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Disney to No Longer Seek to Trademark "Dia de los Muertos" [UPDATE]

UPDATE, 6 P.M.: After a flurry of online outrage, Disney has decided to no longer pursue a trademark on "Dia de los Muertos." See Also: *Lawsuit: Disneyland Employee Dressed as White Rabbit Refused to Hug Black Child *Disneyland and AIDS Charity Sued for Darth Vader Swinging at Bird But Hitting Lad ... More >>

Donna/Madonna

Chance Theater

Saturday Morning Pancakes—Hooray!

[Trendzilla] Jamie Clinard makes cute clothing with witty slogans

5 Things You Need For The Ultimate Star Wars Barbecue

Hosting a summer barbecue? Sweet. Hosting a Star Wars-themed summer barbecue? What time should we show up?    Here's are five essentials for the ultimate party. May the forks be with you. 

Disneyland and AIDS Charity Sued for Darth Vader Swinging at Angry Bird But Hitting Lady

​A woman is suing Disneyland and the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County in Superior Court because she claims her back was injured by a Disney employee dressed as Darth Vader and doing battle with a bird during the 2011 AIDS Walk Orange County at the Anaheim resort. If the incident had happe ... More >>

Gustavo Named One of Orange County's Most Interesting People--by the Orange County Register?!

​The petty wars between the Orange County Register and us Weeklings are legendary. Right now, my big thing is to go on stories that we broke but that the Reg steals from us without attribution and provide a link to our original story--how adult of me.But every once in a while, OC's daily can commi ... More >>

Six Star Wars-Themed Jack O'Lanterns

Flickr user buechners​A couple of triangles and a mouth serrated with teeth not good enough for you? Anxious to show off your skills with a knife and a grapefruit spoon? Some would-be George Lucases with a great deal of patience have rendered America's favorite science fiction film series in orang ... More >>

Tacos Y Carnitas Sahuayo: Follow Your Nose

ProfessorSalt.comThe nose have it​Pretty much every Mexican restaurant that caters to Mexicans sells pozole and menudo as specials on Saturday and Sunday. Because every restaurant does, there's usually nothing special about it. At the two-month-old Tacos & Carnitas Sahuayo in Santa Ana, weeken ... More >>

Rocom Plays With the Sith of Hearts

[Trendzilla] The UC Irvine grad plays with Star Wars icons in his artwork to Internet acclaim

Steampunk: History Beyond Imagination

Museo

How Much of a Pendejo Is Gustavo?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why are cholos always wearing white shirts, shoes and socks?

Spaceballs

Regency South Coast Village

Every Nerdy Reference in Goldfish's "We Come Together" Music Video

​Clearly inspired by classic gaming, artist Mike Scott animated the music video for the South African band Goldfish's song, "We Come Together." The video is saturated from beginning to end with video game and nerdy pop-culture references, and it's difficult to find a frame of animation that doesn' ... More >>

Disneyland's Star Tours Commercial and Still Image Released

​Disneyland's relaunch of Star Tours is now just days away (the ride officially opens to the public next Friday, June 3), but George Lucas himself was at Disney World's Hollywood Studios last week for the ride's ribbon-cutting ceremony in Florida.Will Lucas be around for the Disneyland relaunc ... More >>

May the Fourth Be With You: Freddie Mercury, Cee Lo Green, Anthrax's Charlie Benante, Thrice, Snoop Dogg and Michael Jackson Celebrate Star Wars Day, Too!

​Happy Star Wars day to you too! Here are some musicians who've geeked out to the greatest movie of all time.  1. Freddie Mercury In this photo, he sits on Darth Vader's shoulders during Queen's tour to promote their album The Game. In his 1978 Queen song, 'Bicycle Race,' he sang, "I don' ... More >>

The Slightly Frightening World of Star Wars-Related Foods

Flickr user megpi​Star Wars cupcakes? Oh, please. The Internet is much more creative than that. So powerful is the draw of the Force that nerds the world over are drawn to make a universe of Star Wars-related foods. Some of them are a little more . . . hmm . . . artisanal than others, but when you ... More >>

Someone (or Some Thing) Looks Down on the Angels

Photos by Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​When Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt went out to the mound to calm down his struggling starter Hiroki Kuroda in the third inning Tuesday night, the theme that accompanies Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies filled Angels Stadium.But those sitting behi ... More >>

Mini Darth Vader in Super Bowl Commercial Is From OC

​The Force is from OC.  The kid under the Darth Vader helmet in one of this year's most talked-about Super Bowl commercials is 6-year-old actor Max Page of San Clemente. He's become famous for starring as the pint-sized Star Wars villain in an ad for the 2012 Volkswagen Pa ... More >>

Six Best 'Imperial March' Covers in Memory of 'Empire Strikes Back' Director Irvin Kershner

www.towerofyouth.org​Rest in peace, Irvin Kershner. The Empire Strikes Back director died today at age 87 of lung cancer. As a tribute to the man who mandated that Hans Solo reply "I know" to Princess Leia's "I love you," we present the best versions of the most recognizable score from Empire Stri ... More >>

The Ho-Hum Bandit Strikes Again! (Yawn)

Courtesy of Laguna Beach Police Department ​The so-called "Ho-Hum Bandit" has had a busy weekend of ripping off Orange County banks. Friday, he robbed a CitiBank branch in Newport Beach after hitting up the same location less than a month earlier. On Saturday, he was right back to work revisiting ... More >>

What You Missed: Comic-Con International, the Devil's Playground Burlesque, Rage Against the Machine, the Offspring

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyMeow.​Heeeey. What'd you miss this weekend? We had a good one, with some of us down in San Diego for the 2010 Comic-Con International. We attended some panels, saw some celebrities, went to some parties, sure... but the best event of the weekend? The Devil's Playgroun ... More >>

May the Porcelain Be With You

[Trendzilla] Angela Rossi takes grandma chic to a galaxy far, far away

Williams-Sonoma Offering Star Wars Pancake Molds, Cookie Cutters

williams-sonoma.comMay the forks be with you.​Hey look, another thing you didn't know existed but that you totally need!

Star Tours to Close Early For Renovations

2009 © Lucasfilm Ltd. and Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.​As we announced in September, Disney had plans to shut down Star Tours in Disneyland to make improvements--and updates--to the dated ride.But Disney announced today that the ride will close July 27 for almost a year. Origina ... More >>

Our Shortlist of Superintendents for Capistrano Unified

Illustration by Evan YarboroughFormer CUSD Supt. Woodrow Carter, presumably resting in retirement.​The beleaguered Capistrano Unified School District has been through about, oh, 732 different superintendents in the past, say, four years. Following the firing of facial-loving supe Woodrow Carter la ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Adidas x 'Star Wars': A Great Team, They Make

Republican Assemblyman Republicans Are Targeting for Recall Blames Orange County Republicans, Newport Beach Insiders

Local Republicans are gunning for Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia). Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), who has been targeted for a recall election because he voted for a state budget that included billions of dollars in new taxes, swung back at his opponents today, b ... More >>

Star Wars: In Concert

Honda Center

Star Wars

Hibbleton Galley

Crystal Cathedral's 'Glory of Christmas' Delivers Baby Jesus, Flying Angels and Camel Poop

[Game On] A Bit Force-ed: Lightsabers and Tits Don't Quite Hide 'Soul Calibur IV''s Lack of Ideas

Was Phuc Van Tran Sane When He Put On a Darth Vader Mask and Shot a Man?

Schroeder Law Enforcement Empire At Stake Today

Mike Schroeder will jump out of bed this morning in Corona del Mar, neatly hang his Darth Vader pajamas in the closet, shower, kneel at his USC football altar and don an expensive, natty suit befitting Orange County’s leading Republican strategist-slash-chiropractic insurance company king. It’ ... More >>

Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids

$50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But â ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Darth Vader Chases Janet Nguyen

Snow Job

Amanda Bynes updates another classic—but why?

LAFF 2007: Lost Girls and Mighty Black Men

One of the ideas the festival is heavily pushing this year is that for every movie you attend that you planned on seeing, you should go to another one you don’t know anything about, or might not be inclined to go to normally. I tend to do this sometimes when I attend something simply because itâ ... More >>

Use the Force

Art Institute professor brings Star Wars to the classroom

Transformers: Less Than Meets the Need

This past Saturday was the official release date for Transformers movie toys, and of the three toy-inspired movies coming out this summer (Bratz and Care Bears: Oopsy Does It being the other two), this was clearly the one with the must-have merchandise. Though the giant morphing robots in the movie ... More >>

Sometimes Dead Is Better

The life after death of once-beloved characters

Attack of the Big Head Floating in the Sky

As movies grow lamer, so do their posters

Movies That Aren't Star Wars

Revenge of the Sith isn't the only movie this summer. No, really!

Straight Talk From the White House

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The Fandom Menace

Star Wars: Attack of the Geeks

Rumblefished!

Look at Those . . . Ow!

One Very Funky Week

Zapp, the Wailers gid grooves deeper than the evil in Trent Lotts soul

ALIEN ABDUCTIONS

Re-creating parodies of parodies