Get down, girl! Go 'head, get down: It's the Weekly's guide to gold-digging hotspots
Three local strip clubs reviewed
Hey, straight men! Want to go home empty-bedded? Use these pickup lines
The movies can’t get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage
Why something so wrong feels so right
Why cheaters get caught, and why they don’t
'What I learned from being the other woman, even if I was only a girl
2006 of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
“Keep It Up. You Rock. Don’t Ever Change. All That Crap.”
The OC Register’s New Motto: You didn’t read it here first
OC’s top five new restaurants and other random observations
Or, how you too can learn to love musicals
The year two local galleries tried to begin where Juxtapoz ends
That’s who’s fighting to save our last wetlands for you whippersnappers
And that’s a compliment to Rian Johnson’s teen detective noir
Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot
For Argentine director Daniel Burman, life is a movie
A conversation with director James Longley
Hate mail? Death threats? It’s all in a year’s work
The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year
Nine reasons to give mainstream country a chance
Ten great CDs that will blow you away no matter your definition
The top nine heavy metal albums of 2006
Wallow in the mire of the year’s best scuzz rock
Urban music in 2006 was typified by what it wasn’t as much as what it was
WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Crossing over: who’s doing it, who’s not
WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Ten bands that weren’t singing Yankee Doodle Dandy in ´06
WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Dinosaurs rule the dancefloors no more
WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Comeback kids, rhymin’ Limeys and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006
WEB EXCLUSIVE!: The Year In Unfair Shares
Are You the Keymaster? I am the Gatekeeper!
The topper coat is back this season—even if it’s too hot to wear
Deck the halls with boughs of Hollywood
FEEDBACK: The analog-digital wars rage on as OC DJs debate their weapons of choice
FEEDBACK: Black Flag/SST Records Honcho Roars Back with Three New Boundary-Busting Albums
FEEDBACK: The Best and Worst Things About Being a College-Radio DJ
FEEDBACK: Working Retail Leads to Misanthropy. Here’s Why
FEEDBACK: Rock en español and the Perils of Assimilation
FEEDBACK: Goth-Metal Clown Fifi Larue’s Advice Can Help You Attain It
FEEDBACK: The Finest Sources for Discovering Music, Digesting News and Gossip, and Discoursing with Fellow Fanatics
FEEDBACK: Satisfaction’s Sticksman Debunks A Couple of Myths
FEEDBACK: 10 Bands from OC/Long Beach You Need to Know
People, places, politicos, lawmen, muckrakers, card sharps, & other assorted scalawags & ne’er-do-wells, plus tall tales & ghost stories.
Trading posts, purveyors of fine goods & services, skilled tradesfolk, trinkets, gewgaws & sundries
Ridin’, ropin’, rasslin’ & other games of skill & contests of strength, blazing trails, seeing sights &, of course, Anteaters
Actors, troubadours, campfire singers, cowboy poets & purty pictures (Please don’t shoot the piano player!)
Steakhouses, mess halls, eateries, barbecues, fine-dining establishments, & gratuitous & thematically inconsistent Tolkien references
Hardtack, biscuits & gravy, salt pork, beef jerky, burritos, falafel, & bánh mí—you know, cowboy food
Watering holes, bars, dance halls, houses of ill repute, whiskey, wine, tequila, whiskey, whiskey, beer, whiskey, whiskey & also whiskey
Vice president of community relations for Nguoi Viet Daily News
Owners of the mexcelente Calacas
Cal State Fullerton baseball coach
The Bester Bestestness of This Year’s Best Of
No. 2: In case you haven’t heard, OC has a new sound
No. 3: Santa Ana is absolutely, positively, OC’s best downtown—now, keep it that way!
No. 5: KDOC-TV—Intelligent, amusing, dignified, provocative, brilliantly conceived!
No. 6: You got a problem with ‘happy’?
No. 7: Everybody wins with RVCA
No. 8: Our borderline-deceitful presidential library should be a true landmark
No. 9: Kéan Coffee keeps it real in this mixed-up, crazy corporate world
10. Strange nights and days of the Ali Baba Motel
From OC TV shows to the Balboa Island ferry
The architecture critic and author shares some of his favorite things
The septuagenarian hot rodder shares some of his favorite things
The Orange County Museum of Art's special events manager shares some of her favorite things
The Pacific Symphony first violist shares some of his favorite things
The Laguna Woods City Councilwoman shares some of her favorite things
The captain of the Long Beach Fire Department shares some of his favorite things
The activist shares some of her favorite things
The anti-immigrant gadfly shares some of his favorite things
The Lit guitarist shares some of his favorite things
The Chapman University English professor shares some of his favorite things
The owner of the SolArt Gallery Café shares some of her favorite things
The renaissance man shares some of his favorite things
The president of the Environmental Coalition for the Great Park shares some of her favorite things
Weekly art director Ben Froehlich was a real-life rock star once
Band manager John Reese fought his way to the top
They’ve faced the decline of hair metal, the rise of rap, the transformation of the record industry, even death. Meet this summer’s real superheroes, Fullerton’s own Lit!
How songwriter-turned-attorney Michael Gardner fights the law. The entertainment law, that is
But he won't do it again . . .
UCI's Dr. Christopher Zachary gives the sun what-for
Going to the beach? You might not want to read any further
Ex-Baywatch hunk Jeremy Jackson is summer
It’s getting hot in here . . . wait, no it isn’t
Seal Beach’s Up Up & Away has every kite ever made—almost
Surf’s lame, unless you know where to look
It ain't the romantic vision you think it to be
Where summer's concerned, misery is what's icumen in
A summer sampling of one week in Orange County crime*
Pravda’s Valentin Shmidov wants to teach you the true art of surfing
Sushi chef Lisa Chung picks your poison
Facing the season with 'that disgusting toe'
Nothing will ever outstrange what happened to the Angels in 1986
Which of our newest Angels will be on the poster over Rebecca Schoenkopf's bed?
Baseball fever leaves season-ticket holders stranded
If the Iraq War is so noble, why are George’s kids still on their barstools?
Unlike Bush, starlet Mamie Van Doren went to Vietnam
Sadistic killer now wants to write books for children
Now he’s likely to spend the rest of his life in prison for the beating death and robbery of a gay man
From 2006: Filmmaker Ham Tran brings to life the true South Vietnamese experience
Republican Van Tran talks tough on taxes, spends freely
Communists, Bush defeat Little Saigon in human rights war
According to 2004 hotel bookings at Travelweb.com
Perfect products for your next party with That Guy
Blind tasting five choice selections
Rebel Fever: How to be a good drunk
Get ready for the delights of the Mexican jail
Homegrown thriller uses Fox Theater, its history and its renovation
Brandon Bennet’s tale of scams and screenwriting
Orson Welles’ noir masterpiece—-on the big screen, the way you were meant to see it
Don't miss Freedom From Despair and Mojados: Through the Night at Fullerton Film Fest. Don't bother: A Dios Momo and Memories of My Father