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Weekend Guide: BBQ, Beer and a Chef Throwdown

Orange County BBQ BonanzaBabyyyyy, baby back ribs [barbecue sauce] at the Orange County BBQ Bonanza. ​You're busy people. Let us plan your weekend for you. Happy eating! TODAYOrange County BBQ Bonanza What: BBQ ribs, pulled pork, tri-tip, sausages. And maybe some Handi Wipes. The four- ... More >>

Kris Gruen

Gypsy Den

Alzheimer's Association to Sponsor 20-Truck Clustertruck in Irvine April 14

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​When does a clustertruck become news? Just putting together several trucks--even a dozen--is no longer newsworthy. Charities work with clustertrucks all the time, because it solves two birds with one stone: it's an existing event, which eases the logistics problems, ... More >>

Six More Surf City Volunteer Gigs for Disgraced Robert Rizzo (and One Place He Can Never Work)

​Robert Rizzo, Bell's disgraced ex-city manager, went from earning $800,000 per year to working off a community-service sentence as part of a DUI conviction out of his residence in Huntington Beach.Now comes word he has shifted from volunteering at a thrift store to parking cars for the Internatio ... More >>

Eat Here, Not There: Cinnamon Rolls

Flickr user andrewcurrie​Damn you, Cinnabon. Damn you and your evil scent that pervades every corner of an airport or mall food court. Cinnabon stores have really efficient staff, too, so lines move quickly and the hot cinnamon rolls move throughout the airport, causing their siren-like scent to w ... More >>

Five Dog-Friendly Restaurants in Orange County

​We hear all sorts of horror stories of pups not even allowed at outdoor restaurants thanks to Health Department restrictions... and even with all the nice weather and patios around here, it can be difficult finding a place to fine with your furry equivalent(s). Here's a list of five dog-friendly ... More >>

Shooting for a Pole-In-One in Disc Golf

[Summer Guide] The fast-growing sport has several homes in OC

What You Missed: Cosplay Gathering, Roller Girls, Fuck Yeah Fest, Rock the Runway

Christopher VictorioRussell from Up, some decades later...​On a beeeautiful Saturday afternoon, Cosplayers of all kinds--from Snow White and Naruto to Pedo Bear and Mortal Kombat--gathered at Craig Regional Park in Fullerton for a SoCal Cosplay meet-up. There were hot anime babes dressed up in p ... More >>

Crimes, Injuries, Mayhem at OC Parks and Open Space

Soaring platter of death​The man who invented the Frisbee died last Tuesday at his home in Monroe, Utah. Walter Fredrick Morrison was 90.A 6-year-old boy was hit in the head by an errant disc thrown from Huntington Beach Central Park's Disc Golf Course, prompting his mother to file a formal compla ... More >>

Passings: Shirley Muckenthaler, Harriet Wieder

TheMuck.orgShirley Zoeter Muckenthaler​Two women strongly tied to Orange County history have passed away.Shirley Zoeter Muckenthaler, whose husband's family built the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton and who was involved in charitable work in her own right, died at her home Jan. 3 after a ... More >>

New Huntington Beach Attraction: Missing Trees of Mystery

He's in Surf City and he's okay.​Best known for its surfers, skinheads and ultimate fighters, Huntington Beach has been overrun with a new breed of hepcat lately.Radical air huggers.

To Do Tonight - 5/13

Open Mic Night, 9 p.m.Bring your poetry, acoustic music and snaps to Long Beach's favorite (non-chain!) coffeehouse.Portfolio Coffeehouse, 2300 Fourth St., Long Beach, CA; 562-434-2486 ASID/OCC Design Tour, 3 p.m.New ideas for summer tabletops from Lynn Chichi of Chichi's Tabletal ... More >>

'Our Mother's Brief Affair' Has Flaws That Its Characters Can't Talk Their Way Out Of

Open Mic Night, 9 p.m.Bring your poetry, acoustic music and snaps to Long Beach's favorite (non-chain!) coffeehouse.Portfolio Coffeehouse, 2300 Fourth St., Long Beach, CA; 562-434-2486 ASID/OCC Design Tour, 3 p.m.New ideas for summer tabletops from Lynn Chichi of Chichi's Tabletal ... More >>

Supes Grant Lease for Bolsa Chica Wetlands Education Center

The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved a lease Tuesday with the Bolsa Chica Conservancy for an 8,000-square-foot interpretive center at the Bolsa Chica wetlands. Gardens, classrooms, science laboratories, multipurpose exhibit halls and bird and wildlife viewing decks are included in the inc ... More >>

Things Are Looking Up for 2009 ASID Design Tour

It's a fact of barely contested sprawl that with little room left to build out, residences are being  built up. And so we now have high-rise living spaces popping up in Irvine, Santa Ana and places you really don't want to be caught dead in. And so we now have a charity ... More >>

Alleged Fraud Within Irvine City Limits Keeps SEC, Whistleblower Busy

Two corporations doing business in Irvine that are the subjects of a noteworthy/notorious whistleblower's fraud investigations have now apparently drawn the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The SEC is reviewing whether James Peterson, CEO of Irvine-based defense industry comp ... More >>

To Do Tonight 8/21

AUDIO OVERLOAD BATTLE FINALS, 7:30 p.m. We've got ourselves a spin off (the DJ kind, not the sitcom variety). Chain Reaction 1652 W. Lincoln Ave. Anaheim CA 92801 714-635-6067 LECTURE: COLE PORTER, 1 p.m. I've got you under my skin. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art 2002 N. Main St. Santa Ana CA 92701 ... More >>

To Do Tonight 7/10

AUDIO OVERLOAD BATTLE FINALS, 7:30 p.m. We've got ourselves a spin off (the DJ kind, not the sitcom variety). Chain Reaction 1652 W. Lincoln Ave. Anaheim CA 92801 714-635-6067 LECTURE: COLE PORTER, 1 p.m. I've got you under my skin. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art 2002 N. Main St. Santa Ana CA 92701 ... More >>

'The Happening' Serves Up Effective, Chilling, Occasionally Wrenching Nonsense

AUDIO OVERLOAD BATTLE FINALS, 7:30 p.m. We've got ourselves a spin off (the DJ kind, not the sitcom variety). Chain Reaction 1652 W. Lincoln Ave. Anaheim CA 92801 714-635-6067 LECTURE: COLE PORTER, 1 p.m. I've got you under my skin. Bowers Museum of Cultural Art 2002 N. Main St. Santa Ana CA 92701 ... More >>

Nerd 
Herd

Frisbee Golf

Jodie Foster, Superhero

Leaping thugs in a single bound, our Brave leading lady takes back the night

Film Fests Are a Beach

Some highlights from the past few days of the Newport Beach Film Festival

Saving a Landfill Near You

Computer Recycling at the Sports Complex

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Ran

Special Screenings

Movies of the Week:

Man on the Flying Trapeze and <

Sept. 1 - Sept. 8

Movies of the Week:

Man on the Flying Trapeze and <

Our Kid Could Do It

Movies of the Week:

Man on the Flying Trapeze and <

Very Picasso!

Laguna Beach roundup

Connect

Stages The Day They Shot John Lennon

Look Homeward, Porn Angel

Devinn Lane returns to OC, sucks down a few frozen bananas, and talks about life before she became the den mother of porn

Albees Zoo

Devinn Lane returns to OC, sucks down a few frozen bananas, and talks about life before she became the den mother of porn

OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

Devinn Lane returns to OC, sucks down a few frozen bananas, and talks about life before she became the den mother of porn

Son of Scary

Evil spawn of OCs Scariest People

Great Pork

Agrans plan for a Great Park will make Don Bren a far richer man

Any Lengths

All about the booing at Segerstrom Hall

Letters

All about the booing at Segerstrom Hall

Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

All about the booing at Segerstrom Hall

Huntington Beach

Look hard

La Palma

Cypress writ small

Dick Nixons Revenge

El Toro Airport Watch No. 146

No Matter Who Wins, We Do

Great Park great for Irvine Co.

Letters

Great Park great for Irvine Co.

No Guarantees

Airport supporter offers opponents free advice on the Great Park

Jujubeating your meat

Airport supporter offers opponents free advice on the Great Park

Waiting for the End

Death Defying Acts is terminal

Shut That Bitch Up!

Death Defying Acts is terminal

When There Were People

In the City recalls a time before Things became God

Park It Here

El Toro Airport Watch No. 98

Say Hello to Cousin Id

Man-dog love gets the treatment in A.R. Gurney's Sylvia

Between the Generations

Sexual politics and moral ambiguity take the stage