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Gary DeLong, Climate Change Denying Hopeful for Congress, Logrolled by Bill Clinton at UCI

Last night's The Colbert Report featured another partisan logrolling clip that makes that Comedy Central program and The Daily Show so priceless, with a Fox News pundit-blonde and anchors Brit Hume and Chris Wallace repeating that day's GOP talking point: that Mitt Romney appeared to be a "plausible ... More >>

Kaba Modern Created a Dance Dance Revolution

Popping and locking with UC Irvine's dance crew and the movement it helped to create

Web Extra: Hanging With Kaba Modern As It Gets Ready for VIBE Dance Competition

​So you think you can dance? This week's cover story follows the journey of UC Irvine's Kaba Modern, which paved the way for the collegiate hip-hop dance-crew circuit and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The crew is gearing up for VIBE, one of the biggest and most prestigious hip-hop dan ... More >>

Dalai Lama to Speak at UC Irvine Today, Live Webstream at 1:30 P.M.

​​His Holiness the Dalai Lama will speak to students, community members and orange-robed monks today at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center. Tickets are sold out, but the talk will be streamed live starting at 1:30 p.m.Dalai Lama spoke at USC yesterday and created quite a stir when he, a man who won' ... More >>

Does Fight Club OC Have the Winning Combination?

Roy Englebrecht's Battle of the Ballroom is no more, but he hopes his new hybrid boxing/MMA event will be a hit

Darren Moore, UC Irvine Basketball Guard, Inks Whatever a Spider Can

​Some are calling them the BEST . . . TATS . . . EVER!Certainly the producers of the new Spider-Man musical must love the free pub.To fully appreciate UC Irvine basketball guard Darren Moore's ink job, check the next page.

Video Killed the Orange County Interwebs Horror Show Star

​Today's installment of The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show--which compiles things from and about this paradise we live in--will blow your eyeballs as well as your mind. And you don't even have to visit our adult section for the pleasure! After the jump are OC-related videos for your viewing e ... More >>

Lords of Combat Brings MMA to OC Tonight

​Listen, maggots: Don't go thinking Lords of SoCal 1 at the Bren Events Center on the campus of UC Irvine tonight is just another mixed-martial arts bone crush."Spurred by a vision of SoCal as the birthplace of American MMA, Lords of Combat is poised to build SoCal's MMA nerve center," proclaims t ... More >>

What You Missed: Sushi Eating Festival, MMA, New Found Glory, Swallows Parade

Andrew YoussefNew Found Glory fan, not a teenager?​What'd you miss this weekend? Welllllllll on Saturday, New Found Glory and Saves the Day performed at the House of Blues Anaheim. Hello Goodbye and Fireworks opened. Photog Andrew Youssef was there to document all the high-pitched fun. See the ph ... More >>

Crowdsourced: The Killers at Bren Events Center

​The Killers did their thing at a sold-out Bren Events Center in UC Irvine last night, a fairly small venue for such a big act. I wasn't there (was at Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Fox Theater in Pomona, and have yet to master the art of bilocation), but you were. And you had some things to say about it, ... More >>

Incoming: Dashboard Confessional at UCI's Bren Events Center

​Tonight, rock superstars the Killers play a sold-out show at UCI's Bren Events Center. Since that show did so well, why not do more big concerts there, right?That could possibly be the philosophy behind booking this show, early/mid-decade emo poster boys Dashboard Confessional at the Bren Events ... More >>

Tough Choice: Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. The Killers

​It's battle of the sold-out shows! Two of the genuine biggest artists in rock and/or roll are playing in our coverage area tonight, and tickets to both shows are more scarce than people saying nice thing about last night's premiere of The Jay Leno Show.

UC Irvine Issues Alert About a Rifleman on Campus

UC Irvine officials issued a telephone text message to students this afternoon warning about "a suspicious man carrying a possible rifle" on campus on Mesa Drive near the Bren Events Center.According to the message, obtained by the Weekly, the subject is a white male, 6-feet, 180 pounds, blond hair, ... More >>

Saving Trestles: Game On!

The on-again, off-again hearing on the 241 Foothill South toll road extension by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce is back on, from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 22, and in an old/new home, O'Brien Hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, or the same place the California Coastal Commission met, took testimony ... More >>

Surf punks

Social Distortion, the Adolescents and even bubblegummy Blink-182 are among the bands whose scheduled UC Irvine shows were canceled at the last minute over the years because fraighty cat campus security fretted onslaughts of scary, leather-clad, facially pincushioned punk rockers. A quick glance at ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 01/30

MARK OF ZORRO, 8 p.m. Silent film live orchestra = winning combination. Meng Concert Hall, 800 N State College Blvd., Fullerton THE MARS VOLTA, 7 p.m. Long Beach prog-rock, anyone? See Doug Wallen's writeup from last week's OCW. Bren Events Center, Mesa Rd. and W. Peltason Dr., Irvine ... More >>

High Concept, Dude

Arena prog-rockers the Mars Volta demand so much of you

To Do Tonight - 11/27

FALL OUT BOY, 7pm Doors open at Long Beach Arena – Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach SWITCHFOOT, 7pm Enjoy Switchfoot live in concert. Bren Events Center located on the UC Irvine Campus SO CAL MUSIC LIVE ACOUSTIC COMPETITION, 8pm The So Cal Music Live Acoustic Competi ... More >>

Dead Hot Crazy

NOV. 24 DEC. 1

I Killed It, and Id Kill It Again

How a story about Don Bren, wasnt and does anybody really care (they dont)

Ordinary Girl

Theres something about Kelly Clarkson

Eight Days

Bob Dylan Comes to Town

Hell help you party it down

George W. Bush: Youve Been Punkd

Fat Mikes Punkvoter tour rocks the prez

Their Charming Man

Dispatches from the Latino Morrissey love-in

Diary of a Mad County

A Perfect . . . Huh?

Notes on a Bloodstained Band Flier

Samiam/Farside/Shades Apart/Jesse & the Rockers
Chain Reaction
Wednesday, Nov. 17

Power-Ballad-N-Vote!

April-June