| | | Fair Games Over the OC Fairgrounds BY CHASEN MARSHALL  It slammed down as fast as a giant mallet hitting a "Test Your Strength!" game. In May 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended that the Orange County Fairgrounds be put up for sale. Schwarzenegger listed the fairgrounds among other state assets he deemed "surplus or underutilized." By his measure, the land would better serve the state if it were sold to the highest bidder. Suddenly, all 150 acres of concrete and culture, which had been serving a community purpose since 1949, became just a massive chunk of real estate. The fairgrounds were in play—in a county with more than its fair share of players. What followed was a story of deception by a small group in a position of p... more >>
| | | | | | | | Girl Talk Is the Best at What He Does BY CHRIS ZIEGLER  Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis is the man for whom the phrase "all killer, no filler" was invented: someone who makes music out of the best parts of other people's music with nothing but a tiny computer, who creates your new favorite song out of your very favorite parts from all your old favorite songs. Yes, musicians have sampled for almost 40 years, and hip-hop does it as a matter of course, but Gill... more >> | | | | | | | | Battle of the Dance Is Cheesy Good BY EDWIN GOEI  Battle of the Dance isn't the disaster that is the yet-to-debut SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark. A reported $10 million was spent to convert an abandoned Toys R Us building on Harbor Boulevard just south of Disneyland into a 950-seat theater, but chances are few have heard of this 2-month-old flamenco-versus-Irish-stepdancing dinner show imported from Spain. Those who have probably already dismissed... more >> | | | | | | | | 'Limitless' In the Valley of the Dolls BY NICK SCHAGER  A gleeful celebration of nonstop doping, Limitless offers up a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to rain on its own pill-popping parade. With long, disheveled locks and matching facial scruff, novelist Eddie (Bradley Cooper) struggles with writer's block until he runs into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth). Over a subsequent Midtown Manhattan drink, Eddie is ... more >> | | | | | | | | Heard Mentality Perez Hilton today posted a video of Mischa Barton "attacking" a photographer at SXSW after he asks her, "Do you miss The O.C.?" (The screen capture above is her response.) Perez poses questions... Navel Gazing The news sickening everyone in Southern California that isn't the coming radiation plume is the robbery by two men of disabled Vietnam vet Michael Neil Shaurette as he waited in a Santa Ana bus... Stick a Fork In It With as many sushi restaurants as we have in Orange County, the possibility of a sushi shortage after the tsunami disaster hadn't crossed my mind until this story in Israel's Ynet Business News.... | | | | |
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