Doug Kennedy told sheriff’s lieutenant Robert Blackburn hours after the murder that OCSD wouldn’t have credibility leading the probe.

According to Kennedy, Blackburn replied he wasn’t worried because his agency had already, in the very early stages of the case, eliminated any deputies as potential suspects. Meanwhile, deputy Phillip Le, who worked with Taylor, claimed he accidentally erased surveillance video of the barracks for the time surrounding Chamberlain’s killing. Le also doctored a log about the deputies’ activities.

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The Corruptors » FROM PAGE 11 As when Rackauckas tried to assist Carona, the DA convened a grand jury to demonstrate that Orange County law enforcement could police itself without federal intervention. He issued a scathing report after the hearings. It turns out that jail deputies routinely used their work shifts to sleep, play electronic games, watch TV, conduct personal business, visit gyms, surf the internet, read books, chat with girlfriends, encourage inmate-oninmate violence, ignore medical emergencies to minimize paperwork, fabricate logs to create phantom job accomplishments and apply for overtime pay. Those tidbits were fascinating, but they sidestepped the most important issue: Did deputies play any role in Chamberlain’s demise?

Rackauckas didn’t take on Taylor or two other deputies whom he handed immunity from prosecution, Chapluk and Le. His staffers asked zero questions of Hoffman, the man in the middle of the sham investigation. Most telling, as the grand jury report noted, the DA let three other deputies on duty during the incident lie to the grand jury and hide records without consequences. None of them were charged with perjury or obstruction of justice.

At trial, defense lawyers for the accused inmates were kept in the dark about two key issues: Hoffman’s background and OCSD’s then-secret employment of jailhouse informants to help secure tainted convictions. Special Handling Unit deputy Seth Tunstall testified on Aug. 18, 2011, that he developed and managed in-custody snitches and possessed specific OCSD records (called TREDs) to prove that Sean James Pough, a serial thief, told the truth when he claimed he lived in various modules with as many as six of the inmates suspected of attacking Chamberlain, and, supposedly without any government prompting, tricked the government targets into making incriminating statements.

To bolster Pough’s credibility with the jury, Baytieh got Pough to testify he “never had any expectation” his work for OCDA would be rewarded with a reduction of the pending nine-year prison punishment in his own case after compiling eight felony convictions in the span of 12 years.

“You were surprised [when my office lowered your sentence to just four years]?”

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Pough responded, “Yes, I was.”

Hoffman, who seemed to make it appear in records as though Pough decided to work as a snitch out of the goodness of his heart, felt the need to supplement his own trial testimony. During proceedings, three witnesses in audience seating, including Schou, saw the detective signaling Chapluk as he fielded questions about Chamberlain on the witness stand. (Taylor refused to testify.) They saw Hoffman nod his head affirmatively before Chapluk answered, “yes”; shake his head to indicate the negative before Chapluk said, “no”; and shrug his shoulders before Chapluk

stated he didn’t know an answer. Presiding Judge James Stotler gingerly cautioned Hoffman, but he took no further action.

Baytieh used his closing statement to mock defense attorneys’ belief prosecutors protected dirty deputies. “Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor,” he said before labeling concerns about the deputy as “bashing the badge” through unfounded insinuation. “Lots of talking about Taylor. . . . This is not about Taylor. It’s easy to take shots at him.

There’s nobody here defending him.”

Except, of course, for himself and Hoffman.

The case’s outcome elated OCSD and OCDA officials. All the inmate defendants charged either accepted a plea bargain or were convicted. Though Taylor would leave the department followed by Hoffman, no deputy tied to the Chamberlain case faced even a misdemeanor charge. A California Court of Appeal ruled the OCSD’s biased investigation and outrageous government conduct didn’t impact the rights of the defendants. Tunstall and Baytieh proceeded to the next ethical disaster.

CHAPTER THREE Following Carona’s conviction, courthouse observers hoped first appointed, later elected Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, a Dana Point resident and retired veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, would reform the scandal-scarred OCSD as an outsider. In the wake of the Chamberlain fiasco, Hutchens promised to hold deputies accountable for misconduct, curtail their ability to doctor department records and make the agency more transparent. “I am an agent of change,” Hutchens said at her 2008 appointment on a 3-2 vote of the Board of Supervisors. “I will be a change agent for the sheriff’s department.”

While she hasn’t been mired in sex and bribery scandals akin to her predecessor, Hutchens’ lack of integrity guided the department into its messiest quagmire since Chamberlain: the nearly 4-yearold Orange County jailhouse-informant scandal that has won national embarrassment. Jail deputies systematically trampled long-established law to violate the rights of pretrial, in-custody inmates who couldn’t afford bail or were denied it. A half-century-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Massiah v. United States) states the constitution prohibits law-enforcement officials—and their agents, such as informants—from questioning charged defendants who have legal representation. There’s a loophole, of sorts: If an inmate not working at the direction of law enforcement accidentally overhears another inmate making self-incriminating statements, that evidence can be used to win convictions.

Taking advantage of a general public belief in their honesty and the loophole, OCSD deputies secretly ran “capers” that involved moving their informants near government targets and tasking them with collecting incriminating information.

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mendation for cultivating snitches. Thousands of pages of internal OCSD records spanning years recorded Garcia’s handling of the agency’s most prolific informants.

But during Goethals’ lengthy evidentiary hearings, Tunstall, Garcia and Grover testified under oath that they couldn’t answer questions about nonexistent informants and nonexistent records of informants. Sanders thoroughly exposed the lies before Goethals steamed that deputies committed flagrant perjury. The DA and Hutchens refused to punish the misconduct, alarming the judge—himself a former well-respected homicide prosecutor. In March 2015, Goethals recused Rackauckas and his entire office from the case, believing they wouldn’t stop condoning law-enforcement corruption. The

DA labeled the move ridiculous, but a unanimous state appellate panel disagreed. The California Attorney General’s office assumed prosecution responsibilities for the pending punishment stage in Dekraai.

Lost in the ongoing enormity of the snitch scandal, which so far has overturned 15 murder and attempted-murder cases, is a point that underscores why Orange County law enforcement direly needs a cleansing. While Hutchens and her deputies denied using informants for more than three years, Baytieh, who’d taken Tunstall’s testimony about snitch use in Chamberlain, stayed silent about the deputies’ perjury. He also remained mum when his OCDA colleagues repeatedly labeled Sanders a conspiracy nut in

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Baytieh wasn’t just knowledgable about OCSD’s highly active informant program.

He’d also participated in the scheme. For example, court disclosures made this month

by Sanders accuse the senior prosecutor of orchestrating an eight-year cover-up to protect his tainted cold-case murder convictions against Paul Gentile Smith. Deputies had placed Smith in Mod L-20, which housed him with three other inmates—all secretly OCSD informants. If Baytieh had disclosed that fact during Smith’s 2009 trial, the snitch scandal would have been born five years earlier. Only a fool would believe that a government target accidentally landed in a jail area surrounded only by snitches. So, the deputy DA gave the judge, jury and Smith the impression there’d been only one informant, Arthur Palacios, a move that robbed the defense of arguing Palacios’ claims were inadmissible.

An irony-deaf Rackauckas, whose prosecutions benefitted from OCSD cheating, named Baytieh to head his public-relations campaign to portray the scandal as “baloney.”

The senior deputy DA told a UC Irvine School of Law crowd in July 2016, “I can tell you categorically, the notion there is a systematic effort or a systematic program by prosecutors in this county to hide evidence and lie about it in court is absolutely, categorically false.”

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Later, snitches testified in court they’d come forward without assistance and were motivated solely by altruistic societal aims.

In other words, juries were duped into believing law enforcement hadn’t cheated and that the informants’ testimony must be credible since it hadn’t been bought with perks and punishment reductions.

In January 2014, Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders exposed the scams in People v. Scott Dekraai, a deathpenalty case stemming from the worst mass killing in Orange County history, the 2011 massacre of eight people at a Seal Beach salon. Rackauckas and Hutchens didn’t need to cheat. Dekraai confessed immediately after the shootings. Nonetheless, hoping to learn potential defense strategy against the defendant, OCDA and OCSD violated Massiah, wrongly believing that nobody would ever figure out their behind-the-scenes maneuvers.

Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals, who presides in Dekraai, conducted special evidentiary hearings in 2014 and 2015 after Hutchens defied his court orders to surrender evidence of the department’s illegal scheming; she insists to this day that OCSD doesn’t employ jailhouse informants.

Summoned to the witness stand to explain informant use against Dekraai, Tunstall— and his colleagues in the Special Handling unit Ben Garcia and Bill Grover—were in a bind. Tunstall, you may recall, testified in Chamberlain that he’d used snitches for years and memorialized their cell movements. Grover received an employee com-

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‘Golden Dreams’ They’ve been called “chinks,” “Okies,” “wabs,” “Arkies,” “nips,” “illegals,” “anchor babies,” “gooks,” “slopeheads,” “dune coons” and more—yet California has been the golden state for immigrants for more than 150 years.

It’s that promise and peril that informs the paintings in “Golden Dreams: The Immigrant Vision of California,” the current exhibit at Chapman University’s new-ish Hilbert Museum of California Art. The offerings date back to the 1940s, varying in style from the realistic (Alfredo Ramos Martinez’s Madonna-and-child-esque Mother and Child from 1945) to abstract constructions. All possess the simultaneous sense of joy and pain felt by immigrants at the reality of living in a state that wants your labor but not your culture—or are we just talking about the “hajis”?

“Golden Dreams: The Immigrant Vision of California” at Hilbert Museum of California Art, 167 N. Atchison St., Orange, (714) 5165880; www.hilbertmuseum.com. 11 a.m.

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Irvine Heritage Park Library offers a modest, family-friendly comic book love-in for its first Comic Orange. Comic artist hopefuls can gather around the workshops, crafts, caricature portraits and face painting, while taking the obligatory selfies with cosplayers dressed as Star Wars and Avengers characters. You, too, are encouraged to come dressed up as your favorite comic-book hero (or foe!) and listen in on a keynote speech by internationally syndicated cartoonist Kevin Fagan, who pens the daily strip “Drabble.” Who knows—your little kiddie could grow up to be the next Bill Watterson.

Comic Orange at Irvine Heritage Park Library, 14361Yale Ave., Irvine, (949) 9364040; www.ocpl.org/libloc/heritage.

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Doheny Blues Festival In honor of the Doheny Blues Festival’s 20th anniversary, a pair of heavy hitters—Joe Walsh and Melissa Etheridge—each headline a day, with a powerhouse lineup filling its three stages. While Led Zeppelin were hoped to headline a prospective Desert Trip, those hitting the beach will have to settle for Jason Bonham’s Led ZepMORE pelin Experience, ONLINE where the drumOCWEEKLY.COM mer pays tribute to dad’s old band.

Other highlights include Chris Isaak, Mavis Staples and Canned Heat, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary. With an array of classy food vendors, top-notch beer tastings and a wine lounge, Doheny Blues Festival continues to innovate and reinvent its experience as it sprints into its third decade.

Doheny Blues Festival at Doheny State Beach, 25300 Dana Point Harbor Dr., Dana Point; dohenybluesfestival.com. 11 a.m.; also Sun. $20-$250. —DANIEL KOHN

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Come out and say, “Opa!” to the annual OC Greek Festival, a comprehensive sound-sight-and-taste fest that features the best and most notable aspects of Greek culture and cuisine. Enjoy the dances and attire of traditional folk music, played by bouzouki, baglama and tzoura players the Olympians and Friends. Feast on authentic Greek foods and pastries, some of which were homemade by the parishioners and volunteers at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. Allow the kiddies to play games or check out the carnival rides in Zorba’s Kid Zone; peruse the menagerie of vendors offering their multicultural wares and services.

Broaden your cultural palate and get to know the rich foods of Greece beyond the typical gyros and honey!

OC Greek Festival at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, 405 N. Dale St., Anaheim, (714) 827-0181; ocgreekfest.com. 3 p.m.; also Sat.Sun. $3. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Long Beach Pride The city’s massive pride parade is back to support the LGBTQI and their families, as well as to create visibility and understanding.

It’s also one hell of a good time. Pride hosts a wide range of festival food and gourmet food trucks, but the action really happens on the music stages and in the dance tent. The Main Stage features Chaka Kahn, Jody Watley,

Flame and Bearcoon. The day starts with an awards presentation and tribute to the victims of the Orlando Pulse, featuring a performance from Men Alive Chorus, followed by the parade, fronted by this year’s celebrity grand marshal, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Lisa Vanderpump.

Long Beach Pride at 450 Shoreline Dr., Long Beach, (562) 987-9191; longbeachpride.com. 11 a.m. $20-$25; children younger than 12, seniors, and active and retired military members, free.

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Yorba Linda Pet Fair The Imperial Highway Animal Clinic hosts the second-annual Yorba Linda Pet Fair, giving pet owners a chance to give their beloved furry and/or clawed family members some much-needed TLC. Bring your cat or dog down to get discounts on essential vaccinations, checkups and playtime, while pet seminars provide insight on how to better attend

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If your heart is open, the clinic will also allow you to adopt a new four-legged pal. Proceeds from this doggone good day will go toward numerous pet charities including the 4Life Animal Rescue, Helping Herders Rescue and Bichon Rescue of OC. Yorba Linda Pet Fair at Imperial Highway Animal Clinic, 17455 Imperial Hwy., Yorba Linda, (714) 996-7610; www.imperialhac. com. 11 a.m. Free. —AIMEE MURILLO

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The ever-evolving Buttertones continue impressing with the recently released Gravedigging (Innovative Leisure). Their surf style, romantic tenor sax and rippling guitar chords take on haunted undertones in songs such as “Geisha’s Gaze” and “Moroccan Monsoon.” Highlighting Richard Araiza’s resonating vocals, the full-length— produced and recorded by Jonny Bell of Jazzcats Studio in Long Beach—is piercing, flirtatiously dark and action-packed, with artwork designed by Hanni El Khatib.

Buttertones, Slay Squad, Joe McFly, Dumb Fucks and a special guest headliner at the Constellation Room, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; www. observatoryoc.com. 8 p.m. $13.

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The late multigenre director Jonathan Demme’s landmark 1984 “concert film” Stop Making Sense makes good sense as outstanding cinema, as cinematography, as collaboration and more. The Frida Cinema sensibly kicks off its Stranger Than Fiction documentary series with this screening of the stylishly iconic and provocative Talking Heads and backing ensemble shot at an LA show featuring the gesticulation, perturbation, African syncopation and cryptically, mysteriously, richly reductivist lyrics that so define their experimental pop genius. Digitally remastered. Dolby. Surround Sound. Oh, and David Byrne’s famous Big Suit.

Stop Making Sense at the Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana, (714) 2859422; thefridacinema.org. 8 p.m. $7-$10.

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The Big Lebowski The Coen Brothers have defined themselves as two of the most prolific directors in cinema, with Oscars on their mantels, an upcoming retrospective in Sacramento, and aTV series adapted from their classic film Fargo. But of all the memorable characters they’ve ever created, let’s face it: The Big Lebowski is No. 1 (and that’s not just our opinion, man). Jeff Bridges stars as the disheveled, White Russian-loving Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, who, with his buddies Donny (Steve Buscemi) and Walter Sobchak (the inimitable John Goodman), gets mixed up in a case of mistaken identity and a phony ransom plot.The worst part?They peed on his rug. Whole festivals have been devoted to El Duderino, and after checking out this film—presented on the big screen tonight—it’s not hard to see why.

The Big Lebowski at Regency South Coast, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 557-5701; www.regencymovies.com.

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Experiencing a Grateful Dead show was not so much comparable to seeing a rock concert as it was to being part of a unique event.The set lists were never the same, the performance of any of their tunes was nuanced, the parking-lot scene was a beauteous hippy bazaar, and the vibe was irrefutably and universally loving. Long Strange Trip, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is the first official documentary about the group, and it is epic.The nearly four-hour film (executive produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by Amir Bar-Lev) has been critically lauded as a wondrously inspirational episode of musical history and an honest portrayal of the tragedy that led to the death of the Dead’s ringmaster, Jerry Garcia.

Long StrangeTrip:The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead at the Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435; www.arttheatrelongbeach.org. 3 & 8 p.m. $8.50-$11.50. —SCOTT FEINBLATT

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René Magritte is an icon among icons when it comes to art, a surrealist whose ideas and imagery persist and even thrive within our culture today. As with Salvador Dalí, you know his work even if you don’t know his work—surely you’ve met his man with the bowler hat by now? Author and lecturer (and more!) Jacqueline Hahn, M.A., closes her Beyond the Canvas series with this presentation on the 20th-century titan. Magritte’s particular aesthetic has aged extremely well—you’ll spot his imagery in ads, other art, online, in the streets and more—but as the title suggests, there’s much more to Magritte than a single iconic image. As the man himself demonstrated in 1928, the image is never the real thing.

“Beyond the Canvas: René Magritte” at Newport Beach Library, 1000 Avocado Ave., Newport Beach, (949) 717-3800; www.newportbeachlibrary.org. 7 p.m. Free.

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Brothers Henry, Jojo and Ringo Garza are treasured musicians of Texas-tinged, bluesy rock & roll, informed from their upbringing in San Angelo. After playing in a band with their father in their youth, the brothers debuted their own group in the mid-’90s with the hit single “Heaven.”

Espousing genre-blending styles and touching on a range of subject matter from mortality, compassion, love and darkness, the brothers’ inspiration for their music comes from a shared desire to confront their inner truths and uplift listeners with soulful, dramatic lyrics. Having come a long way from “Heaven,” with numerous collaborations and hits in the span of their 14-year career, Los Lonely Boys will serenade us all tonight at the Coach House, making us feel a little less lonely.

Los Lonely Boys at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com. 8 p.m. $39.50. —AIMEE MURILLO

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But when I did, an interesting thing happened. After taking a bite of Nobu’s signature dish—the miso-marinated roasted black cod—I realized I wasn’t tasting it for the first time. It was something I’ve had before at Cafe Hiro in Cypress— and for half the price.

I knew that Hiro Ohiwa, Cafe Hiro’s chef and owner, used to work at Matsuhisa, but I didn’t know that his version of this dish was so spot-on compared to Nobu’s that it made the $36 cost seem really excessive. Factor in that Ohiwa’s dish also includes a side, a soup and a salad at no additional charge, and Nobu’s price tag became downright unreasonable.

In fact, a lot of the food I tried at Nobu that night (and paid a premium for) I’ve had elsewhere in Orange County. The thick yellowtail sashimi—arranged in a pinwheel, swimming in a ponzu-like sauce and topped with razor-thin slices of jalapeño—was similar to what Hamamori has offered for years at South Coast Plaza.

And the salmon wrapped around pear was coolly refreshing, but it wasn’t unlike something I’ve had at Newport Coast’s Bluefin a decade ago.

I guess it speaks to Matsuhisa’s monumental influence on other chefs that his Peruvian-Japanese flavor profiles have proliferated and become commoditized, even in Orange County. But it has made me conclude that dining at Nobu now is akin to buying anything at Prada: You’re not paying for the raw materials, the labor or the craftsmanship; you’re paying for the brand.

This became all too evident with the fish and chips, which was a midpriced item at $38. I got three tempura-battered fish sticks and fries carefully stacked in a

tic-tac-toe pattern. As if to justify the cost, our waitress described it as “interactive,” but I found that only meant it came with three bowls of different flavored salts and two dipping sauces.

Where that left me was underwhelmed and balking that I also paid $14 for two burnt-tasting baked oysters with panko and sliced truffles. By comparison, a $9 “snack” of overfried okra seemed like a bargain. But even the reasonably priced $10 salmon-skin roll didn’t have the crunch that’s supposed to be a hallmark of the sushi bar staple.

Don’t get me wrong: Nobu is not a bad restaurant. It’s far from it. It has been a month since its opening, and it already runs like a well-oiled machine with servers who are a rare combination of charm, knowledge and attentiveness. Our waitress, in particular, seemed to know every aspect of the menu as though it were her graduate thesis.

But as I looked out the window to the sparkling view of Newport Harbor and ate dessert—a refreshing anmitsu with pieces of melon formed into pearls—I couldn’t help but wonder what I would’ve thought of Matsuhisa’s food if I ate it in 1987, when it was still groundbreaking. I think I would’ve been as impressed as De Niro was. For sure, it wouldn’t have cost OC Weekly more than $200.

NOBU 3450 Via Oporto, Ste. 101, Newport Beach, (949) 429-4440; noburestaurants.com. Open Mon.-Thurs., 4-11:30 p.m.; Fri., 4 p.m.12:30 a.m.; Sat., 11:30 a.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sun., 11:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Dinner for two, $150$250, food only. Full bar.

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he first time I encountered a Nobu restaurant, it was at Caesars Palace in Vegas. The next time, it was at the Four Seasons in Lana’i, Hawaii, and then at a fancy mall in Melbourne, Australia. All three times, I said to myself, “Someday, when I can afford it, I will dine here.” As with everyone who has heard of its legendary chef and namesake, Nobu Matsuhisa, I knew of his stature as one of the most successful and famous sushi chefs on Earth. And to eat his food, I believed at the time, was to finally touch the Finger of God. This was, after all, the chef who impressed Robert De Niro so much at Matsuhisa, his original restaurant in LA, that the actor invited him to open the first Nobu in New York. Since then, De Niro and Matsuhisa have grown their brand to become the Prada of Japanese restaurants, with locations not just in Milan and London, but also throughout the fashionable world.

A longtime favorite of the Hollywood A-list, Matsuhisa has also been in a couple of movies. He’s the guy who did the shishito pepper bit in Austin Powers in Goldmember. “We cast Nobu,” Mike Myers would later quip, “because if it was 8 o’clock on Saturday night and we wanted to go to Matsuhisa, which is always packed, we’d still be able to get a table. We’re not idiots. It’s the best food on the planet.”

So when Nobu finally opened in Newport Beach, I knew the time had come: I was going to spend a lot of OC Weekly’s money. Most important, I was finally going to taste the cuisine of the man who kick-started Iron Chef Morimoto’s career and shaped the global course of modern Japanese food.

By Edwin GoEi

rvine is blessed in many ways—great schools, an abundance of parkland, no more Larry Agran as mayor. But something the town of a thousand beiges doesn’t get enough credit for is the evolution of its food scene—perhaps the most improved of any city in my 15 years as this infernal rag’s food critic. When I started, there were a couple of Persian and Taiwanese delis and the late, great Britta’s, with little else to write about. Now, Irvine is Diamond Jamboree and TRADE, Wholesome Choice and Indian restaurants, Filipino markets and awesome burgers— and more restaurants are on the way.

Nowhere is this rise better documented than in the many shopping-plaza restaurants designed specifically to feed office drones on the go. Even a decade ago, most of the entries in this genre were sad, smelly delis with 100 different sandwiches, none of them edible. But now most are like Mediterrania Grill. The only menu is the bright marquee above the cash register. There are no seats inside because you’re expected to go back to your cubicle or sit outside in the communal seating. The parking lot is packed. Orders are fast and affordable.

And the food? Delicious.

Even though Mediterrania tries to mainstream itself as much as possible— the good falafels get labeled as “falafel bites,” even though they’re regularly sized; shawerma gets shoved into a bowl; and there’s even a burger—there is the foundation of a great Middle Eastern restaurant beneath all the spiel.

The tabouli is bright and light; the kebabs and shawermas, as luscious as anything you can find in Little Arabia. It even has toum, the infamous garlic spread that can dissolve a cinderblock. Though pared down here for Irvine tastes, the condiment is still delicious and should go on everything—even the salads.

I wonder about what Mediterrania’s chefs could do if they had a full restaurant and could offer a larger menu, which is something I usually don’t think about when eating at a place frequented by office drones. But such has been the evolution of Irvine’s dining scene. Kudos to ustedes—now, get yourself a Mexican restaurant worthy of the late, great Taléo.

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ou won’t find anyone who speaks even a lick of English at Huong Giang. Placing an order will involve pointing at it on the menu, then holding up fingers to communicate how many of it you want.

But whatever you end up getting, whether you intended to order it or not, it will be great, especially if it’s from the first page of house specialties.

You do, however, need to make sure one of them is the bánh bèo dia. These are the freshly steamed, bite-sized cakes made from rice flour that you only find in restaurants that specialize in Hue cuisine.

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mouth, the delicate, pudding-like texture of the cake melts while sprinkled toppings of pulverized shrimp, fried onions and pork rinds add flavor and crunch.

It’s a wondrous experience that’s worth breaking through the language barrier. But if all else fails, just bring in this article or show the photo above on your phone. A food picture is worth a thousand hand gestures.

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The cocktail makes great use of its ingredients—floral Kikori Japanese rice whiskey, tart calamansi syrup and egg white—to offer something that balances the scales between sweet, bitter and strong. But it’s the egg white that gives this tangy drink a smooth, creamy body. Chef Ryan Garlitos will also be offering new shareable dishes as daily specials, beginning with lumpia shanghai, a Filipino egg roll stuffed with ground pork,

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carrots and daikon radish. Rice bowls, previously only offered during lunch, will also be available at the bar during happy hour. Tagay to hopefully seeing some isaw and chicharon on the bar menu!

IRENIA 400 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, (657) 245-3466; www.ireniarestaurant.com.

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most approachable place (a second Long Beach location opened downtown in 2013) to experience its possibilities in action.

Take, for instance, the salsiccia e funghi pizza, always a symphony of simplicity topped with nothing more than meat, cheese, mushrooms and sauce. These days, though, the base layer, a tangy herb-flecked red sauce, is made from hand-crushed San Marzano tomatoes purchased directly from an Italian grower.

The mushrooms might not come from a local farm, but you better believe Dene has met the person who grows them.

And the crumbles of fennel sausage come directly from Working Class Kitchen.

Fresh pasta is another sweet benefit to having sister restaurants, and the downtown pizzeria’s once-minimal noodle menu has expanded to include more options.

While classics such as Bolognese and carbonara remain safe bets, a new pesto pasta on a recent visit to the Naples Island spot was as refreshing as a shot of green juice, with a generous heap of fingerling potatoes, pine nuts and green beans.

Michael’s Pizzeria is proof that streamlining your supply chain doesn’t mean cutting corners on quality or dumbing down products to save a few pennies. By internally managing the way food goes from raw ingredient to a customer’s plate, Dene is setting an example that more restaurateurs should follow. After all, why settle for worse for less when you can get better for a little bit more?

MICHAEL’S PIZZERIA 210 E. Third St., Long Beach, (562) 491-2100; also at 5616 E. Second St., Long Beach, (562) 987-4000; www.michaelspizzeria.com.

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ichael Dene knows a thing or two about vertical integration. The Long Beach restaurateur spent a lifetime of work selling cheap lamps (the kind you buy for your dorm room), building atop his father’s business by taking control of the entire supply chain. Instead of just buying cheap parts from China for his lamps, he became his own source for parts, living half the year in China and taking on manufacturing for the individual pieces necessary to build his final product.

Not only did he have control over the cost of each part, but he could make things better in quality, too.

“When I was building lamps, it wasn’t ‘worse for less’; it was ‘better for a little bit more,’” he told me a few years ago.

So it only makes sense that when he retired to Long Beach and launched a second career to fix the problem that there were no good fine-dining restaurants like the kinds from his jet-set life (really, the workaholic got bored), the Italian-American Dene couldn’t help but build it into a vertically integrated business similar to his lamp empire.

Michael’s On Naples, his recently refreshed white-tablecloth Italian restaurant built near Dene’s house in tony Naples Island, came first. Then came Michael’s Pizzeria, a more casual sliver of an eatery offering perfectly bubbly Neapolitan pizzas and gooey calzone-like rotolinos made in an imported stone oven, which hit right as the build-your-own Napoli-style pie became trendy.

At both, Dene and his chefs insisted on crafting as much as they could from scratch, making mozzarella in-house and buying produce from local farms. But it wasn’t until Dene decided to open the Italian steakhouse Chianina in 2013 that he made his first major investment in foodsupply-chain management: the purchase of an entire herd of rare Chianina cows, of which he now oversees the breeding, raising, shipping and slaughter. The animal butchery Working Class Kitchen, opened in 2015, became prep HQ for not only meat, but also all the made-in-house products needed at Dene’s restaurants.

Which brings me back to the pizza, which was good even before its Zagat recognition as one of the top-rated pizzerias in the country left pizza snobs severely confused (mostly because they’d never heard of the place). Now that Michael’s Pizzeria is fully integrated into Dene’s controlled supply of fresh Italian products, it’s the

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ot dogs, tacos, gyros . . . the food we’ll always find at a picnic or amusement park that speaks to us the most is the humble burger. And there are enough joints in OC that produce a quality meal that we’re assembling our favorite local brands.

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BURGER PARLOR

From Beverly Hills chef to Fullerton popup to brick-and-mortar, Joseph Mahon saw his dream to fruition and became a neighborhood favorite. We thank him for diversifying his beer selection to include more local taps to pair with those tasty meals. 204 N. Harbor Blvd., Fullerton, (714) 441-2003; also at 149 N. Glassell St., Orange, (714) 602-8220; www.burgerparlor.com.

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George Makri’s signature burger manages to put the weight of all its available ingredients in perfect alignment. 421 E. La Habra Blvd., La Habra, (562) 245-7208; also at 18120 Brookhurst St., Fountain Valley, (714) 965-6707; and 13256 Jamboree Rd..

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This skate-oriented spot holds a greasy place in OC Weekly tattoo columnist Josh Chesler’s heart, as evidenced by his description of the bun: “It maintains the structural integrity of the burger, not falling apart when the grease and sauces seep through. The patty itself is a solid mix of the greasy mess from your favorite diner and a well-seasoned version of a classic fastfood burger.” 7561 Center Ave., Huntington Beach, (714) 895-2800; www.grinderzhb.com.

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Seated at the right angle, and you’ll actually watch someone grinding beef and/ or removing fresh-baked buns out of the oven. We are always down for the Goodnight/Good Cause burger, which donates $1 to a local charity that changes monthly. Complete your meal with some green chile queso fries and something hoppy. 3030 El Camino Real, Tustin, (714) 505-2337; also at 401 Newport Center Dr., Ste. 311, Newport Beach, (949) 640-2337; www.hopdoddy.com.

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Hawking some of the most creative meatand-bun combos around (bulgogi, buffalo or kangaroo, anyone?), we’ll always know them as the pioneers of the bacon/beef patty blend. 6362 E. Santa Ana Canyon Rd., Anaheim, (714) 685-1103; also at 8082 Adams Ave., Huntington Beach, (714) 5945730; www.slaters5050.com.

THE HABIT BURGER GRILL

With 10 locations in OC and counting, this little chain that could is secretly planning world domination. We’re giddy about the Santa Barbara-style of grilled sourdough, cheese and avocado. Various locations; www.habitburger.com.

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The OGs of customization. We were on a bison kick for a while, but we are now rediscovering its signature burger options. 2981 Michelson Dr., Irvine, (949) 596-7227; also at 1104 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach, (949) 642-0700; www. thecounterburger.com.

TK BURGERS

Dave Mau waxes poetic on his fascination with this laid-back chain: “Maybe what makes TK Burger so good is its spiritus, its anime, maybe even mojo . . . but whatever it is, I’ll take it.” Various locations; www.tkburgers.com.

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Do we even need to explain ourselves?

Drive-thrus that wrap around the building. The reason to stay up past midnight on any given day. A secret menu nobody tires of. Simplicity is its secret, as its few ingredients are of the utmost freshness.

And quality eats never go out of style.

Various locations; www.in-n-out.com.

A Los Angeles chain that literally brands its luxe burgers, Umami likes partnering up with celebs. While the creations are definitely a mouthful, those previously off-menu tots are worth the visit alone.

The Manly is a favorite, but don’t dismiss the non-beef specialties. Various locations; www.umamiburger.com.

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Meet the Sleep Dealer

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Alex Rivera looks back on the legacy of his sci-fi magnum opus

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about Blade Runner or Ghost In the Shell, these kinds of hundred-billion-dollar-plus films because your future world is about skyscrapers and flying cars and big action set pieces. If that’s what you think science fiction is, then you’re not going to make one as a young independent filmmaker from a marginalized community.

In the case of Sleep Dealer, I took a different approach, which was, “I’m gonna look at the future from the point of view not of a cop or Tom Cruise, but from an outsider.” So once you start to look at the future from that point of view, you can imagine low-budget science fiction because you’re starting your character—in this case, my character’s from Oaxaca, Mexico, in the countryside, so there aren’t fantastic skyscrapers or flying cars. So that’s shifting the POV of what the future is, who’s gonna take us through it, and that’s the project of decolonizing our own imaginations and hopefully reinvigorating the genre of science fiction because it needs to be rebooted.

How do you foresee Latinos in science fiction and how the genre can retain the relevancy of Sleep Dealer?

Well, I think it’s important to know that Latino science fiction does not mean, in my mind, putting Latino actors in the same old science-fiction texts. What it means is looking at the unique lived experiences and historical journey of the Latino community, and then thinking, inventing and imagining ways of saying something meaningful about that history and those experiences through this genre.

And it has to start with a belief that Latino history has something to contribute to the national conversation. We need to start with that discussion of who we are and why are we here and where do we come from—those types of deep reflections— and once you have a grip on some of those answers to the big questions, then you can spin out new science-fictional tales that can riff on that.

Science-fiction films with radical points— for instance, Metropolis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Children of Men—are reflecting a political point of view, but throughout the course of cinema and history, there’s very few times when films have impacted real change. As a filmmaker, you can crystalize a solution or truth on a global issue through art, but as a filmmaker, how do you work to effect change?

To be a socially committed artist, you have to be a bit dumb or crazy, and I hope I’m the latter. It’s the wrong struggle to make the world better, creating a culture that is visionary, guided by values of justice and equality that are as diverse as the country we live in, that is an essential battleground, and I do see the stakes in that process as life or death. The work of being a filmmaker can, in the long term, save many lives as a doctor, but it’s a slower work, a work with less concrete and immediate results. But over the years, we can build a better culture and a better and more just society.

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of the nightmarish elements of the film Sleep Dealer to be accurate, but I guess it retains the film as prescient for the times, so what do you wish people can take away from the film the most?

ALEX RIVERA: Sleep Dealer is a strange film because it’s now almost 10 years old, but it was projecting into a future that we now partly live in. When you see it today, it looks partly like science fiction and partly like documentary, and it explores a lot of different themes that rotate around one axis, and that axis is what happens to the world when we have concrete, sealed borders, but [also] a digital culture that transcends borders. The film is a kind of speculation on globalization gone mad.

You devised this in the late ’90s, and it was released in the mid-2000s, and now it’s finding a resurgence, so maybe as the years

go along, it will be more and more relevant, especially now, as we live in the times of Trump in which immigrants are villainized and whatnot.

It’s a very powerful rhetoric around immigrants coming to the U.S. to steal jobs and a political culture that tries to pit one working person—maybe he was born in this country—against a person who was born in a different country.

By using science fiction and imagining this future world, one of the things I’m trying to illustrate is that the enemies of working people are not working people, but a system in which it tries to exploit people in a never-ending variety of ways until people get their shit together and fight back. The enemy is not the foreign-born worker; the enemy is an amoral capitalism that seeks nothing but profit. It doesn’t care about people’s livelihoods or people’s well-being, and so science fiction has been a wonderful, creative space because it lets you play out those scenarios and insert characters and let them run with it.

This film speaks a lot to the Latino community for its themes on border politics, immigrant labor, etc. I read an earlier interview with you in which you explained that science fiction is in the genetics of Latino culture, but I don’t really recall a lot of Latino cinema that dives into the science-fiction genre. Why do you think that is?

I think the blockages that prevent marginalized groups from imagining the future of science fiction are multiple. One is imagining a future that we can finance. If you think of science-fiction films, you think

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lex Rivera’s science-fiction flick Sleep Dealer was released nearly a decade ago, but it remains relevant for its radical vision of a future world we now live in, with increased border patrol, digital culture, natural-resource containment and drone warfare. It’s an amazingly prophetic film, especially when you recognize the concept was developed in the mid-’90s.

Now, as the film picks up even more interest, especially within the Latino community, I chatted with Rivera to discuss the legacy of the film, as well as how to keep the sci-fi genre fresh and inclusive for indie filmmakers.

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Chasin’ Bandits Art and the Zen of Motorcycle Racing (or Lunch With Billy Al).

The documentary about artist Billy Al Bengston, who has work in the Laguna Art Museum-produced California Masters series, screens as part of the museum’s 2017 Film Night program. Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Dr., Laguna Beach, (949) 4948971. Thurs., May 18, 7 p.m. Free with museum admission.

Call Me Kuchu. Award-winning 2012 documentary about openly gay activists in Uganda working to defeat legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by death. Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 4385435. Thurs., May 18, 7 p.m. Free.

Young Frankenstein. The best comedy collaboration with Mel Brooks to display Gene Wilder’s genius writing and comedic acting. The Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; thefridacinema.org. Thurs., May 18, 8 p.m. $7-$10.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Covers the events that led up to the original series, which was a small-screen sensation as it unraveled a murder mystery in the Pacific Northwest. Need to catch up before the movie? Fire up those streaming services or the CBS app. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Fri., 11 p.m. $7-$10.

Deconstructing the Beatles: Rubber Soul. Composer Scott Freeman returns to dissect another classic album from the Fab Four. Art Theatre, (562) 438-5435. Sat., 11 a.m. Call for ticket prices.

Sunset Blvd. A struggling screenwriter (William Holden) finds the easy life in the mansion of faded silent film queen Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). Due to Norma’s escalating madness, things don’t end so well for the writer. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Sat.-Sun., 1:30 p.m. $7.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Elliott, little

Drew Barrymore’s scream and dudes in space suits are back for the ultimate going-home flick. Beachfront Cinema at Huntington State Beach, Newland Street and Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach; beachfrontcinema. com. Sat., 5 p.m. $7.99-$40.

La Donna Della Mia Vita (The Woman of My Life). Cinema Italiano presents this 2010 dramedy about Leonardo, who is sensitive and reliable, and his brother Giorgio, an unstable womanizer. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Norma Kershaw Auditorium, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 567-3677. Sun., 2 p.m. $12; members, free.

Smokey and the Bandit. Wealthy Georgian Big Enos (Pat McCormick) wants to drink Coors at a truck show, but in those days, it was illegal to sell the Colorado-brewed beer east of the Mississippi River without a permit.

Bo “Bandit” Darville (Burt Reynolds) agrees to pick up 400 cases of the beer in Texas and have his trucker pal drive it nonstop to Georgia while Bo uses his black Trans Am to divert the attention of any cops (a.k.a. smokeys) on the semi’s tail. But Bandit picking up hitchhiker Carrie (Sally Field) draws the attention of Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), who is angry that Carrie will not marry his son. AMC Orange 30 at the Outlets, 20 City Blvd. W., Orange, (714) 769-4288; AMC Tustin Legacy at the District, 2457 Park Ave., Tustin, (714) 258-7036; Cinemark Century Stadium 25, 1701 W. Katella Ave., Orange, (714) 5329558; Cinemark Century 20 Huntington Beach, 7777 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach, (714) 373-4573; Cinemark at the Pike Theaters, 99 S. Pine Ave., Long Beach, (800) 967-1932; Edwards Aliso Viejo Stadium 20, 26701 Aliso Creek Rd., Aliso Viejo, (844) 462-7342; Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21, 65 Fortune Dr., Irvine, (844) 462-7342; Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26, 7501 E. Carson, Long Beach, (844) 462-

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El Tercer Espacio (The Third Place).

A hundred years after the establishment of the Jewish Syrian (Damascus) Community in Mexico City, its history is revised through a number of compelling and touching stories in this documentary presented in Spanish with English subtitles. UC Irvine, Humanities Gateway 1070, McCormick Screening Room, West Peltason and Campus drives, Irvine, (949) 824-6117.

Sun., screening and Q&A, 4:15-6:15 p.m.; music, 6:30-8 p.m. Free.

Stop Making Sense. The recently (and dearly) departed Jonathan Demme’s acclaimed concert film was shot over three performances by the Talking Heads in Los Angeles in December 1983. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema. org. Mon.-Tues., 8 p.m. $7-$10.

In Our Hands: The Battle for Jerusalem. A look at Israel’s 55th Paratrooper Brigade, which risked everything to fight for its homeland after Arab nations banded together to wipe the young nation off the map. AMC Orange 30 at the Outlets, (714) 7694288; AMC Tustin Legacy at the District, (714) 258-7036; Cinemark Century Stadium 25, (714) 532-9558; Edwards Aliso Viejo Stadium 20, (844) 462-7342; Edwards Big Newport 6, 300 Newport Center Dr, Newport Beach, (844) 4627342; Edwards Brea Stadium East 12, 155 W. Birch St., Brea, (844) 462-7342; Edwards Brea Stadium West, 255 W. Birch St., Brea, (844) 462-7342;

Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21, (844) 462-7342; Edwards Long Beach Stadium 26, (844) 462-7342; fathomevents. com. Tues., 7 p.m. $12.50.

A Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess mixes hyper-reality with ultra-violence as Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) and his merry band of droogs set out on a mini-crime spree across futuristic London. This eventually lands our narrator in an experimental aversion therapy program that is every bit as horrific as the droogs’ offenses. As Alex discovers, karma can be a real beotch. Regency Directors Cut Cinema at Rancho Niguel, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-0446. Tues., 7:30 p.m. $8.

High Anxiety. Mel Brooks plays a newly arrived psychiatrist at the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous, where he tries to help a blonde (Madeline Kahn) get her father out alive despite two scheming staffers (Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman). You’ll never guess who assumes the Norman Bates role in the hilarious shower scene. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Wed.-Thurs., May 24-25, 8 p.m. $7-$10.

Long Strange Trip: Grateful Dead Documentary. Directed by Amir BarLev (The Tillman Story) and executive produced by Martin Scorsese (The Last Waltz), Long Strange Trip explores the fiercely independent vision, perpetual innovation and

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uncompromising commitment to their audience that made the Bay Area band one of the most influential musical groups of their generation.

Candid interviews with the band, road crew, family members and notable Deadheads reveal the untold history of the Dead and the freewheeling psychedelic subculture that sprouted up around it. Art Theatre, (562) 438-5435.

Thurs., May 25, 3 & 8 p.m. $8.50-$9.

JFK Remembered: 100 Years Later.

Never-before-seen materials give a fresh new look at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s presidency. The Kennedy family and JFK presidential library participated in the production. Regency San Juan Capistrano, 26762 Verdugo St., San Juan Capistrano, (949) 661-3456.

Thurs., May 25, 6:30 p.m. $15.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Wow, a week filled with Lynch, Kubrick and double doses of Brooks and the Coens? Somebody pinch me! Actually, the one who deserves pinching is Colleen Happ, a Frida board member and volunteer who is relocating to Canada. In her honor, the theater shows her favorite film, which is about three members of a Mississippi chain gang escaping in 1937 to set off for buried treasure—and cut a little ditty in a sound studio that unwittingly turns them into musical stars. George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro, John Goodman and Holly Hunter star.

The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org.

Thurs., May 25, 8 p.m. $7-$10.

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Life as an urban-planning Great Game in South Coast Rep’s The Monster Builder

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ones restricted to solely residing or working in, but where people of all classes and ways of life could mingle, interact and live in the moment. Their opportunity is a small boathouse erected in the late 19th century in an unnamed major American city. Fallen into disrepair, the local planning commission is seeking design firms to do something with the building, which is championed by preservationists as a site of humble homage to a simpler, more humanistic way of integrating structures into communities and loathed by people like Gregor, who view it as a nostalgic relic that is a wart on the face of human progress.

That is the entry point into this story, which also includes Gregor’s gorgeous, if a bit braindead, girlfriend, Tamsin (Annie Abrams), and a wealthy couple, Pamela (Colette Kilroy) and Andy (Gareth Williams), who seek to hire Rita and Dieter for a remodel of their home. This is also where a third school of design pops up: a wholly commercial one that is unapologetic about building condo developments and malls that embrace European-style fountains and façades (think just about every development in South County).

While the boathouse is revisited through the course of the play, the structure that comes to dominate is a rather terrifying building in Dubai that Gregor is attempting to design. It’s his need for inspiration and execution of the design that turns this into an interesting battle

of ideas over architectural aesthetics, a wildly soaring fantastic tale that, just as an addition to a museum that seems to explode out of the original structure (see Frank Gehry’s Art Gallery of Ontario, referenced in the program), catapults a seemingly straightforward play about conflicting design visions into a Faustian realm of supernatural and diabolical weirdness.

The play’s abrupt shift in tone (which is teased early on) might strike some as jarring, but director Art Manke’s production, ably complemented by Thomas Buderwitz’s set design, doesn’t let up when things start going south in a big way. The audience isn’t given much time to wonder what is really going on; it’s best to just hang on and enjoy the riotously funny, twisted track the play hurtles along.

Freed’s play is ultimately a contest between humanism and the virtue of collective community, as well as the increasingly technocratic, soulless, all-flash-and-no-realheart that so much urban planning, from Orange County to downtown Los Angeles, is immersed in. It’s clear in Freed’s play whose side she champions; it’s also clear which side is currently winning. #thanksTrump.

THE MONSTER BUILDER at South Coast Repertory, 650 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 708-5555; www.scr. org. Tues.-Wed., 7:30 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2:30 & 8 p.m.; Sun., 2:30 & 8 p.m. Through June 4. $20-$64.

t seems there’s a new reason every week to yell from the rooftops, “Fuck Donald Trump!” Some choose to voice their disdain through their clothing and wear all manner of FDT shirts, hats and patches wherever they go.

If you’re jonesing for your own #fucktrump merch, don’t head to Google.

Here are some of the coolest indie brands from which to snag some cathartic threads. And don’t forget to hit your local Mexican dulceria for a Trump piñata!

DOLORES: Started by Instagram-famous model and East LA-er Isabella Ferrada, Dolores (www.doloresla.com) offers shirts and hoodies emblazoned with “Fuck Trump” printed in Old English font in white, black and gray.

JOTX WEAR: From Laguna Hills (!), this brand (www.etsy.com/shop/jotxwear) offers plenty of variety and coolness for chingonx, from holographic stickers emblazoned with the words Educate, Resist and Luchadorx to shirts with slogans such as “Here to Stay,” “Eres Fuerte” and “My Existence is Resistance,” plus quotes from writer Gloria Anzaldua. Feel empowered AND stick it to the presidency without having to mention Trump’s name—although there’s also a patch with Trump’s face crossed out.

NO MORE INDUSTRIES: This punk rock/ hardcore retailer (nomoreindustries. bigcartel.com) sells smart enamel pins declaring, “Make America Mexico Again” (with a clever design of the Mexican flag engulfing North America) and “Not My President.”

ILEGAL MEZCAL: This brand (www. ilegalmezcal.com/donald) has staged a few charitable drinking protests against Trump thanks to ambassadors (and Anaheim boys) Joe Valdovinos and Gilberto Marquez, and it sells a black crew-neck tee that so eloquently states, “Donald Eres Un Pendejo.” Proceeds from sales of the shirt go to charity. Great mezcal, too!

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n their own ways, writing a play or novel is a great deal like designing and building a structure—creating something tangible, either in physical or textual form, out of nothing but an idea. Maybe that’s why architecture and design have long inspired writers, from Henrik Ibsen’s 1892 The Master Builder and the execrable Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark in her 1943 novel The Fountainhead to British writer’s J.G. Ballard’s depressing 1975 novel High-Rise and Howard Korder’s 2010 play In a Garden. There is something about the confluence of ego, space, hubris and creating physical, temporal things out of abstract ideas—as well as the tolls those implemented ideas may exact on those who interact with them—that brings out the inner designer in many a writer.

Add Amy Freed’s The Monster Builder to the list. Taking its title from the aforementioned Ibsen play, but with ample doses of the Bauhaus movement, postmodernism and, of course, Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, her freewheeling, dark comedy features one of Freed’s most favored constructs: a larger-than-life, egomaniacal central character graced by brilliance and debased by his warped views on creativity and creating meaning through one’s actions.

Much like her perverse Roman emperor Nero in You, Nero and her 17thcentury Salem witch-hunter Increase Mather in Safe In Hell, both of which were commissioned by South Coast Repertory, the character of Gregor (played in delicious over-the-top frenzy by Danny Scheie) is a riveting marvel of excess and amoral ambition. A world-renowned futuristic architect, Gregor is far less concerned with preserving historic structures than in demolishing them and erecting new ones that ironically comment on the originals. He also despises the people (a word he struggles to remember when talking) who live, work and visit his buildings. Driven by material success and an endless need to infuse his nihilistic, dystopian vision into everything he touches, Gregor—who claims to be in his 60s—is diametrically opposed to a young, aspiring duo of architects: Rita (Susannah Schulman Rogers) and Dieter (Aubrey Deeker).

The married couple are idealists who want to preserve historical buildings in order to hold onto a sense of beauty and space in increasingly depersonalized urban centers. They yearn for the days when common areas served as a third place (the name of their small firm), not

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Haven for the Horns

How Pocket Entertainment became the lifeline of the OC ska scene

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wo years ago, Cameron Hallenbeck and his girlfriend, Whitney Dunkle, dreamed of helping Orange County’s ska scene to flourish. The Anaheim pair was tired of only throwing a ska show or two every few months and knew fans would appreciate more shows that were appropriate for all ages. So they took it upon themselves to make it happen.

When they entered an unassuming venue, Out of the Park Pizza in Anaheim, which happens to be owned by a former musician, Hallenbeck and Dunkle knew they found their outlet. The couple formed Pocket Entertainment soon after.

“We try to make sure that it’s a welcoming environment,” says Dunkle, 26. “We like to make sure that our touring bands are taken care of, the Out of the Park staff is happy, and the crowds are happy. The coolest thing for me is to see the kids who usually can’t see these bands play.”

Pocket Entertainment routinely offers local, as well as visiting, bands an all-ages venue to play. Most of the shows are available at little to no cost for attendees.

At first, the company put on shows only on the weekends, but the schedule has since spread to include multiple shows throughout the week in genres including ska, pop/punk, soul, indie and rockabilly.

Pocket Entertainment also hosts such annual events as the Skacademy Awards, which pokes fun at the uptempo, horndriven music with a series of recognitions and performances by bands including Skapeche Mode, Comrade Cat and Karate In the Garage.

“It’s no longer one or two ska shows every couple of months at the House of Blues [in Anaheim] or Slidebar [in Fullerton],” says the 27-year-old Hallenbeck, who formerly played guitar in the nowdefunct Pocketeers and now plays with Half Past Two. “Now we put on ska shows usually once or twice a month. We are cultivating a scene and helping it grow. . . .

It’s my hope that when people come out to one of our ska shows, they won’t see the same bands they always do.”

According to Dan Smith, owner of the 7-year-old Out of the Park Pizza, the venue would occasionally host cover bands and karaoke, so it was a no-brainer to host the Pocket Entertainment shows.

“We’ve always had a nighttime atmosphere, with young crowds, which is why I think it works so well,” he says, “so adding on the live music has just added another component to what we kind of already had here.”

Hallenbeck says he has tried booking at other venues, but none of them have fit as

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perfectly as Out of the Park Pizza.

Smith, who formerly played in rock bands, says the only struggle has been figuring out how a small pizza place “could fit into the music world” because it is not like most venues, which charge for tickets or have drink minimums. Bands do not have to pay to play here either. “We expect the bands to bring in the people,” he explains.

“I used to play at the House of Blues, Chain Reaction and all those places, then we as the band would have to sell tickets to even try playing at a place. Now, we’ve kind of changed that up: We open the doors for smaller bands to be able to play at an actual venue in front of people. . . . It’s a struggle to find a place to play nowadays.”

Evan Wohrman, lead vocalist of Orange County ska band Hooray for Our Side, says he considers Out of the Park Pizza “home.”

“It’s a comfortable, intimate space,” he says. “And when you pack who-knowshow-many people in there, it just makes it feel like a party with all your closest friends every time.”

Lucas Jakobi, bass player of OC Ska Kids, says he believes Pocket Entertainment is “solely bringing back the OC ska scene.

“As a group of kids who are mostly under 21, it is hard to find shows, so we usually have to throw our own DIY shows,” the 19-year-old says. “But Pocket

Entertainment has always been there to provide us with awesome shows.”

He adds that while Pocket Entertainment shows have mosh pits and beer, just as at any other show, there’s also a more relaxed, cool vibe. “It’s always like everyone is just hanging out together,” Jakobi says. “As someone who manages bands and plays in them, playing at Out of the Park is always stress-free. You just show up, plug in and rock.”

The entertainment group will host its largest show in July, the second annual Ska-mic Con festival featuring Orange County ska heroes Reel Big Fish and East Coast punk/ska band Less Than Jake.

“We decided to try to reach out to the biggest bands possible, and we happened to land two of the biggest ska bands in the world,” Smith says. “This is definitely going to be one of the smallest shows these bands have played in a while.”

The event, which takes place the same weekend as the San Diego Comic-Con, will also include performances by the Maxies, Codename: Rocky, Kill Lincoln, the Phenomenauts, GOGO13, Jelly of the Month Club and the Ziggens.

“It seems so surreal to say that we have Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake playing [Ska-Mic Con],” Hallenbeck says. “It means a lot to me, personally, since I grew

up worshipping those guys, throwing strange stuffed animals onstage and trying to sneak backstage.”

Reel Big Fish, who struck it big in the ’90s with the song “Sell Out” and continue to play large venues, say they’re excited to co-headline the festival, which will take place in the parking lot behind the pizzeria.

“I’ve been hearing a lot about the shows at Out of the Park Pizza, and I think it’s really cool that they have so many local bands play and are helping to keep the scene alive,” says Reel Big Fish vocalist Aaron Barrett.

Because Out of the Park Pizza isn’t a traditional venue, the bands won’t have a green room, so they will instead hang out in the restaurant. “We don’t have a space where the bands can just hang out by themselves,” Smith says, adding that VIP ticket holders will have access to the eatery.

Vincent Fiorello, drummer and lyricist of Less Than Jake, says he believes Pocket Entertainment embodies the same DIY attitude that elevated ska and punk bands decades ago. “Punk shows were never regulated to just clubs in the ’90s,” he says.

“So, hell yeah, bring on a pizza place.”

SKA-MIC CON at Out of the Park Pizza, 5638 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim; bit.ly/2pOZhWQ. July 21-22. $40-$80.

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An awkward conversation with comedic genius Gilbert Gottfried

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t’s early on the West Coast for a phone interview with Gilbert Gottfried, who is three hours ahead in New York City but sounds as if he’s the one who just rolled out of bed. Softspoken, the veteran standup comedian, actor (voice and otherwise) and popular podcast host sounds nothing like the quick, screechy and guffawing funnyman from several movies, television shows, celebrity roasts, old Howard Stern appearances and especially, one of this writer’s colossal obsessions, Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.

After some initial pleasantries are met with deafening silence, I asked Gottfried, “Uh . . . what can audiences expect at your upcoming Brea Improv shows?”

“Um, they can expect to sit there about five minutes and turn to each other and ask, ‘Whose idea was it to see Gilbert Gottfried?’ and then angrily leave,” he answers.

I held out hope that would produce the long, uncontrollable laughter at his own jokes that routinely overtake him while talking about Hollywood legends during his podcasts, especially the tales of Milton Berle, Forrest Tucker and a biggest dick contest and Cesar Romero, a stable of young studs and citrus orange (or tangerine) slices flung at the bare ass of TV’s Joker. Such an outburst would have given me time to get the interview back on track, but instead . . . there was more uncomfortable silence.

Another stab is taken at what Brea audiences can expect.

“My act? Oh, God. I don’t really know when people decide to start thinking about their act. That’s the worst thing, thinking about my act. Sometimes onstage, I’ll think, ‘Wow, that really sucked.’ And sometimes, something lucky will happen. I did a show a couple of months back when I accidentally knocked into a water bottle on a stool, and it fell and landed standing up on the floor. I remember I saw that, and I couldn’t go back [to the bit he was doing]. It seemed like a message from God.” Perhaps channeling what was happening to me during the interview, I asked if he ever thinks of something he should have asked a podcast guest after the fact.

“That’s my entire life,” Gottfried replies.

“Every conversation I have, every situation I am in, a minute later, I ask myself, ‘Why didn’t I say that?’”

“Why didn’t I ask this?” is what I asked myself after I hung up, and then heard the Amazing Colossal Podcast that went up on May 1, when Gottfried and guest Steven Wright—another veteran actor (voice and otherwise) and comic (who is also known

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for short stream-of-consciousness bits)— talked at length about how they do what they do onstage. Wright, in his low monotone, asked Gottfried what I wished I had: “How did you get into doing standup?”

“Okay, I was, you know, a kid who watched way too much TV, wasn’t good at sports, wasn’t that popular,” Gottfried answered, “and I started imitating people I saw on TV, like actors and comedians and stuff, and joking around . . .”

“Imitating to your friends,” Wright interjected, “or just for your own self?”

“Yeah, just to my friends and my sisters and stuff, and then one of my sisters told me that one of her friends said there was some club in Manhattan, and you just came in and wrote your name down, and when they got to you, they said your name, and you went up and did a few minutes. And I did that; I traveled from Brooklyn with my sisters to Manhattan, and I did that, and I remember I was mainly, like, an impressionist like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin.”

His impressions included Bela Lugosi, Jackie Gleason and the elderly Groucho Marx.

“Even back then,” Gottfried says, “it was dated.”

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grandmother used to write it on her photographs of her youth when she was in her old age,” she explains, “so it kind of signifies a time span for everything that we do.”

This sentiment is echoed in the imagery for the music video for their song “Whirlwind.” The video, shot by Velázquez and edited by Dandelion Queen Studios’ Aaron Archambault, depicts an elderly gentleman (portrayed by Velázquez’s 93-year-old grandfather) recalling events and people from his past, which are symbolically represented by the man digging in the earth for an envelope containing photographs. The style is a perfect complement to the band’s music, with its surreal montage of images layered with psychedelic patterns.

Velázquez is not the only visual artist in the band—Connelly and Vazquez recently exhibited some paintings at an art show in Long Beach— however, her interest in various art forms (music, video, photography, collages, painting and mixed media) and her passion for synthesizing disparate components seem to permeate much of the band’s identity.

As a DIY band, Así Fui are taking their time to do things their way. They balance their improvisational ethos with performance dates and recordings (including their first full-length CD, which should come out later this year) that can be used to identify them as they are now—and someday, as they were then.

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Vocalist/bass player Tatiana Velázquez and synth player/keyboardist Jacob Connelly began jamming together a couple of years ago. Their musical experiments caught the ear of drummer Ryan Reiff; guitarist Miguel Vazquez later joined the Long Beach-based, experimental, psychedelic rock band. Their musical backgrounds run the gamut from traditional Cuban music to hip-hop, but their freeform jamming results in a sound that cannot be so easily categorized.

Así Fui (formerly known as I/O) seem to embrace this nebulous quality. They are intent on “keeping things lively,” as Velázquez says, and they perform unannounced, improvised sets so frequently they’ve come up with a name for the practice. “We call it Will Future,” she explains. “It sounds like a guy’s name, but also you can will your future.”

The recording of the band’s first EP, LIVE Fernet Session, which was released one year ago, also demonstrates their love for spontaneity, as it was recorded over the course of three hours in the living room of producer J.P. Bendzinski’s Long Beach home.

Everything about the band resonates with the concept of living and creating for the moment, even the band’s name. According to Velázquez, Así Fui is Spanish for “this is how I was.” She says that any recordings of the band’s performances, live or in the studio, provide a documentary keepsake for the future. “My

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DIIV: 8 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa

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

GRIZZLY DERRINGER: 8-10 p.m., free. The Continental

Room, 115 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton, (714) 469-1879; facebook.com/ContinentalRoom.

HUNTER HAYES: 7 p.m., $40. House of Blues at Anaheim GardenWalk, 400 W. Disney Way, Ste. 337, Anaheim, (714) 778-2583; houseofblues.com/anaheim.

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

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

RONNIE MONTROSE REMEMBERED: 8 p.m.

The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

SEGA GENECIDE: 10 p.m., free. La Cave, 1695 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, (949) 646-7944; lacaverestaurant.com.

WETWOOD SMOKES: 8 p.m., $5. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

SATURDAY

BILLY VERA AND THE BEATERS: 8 p.m., $20. The

Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

BOOTS & BIKINIS COUNTRY MUSIC BEACH PARTY: 4 p.m., free before 10 p.m.; bootsandbikinisoc.

com. Baja Beach Cafe, 2332 W. Coast Hwy., Newport Beach, (949) 673-8444; bajabeachcafe.com.

DAVID LINDLEY: 6:45 p.m., $20-$60. Don the Beachcomber, 16278 Pacific Coast Hwy., Huntington Beach, (562) 592-1321; donthebeachcomber.com.

DR MALEEK AND FRIENDS: 8 p.m., $20.

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

DUSTY GREEN BONES BAND; ONE GRASS TWO GRASS: 8 p.m., $5. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th

St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

FKJ: 8 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa

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

GARTH GUY: Garth Brooks tribute, 6 p.m., $10. Gaslamp

Restaurant & Bar, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 596-4718; thegaslamprestaurant.com.

HOSSEIN OMOUMI AND FRIENDS: 8 p.m., $20-$22.

Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Dr., Irvine, (949) 854-4646; thebarclay.org.

JACK INGRAM: 7 p.m., $15. The Parish at House of Blues at Anaheim GardenWalk, 400 W. Disney Way, Ste. 337, Anaheim; houseofblues.com/anaheim.

LARRY’S LOVE FEST: 7 p.m. Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar, 6251 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 5964718; thegaslamprestaurant.com.

OC WOMEN’S CHORUS SINGS THE PET PROJECT: 7 p.m., $15-$30. St. Wilfrid of York

Episcopal Church, 18631 Chapel Lane, Huntington Beach, (949) 451-8590.

SUNDAY

A THOUSAND HOURS: 9 p.m., free. The Continental

Room, 115 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton, (714) 469-1879; facebook.com/ContinentalRoom.

APOLLO BEBOP BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH: 8 a.m., free. The Gypsy Den, 125 N. Broadway Ave., Santa Ana, (714) 835-8840; gypsyden.com.

BLACKBEAR: 7 p.m., $25. House of Blues at Anaheim GardenWalk, 400 W. Disney Way, Ste. 337, Anaheim, (714) 778-2583; houseofblues.com/anaheim.

FULLY FULLWOOD REGGAE SUNDAYS: 3 p.m., $5. Don the Beachcomber, 16278 Pacific Coast Hwy., Huntington Beach, (562) 592-1321; donthebeachcomber.com.

HOUSE OF BLUES GOSPEL BRUNCH: 10:30 a.m., $45. House of Blues at Anaheim GardenWalk, 400 W. Disney Way, Ste. 337, Anaheim, (714) 778-2583; houseofblues.com/anaheim.

NED LEDOUX: 6 p.m., $25-55. The Ranch Saloon,

1025 E. Ball Rd., Anaheim, (714) 817-4200; theranch.com/saloon.

NEVER SHOUT NEVER: 7 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

SCHOOL OF ROCK: 10:30 a.m., $10. The Parish at House of Blues at Anaheim GardenWalk, 400 W. Disney Way, Ste. 337, Anaheim; houseofblues.com/anaheim.

MONDAY

COUNTRY DANCIN’ WITH DJ PATRICK: 6:30 p.m.,

free. The Swallow’s Inn, 31786 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 493-3188; swallowsinn.com.

NEVER SHOUT NEVER: 7 p.m. The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

SHAPE PITAKI: 8 p.m., free. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

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

THE BUTTERTONES; SLAY SQUAD WITH JOE MCFLY; DUMB FUCKS: plus, a special guest,

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

TUESDAY

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“Failure to orgasm with penile penetration is not a medical condition,” said Dr. Jennifer Gunter, an OB/ GYN, writer (drjengunter.wordpress.com), and kick-ass tweeter who practices in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“If a woman can orgasm with other methods—oral sex or masturbation or toys—then that means everything is working just fine. Remember, it’s not how she gets to the party that matters; it’s that she got to attend the party.”

As all straight men need to be aware, CLIF, only a small number of women—less than a quarter—can get off from vaginal intercourse alone, a.k.a. PIV. “Most women require clitoral stimulation to have an orgasm, and often the mechanics of penile penetration just don’t produce the right kind of friction,” said Dr. Gunter. “It’s possible that the subtle anatomical changes post-childbirth have altered the friction mechanics of your coupling. Introducing a vibrator during sex might help.”

And while we’re on the subject of clits, CLIF . . .

We abbreviate sign-offs around here, as everyone knows, and like PIV for your wife, CLIF, your sign-off didn’t quite get you there. You could’ve gone with “Climaxing Liberally Is Terrific” or “Tremendous” or “Totally Spectacular,” but you didn’t. Perhaps it was an innocent brain fart—perhaps I’m reading too much into this—but if you didn’t spot the near-CLIT staring you in the face in your sign-off, CLIF, it seems possible that you may have overlooked your wife’s clit, too. Also possible: Your wife wasn’t actually having orgasms “through intercourse” before she gave birth to your last child.

You’re clearly invested in climaxing together—just like in the movies and porn and other fictions—and your wife, like many women, may have been faking orgasms to please a male partner. Tired of faking orgasms, your wife seized on the birth of your last child to explain why she “suddenly” couldn’t come from PIV alone anymore.

What about your wife’s constant sensation to pee during intercourse?

“That’s something to be looked at,” Dr. Gunter said. “After childbirth (and sometimes just with age), women can develop an overactive bladder or pelvicmuscle issues, and these could be exacerbated during penetration, making a woman feel as if she needs to empty her bladder. Worrying about peeing during sex might be holding her back. It might be worth a visit to a pelvic-floor physical therapist and/or a urogynecologist if this sensation to pee during sex is bothering her. But if neither the lack of orgasm with penile penetration nor the urgency to pee is bothering her, and she is having orgasms other ways and is happy with that, I would be happy with it, too. After all, it’s her orgasm, and stress or pressure to orgasm a particular way might negatively affect her party.”

Follow Dr. Gunter on Twitter (@DrJenGunter). Do it: She’s amazing and hilarious, and she kicks right-wing, anti-choice, sex-negative ass up and down Twitter on a daily basis.

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SecureAuth Corporation has an opening for a Public Relations Specialist at its office in Irvine, CA to manage the Company’s public communication with audiences including: consumers, investors, reporters, and other media specialists. Requires 5% international and 15% domestic travel, which is covered by Company.Please mail resume to: HR Team, 8845 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92618. EOE.

Sr. Software Engineering Manager sought by Autobytel Inc. for company's software dvlpmt & delivery efforts for Irvine, CA location. Min. Req.: BS + 5 yrs exp. Please email resume to joselync@autobytel.com

Landscape Architectural Drafter: Prepare landscape architectural designs. Req’d: BA in Landscape Architecture or related. Mail resume to Lifescapes International, Inc., 4930 Campus Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660 Market Research Analyst Analyze statistical data to forecast future market trends & FPD industry, gather info. re: company customers/competitors, analyze conditions that may impact sales by researching market conditions, changes in industry. Must be able to perform job duties. Bachelor's degree in Economics req'd. Resume: Signet FPD, Inc. 75 Columbia, Aliso Viejo CA 92656.

Certified Public Accountant (Irvine, CA) Perform financial statement audits for CPA firm clients. California CPA license req'd. Resume to: PK LLP, 2100 Main St., #200, Irvine, CA 92614.

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Analyze network data to improve website functionality, define network usage and server function.

Bachelor’s or higher degree in computer science. 1 year experience. Experience may be completed before or after university degree. Resume to Allen Anthonysamy, SOLO Business Systems, Inc., 15041-A Bake Parkway, Irvine, CA 92618.

Bioinformatics Associate, Irvine, CA. Designing analysis strategies, algorithms, and tools for genome-wide DNA methylation and next-generation sequencing. MS in Bioinformatics & 1 yr experience. Mail resume to Angela Kim, HR Mgr, Zymo Research Corporation, 17062 Murphy Ave., Irvine, CA 92614.

Ericsson Inc. Customer Project Manager, Irvine, CA. Telecomm & RF Eng project & Financial Mgmt. Up to 10% domestic travel required. Mail resume to Ericsson Inc. 6300 Legacy Drive, R1-C12 Plano, TX 75024, Job #17-CA-3581.

Project Manager (Master’s degree w/ 5 yrs exp or Bachelor’s degree w/ 7 yrs exp; Major: CS, Engg, Math or equiv.; Other suitable qualifications acceptable) – Irvine, CA. Job entails working w/ & exp to incl 3 yrs as a PMO Manager or Head.

Exp in using PMP standards & protocols, MS Project, MS Project Server, Visio, AnyChart, WBSPro, Celoxis, Resource Guru, FinancialForce PSA, FastTrack Schedule, MS Windows Server 2008, Excel & Powerpoint to build complex Macros & Pivot tables, JIRA, CA Technologies Open Workbench, SmartSheet, Microsoft Onepager Pro, WorkPlan by Sescoi, OmniPlan, Artemis Project view, Open VMS & TCP/ IP. Relocation & travel to unanticipated locations w/in USA possible. Send resumes to HTN Wireless Inc., Attn: HR, 20 Truman St, Suite 211, Irvine, California 92620.

Turbo Ion, Inc. located in Buena Park is looking for a Vice President of Business Development to add to our team. Applicants must have at least three years experience and completed a bachelor degree in business and/or finance and knowledge of the beauty industry. Please send a cover letter and resume to Elyssia Musolino at 6800 8th Street, Buena Park, CA 90620.

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Administrative Assistant: Perform admin. assistant functions, answer calls, provide info to clients, process mails/emails, draft letters/invoices, record info into database. Req’d: Bachelor’s in Business Admin. or related. Mail Resume: M+D PROPERTIES, 6940 Beach Blvd. #D-501, Buena Park, CA 90621 Market Research Analyst (La Palma, CA) Perform market research/analysis for logistics services. Master's in communication/marketing related. Resume to: Korchina Logistics USA, Inc. 4 Centerpointe Dr. #120, La Palma, CA 90623 Accountant (Anaheim, CA) Perform financial and managerial accounting duties.

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Software Engineer Jobsite Newport Beach, CA, apply to HR at Phunware, Inc., tnolazco@phunware. com.

CFO (Garden Grove, CA) Supervise employees performing financial reporting, accounting, billing, collections, payroll&budgeting duties; Coordinate&direct the financial planning, budgeting, procurement/ investment activities of all/ part of an organization; Develop internal control policies, guidelines&procedures for activities such as budget administration, cash&credit management/accounting.

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