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News & Notes as Newport Beach Film Festival Opens Tonight with Doc Broadway Idiot

The greatest thing about last Thursday's Newport Beach Film Festival issue was that I freely said with pride that I was on the cover, the idea being people assumed that was a reference to the rock-hard abbed fellow holding the giant film reels, not the "By Matt Coker" type on the lower right.Those w ... More >>

Curatorial Cage Match In Irvine

The city's Fine Arts Center show 'Curatorial Exchange' makes art geeks go mano a mano

[Slide Show] The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List

See Also:*Five Artists (Besides Lil Wayne) Who Think New York Sucks*Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music Moments*Three Ridiculously Bad Celebrity DJ VenturesIf you've somehow managed to avoid the Internet entirely for the last week or so, you probably don't know how bad your musical taste rea ... More >>

[UPDATED with Details on Funeral, Arrests:] Jensen Gray is Fatally Stabbed; Childhood Pal Ryan Bright Held

See the update at the end of this post with details on the funeral and the arrest records of the victim and suspect.ORIGINAL POST, JULY 12, 1:37 P.M.: Two apparent friends and former classmates at Laguna Beach High School were partying in an apartment near Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade early ... More >>

EDC 2012: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set

In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM's music "fake shit" and said they "do not play house music" -- as in, real house music. On Friday, in front of a huge crow ... More >>

Coachella: Five Signs You're An Aging Hipster

Aging hipsters--the very same people Coachella targeted when it began holding the music fest in Indio--are usually easy to spot on the Empire Polo Fields. They're the ones who can't be bothered to walk over to Gobi and check out a new band because "It's too hot!" (or, in Friday's case, "It's too col ... More >>

What Explains Odd Conduct of LA Sheriffs in the Death of Cal State Fullerton Student?

​We'll probably never know why homicide investigators with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department acted oddly in the recovery of the skeletal remains of 24-year-old Cal State Fullerton student Mitrice Richardson in Malibu Canyon.The August 2010 decision by sheriff's investigators to move Richardson' ... More >>

Speak Takes You Thrift Shopping at Fullerton's Sav Mor Discount

Brass​You might not know who Speak is, but you do know his work. In late October, I wrote a piece for our sister paper, LA Weekly, on the Moreno Valley rapper, who co-wrote Kreayshawn's massive hit, "Gucci Gucci." The revelation raced around the blogosphere. Shortly after the news broke, Spe ... More >>

Bill Targeting Nonprofits That's Inspired by Jerry Sandusky-Penn State Scandal Gets Legs

​In the wake of the Penn State-Jerry Sandusky controversy, a California assemblyman has answered a Newport Beach attorney and retired state senator's call for legislation targeting the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that foster, enable and cover up child sexual abuse. The proposed bill would stri ... More >>

[UPDATED with Arrestee Account:] Reports: Santa Ana Occupiers Finally Released

UPDATE DEC 5, 2011 1:15 P.M.: Lest you think all Occupiers arrested last week outside Los Angeles City Hall are just a bunch of whiny liberals spouting trumped-up claims of police brutality, we present  Massimo Marini. The 28-year-old activist was among at least four Orange County Occupiers nab ... More >>

No iPhone 5 vs. Tupac's Real Killer: Which News is Bigger Today?

​So now that everyone is disappointed that Apple didn't introduce the iPhone 5 and instead introduced a version of the iPhone 4 with a better camera, we turn our attention to our sister paper LA Weekly's big news today: that Tupac Shakur was ordered killed by Sean Combs, then known as Puff Daddy, ... More >>

[UPDATED with Fullerton Police Cite People For Honking At Protest:] Kelly Thomas' Story Goes National

​UPDATE, SEPT. 10, 6:27 P.M.: Fullerton police officers have had little to no presence at the Kelly Thomas protests outside their building for the past several weeks. Today, however, they stepped up enforcement and issued citations to three motorists who honked as they drove past the protest. ... More >>

[UPDATED, With Mini-Review!] Pizzeria Mozza Newport Beach Open Today. NOW!

ProfessorSalt.comMozza's Ipswich clam clam pizette​UPDATE: September 2, 4:15 pm. So after we broke the news of Mozza's opening late in the evening, we rushed over as soon as we could and fought our way to the hostess station to put in our name. Apparently lots of Newport locals were keeping watch ... 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 >>

Allen Baylis, Surf City Lawyer, is Source on Stories About Red-Light Cameras, Nudity and Raëlians

​Huntington Beach attorney Allen Baylis is making the media rounds this week thanks to two issues he regularly fights in court: government use of red-light cameras and government bans on public nudity.As Orange and Westminster this week consider joining Anaheim in banning red-light cameras, Baylis ... More >>

San Clemente-Based California Milk Processor Board Pulls Its Ad Campaign Touting Milk As A Cure To PMS

​Got milk? Yeah, we know, that marketing slogan stopped being effective, and started being annoying, about a decade ago. The milk industry needed its next big ad campaign and it looks like they just might have found it. The San Clemente-based California Milk Processor Board rec ... More >>

[UPDATE: Now, Gringo Bandito to Participate!] Two Cool Gustavo-Involved Panels for this Weekend's Carmageddon Eat Real Festival!

​Update: Amy Scattergood unfortunately had to pull out of the "Future of Food Writing Panel" for Saturday, but we got a great guest for Sunday's panel on the Great Mexican Food Authenticity Debate: Matt McCollum, the main sales guy for Gringo Bandito. It'll be awesome to have Matt--a Dallas native ... More >>

Three Easter Eggs in the Pink Floyd Reissues

​ Pink Floyd announced they are reissuing their entire catalog this year, remastering all the classic records and releasing a slew of box sets and special editions in the process. We called a friend at their record label's marketing department to get the inside scoop on some of the special featu ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas, Blink-182, Simon Cowell and More Host Benefits for Japan Via Shows, T-Shirts, Albums, Vids, Tweets

​In the wake of the unfathomable disaster in Japan, musicians are showing their support through benefit shows, merch and other creative endeavors, rallying fans to help the country. Their efforts can make a real impact--Gaga's Japan-relief wristbands raised $250,000 in just 48 hours.  Here's ... More >>

Rick Bayless Blocks Mexican-Food Blogger Bill Esparza from Following His Twitter Account

​Any of the more than 108,000 followers that celebrity chef Rick Bayless has on Twitter knows that the U.S.'s most-famous cook of Mexican food has spent the weekend in Baja California scoping the scene for his PBS series Mexico: One Plate at a Time. "Super-busy scouting n Baja morn2nite 4 season 8 ... More >>

[UPDATED] Daniel Hernandez, Award-Winning Reporter, to Read From His New Book on Mexico City TOMORROW at Calacas!

​Originally published Feb. 3; updated for the obvious plugging reason . . .Those of us in Southern California fondly remember Daniel Hernandez, the San Diego native who jolted local journalism in Southern California for a couple of years--first, as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, then for ou ... More >>

Cupcakes Out, Pies In: Someone Gets Paid To Predict Food Trends

Flickr user vpickeringWhere food trend predictions come from...​We're coming up to the end of the year, which means it's time for would-be tastemakers to make all sorts of bold and useless predictions about what the new trends are. That people pay to hear this nonsense is hysterical (though the fa ... More >>

Five Authentic Mexican Dishes That Would Make Rick Bayless Scream, Or: For an Aztlanista Approach to the Question of "Authenticity" in Mexican Cuisine

Chico's Tacos in El Paso: The Most Mexican Restaurant in America​Rick Bayless came to and left Orange County last week, and none of Weeklings were able to attend, busy as we are with our normal lives (Dave, Edwin, and Shuji, their 9-to-5s; me, skinheads and pedo-priests). Sucks, because the battle ... More >>

Bicycling: So Hot Right Now

​Bikes are sooooo hot!In Long Beach, they are hot in the stolen property sense. More on that in a bit. First, we turn more positively to Orange County's LB.

Gays Petition Lady Gaga to Boycott Arizona, Instead Want a Meet and Greet

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Yesterday, our sister publication LA Weekly reported that an LGBTQ petition was urging Lady Gaga to cancel her Phoenix show at the US Airways Center scheduled on Sunday, July 31, and boycott Arizona. Their campaign urged Gaga to "Be a Lady For Our ... More >>

Dueling Dishes: Long Beach Taco Showdown

Just a few blocks east of Long Beach's hip, vintage store-driven Retro Row, Taquería la Mexicana sits on the corner of 4th Street and Coronado, a small window for orders, a covered outdoor seating area--all strangely tacked on to one of the small Craftsman bungalows that are scatt ... More >>

Santa Ana's Aushua Added to Next Month's 'LA 101'

​A festival-type show on a Tuesday? Hey, sure, why not? That's the day of LA 101, a concert put on by our sister paper, LA Weekly, up north at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City.

LA Weekly: Buddyhead Redux

There were Web sites back in 1998? Sure were! After all, that's the year Travis Keller and Aaron North started LA-based Buddyhead, the influential, infamous (Keller once sneaked into Fred Durst's office to steal red baseball caps and sell them on eBay!), shit-talking and genuinely beloved (well, pro ... More >>

SanTana's Designated Choo-Choo Builder Cordoba As Controversy-Ridden as They Come

Spurious GeorgeAs we predicted, Don Papi Pulido and his SanTana City Puppets rewarded Cordoba Corporation over more-qualified candidates with a contract to head a proposed streetcar project because of Cordoba head George Pla's many SanTana connections. Doug Irving of the Orange County Register had a ... More >>

Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: March of the day laborers

In town - the third favorite Dem: Later this afternoon, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards will be at the Disneyland Hotel to speak at the Orange County Democratic Party's 13th annual Harry Truman Awards & Dinner. In a CNN poll released Tuesday, Edwards followed Clinton (51 percent) and Obama ... More >>

Two Takes on Radiohead's In Rainbows

Hurry! You immediately have to read OC Weekly freelancer Ned Raggett's review of In Rainbows, which will be running in our print edition next week; we thought you'd want to get an advance peek at what he has to say, as Radiohead's new album is the most important thing in the world this week. Als ... More >>

Friday's Headlines & Surprises: Excessive Force?

Shoot 15 times, ask softball questions later: The parents of Ashley MacDonald, the 18-year-old Huntington Beach girl killed by two police officers, filed an excessive force lawsuit yesterday in U.S. District Court, according to Christine Hanley at the Times. According to their suit, Kenneth MacDona ... More >>

Little Saigon Film Director Wins Major Award

Congratulations to Orange County-based film director Ham Tran. Judges at the AZN Asian Excellence Awards in Los Angeles recently named Tran's Journey from the Fall as the outstanding independent film of 2007. Tran's epic movie follows a fictional Vietnamese family from the day the Communists invade ... More >>

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

Weekly Writer Wins Pulitzer Prize

Food critic Jonathan Gold of our sister paper LA Weekly has won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, it was announced today. The Pulitzer Board noted Gold's "zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater." The two other excellent nominees were both from the L ... More >>

The rave review that wasn't

Lovable Weekly contributor Greg Stacey, er, Stacy just sent us the following... Last week I was at the local Fatburger, paging through the latest LA Weekly, when I read the blurb featured at the top of an ad for the new indie picture Ten 'til Noon and damn near spit out my turkeyburger: "Best movi ... More >>

Juxtapozers

The year two local galleries tried to begin where Juxtapoz ends

!Ask a Mexican!

'Something happens when we cross the borderwe forget our sense of humor and become too literal'

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Cave

Ah, the Starbucks at UCI. There are few better places to score (or, in my case, just scope) erudite chicks. Right now there's a blonde sitting nearby who could pass for Galadriel: tall, willowy, with eyes like emerald searchlights. Or maybe they're hazel - to find out would require exceedingly cree ... More >>

A Clockwork Orange

Diary of a Mad County

Sea Sick and Twisted

Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic And The American Way

The Doom Room

Gog/Magog Projects beautiful vomit

Putting Rootdown

Famed LA club branches out to OC

Stalking Josefina Lopez

Fourteen years ago, the creator of Real Women Have Curves dumped my ass

Languis Resident Aliens

Sometimes fairly simple, sometimes fairly complex

Plenty Trepidatious

A civic leader strokes his manhood whilst a woman hood strokes Commie Girl!

Dont Know What You Got Till it's gone

Live fast, die young and leave a pretty exhibit

Your Name Here!

In which our Heroine sells her Soul for a crust of Bread

What's it like to be a big-time music writer at a major metropolitan newspaper?

45 Months in the Life of a Register Rock Critic