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Belmont Shore Chocolate Festival

Belmont Shore

Karaoke Night with Homer Simpson

Let's be honest: Karaoke is really only fun for the person singing. We tolerate the noise and the cringe-inducing pitchiness for the friend who occasionally drags us to whatever seedy, drunk-infested dive  they've decided to perform in. However, when the singer is Homer Simpson, we'll put up wi ... More >>

Congregation Ale House: Eat, Pray, Glug

Drink beer and eat burgers with other blasphemes at this Long Beach brew house

Five Great OC Doughnut Shops To Celebrate National Donut Day

It's National Donut Day! (Or to Homer Simpson, it's just another Friday.) This isn't simply another Twitter-fueled food holiday--today marks the 75th anniversary of the carb-laden celebration. The day was created by the Salvation Army as a fundraiser to honor WWI's "donut lassies," the wom ... More >>

Infographic: How to Be a Douche In the Buffet Line

​Years back, Pizza Hut in China tried to put an end to the Homer Simpsons of the world by enforcing a one-plate-per-person rule for its salad buffet. Customers were all like, "What the heck, man?" And then they were all like, "CHALLENGE!"    In stunning acts of engineering and douchebagg ... More >>

This Week In Food: Gratuitous Use of the Fuck Word, Beer is the Fountain of Youth!

​So it looks like the Dec. 16 edition of This Week in Food offended a reader. I regurgitated a post Michelle did about a nifty little website called "Where the Fuck to Drink." Because the work fuck and alcohol always catches eyes, mine included, I included it in the headline as a featured story. D ... More >>

Our Top 5 Favorite Cartoon DJs, Including Skrillex In My Little Pony Form

​When we were watching Futurama the other night, we fell in love with DJ Scratchmo, the robot DJ who dropped some rump-rattling beats for Bender and his ladybot. We then realized how many other shows we've seen have featured cartoon scratchers. Here are our top five favorite cartoon DJs. (List by ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys and Jacuzzi Gals Talk About Vagina-Laden 'Glazin' Video

A (censored) screen shot from the homemade "Glazin'" video by the Jacuzzi Gals​The homemade fan video for Jacuzzi Boys' song "Glazin'" blew our minds when it came out last week, what with its vajazzly arts-and-crafts disguises on vaginas singing as aliens, Santa Claus, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Home ... More >>

Jacuzzi Boys Get Super-NSFW Fan Video for 'Glazin' with More Vag Than Lilith Fair

Ivan SantiagoThe Jacuzzi Boys​ We like the Jacuzzi Boys' music and all, but we didn't know the Miami band could inspire such devotion. Apparently guitarist/vocalist Gabriel Alcala, drummer Diego Monasterios, and bassist Danny Gonzalez's flair for heavy metallic glitter, neon glam rock opuses and e ... More >>

First Listen: Smashing Pumpkins' New Song 'Owata' Debuts

Homer Simpson, smiling politely.​If you haven't already heard, the Smashing Pumpkins have been releasing one song at a time off their new album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. And our pals at LA Weekly's West Coast Sound have the latest track--click here to get your exclusive listen. The song will be ... More >>

INFOGRAPHIC: How To Make Beer at Home

​Give a man a beer and he'll barely have a buzz. Teach a man how to make beer and he'll suddenly become awesome. Yes, beer, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems (or says Homer Simpson), can flow as freely at home as it does at the bar. All you need is the right equipment, ingredient ... More >>

'Minnie Muse' Is a Mickey Mouse Job for Forever 21

[Trendzilla] The classic rodent gal, now taller and skinnier-and tackier

Bill Walton Joins Newport Beach Artist Dave Hobrecht's All-Star Lineup

​Homer Simpson once said, "Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know?" Anyone who has heard Bill Walton call an NBA game may wonder the same thing about the former All-Star center. He's always just so damn sure about his opinions, even after they are proven wrong. It's the second best thing ... More >>

Superior Chicharrones

Edwin Goei​Name: Superior Chicharrones - Original Pork Rinds Origin: U.S.A. Found at: Superior Super Warehouse, Buena Park Cost: $1.19 Ingredients: Pork Rinds, Salt.

¡Ask a Comida Critic! That Mexican Holy Host Dessert?

​You people, I swear: I can answer non-Mexican related food questions! But I like this one from reader John:Hey Mexican critic: What's the name of that Mexican dessert that's basically the Catholic host? Isn't it sacrilegious to eat it?Sacrilegious? You mean--with all apologies to Homer Simpson--s ... More >>

Thank God It's Monday: This Week's Shows

​Today we're recommending something slightly different: bowling. That truly American pastime- just ask Homer Simpson-remains straightforward at its core, but the trappings have changed with the years; some will still remember the legendary and now sadly long gone Kona Lanes in Costa Mesa and its s ... More >>

Ten Sports You Can Play With a Beer in Your Hand

[Summer Guide] Neither mandatory nor helpful to your performance, a little hops can definitely enhance the sporting experience

Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Son accused of plotting parents' murderEditor's note: This one has a happy ending. The "son" in question is now 29, and his father was 42 when he was killed in 1999.Comment by frombackeast: Dude's 29 and pops is 42? Beautiful just beautiful....Si se puede (procreate).

My Five Favorite Burgers in O.C.

The Counter​Burgers abound in our fair county, and not just at the obvious favorites of In-N-Out and Fatburger. Those are a given. If you didn't know about them, I would have to assume that you are vegan or just arrived from space. For this reason, I didn't include them in my list of five fa ... More >>

Five Great International Sodas

Obvious observation of the year: it's hot. Go to these place we haven't discussed in years, all fine eateries, and cool down with their native sodas:​PUPUSERIA SAN SIVAR: The hole-in-the-strip-mall takes special care with their pupusas, which have a crispy yet malleable crust encasing thick, stick ... More >>

Andrei's Braises Consciousness About Sustainable Dining

Sushi and Bulgogi Live Together in Perfect Harmony, Side-By-Side at Tustin's Haru Izakaya

Insiders Take Potshots at Freedom Communications

Author, sociologist and working-class advocate Barbara Ehrenreich recently spoke about being confronted by a foe who accused her of engaging in class warfare, to which Ehrenreich responded that's absolutely true but her side in not the one that started the war.Who knew class-warfare skirmishes could ... More >>

Are You OC's Top Wingman (or Wingwoman)?

Weekly contributor Ned Raggett Facebooked me about a competition looking for the county's best chicken wings. From the page:Think breasts are overrated? And legs aren't really your thing? Well, perhaps the title of O.C.'s Top Wingman (or Wingwoman) is just up your ally!The rules are simple:1) Let us ... More >>

OC's Best Chocolate Maker to Give Truffle-Making Course This Sunday

Courtney Dudman Donley of C Salt Gourmet fame (OC Weekly's Best Chocolate 2008!) will be doing what the headline says this coming Sunday at 2 p.m. at @space Gallery in SanTana. Wish I could tell ustedes it's for free, but $20 to create yum-yums just in time for Valentine's Day is quite the bargain i ... More >>

Indian Students Try To Make World's Biggest Sandwich

Somewhere in Springfield, USA, Homer Simpson drools, "Mmmmmm...World's Biggest Sandwich."  But in watching this Reuters video, I'm noticing that there's a lamentable lack of meat. Surely this one's meant for Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and his friend Sir Paul McCartney. 

Chelsea Handler Delivers Solid Long Beach Set, But Her Opener Provides Most Ironic Moment

Comedian Chelsea Handler rates up there with Brit Hume among the most acerbic hosts on television, but her persona on E!’s addictive-like-crack chat show Chelsea Lately is downright bubbly compared to what she broke out at a packed Long Beach Terrace Theater last night. Rarely flashing her mill ... More >>

Free Thanksgiving Feast Tasting This Saturday at Whole Foods

I'm a sucker for free samples. You'll often see me at Costco on Saturday mornings making the rounds on the sample buffet, emulating Homer Simpson. Remember that episode? Anyway, it looks like I'll have two places to graze this weekend. All L.A. and Orange County Whole Foods will be doing a Thank ... More >>

Monkey Waiters!!!

Homer Simpson had the right idea all along. But, really there are no words I need to preface this video with, except: MONKEY WAITERS!!!

The Fabulously Fruity Chuck Smith

So a bunch of gays got married today, and the Christian Right is livid (but where was Fred Phelps when you needed him?). Providing a much-needed coda for today was none other than the legendary Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel movement (shown here in another fabulous shirt). He was just on ... More >>

Grub Guide

It Doesnt Suck!

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent

Twenty-five Years of Reliable Service

Sonic Youth are old yet still great

Science vs. Monday Morning

A report arrives from the cutting edge of science, where wonders never cease.  The cutting edge is currently in Durham, North Carolina, and Dr. Robert Bohannon is busy honing it. Dr. Bohannon, according to the Associated Press, is a "molecular scientist" (the sort of impressive yet vague job t ... More >>

Fa La La La LaAaaand Cut!

Deck the halls with boughs of Hollywood

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Lock Up Your Daughters' Weaponry

The Senate has decided that trigger locks suck. A trigger-lock mandate, part of a bill limiting the liability of gun manufacturers in liability cases, has been stricken from the language. Who wants to wait a few moments to fiddle with a mechanism in order to activate their gun? In the immortal words ... More >>

Grub Guide

The county's best damn dining guide

All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry

Lucky theres a Family Guy

Strike Up the Band

Revived by a whiff of irony, musical numbers are hot on stage

Adopt-a-Stairs

Visiting the unloved steps of South Laguna

All the Evil in the Cartoon World

Shapeshifters Transform and Roll Out

Suds for Studs

Devouring beers, babes and board at Karl Strauss Brewery Restaurant

Meat, Meat, Meat, Meat, Meat

Amazon Churrascaria is a place for meat

Letters

Ken Kesey Kultur Kampf

Officials dont seize Cuckoos Nest as yet another chance to bruise the much-hated and rare Liberalus orange countias

Faking It

Holy Mackerel!

We came, we saw seafood, we ate it, we left

The Future of Beer

We call it 'urination fermentation'

Be Glad Youre Not Here