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The Rolling Stones to Play Honda Center May 15

After playing five shows last year in London and the greater New York area, the Rolling Stones announced this morning that they'll be embarking on a nine show run of North America as part of their 50 & Counting Tour including a date in Anaheim. The show will take place at Honda Center on May 15, wi ... More >>

$6 Million Worth of Marijuana Seized in Diamond Bar, Hacienda Heights?

On Wed., Oct 3, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested two men in connection with three different houses where some 2,000 pot plants and 20 pounds of marijuana was discovered. The men arrested were Binh Ly, 43, from Rosemead and Thank Chiem, 45, of San Jose. Because of the fac ... More >>

Mitsuwa's Hokkaido Fair This Thursday to Sunday

When Mitsuwa holds these festivals, it's always fun, even if the parking is atrocious.This week, it's the Hokkaido Fair, being held from Thursday to Sunday. Here are some highlights of this year's event as Mitsuwa's own website can only describe them: See Also: - Irvine Mitsuwa Marketplace Food C ... More >>

Lying on a U.S. Passport Application Earns How Much Prison Time?

Orange County's Chrisstian Pax Joseph Manshack lied on his U.S. passport application so he could flee the country for Asia in the hopes of outrunning domestic violence charges.But any relief Manshack felt when he first landed in Thailand evaporated while in China.Communist agents arrested him for ov ... More >>

No Use For a Name Frontman Tony Sly Dead at 41

Tony Sly, lead singer and songwriter for San Jose punk band No Use for a Name died today at age 41.An investigator with the Santa Clara County Medical Examiners Office has confirmed her agency is in possession of Sly's body."It appears to be a natural death, but the body hasn't been examined at this ... More >>

Boiling Crab Opens Near South Coast Plaza Today

As I wrote about a few months ago, The Boiling Crab, the Cajun-Vietnamese crawfish chain that showed everybody how it's done, was planning to open near South Coast Plaza. That restaurant will have its grand opening today at the location vacated by Sumo at 1500 W MacArthur Blvd.

Violent Pimp From Santa Ana's Harbor Boulevard Loses Appeal

In April 2010, convicted felon Patrick Leo Simmons Jr. was driving around San Jose in his green Camaro when he met a prostitute, made himself her pimp and the next day relocated her to Santa Ana's notorious Harbor Boulevard.Part of Simmons' business plan included advertising the woman's services as ... More >>

Nadia Maria Davis-Lockyer Resigns as NorCal Supervisor--Then Opens Up About Scandal

Last month, we told you about the sex/drugs/beating/cheating/porning scandal surrounding the daughter of Santa Ana community activism royalty and wife of California Democratic politics royalty.This weekend, it was not only reported that the scandal led to Nadia Maria Davis-Lockyer's resignation as a ... More >>

Dionne Warwick

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts

Italo Rajot Boone Gets 6 Years in Prison and Lifetime as Sex Offender for Pimping Teen

​Justice came swift for Italo Rajot Boone, who was arrested Feb. 27 for forcing a 15-year-old runaway into prostitution, taking her from a San Jose bus depot to an Anaheim hotel where she was forced to give blowjobs and turn all the money she earned over to the pimp.Boone, 34, of Oakland, pleaded ... More >>

Nadia Maria Davis Lockyer Tied Up in Sex-Drugs-Cheatin'-Beatin'-Pornin' Scandal

​The Bay Area has its own political Falcon Crest soap opera going on presently involving a former Santa Ana Unified School District board member-turned-Alameda County supervisor, who is also the daughter of a renowned immigrant-rights lawyer in Orange County. She's Nadia Lockyer, California Trea ... More >>

[UPDATED with Charges:] Italo Rajot Boone Accused of Sexing Up, Pimping Runaway Girl

​UPDATE, FEB. 29, 5:58 P.M.: Oakland pimp Italo Rajot Boone faces more than 15 years in state prison if the 34-year-old is convicted of sexually assaulting and pimping a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home. In announcing Boone's arraignment in Fullerton today and $1 million bail, the Orange ... More >>

Boiling Crab To Open Third OC Location

​Kickin' Crab in Santa Ana will have a little bit of competition soon. Boiling Crab will open just a block away in the long-vacant building that was once Sumo on MacArthur Blvd. A banner was draped over the side of the building announcing the store and inviting job applicants to their website.

Madonna Announces World Tour While the Register Picks Apart Her Plastic Surgery Work

​The last time I saw Madonna, it was 2006 and I paid $352 for a floor ticket. Madonna, fresh off the success of her Super Bowl halftime show, is going on a  World Tour beginning May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel. While we have no idea how much tickets will be going for, we do know she'll stop at&nbs ... 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 >>

Irvine Mitsuwa Marketplace Food Court To Host Santouka Ramen

​It would've seemed a safe bet to assume that the new Irvine Mitsuwa Marketplace going into the 13,800 square feet space at Heritage Plaza that was formerly Ace Hardware would contain a Santouka Ramen. At every single Mitsuwa Marketplace in the US (Costa Mesa; Torrance; Los Angeles; Santa Monica; ... More >>

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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 >>

The Mumlers at the Commonwealth Lounge Last Night

​The Mumlers June 20, 2011 Commonwealth Lounge, FullertonSan Jose's The Mumlers, whose vintage-rock stylings were the point of focus in Fullerton last night, represent an interesting bit of musical irony in the post modern indie scene: they sound incredibly soulful--for a bunch of disaffected pro ... More >>

IDEA Act, The DREAM Act's Recently-Introduced Cousin, Would Boost Number of Green Cards

Not this green card...If a California congresswoman has her way, a lot more people will get their green cards soon. ​Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amp the number of green cards for foreign students and entrepreneurs. The students have to meet a lot of c ... More >>

The Mumlers

Commonwealth Lounge

Eat Here, Not There: High-End Bánh Mì

ProfessorSalt.comVegetarian banh mi​Little Saigon has the best bánh mì shops in the nation, despite the absurd New York Times story we ridiculed here on this blog a couple months ago. Sure, the San Gabriel Valley has a few great shops, as do San Jose and a number of other Vietnamese enclaves acr ... More >>

The Eyesores

The Doll Hut

New York Times Names the Best Bánh Mìs in America--and Not One is From Little Saigon

Flickr user svensk​The New York Times' coverage of Vietnamese food has always been laughable--who can ever forget its decade-late feature on Sriracha or it declaring 2009 the "year of the bánh mì" (while neglecting to mention Little Saigon among the nation's Vietnamese enclaves) about seven year ... More >>

Bruxie Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches Already Planning a Second Location

Professor SaltClick here to see our slideshow of Bruxie Gourmet Waffles.​Damn, that was fast: barely a month into its existence, not even a month after Shuji reviewed it and before Edwin could make his way down there, Bruxie Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches in Old Towne Orange is already looking to open ... More >>

[UPDATE:] DREAM Act Passes in the House, Stalls in the Senate

​Update, December 9, 6:11 p.m.: The esteemed Surf City GOP Congressdude, Dana Rohrabacher, said on the House floor that the DREAM Act is unfair to "non-minorities."Oh no he diiiiiiiin't?!?Oh, yes. Yes he did. See the video and a passage from his debate after the jump . . .

Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79

Flickr user evang​The San Jose Mercury News reported that Le Van Ba, a sugar baron from Vietnam and the founder of the omnipresent chain of Vietnamese sandwich bakeries, Lee's Sandwiches, died Tuesday from cancer at the age of 79.

Possibly Pregnant Perpetrator Not Present in Prolific Mission Viejo Pot-Pad

​When a Mission Viejo resident returns to her single-story house on Via San Jose, she'll be missing much more than her monthly period.On Friday, Santa Ana police were called to a Rite Aid on South Bristol Street in Santa Ana to investigate the petty theft of a home pregnancy test by an unident ... 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 >>

Shane Garrett Horning, Pervy Youth Pastor, and Luis Antonio Mejia, School Janitor Sicko, Meet Their Fates

​Shane Garrett Horning, the 29-year-old former youth pastor at Santa Margarita Methodist Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, was sentenced today to a year in jail--essentially time served--for having an unlawful sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female parishioner and sending sexual text messag ... More >>

Pastor Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Underage Parishoners--and He Ain't Catholic!

​Shane Garrett Horning, the 29-year-old former Santa Margarita Methodist Church youth pastor, was convicted today of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female parishioner and sending sexual text messages to her 15-year-old female relative. The San Jose resident pleaded guilty to four felony counts ... More >>

Miley Cyrus in Anaheim Tomorrow, Next Stop...Hell?

Miley Cyrus is really popular. Hit songs, hit movie, hit TV shows, she even "wrote" a "book." But not everyone is quite so enthralled with the teen pop star/country singer/actress/author/maker of somewhat questionable career decisions. Like these folks, who protested outside her show in San Jose on ... More >>

Wanted: First-Time Buyers of New Logan Homes

Who says no one is buying or selling new houses? Arkbuild--a collaboration between Santa Ana's Taller San Jose community organization and the Orange County Community Housing Corporation's Stepping Up program--is looking for low-income residents interested in becoming first-time homebuyers of three n ... More >>

Travel Blogger Predicts Air Fares Between OC and SF Will Drop

BNET (Business Net) travel blogger Brett Snyder predicts Virgin America's new presence at John Wayne Airport, coupled with Southwest Airlines' expansion of flights to and from San Francisco, will result in lower air fares between SFO and SNA, whose bustling terminal is shown here.That's crazy talk f ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Never-Ending Navidad

OC Filmmaker's Larry Norman Doc to Screen in Town Where Father of Christian Rock's Music Career Took Off

Our cover story "Rock Angel: Garden Grove filmmaker David Di Sabatino is drawn to charismatic but damaged Christians. But nothing prepared him for Larry Norman" tells the story of the torture the director of Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher experienced making his follow-up documentar ... More >>

E&P thinks we're popular

Village Voice Media (of which OC Weekly is a part) placed 15 in Editor & Publisher's list of top 30 top newspaper sites for October, beating out the San Diego Union-Tribune, Arizona Republic, San Jose Mercury News and more. Read it here.

I Grew Up in Huntington

All the great cities in America have great songs to go along with them; classic personifications that truly capture the city’s personality. New York City has "New York, New York" by Sinatra of course, Tony Bennett, with his brand of eternal class offered up "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Ther ... More >>

Extreme Projectiles

Sounds of the Underground Summer 2007 Tour

LNG? WTF?

Long Beach LNG-terminal developers ad campaign gets a chilly response

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Pricey (Get Over It) Sandwiches at Zon Baguettes

Rohrabacher Comes Out Against Meetings

The Los Angeles Daily News reported yesterday that the "newly empowered California House Democrats are extending an olive branch to a group that has shunned them for years: California Republicans." A meeting is scheduled for this afternoon when, in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, members of the tw ... More >>

'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

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

A History Making Dick and Irvine's Pioneering Pigeons

On Saturday, Dick Cheney assured himself a place in history by becoming only the second sitting vice president ever to gun down a man. While hunting quail at a ranch in Texas, Cheney shot Harry Whittington, another member of the hunting party, apparently mistaking the 78 year old attorney and big-mo ... More >>

Banh Mi, Dont Be a Hero

Trawling for the countys best Vietnamese sandwiches

Would you please bite my ear?

Why I hate strip clubs

Pussy Galore

Writers on the Storm

Flying around with the Bill Simon press corps

He Knows the Way to San Jose

Newport councilman Gary Proctor lives in $820,000 home up north

Group Therapy

Airport foes share their pain online