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This week's giveaway: 15 pairs of tickets to Metal Skool on August 31st! To win, e-mail ocpromotions@ocweekly.com with your NAME, AGE (this is a 21 show), and PHONE NUMBER. The show will be held at Sachi Bar in Long Beach: 6400 E. PCH, Long Beach, CA. 90803, corner of Pacific Coast Highway and 2n ... More >>
All info from a MySpace bulletin posted about Mike Conley by DJ Poppa of the Double Fisted Underground/Suck My Disco crew: Memorial: 4pm Sunday Brookhurst Street & Pacific Coast Highway Huntington Beach At The River Jetties You can enter the beach one block north of Brookhurst Street @ Magnolia Str ... More >>
Santa Ana Pub Crawl, August 9 @ 5 p.m. Now is a great time to explore the historic downtown and its few, but fantastic bars and restaurants. santaanapubcrawl.com Decadence, August 9 @ 6 p.m. Sample food from local restaurants, dance to DJ Dennis, view art by Max Neutra and Ingrid Marrero and drink ... More >>
A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare
The breakfast of patriots
Irvine Co.s Crystal Cove project raises eco-disaster fears
39 of the best things about the next 104 days
Mayberry with art on the walls
Sam's Seafood
A sampling of OCs recent lapses in judgment
A sampling of OCs recent lapses in judgment
Crazy Baldheads
Crazy Baldheads
Visiting the unloved steps of South Laguna
Visiting the unloved steps of South Laguna
Visiting the unloved steps of South Laguna
Ride the Santa Ana River trail while you still can
Feeling most at home at a place that's not
Feeling most at home at a place that's not
Feeling most at home at a place that's not
Peaceniks open another Orange County front
You think your jobs tough? Try being the Ty-D-Bowl Man for Huntington Beach
Study shows sun, wind, geothermal power would solve 'crisis'
Study shows sun, wind, geothermal power would solve 'crisis'
One mans campaign to save a wetland
One mans campaign to save a wetland
Giant ceremonial scissors made an appearance along Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point this morning, as members of the city council and OC Board of Supervisors member Pat Bates dedicated a brand new pedestrian bridge.It's not just a pedestrian bridge, though. It's "beautification." It's a "great wor ... More >>
7-Eleven surveillance screen grab courtesy Anaheim Police Department. All others courtesy of Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentClockwise from top left: Justin Buseth is accused of breaking into a home and doughnut shop in Dana Point; Daniel Chomina has a long record and faces several felony charges; ... More >>
Maj. Gen. John S. HarrelIf you can make it there in less than half as hour, you can still catch the 11 a.m. Commanding General Change of Command ceremony at the Joint Forces Training Base, 11200 Lexington Ave., Los Alamitos.Major General John S. Harrel, commanding general of the California Army N ... More >>
Friday: Paging Chuck Norris!It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more unappreciative homeless men, alleged Ecstasy pushers and Ninjas, Ninjas, Ninjas! MONDAY, AUG. 3Wrong-Way Minivan After clocking a green minivan at 80 mph south on Beach Boulevard near the 405 freewa ... More >>
The motorist who was shot by police after trying to flee the scene of a high-speed, multi-car collision Laguna Beach Tuesday morning has died. Colby Joshua Koenig, 25, of Foothill Ranch, died at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Times reports. The six-car collision ... More >>
[Hole In the Wall] Sunset Beach eatery serves up refreshing Greek treats
Have you guys heard of the Golden Bear Club? It's a Huntington Beach venue that, according to the OC Register, "was demolished in 1986 that hosted some of the biggest names in the music industry, including B.B. King, The Doors and Bob Dylan."
[Mental Notes] Also: Buzz about the Golden Bear, the Dirty Heads' no. 1 hit and how you can get on the warped tour next year
Newport Beach got a little greener this week with the opening of its first natural gas fueling station and word that plans are set for a luxury electric automaker's takeover next month of a former Rolls Royce dealer's lot on Pacific Coast Highway.A $1-million compressed natural gas (CNG) facility ... More >>
Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySee the slideshow here!The Hype: On the Saturday after the Weekly's 2010 Summer Guide hit the streets, it was obvious that sand, surf and sports were the three main criteria for our Liquid Aloha Festival near the Shorebreak Hotel in Huntington Bea ... More >>
Answer: Rite Aid.--That's according to records in an ongoing Orange County civil suit that show Illinois-based Walgreens was willing to annually pay $936,000 plus a percentage of sales for 10 years at a proposed 13,000-square-foot store on Pacific Coast Highway and Dover in a ritzy section of New ... More >>
You're overstuffed with turkey, waterlogged with egg nog and slammed with yams--not to mention recovering from another forced dysfunctional family get-together. So, it might be tempting to bridge the day between Thanksgiving and a relaxing weekend with some of the dog that bit ya. Or, a litter of ... More >>
Update, December 22, 10:08 p.m.: The emergency shelter at Mission Viejo High School has closed, the county announced this evening.Evacuated residents in need of shelter can still go to Laguna Beach High School and El Modena High School in Orange. (Addresses are on the next page.)The county's most ... More >>
"Try to catch me, coppers!"Criminals aren't the sharpest bunch of individuals. History has shown us that. They forget video surveillance and fingerprints matter, obvious stuff like that. They also seem to believe, even after they're caught or within reach of the police, they can put pedal to ... More >>
This summer, the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach will add to its ranks a big-wave surfing pioneer, an AAP World Tour veteran and one of HB's local legends. George Downing, Taylor Knox and Chuck Linnen will be enshrined on the sidewalk in front of Huntington Surf & Sport at a ce ... More >>
Turc's. The water tower. Mother's Tavern. Harbor House Cafe. Peckerwoods. Harpoon Harry's. Bruce Jones Surfboards. The post office. These are just some of the colorful spots that make up Sunset Beach, Orange County's last unincorporated coastal community. "It's a real close-knit comm ... More >>
KTLAA rapidly moving fire has burned three oceanfront homes in Sunset Beach. One has collapsed. About 60 firefighters are working to contain the five-alarm blaze, which started this afternoon at around 4:51 p.m., according to KTLA. The fire was first reported in the 16500 block o ... More >>
Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States
Last year the buzz about the Golden Bear Club--a music venue demolished in 1986 that hosted Bob Dylan, the Doors and more--was that its latest incarnation would open in Huntington Beach early 2011. Well, half the year is done, and while its Facebook page showed images of construction (the i ... More >>
A jewelry box filled with chocolates arrived in Laguna Beach directly from Portland when Verdun Fine Chocolates & Gifts owner Hamoody Houdroge opened the second location for the elegant Lebanon-based dessert shop last spring. He drove along Pacifi ... More >>
Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyUPDATE, SEPT. 7, 5:11 P.M.: According to a Orange County coroner's report, Russ Yamada died of a heart attack on Saturday afternoon, reports NBC Los Angeles. The 42-year-old Torrance resident had been surfing at a surf break called Old Man's in San Onofre State Park ... More >>
UPDATE, OCT. 24, 3:05 P.M.: Orange County Superior Court Judge Erick L. Larsh this afternoon assigned the defense of Scott Evans Dekraai to the Orange County Public Defender's office. The lead attorney (at taxpayers' dime) will now be senior Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders. Dekraai's origin ... More >>
It's fair to say there are probably quite a few pissed-off potheads in Huntington Beach.Why? Well, because a ton -- 2,600 pounds, to be exact -- of fresh Mexican weed will never make into their pipes.On Nov. 12, law enforcement officials found a boat filled with about $1 million worth of weed alo ... More >>
Rosemary and Timothy Leary with the Brotherhood's John Griggs circa 1968On Dec. 6, the paperback version of my book Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love and Acid to the World, came out in paperback. To celebrate that event, my friend and former OC W ... More >>
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