Berlin (Germany)

EDC Las Vegas 2013 Lineup is Here!

After leaving fans on the edge of their seats in anticipation for the sold out 17th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway -- Insomniac finally revealed the diverse lineup of musical "conductors" as founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella likes to call them. This year's list include ... More >>

Eric Burdon and Members of the Foo Fighters Tapped For Costa Mesa's 60th Anniversary Festival

What's the best way for a city to celebrate its 60th anniversary? No, counting down the years until getting a Social Security card doesn't count, but the boomer-aged Costa Mesa is going to do something age-appropriate: It's throwing a rock concert to honor the occasion. Not only is the city putting ... More >>

Berlin Discoveries

Greatness emerges at the year's first major film festival

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

International Rights Picked Up for Breathe In from OC's Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones

Breathe In, the latest film from former Orange County theater wunderkinds Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, has been picked up for non-North American distribution following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.

'Barbara': Doctor With Borders

The Cold War drama is one for the ages

Michael Berlin's Sneak Preview Movie Series Classes Ready to Roll

I truly wish I could have got this up sooner, but Monday night begins Michael Berlin's popular series of sneak preview looks at major movies . . . uh, I mean . . . scholarly academic classes that feature complete screenings of motion pictures bound for theaters. Past audiences . . . erm . . . studen ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in OC This Week: Conor Oberst, Dr. Dog

Monday, October 1 The Two FoscariSegerstrom Center for the Arts The LA Opera makes a one-night-only appearance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts to perform Giuseppe Verdi's The Two Foscari. Verdi based his three-act opera on the historical play of the same n ... More >>

Free Ticket Friday: Catz 'N Dogz at Focus OC

Club Focus is invariably on our list of things to make your Tuesday night 10 times better than it normally is-- especially for househeads, members of the trance family and other beat freak pedigrees. But next week's event on Oct. 2 definitely deserves a big red circle on your calendar thanks to Berl ... More >>

Free Ticket Friday: Catz 'N Dogz at Focus OC

Club Focus is invariably on our list of things to make your Tuesday night 10 times better than it normally is-- especially for househeads, members of the trance family and other beat freak pedigrees. But next week's event on Oct. 2 definitely deserves a big red circle on your calendar thanks to Berl ... More >>

Cabaret

Theatre Out

Berlin

House of Blues

Electric Daisy Carnival Lineup Revealed!

Insomniac Events announced their highly anticipated line up for the 16th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. CEO Pasquale Rotella announced today that more than 100 artists and 500 theatrical groups will be joining the 300,000 expected attendees, including a special performance by the Blue ... More >>

Dash Berlin at Sutra, March 13, 2012

​ Dash Berlin March 13, 2012Sutra, Costa Mesa This weekend I had the privilege of seeing Laidback Luke, one of my favorite DJs in Hollywood and then San Diego. I would have been perfectly content if the weekend ended there but DJ Mag's number eight DJ in the world, Dash Berlin was making a speci ... More >>

Cabaret

Fullerton College

Win! Tickets to Lucent Dossier Experience at the Palace This Weekend

​Following up on their promise to bring the love year round, the Do Lab (who throw OC based fest Lightning in a Bottle) and Lucent Dossier Experience have created a very unique event this Friday and Saturday at the Palace Theatre in LA. For those that don't know, Lucent Dossier is a steam punk, ... More >>

Madonna Announces World Tour While the Register Picks Apart Her Plastic Surgery Work

​The last time I saw Madonna, it was 2006 and I paid $352 for a floor ticket. Madonna, fresh off the success of her Super Bowl halftime show, is going on a  World Tour beginning May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel. While we have no idea how much tickets will be going for, we do know she'll stop at&nbs ... More >>

Metal Machine Trio's Ulrich Krieger: 'The trio is an update of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music in philosophical and aesthetic sense'

​Ulrich Krieger--a professor of composition at CalArts, a renowned saxophone player of both contemporary, improvised and classical music--is a third of Metal Machine Trio, a group that's spawned of Lou Reed's 1973 album Metal Machine Music.Their work is going to be showcased at the Project Room at ... More >>

Love Lou Reed, or Leave Him

The Velvet Underground front man is a bitch to interview, but he's still Lou Reed

The Mau Maus

Alex's Bar

Feds Bust Alleged Internet Auto/Boat Sales Scam By Russians

​The U.S. Department of Justice in Los Angeles announced this afternoon that a federal grand jury has indicted six foreign nationals--including one in Costa Mesa--for operating an Internet-based sales scam that allegedly defrauded more than $4.2 million from unsuspecting shoppers since 2007.Accord ... More >>

This Week In Food: The Racist Chinese Restaurant in Dubai, The Holiday Bruxie and Eating Baby Jesus

Channel4.com via Riverfront Times​A very merry Christmas to you and yours from us here at OC Weekly! Enjoy all of the highlights from Stick A Fork In It this week in this blog entry and we'll see you after the holidays!

Brats Berlin To Debut Exotic Sausages

Photo by Laila Derakhshanian​When Christian Murcia's second luxe lonchera concept launched this past July, their theme was to feature evolving artwork (no pun intended). In a move typically reserved for high-stakes gambling, they not only delivered on that promise, but they upped the ante with uni ... More >>

German Restaurant Offers Cave-Man Cuisine

http://www.sauvageberlin.com/​Newton's law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So in what seems like a reaction to the modernist/molecular gastronomic bombast of Ferran Adria and all his acolytes, there is a new restaurant in Berlin called Sauvage that serves cav ... More >>

Escape From Wonderland at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino

​Escape From WonderlandOctober 29, 2011NOS Events Center If you came to the NOS Events Center looking for just another rave, you were in for a surprise. Insomniac's Inaugural self proclaimed "twisted sister," Escape From Wonderland, had carnival rides, haunted mazes and five massive stages featuri ... More >>

LA Times: Food Trucks and Cash-Strapped Schools Form Symbiotic Partnership

Photo by Laila Derakhshanian​In a direct application of the dictionary definition of a "win-win", the Los Angeles Times reports that luxe loncheras and underfunded public schools have formed a mutually beneficial partnership. The trucks get to do business in a parking-lot sanctuary without being h ... More >>

WINNER'S CIRCLE: Dee Nguyen

[BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] Owner of Break of Dawn

Miami Horror

Detroit Bar

Atlantis 2011: The Show Will Go On, With Less Stages and Earlier Closing Time

​First things first: Rumors going around that the electronic event Atlantis 2011 is cancelled are not true. The show, which will have Dash Berlin, Headhunterz, DJ Isaac, Heatbeat, Miles Dyson, Starkillers, Swanky Tunes, Mord Fustang, Cookie Monsta, Chaosphere and 6blocc spinning, will go on as sch ... More >>

This Week is Full of Collaboration News: Tony Bennett Lady Gaga, ICP Jack White, Lou Reed Metallica, Dirty Projectors Bjork

​Something in the water must encourage sharing...first we heard about Jack White and Insane Clown Posse collaborating on a remake of an obscure Mozart song. Next we finally hear a snippet from that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett version of "Lady is a Tramp," which was reportedly recorded last month fo ... More >>

Restaurant Roll Call for July 2011

Brats Berlin Facebook​ Someone asked me once whether I was worried that there will be a time when we as food writers will run out of places to review. My answer was no. There will be never be a time when there won't be a new restaurant somewhere. This month is proof of that. We observed at at leas ... More >>

This Week in Food: Wolverine, Dumb Health Inspectors, and Smokers!

Flickr user flavouz​You know what Friday is: summation time! Highlights after the jump!

This Week in Food: Prudish Garden Grove, Gentrifying Santa Ana, and Foolish Costa Mesa!

Cafe Miss Cutie Facebook pageSorry, couldn't resist...​It was a great week here, as always, but not necessarily a good one in the world of OC eating. The highs and lows after the jump!

Brats Berlin Luxe Lonchera Debuts This Weekend

Brats Berlin website​When Christian Murcia of Crepes Bonaparte thought about expanding their mobile empire, he decided the best move would be to introduce a new concept. Brats Berlin, an interactive experience colliding street art with street food, was born. We're talking six bratwurst varieties ( ... More >>

Young the Giant: Looking Back and Moving Forward

​Young the Giant, the band formerly known as the Jakes, and formerly residents of Newport Beach via Irvine, have had a very good year. After releasing their self-title debut to critical acclaim (even Morrissey is a fan, saying "I could break down with happiness at the new debut-CD by Young The G ... More >>

Berlin

Coach House

What You Missed: NOFX, NYE Block Party, Rebelution, Surf City Splash, Berlin, Food Truck Fare and More

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Happy 2011! What'd you do? Or more importantly, what did you miss? We were all over the place with the New Year's Eve celebrations--from NOFX at the Wiltern and the Block Party at the OC Fairgrounds to Rebelution at the House of Blues and Berlin at Knott's Berry Farm ... More >>

Los Lobos: Still Far Gone

The seminal country-roots-Mexican-rock band's new material is fresher than ever

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 >>

The Greatest Year in Film: 1939

Bowers Museum

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the Glass House Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Black Rebel Motorcycle ClubSeptember 15, 2010Glass HouseHaving played one of the better shows of the year at the House of Blues Anaheim back in March, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club returned to kick off the second leg of their tour behind their album Beat The Devil's Tattoo a ... More >>

Cuban Modernism

MOLAA

Free Tickets: Dengue Fever Pocahaunted; Canvas Berlin

www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic​ So we're giving away two pairs of tickets to Dengue Fever's show at the Detroit on May 29, Saturday and a pair of tickets to Santa Ana indie pop band Canvas and old-school, local new wave band Berlin's show at the House of Blues on Friday, May 28.  Find out h ... More >>

Canvas Berlin = ???

www.myspace.com/wearecanvas1​Here's some news from Santa Ana indie popsters Canvas: 1. They are playing at the Hotel Cafe on 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18. 2. They released an acoustic E.P. last month and are heading into the studio in July.

DJ and Palette Recordings Boss John Tejada

Ryu KasaiJohn Tejada works his turntable magic"If you say the word techno, people assume you're playing hard, banging music, and that house is always deep with vocals and congas," says Palette Recordings label boss John Tejada. "Not true. I feel genre descriptions have really lost all focus." Approp ... More >>

17 Hippies

Orange County Great Park

The (OC) Metro

Berlin

It Aint Easy Being Cheesy

Takin a dip with Berlin Jim at the Melting Pot

Go for the Gold

Stay for the Crispy Crackle catfish