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Episode 10

Urine, You're Out, You're Back In Again

News item: A Huntington Beach man who co-owns the company that makes the "Whizzinator" that allows workers, job-seekers and parolees to fake drug tests pleaded guilty in a Pittsburgh, Pa., federal court Monday to conspiracy to defraud the government and conspiracy to sell drug parapherna ... More >>

Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-is ... More >>

Tuesday - 11/27

Anti-Flag at the Glass House, A World of Puppets: Expressions of Culture at Cal State Fullerton

Vocoder in the Wilderness

Deeper Into Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Roboticized, Cosmic Psychedelia

¡Ask a Mexican!®

'Where's the love?' Maybe with the fairies?

Shahab Zargari and Heela Naqshband's Top 5

GC Records, Fullerton

Peace Punks NOT Dead!

Flying the Anti-Flag

Accidental Tourists

Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

!Ask a Mexican!

Special four-part edition

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

Art for Arts Sake

Graffiti is the real deal

Episode 21

Graffiti is the real deal

Organs

Graffiti is the real deal

Night of the Living Burrito

Actress Judith ODea eats skin, shellfish

Los Alamitos

Home of the meat pie

Whole Lotta Love

Mark Wahlberg, movie star

Learning From Queer As Folk

This series isnt just about gay sex. Its about the bond gay sex creates

Going Ballistic

Headlines from around America

Our Story

Headlines from around America

An Especially Scatological Edition!

Headlines from around America

This Generations Updike

The discreet charms of Michael Chabon

Political Football

Voting our conscience offers us a way to visionary leaders, a utopian society, and huge winnings in Vegas

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tom Fec Finds Peace Through Nicknames and Vocoders

Voting our conscience offers us a way to visionary leaders, a utopian society, and huge winnings in Vegas

Dusty Rhodes and the River Band Forced to Cancel East Coast Tour

​Here's some truly unfortunate news: Fullerton's eminently likable Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, riding high on the success of their second SideOneDummy Records release Palace and Stage, have been forced to cancel the east coast leg of their tour due to bassists Brad Babinski's health issues.

Eight Questions With Alfunction

​There's not much to say about the Costa Mesa man/myth/legend that is Alfunction.that hasn't already been said, so I'll keep it at this. When he's not playing guitar in SiX, he's screen printing t-shirts, stickers and whatever else he can put ink on and currently he's the guitar tech for Maryland- ... More >>

SCR Knocks One Out of the Park with August Wilson's 'Fences'

​There's not much to say about the Costa Mesa man/myth/legend that is Alfunction.that hasn't already been said, so I'll keep it at this. When he's not playing guitar in SiX, he's screen printing t-shirts, stickers and whatever else he can put ink on and currently he's the guitar tech for Maryland- ... More >>

Over The Weekend: 60 Watt Kid at Echo Curio

​The Hype: Years ago I used to live and practice in a warehouse in Santa Ana with a bunch of different bands. Bassland, Pistolero and Shanks and the Dreamers were some of these bands, but there were many more. Some were terrible, some were really good. One of them, Dance Disaster Movement, was rea ... More >>

Avi Buffalo to Join My Morning Jacket on Tour

Andrew YoussefAvi Buffalo performing at an in-store at Fingerprints on 4/27. ​Between signing to Sub Pop, and, more recently, being picked by Wilco to play their first festival ever, Long Beach's Avi Buffalo has had a really, really, really great year. And it just got better.One of our favorite ba ... More >>

No U2 Means No Interpol: Interpol Tour Built Around U2 Dates Postponed

Lilledeshan Bose​[Via Consequence of Sound]Since U2 canceled their North American tour due to Bono's back injury, Interpol also had to postpone a few headlining shows originally scheduled around the band's opening dates for U2.

'Next' to Nothing

Paul Haggis shows no improvement in this prison-break yarn

Akaninyene Efiong Akan, San Clemente Resident, Tied to Rape in Oakland. No, the Other Oakland

​A San Clemente man is being held for a rape in Oakland.No, not the Oakland of A's, Raiders, Oak Town, Jerry Brown and Epic Beard Man fame, but the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. Akaninyene Efiong Akan, a 29-year-old Nigerian, is charged with rape, burglary, assault and other crime ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Now a DJ?

​​​Snoop Dogg, one of the most celebrated hip-hop MC's of all time, manned the decks (well, really, Mac) at 300 Bowling Lane in Anaheim on Friday night. He was joined by Wiz Khalifa, the hot young MC from Pittsburgh, and they "lit up" the stage. Snoopaloop laid down the programmed beats, while ... More >>

Chile Con Queso

For Sunday's Superbowl XLV, which pits Pittsburgh against Green Bay in Dallas, I bring you a Texas dish made with Wisconsin cheese. "Queso" is a Tex-Mex dish served everywhere in Texas, but almost never seen outside the Southwest.ProfessorSalt.com​

Four Songs to Be Remixed Into Anthems If the Kings Move to Anaheim

​The Maloof Brothers-owned Sacramento Kings are ditching their outdated digs at Arco Arena (which has recently been renamed Power Balance Pavilion) for greener pastures at Anaheim's Honda Center. The move, which would make them the Anaheim Kings and bring yet another NBA team to ... More >>

Girl Talk Is the Best at What He Does

Audiences aren't sick of mash-ups yet, not when they're as sophisticated as Gregg Gillis' work

A Perfect Circle Announces New North American Tour--And a Call for the APC Superfan

Tim CadienteLeft to right: James Iha, Matt McJunkins, Billy Howerdel, Josh Freese, Maynard James Keenan.​If you didn't manage to catch A Perfect Circle the last time around (click here to see our review), good news: The band just announced a new slew of North American tour dates, including a Los A ... More >>

Tickets for A Perfect Circle On Sale on Friday

​Tickets for A Perfect Circle's upcoming tour will be available on Friday, Apr. 8 at 10 a.m. everywhere! You can buy them at www.aperfectcircle.com then. They'll also be available at venue box offices, Ticketmaster.com and Livenation.com.

Oscar Mayer Unveils Wienermobile Food Truck

Oscar Meyer​Here's a luxe-lonchera we can wholeheartedly endorse: to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its iconic Wienermobile, the country's first gourmet food truck (Gustavo note: not really, but let's play along, shall we?), the hot dog giant has trotted out a mini-version from which its frank ... More >>

Mac Miller's Twitter Exchange with Donald Trump Gets Him Nothing, But What Did He Expect?

​Mac Miller, an up-and-coming rap artist from Pittsburgh, named the first single off his album Best Day Ever after the floppy-haired business mogul Donald Trump. Naturally, he  was disappointed with the Twitter exchange that ensued. On Tuesday, Trump wrote, "@macmiller 'Donald Trump the Song' ... More >>

Young the Giant Performing at the VMAs

​Young the Giant are the home boys that sneakily made good--Morrissey loves them, they've played the Weenie Roast, are opening for Incubus on tour this year...and today MTV announced that Young the Giant will make their VMA performance debut at the 2011 Video Music Awards. The lineup for VMA perf ... More >>

Kanye West and Jay-Z Confirm New North American Dates for Watch the Throne Tour

​As we reported earlier, Jay-Z and Kanye West have new dates for the Watch The Throne Tour due to the "overwhelming response to presale tickets." The North American tour will now begin on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Philips Arena. All fans who purchase their tickets online will r ... More >>

[UPDATED at Finish Line:] Charity Runner Who Began Cross-County Trip in Surf City Ends in NYC

​UPDATE, AUG. 9, 12:08 P.M.: Despite that rock-throwing incident in Pennsylvania last week, Brit T. Mark Allison reached Coney Island just after 2 a.m. this morning to complete a 3,100-mile charity run that began May 1 in Huntington Beach.He only missed his goal by two hours of reaching the fabled ... More >>

On the Line: Jon Blackford of A Restaurant, Part One

Photo by Meranda Carter​It's been said we're our own toughest critics. We were reminded of this when we spent time with both chef Jon Blackford and Tony Motakef, director of operations, of A Restaurant for this week's On the Line. Originally from Pittsburgh, Blackford's current stomping ground is ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Mom Abandons Son in Parking Lot to Teach Lesson!

​ Man, whatever happened to the days parents would discipline kids with screaming? Or promising divine retribution, or the bogeyman. Now, we have parents leaving kids alone in parking lots--at a Taco Bell, no less--then driving off to supposedly teach them a lesson.

3hree Things: On The Art Of Falling Down

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.​Last Friday afternoon, I took a leisurely stroll down East Carson, a busy street flanked with ... More >>

Mac Miller: Five Ways to Pre-Game Before His Show

​Mac Miller's affinity for Chuck Taylors and alumni status with Taylor Alderdice's Pittsburgh high school might have you believe that he's a part Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang crew, the truth is Miller and Khalifa couldn't be further apart. Although they both launched their careers with Pittsburgh-bas ... More >>

Further Proof We Live in the End Times: Man Suffers Head Injuries from Drive-By Pumpkin Attack

From Tanaka Farms, wholly wholesome​To me, pumpkins are so innocuous, so joy- (and seed-) filled that I had never thought of using a pumpkin as a weapon. Oh, sure, the petrified stem cut probably smash a hole through wood, and the average Halloween pumpkin is so damn big that having it fall on you ... More >>

Van Halen Announce Tour Dates: Staples Center on June 1, Honda Center June 12

​Van Halen finally announced their tour dates today, and it is massive. The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees announced the dates at an intimate performance in New York's Café Wha?. The tour will begin on Feb. 18., with Kool & The Gang joining Van Halen for select tour dates. And as the ... More >>