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Letters From OC Weekly Readers

OC Weekly Makes Some Noise at the AAN Awards in New Orleans

​On the heels of OC Weekly's dominant performance at the OC Press Club Awards, your favorite alt-weekly also made a strong showing on the national level, earning two second-place awards and a third-place nod from the Association of Alternative Newsweekly's 2011 AltWeekly Awards.

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

​On the heels of OC Weekly's dominant performance at the OC Press Club Awards, your favorite alt-weekly also made a strong showing on the national level, earning two second-place awards and a third-place nod from the Association of Alternative Newsweekly's 2011 AltWeekly Awards.

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

​On the heels of OC Weekly's dominant performance at the OC Press Club Awards, your favorite alt-weekly also made a strong showing on the national level, earning two second-place awards and a third-place nod from the Association of Alternative Newsweekly's 2011 AltWeekly Awards.

Facebook to the Rescue of Local Theater?

​The past few months have seen more reviews about local theater than at any point in OC history. But you're not seeing them in traditional print publications. Times are very tough in the ink-stained wretch industry. Pages are shrinking, and the space for editorial content in those pages is tou ... More >>

Introducing: Joel Beers' Local Theater Blog

Today marks the beginning of Joel Beers' theater blog, which will feature news and notes about everything theater-related in Orange County. - Lilledeshan Bose It's hard to find a bigger name in American stage directing than Warner Shook. He led Seattle's Intiman Theatre to national prominence ... More >>

Show of the Day: Flogging Molly, House of Blues, Anaheim

It takes a serious party person with a leather liver to hit up tonight's Flogging Molly gig at House of Blues, Anaheim, less than 24 hours after getting properly hammered on New Year's Eve. But the Irish-informed rock band famous for their awesomely spunky live shows--and boozy ballads like the one ... More >>

[Year In Review] The Arts and the Crafts and the Waves of 2009

It takes a serious party person with a leather liver to hit up tonight's Flogging Molly gig at House of Blues, Anaheim, less than 24 hours after getting properly hammered on New Year's Eve. But the Irish-informed rock band famous for their awesomely spunky live shows--and boozy ballads like the one ... More >>

OC Weekly Wins 3 Los Angeles Press Club Awards

Photo by Karyn LawrenceA scene from Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble's "W.A.C. Iraq: A Work in Progress," which Beers reviewed.Yes, that does seem like an odd headline given that Orange County is not located in neither the city nor county of Los Angeles. Despite this, three Weeklings were awar ... More >>

OC Theater scene just got a whole lot worse

Photo by Karyn LawrenceA scene from Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble's "W.A.C. Iraq: A Work in Progress," which Beers reviewed.Yes, that does seem like an odd headline given that Orange County is not located in neither the city nor county of Los Angeles. Despite this, three Weeklings were awar ... More >>

Letters

"You had me with you until your last paragraphy where you wrote: 'His balls were much, much bigger than any of ours.' "

FOX News Covers the OC Fire (BADLY)

Here's a repost from Weekly contributor Joel Beers' MySpace blog. Title: FUCK YOU FOX NEWS: "Even the local station is staffed by mental incompetents. Like the dumb as dirt field "reporter" in Modjeska Canyon (at least she got that right) who says if the fire gets past the residential neighborhoo ... More >>

The Abyss

Don Juan Project fills the hole

Our Annual Salute to Drinking

Don Juan Project fills the hole

TOC

Don Juan Project fills the hole

First Person

Don Juan Project fills the hole

Dreams in Transit

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

Letters

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

Letters

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

'The

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

'Punk Rock Died in 1984'

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

Rats

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

Drinking Mr. Goods Bar

Vanguard Theatre Ensemble closes; Insurgo moves

Best Music Writing 2004

Special web Exclusive Anthology

Live to Bleed

Roscoe Spitzer, Now and Forever

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Roscoe Spitzer, Now and Forever

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The Year in Your Hateful Letters

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The Year in Your Hateful Letters

In New Spaces, No One Can Hear You Scream

Joel Beers theater notes

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Joel Beers theater notes

This Is Nowhere

Stages True West

Tone Deaf

A miscast Misanthrope

The OCies Yeeeee-ha!

Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

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Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

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Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

A War of Imagination

Prophets Profit and William Blake

Nuts

The psychic world on its head in Greenland

Blurb-O-Matic: The Answers

The psychic world on its head in Greenland

7: Peculiar Achievement in All Things Egghead

The psychic world on its head in Greenland

Excerpts: Part 1

The psychic world on its head in Greenland

Letters

The psychic world on its head in Greenland

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The psychic world on its head in Greenland

Junk-food Theater

The psychic world on its head in Greenland

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The psychic world on its head in Greenland

Blurb-O-Matic

Sneak peeks at a season of theater that is breathtaking, passionate, entertaining!

Letters

Sneak peeks at a season of theater that is breathtaking, passionate, entertaining!

Summer Beach & Beer Guide

Sneak peeks at a season of theater that is breathtaking, passionate, entertaining!

Letters to the Editor 1/15/99

Sneak peeks at a season of theater that is breathtaking, passionate, entertaining!

Letters

Sneak peeks at a season of theater that is breathtaking, passionate, entertaining!

Waiting for Rent-to Go

The yin and yang of the musical of the '90s