| | | Soka University of America Is a School On a Hill BY MICHELLE WOO  Anyone who has ever visited Aliso Viejo knows about gates. Gates separate residential communities from one another. Gates demarcate front yards from back yards and keep pools and tennis courts for the use of those who have the access key. It's a careful study in suburban paranoia, one befitting Orange County's youngest city, and one designed to keep the rest of the world away. There are guard gates at the entrance to Soka University of America (SUA), a small liberal-arts school perched on a coastal ridge near Aliso and Wood Canyons Regional Park. But for visitors who drive up the wide, curving, tract-home-lined roads of the San Joaquin Hills to visit, the gates cannot hold back the gorgeou... more >>
| | | | | | | | Getting Exene Cervenka BY LILLEDESHAN BOSE  Exene Cervenka's gone soft. At her home in Orange, Cervenka—writer, visual artist and singer (X, Knitters, Original Sinners)—is wearing sneakers and a Badtz Maru hoodie and holding her little dog Minnie on her lap. The lady on the couch is welcoming and sweet, offering me water. She is worlds away from the intimidating figure Cervenka had cultivated in her 20s. "If you were held to th... more >> | | | | | | | | Habuya Represents the Perfect Prefecture BY EDWIN GOEI  Until now, only a handful of OC restaurants has flirted with serving the cuisine of Okinawa, an island prefecture of Japan. Though it's a sushi bar first and foremost, the wonderful Ohshima in Orange has dabbled with the more esoteric Okinawan dishes of boiled pig's ear called mimigar and a bracing salad of bitter melon. Then there's Sakura Saku, the long-defunct teriyaki-and-roll joint in Huntin... more >> | | | | | | | | 'Jane Eyre' Is a Gothic Type BY KARINA LONGWORTH  If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books, with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently filmed: At least 10 cinematic versions of the story have been made dating back to the dawn of the silent era—more, if you count made-for-TV adaptations and loose glosses such as Jacques Tourneur's I Walked With a Zombie. Considering the glut of Jane Eyres ... more >> | | | | | | | | Heard Mentality ? Actress and recording artist Amanda Seyfried has released a new single covering '60s classic "L'il Red Riding Hood." Seyfried's new movie Red Riding Hood is a retelling of ... Navel Gazing UPDATE, MARCH 10, 1:59 P.M.: A resident in the 1900 block of Monrovia Avenue, which is behind Continental Avenue in Costa Mesa, heard the commotion and saw the lights from a police helicopter shi... Stick a Fork In It Shrimp prices on the commodity market are near an all-time high--nearly $8 per pound, according to the latest figures, but wayyyyyyy below the $189-per-pound price at which the International Mone... | | | | |
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar