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Sign the Petition to Bring Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand "Home:" Update

Click here to find out where you can sign a Change.org petition to bring Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stand to Newport Beach!ORIGINAL POST, MAY 8, 1:30 P.M.: To promote the 15 new episodes being released soon of Arrested Development--only the best television show ever about life in Orange County, ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Monday, May 13 This Time With FEELING Detroit Bar Refrigerators don't get much love in rock music, save for This Time with FEELING's subscription to the label of 'fridge rock' to describe their music, infused with genius melodies and coy vocals by the band's resident chanteuse Ali Coyle. TTWF unra ... More >>

Gary Richards Was an EDM Hustler Long Before He Started HARD

With the advent of the HARD Summer line-up and its hilarious trailer circling the Internet, we couldn't help but notice how much they have outdone themselves in terms of bringing the most in the now, up and coming and sought after talent today with a diverse line-up featuring everyone from Dog Blood ... More >>

The Colourist Are Stamping Their Passport

Communication between band members is one of the most important yet often-overlooked aspects of being in a band. Just ask the Colourist's Adam Castilla and Maya Tuttle. Their previous outfit, Paper Thin Walls, won a contest to play at a Led Zeppelin after-party in London in 2007. It sounded great in ... More >>

'Ginger & Rosa': BFFs At the End of Time

Sally Potter reveals young women—and a world—on the verge

Top Five Best EDM Shows to See in March

Festival season is less than a month away for the electronic dance music community, and with it comes the time-honored tradition of skimpy outfits, three-day ragers, pool parties, and plenty of dancing until the sun comes up. Starting in March, a slew of your favorite DJs will be on tour in the spri ... More >>

Discussing Santa Ana VietBan in Broken English

The Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously Tuesday for a resolution that discourages official visits to Orange County's seat from communist Vietnam. They were supported by residents of Little Saigon and the surrounding Orange County Vietnamese community, but Register commenters greeted the news pr ... More >>

Rival Sons Are Stomping Back Across the Pond

Standing backstage before a show in London, the Rival Sons had a lot to look forward to. They'd relentlessly toured Europe, opening for such legends of rock as AC/DC and Guns N' Roses, but nothing could have prepared them for the praise that was about to be heaped upon them by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy P ... More >>

What Do a Santa Ana Artist, Ex-Surf City Art Center Director, Leonardo da Vinci and Citizen Space Exploration Have in Common?

A Santa Ana artist who has created an institute dedicated to the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci has joined visions with a former Huntington Beach museum director opening a new exhibit on citizen space exploration "to dream, conceptualize and build the world of tomorrow." You can't see the fruits ... More >>

Norin & Rad Put as Much Fire Into Their Beats as They Do Into Their Food

[Locals Only] The Westminster duo's diet of trance beats, hard work and Srirachi earns them a deal with EDM label Anjunabeats

Rusko Talks About Bringing UK Dubstep to Cali and Shares His New EP for Free

Born Christopher Mercer, the English 27 year-old dubstep king better known as Rusko announced that his new EP titled Kapow will be released on his website via Rusko Recordings this Sunday November 4th for free with an iTunes release on November 6th. Currently on a three-month tour to promote the EP, ... More >>

The Wachowskis' Foggy Notion

The gargantuan epic 'Cloud Atlas' will dazzle you to dizziness

Damian Lazarus Plays Music For 24-Hour Party People...Literally

Revered as the man behind Resident Advisor's number one label of 2011, Crosstown Rebels, owner Damian Lazarus is bringing his deep house and minimal sounds to the US while making waves in LA. With the success of his "Get Lost LA" party, a festival in Playa Del Carmen on the horizon and the release o ... More >>

Vanessa Bryant Demands Kobe Cough Up Another Ring

Newport Coast's Kobe and Vanessa Bryant have famously been off-again, on-again, but the Mrs. seems to have revealed the way to keep her happy is to give her more rings.No, not the kind Black Mamba gave her after playing proctologist in an Eagle, Colorado, hotel room years ago.Momma wants championshi ... More >>

Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s

By: Liz OhanesianSee Also:*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Duran Duran: Still Hungry*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandDuran Duran had only been in Rome for an hour when we hopped on a phone call with bassist extraordinaire John Taylor. The night be ... More >>

Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move

See Also: *Remix Exclusive: Boys Noize - XTC (MMM REMIX) *HARD Summer vs. Nocturnal Wonderland--Which One is Better? *Shockingly, Bloc Party's Kele Okereke Enjoys Being In a Wildly Successful Rock Band British indie rock band Bloc Party has specialized in showing American practitioners of dancey ... More >>

Going for the Gold: Five 2012 Rap Songs To Inspire Our Olympic Team

See Also:*Get It Together: 6 West Coast Posse Cuts For Your 4th of July Cookout *Did MTV Really Snub Waka Flocka Flame's Rapping Rooster?*Big K.R.I.T. Keeps His Beats Homemade and His Rhymes CountrySummer Olympics gather the greatest athletes in the world to perform at the absolute heights of human ... More >>

[W/DOUBLE-DECKER BUS PICTURE!] How They Market Mexican Food in England: White Gloves and Royal Bracelets!

Every time my friends go off on trips across the globe, I always ask them to be on the lookout for Mexican food, for the obvious reasons. A friend just came back from Europe, with a stop in London, and this is a photo he just sent over, of Old El Paso's advertising campaign in England.The semiotics ... More >>

Cambodian Refugee from Santa Ana Detained Before Cultural Olympic Performance in London

Cambodian spoken word artist and former Santa Ana resident Kosal Khiev, who is scheduled to perform at the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad this week, was detained by British immigration officials overnight after landing at Heathrow Airport on Saturday evening. Khiev was invited to the Poetry Parnassus ... More >>

Artists Rally Against Sale of Santora Arts Building To Newsong Church

The artists that work, and basically live, inside the Santora Arts Building in downtown Santa Ana believe their historic structure is a place for expression without barriers. It is not a place, they say, for a church. Sitting under the painted-glass ceiling panels of the 84-year-old buildi ... More >>

Everybody Loves the '90s

Or at least so says Hollywood, with this week's 3D release of 'Titanic' and the long-awaited Pie-pic 'American Reunion'

Harold Chapman Asks: Will the Beat Go on?

OMC Gallery's Parisian bohemian retrospective of the legendary photographer evokes a yearning for yesteryear

Vans Warped Tour's Kevin Lyman: "I think the brand new bands like Matt Toka, Hyro Da Hero, Tomorrows Bad Seeds, and this great little band Cherry Bomb are the ones to look out for"

At the Vans Warped Tour official kick-off party and press conference at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles last week, creator Kevin Lyman marveled, "It's really cool--18 years and people still care!" Back in 1995, Lyman started the Warped Tour and showcased bands like No Doubt and Sublime. Today the ... More >>

Quark Henares on the Movie 'Rakenrol' and the State of Philippine Rock & Roll (It's Screen Free at UCI Today!)

​ Why is Rakenrol so cool? The Philippine movie, screening today at 5 p.m. at UC Irvine, doesn't have a groundbreaking plot: it's the story of an indie band trying to make it big, where the members come of age, and there's a love story (natch) to boot. It's not just that the motley cast is endeari ... More >>

South Coast Plaza Holiday Survival Guide!

[Trendzilla] Hours, new shops and more!

Odd Future's Frank Ocean Performs at the El Rey Theatre Tonight

OFWGKTA's Frank Ocean​Whether you know it or not, tonight's a big night for L.A. music lovers. Especially those who fell for the soulful musical stylings of Frank Ocean's Nostalgia Ultra mixtape and the abundance of leaked tracks that comprises his discography. Tonight, the resident crooner of ... More >>

Kevin Smith Screens Red State Twice Tonight; Co-Writer Ben York Jones Rolls Like Crazy

​Director Kevin Smith continues his Red State barnstorming in Long Beach tonight, presenting the Westboro Baptistesque shoot 'em up twice--and sticking around each time to take audience questions. Meanwhile, over in Newport Beach, there's a members-only screening of Santa Ana-bred filmmaker Drake ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher's Apparent One-Night Stand-in Sara Leal said to be Spotted in Newport Beach

​According to Nik Ritchie, who broke the bit of gossip about Ashton Kutcher supposedly having sex with Sara Leal in a San Diego Hard Rock Hotel suite's balcony hot tub on his sixth anniversary with wife Demi Moore, the previously unknown one-night stand-in "has been hiding out in a 3 million dolla ... More >>

Dave Gibbons Is a Church Misfit

Newsong was on its way to becoming Orange County's next big megachurch—then its pastor decided to pull back and go small

On The Line: Sea Kyeong Kim of Charlie Palmer At Bloomingdales, Part Two

Photo by Meranda Carter​Our interview with Chef Kim continues as we look into his background in Korea, as well as his aspirations for the future. We also hear about his experience working for previous On The Line subject, Amar Santana. Stay in the loop by reading Part One here, and get your heirlo ... More >>

10 Songs About Police Brutality

Charles Moore / Black Star​It seems like you hear about the police more often than usual these days. Whether it's the death of Mark Duggan that's inciting the London riots or the killing of Kelly Thomas that's shaking up the Fullerton PD, the news is rife with reports of police misconduct, and it' ... More >>

Why We Hope Anthony Bourdain's Second Travel Channel Show Will Be Better Than No Reservations

​The guy who has the job every foodie wants, Anthony Bourdain, will get a second show called The Layover. A Travel Channel press release announced that the premiere of the new, 10-episode long series will be November 21.

5 Churches That Should Buy Crystal Cathedral

Would you buy a church from these guys?​Drowning in debt, Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral is reportedly being put up for sale. The American Independent surmises the mega-church's dire financial straits demonstrate conservatism is on the wane behind the Orange Curtain. But rather than wallow in ... More >>

The Wars against Choc Finger, the World's Ultimate Chocolate Villain

Flickr user zapstratosphere​The story of Anthony Ward is relatively known at this point--the British fund manager whose manipulation and domination of the world's cocoa bean market have earned him the nickname "Choc Finger." It's his thirst for cash that can drive up or crash cocoa prices, which i ... More >>

The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell: Brit Punk's Renaissance Man

​He could have been a scientist. By the late 1960's Hugh Cornwell had a degree in biochemistry and was working in a lab in Sweden. But fronting a punk band turned out to be the better gig. "It wasn't a very good degree, you know," he says by phone from his hotel in Austin, Texas. "There was no poi ... More >>

War Dedicates Anaheim Concert to the Late Teena Marie

​Jimmy Reyes​As 2010 came to a close, Lonnie Jordan of War opened Thursday night's concert at the Grove of Anaheim by dedicating the band's set to the late Teena Marie. The music world continues to mourn the loss of "The Ivory Queen of Soul" who passed away at the age of 54 last Sunday. In his c ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Bitch Who Left Jesse James is Back!

UPDATE: More hater-ific biographical details about Jesse James' alleged mistress. Courtesy of West Coast ChopperPeek-a-boo!​The bitch would be the West Coast Chopper owner's pet pitbull pup, Cinnabun.Who did you think I was referring to?

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, House of Blues Anaheim, 3/16

Andrew YoussefPeter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle ClubClick for slideshow.The Hype: After selling out three nights at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club visited the House of Blues Anaheim in support of their new album, Beat The Devil's Tattoo. Boasting such song titles as "Ri ... More >>

Sin to Win?: Video Gaming's Most Ridiculous Marketing Stunts

This Tuesday marks the release of Visceral Games' Dante's Inferno, a game loosely based on Dante Alighieri's epic poem Divine Comedy. This video game perversion "re-imagining" of the fourteenth-century poem features a bad-ass, scythe-wielding badass who battles hordes upon hordes of demons and the u ... More >>

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

The Big Pink Bring a Delirious Wall of Sound to Detroit Bar

Mash-up Master Dirty South Leads Geekdom's Charge Into Clubland

[Sound Guy] Jessica Dobson's Connections Run Deep. Plus News From Local Natives and Jeffree Star

OC Turns Brit as 'BritWeek' Begins

Is Tony Blair a Freemason? The video above seems to think so. Oddly, some evidence behind the claim is provided by Martin Short, although it is unclear if he was doing so as himself, Jiminy Glick, Ed Grimley, Katharine Hepburn or Jackie Rogers Jr. What is as clear as London fog is the freewheelin ... More >>

Pole Dancers Are (Olympic?) Athletes, Too

Kat Attack Collette Kakuk: Gold medal worthy?Here's one to wrap your legs around: Beach volleyball may no longer be the hottest summer Olympic sport to tune into in 2012 if a critical mass of pole dancers manages to convince the Olympic Committee that the athleticism in the activity is gold-medal co ... More >>

The Sex Pistols at The Joint, Las Vegas, June 7, 2008

[The Sex Pistols are playing only one US date on their current tour. Ben Marcus went to Las Vegas to file this review of their opening date for Heard Mentality.] Jonesy’s Jukebox on Indie 103.1FM is a guilty addiction we’ll have to live without for most the next three months—all summer long w ... More >>

Grub Guide

The county's best damn dining guide

Alternative Answers

Please forgive the over-generalization, but to over-generalize the Democrats are the party of expensive mass transit boondoggles, the Republicans are the party of lung cancer, freeways to nowhere and terror-enabling dependence on foreign oil, and in Orange County members of both parties are against ... More >>

Two Days in the Valley

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

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