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How Undercover Animal Rights Activists are Winning the Ag-Gag War

Cannes: Refn's Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn't in the Same League as Drive

Cannes: Marion Cotillard Shines in James Gray's The Immigrant

Top Five Old-School Dance Floor Jams, According to Brad Williams

If there is something we've learned about OC native and comedian extraordinaire Brad Williams over the years, it's that he is one hell of a dancer. We know there's no denying he's funny as hell and gets plenty of well-deserved standing O's, but that aside, this guy has moves for days. With an upcomi ... More >>

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 >>

Napalm Death and Cannibal Corpse - The Observatory - May 16, 2013

By: Alex Distefano Napalm Death and Cannibal Corpse The Observatory May 16, 2013 It's been a while since this many bodies were packed so densely for a metal show at the Observatory. But, when you have two of the most brutal bands on the planet--Napalm Death and Cannibal Corpse--performing back to b ... More >>

Preview for SoCal Restaurant Show on KLAA-AM 830: Marcus Samuelsson, Montage Eating, and Our Own Bill Esparza!

If it's a Friday afternoon, that means it's time for the SoCal Restaurant Show on KLAA-AM 830 to give us a scoop on what they'll have on their Saturday morning show. Without further ado, here's producer (and kinda-co-host) Andy Harris with the details!

Here's to Frances Ha, the New New Girl

Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's not quite a real person yet

G. Ray Kerciu: Mississippi Goddamn

A Cal State Fullerton exhibit does justice to the artist's early radicalism—but leaves you wanting more

[Exene Says . . .] Know Thyself

[Editor's Note: Exene Cervenka is a writer, visual artist and punk rock pioneer. The OC transplant is the lead singer for X, the Knitters and Original Sinners. Her new column, Exene Says..., is her space to basically just write what's on her mind, everything from crazy life stories to political theo ... More >>

Holy Ghost!

The Observatory

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 >>

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 >>

Five Totally Chopped Down Questions with Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy is a highly respected executive chef and restaurateur of the popular New York eateries Landmarc and Ditch Plains but chances are, out here in Orange County, you know him best for being one of your favorite judges on Food Network's Chopped. If you think it would be cool to say, hang out w ... More >>

'The Great Gatsby': Beautiful, Damned

Baz Luhrmann's sometimes great, but not always good, adaption of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel

'Assault On Wall Street': Tom Joad Kills 'Em All

Uwe Boll's solution to the crash? Bloodshed

What 'Gatsby' Gets Wrong

Ten ways the new movie will trip up the lazy students of tomorrow

The Rolling Stones

Honda Center

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!

Lindsay Lohan Ditches Newport Beach Rehab After 3 Minutes for Betty Ford Center

See the update at the end of this post about Lindsay Lohan apparently spending three minutes in the Newport Beach rehab before resurfacing at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage late Thursday.Lindsay Lohan is Newport Beach's now, bitches!No, she's not here for the next 90 days to show off bikinis ... More >>

'An Oversimplification of Her Beauty' Is Simply Beautiful

Terence Nance's breakthrough is a gorgeous film of black bohemia

'Greetings' and Hallelujah! Jeff and Tim Buckley live!

In Daniel Algrant's new drama, the singer/songwriter is distantly looming

[Exene Says . . .] DIY Till I Die

Exene Cervenka is a writer, visual artist and punk-rock pioneer. The OC transplant is the lead singer for X, the Knitters and Original Sinners. Contact her via askexene@ocweekly.com. In 1976, Nancy Kaufman lent a friend money to rent a 125-square-foot store on the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard ... More >>

Newport Beach Film Festival Gets Its Irish Up: The O'Brien's, The Iceman, What Maisie Knew

The less is more strategy to improve overall quality and fill houses seems to be working at the halfway mark of the 2013 Newport Beach Film Festival.Based on the screenings I've attended, you can't swing your elbows without hitting someone like you could in the past. Crowds seem to be digging it all ... More >>

UCI's 14th Annual Latin American Film Festival Starts Today!

Orange County has been really good to us cinephiles lately. Apart from the Vietnamese International Film Festival, the ongoing Newport Beach Film Festival, and the Cinema Orange series at OCMA, we now rejoice as UC Irvine hold its 14th annual Latin American Film Festival this week. It's a modest fe ... More >>

Melanie Visits OC and Talks On Woodstock, Love, and Finding Peace

Melanie's voice is soft and raspy at the same time. If you didn't know who you were talking to, you'd have no idea that she played alongside legends at Woodstock and toured around the world. She's immediately kind and humble in her expressions. "I sense that something has got to give, I sense that p ... More >>

La Rocco's: A San Clemente Slice

[Hole In the Wall] This pizzeria wows with its New York-style thin crust and selection of whites

California's Last Call For Alcohol Will Not Be Extended To 4 a.m.

Closing time. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. A bill that would have allowed California bars, clubs and restaurants to serve alcohol until 4 a.m., two hours past the current last call, was voted down Tuesday in the Senate Committee. Go ahead and drink away your sorrows. We unde ... More >>

Is The Fancy Cupcake Craze Finally Over?

Sometime in the past decade, cupcakes, the single-serving frosted cakes that moms lugged to classroom birthday parties, became OMGCUPCAKES!, a cultural phenomenon that had folks waiting in long lines and forking over three bucks or more for a gourmet red velvet (or carrot, mocha or gluten-free red v ... More >>

NBFF: Smaller, Shorter & Uncut

The fabled film festival has learned that less is more

The Lesson Learned From 'Deceptive Practice': Never Take Your Eyes Off Him

Ricky Jay did something amazing as you glanced at these words

A Boy and His Drone In 'Oblivion'

Tom Cruise's new flick is grand until it's not

Did Bobby Hatfield Lose That Livin' Feelin' from Plot in Costa Mesa Suicide Bomber's Essay?

Confession time: Like many in the media, I looked at Kevin E. Harris blowing himself up, having covered his Costa Mesa house in foil to prevent the government from reading his mind and writing the gubment was also behind the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson, John Lennon and everyone who perished ... More >>

Jenna Jameson is Ready to Drop Some Sugar with Her "Semi-Autographical" Novel Debut

Maybe Jenna Jameson moving out of her Huntington Harbour home and leaving her twins with Tito Ortiz has nothing to do with her recent woes, which were capped a couple Saturdays ago by an alleged assault on her transgender assistant. Perhaps, just perhaps, Club Jenna abandoned the distractions of mot ... More >>

How to Destroy Angels - Fox Theatre Pomona - April 10, 2013

How to Destroy Angels Fox Theatre Pomona April 10, 2013 Primed with a midnight set at the Mojave tent this Friday at Coachella, How to Destroy Angels orchestrated a visual and auditory assault at their debut show at the Fox Theatre in Pomona that make them a must see act at Coachella. One could sen ... More >>

Long Beach Lunch: Modica's Deli

Long Beach's Cooper Arms Building on the corner of Ocean Blvd. and Linden first opened in 1924. It featured some of the first apartment homes in the city and offered unobstructed views of the water and "amusement zones." Early purchasers were promised their money back thanks to revenue-producing ... More >>

The Rolling Stones to Play Honda Center May 15

After playing five shows last year in London and the greater New York area, the Rolling Stones announced this morning that they'll be embarking on a nine show run of North America as part of their 50 & Counting Tour including a date in Anaheim. The show will take place at Honda Center on May 15, wi ... More >>

Koch

Art Theatre

Doc al-Qaeda

Judge to punish Cypress resident and former CVS pharmacist tied to terrorism plot against U.S. soldiers

Bronx Bombers

Adam Leon's stellar first film—and TV show—toasts the tag artist

Endémico Eco Lofts at Encuentro Guadalupe: The Valle de Guadalupe's Ultimate Getaway

The powers that be have kept development in the Valle de Guadalupe at a perpetual tease--when someone says this year's going to be big, as was the tone in 2010--one hotel opened up, and then the region gained two restaurants--that's frenetic activity in the ruta de vinícola. It used to be there wer ... More >>

Sabatino's Sausage Company Coming to Lake Forest

Fire up the grills! Sabatino's Sausage Company is opening a new location in Lake Forest! Winner of the Weekly's Best of 2012 Sausage category, Sabatino's makes an Italian sausage studded with chunks of sheep's milk cheese and fresh parsley that'll take on any comers from Chicago, New York, and even ... More >>

Ravers Show Us How to Dress at Ultra 2013

By: Liz Tracy They danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013's three-day shit fest -- they we ... More >>

50 Important SXSW Questions

By: Nick LucchesiEditor: We have so many questions here in Austin. Here are 50 of them. 1. Will I like the pedicab costumed as The Hulk if he gets angry? 2. Are we all really just in New York? 3. Is this t-shirt rad? 4. Do you want to get some 'za, which is now absolutely the slang for pizza? ... More >>

Sean Price - The Constellation Room - March 14, 2013

Sean PriceThe Constellation RoomMarch 14, 2013Hip-hop needs its animated characters, and we're not speaking about cartoon cameos. The genre started out as a mean-mugging form of music that promoted a street stalker's mentality, so it's necessary to have those who can push aside some of the genre's t ... More >>

ABC News' '20/20' Faces Libel Lawsuit for OC Internet-Dating Story

[Moxley Confidential] Orange County judge refuses network's demand to kill libel lawsuit against the ABC program

Drake Doremus' Breathe In Wins National Distribution; Fourth-Quarter Release Set

We told you last month about Santa Ana native Drake Doremus' film Breathe In getting picked up for international distribution. Now, the other distribution shoe has dropped.

Lindsay Lohan Urged to Add Tustin Lawyer David Wohl to Her Criminal Defense Team

The hottest of hot messes, Lindsay Lohan, is reportedly being swayed to add an Orange County lawyer to her defense team by the controversial New York attorney representing the actress fighting charges she lied to cops about a Pacific Coast Highway crash. E! News watcher's surely know that a Los Ange ... More >>

SXSW Sucks. Here's Why

Over the past few weeks, if you work in and around the so-called music biz, you've received hundreds of incessant emails about the shit show down in Austin called South-by-Southwest. As tens of thousands of people descend upon the city, everyone and their sister are going to try to check out as many ... More >>

Geeta Bansal Interviews Legendary Catalan Chef Carme Ruscalleda of Restaurant Sant Pau!

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 with Carme Ruscalleda, the renowned Catalan chef. Enjoy!