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The Five Best Concerts in OC This Weekend

Friday, March 1 Super Diamond House of Blues Anaheim Remember the movie Saving Silverman with Steve Zahn and Jack Black? It was about a couple of lovable loser musicians whose idol was none other than Neil Diamond, the psuedo-rock crooner from your parent's generation. Sometimes truth is stranger ... More >>

James Rivas and His Sad Puppy Eyes Held in Brutal Attack on Rossmoor Jogger

As longtime Navel Gazers know, this blog routinely devotes a Friday post to the Ugliest Police Mugshot of the Week. Well, today, we bring you instead the Saddest Puppy Dog Eyes Police Mugshot of the Week.The "honor" goes to 18-year-old James Rivas, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder T ... More >>

Top 25 Greatest Orange County Bands of All Time: The Complete List

Go ahead, call us a bunch of culture-less, lily-white suburbanites with a partiality to flip-flops and right-wing politics. Those kind of labels never cease to amuse us. Because one thing that instantly dooms most of the tired cliches ascribed to OC is the music--the one-of-a-kind frustration, aggre ... More >>

Top 25 Greatest Orange County Bands of All Time: 25-15

Go ahead, call us a bunch of culture-less, lily-white suburbanites with a partiality to flip-flops and right-wing politics. Those kind of labels never cease to amuse us. Because one thing that instantly dooms most of the tired cliches ascribed to OC is the music--the one-of-a-kind frustration, aggre ... More >>

As Bicycling is Embraced, Bike Thefts Rise

​We've written here about Long Beach city officials promoting bicycling, a Long Beach festival promoting bicycling and a Long Beach filmmaker promoting bicycling.The hope was someone from Orange County would read one or all of those and think, "We can do it better than Long Beach."But, in the inte ... More >>

The New Limb Get Sponsored By Etnies, Start Podcast, Talk About Random Stuff

​Those aching for an update on Costa Mesa's the New Limb are in for some excitement. 

Crime Time: Nekkid Folks, Robber Baby, Strip-Club Stabbers, Loaded Brownie and a Flaming Bag of Poo

Courtesy of Orange Police Department and Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentWe call this collage "Robberies, Solved and Unsolved." Top left: a man hands a teller a note demanding cash at Chase Bank in Orange. Top right: Booking photo of Adam J. Bennett, 20, of Santa Ana, who is suspected of robbing $ ... More >>

Clipse and the Cool Kids

Glass House

Gears for Fears

BMX Ride Sessions

Live Review: Kat Von D's MusInk Tattoo and Music Festival on 02/23

I wasn't quite sure what to expect as my shoes scuffed over the wet asphalt toward Kat Von D's first annual MusInk tattoo and music festival on Saturday. But at the very least I figured as long as I didn't walk out of there with a black eye or a tramp stamp it was gonna be a good day. The trail o ... More >>

The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever!: 1 - 50

High Colonic for the Eardrums

Fu Manchu turn it up to 11