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What 'Gatsby' Gets Wrong

Ten ways the new movie will trip up the lazy students of tomorrow

Three EDM Artist to Watch This Summer

EDM is a tough genre to stay on top of, even for the most devout kandi kid. The explosion of festivals like Electric Daisy Carnival, the abundance of DJ residencies and tours around the world and the mammoth popularity of sites like Beatport, its not always easy to decipher between the next big sta ... More >>

The Five Best EDM Shows in May

April has come and gone and spring time is officially here. For most of us in Orange County this means great summer weather, beach days, bikinis and world renowned electronic dance music artists making their way through our city week after week. Since most of us are gearing up for the 17th annual El ... More >>

David Sedaris To Appear At Chapman University

You gotta commend any author who comes up with masterpiece lines such as, "If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary" (Barrel Fever). David Sedaris, whose wickedly hilarious prose is known to cause readers to spit their food across the table, will ... More >>

DEA Gets Raid-Happy In So Cal

According to both the LA Times and our sister paper LA Weekly, the DEA raided three pot shops and ordered several dozen other marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles to close yesterday. The three raids took place downtown, and in Silverlake and Boyle Heights, but landlords and club operators of 6 ... More >>

Alexis Bellino and Her "Jesus Jugs" Leaving The Real Housewives of Orange County

After three seasons, Alexis Bellino is leaving The Real Housewives of Orange County--and the 35-year-old mother of three is taking her "Jesus Jugs" with her!The "reality" show cast member is partly blaming the co-star who coined that nickname with helping push her back into obscurity.

Not a G'Day Down Under: Marmite Shortage Strikes New Zealand

​ 2011 was a great year for earthquakes. Not only did they manage to get the world to rethink nuclear power (something Greenpeace has failed to do since...well, ever) but now they've started to rid the world of Marmite, that off-putting yeast spread our cousins across the pond and down under seem ... More >>

Holmes, Sherlock Holmes

Everyone's favorite Victorian detective gets a Bond makeover in 'Game of Shadows'

Notes, Quotes and Observations From Luigi D'Italia's Appearance on Kitchen Nightmares

A total gent...​SO . . . did you catch FOX's Kitchen Nightmares this past Friday, the one that highlighted Luigi's D'Italia? Did you catch the one second or so in which I appeared, near the absolute end of the show? How about when the brothers that run Luigi's read my rave review of them--off a Mi ... More >>

[UPDATE With Comment From Polyvinyl Owner Matt Lunsford]: Rioters Torch Sony Warehouse and Burn Many UK and Ireland Record Stocks to the Ground

BBC​UPDATE, August 10, 2011, 2:41 p.m.: Sony issued a statement today regarding its plans following Monday's disastrous warehouse fire set by London looters which destroyed significant quantities of independent label merchandise. According to the statement, the company is operating from a new co ... More >>

New Radiohead Song 'Staircase' Premieres Online Today

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​ The song "Staircase" comes from Radiohead's upcoming From The Basement session, a podcast turned TV show produced by Nigel Godrich. It will be broadcast internationally July 1 via BBC Worldwide. It showcases the same the same driving beat and stringent anxiety that Radioh ... More >>

No Ghosts, But Plenty of Spirit in Fullerton Play

​It won't get the press or audience of Christmassy shows such as SCR's A Christmas Carol. or the Maverick's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, but the Hunger Artist Theatre's production of Peter Barnes' The Spirit of Man, might actually come closer to capturing some sense of genuine humanity t ... More >>

2/1 Odds Set Conan Splits "Tonight Show" by June

​An Irish bookmaker is offering short odds of 2/1 that Conan O'Brien quits as The Tonight Show host before June 2010.

Mash-up Master Dirty South Leads Geekdom's Charge Into Clubland

OC Turns Brit as 'BritWeek' Begins

Is Tony Blair a Freemason? The video above seems to think so. Oddly, some evidence behind the claim is provided by Martin Short, although it is unclear if he was doing so as himself, Jiminy Glick, Ed Grimley, Katharine Hepburn or Jackie Rogers Jr. What is as clear as London fog is the freewheelin ... More >>

From Reverence to Rape: Hollywood Again Plunders Meaning From the Holocaust

'Yes Man' Repackages Jim Carrey's Greatest Hits, Which Maybe Weren't So Great to Start With

Stan in the place where you live

As much as I've always loved superheroes, I've always felt there was something just a little off-putting about Marvel head honcho Stan Lee, the person. And it isn't a righteous indignation thing about not giving his collaborators their due credit; Stan has relented on that score in later years, and ... More >>

[Sprawl of Sound] KCRW's Eric J. Lawrence Airs the Gems Most Radio Ignores

[Sprawl of Sound] More Than Bliss: Heru John Basil, Roxy Music

E's a Jolly Good Fellow (Finally)

Eels unearth their dark past, look to a brighter future

Golden Age, Porcelain Throne

Cate camps it up for Queen Hard with a Vengeance

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarons latest is not to be missed

Ho, Ho, Oh No-- It's Disney

You may believe there's a little bit of Santa Claus in all of us, as long as we keep the spirit of the Christmas season alive in our hearts. If you do, you better not mention that to Disney, because according to the BBC, some of the company's mouse-eared bah-humbuggers are claiming that Disney owns ... More >>

Weak on both sides...

… and radioactive in the middle. By now you know that North Korea has apparently successfully tested a nuclear weapon. (Experts prefer the term "device", rather than "weapon", but given the fact that this device's sole function is to cause large-scale destruction, I think the word weapon is ... More >>

Yet Another Reason KFI Sucks

Back in January 2004, I wrote this article about KFI-AM 640 bumping my favorite night-time radio show, Coast to Coast AM, from its regular 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. slot and replacing it with right-wing wacko John Ziegler. Coast to Coast AM was the only KFI show that wasn't hosted by a right wing wacko and ... More >>

Exquisite

Embarrassed and undestroyed, Leonard Cohen at 71

American Women and Children First

There were an estimated 25,000 Americans in Lebanon, and an estimated 30,000 Canadians. But when the cruise ship Orient Queen departed the port of Beirut towards the safety of the island of Cyprus it was U.S.A. all the way. Anywhere from 1,100 to 1,800 Canadians, all told to assemble for evacuation ... More >>

Baby, You Can Still Drive My Electric Car

As gas prices soar and Americans lose their taste for foreign oil, OC's biggest EV booster sounds like a prophet

Heavy Metal Muslim

Salman Ahmad really does rock the Casbah

Emma, Actually

In Nanny McPhee, the Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter gets to flex her comic muscles

Letters

It took me a while to get accustomed to the uninhibited and rampant sex here.

Sex & Drugs & Sex & Rock & Roll

Michael Winterbottom's monomaniacally intoxicating 9 Songs

Hail the Hesitant Hero

Robert Acosta joined the Army looking for a life. Thanks to an ambush in Iraq, he found it

So Now What?

No one said freedom was easy

Becky, We Hardly Knew Ye

Mira Nairs colorful travesty of Vanity Fair

Both Sides Now

Control Room director observed different perceptions of same Iraq war

Eight Must-sees

Fish-Free Sea

You may live to see it in your lifetime

The Boys With the Morrissey in Their Side

Mimicking Moz with the Sweet and Tender Hooligans

The Education of Corporal Gunderson

I joined the Marines to get a good education, and all I got was a crummy Gulf War

Conspiracy Theories

Letters

Shah-dap! Fah-koff! Dunno!

Mike Leigh returns with All or Nothing

I Hear America Sinking

Isnt It Romantic?

LaButes Possession may be

Manila Enveloped in Oklahoma Bombing Case

Rude Reception

Manners are the least of our worries in Anaheim schools

State of the Third-Wave Nation

The Ska Parade at 10

A Dissenter Emerges