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Inmates Have Been Reviewing Prisons On Yelp!

Yelp is many things to many people: a bully pulpit or simply just a bully to businesses barely trying to make it. It's been ridiculed, parodied, and satired...but this next story is so surreal, even the people at Yelp probably didn't see it coming. The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com ... More >>

We Hang Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

In full grips of the dry desert heat, the fine art of day drinking at Coachella becomes a game of survival of the fittest. Sweltering temperatures in the high 90s aren't necessarily ideal conditions to bombard your liver with alcohol. And unless you've been used to trekking through sand in the Middl ... More >>

Deep-Fried Cereal, Coming Soon To The OC Fair

The OC Fair is around the corner (wahoo!) and that means only one thing--bring out the fat pants!  Chicken Charlie, SoCal's undisputed king of the deep fryer, will have a brand new artery-clogging offering: deep-fried cereal. Partakers choose from either Trix or Cinnamon Toast Crunch--both are ... More >>

Jack Martinez and His Black Flys Are Back!

The '90s may be long gone, but not OC's infamous, lunatic eyewear brand

Will Saddleback Church Snap Up Albert Pujols, Christianity's Biggest Free Agent?

Warren and Pujols: A Murderer's Row for Christ?​Going off what Coker posted yesterday about Christians looking toward new Anaheim Angels slugger Albert Pujols to bring a bunch of Papist Mexis in la naranja toward Christ, the question then becomes: what local church will Pujols sign up for as his n ... More >>

The Cults Revisit Jonestown, Drink the Kool-Aid

​​I may be late to the train on this one (apparently it's been out since the summer), but the video for the Cults' infectious single, "Go Outside," has it all: irony, a beautiful etheric melody, retro tones and mass murder.The band, founded in 2010 by New York University students Madeline Follin ... More >>

Timothy Naftali, Nixon Library Chief, is Leaving

"One lie I corrected was this big."​Timothy Naftali, the George H.W. Bush biographer and respected historian the National Archives chose to run the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda after the disgraced 37th president's loyalists from a private foundation first built and operated the ... More >>

'The Ides of March' Offers No Game Change

Intrigue drowns out argument in George Clooney's political thriller

Top 10 Video Games Based on Eating

​Food: It's one of the most important basic needs of human life. Human beings and just about every living being on Earth can live without any luxury, but cannot survive without food. We celebrate food. We spend large amounts of money on food. We explore diverse cultures through the food people eat ... More >>

Chicken Charlie Reveals This Year's Cholesterol Contenders

Courtesy of Chicken Charlie​Shhh... that sound you hear is your arteries clamping shut as a preventative measure. They know county fair season is right 'round the corner, and that means deep-fried God-only-knows-what, sure as eggs is eggs.Our brethren and sistren at Squid Ink up there in that Ange ... More >>

Five Deep Fried Desserts Worth the Calories

Flickr user judybaxter​What a pity this isn't Scotland. There are chippies (that's fish and chips shops to us) where they'll fry just about anything. Frozen pizza, Twinkies, Mars bars, you name it, they'll batter and deep-fry it.Sure, we have our fried desserts here, our beignets and our doughnuts ... More >>

Ice Cube

City National Grove of Anaheim

DIY Juice Into Alchohol Kit

thinkgeek.com​Last month, I wrote a prison winemaking how-to for a certain ex-Orange-County-Sheriff-turned-convicted-felon headed to the slammer. In case you wanted to make your own pruno but were skeeved out by the idea of fermenting Kool-Aid and tomato juice in a garbage bag inside a prison cell ... More >>

No, Pee Wee, Strawberry Cobbler Won't Dishwasher. Sorry.

Pee Wee Herman's Facebook pageThe secret word of the day is... DISHWASHER!​Pee Wee Herman--yes, that Pee Wee Herman--linked our "Will It Dishwasher?" post yesterday with the caption, "Strawberry Cobbler la Dishwasher". That post was from last year, and attracted a new wave of commentators, which w ... More >>

Mike Carona: No More Excuses

[Moxley Confidential] Federal Appeals Court upholds the ex-sheriff's conviction, and he's finally headed to prison

Five Mexican Christmas Food Traditions That Should Happen Year-Round

​Although I've never liked Thanksgiving, I absolutely love the Christmas holidays--not just because of the whole Nazarene bit, but also because my mom and her sisters prepare foodstuffs we don't have at any other point of the year. Sure, they pat out tamales in numbers big enough to feed an army ( ... More >>

Starfucker, STRFKR, Who Cares?

It's all about the music, man—until you get angry letters

OC GOP Hack Ghostwrote for Hugh Hewitt to the Tune of Thousands of County Dollars

​What happens when a hack writes for a hack? Thousands of computer screens groan in digital agony under the dead weight of the product--and thousands of dollars of county money get wasted by pals.The feisty Friends for Fullerton's Future Blog has been embarrassing Orange County's preeminent Republ ... More >>

Five Excuses Loretta Sanchez Apologists Give to Justify Her Not Being More Aztlanista

Their fearless leader...​OC gal Adriana Maestas has another scandalous, connect-the-dots post on Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez over at her Latino Politics Blog, and her apologists ranted as always. Seriously: why does Loretta have so many apologists? Not like she's done much in Washington--can ust ... More >>

[Summer Guide] Proposed Theme Park Celebrates OC's Part in Bringing the Global Economy to Its Knees

Los Angeles Stadium Comes Roaring into North OC

It seems, from our un-lofty perch in Orange County, as if an NFL stadium will not be built in Los Angeles as long as there is a Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, a rogue's gallery of fumblers if there ever was one.But there are still dreamers who believe they can swing a stadium deal outside LA city ... More >>

John and Ken Go After Red County Blog (Again)

*Originally posted on March 13; moved up by Gustavo 'cause the conversation is HOT!The hosts of KFI-AM 640 The John and Ken Show are ripping Orange County's right-tilted Red County blog once again. (You can listen here.) What set off the anti-tax crusaders--whose recent live Tax Revolt 2009 broadcas ... More >>

The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm

Discovery Center

Democratic Candidate Paul Lucas Says He's Still in Trouble for Playing Footsie With Republicans

[Locals Only] The Fling

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

[Locals Only] The Crowd, Reissues of Letter Bomb and Dig Yourself (TKO)

[Moxley Confidential] The stupidity of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona caught on tape

Letters

'Normally, writers of your muckracking calibur would drop the context out of a quote, but you actually left it in. Thanks for doing half the job for me'

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Another Carona Monster?

Did Carona Create Yet Another Monster? If I was indicted Sheriff Michael S. Carona, I might be getting tired of Jo Ann Galisky, Kool-Aid Queen. This acting sheriff bit has swelled her mullet. Six weeks after she became temporary head honcho, she's still telling everyone she can that Carona's absenc ... More >>

Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids

$50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But � ... More >>

"Friends of Monsignor John" Already Deletin'

Scroll for updates after the jump... A support group for embattled Orange diocese Monsignor John Urell isn't even a day old, and already site administrators are deleting messages critical of Urell and his peers' handling of the diocese's sex-abuse scandal. You won't know this from reading their web ... More >>

Orange Juice Makes Weekly Look Smart

A couple of weeks ago, this paper named the SanTana-leaning Orange Juice the county's best blog because it represents the best qualities of the blogosphere: scoops, jocularity, personality, with a bit of libel and bad graphics thrown in. And some paranoid arrogance, we thought, after bloggers Sean M ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises

Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Ear ... More >>

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

The Sea and Cake's Everybody

The Sea and Cake Everybody (Thrill Jockey) Release date: May 8, 2007 Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. The Sea ... More >>

Sparkle Motion

Graceland MafiaUndisputed Kings of Non-Rockabilly

Warning: Now Entering Orange County

David Reyes has a piece in the Times about plans to widen the I-5 from three to five lanes at the county line. Most surprising is the final paragraph, which might have warranted earlier mention: In other business, Art Leahy, OCTA's chief executive, was given a 6% pay raise and one-time 3% bonus afte ... More >>

Fun With Dick

No. 8: Our borderline-deceitful presidential library should be a true landmark

Harshing Their Mellows

Smug host rips counterculture icons in Tom Snyders Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show

An Ode to Cheerwine

The last of the Outlaw Sodas

Happiness Is a Warm Paintball Gun

National Professional Paintball Leaguers take aim at the future

Clashingly Yummy

Travel through Peru with Norys

Pete Wilson on Steroids

Cruz Bustamante on Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP and John and Ben

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Nut Cutters! Aaaaaaaiiiie!

20 things I love about Etta James

Dont Know What You Got Till it's gone

Live fast, die young and leave a pretty exhibit

Damn Those Yetis

Thanks to Leo DiCaprio, weve got the bent classicism of Stanoslav Szukalski

Beating Off

Ron D Cores techno-metal-porn obsession

Pinehurst Kids & The Ziggens