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The Santa Ana River Is Ready for Its Renaissance | OC Weekly

The Santa Ana River Is Ready for Its Renaissance | OC Weekly

OC Weekly — Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
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Fat Like Me | OC Weekly

Fat Like Me | OC Weekly

OC Weekly — Photos by Mark StoufferJohn B. Good, Fullerton bartender and aspiring magician, strolls through Disneyland's Tomorrowland with gluttonous, gooey smears on his white shirt, remnants of the grease he's wiped from the two turkey legs he's taking turns devouring. Wet stains spread like tiny oil spills under his arms; globules of sweat glisten on his neck, cheeks and upper lip.
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Our Theater Critic Went to Trump's Orange County Rally to Review the Spectacle of It All | OC Wee...

Our Theater Critic Went to Trump's Orange County Rally to Review the Spectacle of It All | OC Wee...

OC Weekly — When you are dealing with such a yuge primordial force like Donald J. Trump, apparently not even an Internet ticket OR a media credential to his rally assures access. I had both. And after checking in and securing my credential, I was inside the OC Fair's Pacific Amphitheatre three hours before Trump's rally last night.
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Our Theater Critic Went to Trump's Orange County Rally to Review the Spectacle of It All | OC Wee...

Our Theater Critic Went to Trump's Orange County Rally to Review the Spectacle of It All | OC Wee...

OC Weekly — When you are dealing with such a yuge primordial force like Donald J. Trump, apparently not even an Internet ticket OR a media credential to his rally assures access. I had both. And after checking in and securing my credential, I was inside the OC Fair's Pacific Amphitheatre three hours before Trump's rally last night.
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"Dear Harvey" Shows That We All Still Need Milk | OC Weekly

"Dear Harvey" Shows That We All Still Need Milk | OC Weekly

OC Weekly — Patricia Loughrey wrote Dear Harvey in 2008, in large part because Dan Kirsch, the former director of the Diversionary Theatre Company in San Diego, the third oldest LBGT theater in the country, was concerned that with the 30 th anniversary of Harvey Milk's assassination coming up in November of that year, younger members of that community were forgetting him.
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Joel Beers' Rube! Returns to an OC Stage for a Third Time After 15 Years

Joel Beers' Rube! Returns to an OC Stage for a Third Time After 15 Years

OC Weekly — A locally written and produced play, which is about one of the most colorful characters in Major League Baseball history, returns to an Orange County stage for a third run-for the first time in 15 years.
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Story about my play "Rube"

Story about my play "Rube"

OC Weekly — OC weekly story about my play about legendary turn-of-the-20th-century pitcher Rube Waddell.
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Hal Landon Jr., Keeping Christmas in His Way for 40 Years

Hal Landon Jr., Keeping Christmas in His Way for 40 Years

American Theatre — At approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 24, during the final curtain call of the final show in the final year of his astonishing 40-year run as Ebenezer Scrooge in South Coast Repertory's (SCR) A Christmas Carol, Hal Landon Jr. will get the last laugh.
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Hal Landon Jr., Keeping Christmas in His Way for 40 Years

Hal Landon Jr., Keeping Christmas in His Way for 40 Years

American Theatre — This was supposed to be the cover story for OC Weekly the Thursday after Thanksgiving. But the owner closed the paper the day before turkey day. But American Theatre graciously salvaged it.
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Muffin Spencer-Devlin Is the Best Lesbian, Manic-Depressive, Glass-Blowing Golfer of Them All | O...

Muffin Spencer-Devlin Is the Best Lesbian, Manic-Depressive, Glass-Blowing Golfer of Them All | O...

OC Weekly — Golf is a game of etiquette and decorum: Respect the rules. Respect the course. Respect your playing partners. But when you play a casual round with Muffin Spencer-Devlin, a tall and sleek 59-year-old, on her home track at the nine-hole Aliso Creek Golf Course in Laguna Beach, you're in Muffin territory.
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OC Theatre Guild Announces Winners at Its Inaugural Awards Ceremony

OC Theatre Guild Announces Winners at Its Inaugural Awards Ceremony

Voice of OC — Orange County theater companies big and small came together Monday night to honor local productions during the groups first awards night.
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