Halloween

Top Five Classic "30 Rock" Musical Moments

Last night the NBC Peacock plucked one of its brightest feathers as Thursday night comedy staple "30 Rock" aired its final episode. Since 2006, the show's cycled in some of the decade's most memorable music cameos and memorable original songs. With the show's theme and most of its original scores co ... More >>

5 Awesome Food-Themed Halloween Group Costumes

Halloween is upon us. Being food bloggers, we're big fans of food-themed costumes. (Though please, if you go as Sriracha, aim for cute Sriracha rather than slutty Sriracha, mmm kay?) If you've got a group of food-loving friends, the results can be even more amazing. Here are five Halloween food ... More >>

Tiger Army's October Flame V- The Fox Theatre Pomona- October 27, 2012

Yet another year of October Flame has come and gone, and it is something that shouldn't have been missed as Tiger Army kicked off pre-Halloween performance at the Fox Theatre in Pomona. Despite being used to visiting the Grove for this kind of thing (they've had it there pretty much every year ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in O.C. This Week: Markus Schulz, Waka Flocka Flame

Monday, October 29Skeleton WitchSlidebar Hailing from Ohio, Skeletonwitch rocks a technical brand of schreechy metal. Be sure to check out their video for "Bringers of Death," which blends images of furries with Orwelian commentary and a zombie apolcalypse straight out of the film Easy Rider. -- Br ... More >>

Nick 13 Shares His Top Five Halloween Songs and Movies (In His Own Words)

Everyone has Halloween favorites that give them that appropriately creepy feeling for this time of year. Nick 13 is no different then us and before he goes on stage to deliver psychobilly burst of October Flame, one of our favorite traditions, he has his favorite songs and movies that get him i ... More >>

BLOK to Headline an Extra-Spooky Edition of Plugged Into Local at Alex's Bar, Oct. 24

We don't give a fuck that it's happening a week before Halloween, Plugged Into Local can and will scare the shit out of you this month. October's installment of our lil' monthly concert series returns with three bands who trade in bone-cracking agression, blood-curdling screams, and three signature ... More >>

Knott's Scary Farm Halloween Haunt's 40 Years of Fear

Buena Park's after-hours attraction can still scare your pants off

Nabisco Introduces Candy Corn-Flavored Oreos

Candy corn, the worst Halloween candy of all of ever, continues to be a thing. People seem to love eating what to me tastes like Peeps' poop-nuggets because according to the National Confectioner's Association, nearly 20 million pounds of the stuff is sold each year. 

On the Line: Mike Dimmitt of Garlic Scapes, Part Two

MIke Dimmitt may appear relaxed on the outside, but his mind is going a mile a minute. Whether reading or spending time with his kids, he is always doing something to improve his quality of life. You might be surprised to find out what this luxe lonchera owner was working on prior to owning Garlic S ... More >>

On the Line: Dino McDonough of Slater's 50/50, Part Two

​Dino McDonough joined the crew at Slater's 50/50 just over three years ago, shortly after they launched Anaheim Hills. After a first round of indulgent interviewing, we begin to understand the kind of role food plays in his life. Excellent taste in Halloween costumes and a hidden artistry are som ... More >>

The Biggest Music Headlines of 2011

[Mental Notes] The news that kept us talking this year

Five Homemade Holiday Gifts You Can Make Now

Flickr user 29638108@N06​So you want to occupy Wall Street? If you really want to stick it to the corporations this year, give homemade gifts. Buy the things you need to make them from independent businesses and give presents that have your unmistakable stamp on them.Yes, it's just barely past Hal ... More >>

Awesome Halloween Light Show: A Reason to Drive to Riverside Tonight

​If you're looking for something epic to do on this Halloween Monday, there's one final chance to see that insane homemade light show that's been all over the Internet. In person.  You may have read the story and the logistics. A dad named Kevin Judd, aka KJ92508, started tricking o ... More >>

Six Must-Sees at Long Beach Comic & Horror Con This Weekend

Keith May/OC WeeklyFor more pictures from last year's Comic Con, click here!​For the first time in its three years of being held over Halloween weekend, the Long Beach Comic Con is officially dubs itself Horror Con as well. While the main draw is still, of course, comics, there's a film fest, a ma ... More >>

The Damned Are Back

Goth protopunkers revel in the holiday that keeps them relevant annually

Dead Man's Party

Galaxy Concert Theater

Zombie Walk

Downtown Long Beach

Alice in Cooperland

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Murder Ballads are Back, and More Sinister Than Ever

​Last October, Daiana Feuer of the New L.A Folk Festival put together a unique Halloween event at the Echoplex to celebrate the "dark side of folk." Murder Ballads was a monstro event, with 14 acts each putting their spin on death via the legends of Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Henry, Wil ... More >>

Chipotle Produces Film for Fundraises, Enlists Karen O to Sing a Cover for Star Wattage

Beth Stirnamann/OC Weekly​Chipotle is promoting a fundraiser this Halloween to benefit the Foundation and Farm Aid, and to do it, they produced a short film titled "Abandoned" about the hardships American farmers face. They enlisted Yeah Yeah Yeahs' singer Karen O to do a remake of "Mammas Don't L ... More >>

The Best of Riley's 3hree Things: He's BACK!

​Last January, Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice and author of the snarky, often hilarious and mostly thoughtful column Riley's 3hree Things, took a hiatus due to family matters. On Tuesday next week, he'll finally be back to give us more of hi ... More >>

A Not-So-Sweet Solicitation for the Troops

[Hey, You!] Keep your jingoism out of my Halloween pumpkin!

Pumpkin Launch

Titan Stadium

Free Ticket Tuesday Thursday: Misfits at the Galaxy this Weekend!

The iconic skull​So what if it's two weeks after Halloween, Glenn Danzig will never play with them again and Jerry Only is the original member lefti in the Misfits? It's still going to be a monumental weekend of horror punk--and when we say monumental, we mean it, since the boys are playing both S ... More >>

Orange Bits: Local Natives, Tiger Army and the Director of Black Keys' Music Video,

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Chris Marrs Piliero talks to the Register, Local Natives talk to Interview. Here's the local music news we didn't cover this week.

Gettin' Made: Last Day to Enter Craft Magazine Halloween Contest

If you spent hours on creating something truly amazing for Halloween, make the most of it! Today's the last day to share your creation for a chance and fabulous prizes in Craft Magazine's Halloween Contest. Image from Craft Magazine​ After the jump, details on how to enter the contest and ... More >>

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Alex's Bar

Slideshow: Top 10 Unique Food-Themed Halloween Costumes

Flickr user MacksOneHot sauce mascots, Max Stromberger and Kelley Keyes. ​We've combed through Flickr to bring you the top 10 most unique food-themed Halloween costumes we could find! From a pup in a cannoli to hot sauce galore, click through this slideshow of our top picks.

This Week in Food

Photo provided by Chronicle Books​ Learn how to make skull-shaped cake pops just in time for Halloween and read up on more of what you missed this week in Stick a Fork In It after the jump!

Will You Be at Lucha VaVOOM?

Justin Shady​A few months ago, I had five epiphanies at Lucha VaVoom. What it is, basically, is a burlesque/wrestling/comedy show featuring colorful costumes worn by character wrestlers (such as Dirty Sanchez) and commentary by comedians such as Dana Gould and Tom Kenny (Jack Black had sat in once ... More >>

Rob Schneider! Makin' Copies! At the Brea Improv!

The Robster!​Rob Schneider...the man, the myth, the stand-up legend? Okay, maybe that's overstating the case. Still, between "The Richmeister" from SNL, Deuce Bigalow, and the guy who says, "You can do it!" in The Waterboy, Schneider has carved out an odd little niche for himself in our comedy con ... More >>

What You Missed: Haute Dog Howl'oween, Senior Surf Comp, Halos 'n Horns, Rob Zombie, Tiger Army

Keith MayRuh roh.​And just like that, the greatest holiday of the year is alllll over. So what'd you do? We had another action-packed weekend, of course, with our first stop at Long Beach's adorable annual tradition, the Haute Dog Howl'oween Parade and Pet Adoption Fair. Dogs? Way cuter than babie ... More >>

Last Night: Rob Zombie at the Grove of Anaheim

Andrew YoussefLive at the Grove of Anaheim.​Last Night: Rob Zombie at the Grove of Anaheim (11/01/09) Better Than: believing that Halloween is really over. Everyday probably is Halloween according to Rob Zombie. If it wasn't for his ghoulish live show, the fact that he has rebooted the Halloween ... More >>

This Weekend: Alex's Bar is the Place to Be

​Happy Halloween folks in Intranets land! We all know this is by far the best time of year and you know who agrees? Alex's Bar. The famed Long Beach venue has two shows this weekend that will absolutely rule.Tonight is the Night Marchers. Fronted by former Rocket from the Crypt singer/guitarist Jo ... More >>

This Week in Food

Get your lurch on at the first EVER Newport Beach Zombie Pub Crawl. What better way is there to Celebrate Halloween than with a little blood, brains, and a LOT of beer?   Taco Bell management literally dumps on a homeless man they nearly kill.    Dave would think twice about tos ... More >>

Creepy DVD Releases Just in Time for Halloween

Snap Judgment: Halloween 2008

​ It may be old news, but this photo was taken just outside of La Cave in Costa Mesa on Halloween 2008. What do you think? Hee-larious? Too un-PC? Don't care either way?

JK, Here's a Better iPhone App, Just for Illegals!

​Sorry, Orange County nativists. We just linked to a totally nerdy lame iPhone app that shows stimulus money. Zzz. I know. How bout this: an app for illegal immigrants trying to cross the border?It's called iCoyote, and it'll help you locate water, a good city from which to steal jobs and an Ameri ... More >>

Dishney: Insider Says Captain EO Will Be Back

Good news--kind of. Depending on who or what you want to believe, the Weekly has received an inside tip that the 3D space-y alien thriller starring Michael Jackson will indeed be returning to its former home at Tomorrowland just in time for Halloween festivities and that park officials have been ke ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Feathers and Fringe, the Native American Look

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LYT on Poorman's Bikini Beach tonight

Just got a call from our cover boy Jim "Poorman" Trenton -- it seems the Knott's Halloween Haunt episode, referenced in the article, will be airing tonight. During the course of the evening, he cornered me on camera, and apparently some of that footage made the final cut. So check it out, won't yo ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona Free (For Now)

Carona free (for now): Yesterday, Sheriff Mike Carona walked out of the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse with his wife, Debbie, after being cuffed and held in a cell for hours. They'll be back to enter their pleas Monday. Bail was set at $20,000 for each Carona and $10,000 for the sheriff's mistres ... More >>

Busywork, Detroit Bar, October 31, 2007

Muscles from Melbourne: kinda weak. Halloween: It's really more for adults than for kids, isn't it? It astounds me how much effort grownups put into their costumes, simply to have ridiculous amounts of fun getting wasted as they take mini-vacations from their own personae. The overflow gathering ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 10/31 - HALLOWEEN!

TUSTIN HAUNT, @ sunset Free haunted attraction. 13151 Brittany Woods Dr., Tustin www.tustinhaunt.com HAPPY HOUSE, 6pm Halloween event featuring a bounce house, pony rides, a petting zoo, yummy food, etc. Hope International University, 2500 E. Nutwood Ave., Fullerton, (714) 879-3901 ext. 1201 www.hi ... More >>

In case you never Saw them...

If it's Halloween, it must be Saw. So says the maddeningly elliptical trailer for Saw IV, anyway. Now, it isn't considered particularly popular or PC to admit liking these movies -- they tend to be glibly dismissed as "torture porn" by would-be aesthetes who can't be bothered to pay attention -- but ... More >>

Bands We Like: Henry Clay People

It's been a few slow days for blogging 'round here (what could I possibly show you that Brit-Brit already hasn't?) so I let our rockin' intern Miles Clements do a little work while I took a four hour lunch. Let's read what he has to write: There needs to be more bands willing to crank out good ol ... More >>