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  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    New Hirax Record Coming Soon

    ​Local thrash heroes Hirax announced last week that they are hitting the studio in June to record the band's fourth full-length album. Joining the five-piece will be producer/engineer Bill Metoyer, whose resume includes working with Slayer, Morbid Angel and Armored Saint.

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Vagan Adzhemyan, Former Champion Armenia Wrestler, Gets 30 Years for Violent Kidnapping

    ​A former Armenia wrestling champion living in Costa Mesa was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for kidnapping a business associate who was accidentally shot during the abduction before being beaten, tased and denied medical attention while his captor negotiated a $1 million ransom."No one d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    KPCC Punks KPFK With Billboard Prank!

    ​Since 2004, I have been a regular voice on KPCC-FM 89.3 and KPFK-FM 90.7--on the former as part of the regular Orange County roundtable held on Airtalk with Larry Mantle, and on many shows for the latter, including the two laughable years I spent with my own one-hour radio show. I love both of th ... More >>

  • Food

    September 22, 2011

    Sutha Thai Kitchen's Salad Days

    [Hole In the Wall] This Tustin Thai restaurant, while delicious, wants to offer more

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Cyclists Race JetBlue's Carmageddon Flight, Win

    Flickr user waltarrrrrThe Wolfpack Hustle on the Tour de Carmageddon. ​The biggest Carmageddon victors weren't the road workers (though they did a fantastic job completing their bridge-demolishing project about 17 hours ahead of schedule), or the Southern California drivers who emerged unscathed b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Rocio Camacho of La Huasteca to Open Restaurant in Bell

    Joshua Lurie / Food GPS​When you think of concentrations of good Mexican restaurants, you think of Santa Ana, East Los Angeles, maybe North Hollywood. But Bell? It may be famous for its awful City Council, but culinarily it's already home to La Casita Mexicana, one of the very best examples of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2011

    Former Cop's Book Explores Police Suicide

    ​Clarke Paris wonders if anyone around these parts remembers the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout 14 years ago? Los Angeles TV stations covered the incident live, which ended with both heavily armed perpetrators killed, 11 police officers and seven bystanders injured and extensive damage to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    El Super Goes On a Purchasing Rampage

    ​When I lived in North Hollywood, we were equidistant from two Mexican-owned markets: Vallarta and El Super. When we moved here to Anaheim, the Vallartas were replaced with Northgate González, but there was only one El Super, on McFadden in Santa Ana.Lately, though, the simple sign ("cuesta menos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Views From All-Star Game 5K at Angel Stadium

    ​Major League Baseball generously emailed over photos the Weekly is free to use from Sunday's 2010 All-Star Game Charity 5K & Fun Run at Angel Stadium.A couple of them follow after the jump . . .

  • Music

    March 25, 2010

    Andrew McMahon On Restarting Something Corporate

    Jack's Mannequin front man talks candidly about his cancer, remains cagey about how long the reunion of his old band will last

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    My Day with Andrew McMahon of Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate

    So, this is my Andrew McMahon day. We met at the rehearsal space Jack's Mannequin uses in North Hollywood shortly before noon and had a lengthy chat about everything from Something Corporate reuniting for Bamboozle to McMahon's battle with Leukemia to buddy Tommy Lee to whether the Dana Hills High S ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2010

    Rodney Alcala's Murderous Romp Through Polite Society Brings Him to an Orange County Courtroom Again

    So, this is my Andrew McMahon day. We met at the rehearsal space Jack's Mannequin uses in North Hollywood shortly before noon and had a lengthy chat about everything from Something Corporate reuniting for Bamboozle to McMahon's battle with Leukemia to buddy Tommy Lee to whether the Dana Hills High S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Old Videotapes Never Die, They Just Start New On-Demand Revolutions

    Photo by Corey Nickols Lucas Hilderbrand reels in our on-demand video culture. The photo above of Lucas Hilderbrand, an associate professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine and the subject of this week's cover story "Close to YouTube," was shot at Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee video ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    OCC Actor-Turned-Filmmaker's "Patriotic Anti-War Mystery" Debuts

     Still the Drums, "a patriotic anti-war mystery" from Orange Coast College theater actor-turned-North Hollywood-based-film-stage-television actor and now filmmaker Talbot Perry Simons, makes its world premiere Saturday, Aug. 1, at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009
  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    A Picture's Worth a Thousand Whoop-Asses

    An anti-abortion activist taking photographs outside a controversial Santa Ana family planning clinic suffered minor injuries Saturday afternoon after being attacked by a physician who obviously did not appreciate having his picture taken. According to Santa Ana Police records, Howard Tendai Pfpaje ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2008

    OC Homewreckers Hung Out to Dry

    According to a Department of Justice press release and reported by the Register, Charles Head, a 33-year-old from La Habra and several accomplices have been charged with illegal activities purportedly using the latest mortgage scam to come through the pipeline. One can only expect more scams to ... More >>

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    Osama's Gun

    How to not build bin Ladens AK-47 without even trying

  • Features

    December 23, 2004

    Pop-Culture Pasha

    San Clementes Rin Tanaka makes our castoffs cool again

  • Features

    October 30, 2003

    Best Shopping and Porn

    San Clementes Rin Tanaka makes our castoffs cool again

  • Culture

    December 19, 2002

    Undead Again

    Rochelle Heagh Phisters 'Ghosts'

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Barrels of Fun!

    Register engages in reckless gunplay

  • Features

    July 18, 2002

    Live Noir

    Henry Ford McCrackens 1952 Santa Ana murder trial launched the age of broadcast voyeurism

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    What Gives?

    Bye, Tim Carpenter

  • Features

    January 3, 2002

    Diary of a mad county

    Orange County, California: 2001

  • Culture

    September 6, 2001

    Censor Me All Night Long!

    Dont miss the real beauty while youre getting ticked about censorship

  • Music

    August 23, 2001

    Nix!

    One week in unbelievably wretched music

  • Columns

    February 8, 2001

    One Hand Clapping

    One week in unbelievably wretched music

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