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Deadpan or Dead: Jim Gavin's Middle Men is the Real So Cal Existential Dread Deal

Good morning. Are you sure you've found the real deal when you see it? I mean the Real Deal, in caps, or in quotes, or whatever punctuation is required to separate if from the rest? Friends, home-grown So Cal short story writer Jim Gavin is the R.D., though most everybody already knew that except, i ... More >>

The Compton Royalty of 'Venus and Serena'

A new documentary examines the tennis champs' rise from their upbringing in Southeast LA

DNA: The Second Generation. Curtis Young, E3 and Lil Eazy-E Are Straight Outta OC

The sons of Dr. Dre and Eazy-E re-imagine the sounds of West Coast rap from behind the Orange Curtain

The Five Essential Top Dawg Entertainment Tracks

By the time the month of October is over, each member of California's rising rap quartet that flies under the banner of Top Dawg Entertainment and Black Hippy will have performed in or around Orange County. Kendrick Lamar, Ab Soul, and Jay Rock are coming to play The Fox Theater in Pomona and School ... More >>

Edgar Antonio Lucha Admits He was the Nude Druggie-Burglar of Westminster

When Westminster police caught up with Edgar Antonio Lucha in September 2010, he was in a Compton drug rehab. But, according to the state crime database, the 25-year-old's fingerprints matched those a naked man drugged out of his mind had left under a 10-year-old boy's bed a few nights earlier.Last ... More >>

The Game at the Observatory, March 18, 2012

​The GameThe ObservatoryMarch 18, 2012The Game--the man famous for wearing a red bandanna, the man who grew up in Compton as a certified Blood gang member--took over the Observatory last night. But it wasn't like the night that Yelawolf punched a fan in the face and a number of fights broke out. T ... More >>

Easy Rider

[Hey, You!] Sorry you don't have wheels, but please don't like my lift . . .

"Celebrate Gospel" Returns to Disney California Adventure

​ Do you like gospel music? What about Disney California Adventure?Well, if you like both prepare to have your mind blown, because those two worlds are about to collide when "Celebrate Gospel" (an annual celebration of gospel music... duh) makes its way back to the park this Saturday.Lea ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar to Play Charity Concert for Victimized Women

Kendrick Lamar​Kendrick Lamar is a man after our own heart. After penning the honest, yet tragic "Keisha's Song (Her Pain)" song about women caught up in the cycle of prostitution, the Compton rapper follows up with a concert to benefit L.A.'s Downtown Women's Center and Project RISHI.

Five Reasons to You Might Watch to Chris Brown at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Saturday, Despite His Douchebaggery

​Although it may feel like Chris Brown has been on his F.A.M.E. tour for forever and a day, that's really only because it went to Australia and Canada before it even started in the States. The concert series already hit SoCal last Oct. 20, but it's finally coming to a close with its second to last ... More >>

Gordon A. Shanks, Seal Beach City Councilman, Loses the Compton Vote with Hair Salon Massacre Crack

​Seal Beach City Councilman Gordon A. Shanks shanked one, saying at a memorial service for hair salon massacre victims, "These things are not supposed to happen here. Maybe in Compton." Since then, the 76-year-old has acknowledged that his remark was out of place and "not nice." That was not enoug ... More >>

John Singleton Discusses NWA Bio Pic

It's been two years since rapper/actor Ice Cube first announced plans to produce a film recounting his days as a member of gangsta rap group NWA. There's finally some news about the oft-delayed film. Director John Singleton (of Shaft, 2 Fast 2 Furious and the upcoming Taylor Lautner-starring Ab ... More >>

Game On

Rapper Game establishes his place in the hip-hop heirarchy with 'R.E.D. Album'

Joseph Hyungmin Son of Austin Powers Fame and John Rodriguez with the Mole, Mole, Mole Are Toss Ups for Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week

​Our periodical Ugly Police Mugshot of the Week has featured clear winners--if by winners you mean losers--as well as clear winners and a few also-rans. We've also crowned souls who were not that physically unattractive, but their crimes put them over the top with our judges--if by judges you mean ... More >>

Deverick Deshawn "Dog" Mathis of La Habra Accused of Heading Notorious Crips Pot Ring in Compton

​A La Habra man headed a notorious Crips street gang drug ring that sold marijuana across the country and held meetings on the same Compton block where a second Crips operation sold pot and moved prescription drugs to Louisiana, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles.Deverick Desha ... More >>

MTV's 10 Coolest Videos From Michael Jackson to Metallica

​Today is MTV's 30th anniversary (30! OMG), so we thought we'd let loose with a list of some of the cooler/mind bending/watchable videos to grace the venerable network juggernaut's air waves.  Despite all of MTV's shortcomings as a commercial cable network channel, which has blighted our scre ... More >>

Grocery Workers Picket Albertsons HQ in Fullerton

​If you swing by the Albertsons corporate headquarters in Fullerton about seven minutes from now, you might spot your local checker.He or she will not be there to collect his or her paycheck, however. Members of the grocers' union are picketing outside 1421 Manhattan Ave. to coincide with demonstr ... More >>

Paella in Compton on Sunday, May 15

Flickr user pablovenegas​Compton's not the place you think it is anymore. Sure, it's got some of the best barbecue in the area, but it's got an increasing population of Samoans, Filipinos and other Pacific Islanders, and it's the home to this year's picnic of the Casal dels Catalans de Califòrnia ... More >>

OC Collective Names New Strand of Weed After Compton Rapper YG

www.myspace.com/yg400​ Green Aid, a medicinal marijuana collective in Anaheim, recently developed a new strain of weed--"YG OG," named after Compton rapper YG. It's sold exclusively at their location.

TGIF: Agent Orange, Yo La Tengo, T-Pain and Gang of Four

Brian KasnyikAgents have diplomatic immunity?​Friday kicks off the weekend with Agent Orange ripping into things at Friar Tuck's Bar and Grille in Pomona. It may seem odd to have a now-veteran act be our Locals Only focus this week, but Mike Palm has always been about the area he grew up and start ... More >>

Winter Jam 2011

Anaheim Convention Center

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Banks Robbed in Buena Park and FullertonComment by C5INLA: What you are seeing lately is a bunch of hit & run robberies being committed by our gang banging neighbors from Compton and Long Beach.Comment by GWESTLIE: Illegal Aliens and Watts gang members. nuff said.

Edgar Antonio Lucha, the Alleged Nude Burglar of Westminster, is Behind Bars (and Clothed)

​An anxious public can breathe a sigh of relief.Westminster Police say the nude burglar is behind bars.

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

Headline: 2 Arrested in Buena Park Shooting CaseComment by SORTANDDEPORT: Bet they were MEXICAN!!!!!!!!!!Comment by RUFUS1: Now if the PO'lice had killed either of these guys (and they should have...) we would have heard from their mommas (as opposed to "his baby's daddy") that he is good, was going ... More >>

No Fast Times at Obama High for Orange Unified Trustees

​The Orange Unified School District is known for racking up national academic honors, three of its high schools consistently making Newsweek's "1,000 Best Public High Schools in America," and elementary and middle schools there continually scoring above average on standardized tests.The district i ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Crime Time: Move Over, Trendzilla!

The must-have fashion accessory of the season for robbers in Irvine and San Juan Capistrano.It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of Orange County police calls . . . TUESDAY, JUNE 16Forest Firebug is a Pot Farm Exposer to Boot: Seven fires were ignited within a short distance of each other in Trabuco Ca ... More >>

I Ain't Tha One

I work with this girl. I'll call her Mandy. Two days ago, Mandy was telling me some story about a dude she went to Sizzler with. When she told him there was nothing between them, he broke down in the parking lot.Apparently, homeboy didn't have enough paper for Mandy's tastes.My co- ... More >>

Quik's Groove: DJ Quik Live with Orchestra

Play On, Playah

The Game

Shwayze Carries the Fruity-Drink-Soaked Banner for 'Douche Rap'

[Aural Reports] Big Oso of Santa Ana Chicano-Rap Label Strongarm Ent. Seeks to Bust Stereotypes

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Total Idiot

Fatal Femmes! In the July 30 issue of Time, Sean Gregory reports on the Fatal Femmes Fighting Championship for all-female mixed-martial arts caged combat. Need I say more? Well, okay. In an enjoyable read based on the event in a Compton casino earlier this month, Gregory describes the brutality and ... More >>

Not Commie Girl

Dangerous Minds: An exclusive interview with Long Beach about Freedom Writers, Joseph Campbell, and the cult of celebrity

Art Chrisman

The septuagenarian hot rodder shares some of his favorite things

Open, Sesame

10. Strange nights and days of the Ali Baba Motel

OC: We're Number ... nevermind

According to Money Magazine, Orange County is one of the best places in the country to live, if you happen to be, say, sheetrock or a nice kitchen countertop. Because if you are, then you could be part of some of the most expensive homes in the country. But if you're not building material, then Mone ... More >>

Oh, Dread

Nightlife and more: June 30-July 7

This Week In Nightlife

JUNE 2 THRU JUNE 9:
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This Case Doesn't Gyve

An open letter to DA Tony Rackauckas

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Material Hurl

21 reasons Madonna blows

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La Malandrina

How Jenni Rivera changed Mexican culture forever

RAT!

I Know Where You Lived Last Summer

Woodbridge is still a scary place

Memphis Style

Jay Bees offers real barbecue and Jenny Jones on the picture box

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