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Alicia Kozameh, OC Weekly People Issue Star, to be Honored With All-Day Symposium at Chapman!

Alicia Kozameh, the author, educator, and activist featured in the Weekly's first ever People Issue last month, will be honored with an all-day symposium at Chapman! Before festivities and panels commence tomorrow, the university has been gracious enough to link to our profile on the 'Hypnotic Novel ... More >>

McDonald's Tests "McNoodles" in Austria

Last week it was revealed that the Golden Arches offered black and white burgers in China. This week McDonald's tests out its noodles in Austria, which seems counter-intuitive somehow. The stir fry noodles will start being sold this Thursday for a limited time in the land that gave us Schw ... More >>

On the Line: Paul Gstrein of Bayside, Part Two

While experience and education can get you pretty far, Chef Gstrein drives home the point that it's typically who you know (or simply good timing) that can get you places. We wrap up this week's interview with a juicy heirloom recipe to pair with your next meal.Read our interview with Paul Gstrein o ... More >>

On the Line: Paul Gstrein of Bayside, Part One

With Friday night service in full swing, we navigated around servers and kitchen crew into chef Paul Gstrein's corner office. Containing a fraction of his cookbook collection, we recognized authors of both classic and progressive cooking techniques. Despite having a dozen other things on his mind, h ... More >>

Newport Beach Film Festival's Sounds and Fury

Its music series makes more noise

Ali Achekzai, International Serial Rapist, Gets 61 Years to Life

​International serial rapist Ali Achekzai, who was convicted of six felony counts last month after Orange County authorities had the 34-year-old extradited from Austria, was sentenced today to 61 years to life in state prison. Before the former Ladera Ranch resident learned his fate, one of three ... More >>

Ali Achekza, International Man of Serial Rape, Convicted

​Ali Achekzai's New Year's resolution may involve ways to self improve over the next 80 years.That's how much prison time the so-called "international serial rapist" faces at his Jan. 27 sentencing in Santa Ana, following the 33-year-old's conviction Thursday of six felony counts including forcibl ... More >>

Latin Alternative Explosion: Probable or Inevitable?

Sicilia WolfLatin Alternative Songstress Carla Morrison​ The music is great and the demographics are there for the taking, so is it only a matter of time before a Latin Alternative explosion occurs Stateside? Producer and songwriter Desmond Child weighed in with his opinion in a recent Al Borde pi ... More >>

On the Line: Lindsay Smith-Rosales of Nirvana Grille, Part Two

Photo by Meranda Carter​This week's On The Line singles out Chef Lindsay of Nirvana Grill for guidance on running your own business. Her kitchen experience with Pascal Ohlats and zpizza help build the foundation for her inevitable culinary venture. She also discusses how Oprah inspires her. Want m ... More >>

On the Line: Josef Lageder of the First Cabin Restaurant, Part Three

Photo by Meranda Carter​How can you go wrong with fried food? Seriously. Chef Josef Lageder even gives you a meat alternative, if the thought of veal makes you squeamish. (It shouldn't. In fact, it tastes even better.) He serves up a few words of cooking wisdom on the side, deeming this recipe use ... More >>

On The Line: Josef Lageder Of The First Cabin Restaurant, Part Two

Photo by Meranda Carter​Did you know The First Cabin is open to the public? We did. What we weren't aware of were their separate European breakfast and comfort lunch menus. Nor did we realize just how much Chef Josef digs the pig. How about the planning that goes into their month-long Oktoberfest ... More >>

On The Line: Josef Lageder Of The First Cabin Restaurant, Part One

Photo by Meranda Carter​This week, we are treated with an ocean view at The Balboa Bay Club & Resort for our interview with Executive Chef Josef Lageder. A man of diverse culinary talent, he's not only worked alongside Julia Child, but Sam Choy, too (That explains his love of using a rice cook ... More >>

German Liquor Maker Can Now Legally Call their Drink "Fuck Schnapps"

​In a cheap media ploy that obviously worked, a German liquor company applied for a trademark for a brand of schnapps they wanted to call "Fuck." Their initial efforts were stymied by authorities--but now, a German high court has ruled in their favor in the most important free-speech battle since ... More >>

Austria: 'When the Weather's Hot, the Music Sounds Better'

​Austria, a Latin Alternative outfit from Argentina, is a week into its current Southern California tour that will keep the six-piece band busy around town until the 18th. Bringing their latest album Nada along for the ride, the band's sound was described to me as Coldplay en Español. With acoust ... More >>

'Pastafarian' Man Wins Right To Wear Colander On Head in Driver's License Photo

Supernatural Waste WatchersNiko Alm in his religious headgear, a pasta strainer. ​He calls it a "religious head covering." It looks oddly like a pasta strainer.  After a three-year effort, Austrian man Niko Alm has finally earned the right to wear the symbolic Ikea kitchen tool on his he ... More >>

Take the Money and Run

Action, not emotion, in 'The Robber,' a tale of a criminal who went the distance

What to Do With Beets: Casunziei

​Beets get little love. Ask people to name a dish with beets, and the first thing 90% of people will say is borscht, which in the United States is an bland, smooth, violently red-purple potage, as though a toddler with fingerpaints tried to make vichyssoise even more insipid than it already is. (B ... More >>

Amos Lee Is a Man With a Mission

Keeping it old-school, not by embracing kitsch, but by simply writing great songs

Forking Around With . . . Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq.

John Gilhooley/OC WeeklyOrly Taitz was the subject of a Weekly cover story in June 2009.​"Forking Around With . . ." is our occasional feature meant to spotlight the food likes and dislikes of people of prominence in Orange County. Dr. Orly Taitz, the Rancho Santa Margarita attorney and dentist wh ... More >>

System of a Down is Reuniting, European Dates Announced (Is a US Tour Forthcoming?)

​ When news broke that our beloved System of a Down was reuniting and playing in Europe for two weeks in June 2011, my brain started shorting. After going on indefinite hiatus in 2006 (just a few months after releasing their fifth album, Hypnotize), System of a Down left a discernible gap in ... More >>

Ali Achekzai, Serial Rape Suspect Captured in Austria, to be Back in Orange County Tonight

​R. Scott Moxley told you in January about the capture of Ali Achekzai, a onetime Ladera Ranch resident and alleged Southern California serial rapist who was found living in Salzburg, Austria, through a DNA match. Tonight, the 32-year-old on District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' Ten Most Wanted list ... More >>

Five Pretty Cocktails

Flickr user alpha du centaure​Oh, stop scoffing. We can see that face you're making: Ain't no shame in admiring a pretty drink every once in a while. While you'll usually find the cutesy cocktails with the cutesy garnish at things like bridal showers, outdoor wedding receptions, beach-side resorts ... More >>

#56. Chicago Dog at Portillo's

Flickr user meghannmarco​We're nearly halfway through our list of 100 great dishes to eat in Orange County and its environs. See the previous choices at the end of the post.

Angelique Smith of the Breakers Makes First National Women's Football Team

SportsPageMagazine.comAngelique Smith (86) in action with the Southern California Breakers.​Angelique Smith, a women's pro football player from Costa Mesa, has been selected to play for USA Football's 2010 Women's National Team--the country's first--which competes in the inaugural women's world c ... More >>

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Fritz Suter Opening Reception

Demossa Gallery

Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company

Irvine Barclay Theatre

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Salute to Vienna

Orange County Performing Arts Center

Schwartzenn-Hater Terminates the Environment

The former muscle-man from Austria who works in the State Capitol has announced that not only does he support the 241 toll road extansion, BUT in his infinite, ass-groping wisdom, he believes that the TCA's current environmental mitigation plans are suitable. I spent the past week replanting nativ ... More >>

Deconstructing Borat

You've probably seen Borat, and if so you've probably seen Borat drunk, and you may actually be drunk now, and that puts you in a good state of mind to process this scene-by-scene dissection from Salon. Philosophical guy, the Borat: not many other movies this year have everybody asking questions lik ... More >>

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