Goat herd helps clear up a hillside headache at OC fairgrounds amphitheater
Knitty, a 13-year-old llama, stands guard outside the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa Thursday. The OC fairgrounds is piloting an animal landscape program using 18 rented angora goats to keep the steep incline manicured and mini guard donkeys to keep the goats moving.
(Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer)
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Never send in a man to do a goat’s job that valuable lesson was recently demonstrated at the OC fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, where a herd of caprine helpers moved in to alleviate a massive hillside headache.
A steep 2-acre berm surrounding the Pacific Amphiteatre, built years ago and modified in 2015 to improve acoustics for concerts held there, was presenting a predicament as employees struggled to maintain its stubborn surfaces.
Together
Together starring Ed Helms
are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes
One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to
Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary
The Sparks Brothers
Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror
In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary
Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection
Life In A Day 2020.
A features roster representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers includes three films from Cannes Label 2020:
Pascual Sisto’s