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When we gave Brooke the option of meeting somewhere besides their much anticipated Sidecar Doughnuts, she requested Noah Blom's ARC at The OC Mix. It was at that moment that we knew (like we have with the previous bakers interviewed) that she had her finger on what's trending. We couldn't turn down ... More >>
Main St., Huntington Beach
This weekend, Insomniac Events hosted their second annual Escape from Wonderland music festival at the Nos Events Center in San Bernadino. The Wonderland parties have become a staple brand for the promoters and are becoming just as popular as Electric Daisy Carnival (their biggest event of the year) ... More >>
Hey kids! What are you doing this weekend? Monster Massive? If you haven't been on the Internet in last 12 hours or so you should probably Google their website and guess again. Last night, the event hosted by rave promoter Go Ventures announced that it had been cancelled.Stop us if you've heard this ... More >>
Election Day is less than two weeks away and mailers are bombarding residents and irritating the shit out of postal carriers who deliver the daily bulk of junk. Predictably, in the wake of Anaheim's summer of social unrest, political action committees are pouring it on with tough on crime, law and o ... More >>
Octoberflame is a tradition that Tiger Army has kept going since the late '00s. Now in its fifth year, this spooky, psychobilly tradition started because they wanted to give the SoCal psychobilly scene the same kind of Halloween spirit that they had in their Berkeley stomping grounds up north. "I li ... More >>
Art Theatre
So Chipotle hasn't had a commercial since that award-winning, and frankly awesomely realized commentary on the factory farm system. Remember that one? Now they have a follow up that, well, is funny, because it has Rob Riggle dressed as Frankenstein for Halloween and doing what Rob Riggle does best: ... More >>
"Trick or treat, bind my feet, whip and flog me in my seat."You may be hearing that this Halloween, if you also live in a neighborhood where grown adults hold out empty pillowcases for candy--and if they are wearing costumes completed by a naughty Huntington Beach company latching onto the Fifty Sha ... More >>
Maverick Theater
Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.If you're a baseball superfan like me, your GeekMeter™ has probably been in the red since Spri ... More >>
Our interview with Bob Brown continues as he calls while I'm en route to the dentist. After verifying his seriousness over some of his responses, I mentioned the tall tales told by his Spudrunners team in part one. Today's segment involves family; and by family I mean his wife, son, father and dog. ... More >>
Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native. About a week and a half ago, my lady and I packed our bags, hopped in my car and took the 10 ... More >>
I'm sick as a dog (a colloquialism that I've never quite understood, because I've never seen a dog with its eyes swollen shut and gallons of snot pouring out of its nose). The amount of garbage coming out of my face holes is alarming, and if what's coming out of my head is any indication of what's g ... More >>
Watch out for 3hree Things (usually) every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native. Because a column that usually runs on Tuesdays should run on a Monday. Because the ... More >>
When you're wandering a mall, hunger isn't your friend. It usually means some average meal to temporarily satiate, which you'll forget about as soon as you dump the tray. So to discover something left of center is a welcome treat, especially when your playground is the Bay Area.Their signage was ... More >>
Once a year, the normal people of the world take the opportunity to dress oddly in public. But in the music industry, there's no real need for Halloween--every day and every award ceremony is the opportunity for a new (and increasingly weird) costume debut. We bet you can guess who tops the ... More >>
[Locals Only] Get to know this crowd-bulldozing, instrument-sharing, surf-rock combo
From Tanaka Farms, wholly wholesomeTo me, pumpkins are so innocuous, so joy- (and seed-) filled that I had never thought of using a pumpkin as a weapon. Oh, sure, the petrified stem cut probably smash a hole through wood, and the average Halloween pumpkin is so damn big that having it fall on you ... More >>
Sanchez: Show that cha-cha!UPDATE: Sorry, folks, but you're going to have to wait until the 2012 election season to see a picture of Loretta wearing a Halloween costume of what was essentially her version of an angel: wearing a see-through nightgown. As you'll notice below, someone left a comment ... More >>
Just down the street from Knott's Scary Farm, something more frightening happened on Halloween.Two females were raped by three young men and a juvenile at Crescent Motel, according to Buena Park police.
Midnight Insanity, the presenters of The Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings in all their toast-tossing, rice-dropping, being-it glory, recently returned to the Art Theatre in Long Beach after a five-year, renovation-induced hiatus. That's renovations to the historic theater, not Midnight Insani ... More >>
[Locals Only] All-Girl band from Irvine want to party
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It's that time of year, folks, when Disney shuts down nearly every attraction you want to ride for touch-ups and refurbishment, and then closes the parks early on top of it.I was just in both parks on Tuesday and it seemed like every attraction in Disneyland was closed (Pirates of the Caribbean, ... More >>
Well, as someone who occasionally gets the ambiguous label of "hipster" thrown at him, I'm not quite sure how I feel about a "national day of recognition" that encourages people to randomly punch members of the hipster fold in the face.Actually, I take that back. I do know how I feel about it: I ... More >>
[Mental Notes] Memorable lines from Brent Amaker, Juan Manuel Torreblanca and Sam James Velde
Some sweet news: Children can trade their buckets and pillowcases full of Halloween candy in for cash . . . and for a good cause.Through Friday, Irvine Children's Dentistry offers a buy-back program where candy is weighed and bought for $1 a pound (up to 5 pounds).
Mary Bell/OC WeeklyWhat'd you miss this weekend? We were all over town for Halloween festivities--the second annual Long Beach Comic Con took place Friday through Sunday; Long Beach Zombie Walk happened Saturday night. Then we paid a visit to Dark Harbor at the Queen Mary and cooed at all the pup ... More >>
Considering nearby Irvine has no shortage of Korean soondubu (soft tofu) restaurants, you might not have noticed that Tustin's lone soft tofu restaurant, HK Tofu & Grill, is now gone, replaced by a Japanese All-You-Can-Eat sushi bar called Kami Sushi. You might even wonder where exactly ... More >>
Need a break from Halloween festivities this weekend? Head over to the OC Fairgrounds, where the Woodworking and D.I.Y. Show will be taking place from Friday through Sunday. Try out some cool tools and learn the latest tricks of the trade at the nation's largest woodworking event. The Woodwork ... More >>
Mary Bell/OC WeeklyKTLA 5 called it "one of the most ghoulish displays in the OC."Plenty of neighborhoods go all out for Christmas--Candy Cane Lane in Torrance, Eagle Hills in Brea--but what about Halloween?Three houses on Buffalo Ave. in Santa Ana have started up a friendly tradition of outdoing ... More >>
The Glass House
Long Beach Comic Con, to be held this Halloween weekend, already has the costume party down--but the fact that there are a ton of exclusives launching this weekend makes it the best place to be to scare and be scared.1. The Walking DeadAMC will launch the TV series The Walking Dead  ... More >>
Lilledeshan BoseWhy yes, Virginia, it is a Tuesday. And we're giving away tickets to the English Beat's show at the House of Blues on Friday and Tiger Army at the Grove of Anaheim on Saturday.Why? Because Dave Wakeling (pictured, left) is still at it, and because Tiger Army is perfor ... More >>
www.antoinedodson.netNow that Antoine Dodson, inadvertent YouTube star, has conquered the BET awards, marketed his likeness as a Halloween costume and bought his family a house so they could move out of the projects, he's conquering Hollywood. Last night, according to WeHo Daily, he launched ... More >>
Bay Theatre
However, I did not see this ghost girl.UPDATED: Includes electronic voice phenomena (EVP) sound clip! The Cellar hosted a paranormal investigation last night, just in time for Halloween, and it turns out the place really is haunted. Well, I'm convinced, anyway. The ghost hunt was led by Eri ... More >>
Keith May/OC WeeklyThe Long Beach Comic-Con probably knew what it was doing when it scheduled to be at the Long Beach Convention Center on Oct. 29 to 31--after all, it's the best excuse to dress up prior to Halloween FOR THREE WHOLE DAYS!It doesn't hurt that there's a plethora of comic book talen ... More >>
The ARTery Gallery at The Lab in Costa Mesa will be having their first ever pop-up shop this month featuring the Long Beach Craft Mafia - join them this Saturday for the opening party! After the jump, details about the reception happening this Saturday night.
Baby carrots are "extreme"? Whodathunkit? But that's the idea that baby carrot farmers are using to market their product...as if they were junk food. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, as the saying goes. And it's rather genius in its tongue-in-cheek kind of way. The website for the $25 million "Eat ' ... More >>
myspace.com/derfscratchDerf Scratch, DOB unknown--2010UPDATED: MIKE WATT REMEMBERS DERF SCRATCH.Frederick Milner, better known as Derf Scratch, bass player for FEAR from 1977-1982, passed away on July 28 after a long battle with an unspecified illness. Scratch was an original, founding member of ... More >>
www.myspace.com/thehenryclaypeopleIf you've been missing The Henry Clay People in your life (hey, they did up and move to LA), prepare to miss them some more this summer. The band is touring with Silversun Pickups and Against Me! (and playing Austin City Limits besides), so you're not going to se ... More >>
The big bowl of leftover Halloween candy is still sitting on your counter, yet there's Christmas decorations every which way you turn. Did we all forget about Thanksgiving? Turkey fused art pendant by Jochris12 Thank goodness for these fab turkey finds--after the jump, some more ta ... More >>
Three and a half weeks ago, we mentioned that Long Beach avant rockers Free Moral Agents (featuring keyboardist Ikey Ownes of the Mars Volta) are going out on the road with El Paso band Zechs Marquise. We all found that they hadn't booked any hometown show dates yet. Excuse ou ... More >>
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