Hawaii

On The Line: Gregory Moro Of Nieuport 17, Part Two

"The food's been the same way for 40 years. Our regulars are 80 years old, and have been coming here for 40 years. So now we're really trying to aim for the next demographic, 30 to 60, and bring that next generation of regulars back here." Greg Moro's first job around food was at Claro's Italian Ma ... More >>

Reminder: 'I Love Poke' Hawaiian Food Festival at Don the Beachcomber is TOMORROW!

As Michelle wrote back in April, The "I Love Poke" Festival is coming back to OC at Don the Beachcomber. This post is a reminder that the event is tomorrow, June 5 from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.. The cost is $55, which is kind of pricey, but it's cheaper than a flight to Hawaii, and does include tastings from e ... More >>

Rare Boards (and an Even Rarer Book) Auction Raises $680k for Surfing Heritage Spot: Update

See the update at the end of page 2 on last weekend's Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction raising $680,000 and other event details.ORIGINAL POST, MAY 9, 2 P.M.: The Surfing Heritage & Cultural Center in San Clemente is putting "some of the world's most rare and iconic surf memorabilia" up for ... More >>

TAPS Craft Beer Festival TOMORROW

Why should Orange and Huntington Beach have all the fun? Brea's brewing something special this weekend, as TAPS Fish House & Brewery launches its Craft Brew Festival tomorrow from noon to 3 p.m.

'I Love Poke' Hawaiian Food Festival Returns To OC!

Back in 2011, we ate our way through aisles and aisles of fresh poke, creatively prepared by local chefs. Poke with mango sorbet, poke with habanero sauce, poke with wasabi avocado mousse, poke with soy truffle vinaigrette, spam poke, tofu poke and salmon poke. It was glorious.

Fare Thee Well Sweet, Sweet Bahooka

Every second and fourth Wednesday night of the month, legendary bartender/chef/restaurant insider Dave Mau hosts Dinner with Dave at Memphis at the Santora, where he treats drinkers to a free meal and live music as the evening progresses. To remind ustedes of this great night, Dave treats us ev ... More >>

Free Anniversary Blend At Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Wednesday

We used to be addicted to their Malibu Dream Ice Blendeds. But lately, free is our beverage of choice. Wednesday is not only National Crossiant Day, but Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL for those texting) will toast their 50 year anniversary with one hot deal: FREE coffee or tea!In addition to the s ... More >>

Muck Roots: Ukulele Festival

Muckenthaler Cultural Center

North Shore Poke Co. Has a Poke-Man

Shawn Gole's Huntington Beach restaurant finally gives the Hawaiian standard its full, undivided attention

On the Line: Justin Shea of Hapa J's, Part One

​Meeting Justin Shea at a busy coffeehouse one morning, I thought for a split second he would kick my ass if our interview wasn't to his liking. But he reminded me of a friend I knew, a sort of gentle giant. Of course, there begs the question: What does an Newport Beach native know about island cu ... More >>

Hawaiian Revolving Sushi Chain Opens First California Store In Santa Ana

​As Dave reported back in November, Genki Sushi--the revolving sushi chain that practically owns the revolving sushi market in Hawaii (there are 10 on the small island of Oahu alone)--is now open, taking over a defunct Sanrio store at MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana. The restaurant, which by the way i ... More >>

Genki Revolving Sushi Restaurant to Open in MainPlace Mall

​Genki Sushi, a kaiten (revolving) sushi restaurant that's huge in Hawaii and has spread to Seattle, will open its first California location in the Westfield MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana. The sushi-ya will be located on the first floor near JCPenney, next to the children's train ride. It looks to b ... More >>

Pepper (the Band) Talks Favorite Strains, Skunk Baxter and Being the Old Guys on the Warped Tour and

​Perpetually touring party-bros Pepper celebrated a decade on the road this year. The rock-reggae trio has carved a nice niche for itself on the traveling summer festival scene, amassing a healthy following of Sublime/311-aligned concertgoers since leaving Hawaii's big island in 2001. A meld of fr ... More >>

Fruit Flies Back in OC to Bedevil Jerry Brown

​The bane of Jerry Brown's first go-round as governor is back.It's a teeny-weeny, eensy-weensy fruit fly. Actually, it's two of them, found in Westminster earlier this month. They join two more trapped in the Anaheim-Yorba Linda area near the end of June and start of July.How can four fruit flies ... More >>

Pirate-Themed Surfing Takeover of Main Peak of Lower Trestles Gets Weird [VIDEO]

Don't mess with surfing pirates.​If you've ever surfed the Lowers peak at Trestles, you know that the pack doesn't exactly welcome newcomers with open arms. There's not much "spirit of Aloha" wafting through the air out there. In fact, it's more like a gladiator pit where survival is the key.Appar ... More >>

[BOMBIER BOMBSHELL:] Shocking Message De-Coded in Barack Obama Certificate of Live Birth

​Through top-secret Army intelligence de-coding methods, a source working exclusively for Navel Gazing has uncovered a shocking revelation in President Barack Obama's Certificate of Live Birth from Hawaii.Rather than come right out and say what the secret message is contained on the form no one kn ... More >>

'I Love Poke' Festival

Don the Beachcomber

Micah Brown: Top Picker

[Locals Only] OC's No. 1 acoustic act teams up with a full band for a House of Blues show

Sion Milosky, a Hawaiian Big-Wave Charger, Drowns While Surfing Maverick's

theeddie.quiksilver.comSion Milosky was an "Eddie" alternate.​Tragedy struck once again at Maverick's--a challenging surf spot 25 miles south of San Francisco--yesterday, taking the life of Sion Milosky, one of Hawaii's up-and-coming big-wave chargers.Milosky, 35, had been surfing for several hour ... More >>

[UPDATE: Newport Elementary & Beaches Closed, Small Waves in OC] No Tsunami Warning Issued For California As a Result of 8.8 Magnitude Japan Quake--Yet

​UPDATE, MARCH 11, 8:14 A.M.: Newport Elementary School has been closed.UPDATE, MARCH 11, 7:46 A.M.: Southern California is now under a tsunami advisory, rather than a warning. Waves could get as high as 7 feet up in the Central Coast, but should be more in the neighborhood of 2 feet on Orange Cou ... More >>

Big-Wave Surfing's Swell Guys

The monster swells can be big business, but for one group of OC surfers, it's still all about the ride

Eat Here, Not There: Hawaiian Food

Edwin GoeiDa Luau's Island Chicken, a.k.a. Mochiko Chicken​Gross oversimplification alert: On this side of the Pacific, there are exactly three types of Hawaiian restaurants. First, you have the lunch-plate purveyors. Think L&L and its brethren at which Styrofoam containers groan under heavy l ... More >>

#35. Ahi Poke at Fish Camp

Edwin Goei We continue to countdown our 100 favorite dishes at local restaurants. We'll be sharing these with you every weekday until our annual Best Of Issue comes out. Enjoy! #35. Ahi Poke at Fish Camp I've had a lot of ahi pokes (pronounced "poh-kay"; not "poke" as in what you do to people ... More >>

First Listen: Here Comes the Summer: Vol. 2

​Though the title seems a little passe (it is August, after all), the punk-powered grit behind forthcoming local compilation Here Comes the Summer Vol. 2 is set for release this week. Packing a hefty amount of sunshine, surf and sweat, the comp primarily  features bands from Long Beach as wel ... More >>

Aloha, AIG Effect?

​We've blogged previously (including here and here) about the "AIG effect"--the booking-erasing phenomenon hotels and resorts suffered after 100 top American International Group salespeople were wined and dined for a week in September 2008 at the swanky St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach--just da ... More >>

Hurley from Lost's Top Five Island Songs

Bethany Shady​Jorge Garcia, the San Juan Capistrano kid who grew up to be the affable Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the hit show Lost, is leaving the island and returning to his roots in California, but he'll be keeping the aloha close to his heart with his top five island songs. -- as told to partner Be ... More >>

Green Papayas

markuz @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-ND 2.0​Is there anything that doesn't grow in California (besides sour cherries)? Even the fruits associated more with tropical Mexico or Hawai'i are able to grow here. Papaya trees are suddenly everywhere, looking like palm trees with jagged leaves and clusters of hug ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Fruity Beers from The Twisted Vine

​For patrons of downtown Fullerton's The Twisted Vine, wine and appetizers are the standard fare. But if you haven't taken the time to try any of this classy establishments' beer selection, might I recommend trying either the Sea Dog's Blueberry Ale from Portland, Maine or the Maui Brewing Company ... More >>

Orange County Beer Festival Coming on Sunday, August 30!

The booze-up, held at Irvine Lake from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., will feature the county's best breweries, plus domestic and international brands, including ones from Hawai'i, Brazil and, of course, Belgium. Look out for The Bruery (from Placentia), TAPS (Brea), Bootlegger's Brewery (Fullerton) and the ... More >>

CNN's Rick Sanchez, Guests, Viewers vs. Obama Birther Wingnuts

CNN.com Rick Sanchez: Tonight's top non-story...CNN's Rick Sanchez aired a story around noon Pacific time on what he characterized as a non-story: the growing "birthers" movement that claims President Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the U.S. and is, thus, constitutionally unqualified to ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Why Does Obama Birth Certificate Say What They Say It Does Not?

Among those commenting to the extended-play interview with Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake over his legal action contending Barack Obama was not born in this country and should not be sworn in as president is Linda from Mariposa, who writes:The Certificate of live birth is not a birth certificate--per ... More >>

[This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Saucy Hawaiian at Waikiki Hawaiian Grill

[Aural Reports] Life's a Hula-Dance Party for Aurora Napua Ka'awa

Big Wave Riding Awards 2008

To Do Tonight - 11/07

CD Review

Jason Holstrom, The Thieves of Kailua (Mill Pond)

Hear The Earth Move

Via the excellent BLDGBLOG: German artist Florian Dombois translates the subaudible sound of plate tectonics into something the human ear can hear, revealing unique geological characteristics of brewing earthquakes around the planet. Says Dombois: Usually seismic waves have a frequency spectrum b ... More >>

Shake and Break

'State of Emergency: Disaster Response in California'

OC-Style Language Love in Earthquake-Ravaged Honolulu

From a fellow Chapman alumni... The entire state lost electricity yesterday, so everyone is listing to the one radio station that was transmitting. It's the official state emergency channel so they have a strong transmitter and runs on a generator. Obviously, Hawaii has a lot of different ethniciti ... More >>

This Week in Off-Season Surf Porn

Destination Point

*THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER IS HISTORY!

Kokona Hut

Just Choose Something

You cant go wrong at Roys

How Bout a Nice Hawaiian Punch?

Flame Thrower

The awful truth about kimchee

Scott Reeder

Drummer for Smile, sales supervison for Fancy Publications

Bikini Model

Getting More Retail than Sinatra