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Going Hawleywood: Pompadours, Beer; PAC Gets Close-Up

Another reason Costa Mesa is cool: Hawleywood’s Barber Shop, an old school razor and clipper place with rockabilly flair. Patrons include Kiefer Sutherland, Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats and OC rockabilly staple Big Sandy. Jimmy Kimmel, who owner Donnie Hawleywood says he met at the Playboy Mansion, is coming in. Customers come from Hollywood and Ventura. “People live for this shop,” Hawleywood says. The attraction: towel shaves, men’s magazines and Pabst Blue Ribbon (the brewer now promotes the shop). Sorry ladies, gents only: “The record skips on the jukebox if a girl walks in,” Hawleywood says. Next up, a shop on Long Beach’s funky Fourth Street. More could be in the works. “If I don’t do it, someone else will,” Hawleywood says. “There are a lot of copy cats” …

Speaking of Costa Mesa: the local TV countdown to the opening of the new OCPAC hall includes Richard Reisman’s interview with Henry Segerstrom, airing now on cable (and via videocast at www.ocbj.com). “Inside OC” has Henry and wife Elizabeth on Sept. 10, 13 and 14 on KOCE, which plans to report live from the Sept. 15 opening …

Tween scene: preteen heartthrob and OC native Drake Bell, star of Nickelodeon kiddie sitcom “Drake and Josh,” had a homecoming with his House of Blues concert at Downtown Disney last week. “I lived right here,” Bell said after the show. “I loved going to Disneyland” …






EE RR showing OCBJ not to Tommy Trojan, but to Vito the Centurion, in front of the original Coliseum. More on La Dolce Vita tour,

The L.A. Times sometimes seems indifferent or clueless toward OC. Not so with its Aug. 13 “Power Issue” that still has folks here buzzing. Twenty-one OC figures made the list, including Donald Bren, who beat out L.A.’s Eli Broad for the top spot. Give much of the credit for this awareness-raising on Spring Street to Times magazine senior writer Shawn Hubler, a Laguna Beach resident who did much of the reporting and acted as “lead prosecutor” before a selection committee that included Editor Dean Baquet. “There’s been a shift in power,” Hubler says. L.A. “is still a big dog, but it’s not the only dog.” Hubler, who started with the OC Register in 1983, says she’s worked statewide and wasn’t playing favorites. But it’s clear her OC intimacy,and that of hubbie, consultant and former Times honcho Bob Magnuson,were key.

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