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Irvine Women Ranked Among Top Earners in the Nation from Online Auctions of First Dates

Ladies in Irvine auction off first dates to the highest bidder--who knew? WhatsYourPrice.com knows, having ranked the land of bland No. 10 on its list of "Top 13 Cities Where Women Date-for-Dollars." Irvine got the nod because during the first week of May, 56 women from the city joined the website t ... More >>

Robert Jon & the Wreck Feel the Rhythm of the Road

By: Heidi Darby [Editor's Note: Spare Notes is a Weekly music feature highlighting outtakes and personal stories from bands who just finished working their asses off to put out new music.] Robert Jon & the Wreck generate a southern-infused, classic rock sound that's both authentic and infectious. ... More >>

[UPDATED with Randal Quan Speaks:] Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence Memorialized

See the update at the end of this post on the service that featured Randal Quan speaking.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 22, 4:38 P.M.: There will be a memorial service Sunday for Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence at the place where the engaged couple met, Concordia University in Irvine.But unlike the live coverag ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Man Runs Into Taco Bell Waving a Gun!

I've driven past Oklahoma City before, only eating there once: at the horrific Taco Bueno chain, which, when I wrote about it, created a revolt of readers for reasons I can't remember anymore. It's main claim to Mexican food is a big one: that's the hometown of Rick Bayless. And I once remember seei ... More >>

Bill Gross, PIMCO's Billionaire Investment Guru, Breaks Bad

When Bill Gross talks, people listen, as the billionaire investment guru out of Newport Beach and that tony beach town's PIMCO firm can make calls on markets around the world that ultimately shake the global economy (Hello, Greece . . . Greece? Are you still there?). But Gross' just-posted monthly i ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Says 2013 Is the Year of the Flaming Lips

After breaking a Guinness World Record, the Oklahoma psych rockers have much more in store

Wayne Coyne Says 2013 Is the Year of the Flaming Lips

See Also:* Pacific Festival: The Dunes Announced* Boys Noize Talks New Album, Working With Snoop Dogg and Skrillex*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy MoveAs the Flaming Lips pulled into New Orleans for the final show on a marathon, eight-city, 24-hour jaunt acros ... More >>

Sweet Brown Songs: Everybody's Got Time for That!

I must be living under a rock, because it was only this weekend that a friend showed me the viral video on YouTube of a woman named Sweet Brown. She escaped an apartment fire and gave an interview to Oklahoma City's KFOR News Channel. With all the charisma of a preacher, she retold her story of how ... More >>

Meet Our New Advice Columnist, Exene Cervenka

[Mental Notes] Plus, OC band learn stalking Wayne Coyne will get you . . . everywhere

Hott MT Video Featuring Wayne Coyne Now on the Interwebz!

​Ahoy! Hott Mt's song featuring Wayne Coyne has surfaced on the interwebs! It's even more spectacular than we thought. The local OC band that traveled all the way to Oklahoma City just over a week ago to barge in on The Flaming Lips front man (and give him their album as a birthday present) didn' ... More >>

Red Hot Chili Peppers Reschedule Tour Due to Foot Injuries

​Red Hot Chili Peppers postponed their upcoming U.S. tour supporting their Grammy-nominated snoozefest, I'm With You, due to multiple foot injuries sustained by lead singer Anthony Kiedis. According to a statement, "Kiedis recently underwent surgery to remove a crushed sesamoid bone and correct a ... More >>

Peter Newen, Surf City Cutter, Wins Big at First Plastic Surgery Awards

​They give awards to movie stars, schoolteachers and even rodeo ropers, so why not your friendly neighborhood cutter?Why not, indeed. They handed out hardware to plastic surgeons Saturday night in Las Vegas, site of the first Aesthetic Awards.The big winner of the night hailed from Orange County.

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Drunk Employees in Alleged Food Fight!

​Just like the headline says. Classic, classic, classic! Whether there was a food fight, however, remains under investigation. Where this happened after the jump!

The Flaming Lips to Release New Songs in January

Myspace.com​Maybe it's a rip-off of Kanye's brilliant idea, but Oklahoma City psych-rockers the Flaming Lips are releasing new songs each month with longtime producer Dave Fridmann, and you can hear the first one in January. Frontman Wayne Coyne announced to Rolling Stone that they ... More >>

The Strangest Mexican Food Chain in America: Taco Bueno

A massive painting inside Taco Bueno--WTF??? But I guess it's better than a Chihuahua...​This past summer, I drove from Anacrime to Louisville, Kentucky, down to Chattanooga, then took I-40 back home. Along the way, I did some research for my coming Mexican-food book, research that was necessary ... More >>

The Union Line Tour With Local Natives

​So we just heard that The Union Line will be touring with their buddies Local Natives this fall. The Local Natives are really blowing up, performing in festivals around the world this summer.  This is also the third time the Union Line is going on the road, and the difference is that mos ... More >>

Ranking Owl City Among Rock's Most Egregious Ripoffs

Pamela Littky​There are many reasons to dislike Owl City, the electro tweepop project spearheaded by Owatonna, Minnesota 23-year-old Adam Young. For one thing the moniker is horrible. You can name yourself after a town or a continent - say, Boston or Chicago or Europe - but you can't name yoursel ... More >>

OC-Raised Lawyer Says New FBI Footage Shows OK City Bombing Coverup

​On March 31, 2008, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue won an unprecedented legal victory over the FBI in his years-old lawsuit to force the agency to hand over everything it has on the mysterious death of his brother, former Westminster resident Kenneth Trentadue. That day, the US District C ... More >>

MADD Has Become "a Tastless Joke," According to Study Author

You were told here about a study published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion that argues California should lower its drinking age for beer and wine to 18 and set up a system of low-alcohol bars. Mike Males, the study's author and senior researcher at the San Francis ... More >>

When the Going Gets Tough, the Rick Warren Scandal Gets Weird

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has today's best assessment of the Rick Warren-Barack Obama invocation dust up: "Not only is it getting worse, it's getting weirder."Yesterday, there was Pastor Wiley Drake of First Baptist Church in Buena Park demonizing Warren's participation in the Jan. 20 inauguration of ou ... More >>

Patriot Day vs. Patriots' Day Smackdown

Since 2002, September 11 has been celebrated as Patriot Day to honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Patriot Day is a catchier title than what the day was originally called, the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks o ... More >>

Barbara Coe, Sonny Bono, And the Illuminati

It must be nigh-impossible for the nicotine-stained brain of California Coalition for Immigration Reform president Barbara Coe to keep up with all the conspiracies (Reconquista, evil Muslims, the Cult of the Two Blue Shoes) she subscribes to. Nevertheless, we always dismissed her efforts and rambles ... More >>

OC Family Charging OK City Bombing Cover-Up Wins Lawsuit Against Uncle Sam!

The family of an Orange County man who died under mysterious circumstances in an Oklahoma federal prison more than a decade ago has just won its lawsuit against the U.S. Justice Department. On March 31, the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma ruled that the family of Kenneth Trent ... More >>

Bumshell!

Congressman Rohrabacher shuts door on Oklahoma City bombingand the mysterious death of a former OC resident

Spreading Democracy... or something

Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the Brit ... More >>

Commie Girl

'Boomhauerboomhauerboomhauercockfights'
Working at the Weekly affords you frequent visits to the Bible Be

Thats Noose to Him

Rohrabacher presses FBI about hangings

Case Un-closed

eRohrabacher revisits the Oklahoma City bombing

Diary of a Mad County

Pretty Fraulein

I Put the Me in Me!

Tom Cruise Is Straight and Other Hollywood Conspiracies

Uri Dowbenkos Hoodwinked exposes the Masonic Zionist plot that is Tinseltown

Letters

Nowhere Man

Homeland Insecurity

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Jet Set!

Hangin with homos in OKC and RepCon 2002, dawg

Retrospective Fatigue

Is it still too early to say something smart about Sept. 11?

Letters

Long Arms of the Law

Manila Enveloped in Oklahoma Bombing Case

Blow Their Butts to Hell!

Radio minister Rich Agozino says illegals procreating wildly in takeover plot

Nuts drive nuts nuts!

"In these Last Days," Orange County goes to war

Men Are Such Dogs

When will government allow us to witness the executions of bad dogs?

Holy Shit

OC Christian radio: God wants national TV audience for McVeigh execution

Letters the Editor

Going Ballistic

Headlines from around America

World Traveler

Guilty Pleasures

301-400

Once in a Lifetime

Is Paul Suntups life a Talking Heads song?

Primordial Ooze