fri/02/10

[FESTIVAL]

Time Warp

Inspiration Vintage, Fashion, Art & Kulture Show

If you’re into old stuff (not in an Anna Nicole Smith kind of way), check out the Third Annual Inspiration Vintage, Fashion, Art & Kulture Show. Though it includes such contemporary items as furniture, art, and surf accessories, the fest focuses on clothing and accessories from the 1900s through the 1980s. It’s a see-and-be-seen type of event, with afterparties on Saturday at both RRL & Co. And Long Beach Trading Co. Wear your best rockabilly creepers or those ’40s Levi’s, and remember a camera—digital or otherwise. The theme is “Go GloCal,” bringing together items from California and across the world.

Inspiration Vintage, Fashion, Art & Kulture Show at the Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 435-3511; www.inspirationla.com. 8 a.m.; also Sat. $16-$40. —KATHRYN MILLARD

[CONCERT]

Song Siren

Nikka Costa

Born with a microphone in her hand into a world of music royalty, Nikka Costa found mega success at the tender age of 5, and it has been a happy climb since. Though European stardom was met early on, Costa’s U. S. market remained untapped until 2000, when, thanks to a Tommy Hilfiger ad (go figure), her music was broadcast to the masses. hink Fiona Apple but with more funk and less angst, or Nelly Furtado the other way around, but when Americans first heard this fiery redhead, it was love— godfather Frank Sinatra was surely smiling down at that moment. Currently touring in support of 2011’s PRO*WHOA!, Costa hits the Coach House this week, and you should be there.

Nikka Costa at the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; www.Thecoachhouse.com. 8 p.m. $15. —ERIN DEWITT

sat/02/11

[CONCERT]

Scene Stealer

CLASS ACTRESS

You’ve got to prove your love to Class Actress front woman Elizabeth Harper. This dance-pop wunderkind sings as though she’s Madonna circa “Into the Groove,” purring comeons that are as salacious as they are oblique. Harper shares Her Madgesty’s lusty pout and soft spot for keyboard-heavy disco gloss, but 2011’s sleeper indie hit Rapprocher is much more pronouncedly endowed to the tickly robotics of a Gary Numan album. Tense club tracks such as “Keep You” and “Weekend” (“You make me late for work/You make me late for church”) give way to “Love Me Like You Used to,” an outpouring of sexual frustration that proves even robots have libidos.

Class Actress at Detroit Bar, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 642-0600; www.detroitbar.com. 9 p.m. $10. 21+. —MT RICHARDS

[PETS]

Just Gorgeous

Bulldog Beauty Contest

Excessive drooling due to a massive underbite doesn’t always turn the fellas on, but add to that a slew of loose skin rolls, a set of thick, cankled legs and a plentiful layer of body hair, and you’ve got yourself a combo worthy of panting over. The Eighth Annual Bulldog Beauty Contest hosted by Haute Dog Pageants aims to crown these K-9 lovelies based on their charm, first impression, face, figure and personality, with special awards given for Best Legs, Best Smile and Best Booty. Reigning area beauty queens evaluate the contestants and proceeds benefit the Southern California Bulldog Rescue and the nonprofit 501(c)3 Community Action Team, which includes Haute Dogs and Operation Santa Paws.

Eighth Annual Bulldog Beauty Contest at Marine Stadium, 5225 E. Paoli Way, Long Beach; www.bulldogbeauty. com. 10 a.m. $5. —AMANDA PARSONS

sun/02/12

[DANCE]

Swept Away

Moscow Ballet’s Cinderella

One of our favorite fairy tales gets the Russian treatment, as the esteemed Moscow Ballet takes on Cinderella. The story—as appreciated today as ever—follows a poor girl dealing with a cruel family, only to find her prince charming, with whom she lives happily ever after. It’s as if just before her unemployment runs out, Cinderella meets a hot millionaire on eHarmony. It could happen! Delight in this visual masterpiece, complete with more than 400 elaborate costumes and lavish choreography featuring some of the w orld’s premier dancers.

Moscow Ballet’s Cinderella at the Cerritos Center, 12700 Center Court Dr., Cerritos, (800) 300-4345; www.Cerritoscenter.com. 3 p.m. $20-$60. —ERIN DEWITT

[THEATER]

Girl Next Door

WEST SIDE TERRI

Thank you, Terri Mowrey, for letting Orange County claim you as its own, promising to treat you better than LA ever could! Mowrey brings the performace for which the Weekly voted her Best Actress in 2011, West Side Terri, to the Hunger Artists Theatre Co., with songs and dances from the original West Side Story, all in the confines of what is supposed to be her small apartment. Theater-lovers are in for a treat as the classic story intertwines with the personal tales of a struggling actress trying to make it in this crazy world.

West Side Terri at the Hunger Artists Theatre Co., 699-A S. State College Blvd., Fullerton, (714) 680- 6803; www.hungerartists.net. 7 p.m. Through March 4. $15-$18. —ERIN DEWITT

mon/02/13

[CONCERT]

Star Gazing

Polaris At Noon

One of the changes that came to the old Galaxy Concert Theatre—now the Observatory— is a monthly artist-in-residency gig in the Constellation Room. This month, electro pop band Polaris At Noon (a.k.a. Jason Suwito) moves in on Monday nights, and each promises to be a tremendous evening of electronic dance rock. Suwito’s a master remixer (check out his techno grooves of “Pumped Up Kicks” and White Arrows’ “Get Gone”), as well as a top songcrafter in his own right—last summer’s En Pointe, a fivetrack EP of original material is not only danceable and tranceable, but also kicks some serious ass. Guest performers include Hyena, AudioDax, Tapioca and the Flea, and more, so don’t miss it.

Polaris At Noon at the Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; www.Observatoryoc.com. 9 p.m. Free. All ages. —STACY DAVIES

tue/02/14

[CONCERT]

Family Ties

Zappa Plays Zappa

The life of a famous musician’s child is an odd one. You’re rich, famous by association and always in a shadow. What happens when your father is Frank Zappa, one of the weirdest musicians in popular culture? You know life is going to be strange when your mom and dad’s first act as parents is naming you “Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen” or “Moon Unit.” In the case of Dweezil Zappa, he was named after his mother’s oddly shaped pinky toe. So, there are two options: run far, far away from your crazy parents, à la Frances Bean Cobain, or embrace your heritage fully, as did Hank Williams Jr. And Hank III. Dweezil has done just that with his Frank Zappa tribute, Zappa Plays Zappa. Both new and nostalgic generations are able to enjoy the Zappa madness thanks to his first son. Zappa lives! Zappa Plays Zappa at the House of Blues, 1350 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, (714) 778- 2583; www.houseofblues.com. 8 p.m. $30-$32.50. All ages. —TAYLOR HAMBY

wed/02/15

[FOOD EVENT]

Open Wide

Taste of San Juan

The last time we requested three main courses piled onto the same plate, we were briskly ejected from one of the classier joints in South County. Politely, but briskly. It may have been the request; it may have been the altered, attack-ofthe- munchies condition we were in. Either way, we’re thinking it’s not gonna be a problem at Taste of San Juan. With some 20 local eateries offering generous samples—from oinker’s paradise Bad to the Bone BBQ to the elegant L’Hirondelle—we figure inhaling pizza, chile verde and fondue in the same breath is par for the course. Speaking of which, it may be San Juan Hills Golf Club, but plaid friggin’ pants are not on the menu, okay?

Annual Taste of San Juan at San Juan Hills Golf Club, 32120 San Juan Creek Rd., San Juan Capistrano, (949) 493-4700; www.swallowsparade.com. 6 p.m. $20. —JACK GRIMSHAW

[LECTURE]

Call Him Al

‘ Pursuit of a Post Racial America’

With Al Meyerhoff’s death four years ago, workers and the environment lost an advocate and an example. Plaintiff or defendant, worker or corporate overlord, you knew Meyerhoff’s commitment to using the law with integrity. The late “people’s lawyer” once sued the University of California on behalf of agricultural workers. Good and right, then, that UC Irvine Law host Harvard Law’s equally impressive Charles Ogletree, founder of its Houston Institute for Race and Justice, who’s giving this year’s Al Meyerhoff Public Interest Lecture. Ogletree was born to Central Valley farm workers himself, sued a bunch of naughty bosses, and taught, as it happens, both Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard. He’ll opine, politically, personally and jurisprudencely, on the state of our funny little republic. Sit in front, take notes, but only after you RSVP online for this totally free, freedom-loving event.

“President Obama’s Election and Pursuit of a Post Racial America” at UC Irvine School of Law, Seminar Room 101, 401 E. Peltason Dr., Irvine, (949) 824- 0941; www.law.uci.edu. 4 p.m. Free with RSVP. —ANDREW TONKOVICH

thu/02/16

[CONCERT]

Mind Trip

Indian Jewelry

Never have we seen a band control minds as Indian Jewelry do—there’s a (possibly) mythical audio device called the feralizing lycanthropizer that makes normal humans act as though they are deranged animals, and that’s probably what Indian Jewelry run their guitars through. They once lived in LA, but they’ve since returned home to Texas —yet their Spacemen 3-by-wayof- Suicide digital-drone punk obliterates petty geography. They perform this week with perfect spiritual match Spindrift, currently celebrating 10 years of Jodorowskian cowboy psychedelia and sitting proudly atop a series of short films for every song on their new album, Classic Soundtracks. A vital show for those who want their heads to explode.

Indian Jewelry with Spindrift, Old Testament and Bella Novela at Alex’s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, (562) 434-8292; www.alexsbar.com. 9 p.m. $5. 21+. —CHRIS ZIEGLER

[COMEDY]

Sketchy

BROKEN LIZARD

Broken Lizard’s big break was in a little film called Super Troopers. The five-member group began as a sketch-comedy troupe at Colgate University—and who knew a few years later, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske would make a film that, to date, has grossed more than $20 million? Broken Lizard followed that hit with a few more, such as Club Dread, the film remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (directed by Chandrasekhar) and Beerfest.And until their next project is announced (Super Troopers 2 is a definite possibility), catch their return to their roots with a live comedy performance this week. Prepare for a mixture of standup and sketch comedy, including some appearances by Super Troopers and Beerfest characters. Let’s hope it’s Officer Foster right meow!

Broken Lizard at the Brea Improv, 120 S. Brea Blvd., Brea, (714) 482-0700; www.Improv.com. 8 p.m. $25. —JESSICA FORD