Subject: Outdoor Recreation

• Slow Day, But Good News!

  Bikeride is BACK! New album, new shows, and an appearance on MOJO's March compilation (out in February). Let's check what the band has to say: Well, we're happy to say we'll be participating in a Beatles Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band covers record for MOJO magazine. It's to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the greatest album ever made. We'll be doing "Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite", probably Lennon's trippiest song ever, and a perfect time capsule for 1967. It will be out in M

  December 20, 2006

• Yacht 'Cha!

  Not-too-early morning brought the start of the TransPacific yacht race to Honolulu, complete with free continental breakfast and pretty girls wearing leather knee-high riding boots (to a yacht race? I think we’re mixing our upper-class leisure events here, aren’t we?). Throw in Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, smiling with the whole of his catcher’s-mitt face, and I’m hooked. Of course I was there! In Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor on Sunday, the last wave of TransPac racers sailed by the

  July 17, 2007

• That's Bull

  August 5, 2007

• Trailing Me

  I like the idea of bribing me with food in order to get me to pay attention to a cause. PETA, for one, would do better to give away free vegetarian food that tastes good rather than getting celebrities to act like idiots -- sorry, but I'm not gonna spare the poor animals' lives if it means eating disgusting crap for the rest of mine. And speaking of disgusting -- granola bars with dried fruit just ain't my thing. Which I know is weird coming from someone who eats duck fetus and snails, but y'k

  August 9, 2007

• This Week in Shopping Center Concerts

  I wrote about the weekly live music at The District at Tustin Legacy a couple days ago, and this Saturday The Block at Orange is hosting "Rock ‘n Road: Where the Music Meets the Road," which brings together high school bands and road safety education. Finally!

  October 13, 2008

• Not Just a Beach Boys Fanboy

  January 11, 2001

• I Didn't crap in the shower

  June 7, 2001

• [Summer Guide] Elliott Almond Brings an OC Native's Eye to His How-to Book About Surfing

  June 4, 2009

• Hiking

  June 4, 2009

• Imagine Amusement Parks Before Knott's and Disneyland

  Carousel News & Trader--A Sun Valley-based trade mag for the mighty carousel industry--previews a book about Orange County amusement parks that pre-date Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. Early Amusement Parks of Orange County trades on author and former Disney/Knott's ride operator Richard Harris' lifelong fascination with theme parks and attractions and contains photographs culled from museums, private collections and the Orange County Archives. Harris does devote plenty of ink to Disney

  April 13, 2009

• Chicago

  February 19, 2009

• Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

  December 4, 2008

• The Loud Outdoors

  October 2, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  June 19, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Biking It: A Field Guide to the Two-Wheeled Pedal-Pusher

  June 12, 2008

• Yankee Doodle

  January 10, 2008

• [Trendzilla] Look, Ma! No Brakes!

  Taking to the streets with the fixies

  February 7, 2008

• Work it

  December 6, 2007

• Go Play Outside, Kid

  October 11, 2007

• Steaming Malmsteen

  December 26, 2002

• Locals Only

  Strange New World
  

  March 1, 2007

• The Few, the Wide Open Spaces

  Hiker John McKinney puts a happy face on the remaining wild lands
  

  November 2, 2006

• Letters

  August 3, 2006

• Toll Road Rage: Don't Trust the Register

  December 1, 2005

• Toll Road Rage: What Your Mimi Doesn't Know

  November 24, 2005

• Irvine

  October 20, 2005

• Hot Hot Hike

  May 19, 2005

• Pedals To the Metal

  September 2, 2004

• Stairways to Heaven

  August 5, 2004

• Episode 17

  January 22, 2004

• Poptopia!

  November 28, 2002

• All Thrills, No Chills

  September 5, 2002

• No Escape

  May 30, 2002

• We Promise We Wont Kick You in the Balls

  October 11, 2001

• Hey, You Cant Park There!

  January 4, 2001

• Letters

  May 25, 2000

• Bunny Moseley of the Moseleys

  January 13, 2000

• Whippersnapper!

  September 9, 1999

• No Lame Stuff

  August 12, 1999

• Summer Beach & Beer Guide

  June 3, 1999

• Easy to Be Hardy

  May 13, 1999

• To Do This Weekend 5/1-5/3

  National Adult Spelling Bee, Saturday, 2 p.m.This annual event in Long Beach is only for adults who live or work in the United States. Spellers can register for $30/advance or $50/week-of-event. And it's just $5 to spectate. Watch some grown ups spell their asses off! Sorry, no heckling. Bay Shore Church, 5200 The Toledo at Nieto, Long Beach, CA; 562-439-3316 Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride, Sunday, 9 a.m.Enjoy ocean and canyon views on this 13-mile ride over steep terrain (2,

  May 1, 2009

• Happy Bike to Work Day, Everybody!

  As Orange County does (but mostly does not) celebrate Bike to Work Day today, here is a little present from Amy Novotney, Monitor on Psychology, on Sott.net:On a Tuesday evening two years ago, avid cyclists Christy Kirkwood and Debbie Brown were finishing a 13-mile bike ride in Orange County, Calif., when a driver talking on a cell phone swerved into their bike path, knocking Kirkwood off her bike and throwing her 227 feet. The motorist--who had been travelling at 55 mph--continued a short dista

  May 15, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 4/21

  Chapman Dialogue Debate with John Yoo, 11 a.m.Okay, so this isn't technically going on tonight. It's actually going on right now. But if you're not too busy this morning, we suggest heading over to give this debate a listen. Yoo is currently a visiting professor at Chapman Law, and during his time working with the Bush administration as legal council he authored the infamous "Torture Memos" defending water-boarding and other "enhanced interrogation techinques." This one could get heated, folks!

  April 21, 2009

• State Budget Mess Takes Toll on Annual Easter Seals Camp

  Due to California's budget mess, $52,000 in annual state support for Easter Seals Southern California's week-long camp for people with disabilities is likely not coming July 1, so the nonprofit will be scrambling over the next five weeks to make up for the loss and continue the 36-year run at Camp Oakes in the San Bernardino Mountains."Our campers come from all over Southern California and look forward to this week all year long," says Debbie Ball, Easter Seals' regional vice president, in a me

  June 29, 2009

• Orange County Mud Run

  July 16, 2009

• Saturday's Headlines

  Bus Stop: Orange County Transportation bus drivers voted to strike this morning. KCBS/Channel 2 is reporting that 50 of 80 routes will lose service. You know what this means? Rich Newport Beach folks could be forced to retrieve their domestic help. Capo School Scamsters: The LA Times reported today that prosecutors plan civil charges against Capistrano Unified School District officials who, among other things, violated state law by giving a construction company a $3.8 million bonus in secret. I

  July 7, 2007

• 77 Drummers Drumming on 07/07/07

  Japanese psychedelic samurais Boredoms have arranged an amazing spectacle for what some amateur numerologists think will the luckiest day of the century, July 7, 2007. The concert happens at 5 p.m. in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, and is free, but you need to RSVP; it's probably a moot point now anyway. Led by Boredoms' front man eYe and Hisham Baroocha (ex-Black Dice, Soft Circle, Pixeltan), 77 drummers, arrayed in spiral formation like a boa, will play a score titled 77BOADRUM. The perf

  July 6, 2007

• Wild Rivers to Finally Close and Become... A Water Park

  ​We missed this item on the LA Times's Funland blog on Monday. Apparently, Irvine water park Wild Rivers, which has spent the better part of its decade proclaiming it would soon shut down but never actually doing so, may finally see its last day in 2010.In its place would be a seemingly identical water park, owned by the same people as before, but with a different name: Splash Canyon.

  October 23, 2009

• Five Great Places to Eat While Biking the Santa Ana River Trail

  Dave Lieberman​Orange County is a surprisingly bike-friendly place, and the crown jewel of north OC has to be the Santa Ana River Trail, which goes from the ocean at the Huntington Beach/Newport Beach border to Prado Dam in Corona, completely separated from cars. (It will eventually, when Riverside County gets off the dime, continue further up the river, too.) Weekdays see a lot of commuters using the trail; weekends are a blur of Lycra-clad speed racers and recreational bicyclists whose pace

  October 26, 2009