Subject: Janet Jackson

• We're ready for our closeup, Mr. Murdoch, part 2

  Ain't it weird how the world works? Other than perhaps Griley, no one this hermitted timepiece converses with at the Weekly actually watches Fox's The O.C. anymore. It just started getting too stupid--and not the good kinda stupid that kept us glued to our La-Z-Boys. (Or was that the persistent rectal leakage?) Anyway, we were right there with The O.C. in the first or second or whatever season it was when one character--forget her name now; the smart teenage chick who was/wasn't Caleb's daughter

  February 6, 2006

• Baby, It's Warm Outside

  The Inconvenient Truth is on its way to becoming the box-office champeen of documentaries (pound sand, Michael Moore!). Orders are already brisk for the DVDs that won't be out until November. However, because Truth starred Satan's spawn Al Gore, there's a good chance many holy rollers skipped it and headed into whatever anti-Semitic Mel Gibson "Christian" movie was playing at the time. Well, fear not, Samson and Delilah: there is a new global-warming documentary coming that's especially for lov

  September 12, 2006

• What the Hell Happened?

  June 8, 2000

• Darn It, There are Still Some Single Gay People

  March 11, 2004

• Sex on the Beach ... With Mom and Dad?

  A local mom is pissed that her daughter was recently approached at Huntington Beach Pier by MTV staffers looking for teens to appear on Sex … with Mom and Dad, which has so shocked the executive director of the Downtown Business Improvement District that she plans to take the matter up with the City Council. This Hot Topic clearance aisle timepiece's advice: Whoaaaaaaa! While we normally favor any attempt to thwart the forward progress of Dr. Drew Pinsky's gawdawful reality television career

  November 19, 2008

• Super Bowl Partying with Colorado's Underminer

  BY REX REASONSuper Bowl. SUPER Bowl. SUPER BOWL. You can try to escape this unique and uniquely American "holiday," but even if you ignore it, it hangs in the air. Since Super Sunday was the setting when I spoke with Jeff Reese of Fort Collins, Colorado's Underminer--in town tomorrow at Alex's Bar in Long Beach--we decided to embrace it and ask Reese for semi-quarterly updates as the game unfolded. "I'm actually looking forward to watching the Boss," says Reese. "There have been some good Super

  February 3, 2009

• Last Night: Raphael Saadiq at House of Blues

  Last Night: Raphael Saadiq at the House of BluesBetter Than: Trying to fill up a car from the 60s with today's gas prices.Download: Don't download shit, buy the damn album (The Way I See it)Toss Raphael Saadiq's latest album, The Way I See It into any CD player and most people are quick to call it a throwback. Delicately places strings, Stax-esque soul claps and an over all retro-sexy, "grown-folks" vibe swoons and swirls in the echoed, analog bliss of every track. If you didn't know any better,

  March 3, 2009

• Posthumous J Dilla record out in June

  A 25-track disc comprised of beats made by the late J Dilla is "dropping" (that's hip-hop for "being released") June 2 on Nature Sounds. Dilla was a much-heralded producer who gained fame in the late '80s with the group Slum Village. Many credit him for helping to place Detroit on the hip-hop map, but it was role in the production team The Ummah (with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammed) that made him a hip-hop household name. Dilla's time with The Ummah saw him work on A Tribe Called Quest's two fin

  March 11, 2009

• The Happy Ones

  December 13, 2001

• Can Go Home Again

  July 13, 2006

• This Week in Keeping It On the Down Loh

  December 22, 2005

• Bo$$ Dogg

  August 25, 2005

• Ironys Siren

  May 12, 2005

• The Nip Slip

  February 3, 2005

• Diary of A Mad Year

  2004 regurgitated

  December 30, 2004

• The Year In Following Your Enlarged Heart

  December 30, 2004

• Ho, Ho, Ho

  December 23, 2004

• Beats Rhymes Life

  November 11, 2004

• Left on Sunset

  November 11, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• College Admissions

  Take the Kanye West aptitude test

  June 24, 2004

• Armageddon is for Losers

  April 8, 2004

• Rally Round the Racist

  March 4, 2004

• Jesus Un-rises

  March 4, 2004

• The Backlash Passion

  February 26, 2004

• For Shame!

  February 12, 2004

• E-GATE

  February 12, 2004

• Whos the Bigger Lowlife?

  April 25, 2002

• Thaifoon, Azteca, Fling

  April 18, 2002

• O, Brother, Wheres Thou Art?

  November 15, 2001

• Walking the plank

  October 18, 2001

• Howdy!

  October 18, 2001

• Whoah, Hype!

  November 9, 2000

• Grand RoyaleBuzz at the BeachEvery Thursday

  September 23, 1999

• The Huckster Cometh

  July 22, 1999

• Keeping Abreast of the Latest From Our Nuclear Power Plant

  Perhaps you thought the only news coming out of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) lately concerned fresh Nuclear Regulatory Commission complaints about operators being slow to address nagging plant problems (coming six months after an announcement that a battery on a backup generator had been inoperable for years and more than a year after revelations that a worker falsified records to hide that he'd skipped hourly fire patrols), or the latest batch of anti-cancer potassium iodid

  May 8, 2009

• Last Night: Burlesque Body at Continental Room

  Last Night: Burlesque Body starring Miss Dakota and Quetzal Guerrero and The WarriorsBetter Than: The shame of withdrawing strip-club money from an ATM on a Wednesday.There were lots of things I could have done on a Wednesday night: read a good book, work on my next story, see a live band, etc. Of course the "seeing a live band" option might have warranted the kind of Last Night Reviews you're used to seeing on this blog. This review however, is not one of those. Of course there are ways of desc

  May 14, 2009

• Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificate

  June 18, 2009

• Michael Jackson Memorial Tweet-Up Wrap-Up

  Were you working, sleeping, distracted, saving a cat from a tree, organizing your cheese label collection or otherwise unavailable to follow our live Twitter posts from Michael Jackson's memorial? Well, you're in luck, because here they all are (and pics!), both from Matthew Fletcher of the band Satisfaction live inside the Staples Center (he took that pic up above these words) and myself watching on the TV.

  July 7, 2009

• What You Missed: UFC 104, Autumn Food Festival, Zombie Pub Crawl, Kid Sister

  Keith MayNewport Beach Zombie Pub Crawl​Okay, so a whooooole lot of things happened this weekend. Like a lot. First up was the Zombie Pub Crawl in Newport Beach, where tons of fabulous zombies dragged themselves to Newps for the first ever undead pub crawl. Sponsored by LocalHipster.com, the all-day event featured plenty of braaaaaaains and beer. See the full set of awesome photos by Keith May right here. Now, after the jump: Many, many photos from UFC 104 and the UFC 104 After Party in Los An

  October 26, 2009