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Bad Religion's Jay Bentley and Brian Baker Talk Biz With KROQ's Kat Corbett

Have you ever wanted to get advice from your favorite band and hear directly from them about the ups and downs of the biz? Well that's what happened last night at the Yost when the OC Music Awards teamed up with Red Bull to sponsor a Q&A session with Bad Religion's Jay Bentley and Brian Baker that w ... More >>

Armenian Hoodlum Involved In Massive LA-OC Identity Theft Ring Gets Prison

A 26-year-old Armenian man living in Southern California and deemed an "illegal alien" by federal officials participated in a massive, Burbank-based, $7 million identity theft ring operating for six years in Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. But Hovhannes Dilboyan hoped that his role ... More >>

An Open Letter to the Mad Men-Obsessed, Or How to Make a Damn Old Fashioned

Lately, I've had to resort to picky douchebaggery when ordering Old Fashioneds in bars, just as when I order a martini. It's all the fault of the writers and producers of Mad Men, who wouldn't know a good Old Fashioned if it got spilled on their nuts.We're not going to get into the martini thing a ... More >>

Following Kurupt and DJ Nick Bean From L.A. Video Shoot to Anaheim Gangsta Party

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with rapper Kurupt from Tha Dogg Pound and DJ Nik Bean, a West L.A.-based mixtape impresario who has worked with Snoop and Tha ... More >>

Scientology Grand Opening: Walls! Weirdos! Whacking a Weekly Reporter!

As the Church of Scientology was stalling the opening of their new Ideal Org in downtown Santa Ana, they told me the media would be alerted about the big debut. I never got the memo.But if I did, it likely would've said, "You're not welcomed."That was the message I got Saturday when I walked three f ... More >>

Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives Coming to Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

What do Walt Disney and Ronald Reagan have in common?They both threw actors they felt to be communist sympathizers under the FBI's red-baiting bus!But Disney and Reagan have something else in common, too: starting in July, both men will have many of their personal items on display for all ... More >>

Kinde Durkee, Near Plea Deal for Ripping Off Democratic Politicians, Makes a Love Match

​Before we get to the news about Kinde Durkee's possible plea deal, may we point out that, based on their respective booking photos, we believe we have found a love match between the disgraced former Democratic campaign treasurer and a certain disgraced former city official who called Huntington B ... More >>

Joseph A. Fletcher Was 2nd Highest Paid Muni Worker in State as Santa Ana's City Attorney

​City Attorney Joseph A. Fletcher left the cracked streets of Santa Ana a January ago with more than $605,000 in salary, severance and benies, and new data released by the State Controller show that brought him this "distinction":Fletcher earned more in 2010 than any other municipal employee in Ca ... More >>

[UPDATED with Feinstein Fooked!] Kinde Durkee, Democratic Treasurer Accused of Fraud

​UPDATE, SEPT. 13, 11:05 A.M.: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the latest Democrat claiming to have been hornswoggled by campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee. Feinstein first revealed her accounts had been totally cleaned out, but her spokesman later corrected that to say the amount of missing funds is c ... More >>

LA Times Pushes Back Community News Expansion into South County and Announces OC Arts Section

​The Los Angeles Times announced today that it will expand Times Community News (TCN) coverage into Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel and the Orange County arts community beginning Aug. 26.If part of that sounds like deja vu all over again, it is--with a twist. A June 30 memo from Times Media Group to ne ... More >>

LA Times X's Out Brand X But Expands Community Coverage to Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel

​The Los Angeles Times is pulling the plug on Brand X, a website and print insert with event and cultural coverage aimed at young adult readers.Today marks the final print version of Brand X, while the website will cease to exist after July 8.Some good news for Brand X editors and photographers wh ... More >>

BJ Papas Has the Sweet Smell of Soy Success

[Trendzilla] Her Relight candlemaking operation makes great-smelling options—even of beer!

Paper Further Exposes More Dirt On Larry Agran's Political Machine in Irvine

Agran: OC's biggest unindicted scoundrel?​Is there more evidence that Irvine political boss Larry Agran is a criminal?According to an online column published tonight by Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit, that scenario might be the case.Mickideit reports that local folks ti ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Huntington Beach Company Uses 'Toons, Rappers and Twilight Stars to Lure Kids to its Prepaid Debit Cards

​Update, December 22, 11:26 p.m.: 38-year-old Brian Newberry has been developing debit cards for young people for the past 10 years. He actually came from a big bank (which he won't name) that he says wanted to essentially exploit the youth market with high-fee products. From that experience, Newb ... More >>

A Sweet Tradition: Candy Cane Making At Disneyland

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Just before 8 a.m., the gates to the park open and the mad rush begins. A stampede dashes down Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A., past the cinema, the penny arcade and the cart selling overpriced cotton candy. Run. These ambitious guests aren't racing to be the fi ... More >>

Disney's Hotel-Workers' Union Is Still Trying to Bring Down the Mouse

After some two-and-a-half years of stalled negotiations and street theater, a new labor deal still seems like Fantasyland

Ryan Seacrest Leaves Children's Hospital of OC Without Anyone Trying to Kill Him

​American Idol, E News Daily and KISS-FM host Ryan Seacrest returned to Children's Hospital of Orange County on Monday to brighten the days of young patients, broadcast his radio show live and seek $5 donations to CHOC from listeners.The teeny broadcaster, who also visited CHOC in September 2009, ... More >>

Fear and Longing In Karaoke

The contestants in KaraokeFest battle stage fright, self-doubt and one another

Airport Airspace Changes Prompted by Mid-Air Collision Warnings Come in for Criticism

​Looking up at the skies over north Costa Mesa a couple weeks ago produced a most disturbing site: a JetBlue plane making its normal descent into Long Beach Airport was passed maybe 100 feet above by another airliner heading for either LAX or the landing line at John Wayne Airport. Maybe that's a ... More >>

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Tim Burton's 'Wonderland' is not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough

Best Coast Forward

Bethany Cosentino talks lo-fi, boys and her love of LA

Drake Doremus' 'Douchebag' at Sundance

OC stage prodigy-turned-filmmaker Drake Doremus brings his 'very personal' movie to Park City, Utah

[Year In Film] At the turn of the decade, Clint Eastwood tackles Mandela and the 'Hereafter'

Why Food Trucks Are Not Evil

desserttruck.comPlease, please, PLEASE come to OC, Dessert Truck!​Nancy Luna (the Fast Food Maven) is someone whose writing I admire, and she scoops absolutely everything about fast food in OC. I know that when the Buttermilk Truck or the Grilled Cheese Truck or any of the other, suddenly-fashiona ... More >>

Disney Praised for Wastewater Treatment in Anaheim, Spanked For It in Burbank

Paradise Bay: drink it in.​Sarah Tulley posts on Orange County Register's Around Disney blog today that Paradise Bay lagoon at California Adventure in Anaheim will soon be refilled with 16 million gallons of water that was recycled through central Orange County's Groundwater Replenishment System, ... More >>

[BEST OF OC] El Artista (the Artist): Aaron Kraten

Dishney: More "The Princess and the Frog" News

The Princess and the Frog - First 5 Minutes Previewby theanimationblogThough it's been since removed from YouTube by Disney, the first five minutes of the forthcoming The Princess and the Frog has been released--and luckily for you, The Animation Blog still has it available. Verdict? We're pleasant ... More >>

Talk Talk: Jake Pappas of Janu and the Whalesharks

Stephanie WilliamsThis week's Locals Only features Orange County band Janu and the Whalesharks, opening up for Tim Kasher of Cursive and Azure Ray at tomorrow's swell show at the Glass House in Pomona. A lot of juicy tidbits from our conversation with Janu singer/guitarist Jake Pappas got left on th ... More >>

[Sound Guy] Matt 'Brawdcast' Castillo Taste-Tests His Way to His Hip-Hop Dreams

Teen Comedy Charlie Bartlett Could Use a Dose of Mean

You're On With Jesus

Neil Saavedra brings God down to Earth

Iron Chef Meets What's Up Tiger Lily

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge is still faster than a cheap shot

Church du Soleil

The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule

Church du Soleil

The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show. Very cool puppets rule

Million Dollar Boomer

Paul Haggis and the long road to directing

Aerosmith and Shakespeare together at last

Theater notes

Lewis Black plugs, mugs, shrugs

Theyre Back

Do androids dream of electric sequels?

Theyre Back

Do androids dream of electric sequels?

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Raise the Bar

All Jack Flynn needs to make it is 33 and one-third cosmos a night

The Tycoon of Toon

LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

Fantasyland

How fantasy crept back into the cultural mainstream

Spin Recycle

Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

Cox Stocks Take Big Knocks

Newport Republican still backpedaling on Chinese spies

Gypsies, Tramps and Bigots

Kansas anti-gay reverend brings his traveling theater to OC

Guilty Pleasures

401-500

Orange Countys Radical Culture Czars

Economists fear him. Adults emulate him. This kidand thousands like himare teaching corporations how to sell the world everything from edgy soft drinks to extreme sunglasses

Letters

Ruby Diver Doesn't Make MTV's The Cut

And that's a very, very good thing