Lauren Booth

The Olde Ship Celebrates 20 Years With A Party

Is The Olde Ship really that "olde" if it's just celebrating its 20th year? When you consider that most restaurants are lucky to make it two years let alone ten, then yes, that's quite old indeed. To celebrate, our county's Brit pub staple is holding a bash this Sunday, April 21st, at Muckenthaler C ... More >>

Eric Burdon to Play The Coach House Friday Night

This Friday night, Eric Burdon, one of the last standing icons from the golden age of rock, will be hitting the stage at The Coach House, one of only a handful of shows the singer has planned in 2013. Over the past few years, Burdon has experienced a revival of sorts. At last year's South-by-Southw ... More >>

Why the Hell Is Phoenix Headlining Tonight?

This year as opposed to any other year of Coachella serves a reminder that the branding of the event is bigger than any of the bands playing, including headliners. While there was plenty of grumbling by younger, pre-Brit pop fans about The Stone Roses, overlooked is the head scratching move to put P ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, April 5 Feeding PeopleFingerprints Feeding People play a delightful brand of fuzzy-buzzy garage rock seasoned with reverby vocals and spooky-circus guitar riffs. At times, they're reminiscent of the Doors (but if the Doors had made it to the late '70s.) Another way to conceptualize Feedin ... More >>

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts

Girls Gone Wilder In 'Spring Breakers'

A thrilling corruption of the Disney princess set

Earl of Sandwich Is Hardly Upper Crust

Downtown Disney is the latest conquest by the growing chain

S.S. Coachella Cruise, Day One: Father John Misty, Yeasayer, !!!, Pulp

By: Liz Tracy The S.S. Coachella set out to sea rather unceremoniously. There weren't horns, not a streamer in sight, and no one smashed bottles against the body of the ship. But we'd all been aboard the Celebrity Silhouette for about four hours at that point, and Father John Misty was launching ... More >>

Christ, It's Another 'Red Dawn'

North Korea (and audiences) go home unhappy

Eat This Now: Kickin' Ketchup

Written by our resident Brit, Jack Grimshaw... Sexy, ketchup ain't. If your shining moment is being the punch line of a joke (albeit one told by the delectable Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction), then you have, in PR and advertising lingo, an image problem. And Dana Point's Beach Cities Ketchup aims to ch ... More >>

Andrea Arnold's 'Wuthering Heights': Black Like Me

This adaptation of Brontë braves lines of color

Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival: Critic Karina Longworth Weighs In

By Karina Longworth This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimmin ... More >>

Casting Call For Anthony Bourdain & Nigella Lawson's Cooking Competition Series This Saturday in Santa Monica

You probably won't meet Bourdain or the comely Brit, but you will have a chance to audition this Saturday in LA if you're interested in competing for what they promise is an "exciting" new cooking show for ABC hosted by the pair.The requirements for being considered are pretty lax. You don't have to ... More >>

Coachella Lineup Announced!

​Hipsters of the world unite! After a long wait, the Coachella lineup has been announced. The festival, as promised, will span six days over two weekends in April (13-15, 20-22). As usual, the festival features an indie-friendly lineup; however, there are a couple of prominent names returning to t ... More >>

Top 15 Teen Movie Music Moments

​Teen movies, in general, have great music. I don't know how that is, but when you think about it, teenagers take music more seriously than any other demographic I can think of, so if you're making a movie by/for them, it's gotta have a great soundtrack. Some of the choices may be silly, but, the ... More >>

'We Bought a Zoo' Is an Animal House

Oh, don't be such a cynic. Matt Damon needs your love

The Ten Most Disappointing Albums of 2011: #10 - #6

Yes, Jessi J, you made the list. Stop pouting. ​Tis' an exciting time of year for music critics. From January through November, carpel-tunnel prone wordsmiths like us are often faced with editorial pressure to "go easy" on certain releases. Or perhaps we are encouraged to throw praise upon hyp ... More >>

[UPDATE: Ticket Info!] "Secret" Morrissey Show Wednesday at the Music Box

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​UPDATE, NOV. 21, 1:10 P.M.: We just received a press release confirming the show. Get more details on how to get tickets at the bottom of the post.  ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 20, 2011, 1:21 A.M.: While checking out the Pixies tonight in LA, we heard whisperings of an unanno ... More >>

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Ten Musician Stamps We'd Like To See

​ The US Postal Service, desperate to stop 15 years of bleeding caused by email and private competitors, announced that it will soon feature living people on stamps (the post office has long had a policy of placing only the dead on postage). Of interest to this column, the USPS will consider fe ... More >>

Piraat, Our Drink of the Week!

​ Written by our resident Brit, Jack Grimshaw...It was a vision from hell. For seafarers in the 17th and 18th centuries, there was no sight more bowel-loosening than a horde of no-quarter-given-or-sought pirates swarming over your taffrail with cudgels, cutlasses, battle axes and bad intent. (If E ... More >>

This Week In Food: New Slater's 50/50, Hipster Blueberry Donuts and Piraat!

​It's time for our weekly round-up of all the tasty news you may have missed (see awesome popsicle to the right).Taste it all after the jump!

[UPDATED at Finish Line:] Charity Runner Who Began Cross-County Trip in Surf City Ends in NYC

​UPDATE, AUG. 9, 12:08 P.M.: Despite that rock-throwing incident in Pennsylvania last week, Brit T. Mark Allison reached Coney Island just after 2 a.m. this morning to complete a 3,100-mile charity run that began May 1 in Huntington Beach.He only missed his goal by two hours of reaching the fabled ... More >>

What Happens When a Newport Beach Socialite Visits Santa Ana?

​If you're not from Newport Beach or a KDOC-TV Channel 56 viewer from back in the days when Wally George ruled supreme and she hosted a cooking show with the late RV king John Crean, you probably don't know who Barbara Venezia is. She's a nice woman, fierce defender of Newport Beach, charity maven ... More >>

Why 27 is the Most Dangerous Age in Music; Amy Winehouse Tributes from M.I.A., Rome Ramirez and More

​27 is rock and roll's most hazardous number.On Saturday, Amy Winehouse joined an exclusive club after the five-time Grammy winner was found dead in her London home at the age of 27. It is the age at which a number of pop stars have died from overdoses, suicides, murders, or in some cases, just ... More >>

Clean-Sounding Dave Green of the Filthy Souls

​Dave Green of the Brit band the Filthy Souls is performing at the House of Blues in Anaheim tomorrow; he talks to OC Weekly about what his performance is like without the band and working with Bishop Lamont.

Delius Restaurant Is the Real Deal

Getting to know the ambitious Signal Hill restaurant beyond the first crush

Burberry Beauty Is Berry Good

[Trendzilla] The classic British fashion house gets into the makeup game

'Thor' Is a Bore

But that brother from another mother sure does steal his thunder

Tom Haverfoods Will Make You LOL

​Last week while we were eating lunch, a six-year-old told me "Mustard is the opposite of ketchup". After I laughed and laughed, I realized how cogent a statement it really was. This kid should have a Twitter feed, I thought.It seems it's an idea that some fans of Parks and Recreation took and ran ... More >>

Leaked: Britney Spears' After-Party Plans

​ Britney Spears has had a busy week, announcing a pair of June SoCal shows as part of her Femme Fatale tour and popping up unexpectedly at a club with Nicki Minaj, causing such a stir that six fans collapsed from hyperventilation. Not wanting to miss out on the excitement, we used our connecti ... More >>

Five Songs We'd Love To See On Glee (and Storylines to Go With Them)

​ Last week, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters entered into a minor public spat with Glee overlord Ryan Murphy when he announced that none of his music would ever appear on the FOX-TV hit. Grohl is not the first rock star to issue a No Glee statement to the press-- Coldplay and Guns n' Roses did th ... More >>

Finally, a Full-Length From Far*Out

​Far*Out, the West Covina trio with the hard-to-look up name, formed in high school after hearing Oasis' Definitely Maybe. Now that they have a full length that they can call their own, they're celebrating with a release show at Chain Reaction on Saturday. Bassist Charles Gray tells you why you sh ... More >>

Alex Pettyfer Gets Some In-N-Out

Who's Alex Pettyfer? That's the same question I'm asking, but the E! side of the celebrity universe is pumping him up as the next It Boy--good for him.For our purposes, though, we only care that the Brit ate at In-N-Out.

Coming to Newport Coast: Tamarind of London

​The British are coming. The British are coming. And they're bringing their Indian food. Tamarind, a Michelin-starred London restaurant that also got kudos from none other than Gordon Ramsay himself, is opening at Crystal Cove Promenade in Newport Coast. In the Irvine Company press release tha ... More >>

Everybody Must Get Stoned: The Six Druggiest Rock Stars of All Time

EPA/The Independent​In honor of Aaron Carter getting out of rehab (who, by the way, looks like absolute shit), we wondered, "Hey, just who were the most fucked-up rockers ever?" Yes, there are some very deserving people not here (David Crosby, Station to Station--era Bowie, Iggy Pop, Fleetwood Mac ... More >>

Win Tickets to See Smith Westerns at Detroit Bar

​You may have heard of Chicago-based Smith Westerns from any of the big music blogs or because they are touring all around U.S. in support of their sophomore LP, Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum). Their musical influences stem from the likes of the Beatles, T.Rex and the best parts of '90s Brit-pop.  ... More >>

Orange Bits: The Growlers Released a New Album, Dusty Rhodes Have Two New Songs (?) and Stereofix Asks Fans for Money

Mary Bell/OC WeeklyHere it is! ​The weekly list of links to music coverage (that we didn't write) around the OC music blogosphere. 

We're Coming Out: Five 'Coming Out Day' Anthems

Mary Bell/OC WeeklyAdvocates of the overturning on Proposition 8 gathered at Bixby Park in Long Beach on Aug. 4, 2010​With all due respect to Ms. Diana Ross, there are more gay anthems than "I'm Coming Out." Here are five that also deserve a wave of the rainbow flag, since today is officially Comi ... More >>

Flier of the Week: Hard Days Night at Proof Bar, Jun. 23

​ He might've just popped the champagne, but thanks to the strategically placed bottle between Mick Jagger's legs, this thick-lipped legend puts the "hard" in this week's Hard Days Night at Proof Bar in Santa Ana.  

Fashion Tip from Far*Out

Charles Gray, bassist of Brit-pop-esque band Far*Out, shares a fashion tip: "Leave the skinny jeans for the skinny kids. I'm looking at you, chubby emo kid on the skateboard!" ​

This Weekend: Many Good Bands at Detroit Bar... Plus Carson Daly People

Timothy NorrisThe Morning Benders reinterpreting The Hangover​If you're not at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa for at least one of the next three nights then, well, we just don't know what.A bold claim, but here's the evidence...

[Year In Review] Of Taco Trucks and Votes That Suck: 2009 On Our Stick a Fork In It Food Blog

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Spicy Dama Parts

An Encyclopedic Beer Selection, Killer Burger Redeem the Uneven Debut of Haven Gastropub

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Pinche Chesters

What Sweethearts!

Sugarlight Girls

Gooooooooooood!

Where to eat during the FIFA World Cup

Two Days in the Valley

Coachellas always gritty and stinky and yet were still going. Again

Dr. Mike

Health, thy name is hooch