| | | Sal Dueñas Is a Handball Wizard BY MICHELLE WOO  Even from hundreds of feet away, the sound of palms swatting blue rubber balls at concrete walls echoes across Henry Boisseranc Park in Buena Park. Bounce-thwack-POP! Bounce-thwack-POP! As you get closer to the handball courts, other noises begin to emerge: furious feet shuffling over cement, the low mumbles of group conversations, the occasional metallic groan of someone leaning against the chain-link fence that encloses the playing area. Then, like a cri de coeur, someone utters a telltale expression of defeat: "Ay, bitch!" On one court, 58-year-old Luis Gonzalez lost two bucks in a match against Jehu Garcia, 54. Wearing a plaid shirt over a sweat shirt, bleach-splattered khakis that... more >>
| | | | | | | | The Get Up Kids Are Alright BY MELISSA HARRISON  The Get Up Kids' front man, Matt Pryor, admits this year's reunion wasn't supposed to happen. When infighting drove the band to split up in 2005, it was—as far as Pryor was concerned—the end. "I had no intention of ever going back to those guys," Pryor says. "I was completely done. It wasn't some hiatus." Until it was. This month marks the group's return, complete with a new full-l... more >> | | | | | | | | Bistro Anju Has an Iron Chef BY EDWIN GOEI  The six people who sat at a table in the back of the restaurant were obviously drunk on too much sake. Their increasingly rowdy voices were fast becoming slurred cackles of obscenities and snorts. With every f-bomb they dropped, the other customers cringed, embarrassed for Bistro Anju's owner, Hideki Saito. He deserved better customers than this. Only when they left, stumbling over their own feet... more >> | | | | | | | | 'The Rite' Is the Devil You Know BY NICK PINKERTON  The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession a major plot point. This doesn't mean the subject is wrung out—its continuing resonance with audiences hasn't been effaced by secular pop psychology or modernization within the church. It does, though, mean that any new attempt must come with a hook. For one: Prefac... more >> | | | | | | | | Heard Mentality Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer--vinyl single, full length album, CD, cassette -- we want to hear from... Navel Gazing UPDATE, JAN. 27, 2:40 P.M.: Jacob Trette is walking and talking the way he was before the frightening multiple-wave hold-down at Maverick's, a big-wave surf break near San Francisco.He was rele... Stick a Fork In It Sorry, folks: I answer what people ask. And while I have in the queue preguntas about sausage, chocolate, Aliso Viejo restaurants (or, rather, the lack of) and other more pressing issues, I could... | | | | |
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