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10 Late-Night Restaurants that UCI Students Are Grubbing At Right Now

Since the founding of Harvard back in the 1600, college students have always frequented the open-til-two or the 24-hour restaurants, whether it was grog they were seeking or ramen, either as a study break or after a long night of partying at the generic frat house. Six hours of sleep and under ha ... More >>

Our Photos of PBR Drinkers Wildn' Out

We're pretty shameless with out drinking habits here at the Weekly. It's something we tend to have in common with out readers and the people we party with. One thing we can all agree on is the significance of what it means to pop open an icy tall boy of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Whether you're an old schoo ... More >>

And the Other Newport Beach Film Fest Awards Go To ...

As you can read here . . .Apartment in Athens, Nazi Drama from Italy, is Big Winner of Newport Beach Film Fest Awards. . . NBFF awards have been dished out for the weeklong cinextravaganza that ended Thursday night. But, like American television producers, I feel even more awards need to be bestowed ... More >>

Kenj Gallo, Profiled in OC Weekly, Subject of Upcoming Fox Gangster Series?

Photograph by John Gilhooley​You may remember Kenji Gallo, co-author with Matthew Randazzo V of the 2009 book Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia, from my Sept. 2009 cover story in OC Weekly,"Blown Away." That particular story dealt with a slew of mafia murders in Orange County du ... More >>

Chuck DeVore Drops Out of Supervisor's Race, Moving to Texas

John GilhooleyOnly a keystroke away...​So long and thanks for all the tweets! Former California Assemblyman and OC Weekly cover boy Chuck DeVore announced today he's not only dropping out of the race for the Orange County Board of Supervisors, but he's also dropping out of the state of California. ... More >>

Jim Gray: Voters Wanted To Regulate Pot Like Wine?

Photo by John Gilhooley​Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jim Gray, Orange County's favorite anti-drug war crusader, is pushing a ballot initiative for next year that would legalize marijuana for adults in California. Like Proposition 19, which failed at the ballot box last November, his ... More >>

Portola Coffee Lab to Open Tomorrow

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​We interviewed Jeff Duggan, the mad scientist of third-wave coffee, almost a year ago (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). We found him crammed into an alcove of Layer Cake Bakery, roasting coffee to order, designing his dream coffee shop at the SoCo collection (you know, Saturd ... More >>

Orly Taitz Seeks Help From Cyberstalking Florist

​Is a crazed former Orly Taitz patient who may be violent, used to be a lawyer, is now a florist, may need boner pills, may or may not be from the Valley, more than likely resides in Lake Forest or Coto de Caza, and goes by the nickname "Foggy" when he is not going by the nickname "Captain Cock" s ... More >>

Ten Most WTF Music Stories of 2010

​We twittered, shared and reposted all these stories ad nauseum in 2010--for a good reason. This year, trashy viral videos made more of an impact than the Grammys, and Antoine Dodson was more memorable than Beatles songs finally getting on iTunes. So the line  blurring of talent and fame is m ... More >>

Acrobatics Everyday's 'Open Melody': A 20-Band Fest Born Out of Previous Disappointment

John GilhooleySam Farzin, Acrobatics Everyday founder​This Friday and Saturday, the Acrobatics Everyday promotion group which has once again made UC Irvine a key spot for both touring and local bands with an independent and underground bent makes one of its biggest splashes yet with Open Melody, ... More >>

Burger Records' Sean Bohrman Knows He Will Put Out a Lady Gaga Tape Someday

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyBohrman, right​Researching this week's cover story brought us into conversation with Sean Bohrman, the Thee Make Out Party member who co-founded Fullerton-based Burger Records nearly one year ago. When we called him on September 3, we caught him in the middle of a veritab ... More >>

Orange Bits: Ozzy Osbourne, Barrett Johnson, Rye Douglas

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyOzzy at Barnes & Noble in Huntington Beach, back in February '09.​Sorry to leave you hanging for two Fridays, but Orange Bits--our weekly round up of all the OC-related music news that wasn't in the Weekly--is back. Rejoice:

White House Video Causes Orly Taitz to Try for Leniency at Supreme Court Once More

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Laguna Niguel birther/dentist/lawyer Orly Taitz's newest filing at the Supreme Court of the United States is a "MOTION FOR RECONSIFERATION." (Yes, [sic]) At least, that's how the title starts. Then you get this... "OF THE APPLICATION FOR EMERGENCY STAY AND/OR INJU ... More >>

Sublime With Rome Tops Pacific Amphitheatre Summer Shows

​The Orange County Fair broke attendance records with 1.5 million visitors for the run that ended Sunday.Orange County Fair Breaks Attendance RecordThe concurrent concert series in Pacific Amphitheatre also broke a record, selling out nine of its shows.Find out the top 5 shows based on ticket sale ... More >>

Blackmarket Bakery To Host Four Food Trucks For Lunch Tomorrow (Friday the 13th)

Photo by John Gilhooley​Rachel Klemek has always been a friend to OC's new brand of food trucks. Her Blackmarket Bakery in the Skypark Circle section of Irvine plays host to different ones just about every week. But tomorrow is special. Tomorrow, Friday the 13th, she will welcome four food truc ... More >>

Sublime with Rome Over the Weekend at Pacific Amphitheater

John Gilhooley​Check out a slideshow of the Sublime with Rome concert here!Sublime with RomeJuly 30, 2010Orange County Fair - Pacific AmphitheaterThe Show: Orange County and the rest of the world was robbed when Sublime singer Bradley Nowell overdosed in 1996 just two months shy of the b ... More >>

Tony Hawk Reverse Pelvic Thrust 900 Skating Trick at Downtown Disney Doesn't Pan Out

​Musing about Tony Hawk 11 years ago, an OC Weekly cover snidely stated, "Dude, You're Old."It's also been opined here--or maybe it was elsewhere--that skateboards should have an expiration date.Hawk, who is 62 (check that: 42), gave credence to both notions Saturday afternoon at Downtown Disney.

Chuck DeVore Reverts to the Geek We Knew He Was

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyChuck DeVore waits while downloading the lightsaber app.​When Irvine state assemblyman Chuck DeVore started running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate more than a year ago, our first impression was that he was an affable nerd running something of a jo ... More >>

Jeff Duggan of Portola Coffee, Part Two

John Gilhooley​Jeff Duggan is a coffee geek, and the county is better for his efforts. Those efforts will soon be redoubled; Portola will be opening later this year in Costa Mesa's ersatz Ferry Building-type gourmet marketplace, the MIX (currently called "South Coast Collection", over west of IKEA ... More >>

Jeff Duggan of Portola Coffee, Part One

John Gilhooley​Head into Irvine's Layer Cake Bakery on a Saturday and your senses will be assaulted as soon as you enter. The man responsible for this attack on your nasal passages is Jeff Duggan, proprietor of Portola Coffee. While "On The Line" usually features restaurant chefs, it's not e ... More >>

LA Times Nails Mike Carona Pension Story--9 Days After the OC Register Did

​When Clockwork was but a wee wind-up at a local daily, we used to bemoan a certain tactic the Los Angeles "By God" Times employed when we beat them. The Times would sit on the story a couple weeks and then publish their own version without acknowledging who originally broke the news--as if the pr ... More >>

Chuck DeVore's New Career: Blogger

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​We should have seen this coming from the California Republican party's greatest geek politician, the man who posed with an iPhone on the cover of the Weekly and who, as we long ago predicted he would, ran the most Snakes On a Plane-like campaign (plenty of hype, laughed ... More >>

Orly Taitz Featured in MSNBC Documentary Premiering Tonight

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​One of the sharpest birther-watchers around, David Weigel of the Washington Post, recently swore off any further coverage for Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz. "As far as I'm concerned, the Taitz trainwreck ended on Tuesday when she rode a wave of publicity to 26% in Cali ... More >>

Chuck DeVore Was Right on Low Turnout, Wrong That It Would Propel Him to Victory

​Termed-out Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) on Monday afternoon presented supporters a strategy to victory in the race for the GOP nomination to face U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in November. Though he was polling somewhere below Chuy Bravo's kneecaps, DeVore reckoned a record low voter turnout in ... More >>

What You Missed: KROQ Weenie Roast, the Buzzcocks, Kitchen Ink

Andrew YoussefA surprisingly sober Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots.​It was KROQ's annual summer kick-off concert with a line-up that didn't totally suck: Weenie Roast! The 2010 roster included Sublime with Rome, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Devo, Paramore, Silversun Pickups, Spoon, Cage ... More >>

What You Missed: Lightning in a Bottle, Skate For a Cause, Dengue Fever

Christopher VictorioLucent Dossier Experience, day two of Lightning in a Bottle​Lightning in a Bottle took place on Friday though Sunday in Irvine. The free-spirited festival featured fire/dance/circus performances, speakers, live entertainment from the Glitch Mob, Nosaj Thing, Lucent Dossier, pro ... More >>

Douchebag Comes Home

Photo by John GilhooleyThe "Douchebag" gang at its Newport Beach Film Festival screening Tuesday night (from left): Chris Robertson, director of photography; Scott Uhlfelder, director of photography; Sean Vatwer, co-producer; Ben York Jones, actor and associate producer; Drake Doremus, director and ... More >>

New Poll: Bill Hunt Erased Gap with Sheriff Sandra Hutchens

John GilhooleySandy with a sheriff's best friend​A new poll conducted by Lewis Consulting Group shows that Bill Hunt's campaign has enjoyed a "surprising surge" in recent weeks and now the race for Orange County sheriff is "essentially a dead heat."

Judge Spikes Orly Taitz's Attempt to Get In on Multi-State Anti-Healthcare Suit

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyThere's a joke about white coats somewhere in this...​Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz was planning to pull another Forrest Gump moment next week by showing up in a Florida courtroom to participate in the headline-grabbing lawsuit of 13 attorneys general against the new hea ... More >>

Orly Taitz Attempts to Take Over Attorneys' General Challenge to Health-Care Reform

John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyDentists are doctors, right?​Apparently encouraged by all the attention she received after amending her Taitz v. Obama complaint earlier this week to whack the health-care reform bill (before it was even signed into law!), Orly Taitz, the Queen of the Birth ... More >>

Teabagging Chuck DeVore

Photo by John GilhooleyDoes Chuck DeVore have an app for teabagging?​Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who's in the middle of a longshot bid to become your U.S. senator, is cooing about his impending endorsement Sunday from the Tea Party Express, the national conservative movement that helped s ... More >>

Orly Taitz Gets In On the Suing Healthcare Reform Game

Taitz photo by John Gilhooley / OC WeeklyThe two most powerful women in America.​The cluster of attorneys general filing suit against the federal government to stop the just-passed health-care reform bill aren't alone in their battle.We'll give you one guess on who else has taken up their cause.

OC's Five Least Reprehensible Elected Officials!

Photo by John GilhooleyDevore: OC's second-least reprehensible GOPer?​I was having lunch over the weekend with a pal, a Republican who will never vote for an OC Reep due to their rank hypocrisy. I, as a lefty nut, shared with him my frustrations with the Democratic Party of Orange County, the grou ... More >>

Supposedly Broke Orly Taitz Appeals Santa Ana Case

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​When she's not posting copies of the President's late mother's social security card and asking newly elected Republican senator Scott Brown to sign on her lawsuit against Barack Obama, Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz has lately taken to peppering her blog with statements like ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: "Surf Story" Release Party in Costa Mesa

All photos by John GilhooleyFriday, Dec. 18 at the Hurley International headquarters in Costa Mesa, Robb Havassy and company held a party, complete with art show and concert, to commemorate the release of Havassy's book Surf Story, the culmination of years of thinking and work by the man whose creat ... More >>

Confused Fox Lady Asks Chuck DeVore to Speak for All Politicians

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​Irvine State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Twitter), who's hoping to be California's next senator, went into not-so-hostile territory today by appearing on Fox News. He taped an online-only interview with Fox's Dr. Cynara Coomer, a member of the prestigious "Fox Medical A- ... More >>

Share Your Farrell's Memories

John Gilhooley​Ah, Farrell's. If there's anything that is more entwined into the American experience, it would have to be McDonald's. It seems that if you were alive during its heyday in the '70s and '80s, chances are good you had a birthday or other significant life event celebrated here with ... More >>

Juaneno Chief's Wife Cha Cha Belardes Passes Away

Photo by John Gilhooley Chief David Belardes with tribal manager Joyce Perry of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians. ​When the Weekly was covering the conflict between Mission San Juan Capistrano and a faction of the Juaneno Band of Mission Indians earlier this year, it appea ... More >>

It Takes a Goddess to Love, Honor, Heal a Soldier

Photo by John GilhooleyThe Rev. Ava Park of the Goddess Temple in Irvine.When the Goddess Temple of Orange County founder the Rev. Ava Park spoke with the Weekly in 2006, she tied man's violent, warring ways with a patriarchal society and the Old Testament view of a strong, male God who ruled his we ... More >>

Birther Smackdown: Orly Taitz Faces Judgment In Georgia

John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​As we blogged yesterday, OC dentist and lawyer Orly Taitz was heard in court on Monday in Georgia, arguing that an army surgeon should not have to deploy to Iraq because Barack Obama isn't actually eligible to be president. Today, federal district judge Clay Lands ... More >>

Slideshow: Saturday's No Doubt, Paramore, the Sounds Concert at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Andrew Youssef​It's No Doubt Central around here. Amanda Parsons threw up the setlist from Friday's show, and here are Andrew Youssef's pictures Gwen, Tony, Tom and Adrian-filled from Saturday's way beyond sold-out gig (he couldn't even stay past three songs, poor guy). Coming up: John Gilhooley's ... More >>

More Slideshows? We Can't Be Stopped! (The Ringers, Matt Costa)

Just yesterday, we showed you some pretty pictures from the Faint and Ladytron at the Grove of Anaheim and Protest the Hero at Chain Reaction. For some folks, that would be enough. But we are not men. We are Devo OC Weekly. So here are a couple more slideshows for your viewing pleasure--Huntington B ... More >>

ACLU Demanding That Feds Turn Over OC Mosque Spying Records

The case that erupted with ex-con man Craig Monteilh's confession that he's been spying on OC mosques for the FBI will hit local federal courts this afternoon, when the ACLU makes arguments asking for the release of all theJohn GilhooleyCraig Monteilh says he spied on the Islamic Center of Irvine fo ... More >>

"Parenting the Addict Child" Finds a New Home

Photo by John GilhooleyShortly after publication of the Weekly's story on Laguna Beach's Leyla Fatima, who hosts the radio program Parenting the Addict Child, her station KLSX 97.1 FM switched from its "FM Talk" format to Top 40 music. That was curious because Fatima talked at the time of big plans ... More >>

Thoughts/Slideshow: OC Music Awards Showcase Night Five at Chain Reaction

We were at night five at the OC Music Awards showcases last night, the first (of two) at Chain Reaction. John Gilhooley took some fab pics, check them out here. My thoughts? They're after the jump!

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To Do This Weekend 5/2 - 5/4

Free Fridays at the Long Beach Museum of Art, 5/2 @ 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Thanks to the LA County Arts Commission, the Long Beach Museum of Art offers free admission to all guests every Friday. LBMA 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, CA 562-439-2119 John Gilhooley Photography Exhibit, 5/3 @ 7 p.m. - 1 ... More >>