Portland (Oregon)

Irvine Women Ranked Among Top Earners in the Nation from Online Auctions of First Dates

Ladies in Irvine auction off first dates to the highest bidder--who knew? WhatsYourPrice.com knows, having ranked the land of bland No. 10 on its list of "Top 13 Cities Where Women Date-for-Dollars." Irvine got the nod because during the first week of May, 56 women from the city joined the website t ... More >>

How Can I Get My Band More Exposure?

By: Jessica Hopper Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She ... More >>

The New Limb Releases Single, "Blood Lust," In Anticipation For West Coast Tour

 OC-bred indie pop darlings, The New Limb, are kicking off the New Year right with a brand new single. Entitled "Blood Lust," the track's message couldn't be further from its title. The quintet--now based in L.A.-- premiered the song on PureVolume earlier today and vocalist Joey Chavez explaine ... More >>

The Ballad of Wade Michael Page

An ex-bandmate of the Sikh temple shooter recalls their shared OC hate-rock past

OC Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls Postponed Until Next Summer

Taking its cue from the first girls rock camp started in Portland, Oregon a decade ago, organizers in Orange County were readying to replicate the model for a week of intensive music programming slated for August. The inaugural OC Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls was set to happen at Backline Studios in ... More >>

¡Ask a Comida Critic!: How Can I Request a Re-Review?

From Irene in the Land of the Intermittent Showers:My family recently took over an upscale Chinese bistro in downtown Portland, Oregon. We just had our first review by our local free weekly paper, Willamette Week, and it's a bad one. We feel it was not a true and fair review of what we are, and w ... More >>

Darcy Fast: Man of God, "Missing Cub" and Lost Boy of Baseball

​Driving through Arizona to catch some spring training games, Darcy Fast says via his cell phone of baseball's annuity plan for the lost boys of summer like him, "I don't think it's fair." A Chicago Cubs pitcher whose darts lived up to his last name in 1967-68, Fast says baseball and the players ... More >>

Whatever happened to hip-hop duo Foxy Autopsy?

[Checking In On . . .] They got married, one moved to Portland, but they remained 22

Meet Shaheen Sadeghi, the LAB Man

In his his quest to hipsterize OC retail, Shaheen Sadeghi has built quirkily beautiful properties and gained more than a few critics

New Artists Just Added to SXSW's 2012 Lineup

Mary Bell/OC WeeklyDelta Spirit at BuskerFest in Long Beach in 2010​South By Southwest revealed a whole slew of new acts confirmed to play at official showcases during the annual music and film conference in Austin. This is the third list of musicians to be released. The venues and dates they ... More >>

Amanda Palmer Wraps Tour of Seven Occupy Sites, Teams Up With Boston Filmmaker To Create Occupy Homage Film

​After visiting Occupy sites in L.A., Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Boston and New York, Amanda Palmer has teamed up with Boston filmmaker and friend Michael Gill to create a video montage of images from the Occupy movement, backed with Palmer's ukulele version of Leon Rosselson's 1975 so ... More >>

READ: An Excerpt from Duff McKagan's Memoir, 'It's So Easy: And Other Lies'

​The following is an excerpt from Duff McKagan's memoir, It's So Easy: And Other Lies, out now via Simon & Schuster. McKagan is a weekly columnist at our sister paper, seattleweekly.com/reverb. He's be signing books at the Barnes & Noble at South Coast Plaza at 2 p.m. on Saturday (901 B So ... More >>

James Harry Fluch Accused of Embezzling $822,000 From Buddy's Business to Fund Lavish Lifestyle

​A former Rancho Santa Margarita accounting consultant is scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana today for allegedly embezzling $822,000 from a longtime friend's company, using the ill-gotten money to pay off seven credit cards that racked up charges for gasoline, bar tabs, restaurant bills, cable ... More >>

Menomena Is Menomenal

The OC-by-way-of Portland group doesn't have enough hands but still puts out gems

On The Line: Jared Cook of St. Roy Chef's Pub At Vine Restaurant, Part Two

Photo by Kevin Lara​Our second installment of this week's On The Line has Jared explaining who what St. Roy is named after. We also learn just how much he admires Julia Child. To catch up on Part One, you can click here. Stop by Thursday for a juicy recipe.Hardest lesson you've learned:No matter h ... More >>

On the Line: Jared Cook of St. Roy Chef's Pub at Vine Restaurant, Part One

Phot by Kevin Lara​Can a name for our featured chef be more appropriate than Jared Cook? Nah. The man in the kitchen at St. Roy Chef's Pub offers us his thoughts on foodies and how he likes to spend his free time. On the Line, Part One, begins below.What are six words to describe your food?Real, c ... More >>

Four Music Museums Worse than the Danish Graceland

​ A replica of Elvis Presley's Graceland opened in Denmark this week, proving that the creators of Lego are a lot less classy than they've always let on. To be fair to the Danes, we figured there must be an even stranger assortment of music-related museums here at home. We were right. The places ... More >>

Auto-Tune the News: 'Stay Away from Auto-Tuning People at Bar Mitzvahs and Adolf Hitler'

​DigiTour 2011 hopes to turn viral audiences into the real thing for YouTube stars during a live six-week 27-city US tour.  Their videos may range from cinematic to DIY-simple, but they all have one thing in common: extravagant numbers of Internet views.

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.

[UPDATED: Murder Arrest] Andrew Pieatrucat, OC Homicide No. 45: Conked in Head in Alley

Courtesy of FPDSergio Camacho Gonzalez​UPDATE, MARCH 25, 10:20 A.M.: The Fullerton Police Department (FPD) announced an arrest has been made in the September 2010 murder of Andrew Petrusiak, who was also known as Andrew Pieatrucat.Sergio Camacho Gonzalez, 36, is accused of beating 56-year-old Petr ... More >>

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 >>

Starfucker

Detroit Bar

The Big Chill

The mysterious world of mumble-noir in Cold Weather

Warped Tour Annouces 2011 Dates

​The dates for the 2011 edition of the Warped Tour have been announced; this year, it kicks off in Dallas. There's no information on venues or performers yet, but  the tour will be in Pomona July 1, San Diego, August 9 and LA on August 10. Tickets are already available for $45--you can buy t ... More >>

3hree Things: On Halloween (Plus: Thrice's Best Halloween Costumes!)

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. If memory serves me correctly, this Halloween will be just the second that I've spent at home s ... More >>

Saturday: Burger In-Store with Clorox Girls and Welcome Home Walker

​​ For those who never thought the phrase "pop punk" would ever be used again to describe something worth listening to, Portland trio Clorox Girls--no actual girls in this group by the way-- is on a mission to change your mind. Invading the neon-green walls of Fullerton's Burger Records this S ... More >>

The New Limb Tour Diary: Day 5

(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; on their fifth day on the road, drummer Adam Chavez talks. Read their first entry here and their second one here.--Ed.)Adam ... More >>

The New Limb Tour Diaries: Days 3 & 4

​(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; on their third and fourth days on the road, Dan Perez and Lauren Salamone give us the scoop. Read their first entry here.-- ... More >>

The Union Line Tour With Local Natives

​So we just heard that The Union Line will be touring with their buddies Local Natives this fall. The Local Natives are really blowing up, performing in festivals around the world this summer.  This is also the third time the Union Line is going on the road, and the difference is that mos ... More >>

The Dandy Warhols

Incoming: Dandy Warhols Coming to Glass House!

Here's something worth getting excited about as we toil through this waking life. Portland, Oregon's Dandy Warhols are coming to the Glass House in Pomona just a little under a month from now, on June 5. Tickets are on sale this Saturday (May 9) at noon, $20 at the door, $18 in advance. I'm pretty p ... More >>

Twice as Bright

Swordfight Deathmatch Artshow

The Blues Don't Have to Suck, at Least When Portland's Hillstomp Play Them

Vinyl Considered Groovy—Again

An employee at a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon mistakenly ordered vinyl LPs of R.E.M.'s latest album, Accelerate, instead of the CD-DVD version, and a funny thing happened: 20 of the vinyl copies sold the first day they were put on the shelves. Now this retailer is going to stock the format t ... More >>

You Kill Me

Following Untraceable's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

It's Your Money

But the government spends it

!Ask a Mexican!

Why is it in their nature for Mexicans to steal?

The Church of Bush

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

Stuck in the Middle With You

Awards, violence, preening, bickering!

The Thermals

Heartwarming, heartbreaking

Dumped: Sex & the Pity

Tales of being dumped and dumping

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Todd Haynes postmodern tearjerker

Two Worlds

Glass Candys John David V of the produce department

Search and Annoy

God spare us the horror! Its Fish People

We Should Give You Such a Spanking!

Oregon Bound

Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

Metaphysical Graffiti

The Zen blues of Kelly Joe Phelps

Vacation, Baby

Polyester Road Diaries

My life in the bush of filmic ghosts