Blessed Virgin Mary

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Weekend

Friday, December 28Sweet and Tender HooligansHouse of Blues Anaheim It's an understatement to say that fans of the Smiths are rabid. Obj ... More >>

Sweet and Tender Hooligans

House of Blues

FYF Fest - Los Angeles State Historic Park - September 2, 2012

FYF FestLos Angeles Historic State ParkSeptember 2, 2012See Also:*Interview with FYF Founder Sean Carlson*5 Great Reunited Bands at FYF 2012*Octomom performs at FYF? WTF?Expanding a music festival to two days can be a lofty, even risky task. It's twice the work, twice the amount of bands to keep hap ... More >>

Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to Two Years for Anti-Putin Punk Prayer!

See Also:*Mare Is a Rapper Hell-Bent on Equality for Women in Mexico *OC Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls Postponed Until Next Summer*Five Feminist Anthems for International Women's Day!Sitting inside a glass enclosure, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich smiled today as a ... More >>

On the Line: Alexandra LittleJohn of Green Bliss/Cafecito Organico, Part One

We're doing our job when Alexandra LittleJohn tells a friend that our questionnaire, "...is worse than filling out the eHarmony dating website" [Awesome!]. Our Sunday morning is spent in a hidden outdoor seating area of Kean's Newport alongside Nacho, her pup with "big dog syndrome." While we have y ... More >>

McNugget Resembling George Washington Sells for $8,100 on eBay

​Some three years ago, a woman in Nebraska noticed that one of the McNuggets her children didn't eat looked kinda like George Washington in profile. So she stashed it in the freezer and later, put it up on eBay.The auction site took it down citing that the item violated a rule they had against ... More >>

Happy St. Joseph's Day!

klio @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Zeppole and sfogliatelle... mmmmm...​As a kid in a pretty Italian-American part of New Jersey, St. Patrick's Day was certainly celebrated--there was green beer and corned beef and cabbage and boxty, people getting pinched for not wearing green and people getting pu ... More >>

Dueling Dishes: Eggnog Encounter

Dave Lieberman​Every year it happens. Food boards on the Internet light up right after Hallowe'en with the burning questions: "Where can I get Broguiere's eggnog? Is it available yet? Has anyone seen it?"Now, I'm as big a fan as Broguiere's, a Montebello dairy that is one the last vestiges of a hu ... More >>

Gettin' Made: The New Mafia Kids on the Block

The crocheted horse heads have been put in beds, the painted and glittered fish have been gutted and left as a message, the rubber cement shoes have been poured. And the Long Beach Craft Mafia is proud to introduce three of their newest members! That old cliche is true--the only thing that is consta ... More >>

Long Beach Greek Festival This Weekend!

​From Saturday through Monday, you can soak up everything from the wonderful country (and I say that despite having had one of the worst vacations ever in Kefalonia). The event, held at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary church, is, incredibly, in its 60th year.As well as a carnival, kids' ... More >>

TOMORROW: Digging for Fire exhibit opens at Hibbleton

​In the big book of of trite, ancient cliches, the idea that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder" might be one of the most important ones we've got. It challenges us in ways that go against the grain of society, family, friends, etc. It's the kind of sentiment that allows to admire and respect ... More >>

St. Joseph's Day Swallows Train Tour

Mission San Juan Capistrano

It's the Stupid Economy at Rude Guerrilla Theater Co.

944 Magazine and its Lack of Local Restaurant Insights

944 Magazine is what Riviera would've been if it were run out of the Phoenix area by people whose portrayal of life makes Sex and the City look like an Italian Neo-Realism flick. I write about it here, however, because of two interesting items in their latest issue. The first is a full-page pick for ... More >>

An Open Letter to Mater Dei Quarterback Matt Barkley

Dear Matt, Congrats on all your success: Gatorade High School Football, Player of the Year (first junior so honored ever), the early commitment to USC, the many prep titles—oops, scratch that last one! And we loved the profile that the New York Times did on you yesterday. We especially were excit ... More >>

New Reviews

We recommend: Eastern Promises, The Hunting Party, In the Valley of Elah

A Mighty Spotlight

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearls movie

Evan Can Wait

Why in Gods name did Steve Carell take the Almighty paycheck?

!Ask a Mexican!

So how on earth (literally) did Mexicans end up making arroz a staple of their diet?

Slack jawed, Hounddog, and Mr. Donohue (not) at the movies

If there's one thing OC Weekly has in plentiful supply, it's Catholics of varying stripes-- devout, cafeteria, lapsed, vigorously lapsed, potential anti-pope-- with colorful and occasionally bizarre stories from their contacts with Holy Mother Church and its numerous franchises and subsidiaries. Fr ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Special Guadalupe Edition

New Reviews

Guadalupe; The History Boys; Screamers; Unaccompanied Minors

The Passion of the Christ: A Very Special Episode

Conception far from immaculate in teenybop retelling The Nativity Story

Best of OC, Nos. 76 to 100

From Christina Dolce to Holy Hour

News

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Special Mother Edicion

Diary of a Mad County

Aug. 16 - Aug. 22

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'The Saintly Madonna and the Great Whore'

A Love Supreme

Garcia Marquezs strangely uplifting Melancholy Whores

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

!Ask a Mexican!

Letters

Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

A Tour of the Orange Dioceses Most Transubstantiastic Homes

Material Hurl

21 reasons Madonna blows

Whats His Line?

An OC Weekly poll of voters in the Dornan-Rohrabacher race

Mona Lisa Lard-Ass

Fat man relives The Shining at Disneys Napa Rose

The Mouse that Warred

Dan ONeills underground war against Disney

Love Kills

Chance Theaters Hanging of Mary Surratt

Is Shakira a Sell-Out?

Nope!

The Feng Shui Psychic

Shari Clemens design aesthetic is about what you cant see with your eyeballs

Much Mangia

Big food in Little Italy

Hurry!

Strange packages. High anxiety. Low-grade terror. Its holiday shopping time again, with us as your guides

See Owen Run

Another top gun goes Behind Enemy Lines

She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

A Thing of Beauty

Random Women says something attractive about ugliness