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Imagine Dragons - House of Blues - March 19, 2013

Imagine Dragons House of Blues March 19, 2013 For a band that's had, at least on the surface, a meteoric rise, Imagine Dragons sure know how to play things cool. Playing to what they said was the smallest venue on their North American tour, the Las Vegas-natives demonstrated that they have a strong ... More >>

Why Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano Are the Dutch Version of Swedish House Mafia

See Also: Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano @ Sutra Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano have carried on the Dutch legacy as house music's elite producers and DJs with gigs all over the world after practically being discovered by Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello in 2011. The duo stormed through Orange Co ... More >>

Charlie Murphy is Coming to Trip Out With You in Irvine

When it comes to storytelling, no one tells them better than Charlie Murphy. And to be clear, we're not talking about "putting your kids to bed" stories or "tall tales," we're talking about real life occurrences and celebrity encounters that Charlie happens to deliver with inflection perfection. Not ... More >>

[UPDATED With Details] The Bruery Announces 2012 Black Tuesday Release Date

Find out how to get your bottles at the end of this post!It's almost here. Black Tuesday, the most famous beer to come out of Orange County, now has a release date. The Bruery announced that its epic 19.2% abv bourbon barrel aged imperial stout will go on sale via the web on . . .  

Saveur's "150 Classic Recipes" Has Unexpected Depth

Have you seen what Saveur has done? To commemorate their 150th issue, they've put out an indexed list of "150 Classic Recipes" from old issues. Normally, this wouldn't have gotten my attention. I figured it'd have, you know, the usual mac-n-cheese, Zuni Cafe's roast chicken, yadda yadda. But wh ... More >>

Long Beach Lunch: The Small Cafe in Naples

One of my favorite cafes in Amsterdam is a cozy corner spot on the Prinsengracht called t' Smalle Café that serves up hunks of fresh local goat cheese and grilled Dutch sandwiches called toastis. It is a great example of the 'Dam's "brown cafes"--casual, wood-paneled gathering spots where locals go ... More >>

Ondatropica Combines Generations in the Name of Cumbia

Press your ear against Ondatropica's wall of classic, polyrhythmic Colombian sound and chances are you'll pick up on more than a few styles at work. But the eclecticism is more than cultural, it's also generational. The core 12-piece band of Cumbia musicians playing Sunday at the Mayan Theater (pres ... More >>

The Bruery Goes Global: Bottles Spotted In Netherlands--Ishn't Dat Vierd?

We all know the Netherlands is the place in Europe to get great pot and decent-looking legal prostitutes, but bottles from Orange County's own craft beer creators (and subject of last year's cover story) The Bruery? Yup.

New Exhibit at Laguna Beach Gallery Celebrates Bosnian War Survivors

La Jolla's weather--the mild, sunshine-filled air--reminds resident Sejla Holland of her hometown Mostar, located in southern Bosnia. It's why she made the cross-country move from New York to San Diego two years after fleeing the bloodiest fighting in Europe since World War 2. The 1992-1995 civi ... More >>

Back-Door Action Saves Historic Wooden Ship Shawnee

Dennis Holland, the old salt who for years has been restoring the historic wooden ship The Shawnee in front of his Newport Beach home, has apparently reached an agreement with the city that will spare him major fines for code violations and keep the sandpaper sanding. The solution?

[VIDEO] Domino's Pizza Delivery Scooter in the Netherlands: Embarrassment On Two Wheels

We pity the minimum wage student trying to scrape enough cashola to ditch this gig for a real car. We'll admit to thinking Vespas are cool, but motoring around the Netherlands in a vehicle that barks "Domino's!" and "Pizza!" when we're revving is effed up. Don't believe us? Sit through one minute of ... More >>

Rally Aims to Save Historic Ship The Shawnee

​There's a rally in front of the Ferris Wheel at the Balboa Fun Zone Saturday afternoon to save the Shawnee.That's not Shawnee, as in American Indians, but The Shawnee, an old wooden ship that a fellow named Dennis Holland has been restoring for years in front of his Newport Beach home, something ... More >>

Paulien Lombard Was a Spyentologist

A former spy for Scientology came clean on abuses. Now, she says, the church is chasing her

Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Initiative Gathers 20,000 Signatures

​The last few months of 2011 weren't exactly fun for advocates of medical marijuana in California. The federal government threatened to seize properties being used for illegally cultivating or dispensing marijuana, media organizations including this one were put on alert that they could be prosecu ... More >>

Freeway Pollution Linked to Brain Damage, Autism

​Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal, of all places, put it best: "Congested cities are fast becoming test tubes for scientists studying the impact of traffic fumes on the brain."And what are these researchers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston, New York, North Carolina, Beij ... More >>

Mykea Lets You Brighten Your BILLY

[Trendzilla] No more drab IKEA bookcases for you with these vinyl prints!

Meditation Flash Mob Comes To Long Beach

MedMob Facebook page​​Is it just us or are flash mobs getting lazy? They've gone from full-fledged, song-and-dance spectaculars like this: 

Dutch Parliament Bans Halal and Kosher Slaughter, Giving Anti-Muslim Activists Here Hope for Same in U.S.

Flickr user Violette79​Today, the Dutch parliament voted to ban the ritual slaughter of animals, a ban that effectively outlaws kosher and halal butchering in the country. The disturbing attack on religious freedom came via the strange coalition of animal rights activists and anti-Muslim politicia ... More >>

Report: Pasta the Most Popular Dish in the World

​Grand, overarching summations derived from research papers must always be viewed skeptically, but the global organization Oxfam is well-regarded for its research, and its only real agenda is feeding folks, something they've been working on since the 1940s. They know a bit about global food trends ... More >>

Avalon Bar Hosts Anti-Sobriety Protest Tonight

Let's toast to anti-sobriety!​It's about time someone stood up to the powers that be and demanded change. And I'm not talking about that sort of change that gets thrown on campaign posters only to be forgotten once elections are finished. I'm talking real change, the sort that requires protests to ... More >>

High Times Miss 2011 Hails From Newport Beach

​Yesterday, on April 20, stoners across America were toking up at exactly 4:20 pm--4/20 and 420 is stoner code for smoking out, in case you didn't already know what your kids are talking, or texting about, as the case may be, with their friends. In honor of this important occasion, High Times maga ... More >>

YouPorn Shared More Than Sex Videos Claims Lawsuit Filed by Newport Beach Pair

​Two Newport Beach men have filed a lawsuit accusing operators of the YouPorn adult video sharing website of "sniffing," which is not an exotic new sex act (well, at least not in this particular context) but the improper monitoring of other sites users have visited.

The Offspring Spring Forth

Memories of growing up in OC mean no nostalgia from front man Bryan "Dexter" Holland

World Cup Final: Netherlands vs. Spain

Nadine's Irish Mist

Kinder Happy Hippo

Edwin Goei​Name: Kinder Happy Hippo Origin: Netherlands Found at: Cost Plus, Costa Mesa Cost: $3.99 Ingredients: Sugar, Vegetable Oil and Fat, Wheat Flour, Whole Milk Powder (.7.5%), Skimmed Milk Powder (5%), Fat-Reduced Cocoa (4.5%), Hazelnuts, Whey Powder, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Coco ... More >>

Riding Bikes with the Dutch

Art Theatre

Documentary That Rethinks Our Car Culture Caps Long Beach Bicycle Film Festival

​Sunday's Long Beach Bicycle Film Festival serves two purposes, helping to close out the three-day Long Beach Bicycle Festival that begins today and reviving the Long Beach International Film Festival, whose return is TBD.Actually, there is a third and fourth purpose: showcasing local documentary ... More >>

Iceback-Spotting?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And: Do Mexicans measure up?

Europa ChocoVine at Mitsuwa Marketplace

Grace LeEuropa ChocoVine​Chocowuuut?That's right, folks. Combining two of the things we love most, Holland has created ChocoVine: AKA Yoo-Hoo for grown-ups.The label clearly reads, "The taste of dutch chocolate and fine red wine," and proudly displays "Product of Holland," stamped--not once--but t ... More >>

In-gin-ious!

nostromoo @ flickr.com CC BY-NC 2.0​The first time I had gin was at my local bar in the town in rural Iowa where I used to live. A friend ordered gin and tonic in a place called the Checkered Flag, a place that sold Budweiser for 70 cents a glass and Grain Belt "Primo", the world's most insipid be ... More >>

Dude, Where's My VW Bus That Was Stolen 35 Years Ago? Oh, There It Is

Courtesy of U.S. Border and Customs ProtectionFound it!​You never know what will turn up in a container at the Long Beach port. Sure, the vast majority are filled with legal products bound for store shelves all across this great land. But every so often inspectors will find smuggled guns, drugs, h ... More >>

Five Great Finds at Irvine Farmers Market

​Yes, I know about the fresh corn and the hummus, not to mention the sausages, but these five things were new to me when I visited on Saturday. The results were mixed, but it's always useful to expand the horizons. Pluots. There's a stand featuring nothing but this fruit (give or take some renegad ... More >>

Nobody Does Ringtones Like KFC

Just when you think you've heard it all, along comes a crazy person from Holland with waaaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands (and presumably waaaaaaaaaaay too much pot in their hands).Check out KFC's Dutch website: and click on Chicken Impossible. It's the whole theme tune, from start to finish. ... More >>

UCI Scientist Helps Add More Culprits to the Global Warming List

Anyone worth Al Gore's salt knows that cars, factories and farting cows contribute to global warming, but an international study that includes the research of a UC Irvine scientist has found drought and deforestation can also help fuel the pesky phenomenon and should be included in future climate pa ... More >>

[Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Foodstuffs: Greetings From Dexter Holland

The Deciders

Presidents of the United States of America

Trendzilla

Women's fashion is where androgyny gets fun

!Ask a Mexican!(r)

Special Dia de los Muertos edicion

Ink Envy

Rachel Stein, Showgirl

Back home in Holland, Paul Verhoeven uses his basic instincts to craft slick Holocaust thriller Black Book

You Better Not Pout

Local blogger El Serracho (or The Serrach) finds himself in the Netherlands at the moment, where he reports that it's Christmas season. El is a Global Internet Manager of Production (or GIMP), a job that has sent him to the Netherlands at least 15 times. Those wacky Dutch are so high they give out g ... More >>

Native Belles

California Song Girls

When the Smoke Clears

The good news? the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences is to publish a report on how marijuana smoked from a vaporizer (they cite the Volcano by name, which is really nifty) is a "safe and effective" delivery system. I.e. not dangerous. I.e. a major political argument for medipot, that smoked marijua ... More >>

Our Dark Blue Places

Ellroy via Shelton

America Needs Weird

Wake Me When the Drug Wars Over

Judge Gray pitches a sort-of legalization

Horror, Hiding and the Holocaust

How Bert Jakobs outlived the Third Reich

Apple Bonging

OC's 'War on Drugs': Joke or tragedy?

Never Die

The Weekly's incomplete guide to an almost eternal life

Group Therapy

Airport foes share their pain online