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The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, May 17 Sederra House of Blues Anaheim Anytime the punk shredders of Sederra come to the House of Blues Anaheim, they have a habit of bringing the entire Fullerton punk scene with them. Last time they played the Mouse House for free, they stuffed the place to capacity to the point where they ... More >>

NBFF Latino Showcase: Newport Goes Tropical with Tropicalia

WHERE MY LATINOS AT?! Wednesday night, they were being celebrated for their recent achievements in cinema at Newport Beach Film Festival's Latino Showcase through three spotlight films from Mexico, Chile, and Brazil at the Lido, Triangle, and Big Newport theaters, respectively. While I wish I coul ... More >>

Fly Guy Eric Prydz

The Swedish DJ conquered his aerophobia to get to America and never looked back

Emancipator - El Rey Theatre - March 16, 2013

By: Rishabh BhavnaniEmancipator El Rey TheatreMarch 16, 2013 It's not often that an attempt to combine an avant garde club night line up with glossy club vibes manages to leave us fully satisfied. Last night on the peripheral edge of West Hollywood, the El Rey Theatre played host to one of The Do-L ... More >>

Maceo Plex: The Deep House Dark Horse of Beyond Wonderland

After falling in love with electro in his native Miami, Eric Estornel began deejaying in the early 90s. Like most EDM enthusiasts he later got into techno and began making house beats in 1996. He moved his family to Dallas where he made a name for himself as a local DJ, but it wasn't until he fled t ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Weekend

Friday, February 22Angry SamoansThe Observatory First wave punk rockers everywhere are alive and kicking. Just look at the Angry Samoans, hailing from Los Angeles, they've been doing their thing since the late 70s. And since their inception, they've made a career out of being offensive. Rumor has it ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, February 18 DJ Hype The Observatory Pre-iPods, pre-laptops, pre-everyone's-a-DJ, DJ Hype was circling the globe, bringing his turn table skills to millions of party people. Born in Belgium, Kevin Ford began as a DJ on Fantasy FM, a pirate radio station in London. But he hit mainstream ... More >>

Geeta Bansal Interviews Elena Arzak, Best Female Chef in the World

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 Luxembourg, where René Mathieu wows both royalty and commoners alike. Enjoy!

Celebrate the Year of The Snake With Ching's Chinese New Year

Ching He-Huang may be a self-taught chef but she was taught by some of the best, her very own family. With a long line of traditional heritage, Taiwanese-born Ching helped out with a lot of the cooking growing up and moves to South Africa and later to London helped mold her tastes and styles but luc ... More >>

Vintage Trouble Calls On the Past to Further Their Future

The hills of Laurel Canyon might not be the first place you'd think to look for a gritty soul band like Vintage Trouble. But one thing that gives the band's rollicking, old-school flavor some authenticity is their decision to rehearse at their drummer Richard Danielson's house there, pitted inside a ... More >>

Five Highlights From Nervo's West Coast Travels

The past six months have been a whirlwind of success for the Australian-born NERVO twins. They were the only female DJs on the DJ Mag Top 100 poll, landing at No. 46, the third-highest new entry among EDM's elite. The only other female to ever make the list was Claudia Cazacu, who squeaked in at No. ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, January 14 Pop Noir The Constellation Room After spending a year laying low, Huntington Beach's own Pop Noir are ready to resurface with a month-long residency at The Constellation Room in The Observatory. Brothers Luke and Joe McGarry have used this time out of the limelight to carefully ... More >>

Pop Noir Returns With More Songs and Just As Much Hair

After spending a year laying low, Huntington Beach's own Pop Noir are ready to resurface with a month-long residency at The Constellation Room in The Observatory. Brothers Luke and Joe McGarry have used this time out of the limelight to carefully craft some new tunes, including a cover of British el ... More >>

Rusko's Love for Dubstep Started With a Ska Groove

The English EDM wunderkind prefers irie vibes over industrial aggression

Obama Wins: Front Pages From Around The World

As Barack Obama was re-elected as President of the United States last night, the entire world watched. Check out these newspaper front pages from around the globe announcing his victory. Some might send chills down your spine. For more newspaper front pages, visit the Newseum's collection. Prin ... More >>

Adam Ant Isn't a Goody Two Shoes Anymore

By: Shelley LeopoldAdam Ant, the charismatic post-punk British pop star responsible for a generation of pirate shirts, returns to the U.S. after a long absence. Now 57, he's picked up more tattoos and a smoking habit since we saw him last; despite being battle scarred from years in the music busines ... More >>

What to Look for in Rage Against the Machine's 20th Anniversary Box Set

On November 10, 1992, Rage Against the Machine released their self-titled debut assault of rap-rock radicalism upon the music world. Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford combined their collective talents together as the Epic release would eventually peak at No. 1 on the Billbo ... More >>

Teen Nearly Dies After Ingesting Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail Served By Wine Bar

The Guardian is reporting that a teenager celebrating her 18th birthday at a wine bar in England ingested liquid nitrogen that was poured into her cocktail to make it billow with smoke.They write:Gaby Scanlon, from Heysham, Lancashire, was with friends at Oscar's wine bar in Lancaster city centre w ... More >>

Topshop of the Pops

[Trendzilla] British cheap-chic chain invades South Coast Plaza, Irvine Spectrum—cheerio!

Frank Turner Wants Us to Continue to Believe In Him

The English folk-rocker of Olympics fame readies a new album that's fresh, tight and heartfelt

Usain "Lightning" Bolt Weed Hits OC Pot Dispensary Shelves

Last week, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the 100 meter dash at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, thus reaffirming his title as the world's fastest man. Nicknamed "Lightning" for obvious reasons, Bolt is a pot-friendly celebrity for two reasons: he's from Jamaica, and he's actually admitted ... More >>

National Theater Live: Frankenstein

Irvine Barclay Theater

MxPx's 20th Anniversary: Mike Herrera Explains The Secret to Band Longevity

For fans of pop punk, it may be hard to believe, but Bremerton, Wash., natives MxPx are in the middle of their 20th anniversary tour, which came together in part  after learning that drummer Yuri Ruley was going to retire, until the band's fans begged him not to. The band ended up releasing a n ... More >>

Madonna Announces World Tour While the Register Picks Apart Her Plastic Surgery Work

​The last time I saw Madonna, it was 2006 and I paid $352 for a floor ticket. Madonna, fresh off the success of her Super Bowl halftime show, is going on a  World Tour beginning May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel. While we have no idea how much tickets will be going for, we do know she'll stop at&nbs ... More >>

[UPDATED with Syria Convoy News] Violent Repression in Syria Claims Relative of Anaheim Businessman Bill Dalati

Bill Dalati​UPDATE JAN 17, 3:38 P.M.: Anaheim Businessman Bill Dalati returned back to OC yesterday from the Liberty Convoy for Syria. As Reuters, Al Jazeera, and other news agencies reported on Thursday, the group of about 150 expatriate activists were unable to deliver food and medical supplies ... More >>

'The Iron Lady' Doesn't Know How She Did It

Margaret Thatcher as victimized woman

Male Bonding Go Out with The Lo-Fi, In With the New

​London-based trio Male Bonding sure has been part of a whole lot of action since forming some four years ago. The band, who play the Constellation Room (inside the Galaxy) in Santa Ana tonight, began their career by creating sundry home-made cassettes and 7-inch split records, recording covers of ... More >>

Portishead's Geoff Barrow On Touring Third, Misconceptions About Dummy and His Upcoming Hip-Hop Record

​Thirteen years after their last North American tour, pioneering British trio Portishead are back to finally make the rounds in support of their latest album, Third, released in 2008. It's been a while, but for good reason; between having babies and working on new musical projects, they've been qu ... More >>

Rick Warren Tweets and Then Removes Debt-Ceiling Jab

"I can see the debt ceiling from here."​Saddleback (mega-) Church's pastor Rick Warren's got a loose Twitter finger again, texting and then deleting a jab at those who want to raise the nation's debt ceiling."HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the o ... More >>

Catholics Protest 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' at Anaheim Hills' Chance Theater, Calling it 'Blasphemous'

​In  "Jerry Springer: The Opera," a musical production premiering on July 9 at Anaheim Hills' Chance Theater, a fat, gay Jesus gets fondled by Eve, and Mary is introduced to the audience with a chorus of, "Raped by an angel, raped by God!" Some Catholic groups aren't too p ... More >>

Santa Ana Gentrifiers to Rename Former Fiesta Marketplace "East End Promenade"--HA!

​Hipsters, gentrifiers, and their enablers are so predictable in their schemes, it would be laughable if they weren't so pathetic. And one of their most-cherished steps is trying to rename an area to suite whatever promotional needs they may need, even if such names fly in the face of logic or his ... More >>

Princess Beatrice's WTF Royal Wedding Hat Up For Auction

​Now you can have your very own hat that looks vaguely like a uterus and fallopian tubes. People reports that Princess Beatrice is putting up the fascinator she wore to the Royal Wedding on eBay with the proceeds going to UNICEF and Children in Crisis.   

Style Is Substance for New Fidelity

[Locals Only] The Long Beach quintet are through being cool

Douglas John A. Mackenzie, One Sick Bastard, Deserves Sexually Violent Predator Tag: OCDA

​Douglas John A. Mackenzie met a woman and her 7-year-old son at a local church gathering in the U.K., befriended them and moved in with them. Later, when he wasn't raping the boy, he was convincing the mother to conceive a child in-vitro with his sperm because he wanted to be a father but claimed ... More >>

Airline Treats Kenyan UC Irvine Professor, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Like A 'Terrorist Menace'

Ngugi wa Thiong'o​Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a celebrated Kenyan author and distinguished professor at UC Irvine. He's 72 years old and married. He's not a terrorist. And yet, for an unexplained reason, he and a group of fellow Kenyans were treated as such upon a detoured flight to Lyon, France.El ... More >>

Distinguished UC Irvine Professor Treated Like a Terrorist by French

Ngugi wa Thiong'o and wife, stranded​After attending a Nairobi literary festival, UC Irvine professor and author Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his wife needed to catch a Virgin Atlantic flight to London in route to LAX, but a snow storm in England forced the flight to land in Lyon, France.The airline arra ... More >>

Orange Bits: Buy Dusty Rhodes' Synthesizer, Led Zeppelin, I Hate You Just Kidding's Paranormal Encounter

Get your hands on Dusty Rhode's tasty synth​This week's edition of news stories we didn't write: Buy a piece of Dusty Rhodes- their Prophet 5 synthesizer is now for sale on eBay. Perfect for if you are planning on creating a River Band cover band after they break up. [eBay]

John Mayall: Blues' First Bona Fide Rock Star

​ At 76, blues rocker John Mayall shows no signs of slowing down. In the last year he started up a new band with guitarist Rocky Athas from Texas, Greg Rzab on bass, and drummer Jay Davenport, released his 57th album, and launched tours in both the U.S. and Europe. The era of Mayall began back ... More >>

OC's Trillion Dollar Man Worried USA is Heading for a Double-Dip Recession

0 to 60 in 2.6 seconds​All those daily Obama Administration assurances that the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction might just be wishful thinking or cynical public manipulation.Dr. Mohamed Abdulla El-Erian, the chief executive of Newport Beach-based investment house giant Pimco--t ... More >>

Athlete at the Detroit Bar Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyAthlete ​AthleteJune 20, 2010Detroit Bar, Costa MesaWatch our slideshow here!The Hype: Making their first ever appearance in Orange County, London's Athlete stopped by the Detroit Bar in support of their latest album, Black Swan. Anglophile indie rock enthusiasts everywhere ... More >>

I Surf! Ten Questions w/ OCMA Curator Sarah Bancroft

Hovin WangOCMA curator Sarah Bancroft​The first time I met Sarah Bancroft, I thought she was a volunteer working at Orange County Museum of Art, so I approached her and asked for directions to the bathroom. She told me where to go--nicely--and it wasn't until much much later that I found out that ... More >>

Newport-bound DJ Mark Knight Makes Even a Record Label Look Modern

Haven Gastropub in Orange Opening This Friday, September 4

​We've been following the progress of this new venture, and can confirm that it's set to open to the public this Friday. Edwin tipped me off about the launch date, so he gets credit for that, as do his foodie friends who tipped him off, DanGarion and Jay Ruiz.Located in Old Towne Orange, Haven wil ... More >>

[Locals Only] The Colourist Are Already Local Favourites

Edgy and Eggy

The Arab, the Jew and the Chicken

Because You're Ugly: Topshop—An Introduction

If your trips to London always had to include a visit to the very large, very lovely multi-floored flagship Topshop store in Oxford Circus, I've got some good news: Some weeks ago, Topshop finally launched their American storefronts, both online and retail. Sure the actual store—the very first sta ... More >>

Video Savant: Jamie Lidell's “The City” (Live)

Here we find rising UK soul superstar Jamie Lidell shortly before he dropped his 2005 breakthrough album Multiply. At this 2004 show in London, Lidell is in full-on experimental beatboxing mode. Creating rhythms and textures with his looped, extraordinarily supple vocal cords run through mysterious ... More >>

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A Portrait of the Food Critic as a Young Man

You dont have to be English to appreciate Brussels Bistro, but it helps