Providence (Rhode Island)

Five Spectacular Jack-O-Lanterns That Will Put Your Carving Skills To Shame

The Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular takes each fall at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island. It's a mind-blowing event that displays some of the most brilliantly carved pumpkins, making us want to down our 99-cent carving knives and ditch our triangle-eyed happy face designs for good.  ... More >>

Eddie Day, One-Man Band at the Fling

[Best Of 2012] The "Wizard of Rock & Roll" shares his favorite things about Orange County

Eddie Vedder Announces Solo Tour With Three SoCal Stops

Jon Gitchoff/Riverfront Times​Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder today announced a tour to support his soon-to-be-released solo album, Ukulele Songs. He's performing at the Long Beach Terrace Theatre on July 6 and The Wiltern on July 8.

'Hall Pass' Is One from the Shart

The Farrellys dutifully fulfill their raunch and goo quotients

Free Moral Agents Announce Tour to Support 'Control This'

Mary Bell/OC Weekly​As we mentioned a few months ago,  Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, Long Beach-based, Grammy-award-winning keyboardist for Mars Volta, is now taking some time off Mars Volta to focus on Free Moral Agents.As Ikey expanded his 2002 solo project into a full band five years ago, he corral ... More >>

First Crop of SXSW Acts Announced, OC/LB Bands Conspicuously Absent

A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep ... More >>

Glass House-Bound Shock Rockers GWAR Inspire Civic Pride, Fake Blood and All

Monotract's Trueno Oscuro

Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. Monotract Trueno Oscuro (Load) Release date: April 24, 2007 Imagine the sur ... More >>

Man Most Likely to Succeed

How Joe Carchios inexperience, shaky business sense, tax trouble and connection with a political criminal made him the Republican Partys choice for the Huntington Beach City Council

Garofollower?

Joe Carchio tight with felonious ex-mayor

The Low Cost of High Wages

American Apparel wants to follow Wal-Mart to Chinafor all the right reasons

Barrels of Fun!

Register engages in reckless gunplay

A Very PhilDickian Existence

Minority Report author Philip K. Dick found Orange Countys truth stranger than science fiction

Active Eats

And its one, two, threewhat are we dining for?

Yaaay! The Death of Art!

Poetry Slam goes literary

Hes One Bad Cat

Frank Potenza is a great guitarist