Hunter S. Thompson

'The Rum Diary' Channels the Ghost of Hunter S. Thompson

Johnny Depp stars in this oddly tame adaptation

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Johnny Depp stars in this oddly tame adaptation

Is the Register's Martin Wisckol Part of the Liberal Media Campaign to Build Up and Then Tear Down Michele Bachmann?

​Is Martin Wisckol one of the liberal media meddlers a right-sided journalism watchdog warned us about?Let us seek the clues in a recent write-up by the Orange County Register political reporter on one Michele Bachmann.

Why Your Local Band Hates You

Flickr user D2 Photography​Your local band doesn't like you. For a society which readily bends over at the altar of hero worship, this is a bitter pill to swallow.  Though it's painful, the truth will set you free. Here's a quick list of the reasons your local band hates you and why you shoul ... More >>

Circa Survive's Guitarist Colin Frangicetto Shows off His Ink

Emily ShurColin Frangicetto, far left​Circa Survive is co-headlining at tattoo and music festival MusINK, at the OC Fairgrounds this Saturday (along with Thrice, interviewed in this week's print edition). In keeping with the theme,  guitarist Colin Frangicetto sent over a couple of photos of ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Hunter S. Thompson to Blame for Orange County's Texting Behind the Wheel Obsession

​An Automobile Club of Southern California sampling of 4,000 vehicles in Orange County found 2.7 percent of the drivers were texting--which is twice the rate that was observed in January 2009, when the state texting-while-driving ban went into effect.Of course, it's common knowledge that we cont ... More >>

An Interview With a Rare Breed: OC Blogger Indie Peddler

[Mental Notes] Plus Weenie Roast highs and lows

The Mysterious Indie Peddler, Kim Conlan, Revealed

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The 10 Greatest Journalism Stories EVER

​Reporter Conor Friedersdorf got quite a bit of media play last month for his roundup of the best journalism stories he heard, watched or read in 2009. Really interesting list, but what none of write-ups mentioned is that Friedersdorf is an OC native, raised in Newport Beach (if I remember correct ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Regency South Coast Village

Twitter to Be Used to Contact Michael Jackson, Other Dead Folks

"I see dead celebrities."​Twitter has many uses: spreading important information and breaking news. Seeing super-awesome iPhone pictures from concerts that we're attending. Letting us know when Ashley Tisdale is getting her hair done. But now the limits of Twitter's power will truly be tested, as ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 6/9

Film Screening: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, 7:30 p.m.Hunter S. Thompson was the pioneer of a style he called "Gonzo" journalism, a style where he would emerse himself into the story so much that he, himself would become a character in it--gun in hand, cigarette holder dangli ... More >>

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Hibbleton Gallery

Former Weekling Pignataro Lives, Writes the Maui Life

The last time the Weekly pimped a book by Anthony Pignataro, it was El Toro Airport Watch: A No-Nonsense Guide to the Controversy Surrounding Orange County's Proposed El Toro International Airport. The title alone is nearly as long as the 54-page book, a staggering work of genius that is not really ... More >>

Hunter S. Thompson Documentary Film 'Gonzo' Succeeds When Saluting His Substance

The last time the Weekly pimped a book by Anthony Pignataro, it was El Toro Airport Watch: A No-Nonsense Guide to the Controversy Surrounding Orange County's Proposed El Toro International Airport. The title alone is nearly as long as the 54-page book, a staggering work of genius that is not really ... More >>

Toll Road Construction Figures Rise

By Alex Brant-Zawadzki The TCA's new number for the cost of construction for the 241 extension is $1.14 billion. However, they've tacked on additional costs not associated with the previous $875 million figure, hence the $1.3 billion figure cited in a recent LA Times article. What follows are a li ... More >>

[Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

By Alex Brant-Zawadzki The TCA's new number for the cost of construction for the 241 extension is $1.14 billion. However, they've tacked on additional costs not associated with the previous $875 million figure, hence the $1.3 billion figure cited in a recent LA Times article. What follows are a li ... More >>

[Pucker Up] Behind the Green Door

By Alex Brant-Zawadzki The TCA's new number for the cost of construction for the 241 extension is $1.14 billion. However, they've tacked on additional costs not associated with the previous $875 million figure, hence the $1.3 billion figure cited in a recent LA Times article. What follows are a li ... More >>

Five Tomes on Gonzo Master Hunter S. Thompson for Those Who Can't Get Enough

By Alex Brant-Zawadzki The TCA's new number for the cost of construction for the 241 extension is $1.14 billion. However, they've tacked on additional costs not associated with the previous $875 million figure, hence the $1.3 billion figure cited in a recent LA Times article. What follows are a li ... More >>

[DVDish] Laughing Pains: Reviews of Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster, More

By Alex Brant-Zawadzki The TCA's new number for the cost of construction for the 241 extension is $1.14 billion. However, they've tacked on additional costs not associated with the previous $875 million figure, hence the $1.3 billion figure cited in a recent LA Times article. What follows are a li ... More >>

Aural Reports

Free Radicals: Tea Shades open your mind to more possible realities

Bootylicious

Its the end of the world as they know it, and the pirates feel fine

Letters

'Will Swaim and his paper have been one giant pain in the ass to a county that was in desperate need of one. Godspeed, my friend.'

Last Day Hunter Thompson Photo Show Tomorrow

M B Gallery's GONZO show closes tomorrow. Says them: GONZO began as a personal collaboration with Thompson prior to his untimely death, and has since come to completion with the support of his family and estate. The show will feature many never before seen photographs from Thompson's personal ... More >>

Your belly buttons at 6 oclock

Doing shabu shabu right

The Quality of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Fuck

Two films that played in Orange County in March and April to wide critical acclaim--if by "wide critical acclaim" you mean "received positive reviews from OC Weekly"--will screen up the road in that little berg that natives call Los Angeles in the days ahead. Of Quality of Life, a drama about the l ... More >>

America, Fuck Yeah!

Manners, shock value, traditional values and freedom of speech all collide in Fuck: A Fuckumentary

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

Dale Crover and the unstoppable killing machine

Special Screenings

Winter non-recommendation edition

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week:

The King of Masks

The Year in Letters

You know who else had lots of supporters? Ted Bundy

Fear of a Silver and Black Planet

Academics descend into the black hole with Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire

Silver and Black Like Me

Rams? Lambs! Orange County is Raider Nation. Dont believe it? Ask a Raider fan

!Ask a Mexican!

Rams? Lambs! Orange County is Raider Nation. Dont believe it? Ask a Raider fan

Letters

In the first place, I am a pimply-faced septuagenarian male, aging ungracefully, with an unquenchable thirst for comic books about hell on earth.

Letters

In the first place, I am a pimply-faced septuagenarian male, aging ungracefully, with an unquenchable thirst for comic books about hell on earth.

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Strange, Terrible Sagas

Remembering Hunter S. Thompson and Arthur Miller

The Doctor is In

Hunter S. Thompson goes back to gonzo

Post-Industrial Grease Monkey

Jesse James and the gradual degreasing of the West Coast Chopper

Newport Beach Film Festival: You Got Blurbed

Jesse James and the gradual degreasing of the West Coast Chopper

Newport Beach Film Festival: Schedule of events

Compiled by Greg Stacy

Diary of a Mad County

Compiled by Greg Stacy

UC Irvine vs. the Shrinking J

Already a creative-writing machine, Irvine turns to literary journalism

New, Upbeat Antabuse Boy!

Warren Zevon figures his gloominess is really pretty positive

Outlaw Poetry?

How to keep poetrys wild frontier wild

Letters

How to keep poetrys wild frontier wild

'I Do a Mixed Bag'

The Foothill's Steve Zepeda books 'a very David Lynch kind of place'

They Live!

Nixon symps seize on Clinton sex romp as evidence that Dick was a good guy!