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Long Beach Lunch: Callaloo Caribbean Kitchen

Authentic Trinidadian restaurants--hell, Trinidadian anything--are about as common in Long Beach as Uzbeki cafés are in Mission Viejo. Yes, the Venezuela-adjacent Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago also has sandy beaches, nearly year-round sunshine and the occasional palm tree, but a kitchen ... More >>

Rigoberto Gil in Court After Cops Find Rifles and $2 mil in Coke, Meth in Santa Ana Home

What Glendale police describe as a big-time Santa Ana drug dealer pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday to felony counts of possessing methamphetamine and cocaine for sale, transporting the drugs, possessing the drugs and an AK-47 at the same time and possessing the AK, two other a ... More >>

Locally Grown Collective Grow Their Hip-Hop Roots

[Locals Only] This dream team of young rappers cultivates a sound that resonates beyond OC

Ava DuVernay's Moment Becomes a Movement

The 'Middle of Nowhere' writer/director looks to the future of black film

Top 10 OC Comics...So Far!

Ahhh Orange County. We might be known for our beautiful weather, pristine coastlines, and gorgeous people but we are soooo much more than that! Orange County is also the stomping grounds of some of the funniest comedic talent. With that said, we thought we'd do a little bragging on some of O.C.'s fi ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

How the Church of Scientology Responds to a Reporter's Repeated Requests for Comment

​Asshole. Prick. Handsome. I've been called all three. But Karin Pouw, a spokesthetan for the Church of Scientology, dropped a u-bomb on me in a Feb. 20 email. She called me "unprofessional." Sniffle. Between Feb. 13 and 18, I called the church's media-relations outfit in Los Angeles t ... More >>

What We Learned, Feb. 4-10

​It's a week worth of bite-size Orange County news and what it all taught us.FEB. 4: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange reveals on its website that it is accepting from parishoners new names for Crystal Cathedral through Feb. 20. Bishop Tod Brown's only requirement is that the new moniker be "C ... More >>

Dom Kennedy at Galaxy Theatre Last Night

Flickr​Dom Kennedy Galaxy Theater Dec. 6, 2011 With the help of his fans, who donned Chucks, Rugby Polo shirts and vintage L.A. sports team fan gear, Leimert Park representative Dom Kennedy brought just another one of those L.A. nights to Santa Ana. The only things missing were tacos to go ... More >>

Mac Miller: Five Ways to Pre-Game Before His Show

​Mac Miller's affinity for Chuck Taylors and alumni status with Taylor Alderdice's Pittsburgh high school might have you believe that he's a part Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang crew, the truth is Miller and Khalifa couldn't be further apart. Although they both launched their careers with Pittsburgh-bas ... More >>

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Cesar Gomez GUILTY of Brutal Murder of Ashley Nicole Lilly in Upscale Garden Grove Hotel

​UPDATE, SEPT. 22, 3:47 P.M.: 36-year-old El Monte gang banger Cesar Gomez was convicted today of murdering 24-year-old Inglewood prostitute Ashley Nicole Lilly in a swanky Garden Grove hotel in August 2009.A jury found the illegal immigrant who has been deported three times back to Mexico guilty ... More >>

[BREAKING:] State Supreme Court Affirms Death Penalty for John Famalaro, Killer of 23-year-old Woman Kept in Cold Storage

​The California Supreme Court has confirmed the death penalty for John Famalaro, the phony cop convicted of killing Denise Huber, who disappeared on her way home to Newport Beach from a Morrissey concert in 1991, and keeping the 23-year-old's body in cold storage until it was discovered in Arizona ... More >>

Cali Swag District Honors Slain Member With Upcoming Release The Kickback

​ "If you can see the palm trees but can't find the beach, you might want to be careful." Although it's far from a steadfast rule, this common admonition is used by natives of Los Angeles County's urban areas to highlight its most hidden danger--the deceiving landscape. Inglewood is no exception ... More >>

[UPDATE: Maybe Not Random?] M-Bone, 'Teach Me How to Dougie' Rapper, Murdered in Drive-By

M-Bone, 1989-2011​UPDATE, APRIL 16, 3:49 P.M.: So now TMZ is speculating M-Bone might have been murdered over a woman he was involved with:Our sources say M-Bone's friends have been in touch with cops, telling investigators after he got back to LA from his tour, he got involved with a girl. M-Bone ... More >>

Five Things to Expect at Prince's Three More 'Nites' at the Forum

​Prince finished his first four dates of his "Welcome 2 America Live: 21-Nite Stand" series of concerts at the Forum without exactly letting people know when the next shows were going to be. A few days ago, he announced that the upcoming concerts are set for today, tomorrow and Saturday, still in ... More >>

Ice Cube At the Grove of Anaheim Friday Night

​Ice CubeApril 1, 2011Grove of Anaheim It's always interesting to watch an old school, West Coast rapper do his thing in Orange County. It's not that OC isn't street (cough-cough!), it's just that if you're a SoCal rapper who got your start on the gangsta' side of things, chances are you weren't w ... More >>

Road to Paid Dues: Q&A with Skeme

​Name: Skeme Age: 21 Reppin: Inglewood, CA Where You Might Heard Him: Dom Kennedy's "Left Side, Right Side"  or "Play On"; Kendrick Lamar's "I Do This [Remix],"  Overdoz's "Don't Wanna Be Your Girlfriend,"  Mann's "Kickin it With the Lingo"  Projects to Date: Pre Se ... More >>

Denise Huber Case to Again Haunt OC Tonight

​Orange County residents could not help but be haunted by Denise Huber's disappearance in 1991. For years afterward, a painted portrait of the pretty 23-year-old was splashed on a wall facing the connector between the 405 freeway and Route 73--near where her car had broken down before being found ... More >>

Steve Martin Puts on His Mouse Ears

Photo by David Shankbone/Wikipedia Commons​Steve Martin was born in Waco, Texas, moved with his family first to Inglewood, California, and then Garden Grove. He attended Garden Grove High School, took drama and poetry classes at Santa Ana College and applied to Cal State Long Beach hoping to major ... More >>

Gerardo Medina Hernandez Gets 14 Years for State Agency's Largest Heroin Bust

​Drug dealer Gerardo Medina Hernandez, 26, of Anaheim, has been sentenced to 14 years in state prison for stashing more than 90 pounds of black tar heroin in false compartments of a car in an Anaheim garage last year. The punishment was handed down Wednesday after Hernandez pleaded guilty to on ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Powerhouse 2010 at the Honda Center

​Fueled by sets from hip-hop's biggest money makers, Power House 2010--presented by Power 106 FM-- delivered a massive, beer-soaked night club radiating with radio gloss, left-field surprises, Laker pride and a touch of 90s nostalgia. Drawing crowds that nearly sold out Anaheim's Honda Center on S ... More >>

Last Night: Reflection Eternal at the Grove of Anaheim

Nate Jackson​The Hype: Any time revered MC/producer duo Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek get together (which is usually most of the time), you better believe there's an audience of knowledge-hungry hip hop heads waiting to devour every last track they put out. It had been a decade s ... More >>

NEW UPDATES: Just Another Orange County Murder: Ashley Nicole Lilly

UPDATED WITH NEW PHOTOS, DETAILS FROM PRESS CONFERENCE. . . Courtesy of Garden Grove Police Department Cesar Gomez has been arrested in the murder of Ashley Nicole Lilly​Cesar Gomez looks pretty tough with his stocky build, ink-drum-draining collection of tattoos and long, violent rap sheet ... More >>

Simply Jeff at Relentless Beats 2009

The 20th anniversary of rave culture's American birth is coming next year, and already it feels like the happy face era is making a comeback. In Los Angeles last month, Electric Daisy Carnival, a two-day dance fest with origins in the glow-stick underground, claimed attendance of 135,000 people. And ... More >>

U-N-I

The Glass House

Incoming: U-N-I, Sick Puppies, Charlatans UK at the Glass House

The Glass House in Pomona has nothing to do with the 2001 movie The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski. Probably a good thing, I don't remember that movie being very good. Whatever happened to her, anyway? Regardless, add three more shows to the venue's schedule, starting with Inglewood hip-hop d ... More >>

Last Night: Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, At Verizon Amphitheater

Andrew Youssef / OC WeeklyLast Night: Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. May 20, 2009.Better Than: Trying to bench-press more than Trent Reznor. Dude is buff.In honor of the headliners, I'm going to vent some angst to start things off.Who the hell knew it took an hou ... More >>

Green Day on tour...not coming to OC

Green Day's going on tour to promote 21st Century Breakdown, the follow-up to the mega-successful American Idiot. For better or worse, the Bay Area trio (plus the seventeen sidemen they employ) aren't hitting Orange County. The closest the are getting is an August 20 date at the Cox Arena in San Die ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 27

Orange County Register: Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement agents, Inglewood police and members of a multi-agency task force surveilling Gerardo Medina Hernandez say they watched him pull packages from two compartments built into the front wheel wells of his 2005 Volkswagen sport utility ve ... More >>

Broccoli, er, Barack Obama Remarks Are Best Served Prepared

Prepared remarks for a town hall meeting? Isn't that why they used to unload on Bush? No, it was because ol' Dubya's questioners seemed even better briefed than he was. Observers say President Obama truly chose folks at random during his first presidential visit to Southern California and Orange ... More >>

Lamb of God: Too Dangerous for LA, Just Right for Anaheim

Faithful Central Bible Church, the owners of The Forum in Inglewood, have (again) deemed Lamb of God not worthy of playing in their arena. They were scheduled to open up for Metallica there on Dec. 17 and 18. The good news, though, is that even though the band, whose debut album was called Burn the ... More >>

More Woes for Poorman

Jim "Poorman" Trenton, local "celebrity" and self-described "most fired man in show business" (see "Enter Poorman," Nov. 8, and "Exit Poorman," Jan. 3] is once again caught up in controversy after his May 16 third-annual Bikini Mile at Hollywood Park Race Track and Casino in Inglewood. The event, w ... More >>

To Do This Weekend 3/21-3/23

Detroit Bar, 8 p.m. Friday: The Black Ghosts Saturday: Audible Mainframe and Guests Sunday: Karaoke with Roman 843 W 19th St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627 (949) 642-0600 Alex's Bar, 8 p.m. Fri, Mar 21, 2008 Friday: Action 45, Suckerstar, Beneath The Cellar, and guests Saturday: Bullets And Octane, The K ... More >>

Hey, Chief!

Another open letter to Huntington Beach Police Chief Kenneth Small

Chirp Where You At

Oct. 6 - Oct. 13

Diary of a Mad County

Love Without Ego

GB gives the loverman a melvin

Slammer Time!

Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case

Slammer Time!

Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case

Faultless

Haidl team hits TV and newspapers to blame alcohol, porn, society, police and victim in alleged gang rape

Bingo!

Charitable gaming scores big money for Brea businessman

Spin Recycle

Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

Letters

If You Build It, 24 Million Will Come

El Toro Airport Watch No. 150

When Pigs Fly

Hell on Wheels

Driving in OC, in your own words

F the Airport, Save Newport Beach!

El Toro Airport Watch No. 134

Down These Mean Equestrian Trails

Middle-aged rage kills more kids than student gunners

Body Snatchers