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  • Calendar

    February 16, 2012

    Fantasy Comedy

    Brea Improv

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    UK Dating Website Gets Dinged By Guv'ment: Claimed It's for Vegetarians, Yet Featured Mostly Meat Eaters

    ​Look at the page above. A quick glance would lead readers to believe this is a dating website for vegetarians, and that's how Veggie Dates UK initially advertised itself as. But now notice the tagline: "If you are someone looking to meet single people who lead a healthy lifestyle why not join.... ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    San Clemente-Based California Milk Processor Board Pulls Its Ad Campaign Touting Milk As A Cure To PMS

    ​Got milk? Yeah, we know, that marketing slogan stopped being effective, and started being annoying, about a decade ago. The milk industry needed its next big ad campaign and it looks like they just might have found it. The San Clemente-based California Milk Processor Board rec ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 26, 2011

    Regenerist Allows You to Regenerist Your Face--and Wallet

    [Trendzilla] Oil of Olay's line is a drugstore brand with million-dollar department-store-brand results

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    'Sweet Child O' Mine' Vid Filmed in Huntington Beach 23 Years Ago Today

    ​[via Anti Music] Before Fergie and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas ruined it with their Superbowl version, the signature riff from Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" was an era-defining moment in rock & roll. And the video for it was filmed in a ballroom in Huntington Beach, 23 years ago. T ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Jon Huck

    Brea Improv

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2011

    Starfucker

    Detroit Bar

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Is Mike Harrah Cheating at One Broadway Plaza in Santa Ana?

    Michael F. Harrah's towering project swallows a Viagra.​You may recall the last time I addressed the issue of real-estate developer Mike Harrah's contentious efforts to build Orange County's largest commercial building, the proposed 37-story One Broadway Plaza in Santa Ana.Here was my July 22, 201 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Cal State Long Beach Students Scissor Each Other in Protest Over Censorship of Play

    ​California State University Long Beach students were so worked up over the school refusing to promote the play Night of the Tribades that they held a special kind of protest in front of Brotman Hall last Wednesday.

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Is the XBOX 360's Kinect Peeping on You?

    ​Microsoft's Kinect for the the XBOX 360 can very well be this Holiday season's hot item. It shouldn't be much of a surprise either, for it has the family-friendly appeal to draw in non-gamers, and promising technology that can interest even the most seasoned gamers. Besides, if Oprah said that th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Taco Bell Brings Back the Dirty Mexican to Sell their Horrible "Cantina" Tacos

    Above is the first commercial for the Frito Bandito, the ad campaign that launched a thousand PC pendejos. The campaign was totally offensive--but let's save those arguments for the publication of my book. What I want to concentrate on is the voice, that gravelly, slow-witted, mispronouncing tone ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    The Submarines

    Detroit Bar

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Schrodinger's Restaurant: Is Chimayo Open or Closed?

    ​UPDATED with the official status of the restaurant."Didn't you say Chimayo closed?" asked my wife."Yeah, Edwin blogged about it. They closed right before Christmas.""So why would they buy a print ad for New Year's Eve?"Sure enough, on page 19 of the New Year's Eve guide in this week's print editi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    How to Serve Man: With a Great "Twilight Zone" Marathon Ad

    ​KTLA does not allow embedding of its new commercials where the late, great Rod Serling "narrates" a promo for Channel 5's traditional Thanksgiving weekend Twilight Zone marathon, but here is a link to one. Kudos to the talent responsible for the editing and voice-overs, which truly make it seem a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2009

    The Science of Gingerbread

    Discovery Science Center

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2009

    Mexico: Festival of Toys

    Discovery Science Center

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Stacy Clark on 'One Tree Hill' Tonight

    Chris Bishow​Orange County singer/songwriter Stacy Clark is certainly no stranger to "placement" (that's what they call getting your songs in the background of TV, movies or commercials in the, um, "biz")--she had her song "Touch and Go" featured on an ad for the Canadian release of the Palm Pre c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Is Comfort Wipe Wiping Away T.P. History?

    I thought I'd seen every infomercial on the airwaves until Slate's Seth Stevenson set me straight with his Brow Beat blog post "Don't Believe the Wipe." His reportage concerns Comfort Wipe, "an 18-inch plastic stick to which you may attach a clump of toilet paper, thus easing the arduous task o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 11, 2009

    Kamala Lopez

    MOLAA

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Argyros, Arnel Management and Those Infernal Signs

    Over the years, John Jaeger has kept an eye on the signs posted around central Orange County for units available at Arnel Management Co. properties as well as OC Weekly's voluminous coverage of Arnel's owner, Newport Beach self-made businessman, developer, GOP power broker and former ambassador to S ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Lenka

    Detroit Bar

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2009

    Superbowl Party

    Sharkeez

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Do OC Weekly Food Critics Practice Payola?

    Last month, I took issue with The Filling Station in Orange because I felt they overcharged for merely good food. Over the weekend, owner John Hughes (not the same genius behind all those Brat Pack films) left this humdinger of a comment:I always found it funny that OCweekly [sic] gives great review ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2008

    More From Jingle Ball!

    This guy next to me is eating a baked potato. That's like the weirdest thing you can eat at a concert. Well, in the realm of possibility, at least. I guess like, elf meat would be weirder. Because elves are fictional, natch.They're playing all sorts of goofy videos between sets, like thinly veiled c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2008

    '70s Spin

    DJ MomJeans at Fresh Fridays Grand Opening

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    Kalesa Grill Now Pinoy Fiesta

    A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Kalesa Grill in Anaheim, misspelling the Filipino restaurant's name as Kasela but not misrepresenting its great take on the archipelago's turo-turo buffet tradition. I visited again last weekend, only to find the dive is now named Pinoy Fiesta. Everything remains ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2008

    Upcoming in LA Times Obits: The Sunday Magazine

    Remember those Sunday mornings when the LA Times magazine was something to look forward to? Terrific profiles/color pieces/semi-newsy features—in-depth stuff you went back and read a second time (and, admit it, clipped and filed in your battered ol’ copy of Websters, under the appropriate word)? ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 6, 2007

    Axe Man

    You Wont Part with Yours, Either: Robert Perine and the Fender Guitar, 1957-1969

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2007

    New CBS Game Show Wants OC Contestants

    Here's the advertisement: The executive producer of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and The World Series of Pop Culture is looking for contestants for Season 1 of a new, "groundbreaking game show" premiering on CBS this summer. Contestants will compete for $10 million in prizes by predicting how A ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 22, 2007

    Trendzilla

    Ass-branding

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    The Bong Arm of the Law

    OC Pot Crusader May Face Trial as Drug Dealer

  • Music

    October 26, 2006

    Full House

    Dennis Argenzia, director of marketing, the Grove of Anaheim

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2006

    TV is Stupid

    "More bars in more places. That's what people have come to expect from Cingular." Bullshit. That's what my parents have come to expect from ME. Shame on Cingular for appealing to alcoholics. Sorry, but I just hate commercials these days. If it's not ambiguous word usage, it's terrifying paranoia- ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 31, 2006

    Letters

    'Those rare weeks that I do pick it up and hope for something other than cheeky, too-cool-for-school, were so clever and youre not writing are few and far between'

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2006

    Anti-Carona Commercial to Air

    Los Angeles County Sheriff's commander Ralph Martin, who is trying to unseat third-term-seeking Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, has apparently made a huge cable television advertising buy so he can broadcast the following campaign commerical (Windows Media) into local homes. The beauty of the ad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2006

    Another Star Chamber Turn

    My colleague Alex Brant-Zawadzki is right about the potential of television for doing good– his pro-having-sex-with-George Clooney stance, I'll pass over in silence– but Edward R. Murrow is long dead, and TV nowadays seems to be mostly offering up "the evil of banality", to use Alex Cock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2006

    Best LA Times Page EVER!!!

    Today. Friday, March 10, 2006. Los Angeles Times. Page A8. Along the thinnest of news holes, with just enough room all six columns to tuck in an inch of type per column and this headline in, eyeballing it, what appears to be 30-point type across four of those columns: "United Nations Report Says 1.1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2006

    Of Swallows, Schwarzenegger, and Swift Boats

    The faithful of Orange County have traditionally been willing to pretend to believe in miracles, even when they know better. Consider the swallows of San Juan Capistrano. Anyone in San Juan Cap with eyes to see, or a freshly washed car to be shat on, knows the birds return March-ishly each year, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2006

    Lights! Cola! Action!

    We don't know whether to be proud, repulsed, jealous--all three? Chapman University grad stud Rosemary Lambert's short film The Reel Monkey won the Grand Prize in a film competition. So far, so good--until you discover it's the 2006 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Competition. You see, student filmma ... More >>

  • About Us

    September 29, 2005

    Privacy Policy

    We don't know whether to be proud, repulsed, jealous--all three? Chapman University grad stud Rosemary Lambert's short film The Reel Monkey won the Grand Prize in a film competition. So far, so good--until you discover it's the 2006 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Competition. You see, student filmma ... More >>

  • Film

    August 4, 2005

    Attack of the 50-ft. Commercials!

    Abandon all hope: there's no escape from movie product placements

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • Culture

    August 14, 2003

    Its a Mans World

    Raise your phalli for Spike TV

  • Music

    May 15, 2003

    Sold On Selling Out

    Or: How I learned to stop bitching and love a TV commercial

  • Unknown

    June 7, 2001

    A Naked Chick, Please!

    Patient: The Dish

  • Unknown

    May 3, 2001

    Pussies!!!

    Patient: The Dish

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Electric Doomsday!

    How Edison convinced you that deregulation reform was a bad idea

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Five Latinos We Really Like

    How Edison convinced you that deregulation reform was a bad idea

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    The Envelope Busts

    Cable TVs Huntington Street TV pushes a little too far, gets canned

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