Subject: Bakersfield

• Tonight @ Detroit: Totimoshi / Fu Manchu

  Buck Owens is Black Sabbath and Totimoshi knows why: distinctive guitar tone and songs about Satan make a boy from Bakersfield do good, and Totimoshi guitarist Tony Aguilar learned the necessary lessons from both. Central Valley-raised—where he grew up on country/western as much as rock & roll and Mexican corridos—Aguilar and now-wife/always- bassist Meg Castellanos have been the Rose and Buck of Oakland's noted heavy-rock scene for almost 10 years, nosing their band Totimoshi

  November 16, 2006

• Coming Attractions

  Cast your mind back to one of the grimmer spectacles of the grim days of 2004: the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign. If you recall, it was impossible to tell the difference that year between the official functions of President Bush and the fearmongering and pandering of Candidate Bush. Every official function was staged like a campaign event. Campaign events looked like official functions as cabinet officers and other administration officials hit the campaign trail for Bush. Even the nation's sec

  March 29, 2006

• Happy Motoring

  USA Today, the newspaper designed for people who'd rather be watching television, brings us news of a new survey ranking the two hundred largest American cities in terms of driving safety. Compiled by Allstate Insurance, the survey measures the average rate at which drivers in a city are involved in accidents. The safest city, according to Allstate, is Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This makes sense, since in my experience, South Dakota is one of the least likely places on the planet for anything ex

  May 24, 2006

• Oily characters

  The holidays are a time for celebrating tradition, and a story from The Associated Press reminds us of one of our country's greatest traditions: corporations screwing the public and lying about it. Confirming what you've suspected as you stand at the self-service gas pump, swearing under your breath, "an Associated Press analysis suggests that big oil companies have been crimping supplies in subtler ways across the country for years. And tighter supplies tend to drive up prices." The analysis,

  November 27, 2006

• Hit Me With Your Chastening Stick, It's Nice to Be a Lunatic...

  The year's not over yet, but the funniest thread EVER can be found right now at Democratic Underground. But first we gotta back up--AND BEND OVER, MAGGOT! It seems there is this Internet company run out of a couple's garage in that enlightened burg of Bakersfield, known previously as the place where Mick picked up gospel music on the colored radio station, that sells a little something called a chastening instrument. According to Child Training Resources, their chastening instrument fulfills "th

  December 27, 2005

• Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown

  September 14, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: OC Inspired Space Travel?

  California's Police State: Imagine you are a suspect and the police take your entire statement out of context by secretly recording only snippets that seem to incriminate you in a crime. Can’t happen? Think again. California police officers have won the right to selectively tape you. It’s the Rush Limbaugh method of police work and by any fair measure it’s disgraceful. Today, Register opinion writer Steven Greenhut slams Orange County state representative Todd Spitzer (R-Brea) for his att

  September 30, 2007

• Be on a DVD!

  ZOMBIE FARM, directed by SoCal Independent Film Fest organizer Brian Barsuglia, will be coming out on DVD December 17th, and is currently available for preorder. However, Brian and friends aren't done making the thing yet -- and they'd like YOU to be a part of it. They'll be screening it this Sunday at 7pm at the Spotlight Theater in Bakersfield, and will be recording the audience for a special alternate audio track on the disc. All are encouraged to "laugh, shout, scream, say what you want, dr

  November 7, 2007

• Long Bitch

  Long Beach was voted a top city again. And no, this time its not because the city has the dirtiest water in the state, you cynical bastards. It's because Long Beach has the unhappiest women in the country! Hooray! According to Self Magazine's December issue, which hits stands today, Los Angeles-Long Beach has the lowest score in the happiness category. Leaving resident females with a distinct sense of pride. After they take their Lexapro of course. LB-LA landed the top spot after facing tou

  November 27, 2007

• The Year in Fabulous Celebrities

  January 7, 1999

• Goat Ropers Romp, Blues Lovers Stomp!

  November 18, 1999

• We Want You Seed!

  May 31, 2001

• Lit Up

  July 13, 2006

• Santa Ana Bores Forbes

  Santa Ana, boring? Our hopping county seat, where dudes kidnap boys, bullets rain from the sky, the Cham live free, municipal workers are laid off as trash fees rise, violent crime has dropped but still rules the county, air conditioners are cranked up to 11 in January, Lamborghini dealerships come and go (with $12 million missing), community college football players rape unconscious teens (allegedly) and Mexican gang bangers with designs on taking over LA's street drug trade get popped--THAT SA

  January 13, 2009

• [Aural Reports] DJ/Student Mono/Poly Violates No Anti-Trust Laws With His Beats

  December 4, 2008

• Orange County Register Readers Meet Their Nuttier Competition

  *UPDATEDIt appears Orange County Register readers watch the Channel 4 news. Or, at least, some of the comments left on KNBC's online version of a breaking story about a man committing suicide this morning on the altar of Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove read as if they could have been lifted from ocregister.com. From FEMA's in charge: "You better be scared. Anyone not purchasing a firearm for personal protection is kidding themselves to the dire situation that America WILL be faced with. We hav

  February 18, 2009

• Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

  Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-ish tour will close out with two dates at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine--where they had a mini-reunion during the encore of one of Gwen Stefani's solo shows back in June 2007--on July 31 a

  February 25, 2009

• Aural Reports

  Quiet Storms: Jeff Perez Had to Head South to Make Northern Rise

  October 25, 2007

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Americanizing Shelley, Civic Duty,

  May 3, 2007

• Letters

  'You reduce yourselves to the blogs of housewives with a useless degree in art or literature when you write such cleverly worded nothingness. Fuck you'

  May 3, 2007

• Feelin' It

  David Serby & the Sidewinders

  March 1, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Feb. 14-Feb. 20

  February 22, 2007

• Cuzz Yore So Sweet

  Dec. 21-Dec. 28 Get Out! Nightlife and More
  

  December 21, 2006

• Dispense the Weight

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Totimoshi nice notes and everything

  November 9, 2006

• The New Crips

  October 12, 2006

• Sprayed-On Jeans

  September 7, 2006

• June Gloom Boom

  June 22, 2006

• Welcome Home, Mr. Haidl

  March 30, 2006

• Monster's Ball

  March 23, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 26, 2006

• This Week in Real Rasslin'

  January 12, 2006

• Brea

  October 20, 2005

• Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

  March 31, 2005

• Its All Geek to Me

  January 20, 2005

• Someone Else Would Dream a Song

  July 29, 2004

• Prison Blues

  June 13, 2002

• Letters

  May 17, 2001

• Dont Come Back Dead

  May 10, 2001

• Beer! Porn!

  September 28, 2000

• Fight Night!

  July 6, 2000

• Kick Out the Jams!

  March 16, 2000

• The Iceworker Cometh

  November 11, 1999

• Letters

  June 3, 1999

• All You Got to Do Is Act Naturally

  May 13, 1999

• Peeling Korn and Eating Zombie Flesh

  April 29, 1999

• The Gaff Is Back

  April 1, 1999

• A Selected OC Rock History Time Line

  November 19, 1998

• Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Child Molester Who Worked For Dana Rohrabacher?

  Singing & Dancing in Prison?At least twice a month, someone asks me: Where is Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, the Orange County conservative activist who worked for years as a Washington, D.C. aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and is now a convicted serial child molester?Answer: McFarland, California.Thanks to the fondness California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has for the private prison industry (which showers his campaigns with large contributions), Nielsen is serving his three-ye

  April 22, 2009

• Flier of the Week: The Sequence Tour Kickoff at DiPiazza's

  That's a pretty fun one, right? I like it mainly because the guy on the left is dressed as Solid Snake. The rest are all video game characters, too, and there's even more video game fun on their MySpace (Squirtle!). Plus, it promises a party. Who doesn't like parties? Punch bowls, pin the tail on the donkey, magicians, crying, insecurities, social anxiety, etc. Good times!The event itself looks pretty nifty, too. The Sequence--a band I first heard of through their surprisingly rad "Disturbia" co

  June 11, 2009

• Wild Rivers to Finally Close and Become... A Water Park

  ​We missed this item on the LA Times's Funland blog on Monday. Apparently, Irvine water park Wild Rivers, which has spent the better part of its decade proclaiming it would soon shut down but never actually doing so, may finally see its last day in 2010.In its place would be a seemingly identical water park, owned by the same people as before, but with a different name: Splash Canyon.

  October 23, 2009