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[Spare Notes] ‘The Summertime EP’ by Sage One

The weather is starting to warm up and people cruising around town need something to bump with their windows down. Costa Mesa-based rapper Sage One (born Ethan Jimenez) has come through with his seasonal release of The Summertime EP. The collection of a half-dozen songs flows steadily upon mellow beats and herbal hazes. Choruses are [...]

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South Coast Rep Helps Bring Some Latino Teatro Back to SanTana!

Latino theater is returning to the city Santa Ana thanks to the awarding of a grant earlier this month from the James Irvine Foundation. As recipient, South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa is partnering up with acclaimed non-profit Latino Health Access to launch a community-based theater initiative called Dialogue/Diálogos SCR. The two-year, $600,000 project can, [...]

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Woody Guthrie Celebration This Weekend in Fullerton!

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912 in the small town of Okemah, Oklahoma. Over the decades of his life, “Woody” as he would become popularly known, came to author an enormous catalog of folk songs that have withstood the test of time before falling ill and dying of Huntington’s disease on October [...]

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Two Years Too Many: Free Pussy Riot!

Sitting inside a glass enclosure, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich smiled today as a Russian judge convicted the women of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” The Pussy Riot punk rockers were then sentenced to two years imprisonment for their supposed crime. Amnesty International, which deems the feminists as “prisoners of conscience” while taking [...]

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Música en Movimiento Festival Returns to SanTana!

An ambitious cultural undertaking is set to take place in downtown SanTana this Saturday as musicians, poets, activist organizations, speakers, DJs, dancers, artists will congregate for the Música en Movimiento Music and Arts Festival. The event sways heavily on local Orange County talent with acts coming from the diverse genre realms of hip-hop, son jarocho, [...]

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