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  • Calendar

    April 19, 2012

    California Wine Festival

    Dana Point Yacht Club

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Orange County: The Most Hipster Place in America?

    ​Pop open that can of PBR. Orange County has been ranked as the No. 1 hipster place in America, surpassing San Francisco, Portland, New York and Austin.     (Go ahead and lift your jaw off the floor--we'll wait.)  Hipsterness, of course, isn't easy to quantify--ironic mustaches ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    100 Reasons to Be Ecstatic About Summer In OC!

    Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States

  • Columns

    May 19, 2011

    Honk If You Hate Lazy Cyclists

    [Hey, You!] Some riders aren't content with just one bike lane

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Mike Schroeder, GOP Dark Lord, Beats Santa Ana on a Parking Ticket!

    ​It's hard to root for someone like Mike Schroeder, the political adviser to OC District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and disgraced, felonious, adulterous ex-sheriff Mike Carona and one of the prime people behind our vile GOP. But when the subject is a wrong parking ticket, we'll root for Vader. And w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 6, 2011
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    December 30, 2010
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    September 9, 2010
  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Bicycling: So Hot Right Now

    ​Bikes are sooooo hot!In Long Beach, they are hot in the stolen property sense. More on that in a bit. First, we turn more positively to Orange County's LB.

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Documentary That Rethinks Our Car Culture Caps Long Beach Bicycle Film Festival

    ​Sunday's Long Beach Bicycle Film Festival serves two purposes, helping to close out the three-day Long Beach Bicycle Festival that begins today and reviving the Long Beach International Film Festival, whose return is TBD.Actually, there is a third and fourth purpose: showcasing local documentary ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Director's Own Words: Clive Neeson of "Last Paradise"

    Aaaaaannnd . . . ACTION!​"I'm told what sets this film apart is being able to tell the whole story with crisp original footage. That was because I began filming it in the '60s as a kid, when the world was a very different place. I conceived the script then and focused my filming on things that I s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    "Last Paradise" Director Clive Neeson's Outback Stake Out

    Smile for the camera.​"Going to Extremes to Get the Shot" looks at filmmakers who hiked through mountains, hung out of helicopters and waded in shark-infested waters for their action-sports movies playing at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival, which kicks off Thursday and continues through April ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    RV Parks and Campgrounds Association Favors Regulation ... of Other Businesses

    Not Debbie Sipe​The California Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, which represents owners of recreational parks and campgrounds, has come out in favor of government regulation.That is, government regulation of the businesses that sell certain products used at RV parks and campgrounds, not th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 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 Riversid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 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 ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2009

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

    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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2009

    Hiking

    El Moro Canyon

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Chicago

    Long Beach Terrace Theatre

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009
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    December 4, 2008

    Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

    Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    The Loud Outdoors

    OC Music and Fun Festival

  • Columns

    June 19, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    OC Music and Fun Festival

  • Features

    June 12, 2008
  • Culture

    February 7, 2008

    [Trendzilla] Look, Ma! No Brakes!

    Taking to the streets with the fixies

  • News

    October 11, 2007

    Go Play Outside, Kid

    Education Eco-activist Richard Louv

  • Blogs

    August 9, 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 d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2007

    That's Bull

    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 d ... More >>

  • Music

    March 1, 2007

    Locals Only

    Strange New World

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2006

    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 t ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 3, 2006

    Letters

    'I like twats better than twits, and can play a twat just like a fiddle back home'

  • News

    December 1, 2005
  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Toll Road Rage: What Your Mimi Doesn't Know

    What your Mimi doesn't know could fill San Mateo Canyon, if the TCA doesn't do it first.

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Irvine

    What your Mimi doesn't know could fill San Mateo Canyon, if the TCA doesn't do it first.

  • Features

    May 19, 2005

    Hot Hot Hike

    What your Mimi doesn't know could fill San Mateo Canyon, if the TCA doesn't do it first.

  • Music

    September 2, 2004

    Pedals To the Metal

    The resurrection of Bikeride

  • Columns

    August 5, 2004

    Stairways to Heaven

    The resurrection of Bikeride

  • Culture

    January 22, 2004

    Episode 17

    The resurrection of Bikeride

  • Music

    December 26, 2002

    Steaming Malmsteen

    The resurrection of Bikeride

  • Music

    November 28, 2002

    Poptopia!

    The resurrection of Bikeride

  • Culture

    September 5, 2002

    All Thrills, No Chills

    Not quite roughing it on the central coast

  • Features

    May 30, 2002

    No Escape

    A night of illegal camping

  • Culture

    June 7, 2001

    I Didn't crap in the shower

    My roommate the fashion designer

  • Music

    January 11, 2001

    Not Just a Beach Boys Fanboy

    Bikerides newest CD shows how far you can go if you pedal backward hard

  • Music

    January 13, 2000

    Bunny Moseley of the Moseleys

    Bikerides newest CD shows how far you can go if you pedal backward hard

  • Columns

    September 9, 1999

    Whippersnapper!

    Bikerides newest CD shows how far you can go if you pedal backward hard

  • Music

    August 12, 1999

    No Lame Stuff

    Bikeride enjoys just about everything else

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Easy to Be Hardy

    Roughing it without all the rough edges

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