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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 >>

Petition Drive Launched to Bring Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand to Newport Beach

As a guest food blogger brilliantly reported on the Weekly's Stick a Fork In It, NetFlix is promoting new Arrested Development episodes by taking Bluth's Original Frozen Banana stand to London, New York and Los Angeles. That's sparked a petition drive to bring the stand to the wacky family's "hometo ... More >>

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South Coast Repertory

Arrested Development To Return May 26 on Netflix!

Arrested Development, one of the funniest television shows of all time, and the single greatest documentary EVER about this wild, crazy land of ours, is returning May 26 via Netflix. Announcement came out today and is spreading like wildfire.We here at the Weekly just blue ourselves in giddiness. Al ... More >>

8 Great Shows You Haven't Binged-Watch on Netflix Yet

Nick Swardson

Irvine Improv

Eat Steak and Sip Cocktails While You Watch The Hobbit; Cinepolis Luxury Cinema Opens In RSM

Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas--a theater chain that began in Mexico--has opened the second of its two planned Orange County theaters in Rancho Santa Margarita last week. Its first OC theater debuted earlier this year in nearby Laguna Niguel.If you're new to the experience of having dinner and a movie fr ... More >>

Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones Prepare to Breathe In Sundance Film Fest Again

Home is swell, but ff Orange County-raised filmmakers Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones really want to feel the love, they go to Utah--Park City to be more precise and the Sundance Film Festival to be preciser.It was announced Monday that Breathe In, the latest independent film directed by Doremus wi ... More >>

The Walking Dead: The Official Magazine Proves Print is Undead

When yours truly flubbed the description of promotional episodes of The Walking Dead that rolled on AMC in July (I know: a mistake? Me?), this zombie-headed blogger was quickly called to task for "sloppy reporting" by Zombie Apocalypse Monthly. But "The Monthly Magazine Covering All Things Zombie" h ... More >>

Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Now On Netflix Streaming!

If you're like me, you probably didn't get to see Jiro Dreams of Sushi when it was released in theaters five months ago. And like me, if you have a Netflix account, you had it on your DVD queue for the last few weeks, but kept pushing it back for other movies because committing to Jiro Dreams of Sus ... More >>

David Cross Lets It Slip More Arrested Development is Coming Than First Planned

Making a fourth season of Arrested Development, the side-splitting comedy more realer about Orange County than any reality show claiming to depict the real OC, is succeeding because of Netflix, according to Mr. Tobias Fünke himself, David Cross. That's not a reference to the tens of millions of vie ... More >>

On the Line: Matt Strickland of The Bruery, Part Two

Matt not only managed to turn around his questionnaire within 24-hours, but it (Part One, specifically) was articulate as well. So we're cutting him a little slack for being sassy. Besides, it was probably the funniest Part Two we've read. He makes up for it tomorrow. If you're wondering how the hel ... More >>

Staff Picks: Favorite Nonfiction from the Imaginary Bookstore of Mr. Bib!

Okay, no staff here, just me and the fambly back in the East Bay for an overnight visit, taking in the San Francisco Mime Troupe in Oakland, eating Cheeseboard Collective pizza out on the median strip on Shattuck Avenue, maybe having breakfast with poet-friend and political mentor Al Young at Saul's ... More >>

McDonald's Ranks Last In Customer Satisfaction Survey

The survey results of a so-called American Customer Satisfaction Index released Tuesday ranked McDonald's dead last in with a customer satisfaction rating of 73, two points behind Burger King and KFC. Number one? Papa John's. You can see the full list here. Pithy headlines like "McDonald's Custome ... More >>

Newport Beach Home Schooler Used Young Girl as Sex Slave

To commit his serial sex crimes against a little girl, David Alan Goddard arranged the perfect setting in Newport Beach.While his wife worked long hours as a nurse, Goddard worked at home as a stock broker and insisted on home schooling "T.B," the 12-year-old girl adopted by his mother in law. Schoo ... More >>

Why Do Mexican Men Love Their Mothers So Much?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why can't Americans learn Spanish?

Fullerton's 'The Muck' Presents a Night of Poetry and Music for San Valentin

​Valentine's Day is around the corner, but opportunities to woo your love interest or delve into your interest in love are already arriving. The Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton and renowned Chicano artist José Lozano are hosting and presenting an evening of poetry and music inspired ... More >>

Slime Kings, Red9, Death Hymn #9, Snakebit Drifters and Railroad to Alaska at Night Five of the OC Music Awards Showcase - Tiki Bar

​Red9, Slime Kings, Death Hymn #9, Snakebit Drifters and Railroad to AlaskaTiki Bar, Costa MesaJan 31, 2012Night five of the OC Music Awards saw the most consistent lineup of bands in the series thus far. That's not to say there weren't a few dips in what proved to be an exciting evening, but ther ... 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 >>

Fred Durst Douchebag vs. Drake Doremus Douchebag

Douchebag the movie.​Before Drake Doremus' Like Crazy won the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the Orange-born writer-director's previous dramedy Douchebag was nominated in the same category at the same prestigious event the year before. Now, as reported earlier on ... More >>

Three of Nintendo's Awesome Japanese Services That We Will Never See

​Recently available to Nintendo 3DS owners--of Japan and Europe, for now--is the Nintendo Video service. The service is expected to release "Nintendo-approved" 2D and 3D content to the 3DS with cartoons, comedy clips, and even music videos. Working alongside another application known as SpotPass T ... More >>

Eight Films to Help You Prepare for the End of the World on May 21

​ For the last few months, a kooky religious group has been plastering North America with billboards and placards announcing that the world will end on May 21. Call us warped, but we're thrilled by the prospect of Armageddon. With millions of the faithful lifted skyward by the Rapture, their hom ... More >>

Five Musicians Who Could Easily Play Serial Killers

​So Mos Def is joining the cast of Dexter for its sixth season, huh? Well, I don't know about you, but I for one am very excited for it.True, I enjoy both Mos Def's work and the seasons of Dexter I've seen. (We're trying to catch up but with us not having Showtime, and with Netflix pulling the sho ... More >>

Stars Shine at the Opening of the 12th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival

​The Newport Beach Film Festival's annual occupation of Fashion Island began last night with another boozy, schmoozy and cruisey coming-out party in the Bloomingdale's Courtyard.Stars spotted on the red carpet leading into Big Newport, in front of the screen after the end credits of opening night ... More >>

OC Pot University Claims Big Boost in Enrollment

​Rancho Santa Margarita's God's Green Earth College Online (GECCO), which provides classes on growing marijuana and operating a successful collective, is apparently enjoying a major spike in enrollment. The college put out a press release today boasting that the school is well on its way to "becom ... More >>

Sirhan Sirhan, CIA Spooks and Dana Rohrabacher

Courtesy of the California Department of CorrectionsSirhan Sirhan's latest prison photo​Sirhan Sirhan is scheduled to go before a California parole board for a 13th time Wednesday, bringing to my mind two memories.The most recent involves Shane O'Sullivan's documentary RFK Must Die, which I caugh ... More >>

Gettin' Made: Calling All Crafty-Blogging Movie-Lovers!

Image from Mercedes Tarasovich's Pie Bird Design blog​Mercedes Tarasovich of online yarn shop Kitchen Sink Dyeworks had a stroke of crafty-community brilliance at the start of this year. As a way of bringing together crafty friends both near and far, she's starting an on ... More >>

Ron English's Telegrinnies, POPaganda, Camo Clownboy and More!

"Status Factory: The Art of Ron English" at Orange Coast College showcases the work of the culture-jammer extraordinaire

Best of the Fest: Monica and David at AIFF

​The inaugural Anaheim International Film Festival kicks off tonight with screenings of Jonathan Lynn's Wild Target, Mamoru Hosoda's Summer Wars, the U.S. premiere of David Bradbury's Going Vertical: The Shortboard Revolution and special presentations of short films and the John Hughes' Brat Pack ... More >>

"Trust Your Eyes and Instinct": Lessons from "Herb & Dorothy"

​One of the primary joys of Netflix is being able to see films that you wouldn't get a chance to see in local movie theaters. One of those is director Megumi Sasaki's extraordinary 2009 documentary Herb & Dorothy, now available on DVD, iTunes and Netflix's streaming video. I saw it a few days ... More >>

Funny Love Speed Dating

Brea Improv

[Year In Film] For a Former Video Store Giant, Not Such a Blockbuster Decade

Christmas Flick Soundtracks: 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch' from 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'

I'm pretty certain Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's poetry is every bit as important as that banker T.S. Eliot's, oven-lover Sylvia Plath's or anyone in the latest edition of the New Yorker. Check out the wonderfully inventive, smile-inducing lines to this Dr. Suess gem:  You're the king of sinful so ... More >>

Five All Time Greatest Food Movies

As I finally deleted Ramen Girl from my Netflix "Watch Instantly" queue last night (CLICK HERE for my earlier review of the film), it made me think about better films about food. So here's a list of five of what I consider the best food movies ever made. Be warned, there be spoilers and mouthwater ... More >>

"The Ramen Girl" on DVD and Streaming on Netflix

Remember this film? As many predicted, it never saw the light of a movie projector here in the states.  Its destiny seemed to always be the dusty part of your local Blockbuster DVD rack. But as I found out last week, it is also now simultaneously available to watch in streaming video on Netflix ... More >>

From Newport Beach Film Festival to Tribeca for Harbor High Theater Freak-Turned-Filmmaker

Courtesy of Plug Ugly FilmsStraight from the horse's mouth with Michael Slàdek.Though Norma Desmond only lived at the cineplex (and now Netflix), she famously said, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." Filmmaker and one-time Newport Beach resident Michael Slàdek is not yet big, but he is ... More >>

What's Wrong with Being Sexy?

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. for the Unwigged & Unplugged tour featuring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. If you're "in the know," those names might sound familiar. If you're not, I'll spill the beans.The trio are the actors who play the key members in Spinal Tap (the ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Survive the Great Recession! Live Like a Mexican!

Harvey Milk: the Man, the Movie, and Orange County

This past Tuesday night at the Edwards South Coast Village in Santa Ana, and an Orange County Film Society-sponsored advance screening of the new Gus Van Zant-directed, Sean Penn-starring Harvey Milk biopic, simply titled Milk. Go ahead and Google the name if you must -- it's not like Harvey's st ... More >>

[Game On] From Wii Speak to 'Final Fantasy,' E3 Lets Gamers Glimpse at Their Next Obsessions

Last Night: The Magic Flute at the OCPAC-Segerstrom Hall

The Magic Flute OCPAC-Segerstrom Hall, Costa Mesa Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Better Than: Sitting at home in a pink bathrobe listening to two inches of rain. Download: "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" by Mozart (often referred to as the Queen of The Night aria). Even if you don't know j ... More >>

Wednesday - 11/28

No End In Sight at Marie Callenders, Army of Darkness at Regency South Coast Village

Hey, You!

Boring Ultimatum

Spacy Invaders

Earthlings Beware! needs more snark

Tomorrow's Misery Today

OnDVD: Children of Men

Camera dCheatin

The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

MST3000 for Your PC or Mac and DVD

Whenever we read Rob Nelson's byline on a Weekly film review, we picture Mike Nelson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. One of those Nelsons has a new website, RiffTrax, that allows you to download Rob, er, Mike's commentary to certain movies and blast it from your computer while watching that DV ... More >>

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Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County