Subject: Lakewood

• Usher Gets Weird (At Least His Producer Does)

  Usher is rather fond of Dat Girl Right There. I never thought the day would come that I'd gush over an Usher track. But “Dat Girl Right There” (who hasn't had similar complex thoughts?) featuring Ludacris and produced by Rich Harrison is amazing—sonically anyway. The electronic backing is ominous and strident, something you're more likely to encounter on a Conrad Schnitzler LP than in a chart-bound R&B tune. It's a coming attraction for Usher's next album, which is due out in 2008. I w

  November 14, 2007

• The Taxi Driver

  February 22, 2001

• Letters

  March 29, 2001

• Youre Guilty

  July 19, 2001

• Landslide 2002

  November 14, 2002

• No on 8: Liveblogging from the Tin Lizzie

  November 4, 2008

• Which OC Icon Abides on the 2006 Lebowski Fest Poster?

  Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Lebowski Fest 2009, which kicks off with a special screening and live music event at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 7 followed by bowling night May 8 at Cal Bowl in Lakewood, which will be the scene of wild costumes, trivia contests, unlimited bowling and reenactments from Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski.No one could have fathomed the lightly attended stoner-noir of 1998 would still be remembered, let alone that its central character, The Dude,

  March 5, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  December 4, 2008

• Orange County Sings the Obama Blues

  November 6, 2008

• [Locals Only] Toy Gun Cowboy, 'Big Blue' (Gutter Groove Records)

  May 15, 2008

• Didion-Approved

  March 27, 2008

• Letters

  Your Story is probably BS

  November 24, 2005

• Letters

  'Homosexuality is unnatural, defined by the Bible as a sin and is unhealty physically, mentally and socially for those who choose to live that lifestyle'

  August 9, 2007

• Excerpts: Part 1

  September 14, 2000

• Letters

  October 23, 2003

• Bad Rap, Vol. II

  April 5, 2001

• Long Beach

  October 20, 2005

• Stories That Made a Difference

  And some we regret

  September 8, 2005

• Hooray for Bollywood

  May 19, 2005

• The Dudes Abide

  March 31, 2005

• Diary of a Loud County

  December 30, 2004

• Tegan and Sara

  September 30, 2004

• Mass Forgetting

  November 6, 2003

• Letters

  August 28, 2003

• Nothing to Prove

  February 13, 2003

• Booty Call

  September 19, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 21, 2002

• Westminster

  September 27, 2001

• Tustin

  September 27, 2001

• Letters

  October 12, 2000

• Horror, Hiding and the Holocaust

  June 22, 2000

• Dull Punk, Disco Balls, Dead Bodies

  January 13, 2000

• Letters

  November 4, 1999

• It's Finally Kogi Korean-Barbecue Taco Truck Season in OC

  May 14, 2009

• Kogi in OC! Kogi in OC! Tonight!!!

  Just got late breaking word about Kogi. Because of troubles with the Lakewood police, they are changing their location to Buena Park tonight: 9 p.m.-12 a.m. Corner of Fresca & Valley View, one block east of Orangethorphe!!!! Also, a reminder: be nice, people! Don't cut, don't fight, and be respectful of the rules. Lines will be long, but don't give the cops a reason to bust up the party again. UPDATE: There was a last minute location change to Santa Fe Springs, logged around 10 p.m. Tun

  April 25, 2009

• Video: The Kogi BBQ Truck VS. Lakewood Police!

  If you didn't show up to the Kogi Taco Truck appearance in OC-close Lakewood on Wednesday (like our friends Hungrymomma, Hungrypoppa, and lonegungirl did), then you missed the crackdown by the Lakewood police.  Sirens blaring, lights, and the Kogi truck being chased out like criminals.  They eventutally ended up finishing up their shift in nearby BUENA PARK!Here's your chance to relive that wild and crazy night, by way of a video one of the customers shot.Hilariously, at one point

  April 24, 2009

• This Week In Food

  This week, in SAFII:Edwin continued to stalk the Kogi Taco Truck, bringing us exciting news of its impending arrival in Lakewood twice this week (including Saturday). I revealed that Fresh & Easy has no further plans to expand locally in the near future, following big losses in its US operations. That may well disappoint OC Weekly-reading fans of the chain, one of whom likened it to Disneyland (!)And Gustavo made a plea for loquat tree owners to contact Ernest Miller, a Whittier cook and foo

  April 24, 2009

• Attention: Kogi Taco Truck Lands in Lakewood Tomorrow! Not O.C., But Close Enough. **UPDATE**

  UPDATE: Moving this up as a reminder to those in the La Palma, Buena Park, and Los Alamitos area of O.C.!!! KOGI WILL BE IN LAKEWOOD, AT THE ABC DRIVING SCHOOL FROM 10 P.M-1 A.M. TONIGHT!!! That's right next door! KogiAttention all Kogi Taco Truck followers. Kogi is going to be *THIS CLOSE* to O.C. tomorrow.  They'll be in Lakewood on the following times and location (and also, they're coming back Saturday!!!)Wednesday: 10PM-1AM@Lakewood ABC Driving School - 12630 Del Amo Blvd Saturday:

  April 22, 2009

• [CD Review] R. Scott, 'Mad Forms & Twisted Poses' (Do Your Worst)

  July 30, 2009

• Lady Killer

  December 13, 2007

• Crime Time: Ho' Attacker, Hammer Head, Bushman Packing Heat, Monkey Off the Market and Ryan Seacrest

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more ho' attackers, hammer heads, short robbers, skateboarding nazis, bloody bandagers, bushmen packing heat, baseball bat-wielding robbers, monkeys that are not for sale and Ryan Seacrest.Center photo by Melinda Nagy/Dreamstime.comBE TRUE TO YOUR CRIME-RIDDEN SCHOOL: Ah, a new school year is upon us. And so is schoolyard mayhem. A former security officer at Irvine's Beckman High School (top left) has been charged with two felony

  September 22, 2009

• Crime Time: Double the Fun Starring [Alleged] Skeevy Teachers, Fake Cop Robbers and Ryan Seacrest's Strange Stalker

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--actually the Weekly's TWO weekly round-up as an attempt is made to make up for lost vacation time.Left courtesy of E! Entertainment, right courtesy of Orange Police DepartmentRyan Seacrest (left) gets paid another visit from his No. 1 Army special forces fan, Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr.​SEACREST OUT, UZOMAH BACK IN Remember Chidi Benjamin Uzomah Jr., the 25-year-old Lakewood resident who pleaded guilty last month in Orange County Superior

  November 4, 2009