Bakersfield

Merle Haggard

City National Grove of Anaheim

Christopher Dorner Ditched Cops' Favorite Tool

[Moxley Confidential] The Ex-LAPD cop and suspected serial killer denied his pursuers their favorite tracking device: his cell phone

Guitar Geek Festival To Take Place This Weekend In Anaheim

While many of musicians, studio types, instrument and accessory vendors from across the globe descend upon Anaheim for NAMM, there's another music expo that's taking place as well. Deke Dickerson is presenting his 10th annual Guitar Geek Festival in Anaheim this weekend, which will be the last time ... More >>

Clint Black

Carpenter Center

Gustavo on KCRW: Why OC Needs More Black People!

If you've read me enough over the years--and of course you have! Ustedes love me so with your hilarious hating!--you'll know that one of Orange County's sins that embarrass me the most is the atrocious lack of African-Americans 'round here. As I've written before, out of the top 25 metropolitan area ... More >>

Jeremy Cross, Graphic Artist

[Best Of 2012] The 'dark artist' on his favorite things about Orange County

Great American SPAM Recipe Championship Now On!

If you are a hardcore SPAM fan, or want an excuse to hit up another county fair, this might do the trick. The Great American SPAM Recipe Championship is underway in fairs across the country. There's even a kid chef category for a $2,000 cash prize, but our eyes are on the bigger reward. . . .The win ... More >>

A Tale of Two 22 lbs. Methamphetamine Busts

Does methamphetamine now come in 22-lbs. bundles?On Wednesday, two Orange County men were among five people arrested in Kern County after authorities seized about 22 pounds of crystal methamphetamine.That's the same amount of the drug Border Patrol dogs sniffed out of a minivan at the San Clemente c ... More >>

Man Overboard's Chain Reaction Show is Sold Out, But You Can Still Watch It TONIGHT

​Don't cry if you didn't get a Man Overboard ticket to the Chain Reaction show tonight in Anaheim. Thank your technology gods, because the band is streaming the show on ElectricVenue.com. Fans can log in at http://www.electricvenue.com/#/man-overboard-show/4559960491and watch the show for $2.99.&n ... More >>

Social Distortion at Fox Theatre Pomona, Feb. 17, 2012

John Gilhooley/ OC WeeklySocial D at the Palladium, not the Fox​Social Distortion February 17, 2012 Fox Theatre Pomona For as far back as this OC music fan can remember, the ultimate way to cap off a long week of slacking working for the man has always been to rock the fuck out at a punk rock sh ... More >>

Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit of Santa Ana Accused of Being Sham Health Care Fraud Finders

​Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit (AMG-SIU) bills itself as "The Total Health Care Fraud, Waste and Abuse Solution." But the Santa Ana fraud finders find themselves at the center of a lawsuit that accuses AMG-SIU of being a "shell company" for corporate greed.

READ: An Excerpt from Duff McKagan's Memoir, 'It's So Easy: And Other Lies'

​The following is an excerpt from Duff McKagan's memoir, It's So Easy: And Other Lies, out now via Simon & Schuster. McKagan is a weekly columnist at our sister paper, seattleweekly.com/reverb. He's be signing books at the Barnes & Noble at South Coast Plaza at 2 p.m. on Saturday (901 B So ... More >>

Velorio Mix Up Their Sound

The Bakersfield band inject all their influences, from Nirvana to norteno, into their music

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Stealing a Charity Box!

​Ever wonder which of those ubiquitous boxes near cash registers at fast-food restaurants and liquor stores are honest-to-goodness non-profits, and which are scams? Maybe that's what was going through the mind of the gentleman who tried to rip off a charity box from Taco Bell.

Merle Haggard

City National Grove of Anaheim

Food Profiling: Hopkins AG Almonds

​When I hear the term "nonpareil," visions of candy and Rolls-Royces normally come to mind. To Dustin Hopkins, this is a French term for unparalleled; It's also the variety of almonds his father farms in Bakersfield. What began in 2009 as an alternative means of income in a single market has bloss ... More >>

Cal State Fullerton Wrestling Pinned to the Mat

​Tuesday came and went, possibly taking the Cal State Fullerton wrestling program with it.The university in September informed Titans grapplers they would have to raise $450,000 by March 1 if they wanted their sport to remain on campus."It doesn't look like we're going to make it," head coach Dan ... More >>

Forever 21 Is Foreverywhere

[Trendzilla] The fast-fashion giant is coming to a mall near you

Jason Bailey Discrimination Suit Against Anaheim Ducks Begs the Question: Jews Play Hockey?

​Jason Bailey, a right winger who formerly played in the Anaheim Ducks organization, is suing the NHL franchise for religious discrimination, claiming his former coaches with the Bakersfield Condors minor-league team continually harassed him because he is Jewish.A pro sports team in a town settled ... More >>

Social Distortion at the House of Blues Anaheim Last Night

John Gilhooley/ OC WeeklyMike Ness​Social DistortionJanuary 12, 2011House of Blues AnaheimCelebrating their ten-year anniversary, House of Blues Anaheim smartly booked Social Distortion for a high-energy, sold-out birthday party. Social D is no stranger to the House of Blues Anaheim, having played ... More >>

Supreme Court Weighs Orange County Poop

​The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to let Orange County's poop go . . . to Kern County.

New UCI Research Will Have You Looking at Earthquakes and Lawns Differently

UC Irvine researchers have discovered new ways to look at earthquakes and your front lawn. No, not how shakers rip up your green playground. We're talking one study that dispels notions about how experts estimate the potential for the next so-called "Big One," and a second that disproves the idea th ... More >>

Five Awful Office Food Smells

8182757@N05 @ flickr.com CC BY 2.0Please, please, no more cod, sauerkraut and marinara sauce casserole!​All right, look. Nobody likes the person who whines about the smells in the office all the time, and it's a free country, and you can eat what you want in your office......but that doesn't precl ... More >>

Eat Local, Recycle Your Food Waste Miles and Miles Away

​Not to be outdone by their North County counterparts, who recycle sewage into drinking water through the revolutionary Groundwater Replenishment System, South County communities are banding together to turn food waste into compost.While the regional pilot program sounds meritorious, one thing abo ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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, ... More >>

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-is ... More >>

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 o ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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 Sunda ... More >>

Aural Reports

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

Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown

Feelin' It

David Serby & the Sidewinders

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 & ... More >>

June Gloom Boom

Its getting hot in here . . . wait, no it isnt

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 ... More >>

Welcome Home, Mr. Haidl

Web Exclusive! Gang rapists finally get shipped to state prison

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 ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Jan. 18 - Jan. 24

This Week in Real Rasslin'

Five-Counties Invitational

Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell

LA punks are so OC. Or is it OC punks are so LA?

Prison Blues

Visiting time at Wasco State

Letters

Dont Come Back Dead

Local bands invade Kern County

Goat Ropers Romp, Blues Lovers Stomp!

Buck Owens and B.B. King in the same week

Letters

All You Got to Do Is Act Naturally

A trip to country's real home: Bakersfield

The Year in Fabulous Celebrities