AM General Humvee

Sundays at Soka

Soka Performing Arts Center

Five Regrettable Music/Video Game Moments

​Motörhead are currently on tour (including a stop at the House of Blues in Anaheim), they also play a role in upcoming action/adventure game Brütal Legend, out next week on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (we got a chance to play it at Comic-Con this year, it's a fun, straight-forward beat 'em up wi ... More >>

It Takes a Goddess to Love, Honor, Heal a Soldier

Photo by John GilhooleyThe Rev. Ava Park of the Goddess Temple in Irvine.When the Goddess Temple of Orange County founder the Rev. Ava Park spoke with the Weekly in 2006, she tied man's violent, warring ways with a patriarchal society and the Old Testament view of a strong, male God who ruled his we ... More >>

[Sprawl of Sound] Getting Wowed by Autechre's Live Show, Gaslamp Killer at the Now-Open Crosby

Osama's Gun

How to not build bin Ladens AK-47 without even trying

Good News from Iraq (Fake news edition)

Somehow it's fitting that the only good news to come out of Iraq recently is the fake news. The New York Times reports on a satirical news show that debuted on the Iraqi sattelite station Al Sharqiya at the beginning of Ramadan. This being Iraq, the show's title is somewhat darker than "The Daily ... More >>

He Ain't Marching Anymore

Robert Acosta leaves the Iraq anti-war movement to heal himself

God, She's Hot

If there was no Goddess Temple of Orange County, someone would have to invent one

A For Ladies Only Summer Solstice

Wednesday is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, the one when Earth's solar energy reaches its zenith and the moment when the powers of nature are at their most intense point. And for the Goddess Temple of Orange County, it is a day to paaarrr-tay! Unfortunately, Wednesday will is the ... More >>

Baghdad Diaries

One womans two-year adventure in Iraqs Green Zone

For What, George?

Among the more than 2,300 Americans killed in Iraq, we want to recall our friends and neighbors. We honor their memory best by doing what we can to bring U.S. troops home.

the Rise of Carbon

It’s the new plastic, and the military-industrial complex wants it all. That’s bad news for Anaheim’s Anchor Products

OC's 31 Scariest People

Now 25 percent more terrifying!

Diary of a Mad County

True Tales from Mortar-itaville

Greg Weiss spent a year in Iraq fighting Ecstasy smugglers, truck thieves and shepherd shootersand avoiding mortars. Lots of mortars

Memorial Day 2005

We remember everything

Heroes and Victims

The view from Gunner Palace

Diary of A Mad County

Hail the Hesitant Hero

Robert Acosta joined the Army looking for a life. Thanks to an ambush in Iraq, he found it

Buckle Up for Terrorism

Multi-agency sweep results in major arrests . . . for not wearing seatbelts

The Education of Corporal Gunderson

I joined the Marines to get a good education, and all I got was a crummy Gulf War

Santa Claus is Coming to Town . . . for Blood!