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How Can I Get My Band More Exposure?

By: Jessica Hopper Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She ... More >>

[Dive Dive My Darling] Mother's Tavern and the Oklahoma City Thing

Taylor Hamby/OC Weekly"Stay centered, don't lean too much and hold on," instructs my friend Jessica as we get ready to head out for the evening--solid advice for a night of dive-by drinking. She straddles her 1978 Kawasaki KZ 200 and kicks the ignition a few times as I fiddle with my helmet. I've ne ... More >>

The Big Mistake Bands Are Making With Facebook

By: Jessica HopperAre you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is ... More >>

Long Beach Lunch: Pupuseria Salvadorena

Since Long Beach doesn't have a street food culture where bacon-wrapped hot dogs and al pastor tacos materialize on street corners, farmer's market pupusas have sufficed for me as the closest thing to sidewalk grub I'll get in this town. Always cheap ($2 tops), these  masa pockets of cheesy goo ... More >>

On The Line: Roland Rubalcava Of Rubalcava's, Part One

Meeting Roland Rubalcava for the first time was a bit nerve-wracking. It's not often we're asked to interview someone who's friends with El Jefe. Yet Roland was more unassuming and chill than many of our subjects, despite the constant ebb and flow of regulars filtering through the market. From his s ... More >>

Exene Cervenka Gives a Snooping Smackdown

[Ask Exene] Snooping through your boyfriend's laptop porn is a no-no

Secret Service Whoring Around Dates Back (at least) to Richard Nixon in San Clemente

Google "Barack Obama Nixonian" or just click this link. You'll see several e-pundits love making the Chosen One out to be Orange County favorite disgraced son Richard M. Nixon. Actually, former Nixon Library director John Taylor made that case--in a positive way--days before Obama was inaugurated. T ... More >>

Insert [You Sunk My 'Battleship'] Joke Here

Because every generation needs an 'Armageddon'

The Orange County Register Urges the Public to Not Believe Its Own Eyes

[Moxley Confidential] Bootlicking 101, using the now-infamous Kelly Thomas video

Nameberry Is a Baby Name-Pedia

[Trendzilla] The website that has every possible baby name known to man—even Fitzwilliam

An Interview with Diana Hsue, Queen of "Guess Where?"

​One of our favorite posts here is Guess Where?, where we put up photos of where we eat and ask ustedes to, well, guess where we eat. Doesn't get the most blog hits, but always awesome to see who knows their food and reward folks with small prizes.The great thing about the feature is that all sort ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax

[Web Exclusive!] Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend

Sundance, In Crisis

The 2012 fest was thick with the anxieties of our times

It's Friday, Friday: The Most Viewed Video of 2011

​Well, well, well. Last week we told you that Rebecca Black was 2011's most-searched subject on Google. Today we find out that the video with the most pageviews on YouTube is, of course, Rebecca Black's "Friday." According to the Washington Post, the video garnered more than 180 million views th ... More >>

On the Line: Giovanni Roman of Roman Cucina, Part One

Photo by Meranda Carter​Sitting across from Giovanni Roman outside a coffeehouse along Harbor Boulevard, you wouldn't suspect he cooked for a living--until we brought up the topic of pasta. Our humbled chef talked off the cuff about his brother (and business partner) David, his favorite places to ... More >>

[UPDATED with Victim's Silver Lexus Sought:] David Zickman, OC Homicide No. 59: Found Shot Dead on Dogwood

​UPDATE, DEC. 15, 3:37 P.M.: Homicide investigators have determined that not only is the killer of David Zickman no where to be found, neither is the 2008 Silver Lexus that belonged to the 28-year-old Anaheim resident. The public's help is being sought in finding the four-dour Lexus IS250 with Cal ... More >>

[UPDATED with More Details:] Brenda Romero, OC Homicide No. 58: Shot Dead in the Head

​UPDATE, DEC. 7, 4:33 P.M.: 20-year-old Brenda Romero was walking back home after dropping off food to her boyfriend around 6 p.m. Thursday when she met her end, according to Santa Ana Police.Witnesses saw a a tall man in a hoodie clutching her by the arm and holding a handgun against her as she w ... More >>

Irvine 11 Trial: Students Planned a 'Chicago-Style Disruption,' Emails Reveal

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Trying to show jurors that the Muslim students on trial did not act spontaneously in their disruption of the speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, prosecutors presented a series of emails that were sent by the defendants in the days leading up to the protes ... More >>

Google Buys Zagat

​Two years ago, Google tried to plunk down $500 million for a little site called Yelp. But that didn't pan out; the deal fell apart. Then it launched a competing site called Places and hoped that it would get the same amount of free, user-generated content that Yelp, for better or for worse, seems ... More >>

OCTA Promotes 'Dump The Pump' Week, Gives Free Breakfast Tomorrow to Those Who (Gasp!) Leave Their Cars At Home

​More essential than personal trainers and trust funds in this county are our beloved cars. Bus passes, Google's walking directions, Metrolink--these funny words, what do they mean?   And yet the folks at Orange County Transportation Authority (bless their hearts) are taking on the noble ... More >>

Controversy Over Smartphone Apps That List DUI Checkpoints

The Checkpointer iPhone App ​Accidentally drank too many brewskies and now need to bypass the cops on the dangerous drive home?   There's an app for that. Several of them, actually, including the $4.99 iPhone "Checkpointer" by Baron Zweber, which lists DUI checkpoints in OC. According to ... More >>

Cal State Long Beach Students Scissor Each Other in Protest Over Censorship of Play

​California State University Long Beach students were so worked up over the school refusing to promote the play Night of the Tribades that they held a special kind of protest in front of Brotman Hall last Wednesday.

Arcade Fire Toys with Your Emotions with Interactive 'We Used to Wait' Video

​Arcade Fire's video for "We Used to Wait" integrates your childhood stomping grounds into their visuals and personalizes your experience.It's hard not to feel manipulated and slightly thrilled (it actually intensifies the usual feeling you get when listening to an Arcade Fire song) when you see v ... More >>

Student Discounts and Beyond, for Clothes and More

[Trendzilla] Google, others can be your price-cutting pal

We've Got an App for That

Free Ticket Tuesdays: Win A Pair of Tickets to Hootenanny!

​This week, we're giving away a pair of tickets to the 2010 Hootenanny at Oak Canyon Ranch this Saturday...but we're going to make you work for it.

Ralph Hinkley Syndrome Offers Free Album Downloads on Memorial Day

Ralph Hinkley Syndrome, self-titled​On today's sunny celebration of the men and women who fought and died for American freedom, local band Ralph Hinkley Syndrome attempt to repay the troops the best way they know how: by giving them some free music.

Last Night: The Antlers, Phantogram at Detroit Bar

Spencer Kornhaber / OC WeeklyThe Antlers' Peter Silberman, fittingly blurry.​The Hype: The trembling noise and the trembling vocals on last year's Hospice earned the Antlers major buzz as mortality-and-morality-obsessed decedents of, say, Arcade Fire and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. And ... More >>

A Niño Named Sue?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, bullying is not just a Mexican thing

Kobe Bryant, at Home and on the Heli-Pad

Photo by Andrew YoussefTwo Orange County icons thrill Disneyland guests last June.​J. R. Moehringer is a former Times Orange County sportswriter and the ghostwriter of Andre Agassi's controversial autobiography Open. Moehringer profiles Kobe Bryant in the March issue of GQ. Actually, it's more lik ... More >>

[Hole in the Wall] Middle Eastern Pizza at Forn Al Hara in Anaheim

Five Songs About Technology Gone Horribly Awry

Flickr user NMFinFan​Between the "sexting" phenomenon and underage kids letting the world know via tweet what public place they had sex at last night, we're not sure if we're getting old and grumpy or the rest of you are just getting dumber and dumber. We're going to opt for the latter. And we're ... More >>

Haters Find Time to Bash Gays, Muslims on Pervert Phil Garrido's Website

The world has wretched in collective disgust at the crimes of Antioch resident Philip Garrido, who kidnapped former Orange County resident Jaycee Lee Dugard more than a decade ago when she was a prepubescent and kept her in a secret backyard compound along with her two daughters. The Orange County R ... More >>

Easy Writer Part 2: Gettin' Greasy

​Once you decide on the bike that suits you best, make sure it's in good mechanical shape by either going through it yourself if you're into working with your hands, or take it to a reputable motorcycle shop in the area.http://orangecounty.citysearch.com/listings/laguna-hills/motorcycles/56117_128 ... More >>

Bravo! Top Chef Season Six Shuts Out OC Stars

The new lineup for Bravo's hit show--which kicks off on August 26 and is filmed in Vegas--has just been announced, and there's not a single SoCal (let alone OC) chef on the list. UPDATE: OK, there's Michael Voltaggio, although, weirdly, Bravo's own press info has him cooking both in LA and in Pa ... More >>

Cardinal Mahony's Preferred Pedo-Priest Attorney Representing Latest OC Pedo-Priest

In recently covering the legal maneuverings of pedo-priest Denis Lyons, the name of his attorney kept bugging me. Donald Steier...where had I heard that name before? Gracias to the magic of Google, I quickly found out who he was: the defense attorney du jour for pedo-priests in Southern California. ... More >>

TONIGHT: Second Week of OC Music Awards Showcases at Chain Reaction

The OC Music Awards showcases are at Chain Reaction in Anaheim tonight for a second and final week--they move to eVocal in Costa Mesa for couple Tuesdays starting next week. Playing tonight? Those guys up there, who you have probably already figured out are called The Sequence. They have a pretty qu ... More >>

Telcom Critics Could Have Issues With Obama Pick

A telecommunications executive today resigned from his director's seat at Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies to work at the White House as Barack Obama's director of presidential personnel.Obama can thus expect heavy scrutiny from net-neutrality advocates fearful of Donald H. Gips' closeness ... More >>

The return of Wonderlove!

Wonderlove, one of a bunch of great OC bands that coulda-shoulda-woulda made it huge back when I was the Weekly's Music Editor---they broke up 'round about 2003; I swear it wasn't my fault---have announced that they're getting back together for a November 14 show at Lake Forest's much-beloved Gypsy ... More >>

[Trendzilla] You Sexy Mothertuckers!

¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzu

To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was "effective the feast day o ... More >>

[Locals Only] Review of Map's Regrets, Silhouettes, and Distractions

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"I will not love you long time"

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Not Just Falafels

Just the Right Amount of Stoned

Or, how you too can learn to love musicals

Broke Is Better

Amber Foxx and Tom Almanzar

Fakes On a Plane

Conspiracy buffs craft their own online WTC movies

AIDS 'n' Pagans

This Sunday (a day named to honor Egyptian sun god Ra), Orange County pagans, witches, warlocks (maybe Moorlachs?) and other so-called heathens are using their mystic powers to fight the AIDS. That's right, I said pagans. Monotheistic religions are so passe. AIDS was first noticed in America when, i ... More >>

A Clockwork Orange

Goodnight, Brea!

Saying goodbye to Bar 330s Totally 80sAnd Hello