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‘I Don’t Know What This Video Is’ Deputy DA tries to block dash-cam video absolving man of charges he assaulted Costa Mesa cop

itting on the witness stand last month inside Orange County’s West Justice Center, Christina Natividad claimed a foggy memory about what she’d been doing as a Costa Mesa Police Department (CMPD) officer outside the Triangle Square shopping plaza just before 2:30 a.m. on June 28, 2014. But she was sure it had been investigating a crime. “[It was] either assault and battery,” she testified, “or kidnapping, or rape.” However, Natividad insists what happened next—something relatively trivial— is seared into her mind. About 60 feet away, across the street and inside Dippity Donut, two guys standing in line, one CONFIDENTIAL of them 20-yearold Alexander Sorto, flirted with a woman in front of them. In response, the lady pushed Sorto’s pal in the chest, and then her R SCOTT boyfriend punched him in the jaw, MOXLEY according to surveillance video reviewed by the Weekly. The shop’s owner triggered a panic alarm, and five cops quickly arrived, taking control of an already-diffusing scene. That was it: brief flirting, cursing, a shove and a punch involving four people. No weapons were involved. Nothing was broken, and at its crescendo, the one-sided scuffle lasted no more than 30 seconds. But the cops would later tell a different, more threatening story in hopes of justifying their excessive force against Sorto. Natividad recalled under oath seeing “like, 20 or 30” people in “a melee” inside Dippity Donut. Then, she claims, she witnessed Sorto, who was in the parking lot, launch an unprovoked attack on officer Christopher Walk, her CMPD partner who is the size of a middle linebacker. “[Sorto] swings around and pushes officer Walk,” Natividad testified during late-June pretrial hearings in Sorto’s criminal case for allegedly battering Walk and obstructing three other officers. “And I seen [sic] my partner on the ground.” Deputy District Attorney Alyssa Marie Staudinger followed up, asking, “Did you see where on [Walk’s] body the defendant pushed him?” Natividad replied, “By where the, how I was coming up on them, I could only see the back of [Sorto]. But I could see him shove officer Walk.” Staudinger tried again to capture specifics and won only a guess from the

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witness, whose husband, Ryan, is facing felony charges he fabricated an on-duty insurance claim as a CMPD cop. “Officer Walk is a pretty tall guy,” said Natividad, who took a medical retirement in January. “He’s probably 6-foot-1. So if he were to push him, probably in the chest.” The deputy DA pressed, hoping to get support for the battery charge. “Did you see the defendant’s hands on [Walk’s] collar, and then [did] you see officer Walk fall to the ground?” she asked. “Yes, ma’am,” Natividad agreed, noting for the record the officers had feared for their lives, the prerequisite to using force— even lethal force. “The whole thing that I remember is, when I saw officer Walk fall, was just how Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall. I know it sounds terrible, but I remember him just kind of falling. And he rocks back, that he hit hard, that his feet were in the air, and then he kind of came back down—just like Humpty Dumpty.” According to the CMPD version, two other cops, Jonathan Tripp and Arnold Alegado, tackled and held Sorto after Walk recovered from his fall—apparently, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could put him back together again— caught up with a supposedly fleeing attacker, and struck the unarmed, muchyounger man in the leg with a baton. Because the defendant had been so “violent,” Natividad claims, she barked lines such as “If you don’t comply, I’m going to Tase you” before firing two metal darts from a Taser into Sorto’s lower back. He screamed in agony. Seconds later, she removed the dart wires. She asserts she voiced a second round of warnings and slammed the Taser’s electrical voltage directly into Sorto’s shoulder as the officers began placing handcuffs on him. “He [could have been] reaching for a

weapon in his waistband,” Natividad speculated. “There’s . . . He could be . . . anything. There could be a necklace with a knife on it.” CMPD’s policy permits the use of a Taser to block “an immediate threat” to officers after providing the targeted citizen with “a verbal warning.” Natividad’s story didn’t just make herself a hero saving her colleagues from risk of potential death. She also became a textbook adherent to the department’s professional standards. But her tale has multiple problems, starting with her own partner. Recall that Natividad said she saw Sorto shove Walk, who then fell backward in a dramatic fall. Walk said the opposite, stating he fell forward. Neither version was truthful, according to court records filed by Sorto attorney David Swanson. It seems improbable, if not impossible, that a person shoved violently in the chest would fall toward the attacker. But there’s also police-cruiser dash-cam video that proves Walk fabricated his rationale for detaining Sorto, Swanson says. That video also shows Natividad looking in the opposite direction when Walk fell, meaning she did not see Sorto shove him unless she has eyes in the back of her head. After medical personnel at a hospital removed the Taser darts from Sorto, he was taken to the city jail, questioned and, under pressure to tell the cops what they wanted to hear, described that Walk “charged me, and I moved to the left, pushed him, and he fell.” Yet, even that version doesn’t match Walk’s original story—one that absolved Sorto of committing battery. At the conclusion of the incident, a police audio recording captured him telling a fellow cop what happened: “So, basically, I went to grab him around his head and take him down, and I missed his head and overshot him,” he stated. “I missed him, and he spun out on me.”

That same audio makes two additional contributions to reality. It reveals Natividad telling a handcuffed, compliant Sorto she’d “love to” Tase him a third time. It also obliterates the officer’s account of her Taser use. Police issued commands to Sorto only after she’d fired the weapon without giving proper warning. With the government’s fabrications alarming Judge Mary Kreber Varipapa, the case against Sorto was dismissed on June 27. But there are larger implications to what could be seen as a misdemeanor incident. Facing widespread calls for a U.S. Department of Justice probe into local lawenforcement corruption, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas guaranteed he recently enacted reforms to give citizens comfort that the justice system is now clean after years of ugly revelations in the jailhouse-snitch scandal. Those supposed reforms included training his deputy DAs to behave ethically and not adopt a win-at-all-costs mentality. The Sorto case demonstrates, however, that without on-the-ball legal representation by Irvine-based Swanson, an innocent man facing four trumped-up charges and the possibility of losing his freedom even if only for a month or two easily could have been convicted. After getting Natividad to lock in her story, Swanson asked the court to play the bombshell dash-cam footage. Deputy DA Staudinger objected, claiming its contents were irrelevant. She also made an incredible inadvertent admission about her dereliction of duty and willingness to blindly accept whatever cops tell her. She told the judge, “I don’t know what this video is.” RSCOTTMOXLEY@OCWEEKLY.COM

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She wasn’t the only one who noticed the signage. In 2012, the pesticides also came to the attention of her neighbor, Ayn Craciun, after she experienced a miscarriage 11 weeks into her pregnancy. “I was really upset about it and searched for answers—like any mother in that situation would,” Craciun says. “I started talking about it to another neighbor friend of mine who majored in genetics at UCLA, and we got on the topic of pesticides and how we sometimes would see guys in HAZMAT suits spraying the parks by our houses. She mentioned that pesticide exposure may have had something to do with my miscarriage.” Digging into research on the chemicals, Craciun found that glyphosate has been linked to fetal death. She became determined to convince the Quail Hill home owners’ association to stop using toxic pesticides. “I’ve become known around the community as the pesticide lady,” Craciun says, laughing. “I’d post pictures on Nextdoor.com [the nationwide social-media platform for neighborhoods] of guys spraying, or of signs at parks, or schools that’d say pesticides had been sprayed. I’d also post studies and spread information I’d learned about their dangers. It’s important for people to know how toxic they are. It got the HOA’s attention, that’s for sure.” Meanwhile, Irvine resident Kathleen

Hallal was also trying to stop the incessant spraying. A member of her local parent-teacher school association, Hallal spent years pleading with the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) to eliminate the use of pesticides at schools. Although her efforts were ignored, they gained her a reputation around the city. So when Thompson voiced her concern about the use of pesticides on the field used by her son’s soccer team, a friend suggested she reach out to Hallal. Kim Konte, a mother of three athletic boys in Irvine, also tuned into the pesticide situation after deciding to coach Canyon View Elementary’s 100 Mile Club (a program encouraging children to run 100 miles in a school year). Shortly after signing up, she discovered that Roundup was being used to mark the track. “Roundup is banned in other countries because of its toxicity,” recalls Konte, whose sons played Pony League Baseball. “There was no way I was going to encourage children to run on something that’s horrible for them.” But she soon realized that Roundup and 2,4 D weren’t just being sprayed at schools: The pesticides were used on every city park and sports complex. (The Irvine Co. failed to respond to several email and phone messages for this article.) After talking to a friend about what could be done, Konte met Hallal, Thompson and Craciun, and they began devising a strategy to stop the use of pesticides in Irvine. As the quartet of women discovered, landscape-maintenance is a male-dominated industry. And the majority of city and school officials who end up making the final decisions are male. The moms knew they needed to add a male member

to their group. With that in mind, Hallal approached Bob Johnson, a Turtle Ridge resident, after a PTA meeting and asked if he might be interested in stopping the use of pesticides. Johnson admits that he didn’t know much about pesticides at that point. But Hallal’s outreach caught his interest because of a professor he knew at the University of Arizona. “My professor had just bought a house and decided to get it fumigated for termites,” says Johnson. “[He] went up into the attic with the pesticide applier and was in there while chlordane was sprayed all over. He didn’t have a mask on or anything, and two years later, he was dead. He developed cancer of the pleural lining, which is linked to chlordane exposure.”

n early spring 2015, Konte, Hallal, Craciun and Thompson founded Non Toxic Irvine with the specific intent of making the city the first pesticidefree community in Orange County. But the group isn’t just a bunch of worried residents; the organization also boasts a team of scientific advisers that includes two UC Irvine professors, Dr. Bruce Blumberg (developmental and cell biology and pharmaceutical sciences) and Dr. Dean Baker (epidemiologist and director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health). “We know that 2,4 D is probably carcinogenic, or capable of causing cancer in living tissue,” says Dr. Blumberg. “We have around 15 cases of pediatric cancer that we know of in Irvine, and the majority of them have brain cancer. According to statistics, there should be one per about 300,000 kids who develop this kind of cancer. There are

roughly 50,000 kids in Irvine, and we have 15 who have cancer. . . . You really have to wonder what’s going on there.” Blumberg and Baker aren’t the only doctors who support Non Toxic Irvine. Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has also come forward to back the group’s efforts. “We’ve been studying the impact of toxins on children for the past 30 years and have reached the inescapable conclusion that little things matter,” Lanphear states in a short online video he produced titled Little Things Matter. “Toxins can have a life-long impact on children. We’ve also discovered that even extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development.” The video, Dr. Lanphear explains, was created to educate the public by shedding light on exactly the message Non Toxic Irvine is promoting: There’s no such thing as a “safe” level for toxic chemicals. Repeated exposure to such chemicals over time, especially to ones as toxic as pesticides, are bound to have damaging, if not fatal, effects. “I think on some level, most people know that pesticides aren’t good,” he says. “They’re not just designed to be toxic; they’re designed to kill—they’re designed to kill living things. When you think about it that way—do you still want to be around pesticides? Probably not.” Although 16 cases of the same types of pediatric cancers occurring within a 10-mile radius seems suspicious, Non Toxic Irvine’s scientific advisers admit it’s virtually impossible to prove that it’s a cluster caused by pesticides. “The population size is too small on an epidemiological level to truly determine if these can-

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tion’s report, I took it as glyphosate causes cancer,” recalls Joe Hoffman, IUSD’s director of maintenance and operations. “There was no way I was even going to play around with the fact they used the word ‘probably.’ I was in full agreement with Non Toxic Irvine.” The successful May 5 meeting with IUSD sealed the group’s first victory. But just because the IUSD wasn’t using Roundup or 2,4 D anymore didn’t mean they weren’t using other toxic pesticides. Furthermore, the city was still using Roundup and 2,4 D in public areas and near homes. All of this came to a head at an Irvine City Council meeting on Feb. 23, when Non Toxic Irvine demanded that the use of all toxic pesticides be eliminated citywide. Nearly 100 people showed up in support of Non Toxic Irvine—with 30 of them speaking during the public-comments portion of the meeting. One of the most memorable was 8-year-old brain cancer survivor Charlie Hilgeman, who bravely spoke to Mayor Steven Choi and the City Council members about his battle. “For those of you who’ve had cancer, I know how it feels,” said Charlie. “When I had cancer, it was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. I had to skip school, take a shot once a day—and they hurt so much. This is why we should stop using pesticides.” Charlie was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, the same type of cancer Caelin had. Charlie’s mother, Laura Hilgeman, sat among the crowd and watched her son. “I asked if he wanted me to help him prepare what to say before the meeting,

cers are caused by pesticides,” says Baker. “This is known as the ‘Texas Sharpshooter Problem,’ which studies how cases of disease cluster in a population. It occurs a lot in public health.” The Texas Sharpshooter Problem, according to Baker, refers to the phenomenon of focusing on the similarities of diseases while ignoring the differences, giving meaning to randomness. “People don’t live in defined areas permanently, and you can’t define where the margin is. You don’t know where the cancer or disease began, and you can’t prove that it’s not just chance.” Just because it can’t be proven epidemiologically doesn’t mean that pesticides aren’t the culprit, however, which is why Baker, Blumberg and Lanphear continue to support Non Toxic Irvine. “Although you can’t prove that pesticides are the problem, I think and believe that they are,” says Blumberg. “You obviously can’t test on humans, but many of these pesticides cause cancer in animals. Humans and animals aren’t much different. On a physiological and anatomical level, we’re remarkably similar. We have all of the same organs and organ systems, which perform the same functions in nearly an identical way.” Just days before Non Toxic Irvine was scheduled to hold a May 5, 2015, meeting with the school district about banishing Roundup and 2,4 D from their landscaping program, the World Health Organization released a report stating that glysophate, Roundup’s active ingredient, was “probably carcinogenic,” a timely warning of the pesticide’s dangerous makeup. “When I read the World Health Organiza-

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but he told me he had it covered,” Hilgeman says with a laugh. “We’re just so lucky that he’s still here. We are very, very good about enjoying each and every day because at any moment, things could change,” she adds with a quiver in her voice. Laurie Mejia also spoke at the meeting. She brought photographs of her 4-yearold son Donovan, who lost his battle to cancer in 2014. “Before all of this, I had never really thought too much about chemical exposure and pesticides,” Mejia

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necessary, the use of organic pesticides as a means for weed abatement. The members of Non Toxic Irvine see City Councilwoman Christina Shea as the main reason the ordinance was passed. Shea is a cancer survivor and a firm believer that chronic exposure to toxic chemicals in our environment can lead to serious health problems. “After my cancer scare in my early 20s, I started to read up and educate myself on organics and pesticides,” Shea says. “People always argue whether eating organic actually makes a difference and whether pesticides really cause cancer, but I think enough has been proven. Most of the experts who work in the field of chemicals say, yes, pesticides can definitely lead to cancers, and they’re extremely dangerous for our bodies.”

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recalls. “But I feel like I have to be a voice and bring awareness because no parent should ever have to feel what my family and I have felt. There isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t miss my Donovan.” The City Council voted 5-0 to eliminate the use of toxic pesticides, making Irvine not only the first city in Orange County to eliminate these chemicals from the landscaping plan, but also the first city in all of Southern California to adopt an organic, integrated pest-management program, which eliminates the use of synthetic pesticides, such as Roundup and 2,4 D, under all circumstances and incorporates manual removal, weed whacking and, if

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hen Non Toxic Irvine initially addressed the City Council to put the removal of pesticides on the agenda, Shea was enthusiastic to support its mission. “I am extremely excited about this group and what they’re doing,” Shea says. “It was my pleasure to support them, and I back them 100 percent.” According to Konte and Craciun, Non Toxic Irvine received nearly 100 messages within days of the meeting. People from San Clemente to Garden Grove to Smithfield, Road Island, to the United Kingdom reached out to Non Toxic Irvine to discuss how they could accomplish the same in their communities. A total of 26 Non Toxic teams have assembled as a result of the Irvine organization’s success. According to Craciun, the group has responded to the overwhelming requests for help by creating a playbook that lays out the necessary steps in order to create a non-toxic community. But Non Toxic Irvine didn’t stop after its win with the city. The group’s most recent accomplishment is equally as monumental. Last month, the IUSD decided to adopt fully organic landscaping practices. Prior to this, the school distict had only agreed to stop using Roundup and 2,4 D, but it was still using other highly toxic pesticides. “I’m the type who follows regulations, so I always promoted what the EPA has approved,” says Hoffman. “But what Non Toxic Irvine opened my eyes to

n 2014, when the doctor informed Thompson about the mass in Caelin’s brain, Thompson recalls looking at her ill daughter and watching her shake as tears filled her eyes. Thompson breathes deeply as she recounts her daughter’s battle with medulloblastoma. Caelin went into remission after a year of treatment and has been cancer-free for three years. Now a sassy 5-year-old about to enter the first grade, Caelin gives hope to children who have cancer and their parents. But, according to Thompson, the doctor appointments and MRIs are going to be a part of Caelin’s life forever. “This is our new normal,” she says. “But that’s okay. We’re just lucky to have her here.”

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the weeds from growing. According to the Beyond Pesticides lecture, if the soil is healthy, weeds won’t grow. Using toxic pesticides causes the growth of weeds in grass because the chemicals deteriorate the soil’s natural defense system, which then requires more pesticides to get rid of the weeds. “People don’t know the cyclical model of pesticides,” says Konte. “We’re fed to think that chemicals are the only way when it comes to lawns and landscaping. Like Chip and Jay said in the training, you can achieve the same with organic landscaping in terms of appearance, and you use 30 percent less water, too. In this drought, we need to save as much water as we can.” The success of Non Toxic Irvine hasn’t

been taken lightly. Last May, the queen of environmentalism, Jane Goodall, released a statement tipping her hat to its efforts. “Pesticides are made to kill living things, and the idea that they only kill the things they’re intended to is just wishful thinking,” Goodall wrote. “Time and science are revealing just how harmful these toxins can be to humans, animals and the entire ecosystem. It’s encouraging to know that there are people working to stop the use of pesticides in their communities. . . . Non Toxic Irvine is doing good work to make this change by engaging in a dialogue with its city’s leaders. I hope people all over the world will be moved to take similar action.”

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Newport-Mesa Unified School District and the Ocean View School District; and nine landscaping companies came to the lecture. “The pesticides that are being used on grass, turf fields and landscapes not just in Orange County, but around the entire country are extremely toxic— especially for children,” says Feldman. “Glyphosate has been proven to be a probable carcinogen, and it only makes common sense to transition to practices that don’t rely on [toxic] chemicals. We can meet the expectations of the community through organic measures.” Adopting these new practices hasn’t been entirely well-received by the community, Konte explains. It’s often thought that pesticides are the only way to keep

is the fact that just because the EPA says it’s safe, [that] doesn’t mean it is.” The transition to organic landscaping methods has some OC school districts questioning IUSD’s decision, however. Hoffman says he has received countless phone calls from other maintenance directors. “Some are extremely supportive of what we’re doing, and others have called to ask what the heck I’m doing. I’ve had people tell me that I don’t have to go this alternative route and that pesticides aren’t as bad as they say,” he says. “And these people have emphasized that because I’m meeting the law, it’s fine. Although IUSD was meeting the law, it was something that I just didn’t agree with anymore— and I know I made the right decision.” After IUSD decided to make the switch, Non Toxic Irvine set up an organic-landscaping training with Beyond Pesticides—a renowned nonprofit organization whose mission is to help transition away from using conventional landscaping methods by adopting organic, more eco-friendly landscaping practices. The sessions—hosted by Jay Feldman, the executive director of Beyond Pesticides, and horticulturist and turf-grass expert Chip Osborne—highlighted the financial, ecological and health benefits that come with eliminating toxic pesticides from landscaping routines. To Non Toxic Irvine’s surprise, five representatives from different cities; five different school districts, including the Huntington Beach School District,

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If massive, million-people music festivals leave you feeling a bit . . . ugh . . . then perhaps it’s time you went Woogie.This three-day sun fest not only features a full and eclectic lineup from acts like MORE Visionquest, ONLINE OCWEEKLY.COM Extrawelt, Eli & Fur, Blond:ish, Oona Dahl, Benoit & Sergio, Rodriguez Jr. and really a whole lot more, but also promises yoga (at sunset on Friday; in the morning on Saturday and Sunday), after-hours DJs, a Slip ’N Slide, live painting, and water games. And yes, you can get your camping on, too. Described as an “intimate” gathering, you can bet this will check all the boxes of a desert festival, but because it’s held at Oak Canyon Park, it’ll be a tad more . . . comfortable. Woogie Weekend at Oak Canyon Park, 5305 Santiago Canyon Rd., Silverado; woogiewknd.com. Noon; also Sat.-Sun. $70-$160. —ERIN DEWITT

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Buddha Beats Deep House Yoga

Not partying it up at Woogie Weekend? No worries—Spectra Yoga’s got you covered. At today’s Deep House Yoga session, you can combine the club atmosphere of a rave with the relaxing, soothing movements and stretches of yoga, allowing you to decompress after a long week. T H I S CO D E A live DJ will be spinTO DOWNLOAD THE FREE OCWEEKLY ning house, funk, jazz IPHONE/ANDROID APP and soul music while FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT instructor Aileen Pham ocweekly.com guides your chakras to alignment. Oh, yeah, and there’ll be laser projections and mood lighting too. Get your yoga mat and bricks ready to downward dog while the beat drops, and be sure to stay for the postworkout snacks and beverages mixer, too! Deep House Yoga at Spectra Yoga, 2701 Harbor Blvd., Ste. E1, Costa Mesa, (714) 436-0576; spectrayoga.com. 7:30 p.m. $20; members, free. —AIMEE MURILLO

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EL MARIACHI Pepe Aguilar

Donning a big sombrero and charro suit, Pepe Aguilar is a rock star in every sense of the word. The son of Mexican ranchera legend Antonio Aguilar and singer Flor Silvestre, Pepe got an early start making his debut onstage at the age of three with his famous dad at Madison Square Garden. Like any rebellious teen, he took to rock music before switching over to mariachi and rancheras; three decades and 26 albums later, Pepe’s a ranchera music legend in his own right. Word surfaced last year that the Mexican singer returned to his love of rock music working with Chilean band Los Bunkers on a collaborative new album. While the experimental material hasn’t surfaced yet, Pepe is making his Segerstrom debut this weekend. Pepe Aguilar at Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 5562787; www.scfta.org. 7:30 p.m. $69-$109. —GABRIEL SAN ROMÁN

Like a Love Song Selena Gomez

Can we finally say that Selena Gomez has truly come into her own? That’s the question most media outlets, fans and critics have of the sweet-faced, ex-Disney Channel TV star, who has faced plenty of heavy prying into her personal life. Still, as the growing starlet and singer blossoms into a well-adjusted adult, she’s hitting career milestones such as appearing in musicals, having her own clothing line, participating in philanthropic work and releasing hit after chart-topping hit, defying expectations of what a female ex-Disney Channel star can be. Now as she sets a course for her Revival tour, the 23-year-old Texan will rule the Honda Center stage with her effervescent presence and hip electronic pop songs. Selena Gomez with Charlie Puth and Bea Miller at the Honda Center, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 7042500; www.hondacenter.com. 7:30 p.m. $49.50-$125. —AIMEE MURILLO HOLLYWOOD RECORDS

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Cheating to Win

How to Succeed in Business (Without Really Trying) In the book-turned-musical play How to Succeed in Business (Without Really Trying), we witness one man’s rocket-speed journey from window washer to chairman of the board, and one woman’s journey from secretary to executive’s wife, all in the span of

two musically-charged and raucous comedic acts. Turns out, the secret to success lies in possessing a little cheat-sheet manual. Here’s a preview; step one: Apply for a job. Educate yourself on the rest of the steps by buying tickets to How to Succeed in Business (Without Really Trying) at the Long Beach Playhouse for their rendition of this classic play. How to Succeed in Business (Without Really Trying) at the Long Beach Playhouse, 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 4941014; www.lbplayhouse.org. 2 p.m. Through Aug. 6. $24. —AMANDA PARSONS

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Players Be Playin’! Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Lawrence Jamieson and Freddy Benson are out to fleece the next rich sucker they come across. Assuming Freddy is the famous, elusive con man the Jackal, Lawrence sets up a bet that the first to con unsuspecting soap heiress Janet Colgate out of $50,000 will have to leave their cushy French Riviera turf . . . only Ms. Colgate isn’t what she seems,

either. Based on the 1988 film starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine, Musical Theatre West presents this musical adaptation first performed on Broadway in 2004, with lyrics and music by David Yazbek and book by Jeffrey Lane, running this month at Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, (562) 985-7000; www. carpenterarts.org. 2 p.m. Through July 24. $17-$80. Mature audiences suggested. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Nominated for five Golden Globes and one Oscar in 1978, the Broadway-musicalturned-epic-cinematic-experience may not have collected producer Allan Carr or director Randal Kleiser any gold, but it raked in the cold hard cash—almost $400 million on a $6 million budget, making it the highest grossing movie musical of all time. It also set off 40 years of fandom, with each new generation mesmerized by theT-Birds and Pink Ladies and swooning over Danny and Sandy. Go get your retro on and start your summer lovin’ right! Grease at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 556-2787; www.scfta.org. 8 p.m. Free. —SR DAVIES

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Totally Warhol Tuesdays In conjunction with “The Late Drawings of Andy Warhol 1973-1987,” the Fullerton Museum Center will host a weekly DIY art workshop every Tuesday night that relates back to the iconic work of the New York artist. Today, participants will make their own selfportraits in the style of Warhol’s colorful, silkscreened portraits of pop culture figures such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. For the low price of a materials fee, you’ll get to walk out with a nifty, new personal photo of yourself and take a tour of the exhibit. Totally Warhol Tuesdays at the Fullerton Museum Center, 301 N. Pomona Ave., Fullerton, (714) 738-6545; cityoffullerton. com. Children’s class, 10 a.m.; adult class, 5:30 p.m. Through July 26. $10-$15. —AIMEE MURILLO

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Hot Royalty

Empire of the Sun Despite having not released an album in more than three years, Empire of the Sun are one of the few bands who can bring their dynamic live show from town to town without the support of some new tunes. Formed in 2007, the electronicinfused rhythms and melodies of Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore made them a hit on the festival circuit. On top of their anthemic tracks, the duo’s theatrics onstage have made them more than just a run-of-the-mill electronic act. Though the Sydney natives have been around for nearly a decade, the inclusion of their 2008 hit “Walking on a Dream” was licensed to a Honda commercial, and coincidentally, has become their biggest hit stateside. With a new album rumored to be on the way this year, don’t be surprised if the duo drops new tunes tonight. Empire of the Sun with Hellogoodbye at Pacific Amphitheatre, 100 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 708-1500; www. pacamp.com. 7:30 p.m. $37.50-$70. —DANIEL KOHN

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An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein

If you know anything about Shel Silverstein, you know his life took him way beyond where the sidewalk ends. If his children’s works weren’t so extraordinarily resonant, he’d still be remembered by history as the guy who wrote “A Boy Named Sue” or as one of Playboy’s signature cartoonT H I S CO D E ists . . . or maybe as TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE the guy who had an OCWEEKLY IPHONE/ANDROID APP unreleased album FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT called Fuck ‘Em with ocweekly.com song titles too nasty to print even here, or maybe as the playwright whom best friend David Mamet called “an autodidact of pristine purity.”That last is the Shel on display today with several bawdy-slash-raunchy plays explicitly not for kids. Instead, these are tales of sex, revenge and animalistic humanity—think of it as CurbYour Enthusiasm meets a barroom dirty joke, as told by Terry Southern to Alfred Hitchcock. An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein at Bronwyn DodsonTheatre at Fullerton College, 321 E. Chapman Ave., Room 1319, Fullerton, (714) 992-7150; theatre.fullcoll. edu. 8 p.m. $12.50. For mature audiences only. —CHRIS ZIEGLER

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At his new restaurant, Garlitos doesn’t waste any time throwing the non-Pinoy into the deep end of the pool. One of his starters is dilis, tiny dried anchovies he deep-fries and serves as finger food. And it packs a punch—every piece of fish a crunchy shard that disintegrates in the mouth, dipped into a lip-puckering bowl of spicy vinegar. It’s a proud proclamation that Filipino cuisine favors the sharp, the fishy and the sour—and so should you. While your head spins from its greatness, Garlitos lobs another sour dish with his sinigang, the classic tamarind-soured soup that’s usually eaten as a meal with rice. This rendition, though, is designed as a soup. And since you’re supposed to sip it straight up, he dials down the acidity and turns up the sweetness. He also serves it with charred snake beans and daikon radish that give the soup a slight smokiness, each vegetable cut to fit onto a soupspoon. For now, apart from the three starters, Irenia only has four small plates and two entrees. Cauliflower is prepared as a sort of stir-fry with the indigenous fermented shrimp paste called bagoong as a flavoring agent, a sprinkling of toasted sunflower seeds, and slices of mandarinquat (a hybrid of a kumquat and mandarin) you eat rinds and all. It’s an interpretation of a Filipino dish I’ve never had before, but so was the pancit, which is as saucy as spaghetti, uses yellow noodles like chow mein, and possesses a pronounced shrimp flavor that Garlitos extracts from the heads of a few Santa Barbara ridgeback shrimp he also includes whole. Not surprisingly, Garlitos’ best dish is the adobo. It nods to tradition with the flavors of garlic, vinegar and soy thoroughly seeped into the plank of pork belly, but also takes some liberties. Gar-

litos reduces the sauce until it glazes the meat as though a barbecued rib. But his crowning touch is the addition of ginisang monggo, a traditional Pinoy mung bean dish. This means that when you order Garlitos’ adobo, you’re actually getting two Filipino meals in one. If you’re still too new to Filipino food to invest $18 for the adobo during dinner, come at lunch when Garlitos shaves off $7 and delivers it in a rice bowl. He also offers a tender annatto-flavored chicken bowl called inasal that’s served with citrusspiked vegetables. The best rice bowl, though, has to be his kare-kare—cauliflower and green beans cooked with peanut sauce and the stinky feet-smell of more bagoong. But do come for dinner. That’s when Ashley Guzman—who was previously the pastry chef for the North Left— shines with her modern spins on Filipino sweets such as a deconstructed calamansi pie and halo-halo. Her desserts are some of the best in Orange County, period. Still, I don’t envy the job Garlitos and Guzman have ahead of them. Their role is a constant balancing act of introducing not-so-easy-to-translate ingredients like polvoron and milkfish to the masses before they can go full Pinoy. Someday they can. It’ll be the time when “sinigang” rolls off your tongue as easily as “carne asada” and the waitress at Irenia won’t have to ask her customers, “Have you had Filipino food before?” IRENIA 400 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, (657) 245-3466; www.ireniarestaurant.com. Open Tues.-Wed., 5:30-10 p.m.; Thurs., 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. & 5:30-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. & 5:30-10:30 p.m. Dinner for two, $30-$60, food only. Full bar.

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ave you noticed that whenever I write about a Filipino restaurant, I’m not just reviewing the food, service and ambience; I’m also presenting a defense and a primer on the cuisine itself? I do this because despite Filipinos representing the largest Asian population in California (yes, larger than Chinese and Vietnamese), most of you reading still don’t have any idea that adobo is a cooking method or that sinigang is a sour soup to be doused over rice. It’s as if the food came from Mars instead of the group of islands just to the east of Vietnam. One of my theories is that most non-Pinoys form their first impressions of the cuisine at turo-turo restaurants, where the dishes are dumped into chafing trays that not only amplify some of its peculiarities, but also ruin the presentation. And lately I’ve realized something else: in spite of the occasional news article pronouncing that the cuisine is just on the cusp of breaking out, Filipino food has largely been ignored and even shunned by major newspaper restaurant critics as though it wasn’t worthy of their tastebuds or ink. This is the uphill battle that all Filipino eateries face. Most seem resigned to cater to only the people of their country. But for every dozen of those, there is a Ryan Garlitos—a young chef inspired by his grandmother’s Filipino cooking and mentored by Taco Maria’s Carlos Salgado—who is putting himself and his food out there for the widest possible audience. Last year he started Irenia, an itinerant pop-up he named in honor of his lola. Its success led him to this newest project: Irenia as a brick-and-mortar in the space vacated by the North Left in Downtown Santa Ana.

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he jajangmyeon at Beijing Wok & Grill recently saved my life. I ate it the day after my most recent appearance on The Tom Leykis Show, where I drank myself into a giddy stupor, as usual—did I stop at 12 or 17 shots? But I did two things I shouldn’t have done: I mixed tequila and cognac, and I ate a big sandwich afterward. No need to go into my suffering that night except to say that I think I finally upchucked the penny I swallowed back in second grade. My usual go-to food for hangovers are birria or chilaquiles, but I was so faded that the thought of the two disgusted me for the first time in my life. Orange juice was a nice pickup, but I needed something heftier, something to soak up all the booze and resuscitate me, Goku style. And then I thought of jajangmyeon, the classic KoreanChinese dish that’s just meat, leeks, noodles and a black-bean paste. Yet it has become one of my favorite meals for its unapologetic earthiness. I had actually never had the version at Beijing Wok & Grill, always too busy when I stopped by in the past with their many soups, their feathery dumplings, and their trio of fried foods (chicken wings, shrimp and ribs) glazed with a garlic spicy sauce that was as pungent as it was fiery. Getting to Beijing Wok can be tricky sometimes, since parking spaces in its shopping plaza are as rare as an Angels’ victory this season. But I lucked out, ordered it at the counter from an older Korean woman, and waited. My jajangmyeon bowl arrived just a few minutes later, the black bean paste so dark and thick that you couldn’t even see any noodles underneath. Salvation: The noodles were sturdy and absorbed the sauce, which is gloriously starchy and equal parts funky and savory. Pork and leeks added crunch; the bowl took me about five minutes to polish off, and my life force was revived. Gracias, Beijing Wok & Grill: Until the next hangover!

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ave you seen some of the toppings on Bloody Marys lately? They’re not just stalks of celery anymore. I’ve seen crab claws, bacon, tiered sandwiches, hamburger sliders, even barbecued baby back ribs teetering on the edge of the glass. I wouldn’t necessarily object to any of it if the prices didn’t often exceed that of an actual meal consisting of those very same foodstuffs. This is why it was refreshing to finally find a sane rendition of a Bloody Mary for once. It was sold for the reasonable price of $4. I ordered it while having breakfast at JT Schmid’s in Tustin one Saturday morning.

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f a mariscos restaurant serves botanas big enough to feed a small Sinaloan village and there’s no one around to order a bucket of Coronas to go with it, is it a mariscos restaurant at all? That’s the question I keep asking myself when I go to Mariscos Los Buchones, a year-old business in a massive corner space on Long Beach Boulevard and 7th Street that even during the lunch rush (and despite above-average ceviches, cocteles and caldos) remains mostly quiet and empty. The answer, of course, is yes—downtown Long Beach finally has the mariscos restaurant it’s been waiting for. Sure, it’s not as barren as the location used to be when it was a sad Italian restaurant that served tomato goop from a can slopped over boiled Barilla, and the dining room does fill up more on Friday nights when booming banda sinaloense performances soar over the entire downtown block. But more likely than not, the vibe behind the woodendoor entrance is demure compared to other Southern California mariscos experiences, which at many places of this size (see: SanTana’s Mariscos Hector) is now a male-dominated exercise in drinking as many Chamoyand-Tajín loaded chelas as possible while slurping down various citric-acid-soaked sea creatures served by a team of pretty ladies. With a pastel, sea-faring décor more reminiscent of a beachy San Diego timeshare than any eatery in Mazatlán (or SanTana for that matter) and a shimmery corrido-filled jukebox in the corner that goes unused during daytime hours unless a rogue child decides to start pushing buttons, Mariscos Los Buchones doesn’t seem to attract these crowds. Which is all well and good if you’re just looking to offset the summer heat with a pile of spicy, refreshing seafood, since they still serve an exquisite array of over-the-top mixtures and combination platters that you can dress up to your liking with any of the sweet/smoky/salty/ savory hot sauces sitting at your table.

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True to its name (“los buchones” is slang for “narcos”), Mariscos Los Buchones’ dishes have adopted some of the drug world’s argot, with botanas named “del patrón” and “los jefes” plus oysters and beers served perronas (badass) style—for the slimy guys in a half shell, that means topped with ceviche; for the Modelos, it’s a rain of shrimp, cucumbers, peanuts and tamarindo candy. You can also get mariscos specials from other coastal fishing states like Veracruz and Nayarit, or opt for their sweetly marinated coctel mixto (shrimp, octopus, imitation abalone and crab) served decadently inside of a coconut or on a plate made from half a carved-out pineapple. Veer from the standard mariscos dishes and there’s still a neighborhood Mexican restaurant underneath, with quesadillas, tortas and carne asada combo plates at prices even the Long Beach crackheads who pace past Buchones’ large street-facing windows can afford. All tacos (except the marlin) are $1 on Tuesdays. Lunch specials include a $6 cheese enchilada combo plate and an entire mojarra frita for $8, which can easily feed two. Even the parrillada mixta—an everythingbut-the-kitchen-sink table spread fit for six or more people—averages out to less than $10 per person. At Mariscos Los Buchones, you can enjoy the simple serenity of a michelada and shrimp cocktail (both served in the local vessel of choice, a schooner) without any of the lady-ogling, ear-piercing chaos that usually accompanies it. Good times! MARISCOS LOS BUCHONES 701 Long Beach Blvd., Long Beach, (562) 435-6238; losbuchonesrestaurant.com.

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Frida festival exposes Studio Ghibli’s anime genius BY MATT COKER

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is a critically acclaimed adaptation of Mary Norton’s The Borrowers. While staying with his aunt for a week, young Sho catches a glimpse of Arrietty, a miniature, 14-year-old member of the Clock family that has been secretly living in the walls and the floors of the house for generations. The discovery completely changes the Clocks’ way of life. Then it’s back to Miyazaki and his hilarious homage to aviation history, Porco Rosso. The titular character is a World War I ace-turnedbounty hunter who often rescues the hostages of air pirates—even though an unusual curse turned him into an anthropomorphic pig. Sunday evening begins with Miyazaki’s tale of a 13-year-old witch trainee, Kiki’s Delivery Service; living on her own, Kiki discovers the transition to adulthood is more difficult than she imagined. Among the most sobering entries in the Studio Ghibli catalog is Takahata’s Grave of Fireflies. Based on Akiyuki Nosaka’s semi-autobiographical short story, the anime features two children struggling to survive in World War II-torn Japan after they lose their mother to an air raid; as things get grimmer, they keep their spirits up by watching entertaining fireflies. The festival shifts to two-a-days Monday with The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Takahata’s adaptation of the 10th-century folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. The title character discovers a miniature baby inside a glowing bamboo shoot. He and his wife raise the girl as their own, and when she rapidly comes of age, her beauty becomes well-known throughout the land and several nobles propose to her. Monday concludes with a repeat showing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

On Tuesday, we drop in on My Neighbors the Yamadas, Takahata’s drastic departure from traditional anime as it’s hand-drawn in almost a comic-book style. The Yamadas live a common middle-class life in contemporary Tokyo; the parents struggle with the difficulties of modern parenting, and a live-in grandmother drops pearls of wisdom. Another Howl’s Moving Castle showing closes out Tuesday. Wednesday begins with the 2014 film that triumphantly proved Studio Ghibli has a future post-Miyazaki. In When Marnie Was There, Yonebayashi expertly crafts the tale of a 12-year-old girl who meets another girl in an abandoned mansion, sees their friendship grow, then begins to wonder whether the new friend is real. Next is a Spirited Away rerun. The Wind Rises, the final film of Miyazaki’s 50-plus-year career, rolls Thursday, July 14. Young Jiro Horikosho loves the skies and wants to be a pilot, but his nearsightedness disqualifies him. A dream persuades Jiro to engineer planes instead, and he rises to prominence in the field—only to meet a series of misfortunes. The day is capped with another My Neighbor Totoro showing. The festival continues with repeat screenings of many of the films mentioned above as well as Hiroyuki Morita’s The Cat Returns, Goro Miyazaki’s From Up on Poppy Hill and Takahata’s Only Yesterday. MCOKER@OCWEEKLY.COM STUDIO GHIBLI FESTIVAL at the Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; thefridacinema.org. Opens Fri. See website for show times. Through Thurs., July 21. $8-$10, with some $1-$7 matinees.

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Enland, where wizard Ged investigates recent natural disasters, diseases and dragons fighting over the clouds. Next, it’s daddy Miyazaki’s masterpiece, Spirited Away, the most successful Japanese film of all time, about a family that takes a detour on their way to a new home and winds up in an unknown spirit world where the parents have been turned into pigs and their 10-year-old son is forced to work in an evil witch’s bathhouse. That’s followed by Miyazaki’s historical epic Princess Mononoke, which has the last Emishi prince burdened with a curse that gives him superhuman fighting abilities that will eventually kill him if he is not cured in time. The prince travels west for a cure, only to be embroiled in a war between forest gods and a mining company. Perhaps a package sent to Harvey Weinstein allowed Americans to see how masterfully Miyazaki captures the forests and villages of Japan’s tumultuous Muromachi period; when the thenMiramax co-chairman suggested edits to make Princess Mononoke more marketable, a Miyazaki producer supposedly sent an authentic Japanese sword and the message “No cuts.” Sunday morning brings a Miyazaki story with a familiar ring to it, Ponyo. Fiveyear-old Sosuke finds a goldfish trapped in a container on the beach, names her Ponyo and keeps her as a pet. Little does he know that Ponyo is the daughter of a mysterious aquatic wizard named Fujimoto, who retrieves the fish who longs to be human, having developed feelings for Sosuke. The Little Mermaid, anyone? That afternoon brings Yonebayashi’s directorial debut, The Secret World of Arrietty, which

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ince Studio Ghibli “restructured” in August 2014, output has been mostly limited to a picture book; a retrospective art exhibition; and a co-production role in Dutch-British animator Michaël Dudok de Wit’s feature film debut this year, The Red Turtle. But the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana reminds us why the groundbreaking Japanese anime house is so special with a Studio Ghibli Festival that runs Friday through July 21. Nineteen films will be shown daily and nightly over that span, with many getting repeat screenings throughout. Ten of these animes were directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, whom Roger Ebert praised in 2002 as perhaps the best animation filmmaker of all time and upon whom the governors of the Academy Awards bestowed an honorary Oscar to in 2014 for his impact on animation and cinema. It was Miyazaki’s retirement that led the studio to restructure. The festival includes Miyazaki’s 2002 Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner, Spirited Away, as well as other Oscar nominees Howl’s Moving Castle (also Miyazaki), The Wind Rises (Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki), The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (by the other studio co-founder, Isao Takahata, with Yoshiaki Nishimura) and When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Nishimura). Kicking things off Friday is Castle In the Sky, Miyazaki’s tale of a boy helping a girl who fell from the sky. That’s followed by one of the greatest animated films of all time, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Miyazaki’s adaptation of his own manga series. Nausicaa, princess of the Valley of the Wind, tries to preserve peace with giant jungle insects. Incensed by the edit of what was released in the United States as Warriors of the Wind in 1985, Studio Ghibli instituted a “no cuts” policy for future projects. In Howl’s Moving Castle, which screens Saturday morning, 18-year-old Sophie is transformed by the spiteful Witch of the Waste into a 90-year-old woman. In search of a cure, Sophie ends up working as a cleaning lady in a magical moving castle run by wizard Howl, who uses magic to stop a war. More Miyazaki follows that afternoon with My Neighbor Totoro, which has two girls being moved by their father to an old house so they can be closer to the hospital treating their ill mother. Nearby, the kids discover a forest inhabited by woodland spirits and magical creature Totoro, who leads them on adventures. Then comes Tales From Earthsea from Miyazaki’s son Goro, who set his animated tale in the kingdom of

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Purse for the Road

Laguna College of Art and Design’s masters’ students are OC’s art future BY DAVE BARTON

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The numerous details in Catherine Kaleel’s delightful Getting Ready—two young women getting ready at a dresser, a crumpled note with a boy’s phone number nearby, kitsch ceramic kittens, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs album spinning on a record player, a large perm, a Led Zeppelin shirt, a nose ring and a black bra—doesn’t tell us if it’s a nostalgic period piece or a retro fantasy, but it’s not really important. Her throwback to a liberating musical moment in history—as the dinosaurs of rock began to transition to glitter and punk, captured in the party plans of two girls— whether remembered or just re-created, is filled with joy and personality. Chloe Allred’s bloody triptych of women’s battered bodies, Violation, is difficult to look at, more PSA than beauty, forcing us to take in what we normally wouldn’t. That’s what any great artist should do, but aside from it lingering in your mind longer than you want it to, it’s powerful despite my uncertainty about what my take-away is supposed to be. In other figurative work, there’s only the vaguest of unspoken stories behind Kenny Harris’ oil on panel Inara. His subject sits at a piano, sheets of paper haphazardly resting on the music rack, no notes visible, stacks of books nearby, sans legible titles. Her face is demurely turned to the left, partially reflected in the mirror behind her. She’s waiting for someone—perhaps the painter?—and they’re taking more time

than expected. The tension in the moment is expressed as she cradles her hands in one another, feet crossed at the ankles, her toenail polish, dress (and mood?) sharing the color blue. Shawn Warren’s exquisite Portrait Study of a Tuareg, meanwhile, contrasts the dark skin of the Saharan nomad he’s painted with the flowing representation of the man’s long indigo alasho (veil). Photographic in quality, the oil painting is deft and assured. While there are the obligatory seascapes and nature portraits on display, Sansanee Boonyad’s drawing on polytab paper, Origins, goes a step further, presents those organic surroundings as scary, sexual, Giger-like places, where human faces and features and orifices appear in the dark ground, the stark branches of bent and twisted trees like jagged fingernails abrading the air around it. Despite being relegated to the basement, the quality of the work here bodes well for the county’s artistic bloodline, with several of the artists (especially Endow, Nicolini and Kaleel) worthy of their own solo shows. Visionary local curators would do well to visit before the show closes on July 17. “EMERGING MASTERS 2016” at Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Dr., Laguna Beach, (949) 494-8971; lagunaartmuseum. org. Open Fri.-Tues., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Through July 17. $5-$7; children younger than 12, free.

ou can find purses made out of seat belts, tape, trash bags, Legos and balloons, but Heather Paxton’s purse designs can run them all off the road— no, seriously. Paxton takes recycled tire inner tubes she buys from roadside assistance stops and bicycle shops, and turns them into wild, geometric handbags, purses and coin purses. Their asymmetrical, slouchy shapes and black leather look give off a grungy, cyberpunk vibe, but Paxton’s influence runs more along the lines of Mad Max: Road Warrior. “[In the] apocalypse, that’s what we’re gonna be carrying,” Paxton quips. “That’s the exciting part for me— not the death and destruction, but the fashion.” Paxton started out making jewelry out of found objects, including used bicycle chains and tubes. From there, she progressed into turning truck and tractor tires into stitched-up, portable creations. The process to make one purse— after lengthy cleaning— takes up to an hour. The only difficulty is working with the thick, rubbery material— “there’s only so much you can get under the presser foot,” she says— so for the thickest tires, she uses bicycle tubes to lace the sides together, adding an alluring, woven finish. While most people wouldn’t think of tires as a fashionable material, Paxton’s purses have become a big hit. She receives custom orders frequently while running her shop and studio at Fullerton’s Magoski Arts Colony. Paxton is currently looking to make clothing out of tires and has already started making corsets. Stop by her store, Paxton Original, and get yourself a handbag fit to last you through the End Times. AMURILLO@OCWEEKLY.COM PAXTON ORIGINAL at Magoski Arts Colony, 223 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton; magoskiartscolony.com. Follow the store on Instagram: @paxtonoriginal.

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here’s an embarrassment of riches in “Emerging Masters 2016,” Laguna Art Museum’s exhibition of the work of Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) Masters of Fine Arts students. Curated by Peter Zokosky, LCAD’s masters of fine arts painting and drawing chairman, the work is heavy on thoughtful narrative and arresting imagery. An extraordinary painter in his own right, Zokosky brings his unique eye to his curation of the show, embracing the risk-takers and thinkers in his department. Unlike someone whose work feels like a retread of painters they admire, Averi Endow’s paintings are singularly her own. Like her brutally clear-eyed paintings of children at Costa Mesa’s DAX Gallery seen last year—part little animal, part terror, but with tender beauty intact—her two pieces on playground equipment, Heisenberg and Advent, give us a swing set and a slide, but coats them in a shadowy ambiguity suggesting that every molester and child murderer in the world is lurking just out of frame. In Heisenberg, the isolated blue swing seats look like torture devices, the slack-jawed metal Walter White figure balancing them on outstretched arms, the thing of nightmares. The solidity of Advent’s stairs leading into a blackness where only streaks of color exist suggests a stepping-off point leading to some hellish abyss. There’s a much lighter, almost childlike, but nevertheless melancholic, story being told in the opulent colors of Jacqueline Nicolini’s Looking Back. It’s illustrative art at its finest: a small zebra finch perched inside the doorway of a dollhouse. The miniaturized surroundings—pictures hanging on the wall, tiny bookcases filled with tinier books, a bird in a cage, a grandfather clock—are all perfectly captured, designed and painted. We feel ourselves in the finch’s place, and Nicolini does this without a smidgen of anthropomorphism, creating a fully fleshed-out world and then drawing us into it with the richness of her details. Her second painting, Lonely Tom, again creates its own specificity: It’s a tiny diorama of a train station, with a man holding a briefcase, walking down the street, a cat passing in the other direction and a train on the tracks behind them. Tom—and we don’t know if Nicolini is referring to the cat or the man—is us, perpetually on our way somewhere, but frozen in place and never actually getting there.

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The Mexican Man We Need Right Now Ranchera legend Pepe Aguilar follows in his father’s proud legacy of showing how a macho should live

exican malehood has been in crisis mode for decades now. Time was when the country urged its young hombres to live by the moral code of the charro, the virile archetype of honor, courage, a sombrero and a fabulous mustache. Like Zapata, he’s the brown knight on horseback, defender of Mexicans from invaders and all evil while doing so with dignity: machismo at its most chivalric. The charro is the manifestation of mexicanidad that the country broadcast to the world for decades via song and film, but it now has as much relevancy to modernday Mexicans as Tom Mix has to gabachos. Because over the past two decades, a far more sinister national avatar has emerged: The narco, the person for whom honor is only found at the tip of a cuerno de chivo, who pledges loyalty not to the Virgin of Guadalupe and country, but to cartels and ultraviolence. Whereas the narco’s ancestor, the bandito, was ostracized in popular culture, the narco is now hero, a reflection of Mexico’s chaos and an aspirational figure now that the charros have gone the way of El Tri’s chances of winning the World Cup. But keeping the charro flame alive is Pepe Aguilar. For here is a man who is of Mexican royalty: Son of ranchera superstars Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans of Mexico known as much for their wholesome image as for their music, films and road shows. “My father and I shared respect for tradition, but not just the musical ones,” he’s quoted as saying in the program notes for his residency at the Segerstrom this weekend. “Also the traditions of family, of history, of certain forms and ways of being that we find indispensable.” Who speaks like that anymore? But that’s exactly what Mexican men need right now: a reset of their testosterone by looking back to the ideals of the charro and subsequently marching toward the future to make Mexico great again. And Aguilar is the perfect chingón to lead the charge. Pepe was born in San Antonio in 1968, while his parents were on tour. He joined the Aguilar family business—a fabulous espectáculo of mariachi and banda sinaloense, singing, dancing horses, rope tricks, and more—almost as soon as he could mount a pony. The familia traveled the world, from Madison Square Garden to Mexico and beyond, and my family would see the Aguilars perform almost annually at the Anaheim Convention Center during the 1980s—during one show, my mom once told me, Pepe’s brother,

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Antonio Jr., was so overcome with nerves that he began to cry. But like all American-born children of Mexican immigrants, Pepe wanted to do more than just follow in his father’s boot steps. He started a New Wave band called Equs during the 1980s that sounded as if they were auditioning to sneak onto a John Hughes soundtrack. Even then, the teen’s strong, vulnerable croon cut through the synths and drum machines—a promise of his talent. A trio of tamborazo albums in the early 1990s that called back to his papi’s legendary recordings during the 1970s signaled Pepe’s return to regional Mexican music. But he cemented his status as a ranchera icon in his own right in 1992 at just 24 with the song “Recuérdame Bonito” (“Remember Me Nicely”), a farewell lament written by Joan Sebastian. The weeper showcased his spectacular voice, a mestizaje of ranchera’s Mount Rushmore: strong like Javier Solís, silky like Pedro Infante, wrapping around heartbreak like José Alfredo Jiménez, and as humble as his Pop’s. Six years later, Pepe followed up with the even-bigger track “Por Mujeres Como Tu” (“For Women Like You”), a saddle confessional of hurt and pain that, if any guy sings to his girl, results in an instantaneous choni melting.

The two songs are now staples of all mariachis, and Pepe’s legacy is set with them. But if the eternal struggle of a Mexican man is that of borders—modernity and the past, the U.S. and Mexico, the rural and urban, violence and peace— Pepe’s career has always sought to blast them and urge others to do the same. His most recent album, the just-released No Lo Había Dicho (I Hadn’t Said It), is an audacious mix of vallenato, pop, banda, ranchera that lands more often than not. Pepe has made forays into everything from shoes to songwriting for rock en español chanteuse Julieta Venegas to even sponsoring a food truck. In his 2014 MTV Unplugged effort, he teamed with Saúl Hernández of Caifanes for a moody, yet puro pinche pari version of the latter’s “Viento.” And not taking his celebrity status lightly, Pepe has spoken out against Donald Trump and boycotted the Latin Grammys for years for the sham ceremony’s continued ignorance of Mexican regional music—among Mexican celebrities, only Los Tigres del Norte does politics better. Yet perhaps the greatest performance Pepe ever gave, and telling of his salvational potential, happened with that institution of moneyed, gabacho Orange County: the USC Marching Band. In

2014, the USC Latino Alumni Association hosted Aguilar—dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a black USC letterman’s jacket—for an evening of music and conversation that concluded with the Spirit of Troy marching on stage with him, sunglasses and smirks and all. “I was a little skeptic[al] when we did the rehearsal,” he cracked in front of the crowd, “but you guys sound like the real thing, man! I’m going to take you guys to Sinaloa!” The band then launched into “Un Puño de Tierra” (“A Fistful of Dirt”), a rip-roaring existential boast immortalized by Antonio Aguilar. Pepe somehow got a bunch of millennials to nail every trombone jaunt, every tuba boast, every thundering drumbeat. “Let’s give joy to joy,” Pepe sang to the screams of Trojan Nation, summing up his career. “Life ends quickly.” Scholarly, Mexican, American, happy, proud: Someone make Pepe president of Mexico—hell, make him the next president of here. If all Mexican men emulated Pepe, we’d Reconquista the U.S. once and for all. GARELLANO@OCWEEKLY.COM PEPE AGUILAR at Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, (714) 556-2787; www.scfta.org. Sat., 7:30 p.m. $69. All ages.

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ost bands humbly started with house-party gigs. For Mad Caddies, that would’ve been a considerable step up. “The first gig we did was a keg party at a barn in high school,” singer Chuck Robertson recalls, trying to hold in laughter. “We had nine or 10 songs we could play at the time, and we played them three or four times that night. There were 40 people in that barn, and here we are now.” Now in their third decade as a band, the Solvang natives broke out of the barn circuit long ago with their mixture of ska, punk and reggae that has won them fans up and down the coast and beyond. Before 2014’s Dirty Rice, the band had a seven-year gap between records, one that Robertson credits to the band figuring things out internally. Though he’s coy about the particulars, Robertson says Mad Caddies have begun working on their seventh studio album. They’ve gotten together over the past month to rehearse for their upcoming string of dates that are primarily in Europe, as well as to hash out the ideas they’ve been developing for that record. “It’s been a while since the end of the last album cycle,” the singer explains. “Everyone took a break and had some rest. Now we’re excited to get back in there.” The writing process this time around is more inclusive and collaborative, Robertson says, with band members sending ideas back and forth electronically—anything from snippets recorded on iPhones to electronic voice memos. It’s a big change from their early days at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in the mid-’90s, when they’d discuss a particular idea, then vote on the spot. “Doing a lot of this type of songwriting is great,” Robertson says. “It’s a much

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t’s difficult to describe the essence of Sapien, but their sonic ambiguity is what truly defines them. Their influences range from Pink Floyd to Jane’s Addiction to Pantera, so their writing style incorporates an eclectic mix of rock & roll genres. From song to song, their sound jumps freely between psychedelic, experimental, alternative, soft, funk and even a little punk/reggae. Each member is a beast on his respective instruments, and when they play together, their individual styles gel into one hell of a power trio. The Fullerton-based band—composed of Cody Smith on drums, Spencer Reed on guitar and Miles Fuller on bass—came together in 2013. What they lack in numbers, they make up for in skill, often creating a sound as powerful and intricate as an orchestra. Prior to forming Sapien, Smith and Reed’s friendship revolved around music, as they jammed in their speed metal/thrash band Rorschach. Fuller, who was moving from Boise, Idaho, to California at the time, saw an ad Smith posted on Craigslist, seeking a bassist for Rorschach. Though he had never played bass before, he responded to the listing. “I always felt like bass players were in the background,” Fuller says, “but if you have a prominent one, it changes the whole band.” To his surprise, he found an immediate passion and love for the instrument. There were some falling outs and dissatisfaction with the direction Rorschach were heading, so Smith, Reed and Fuller—all in their early 20s—decided to start a new band and move away from the thrash-metal sound. Thus, Sapien was born. Their chemistry, talent and potential were undeniable as they explored sounds, riffs and rhythms they never had before. Over the next three years, their music became even more

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