Past Stories
Nick of Time
The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus tells the true tale behind the ho-ho-ho
Naughty or nice?
Yep, you’ve been both this year. You’ve been nice because it’s the right thing to do, it gives you a warm-fuzzy, and you…
Bath Salts: The New Hard Drug or Just Something for the Youngsters?
The Bath Salts craze seems strangely familiar
Bath salts? Bath salts? If it’s a fair proposition that 95 percent of drug stories in the mainstream media are utter crap—Reefer Madness springs to mind-then what are we to make...
BBQ Covered Gem of the Desert
Meat is treated just right at this steak and BBQ joint—don’t forget the reservations!
The Saturday I went to Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, it was packed with people. Some were there to feel like they were ba...
Good Evening, Indeed
Hitchcock offers a funny and informative night at the movies with the Master of Suspense
Virtually every famous public figure has two lives: the one the public thinks it knows, and the real one carried out behind closed doors. ...
Final Word
We’re leaving—and we’re taking our state with us!
That’s the message some unhappy Americans are sending to the White House. Upset that Barack Obama has been re-elected president, the White House has received petitions f...
JOE ATMAN
MEMBERS:
Joe Atman (piano, vocalist); 50 other musical contributors of various talents.
CITY OF ORIGIN:
Claremont.
KINDRED SPIRITS:
Gospel choir, Pink Floyd and Elton John.
RECENT RELEASES:
It Took the Village (2012).
WEBSIT...
A World-Class Exhibition
Cheap Trick spreads a little holiday cheer
The guys in Cheap Trick are no strangers to seeing their band’s name on the charts. The group’s 1979 multi-platinum Cheap Trick at Budokan live album had placed in the Top 10 in&he...
Collateral Damage
Photo courtesy of Cop Watch
An activist who documents instances of police misconduct has her own horror story to tell
The Nov. 15 conviction of a police-misconduct activist for blocking a sidewalk near a DUI checkpoint on Mark...
¡Ask a Mexican!
Dear Mexican: In President Bush’s State of the Union address, he reiterated a need for a guest worker program. What is your opinion of such a program? The program seems like mierda that screws people over in the long run…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
The public works yard in the City of Upland is being redesigned to look like . . . the City of Upland. The new landscape, which is actually going to be a recreation of the original landscape,…
Holiday Follies 2012
Thru Dec. 30
It’s that time of the year again. Gift exchanges, baked goods, holiday jingles, snow—well, scratch the “snow” part considering it doesn’t snow in Fontana. While we’re all aware of the chances of sno...
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Thurs, Nov. 29
Most of the holiday music you listen to was originally written in the 1940s and 1950s. That’s right: Christmas music hasn’t been updated since your grandparents were still lying to your parents about Santa ...
The 7 Day Stretch
>>Thurs/11/29
LEWIS BLACK
If there’s something that our mothers, fathers or teachers taught us at a young age it’s “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Too bad Lewis Black didn’t seem ...
al-Qaeda in the IE?
4 IE Men Arrested in Chino on Terrorism Charges
Since Sept. 11, 2001, none of us (and by us, we mean Americans) have been immune from being hyper-aware, in one way or the other, of the threat—real or imagined—by Islamic&hel...
