Subject: Pasadena

• The Great Photo

  The Guinness Book of World records has announced a gigantic photo taken from an airport hangar turned camera obscura at Irvine's Great Park, the former Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro, is the largest in the world! According to a release from the Great Park's marketing people, “The Great Picture was created over the nine months leading up to July 2006 by six well-known photographic artists collectively known as the Legacy Project, aided by 400 volunteers, artists and experts. Working in t

  August 9, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: One Down in Murder at Sea Case

  Inaction Action! In their hunt for additional pay and perks, Orange County sheriff’s deputies flexed their muscles again Friday by delaying the transfer of incustody folks to court for criminal hearings. The, if you will, inaction action is designed to frightened county supervisors at the negotiating table with union officials who represent the deputies. Union boss John Nichols tells Reg reporter Peggy Lowe that the protest demonstrates “frustration.” In the past, the union has won wildly

  October 6, 2007

• Rohrabacher went in drag to solve already solved RFK assassination?

  While the nation struggles with two wars, financial disasters, devastating hurricanes, regular political sex and ethics scandals, ridiculously priced gas and global warming, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) has been busy attempting to singlehandedly solve the already solved 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. According to a September 25, 2008, Pasadena Weekly article by Carl Kozlowski, Rohrabacher believes that the Los Angeles Police Department has for 40 year

  September 30, 2008

• Getting More Retail than Sinatra

  January 20, 2000

• Goodbye, Gurza

  April 5, 2001

• More Fun Than a Tractor Pull!

  June 7, 2001

• The Last Bear

  October 23, 2003

• Penn State More Psyched Than USC By Disneyland Visit

  One perk for Penn State University players, coaches and fans who have already arrived in Southern California for the New Year's Day Rose Bowl is the traditional Disneyland visit, which is Friday. After all, who wouldn't want to escape the weather in University Park, PA (current temperature: 23 degrees) for the always sunny Magic Kingdom (Friday's forecast: 58 degrees, partly cloudy--in other words, blizzard conditions to Orange Countians)?Indeed, as the 95th Rose Bowl will pit the BCS-ranked No.

  December 23, 2008

• What the Hell is Loretta Sanchez Talking About?

  ANNOUNCER: It's the hot new game show sweeping the country, What the Hell is Loretta Sanchez Talking About? Here's your host, Rock Pudding.PUDDING: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another thrilling chance to win four bucks, a bottle of Armor All and a job. Contestants, please look at the monitor behind me. Let's go ... ANNOUNCER: Thanks, Rock. We are watching tape shot at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena on Sept. 7, 2008. This past Sunday, through the wonders of extremely slow pos

  January 27, 2009

• [Pucker Up] Vice Tries to Bust Me: Unexpected Visitors On the Porn Set

  August 28, 2008

• La Vie en Rose et Booze

  December 6, 2007

• Trendzilla

  Boat shoes? They actually look kinda cool now

  May 3, 2007

• Feelin' It

  David Serby & the Sidewinders

  March 1, 2007

• The Disappointment Remains the Same

  October 26, 2006

• Talk About the Passion

  May 11, 2006

• Grub Guide

  March 16, 2006

• 'Everyone's a Character'

  January 26, 2006

• New Film Reviews

  December 22, 2005

• Sex & Drugs & Sex & Rock & Roll

  August 4, 2005

• Temple of the Fresh Kicks

  April 21, 2005

• Not a Product of His Environment

  February 24, 2005

• A Moment in Rhyme

  January 20, 2005

• The MC5s Fine Art of Fucking Up

  December 23, 2004

• The Rocco Files

  December 9, 2004

• Ladys Chattering Lover

  October 14, 2004

• This Week in High-Class Grubbing

  August 19, 2004

• The Gang of Four Invades Orange County

  February 26, 2004

• Grin and Ferret

  January 8, 2004

• Fame!

  December 11, 2003

• Un Poquito Es Mas

  December 4, 2003

• Shrimp Balls and Chococat Coitus

  September 18, 2003

• Suburban Funk

  August 7, 2003

• For the Love of Dewey

  June 5, 2003

• Letters

  April 4, 2002

• United We Brand!

  October 11, 2001

• How to Score With Women

  August 9, 2001

• Juicy Fruits

  January 18, 2001

• Letters

  July 15, 1999

• Out of Sight

  October 1, 1998

• OC Weekly Receives 8 SoCal Journalism Awards Nominations

  The OC Weekly--as in ORANGE COUNTY Weekly--plot for Los Angeles media market domination has been slow to achieve but persistent, as evidenced by the impressive showing Weeklings make on the Los Angeles Press Club's list of finalists for the 51st annual SoCal Journalism Awards.Winners will be announced June 14 at the "newly renovated" Sheraton Universal hotel. Which means several of us will be consulting MapQuest between now and June 14. Most certainly MapQuesting will be Daffodil J. Altan, who i

  May 14, 2009

• Finally, Studio At Montage Laguna Beach Names New Executive Chef

  Following a lengthy countrywide search, the Montage has announced Craig Strong as Executive Chef of Studio, replacing James Boyce, who left earlier this year.Strong, until yesterday Chef de Cuisine at The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa (formerly Ritz-Carlton) in Pasadena, was a semifinalist for Best Chef/Pacific in the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards. He is, we're told, getting married first, then starting his new gig at the Montage in June. Busy boy!

  May 21, 2009

• Dâm Funk? Damn Right

  July 30, 2009

• New Local Deadbeats Join State List of Top Tax Delinquents

  Bruce McNallThe State Board of Equalization list of California's top sales and use tax delinquents has welcomed 17 new members who owe nearly $22 million as a group--and, yes, some locals are among them. Richard Steven Lansburg of Long Beach-based Best Billiards and a Fullerton filer for bankruptcy in 2000, leads the local contingent with $1,072,919.47 owed. Seven rungs down from him are W & J Higgins Investments, LLC/Sizzler Restaurants of Foothill Ranch with $546,783.20 owed,

  August 31, 2009

• UPDATED: ACLU Announces Settlement of Suit Tied to Corona del Mar High's Production of "Rent"

  Photo by Matt Coker Karyl Ketchum and Mike Wiggins talk about the hell their 17-year-old daughter Hail endured at Corona del Mar High School last school year.​Three varsity football players at Corona del Mar High School posted a video on the school's Facebook page in January in which they describe how and where they would rape now 17-year-old Hail Ketchum-Wiggins before disclosing the manner in which they would shoot her to death. The video also includes homophobic remarks directed at another

  September 9, 2009

• The Shys, Steelwells, More Set for House of Blues Anaheim

  Andrew Steven​Playing the House of Blues in Anaheim is a big deal for a national touring act, but for a local band, the opportunity to gig at one of Orange County's premier venues--nestled in Downtown Disney, no less--has to be even more of a treat.

  October 6, 2009

• Bravo! Top Chef Season Six Shuts Out OC Stars

  The new lineup for Bravo's hit show--which kicks off on August 26 and is filmed in Vegas--has just been announced, and there's not a single SoCal (let alone OC) chef on the list. UPDATE: OK, there's Michael Voltaggio, although, weirdly, Bravo's own press info has him cooking both in LA and in Pasadena (it's actually the latter, where he's chef de cuisine at the Langham as of very recently).There's the usual nod to New York, San Francisco, et al, including, intriguingly, Preeti Mistry (pictur

  July 10, 2009

• U2 Rose Bowl Show to Be Streamed Live on YouTube

  Chris SansenbachU2 in Anaheim, April 2005.​U2, YouTube. It just makes too much sense.We talked earlier this week about how massively packed the Rose Bowl in Pasadena will be for the U2 show this Sunday, with 100,000 cross-generational music fans coming from across Southern California--really, just think about that drive there, and the parking, and the leaving the parking lot, and the drive home. It took me a half hour to leave the parking garage of the Bren Events Center at UCI on Sunday, for

  October 21, 2009

• More U2 Info

  ​We all know U2 sucks. The songs are boring, Bono's a pompous ass and the rhythm section might be the worst in the history of rock 'n' roll. They've sold a bazillion records, yet no one I know has ever bought one of them, probably because my friends and I have good taste. But lame-os who own four CDs think the boys from Ireland are the second coming of God.If you're one of the many thousands of people who are getting suckered into seeing U2 at the Rose Bowl Sunday because your boss bought 17 t

  October 21, 2009

• Last Night: U2 at the Rose Bowl

  Andrew Youssef​Last Night: U2, at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena; October 25, 2009. (More photos here!) Better Than: Any other stadium tour I have witnessed.Historic. Epic. Magical. These are just a few of the words that come to mind in describing U2's performance at the Rose Bowl. Even as I watch the rebroadcast of the concert streaming on Youtube, nothing will be able to convey the spine tingling and electric moments of being in a stadium with close to a 100,000 people.Is U2 the biggest band in the

  October 26, 2009

• On The Line: James Sar of Cambinos Asian BBQ

  ​ Of all the chefs and restauranteurs we've profiled on this blog feature, I can't say that I've met any of them in person. But I can say that I have had the pleasure of meeting James Sar of Cambinos Asian BBQ . If you eat at there, you will too. James will be the one taking your order and serving your food. His is a joint with no silverware or china; just paper plates. But on those plates he will pile rice, roasted veggies, and mountains of meat, including chicken skewers, beef short rib

  November 3, 2009