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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
$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 >>
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 >>
Last week, I reported that the Orange County Register is in secret talks with Dean Singleton, owner of the Denver-based MediaNews Inc. and an all-around Darth Vader of daily news--he bought and all but killed the Long Beach Press Telegram, just as one example--to share content and lay off writers. I ... More >>
Last week, I reported that the Orange County Register is in secret talks with Dean Singleton, owner of the Denver-based MediaNews Inc. and an all-around Darth Vader of daily news--he bought and all but killed the Long Beach Press Telegram, just as one example--to share content and lay off writers. I ... More >>
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Amanda Bynes updates another classic—but why?
Amanda Bynes updates another classic—but why?
Art Institute professor brings Star Wars to the classroom
Art Institute professor brings Star Wars to the classroom
The life after death of once-beloved characters
As movies grow lamer, so do their posters
Revenge of the Sith isn't the only movie this summer. No, really!
Revenge of the Sith isn't the only movie this summer. No, really!
Revenge of the Sith isn't the only movie this summer. No, really!
Star Wars: Attack of the Geeks
Star Wars: Attack of the Geeks
Zapp, the Wailers gid grooves deeper than the evil in Trent Lotts soul
An OC Weekly Time Line
Re-creating parodies of parodies
Re-creating parodies of parodies
Honda Center
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
williams-sonoma.comMay the forks be with you.​Hey look, another thing you didn't know existed but that you totally need!
[Trendzilla] Angela Rossi takes grandma chic to a galaxy far, far away
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 >>
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 >>
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 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
​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 >>
​To say that Disneyland's old Star Tours ride (which originally opened in the park in 1987) was a little dated doesn't even begin to do it justice. Sure, some of the park's attractions are brought back with an admitted sense of nostalgia attached to them. Occasionally, enough time has passed for t ... More >>
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 >>
​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 >>
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why are cholos always wearing white shirts, shoes and socks?
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[Trendzilla] The UC Irvine grad plays with Star Wars icons in his artwork to Internet acclaim
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 >>
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 >>
​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 >>
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