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Ralphie May and Lahna Turner's Dirty Podcast is a Perfect 10.

Getting a married couple to work together on a project in perfect harmony can sometimes be easier said than done. Especially when both of them are used to the spotlight. Chances are after a while the act will wear off and you can expect them to be at each other's throats once or twice an hour. But w ... More >>

South Coast Plaza-Area Cocaine Dealer Wins Long Prison Trip

A federal law-enforcement investigation into a Canada-based narcotics-and-money-laundering network operating in Southern California has resulted in the loss of freedom for a 33-year-old man who participated in a South Coast Plaza-area deal for 37 kilograms of cocaine. Unbeknownst to Jun Jie Zhang, ... More >>

[UPDATED with Charges:] Bruce Allen Ohlwine Held in Murder of Wife Saori Ohlwine in Hotel

See Update No. 2 on page 2 with the murder charges identifying the victim.See Update No. 1 on the next page with the police identification of the suspect and the crime-scene hotel.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 13, 11:11 A.M.: It sounds like the beginning of a late-night-TV whodunit: Cops arrive at a hotel to ... More >>

How Rapper Aliso Black Plans to Hustle His Way to Paid Dues

Aliso Black doesn't like to talk about the dues he's paid to his local hip-hop scene. He'd rather just show you the worn-out soles of his white, high-top Chucks, the armpit stains under his sweatshirt, or a car trunk full of mixtapes and show fliers. Then of course there's the swath of Google entrie ... More >>

In Print This Week: Jerome LOL, Com Truise, Sex Panther, Ask Exene

[Editor's Note: Every Thursday, in addition to bombarding you with blog posts, this newspaper does something really crazy...we write a print version! Here's a taste of our top stories this week.] 1) Our lead story this week delves into the world of atmospheric blips, bleeps and beats created by ... More >>

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival, 8/10/12

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but vene ... More >>

Brea Bank Inside Job Bandit Gets Punished By Federal Judge

An Orange County bank teller plotted the January 2007 robbery of her place of employment, got arrested in part because of a boneheaded move and eventually pleaded guilty.For her crimes, Sheryl Anntoinette Alexander, an active church member in Ontario and teller at Brea's Credit Union of Southern Cal ... More >>

Tavazo Dried Nuts & Fruits Store Opens in Irvine

​Tavazo Dried Nuts and Fruits opened quietly in Irvine last week, or perhaps the week before. Like I said, it was a quiet debut. This outlet of a mostly Ontario, Canada-based Persian goods purveyor can be found next to Smart & Final and Trader Joe's at Culver and Walnut.

Long Beach's Cold War Kids Announce Fall U.S. Tour

​ Long Beach's very own Cold War Kids just announced the second leg of their fall North American tour in support of their latest release, Mine Is Yours (Downtown/DGC/Interscope Records).

[UPDATED with No Action:] San Onofre Nuke Plant Shutdown Tempts San Clemente City Council

​UPDATE, JUNE 22, 4:36 P.M.: Travel back in time, kiddies, to one month and four days ago. The world was so much different then. Facing a full house of potential voters opposed to the continued operation of the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the San Clemente City Council g ... More >>

Persian Dried Fruits And Nuts Purveyor To Open First American Store in Irvine

Photo from Tavazo's Facebook Page​Tavazo, a seller of dried fruits and nuts based out of Ontario, Canada, is planning to open its first store in the U.S. this summer in Irvine. The outlet, next to Smart & Final and Trader Joe's at Culver and Walnut, will also boast 300 kind of spices, dried o ... More >>

Region is 4th Worst in U.S. for Finding Jobs

​A list based on data from the government and a job-search website reveals the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana area is the fourth worst metropolitan area for finding a job.U.S. News & World Report analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and job search website indeed.com to com ... More >>

[UPDATED with Federal Action Sought:] No Neighboring Nukes Tempt San Clemente City Council

​UPDATE, MAY 18, 11:31 A.M.: Facing a full house of potential voters opposed to the continued operation of the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the San Clemente City Council decided Tuesday night to send letters to lawmakers seeking removal of radioactive waste from the plant. ... More >>

Lakers Return to Honda Center Oct. 19

​The Lakers are down 2-0 to the Mavs, and if they lose tonight in Dallas all hope will be lost for a three-peat.Speaking of elimination, the Honda Center in Anaheim won't be the home of an NBA team for at least another season.Are you ready for some basketball?

The Big Four 4--Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax--Coming to Indio

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyMetallica at the Honda Center, Dec. 10, 2009​There have been whispers all week about the Big Four Festival--that's Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax at one festival--and details were announced just this morning.

The Birthday Massacre: A Vampire Band for the 'Twilight' Set

​2005 was the breakout year for the Birthday Massacre. That was the year they signed two label deals, one with Repo Records in Europe and the other with Metropolis Records, the perfect label home for their dark vampire rock. The band first surfaced in 2000 in Ontario as Imagica. Two years later ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman Fundraiser in the 909

​Hot off the heels of the well-publicized yard sale in front of her La Habra home that raised $2,600 aimed at helping keep her and her 14 kids under a roof, Octomom Nadya Suleman is being treated to another fund-raiser, this time at a taco joint in Ontario tomorrow night.As you'll see on the poste ... More >>

Airport Airspace Changes Prompted by Mid-Air Collision Warnings Come in for Criticism

​Looking up at the skies over north Costa Mesa a couple weeks ago produced a most disturbing site: a JetBlue plane making its normal descent into Long Beach Airport was passed maybe 100 feet above by another airliner heading for either LAX or the landing line at John Wayne Airport. Maybe that's a ... More >>

Charlene "Charlie" Padilla, Mother of Chino Inmate, to Get Prestigious Journalism Award

​Perhaps you know someone doing time in Chino right now. Charlene Padilla does: her son. And the concern "Charlie," as she is known, has for her boy was spun into an unlikely reporting assignment and a prestigious journalism award.Padilla is one of four individuals and a newspaper that will be hon ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

USA! USA! America Advances at World Cup With 1-0 Win Over Algeria

​In his preview of the FIFA World Cup, Josh Cain ran down the locals and almost locals competing for the United States team. Among them was Landon Donovan, the 28-year-old Ontario native who just scored the winning goal that has sent America to the second round for the first time since the Stone A ... 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 >>

Ugo Allesina of Prego, Part One

Kimberly Valenzuela​Of all the Los Angeles-area airports, John Wayne has the best food within easy striking distance. The traffic at LAX prevents people from eating nearby; Burbank's airport is in an absolute desert of food, and Ontario is even worse. Long Beach has some good options, but if you'r ... More >>

Buy Me Some Sushi and Cracker Jack

[Summer Guide] A rundown of the best non-chain eats at the Big A

Alex's Bar and John Reis Team Up For SXSW

Flickr user BenGoettingJohn Reis performing with the Night Marchers at Alex's Bar, Long Beach, Feb. 10, 2008.​Long Beach and Orange County bands aren't the only locals headed to the cheerfully soul-trying SXSW music-biz death march in Austin this week. 562-ers Alex's Bar and owner Alex Hernandez w ... More >>

Texting, Tweeting and Facebooking Teens Are Stupid Again!

​Two weeks after a study partly funded by the British Academy concluded phone texting leads to more literate youths, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, claims messaging via cellphones is contributing to a generation of college students who can't write.Their evidence: the rising failure ... More >>

"King of the World" Box Office's Orange County Connection

James Cameron makes a point with actor Sam Worthington behind the scenes on "Avatar."​James Cameron's Avatar overtook his own Titanic, reaching the $1.292 billion mark in worldwide box office grosses on Sunday. The sinking ship story had reigned at $1.242 billion. However, Avatar is still $49 mill ... More >>

Tim Chizmar's Wildass Comedy Party

Brea Improv

Lady Gaga Announces Tour, Skips Orange County

​OK, so we all know by now that the Kanye West/Lady Gaga show at the Honda Center, once scheduled for November 15, isn't happening. Heck, the whole "Fame Kills" tour isn't happening. But even though Kanye is dealing with his own post-Taylor Swift issues, the hope still remained that the seemingly ... More >>

Proposed LA to San Diego High Speed Train Would Avoid OC

​A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>

Laptop Loss Much Less Frequent at John Wayne Than Most U.S. Airports

Often when searching for the best air travel bargains, Orange Countians will choose to fly out of Ontario or Los Angeles International because fares are cheaper than at John Wayne Airport--even given the higher costs associated with ground travel and lost time to those airports, which are reachable ... More >>

Crime Time: Hey, Mister in the Miniskirt Looking at Porn!

Very early Tuesday in Tustin. Not the real crime but an amazing facsimile. Once again, it's the Weekly's weekly round-up of Orange County police calls...MONDAY, JUNE 22Breaking Up the Boredom of a Bank Line: Shortly after noon, a man clutching a backpack threatened to blow up the Bank of America bra ... More >>

Big weekend at Detroit...again, yeeesh.

Okay, so most of you who read this blog probably get the sense that us Heard Mentality goons generally like what happens at Detroit Bar on a weekly basis. Sometimes we write about them way too much considering that there are about 100 or so perfectly good (or at least mediocre) places to get drunk a ... More >>

Mexican Kids Hating Mexican Kids, And Why It's Okay

La Opinión had a fascinating front-page piece yesterday about kiddies at Creek View Elementary School in Ontario regaling each other with a rhyme that translates as, "I don't want to go to Mexico ever again, again, again/Mexico stinks, stinks, stinks/There's a fat policeman at the door, door, door. ... More >>

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: iPhone Thumb Surgery?

Picking themselves up with your bootstraps: The lobbyists at the Orange County Tourism Council believe they are entitled yet again to a public handout. And, once again, they're going to get it without even a minute of public debate. The board of supervisors placed on its Tuesday consent calender a ... More >>

Canadian Collectives

Do Make Say Think

Surfin' USA

Dekes Guitar Geek Festival Wipes You Out

Our Musical Neighbors to the North

Bedouin Soundclash

Clean and Sober

Olivier Assayas hypnotic rock ballad

Well-Behaved Nations Rarely Make History

On trading Canada for California and nice for nasty

Learning to Survive

The Constantines right-before-the-morning-after music

Diary of a Mad County

Whats Orange County?

OC Hillbillies

Spin Recycle

Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

Taxi Driver Confessions

Are you flirtin with me?

Welcome to Long Breach Airport

Let's Get Mikey

You Gotta Keep 'em Separated

Letters