San Francisco

On The Line: David Coleman Of Michael's (On Naples & Pizzeria), Part Two

Michael Dene may be the proprietor (and Massimo Aronne its GM), but chef David Coleman is the brains in the Long Beach kitchen of Michael's on Naples. We continue our interview before he begins prepping for dinner service, making references to our favorite food city, "San Francisco is a great city t ... More >>

Rick Bayless Insults Yet Another California City's Mexican Food Traditions

My lord, does Rick Bayless want all Mexicans in the United States to hate him or something? Back in 2010, the celebrity chef of Mexican food notoriously said Los Angeles didn't have much of a Mexican food tradition, then denied he ever said that while trashing Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Time ... More >>

Bay Area Researchers Claim Cannabis Can Cure Cancer

Marijuana has been used for medicinal purposes--relieving stress and pain and fighting hunger and nausea--for centuries if not millennia. But now, a pair of doctors in San Francisco claim that they've compiled reliable data showing that a certain compound in cannabis--cannabidiol--may actually cure ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Friday, March 29DSTVVBurger Records Self-proclaimed "industrial grungegaze" trio DSTVV have been garnering attention in the indie music blog circuit with only a handful of songs that permeate through your ear canals with their lo-fi vocals, fuzzy guitar and distorted synthesizer. Hailing from San ... More >>

DSTVV

Burger Records

Lou Reed Bows Out of Coachella and Several Other Gigs

Looks like we won't be hearing any of Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music in Indio this year. The former front man of the Velvet Underground just pulled out of Coachella and scrapped shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Monterrey.

Are Burritos Supposed to Explode?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And can you call Mexican women tortas?

On The Line: Scott Brandon of LinX, Part One

Scott Brandon is no stranger to the restaurant scene, but he will be making his Old Towne Orange debut next month, as LinX is ready to rock and roll. Scott made time to answer our burning questionnaire, and well, you've been warned. This chef interview is rated PG-13 for adult language.Your earliest ... More >>

Embarcadero: The San Francisco Treat

The bistro brings a little bit of the Bay Area to the boonies we call RSM

Anaheim is Keeping WonderCon For 2013...Suck It San Francisco

OC comic book nerds can breathe a little easier this week with the announcement that WonderCon has decided to stay in Anaheim for 2013. The event is scheduled for March 29-31.Despite over a year of vacillating over the issue, convention organizers announced on Monday that they would not be returning ... More >>

The Avengers

Alex's Bar

Parade of Cross-Dressing Brides To Invade Long Beach

​Now who says we don't provide you with news you can use? If you've always secretly wished you could dress--or cross-dress--in a tacky wedding gown and parade around the streets of Long Beach to demystify the wedding as a manufactured fairytale, this party is for you. Brides of March is happening ... More >>

The Five Most Influential Cities in the Development of Mexican Food in the United States

​SO...my much-promised book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America finally hits the bookstores next month (April 10), and review copies are slowly making their way around the nation's newsrooms. So I might as well start giving out bits and pieces to entice ustedes to preorder the damn thing ... More >>

Freeway Pollution Linked to Brain Damage, Autism

​Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal, of all places, put it best: "Congested cities are fast becoming test tubes for scientists studying the impact of traffic fumes on the brain."And what are these researchers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston, New York, North Carolina, Beij ... More >>

Top 5 Defining MTV Moments (If You Were A Teen In The '90s)

​ Most people who grew up in the early '80s were lucky enough to witness MTV's revolutionary images but for many of us, who were just in grade school at the time, the cutting-edge visuals that appeared before us were too conceptual for us to comprehend. It wasn't until the early '90s (when we ... More >>

[UPDATED With Comment From Anaheim Convention Center] WonderCon Moving To Anaheim

​UPDATE: July 29, 2011, 7:50 p.m.: In a phone conversation today, Mindy Abel, the Senior Vice President of Convention Sales at the Anaheim Convention Center, clarified that nothing was confirmed regarding the change of venue for WonderCon. "We have been in discussion with Comic-Con International ... More >>

[UPDATED with Ruling:] A Ban on a Circumcision Ban in California?

UPDATE, JULY 28, 4:04 P.M.: ​Snip away. A Superior Court judge has ruled that the measure to criminalize circumcision in San Francisco violates both the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom, and a California law that makes regulating medical procedures solely a state matter, not a fu ... More >>

San Francisco Health Officials Ban Restaurant from Selling Grasshopper Tacos

Flickr user christine zenino​San Francisco is going to play quite a role in my coming book on the history of Mexican food in the United States--and that's all I'm going to say about that right now. But Baghdad by the Bay is in the Mexi-food news right now, because pendejo health inspectors have as ... More >>

Health Officials Pooh-Pooh Cicada Ice Cream

​Earlier today Gustavo shared a story about a San Francisco taco purveyor forbidden by the authorities from serving grasshopper tacos. Meanwhile, CNN reports on a similar story with the video above, essentially the same deal: an ice cream shop owner in Missouri thought that his customers might en ... More >>

The Slow Poisoner

The Pike Bar

California Proposes to Ban Shark's Fin Soup--Is it Anti-Chinese?

A Hong Kong ad calling for people to stop consuming shark's fin. Bus ads in San Francisco urge the same.​A bill recently introduced in the California Legislature may strip shark's fin soup from Chinese restaurant menus for good. The move shouldn't come as a shock--environmentalists have long fough ... More >>

Japanese Kids Go Crazy for SpongeBob SquarePants Happy Meal Toys, Or: Why Happy Meals Should Be Banned Everywhere

Last November, the city of San Francisco banned toys from fast-food kids' meals unless they met certain nutritional requirements, effectively banishing the Happy Meal as we now know it. It's clear from this Japanese McDonald's commercial the real reason why. Turn down the volume on your speakers. Yo ... More >>

Teal Wicks, UC Irvine Alum To Star As Elphaba In Broadway's Wicked

​Teal Wicks is going green for the role of Elphaba in the Broadway company of Wicked. The UC Irvine alum previously played the emerald-skinned witch in the Los Angeles and San Francisco productions. Video of a Wicked Wicks after the jump.  

Chris Mata

Irvine Improv

The New Limb Tour Diaries: Days 1 & 2

​(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER this week, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; first up is lead singer/guitarist Joey Chavez about Santa Cruz and San Francisco--Ed.)These past two days have be ... More >>

Train at the OC Fair Over The Weekend

Mark Stouffer ​​TrainJuly 18, 2010OC Fair It's hard to feel sorry for Pat Monahan, lead singer for the San Francisco-based Train. Sure, the band may have peaked 10 years ago, when its Drops of Jupiter--fueled in large part by the inescapable titular song--sold more than three million copies ... More >>

Arizona Boycott Won't Affect VVM. Because We're Special

Flickr user KaCey97007No quarter for Arizona​Arizona has gone all apeshit crazy for documentation to prove an immigrant's legal status, and San Francisco is laying down the law with SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera calling for a total boycott of the state. You hear that, Arizona? You're on San Fran ... More >>

En La Noche

Museum of Latin American Art

The Ferry Building and Costa Mesa "Mix"

FerryBuildingMarketplace.comFrom San Francisco to Costa Mesa.​To get a flavor of San Francisco while in Costa Mesa, locals go to the Boudin Sourdough Bakery Cafe at Metro Pointe or the Yard House at Triangle Square for an Anchor Steam or their favorite local supermarket for Rice-A-Roni. But that a ... More >>

Weathering the Storm

Laguna Art Museum

Gavin Newsom Drops Out of Governor Race

​Not OC news, but we are in California: San Fransisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the race to be governor.It now looks like Attorney General Jerry Brown--you know, the crusty guy who used to be governor--faces very little Democratic primary opposition. Meanwhile, the Republican nominatio ... More >>

An Investigation Into a SF Cop Killing Leads to a Chicago Professor Who Helped Launch Obama's Career

[CD Review] Third Eye Blind, 'Ursa Major' (Mega Collider)

Street Scene Favorites This Weekend....Any Thoughts?

​It's not much, but consider this meager post the first preemptive stitch to our coverage of the Street Scene '09 festival happening in Sand Diego this weekend, Aug. 28-29. Before you say anything, we know that San Diego is not in Orange County. Though it could be argued that some cities at the as ... More >>

Gettin' Made: Head North This Weekend!

Folks, I don't know if you realize, but it's summer out there. Aw, but times are too tight to fly somewhere for a little weekend vacation. Time to hit the streets for a crafty road trip to Northern California! Julia McCabe of JnJ Designs will be taking part in Saturday's Design Downtown block party ... More >>

TOMORROW: Local Natives and The Union Line at The Gypsy Lounge

Okay, I guess we all saw this coming. Local Natives have officially changed their origin to Silver Lake on their Myspace page....sigh, okay guys. Well, hopefully you and the OC can still be friends. For those of you who have followed the harmaonizing echoes, rumbling rhythms and spangly guitar chord ... More >>

Incoming: Sum 41, Deerhoof, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien at the Glass House (Separately)

Do you want to waste your time? And, perhaps, become another casualty of society? Well, then you're probably not interested in seeing Sum 41 at the Glass House on March 29. But those of you who are fans would probably be psyched to hear that tickets go on sale tomorrow (Friday) at noon, and are only ... More >>

LowBallVideoChatter: The Band, "Don't Do It"

The Time: Thanksgiving, 1976.   The Place: Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco.   The Occasion: The final concert by the original lineup of the Band, with a jaw-dropping number of guests (Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Dr. John, ... More >>

Acid Test

‘In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor’

Bouncy, Trouncy, Flouncy, Pouncy

‘Tigers—Tracking a Legend’

Costa Mesa Fashion Hits Haight-Ashbury

Apparel News has an interesting story on Costa Mesa-based RVCA's first retail store which will open in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in July. Deborah Belgum, senior editor at the publication, writes that "up until now, the company's line of vintage-wash T-shirts, jeans, shorts, fleece hoo ... More >>

Punk for Life

TKO Records stays in the ring

Roughed Up on the Waterfront

Never in a million years would we have thought that our August cover boy and esteemed UC Irvine professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o would suffer indignities and racial profiling in that ethnic melting pot San Francisco, but our pal Rick Reiff—the EE at Orange County Business Journal and host of his ow ... More >>

'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

NOT showing at NBFF: Pray for Me: The Jason Jessee Movie

The Good, the Bad and the Osprey

Jim goes bi-polar

Throw the Baum!

This weeks featured NFL matchup: Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers

Get soft on Crime

National group lauds OCs youth-crime prevention program

Let the Bastards Burn!

Wait a minute: Thats us in Birks war between the Californias