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or this week’s Dishes Worth the full-service Mexico City restaurant open today. Taco Rosa, which consid- beverages from a variety of regions the Drive from Los Angeles to from chef and owner Ivan Calderon. ers Taco Mesa its sister restaurant, was throughout Mexico, Taco Rosa takes its Irvine, we’re going on a Calderon also owns Taco Mesa, the recently named the Best Lunch Spot commitment to authenticity and sus- multicultural culinary journey fast-casual restaurants serving healthy in Orange County at the 2018 Golden tainability one step further by using fromF Mexico to Vietnam! and authentic Mexican cuisine, as well Foodie Awards. GMO-free masa for all their housemade First up this week, Taco Rosa in Irvine as Taco Mesa Tortillería Organica &; “The award-winning menu utilizes corn products and tortillas,” says Cal- brings a little bit of Mexico to Orange Café, where he produces all the tortillas, sustainable ingredients and artisanal deron. The first dish that makes it worth County. The first one opened in New- chips and other masa-based products. spices brought to life through authentic the drive is the enchiladas de Mexico port Beach in 2003, followed by the The first Taco Mesa opened in Costa and contemporary cooking techniques. City. The dish consists of two chicken Irvine location in 2006. It’s the same as Mesa in January 1992 and is still Presenting the very best dishes and enchiladas topped with tomatillo sauce, IRVINEWEEKLY.COM | JUNE 26, 2019 | 5 LICENSED CULTIVATOR: LICENSE #: PML18-0001689 OG Kush. Kush. OG BOSIM 1628 MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC 1628 MANAGEMENT COMPANY BOSIM A California Original Since 1996 Since Original A California AVAILABLE AT AT AVAILABLE @therealogkushstory www.joshd.com CULTIVATE CARE • ENJOY RESPONSIBLY • 21+ ONLY RESPONSIBLY • ENJOY CARE CULTIVATE MUSICFOOD MUSIC ing is the newest addition to TRADE Sons of Anarchy, at Irvine Regional Food Hall, Broken Rice, which first Park on Aug. 1. opened its doors back in March. The Mason Regional Park & Irvine Vietnamese eatery first started as a Regional Park popular Orange County and Los Ange- les food truck. Serving classic Vietnam- Sat. 7/13 ese staples, Broken Rice uses the textures HAMMER’S HOUSE PAR- and taste elements of its namesake, TY: M.C. HAMMER, 2 LIVE which are fragments of rice grains, CREW, BIZ MARKIE, SIR MIX- and allows customers the opportunity to IRVINEWEEKLY.COM

| A-LOT build the meal by adding combinations With its rotating bill of early ’90s hit of veggies, proteins and handcrafted machines, always topped by ol’ para- sauces such as sriracha BBQ, miso curry, chute-pants himself, MC Hammer’s peanut sesame or cilantro lime. The “House Party” tour is an ultimate cele- TRADE location oers two new options: bration of retro R&B and hip-hop. Billed crispy glazed salmon and cajun shrimp, as Hammer’s fi rst major tour since 1991, in addition to the food truck’s original its Irvine stop also features Florida’s oerings of chicken, beef and tofu.

JUNE 2019 26, controversial 2 Live Crew (“Me So The first dish we’re recommending as Horny”, “Banned in the U.S.A.,” etc.), the | worth the drive from Los Angeles is the juvenile humor of “Just a Friend” rapper surf ‘n’ turf bowl. The surf ‘n’ turf bowl 6 Biz Markie, and Seattle’s Sir Mix-A-Lot is a craveable combination of Cajun who, despite being overwhelmingly shrimp and marinated angus beef on best-known for 1992 mega-hit “Baby a bed of Jasmine broken white rice and Got Back”, has retained a cult following topped o with our half cilantro lime for his bouncy, bass-heavy style. But at mixed with half Sriracha BBQ. “We call the end of the day (or night) “Hammer’s this sauce mixture ‘popular sauce’ for House Party” is all about the iconic good reason!” says chef and owner MC Hammer, whose ability to laugh Peter Nguyen. The seafood and beef at himself has kept him in the public over all the other ingredients chosen for eye through TV commercials, reality CHILE RELLENO TACOS FROM TACO ROSA • PHOTO COURTESY OUTSHINE PR the dish makes it really delicious. shows, and movie cameos long after melted Oaxaca cheese, crema, queso The second dish we’re recommending the hits dried up.

fresco and marinated serrano peppers is the creamy cilantro lime chicken CITIZEN KANE WAYNE BY: • PHOTO BECK FivePoint Amphitheatre, and onions, served alongside Mexican bowl. “This is a delicious mixture of veg- 14800 Chinon, Irvine rice and pinto beans. There’s a lot of gies, chicken breast and handcrafted Mexican food in LA, but these are really cilantro lime sauces, mixed perfectly in worth the drive because of how authen- a bowl that will keep you craving more YOUR JULY CONCERT GUIDE Wed. 7/17 tic they taste. The combination of after the first bite,” says Nguyen. We BECK, CAGE THE flavors makes these anything but your couldn’t agree more! The Broken ELEPHANT average Enchiladas. Rice food truck built a loyal fan base FROM BEAST COAST TO THE PACIFIC SYMPHONY, AND A quarter-century since his breakout The second dish is the chile relleno throughout Orange County, and when album Mellow Gold, Beck Hansen tacos: two chilaca peppers stued with the space at TRADE Food Hall became EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, HERE’S WHERE AND WHAT remains rock royalty, the critical drool- panela cheese, topped with calabac- available, Nguyen jumped on the ing over his multi-genre musical mosa- itas and served with white butter rice chance to serve his customers at the TO HEAR THIS MONTH. ics consistent even as his commercial and black beans. If you can handle unique location. Guests are no longer fortunes have fluctuated. Angeleno BY: PAUL ROGERS the spice, you’re sure to love these tacos limited to searching for the Broken Rice through and through, his wide-eyed that are totally worth sitting in traic truck schedule, and the brick-and-mor- Sundays (7/7, 7/14, 7/21, er tunes, while country cover band the mer Concert Series. On July 11 at Mason collage of folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, for. “Since its inception in 2003, Taco tar location at TRADE will also allow 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11) Country Club will also oˆ er a little rock, Regional Park, Aliso Viejo ‘90s cover noise, jazz and more reflects the myr- Rosa has been committed to sustain- Broken Rice to facilitate take out orders pop, jazz and swing on the 28th. The band SEGA Genecide throws back to iad cultures and social undercurrents CITY OF IRVINE’S SIZZLIN’ ability by using artisan alkalized and catering requests. Pacifi c Symphony brings it popular listening to Alanis, Eminem and Smash of his home city. It seems safe to assume water, produce sourced from hyper-lo- Whether it be authentic Mexican cui- SUMMER CONCERTS “Symphony in the Cities” to the park on Mouth on cassettes and CDs. Costa Me- that at least one Grammy has already Happening on six consecutive Sun- cal, regenerative farms, wild seafood sine at Taco Rose or scrumptious Viet- Aug. 4 (see below), while O.C.’s Tijuana sa’s veteran Irish folk/rock band play been set aside for Beck’s imminent 14th day evenings, the Sizzlin’ Summer Con- guided by Seafood Watch, and hu- namese food at TRADE Hall’s newest Dogs provide high-octane party rock the same venue on July 18, bringing studio, Hyperspace. This co-headlining certs combine live music and gourmet manely raised meats,” says Calderon. addition, Broken Rice, you really can’t for the series’ fi nal show on Aug. 11. the blend of trad Emerald Isle tunes bill continues a relationship begun food trucks (or the opportunity to “The restaurant stands out in Orange go wrong at either of these places, Mike Ward Community Park - and old-school rock ‘n’ roll that’s had when Beck featured on (and co-wrote) picnic) to create a free, family-friendly County’s diverse culinary landscape and both are definitely worth the drive Woodridge, Irvine them headlining theaters for nearly 30 “Night Running” on Cage the Ele- entertainment experience at Mike by oering exceptional service and from Los Angeles to Irvine. Come back years. On July 25, Irvine Regional Park phant’s latest album, Social Cues. One Ward Community Park. On July 7, the sustainable ingredients that honor our next month for two new restaurants and welcomes ska/new wave stalwarts the of those bands you can seemingly fi nd cleverly-named Pop Gun Rerun pay Thursdays: 7/11, 7/18, 7/25 bodies, our ancestors, and the earth.” four new dish recommendations. English Beat, who enjoyed a string of on radio anywhere in America at any tribute to all that’s good about 1980s & 8/1 Calderon has been widely recognized household-name hits in the 1980s. But time, CtE’s savvy revisiting of funky, pop music, with the all-girl Suˆ ragettes OC PARKS SUMMER for pioneering healthy and authentic Taco Rosa, 13792 Jamboree Road, Irvine. this series saves the best for last, with bluesy classic rock shows little sign of performing era-straddling Top 40 hits CONCERT SERIES Mexican cuisine in Orange County for Broken Rice, 2222 Michelson Drive, Ste. the evocative alt-country of The White losing momentum. the following week. The Trip arrives on With food trucks, a beer and wine nearly 30 years. 206, Irvine. Buˆ alo, who’s wonderfully weathered FivePoint Amphitheatre, July 21, with its energized ’60s- ’90s cov- garden, and free admission, there’s The second restaurant we’re spotlight- voice was frequently heard on TV’s 14800 Chinon, Irvine ENCHILADAS DE MEXICO CITY FROM TACO ROSA • PHOTO COURTESY OUTSHINE PR little not to like about OC Parks’ Sum- IRVINEWEEKLY.COM | JUNE 26, 2019 | 7

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YOUR JULY CONCERT GUIDE CONCERT JULY YOUR MUSIC MUSIC ARTSMUSIC ARTS he Great Park’s Palm Court Sat. 7/20 Arts Complex, at the site of the former El Toro Marine Corps ROCKSTAR ENERGY Air Station, is uniquely posi- DISRUPT FESTIVAL: THE tionedT to mount art shows extolling the USED, THRICE, CIRCA SUR- glory and thrill of aviation. VIVE AND MORE The inaugural exhibition at the arts While the inaugural Disrupt Festival complex gallery, displayed in 2011, features solid, mostly post-hardcore was “Plane Air Power: Paintings and lineups throughout — at its FivePoint Sculptures by Jorg Dubin.” With the IRVINEWEEKLY.COM

| Amphitheatre stop including Circa title of the show — a play on the phrase Survive, Sleeping With Sirens, and pop- “plein air painting,” meaning painting punk bill misfi ts Sum 41 — the big draw in the outdoors — Dubin created for Irvinites may be a rare hometown landscapes illustrating the former appearance by Thrice, plus Hunting- marine base’s runways, hangars and ton Beach’s similarly seasoned Atreyu. barracks, and two sculptures of F-18 Initially helping to defi ne before fighter planes. ultimately far transcending screamo, From July 2012 to March 2013, the JUNE 2019 26, Thrice have earned that rarest of rock Palm Court Gallery exhibited “Farmers

| accolades as truly a genre of one. Their to Flyers: Marine Corps Air Station El 8 original lineup constant and intact, Toro and Mid-Century Orange County.” last year’s 10th album, the wonderfully The show related in pictures, words, organic-sounding Palms, continues to video and sculpture how O.C. grew in a classify Thrice as unclassifi able. Once century and a half from vegetable fields metalcore personifi ed, Atreyu have and citrus orchards to a Marine air base, increasingly incorporated ’80s and and then to a bursting-at-the-seems Gothenburg-scene metal into brave megalopolis. The core of the exhibition recent releases, with last year’s In Our was the development of MCAS El Toro Wake further indulging arena-friendly (carved out of land originally owned by melodies and epic ambitions. pioneer farmers). Along with accounts FivePoint Amphitheatre, of military training and paraphernalia, SIZZLIN SUMMER CONCERTS 2017 - PACIFIC SYMPHONY • PHOTO COURTESY OF: CITY OF: OF IRVINE COURTESY • PHOTO SYMPHONY - PACIFIC 2017 CONCERTS SUMMER SIZZLIN 14800 Chinon, Irvine. there were portrayals of life on the base, as this city within a city was occupied Mike Ward Community Park - Sun. 7/21 Thu. 7/25 & Fri. 7/26 Sat. 7/27, Sun. 7/28, Sat. by hundreds of thousands of marines Woodridge, Irvine, Aug. 4 SHINEDOWN ZAC BROWN BAND 8/3 & Sun. 8/4 and their families over decades. Perhaps epitomizing the kind of It says much about Zac Brown’s devo- PACIFIC SYMPHONY’S SYM- From June to August 2017, the Tue. 7/30 robust, melodic mainstream rock tion to the craft of country music that PHONY IN THE CITIES exhibition, “Walt and the Flying Bull” beloved of faux-hawked and half- over the fi rst dozen years of his epon- An enduring O.C. tradition, the Pacifi c BEAST COAST was based on the Disney studio’s design While the “Beast Coast” idea been sleeved fans worldwide, Shinedown ymous band he gradually swelled Symphony’s “Symphony in the Cities” is of the El Toro “Flying Bull” logo for the bandied about for years — certainly — while hardly a household name its ranks to its current octet — happy a free, family-friendly evening of music marine base. As delighted viewers to since 2013’s Joey Bada$$-headlined — have built the kind of career rock to shoulder a seven-strong payroll in and fun in local parks. Led by music the show observed, Disney Productions Beast Coast Tour — only now does the bands seldom enjoy anymore: slowly order to fully realize his embroidered, director Carl St. Clair and emceed by created approximately 1,200 designs collective have a defi ned membership, evolving and gathering commercial harmony-heavy sonic vision. And Classical KUSC radio host Alan Chap- during World War II for American and potent debut album (Escape From New momentum over six albums and re- embroidery is central the ZBB sound, man, its program features both light- Allied military units. The exhibition also York, released in May), and now an lentless touring since forming in 2000. which takes simple, bluegrass- and weight orchestral classics and sing- included original designs by Marvel eponymous national tour. Consisting of At once almost the solo vehicle of lead Caribbean-tinted country — songs that alongs with patriotic favorites. The Entertainment, Pixar Animation Studios Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers vocalist Brent Smith (the band’s sole could easily translate on just an acous- series contests the notion that classical and several contemporary artists. and members of Pro Era (including constant, alongside drummer Barry tic guitar and voice — and lovingly music and kids can’t coexist, with inter- The current exhibition, “A Brief History Bada$$), the 10-strong Beast Coast Kerch), and borderline rock-by-com- embellishes it through up to four-part active activities for children including of the El Toro Air Show: 1950-1997,” deliver satiating beats and, as expect- mittee (with Atlantic Records heavily vocal harmonies and instruments (in- a drum circle, instrument making, an PAUL GAVIN - MARINES A TRADITION OF UNCOMMON VALOR - 1995 running through August 18, addresses ed from such an A-list lineup, hypnotic involved from the band’s inception), cluding banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and instrument petting zoo, and even the aviation as patriotic performance art flows from the likes of Meechy Darko, Shinedown has artfully ridden Hammond organ) that both fi ll-out and chance to learn how to conduct with at the marine base, through painting Kirk Knight and CJ Fly on Escape. The trends including nu-metal, alt-rock flit in and out of Brown’s blue-collar Maestro St. Clair and then help lead the THE EL TORO AIR SHOW: A LOOK and photography. Most works on tour format wasn’t announced at the and post-grunge, while never over- narratives. The result is a challenge to orchestra in its performance of Sousa’s display were created during the time of writing, but it appears that ly committing to any one style. The traditional country that flirts with jam “Hands Across the Sea.” air show’s final years, concluding in Bada$$ will headline, with Flatbush BACK sole constant has been arena-ready, band habits and world music influenc- Oso Viejo Community Park on the 1997, and contemporaneously. Yet the Zombies and The Underachievers also slightly Southern-tinted songwriting, es — and an annual estimated band Village Green and Norman P. annual El Toro Air Show began in 1950 performing portions of the show, plus performance and production, which income of a decidedly white-collar $32 Murray Community and Senior to celebrate Armed Forces Day and Beast Coast songs being delivered by GREAT PARK EXHIBIT EXAMINES HISTORY OF FAMOUS was once again delivered on 2018’s million. Center, Mission Viejo, July 27 to encourage people to visit the base. the entire crew. Attention Attention. FivePoint Amphitheatre, Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Attendance eventually reached 2 FivePoint Amphitheatre, AIR SHOW THROUGH VARIOUS MEDIUMS. FivePoint Amphitheatre, 14800 Chinon, Irvine. Hall (indoors), Costa Mesa, July 28 million. 14800 Chinon, Irvine. 14800 Chinon, Irvine. Aitken Arts Plaza at Musco Center BY: LIZ GOLDNER The largest image in the exhibition, for the Arts at Chapman University, an untitled mural at 12x8 feet, was Orange, Aug. 3 PHOTOS COURTESY OF: FEATURED ARTIST designed in 2019 by Gary Musgrave, IRVINEWEEKLY.COM | JUNE 26, 2019 | 9 he Great Park’s Palm Court Court Palm Park’s Great he the of site the at Complex, Arts Corps Marine Toro El former posi- uniquely is Station, Air T tioned to mount art shows extolling the the extolling shows art mount to tioned aviation. of thrill and glory arts the at exhibition inaugural The 2011, in displayed gallery, complex and Paintings Power: Air “Plane was the With Dubin.” Jorg by Sculptures phrase the on play a — show the of title painting meaning painting,” air “plein created Dubin — outdoors the in former the illustrating landscapes and hangars runways, base’s marine F-18 of sculptures two and barracks, planes. fighter the 2013, March to 2012 July From “Farmers exhibited Gallery Court Palm El Station Air Corps Marine Flyers: to County.” Orange Mid-Century and Toro words, pictures, in related show The a in grew O.C. how sculpture and video fields vegetable from half a and century base, air Marine a to orchards citrus and bursting-at-the-seems a to then and exhibition the of core The megalopolis. 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The artists collectively call themselves, “The Draculas,” as they work late into the night. Their mural features four World War II-era P-51 Mustang fighter planes, flying majestically through the air, surrounded by luminous blue skies, and accented by yellow stripes indicated jet streams. With Disney’s Flying Bull hovering among the bombers, the IRVINEWEEKLY.COM | mural visually describes the dedication and intensity of fighting marines. Nine paintings in watercolor, oil and ink by O.C.-based artist Paul Gavin were created during the last years of the El Toro Air Show. These stunning paintings, which were turned into posters, most in classic landscape style, JUNE 2019 26, capture the vistas, patriotism and

| drama of the air shows. Gavin’s 1989 10 painting, “Orange County Centennial,” depicts F-18 “Sharpshooter” planes on the tarmac, with long shadows and Saddleback Mountain in the distance. Gavin’s 1990 “El Toro Winter” is a striking overview of the marine base, based on photos shot from a helicopter. Featuring the barracks, theater and water towers, nestled bucolically within fields, orchards and foothills, the painting evokes classic California impressionist paintings from the early

20th century. The artist’s 1991 “The - HAWKEYE KATZENBERGER GEORGE Sound of Freedom,” created during the Operation Desert Storm invasion of Iraq, possesses the energy and patriotism Aviation Museum and the U.S. Navy. typical of Normal Rockwell paintings. Completing this historic art show are In Gavin’s artwork, throngs of onlookers several close-up black and white wave their arms, motioning toward the and color photographs, taken by majestic fighter planes in the air, while George Katzenberg, during El Toro several people are hoisting American air shows. This body of work that the flags. artist titles “Air Toons,” depicts various Along with paintings and posters aircraft, including the B -25 Mitchell, from the subsequent years, 1992-94, the Hawkeye, the Nighthawk and Gavin’s final three works are the most the Warthog, as appearing to be less dramatic. His 1995 “Marines: A Tradition than six inches from the camera. His of Uncommon Valor” celebrates the contribution to this show is as much 50th anniversary of the 1945 landing an artistic sleight of hand as it is an of marines on Iwo Jima, as well as the illustration of various planes that were photo “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” on display. Katzenberg explains that by photographer Joe Rosenthal. The the lens used for the images covers a painting displays an F-18 Hornet flying 94-degree view, and that it gives the above air show spectators, while eect that the aircraft’s tail, nose or the outline of the Rosenthal photo weapon is comically exaggerated. His is depicted as clouds in the far-o approach adds levity to the exhibition, sky. Of all Gavin works in this show, perhaps expressing the human and “Uncommon Valor” is the most symbolic, PAUL GAVIN - EL TORO WINTER - 1990 empathetic side of the valiantly as it looks back to a time when unusual festooning the sky, the work looks to the extraordinary era of the El Toro dedicated marines. bravery helped save our country. toward the marine’s impending Marine Base. Great Park Gallery, Palm Court Art The artist’s 1996 “Hail and Farewell” departure from El Toro. Gavin’s final Also in this exhibition are black and Complex, Orange County Great Park, displays an F4U Corsair and F/A-18 painting, the 1997 “A Stars & Stripes white photos of planes — the B-2 Spirit, Irvine; Thu. & Fri., noon-4 p.m., Sat. & Hornet flying over a landscape, with Salute,” a deftly designed collage of the B-47 Stratojet, the F6F Hellcat, the F11 Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; free. cityofirvine. a sunrise and sunset as the backdrop. fighter planes, helicopters, flags, marines Tiger and the F4U Corsair — provided org/orange-county-great-park/arts- Along with flags and marine emblems and an exploding bomb, bid farewell by U.S. Air Force, the National Naval exhibitions. IRVINEWEEKLY.COM | JUNE 26, 2019 | 11 Tokyo, Japan, where Rymenmy saw an saw Rymenmy where Japan, Tokyo, climb to guests allowed that installation inspiration the became this building; a that illusion sweets of mountain the for Land. 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