Lisbon

Geeta Bansal Interviews Virgilo Martinez, Peru's Newest Chef Star

Every Monday, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of European cooking. Today, she regales us with a visit to Peru, where Virgilio Martinez is currently the toast of the country's cooking scene. Enjoy!

'Night Across the Street': An Epitaph of Dreams

Raúl Ruiz's last film is an arresting puzzle

Miguel Gomes: The Maximalist

In his great 'Tabu,' the director offers more

'Tabu': Let's Go Native

Miguel Gomes' brilliant look at colonial fantasy

Checking In On: Crystal Antlers

In the year since Long Beach-via-Orange County psych-rockers Crystal Antlers self-released their second studio album, Two-Way Mirror, the band has gone on multiple tours and yet kept a low local profile. But despite playing only a handful of area shows (including the Moon Block Party in Po ... More >>

Theatrical Favorites of 2011

[Year In Film] Powerful, introspective, big-theme cine-statements

Team 'Margaret'

[Year In Film] Karina Longworth on why you've never heard of her favorite movie of the year, plus nine more bests

Radiohead Confirm Their First Festival Appearance of 2012

Chris Victorio/OC Weekly​No, it's not Coachella. Radiohead announced that they'll be headlining Portugal's Optimus Alive festival, which is set to take place between July 12 and 15 next year in Lisbon in addition to the 10-date North American tour for February 2012 and five shows across Europe for ... More >>

Watch All 10 New Bon Iver Videos From Deluxe Edition of Last Album

​The deluxe edition of Bon Iver, Bon Iver released today on Jagjaguwar. It features ten short films that serve as visual compliments to the audio tracks. The videos were shot by Dan Huiting, Isaac Gale, David Jensen, JoLynn Garnes, Ryan Thompson, Andre Durand and Justin Vernon. Watch all 10 below ... More >>

Ladies Go First In 'To Die Like a Man'

Transcending biology and singing fados in Lisbon

American Hi-Fi's Front Man Stacy Jones: 'I Just Turned 40, and I Have Not Had a Real Job'

​"American Hi-Fi has become kind of an inside joke for the four of us," says front man Stacy Jones by phone from his downtown Los Angeles home. "It's become kind of this boy's club where we drink beer and we watch sports and we play rock music."  Not an entirely bad gig: over the span of thei ... More >>

Hotel California

Celebrity living has its downside in 'Somewhere'

UCI Fall Film Program Hosts Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-Liang, Stanley Kubrick, Yes Men, Kirby Dick and Closeted Gay Politicians

Kirby Dick is coming to Irvine to screen "Outrage," his documentary on closeted gay politicians.​UC Irvine's Film and Video Center was late in releasing details of its fall program because the FVC's tiny and tireless staff was unsure whether there would even be a program. (Thank you, UC system acr ... More >>

First Crop of SXSW Acts Announced, OC/LB Bands Conspicuously Absent

A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep ... More >>

Hit List

WEB EXCLUSIVE! The top movies of 2007

Singing the Portuguese Blues

Mariza Modernizes Fado While Maintaining Its Roots

Getting Bombastic with Portugal. The Man

Portugal. The Man have burdened themselves with an awkward moniker (also: damn that superfluous period), but despite a name that makes you feel foolish while uttering it in public, the Oregon via Wasilla, Alaska group (who perform at Anaheim's Chain Reaction July 25) create compelling music that's ... More >>

Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

Letters

Me No Likey!

Viva Garcia Lorca!

Cal State Fullerton production wires one of the 20th century's most brilliant writers

McNally McReal

Straight America's favorite gay playwright still deals in stereotypes