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Irvine Improv

Top Five Movie Soundtracks Made By Handpicked Rockstars

When a film is made, part of the main process of getting the soundtrack together is finding the right musician's to play for the album. Sometimes it's a single song or it is an entire soundtrack. These top five albums made for a movie by handpicked musicians have been, for the most part, nominated ... More >>

Apartment in Athens, Nazi Drama from Italy, is Big Winner of Newport Beach Film Fest Awards

Wait, there's more: And the Other Newport Beach Film Festival Awards Go To . . .Apartment in Athens was the big winner of jury awards at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival, which officials say was attended by about 52,000 patrons between April 27-May 3, about the same as last year. Weekly picks H2 ... More >>

Boogie Nights

Regency South Coast Village

Four Best Madonna Feuds--Ever!

​ On Sunday, Madonna, the aging goddess of pop music (okay, we kid) will be embarking to where many of her younger counterparts have already performed: the Super Bowl Half-Time Show. The 53-year-old has made no qualms about being nervous about the mega show, telling Jay Leno that it's "the most ... More >>

Nanette Packard: Ready for Her Close-Up?

[Moxley Confidential] The criminal defendant hopes to convince a jury she's a greedy slut—but not a murderer

The Artist Adds 1st Ever OC Film Society Best Picture Award to New York Film Critics Honor

​The Orange County Film Society screening of the sorta-silent, black-and-white, buzz-deserving The Artist Monday night drew a packed audience to the historic Lido in Newport Beach, insider stories from executive producer Richard Middleton and supporting actors James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Mille ... More >>

Happy Birthday Madonna; RIP Elvis: Top Five Ways the Icons Are Similar

​You know it's a special day when the world celebrates not one, but two members of music royalty--one for his inspiring and everlasting contribution to rock & roll, and another for her long (and persisting) career in pop. We count down the similarities between Elvis Presley, the King and Madon ... More >>

Top Five Rappers in Movies

​Making it big on the big screen is rough. Judging by the forgettable attempts by the cast of Friends--sans Jennifer Aniston, whose most memorable roles involve playing some semi-neurotic version of herself in intellectually-gutted rom coms--transitioning to movies isn't made any easier through su ... More >>

How 'Glee' and Lady Gaga are Making Losers Cool

​Remember your first day as a freshman in high school? The unbearable weight of what seemed like countless eyes on you like a ton of fleshy bricks (ew)? That helpless feeling almost always accompanied by an urgent rush to the nearest restroom, where you strategically planned your day to avoid unc ... More >>

Wanted: Photographic Proof of Trent Reznor's Baby

​Mid-last year, all of the Internet was atwitter when it was announced that Trent Reznor and his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, were having a baby. Watching Reznor win an Oscar for the soundtrack of The Social Network and catching a glimpse of Mrs. Reznor at the awards show reminded us that 1) News outl ... More >>

Gwen Stefani: The New Face of L'Oreal

​Hey, remember when Gwen Stefani was famous for making music? The No Doubt front woman has been known more for her non-singing/songwriting exploits in the past few years. Her fashion label, Love Angel Music Baby, is an international powerhouse, and she is about to extend her manicured reach even f ... More >>

Golden Globe Musical Winners

Diane Warren​Ahhh . . . awards season is upon us. The Golden Globes, everyone's favorite Hollywood drunk self-celebration, happened in Beverly Hills last night, and the music side of film received its share of accolades. The two categories were Best Original Song, Motion Picture and Best Original ... More >>

Trent Reznor Snags Golden Globe Nomination for 'Social Network' OST

​Seems like Trent Reznor is already prepared to go Hollywood, way before his sci fi cable TV show gets airtime. According to Billboard, Reznor and collaborator Atticus Ross were nominated for Best Original Score at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards for The Social Network soundtrack. The ceremony ... More >>

Mira Sorvino, Smart as She is Talented, to Receive Anaheim International Film Fest Honor

​The Anaheim International Film Festival, which rolls through Sunday, previously announced that besides awards for entered films, special honors will be presented at Saturday night's black-tie gala to director Jonathan Lynn, actor Hector Elizondo and philanthropists Bruno Serato and Larry and Kris ... More >>

Identical Social Security Cheater Cousins?

​From the Wow, That's Really Random File comes word that the cast of the 1963-66 ABC sitcom The Patty Duke Show is reuniting today so Commissioner of Social Security Michael J. Astrue can discuss his federal agency's campaign "to let America's nearly 80 million baby boomers know about Social Secur ... More >>

An Interview With Mario Melendez of Rasta Taco

​As we wait to see what happens with the still-in-development Rasta Taco at The Camp, we went to the source, owner Mario Melendez, to get the scoop him what's really going on. While we were at it, we asked him a few other questions, specifically about what he thinks about this food truck fervo ... More >>

Have You Seen Jesse James' Pit Bull Cinnabon?

WestCoastChoppers.comJesse James' white pit bull Cinnabon is missing!​Ah, the up and down life of Jesse James. One minute, the ink- and motor-oil-stained artiste is being thanked by his Golden Globe-clutching wife Sandra Bullock live on national television. The next, the Sunset Beach resident is o ... More >>

Q&A: Adam Carolla Says He'll Take Conan O'Brien's 'Raw Deal'

Adam Carolla has made a career of riffing on everything from pressing social issues to campus blow job etiquette with just the right mix of street smarts, snark and locker room charm. A generation of young men (and probably even some women) learned about sex, partying and having a blast pissing peop ... More >>

Newport Beach Restaurant Week Starts Friday: Discounts Abound

​As you watch the Golden Globes tonight, you'll recognize that the first half of the year is awards season in Hollywood. But in O.C., it seems to be restaurant week season. OC Restaurant Week is starting at the end of February, but Newport Beach has its own restaurant week which rolls in this ... More >>

"The White Ribbon," Sea Tales Series, "The World We Want" Fill Local Film Screens

A pre-World War I Protestant northern German village of the damned.​When it comes to filmmakers who create pictures forever burned into your head after seeing them, Michael Haneke rivals Stanley Kubrick. I can't remember all the movies I've seen and immediately forgotten since first viewing 1997's ... More >>

"The Drummer" and "The Young Victoria" Square Off in Competing Screenings

"The Drummer." Kick ass!​Two foreign films that received OK notices roll tonight as the film societies of Orange County and Laguna Beach present competing screenings. Laguna Beach Film Society shows 2007's The Drummer, a Hong Kong by way of Taiwan production that features Jackie Chan's son Jaycee ... More >>

Award-Winning Ad Makers Want to Turn Red County Blue

Photo courtesy of DMedia Inc.Eugene HedlundOrange County is, of course, screaming with Republican campaign consultants but a couple youngish guys from here are making their mark creating campaign ads for Democrats--while clinging to the far loftier goals of helping to overturn Prop. 8 and turn this ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Aliens,' 'Casablanca,' 'Happy Go Lucky,' More

Bruce Springsteen Returns to SoCal, Releases an Album

For an older fella, Bruce Springsteen has been keeping busy lately. His new album, Working on a Dream, is out today, he won a Golden Globe a couple weeks ago for the title track of "The Wrestler" (an excellent tune which was oddly snubbed at the Oscar noms), and he's playing at the Super Bowl on Sun ... More >>

Royal Khyber and Savannah's Creative Ways To Get Your Business Back

I've got to hand it to O.C. restauranteurs: They've got some good ideas in their heads. With the bad economy eating away at their business, some of them have devised creative ways to draw attention to themselves, and hopefully, get people in the door.  Take Royal Khyber. They're offering a $2 ... More >>

Rumored/Confirmed Coachella Artists Start to Trickle In

LAist has about 20 artists they say are "confirmed" for Coachella (coming up soon! April 17-19!), and many more that are "rumored"--and given that just about every act of note is "rumored" for Coachella at this point in the year, a classification that's about as meaningful as last night's Golden Glo ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Bad Santa,' 'Bambi,' 'The Goonies,' More

Love Spell

Bell, Book and Candle

Ain't Dead Yet

OC Children's Book Festival

To Do This Weekend 8/15-8/17

Air Supply, Friday 8:30 p.m. The Power of Love. The Grove of Anaheim 2200 E. Katella Ave. Anaheim, CA 92806 714-712-2750 '80s DJ, Saturday 10 p.m. Bust out the leg warmers The Royal Hawaiian 331 N. Coast Hwy. Laguna Beach, CA 92651 949-494-8001 Bernadette Peters with Orchestra, Saturday 8 p.m. ... More >>

The Friendliest Diva

Bernadette Peters

Back Since November

Wyclef Jean

Old World Charm

Ken Davitian makes laughter for benefit grateful moviegoers of America

(Jan) Hammer Time!

OnDVD: Cocaine Cowboys

Native Belles

California Song Girls

The Art of Bodily Horror

A History of Violence director David Cronenberg talks about history and violence

The Year in Diary of a Mad County

Worst. Year. Ever!

Diary of a Mad County

Record of the year?

Diary of a Mad County

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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

Southern-Fried Trash

Sordid Lives is John Waters Lite

Smells Like Spleen Spirit

Grabbing a Tiger by the Tale

Why America almost loves Crouching Tiger

Megaperplexed

O art, where art thou?

Star Crossed

Celebrity-bashing thrives, gets its own search engine