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  • Film

    May 3, 2012

    'The Raven' Is Not the Poe Drama You Deserve

    James McTeigue's Edgar Allan Poe flick finds itself wedged between self-serious solemnity and sadism

  • Film

    September 1, 2011

    The Answer to 'Resurrect Dead' Is Right Under Your Feet

    Looking for the truth and protecting the mystery in 'Toynbee Tiles'

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Kanye West and Jay-Z Confirm New North American Dates for Watch the Throne Tour

    ​As we reported earlier, Jay-Z and Kanye West have new dates for the Watch The Throne Tour due to the "overwhelming response to presale tickets." The North American tour will now begin on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Philips Arena. All fans who purchase their tickets online will r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Young the Giant Performing at the VMAs

    ​Young the Giant are the home boys that sneakily made good--Morrissey loves them, they've played the Weenie Roast, are opening for Incubus on tour this year...and today MTV announced that Young the Giant will make their VMA performance debut at the 2011 Video Music Awards. The lineup for VMA perf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Kanye West Jay Z = The Throne: They're a Hip-Hop Supergroup About to Go on Tour

    ​Now they've done it. Jay-Z and Kanye West have formed a hip-hop supergroup called The Throne. And yes, there will be an album, and yes, there will be a tour called (wait for it) Watch the Throne. It will be available digitally on August 8, exclusively on iTunes. On the same day, tickets will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Barry H. Landau, "America's Presidential Historian," and Supposedly Sticky Fingers Felt Up Nixon Library

    ​You may have read or heard about Barry H. Landau, who calls himself "America's presidential historian," getting arrested July 9 at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore for allegedly stealing historical documents, including ones signed by Abraham Lincoln.Did Landau visit our Nixon Presiden ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats: on Cassettes, Gogol and Sriracha

    ​John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats has spent nearly 20 years making music, a length of time that for many artists can simply mean diminishing returns on an initial burst of inspiration. But if anything Darnielle has constantly moved from strength to strength, as his band's performance this Tues ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2011

    Sleigh Bells

    The Glass House

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    School-Skipping Kids in Anaheim Get Tracked With GPS Devices

    If Molly Ringwald had one of these devices, there'd be no Breakfast Club. ​At the movies instead of pre-algebra?  They're watching you. The Anaheim Union High School District has decided to track habitual school-skippers Big Brother-style by giving them handheld GPS devices. According to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Sade and John Legend Team Up for Tour Concluding at Honda Center

    ​R&B singer/songwriter Sade announced that she will be joined by John Legend for her "Once and a Lifetime" tour. Yes, he will be at every single concert. The Live Nation-produced tour hits the Staples Center in L.A.  Aug. 19 and 20. Since the demand was so high, they slated their last dat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Anaheim Resident Alex Straw Flexes His Deathcore Vocals

    Brace yourselves: There is a vocal contest going around the Internet to determine who can sing the best cover of a tune by Baltimore-based deathcore band In Dying Arms. According to Facebook, the artist with the best cover (and most likes on YouTube) of the song "Delusions" will win a free merch p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Five Reasons From Five Comics That Make Us Love Jonathan Hickman

    Marvel Comics/Jim Cheung (left) and Gerald Parel​If you've been a regular reader of Panel Discussion, you've seen the name Jonathan Hickman pop up before, albeit briefly. I've mentioned him when it comes to praising the writer's work on such Marvel Comics titles as the Fantastic Four and Secret Wa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2010

    Future Islands

    Detroit Bar

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    No U2 Means No Interpol: Interpol Tour Built Around U2 Dates Postponed

    Lilledeshan Bose​[Via Consequence of Sound]Since U2 canceled their North American tour due to Bono's back injury, Interpol also had to postpone a few headlining shows originally scheduled around the band's opening dates for U2.

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2010

    Live from Coachella: Camera Obscura, Girls, Beach House

    Spencer Kornhaber Beach House bucks the odds and entertains​Whoa, found the press tent. For some reason, there aren't any shirtless people here, unlike in the other areas of the festival. Weird.In other news, getting into Coachella today was a lot easier than it was Friday. And the bands ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Jim Gilchrist Saves Journalism

    God bless Jim Gilchrist!​So, on C-SPAN: THE DEUCE the other day, John Nichols of The Nation and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism was telling an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that 140 newspapers closed down in the past year, 1,000 newspaper employees ... More >>

  • 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

    May 31, 2009

    Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

    Is that a leather cap?I had lunch with someone recently at TK Burgers, and when I told them about this particular SAFII feature, they mentioned how their mother once had a credit card stolen. Among the items charged to the lady's accounty? Taco Bell. From the Baltimore area:The male subject in the i ... More >>

  • Film

    February 5, 2009

    We're Just Not That Into 'He's Just Not That Into You'

    Is that a leather cap?I had lunch with someone recently at TK Burgers, and when I told them about this particular SAFII feature, they mentioned how their mother once had a credit card stolen. Among the items charged to the lady's accounty? Taco Bell. From the Baltimore area:The male subject in the i ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 15, 2009

    The Hibbleton Exhibits Photographers With the Rot Stuff

    Is that a leather cap?I had lunch with someone recently at TK Burgers, and when I told them about this particular SAFII feature, they mentioned how their mother once had a credit card stolen. Among the items charged to the lady's accounty? Taco Bell. From the Baltimore area:The male subject in the i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    First Crop of SXSW Acts Announced, OC/LB Bands Conspicuously Absent

    A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep ... More >>

  • Music

    November 20, 2008

    Glass House-Bound Shock Rockers GWAR Inspire Civic Pride, Fake Blood and All

    A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep ... More >>

  • Music

    November 6, 2008

    [Aural Reports] Expat Baltimore DJ Charles Feelgood Gives a Boost to Huntington Beach's Street Cred

    A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep ... More >>

  • Food

    June 12, 2008

    [Summer Guide] Taking It Alfresco This Summer

    A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Yo Majesty & Does It Offend You, Yeah? at the Glass House Tonight

    Floridian lesbian-rap trio Yo Majesty and UK electro agitators Does It Offend You, Yeah? invade Pomona tonight to wreak havoc on the beleaguered soul who changes the marquee at the Glass House. DIOY,Y? (you have no idea how fun it is to type that) produce strident, rhythmically punchy numbers with ... More >>

  • Features

    April 17, 2008

    M.I.A.'s Cheeky Radical-Chic Rhythms Move the Coachella (M)asses

    Floridian lesbian-rap trio Yo Majesty and UK electro agitators Does It Offend You, Yeah? invade Pomona tonight to wreak havoc on the beleaguered soul who changes the marquee at the Glass House. DIOY,Y? (you have no idea how fun it is to type that) produce strident, rhythmically punchy numbers with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Yes to Complexly Rock Honda Center Aug. 20

    Set aside your negative bias toward Yes—and while you're at it, lose your knee-jerk hatred of prog rock. Yes fuckin' rock—albeit in a long-winded, redonkulously complex manner. And Chris Squire's bass playing? Completely slaughters Les Claypool's. Ask Squarepusher. He'll vouch for me. As thos ... More >>

  • Music

    March 27, 2008

    [Sprawl of Sound] Black Ghosts In the Booth, Gaslamp Killer On Disc, and the Crosby (Finally) Opens

    Set aside your negative bias toward Yes—and while you're at it, lose your knee-jerk hatred of prog rock. Yes fuckin' rock—albeit in a long-winded, redonkulously complex manner. And Chris Squire's bass playing? Completely slaughters Les Claypool's. Ask Squarepusher. He'll vouch for me. As thos ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Radio Days

    Ira Glass

  • Film

    January 10, 2008

    Church Boys

    Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan get religion in First Sunday

  • Music

    December 20, 2007

    Silent Night-please

    An agnostic sifts through tons of bad holiday music to find a few aural Xmas treats

  • Columns

    December 13, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican!®

    'Where's the love?' Maybe with the fairies?

  • Film

    August 2, 2007

    Special Screenings

    Movie of the Week: Grand Hotel

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2007

    Dan Deacon's Spiderman of the Rings: Curb Your Cynicism, Pt. 5

    Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark) Release date: May 8, 2007 Starting your album with layered samples of Woody Woodpecker's laugh over delicately plucked thumb piano and cheap analog synth progressions that Styx might've discarded for being too pompous is ballsy. But that's how Baltimore s ... More >>

  • Music

    April 26, 2007

    Cream of the Coachella Crop

    OC Weekly offers sage advice to maximize your festival dollar

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2006

    The Woman with a Limp

    When her Aunt Virginia died in 1982, Lorna Catling had no idea that forty years earlier the Gestapo had declared her aunt "the most dangerous of all Allied spies" in France, and issued orders to "find and destroy her."  Virginia Hall seldom spoke about what she had done during World War II, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2006

    Hypocrites Unite!

    As everyone surely now knows, The Drudge Report has solved the Mark Foley mystery. As you know, Republicans are all about taking responsibility for one's actions. As they demonstrate here, they are indeed taking responsibility--for having an innocent "prank" about pedophilia (nice sense of humor, gu ... More >>

  • News

    September 21, 2006
  • Columns

    June 1, 2006

    Commie Girl

    Loaves and Fishes: Tales of toast and sushi and the Strawberry Fest

  • Music

    May 4, 2006

    CD Review

    Wilderness, Vessel States (Jagjaguwar)

  • Film

    October 27, 2005

    The Pope of Trash

    John Waters and the art of sleaze

  • Music

    November 4, 2004

    If They Have a Plane, I Hope It Crashes

    Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower gives back to the kids

  • Film

    September 23, 2004

    On the Bright Side of Smut

    John Waters returns to his sex-mad (but never mean) moviemaking roots

  • Music

    June 5, 2003

    Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Cex

    The weird-ass life of the white Eminem

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    The Party's Over

    The weird-ass life of the white Eminem

  • Film

    June 6, 2002

    Fear Factor

    The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    New Music

    The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

  • Columns

    April 12, 2001

    Letters

    The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

  • Film

    December 28, 2000

    Movies! Movies! Movies!

    The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

  • Features

    July 29, 1999

    Tales of Touring Terror!

    The smart new Tom Clancy thriller could raise more hackles than hairs

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