Subject: Cali

• Put Up That Wall, Mr. Bush!

  There are people on the Right who still believe George W. Bush is the greatest thing since sliced Reagan. (People on the Left do, too, but in a totally different way.) So leave it to those qwaaaazy Minutemen Projectors to compare the Dubs to Reagan's archest enemy-turned-steam-room buddy: Mikhail Gorbachev, only in reverse. See if you can follow this Cracked Seiko's twisted logic ('cause damn if we can): Gipper famously told Gorby to "tear down this wall," the divider in this instance being the

  April 21, 2006

• Hugh's on First?

  Your favorite TV Time Tracker figured one of those knuckleheads at The Blotter would have already, uh, blottered this, but in case you missed it: Orange County's very own right-wing whackmaster Hugh Hewitt was on The Colbert Report the other night--and he wasn't even being punked like some other recent OC politicos were by a different Comedy Central faux news program. And damn if Baby Hughie wasn't reserved as host Stephen Colbert, who does the second best right-wing whackmaster impression on te

  April 26, 2006

• Citrus Lounge Squeezes Hip Hop Into Garden Grove

  UPDATE: Photos of F.I.L.T.H.E.E. and co are up! "Blaze it up!" yells flashy front man F.I.L.T.H.E.E. ( say that five times fast! ) a.k.a Brickmanraw, and no, he's not referring to the music, but apparently, "They said it's ok!" What was ok? I wondered. Suddenly a disembodied hand appeared from the small crowd gathered in front of the stage, holding much too intricate a pipe - ablaze with that sticky icky Cali green as a blunt began its' rounds along the very empty, very spacious dance floo

  September 14, 2007

• Keep Your Shirt On

  July 1, 1999

• HERE ALREADY

  January 6, 2000

• Decongestant!

  May 10, 2001

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 20, 2002

• Blood and Ceviche

  March 27, 2003

• Elliott Almond on the Breaks of OC, Life and Journalism

  Photo by Tim Harvey You might have seen Elliott Almond on his board in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach or San Onofre. Here he sits on a mini-mal at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.Today's OC Weekly Summer Guide features a Q&A with Elliott Almond, who spent several years covering surfing and other sports for the Los Angeles Times before relocating to the Bay Area, where he writes for the San Jose Mercury News. Almond's passion for surfing comes out in his new book Surfing: Mastering Waves F

  June 4, 2009

• Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

  Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes, hired uniformed security goons to stand outside Latino-heavy polling places in Santa Ana and demand identification from the mostly Democratic voters while carrying signs in English and Spanish that

  March 3, 2009

• [This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Pho Your Health at Pho Cali

  June 19, 2008

• Up From the Underground

  November 27, 2003

• Singles Going Steady

  The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

  December 28, 2006

• Not a 'Stiff,' Nor a 'Loser'

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! The OC Weeklys Statewide picks

  November 2, 2006

• Sometimes the Lion

  July 13, 2006

• Commie Girl

  January 19, 2006

• A Clockwork Orange

  September 8, 2005

• Feedback

  June 17, 2004

• Bands, Review Thyselves!

  January 15, 2004

• Remembering Celia Cruz

  August 14, 2003

• Try Everything Once

  May 29, 2003

• Training Days

  February 27, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 7, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 6, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  April 11, 2002

• Sigh & a Smile

  March 28, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 7, 2002

• Chicken Soup for the Prez

  February 7, 2002

• The Visible Invisible Man

  November 15, 2001

• On the Brink

  November 16, 2000

• Willie NileBeautiful Wreck of the WorldRiver House Records

  August 10, 2000

• You Are Surrounded by Idjits, Mostly

  March 16, 2000

• How-dee, Buck!

  November 18, 1999

• Beach Fest 99, with a whole bunch of bands and a good, bloody fistfight

  May 27, 1999

• Delivering the Goods

  January 14, 1999

• All Sides Love Telling Illin' Cali to Pound Sand

  Finally, an issue has come along that has united people of all political stripes all over the country: the U.S. Government's refusal to bail out California (at least for now). Most bloggers used today's Washington Post story as a jumping-off point to analyze the development. While they were all over the political map with their respective spins, the netizens who commented to their posts were near unanimously against bailing out the Golden State. A gratified Lux Luther even chimed in. Here is a s

  June 16, 2009

• NRDC: Clean OC Beaches Buck Dirty U.S., California Trend

  Sunset Beach: pretty clean​The Natural Resources Defense Council's annual survey of water quality and public notification at U.S. beaches contains plenty of bad news for anyone into wading into surf around the country without getting sick. Beach closings and advisories hit their fourth-highest level in the 19-year history of the report, closure/advisory days at the Great Lakes topped 20,000 for the fourth consecutive year and even in the relatively dry 2008 beach season found contamination fro

  July 29, 2009

• New Detroit Bar DJ Night a Lot Like Old Detroit Bar DJ Night

  ​Busywork, the old no-cover weekly Wednesday dance night at Detroit Bar, has been replaced by Pistol, the new no-cover weekly Wednesday dance night at Detroit Bar. The similarities don't end there.

  September 3, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Everything Sort of Old Is Kind of New Again

  September 10, 2009

• Do You Drive One of the 10 Most Stolen Cars in California?

  Feast your eyes on the hottest car in California, Speed Racer: the 1991 Honda Accord. ​Forget your Ferrarris, Lamborghinis, heck, even your grandparents' Buicks. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) Hot Wheels 2009 report, which crunched data reported to the National Crime Information Center to determine the vehicle make, model, and model year most reported stolen in 2008, the hottest wheels in the nation are: 1) 1994 Honda Accord2) 1995 Honda Civic3) 1989 Toyota Camry4) 199

  October 1, 2009

• Are OC Republicans Lying or Businessmen Stupid for Leaving Country's Most Popular State?

  ​The kind of Orange County Republicans who would launch a recall of a Southern California politician from their own party tell you higher taxes are driving businesses out of California. They'll compare Cali's various tax rates with a backwater state like Nevada, or send their puppet officeholders (Assembly members Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, and Jim Silva, R-Huntington Beach) to that desert hell hole to hear from whiners who used to ply their trades here but left because

  October 8, 2009

• Free Moral Agents Announce Tour, No California Dates Yet

  ​Yesterday, it was announced that Long Beach psych-rock jam artists Free Moral Agents (pictured) are hitting the road with their El Paso compadres Zechs Marquise. Their tour, which starts November 7 in ZM's hometown, is set to run for about three weeks at this point, with dates to be added shortly. It's worth noting that both bands share a pretty obvious Mars Volta connection, with FMA keyboardist/brain child Ikey Owens and ZM drummer Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez sharing the stage in that band.Marce

  October 8, 2009

• [Locals Only] LMNO Creates a Sound That's Fresh, Fierce, Flake-Free

  November 5, 2009