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Taller Sur in the OC Weekly

Taller Sur Celebrate Four Years of Diverse Latin Music at Viento y Agua Coffee House BY GABRIEL SAN ROMAN Issuing impressive guitar work, stirring melodies and expressive vocals, Taller Sur have proved over the years that Latinos can be bohemian, too. Beginning as an experimental songwriting workshop in 2005, the group have evolved into a sophisticated [...]

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The “Arpaio Out of Anaheim” Protest!

{Bill Hunt’s Dreadful Tie Suggests a Recent Stint in Arpaio’s Jails} Around seventy-five people showed up last night in Anaheim to protest the presence of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The racial profiling immigrant sweeper and perennial lawsuit magnet was in my city to stump for OC sheriff candidate Bill Hunt. As the above photo [...]

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Breath of Fire Directoras are Best of OC!

In the loteria styled “Best Of” edition of the Orange County Weekly, Sara Guerrero and Elsa Martinez Phillips were prominently featured in the Arts & Culture section. Both women belong to the grassroots Breath of Fire Latina community theater group and their distinction as ‘Las Directoras’ this year in the Weekly is well deserved for [...]

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SanTana = Lazarus?

There’s a nice little debate going on in the always great OC Weekly Navel Gazing blog about an article in the Orange Coast Magazine. Written by journalist Agustin Gurza, the piece’s title “The Ressurection of Santa Ana,” has been enough to ruffle a few feathers.  The article then goes on to basically profile the city’s [...]

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BOF: 2nd Annual New Works Festival

Had I not been such a lazy cabron, perhaps my play in process about the revolutionary chingona Hilda Gadea would have been apart of this weekend’s New Works Festival at Breath of Fire Theater in Santa Ana. Luckily, other new writers paid better mind to deadlines than I did and will have their new works [...]

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