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The 5th Annual OC Beer Festival Is On May 18

We can't think of many better ways to kick off summer than with a tasting glass, free-flowing craft beer and hundreds of new friends to cheers with. The OC Beer Festival is back for its fifth year on Saturday, May 18 at Irvine Lake in Silverado. Featuring dozens of international and domestic beers, ... More >>

Irvine Lake is First Orange County Pond to Host Drag Boat Racing in 20 Years, Claim Promoters

For the first time in 20 years, Orange County is hosting a professional drag boat racing event--at Irvine Lake starting today and through the weekend, proving yet again that the only thing better than dragging Irvine Lake for bodies is a drag boat race on it.

Frank J. Fitzpatrick: The Cowboy

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Chay Peterson: Angel of the Canyon

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Weird Beard Joel: A Hiker's Quest to Find Snow in OC

On the second-to-the last day of 2012, our Fir Forest & Tree Bridges Tour in Upper Silverado was promoted in the Orange County Register. The article coincided with the tail end of a series of storms. Maple Springs Road, our national forest access point, was closed to vehicular traffic due to mud ... More >>

Not Worth the Trip

[Ask Exene] First lesson of dropping acid: Don't

Chay Peterson, Silverado Canyon Activist, Gets Targeted with Most Pathetic Political Mailer EVER

If you have gone to or participated in any events around Silverado Canyon in Orange, then you probably saw Chay Peterson. She's the petite blonde woman bouncing around, probably wearing fairy wings and a whimsical dress. She's involved in organizing countless community events like the Silverado Fair ... More >>

Canyonites Keep Their Word, Sue County Over 65-Home Saddle Crest Project

As promised, a coalition of residents and environmental groups filed suit in Superior Court this week against the County of Orange and the Board of Supervisors over approval of a 65-unit housing project that is to be carved into rural canyons northwest of Cook's Corner."This is a catastrophic failur ... More >>

Canyonites Gear Up for Legal Fight Over Board of Supervisors' Approval of 65 New Homes

Stymied in their efforts to get the Orange County Board of Supervisors to reject a 65-home project into the rural canyons just northwest of Cook's Corner, canyonites are turning to the last place they can think of to stop what they believe to be a forever quality-of-life-changing development:The cou ... More >>

8 Ways to Forage for Wild Edibles in Orange County

Nature can be a fairly abstract concept. You might ask, "What is the point of nature? Sure, it makes for a decent picnic spot. It can be photographed for screensavers and glossy calendars. It's a great location for a fantasy film shoot. But, who really cares about some wild plants and animals anyway ... More >>

Baseball in Orange County: History Bats Last!

You've seen them, the "Images of America" series books from Arcadia Publishing, a terrific outfit whose sepia-toned book covers and the jam-packed photos inside pick up the slack where big-time houses often fall down as regards local history. I own a half-dozen of these, including books on Silv ... More >>

Introducing Weird Beard Joel, Our New Nature Columnist!

Gustavo note: I've known Joel Robinson for years now, the guy who fought the city of Orange over his all-native plants lawn and leads urban foraging expeditions through Orange County. Guy is funny, knows his terrain, and would be arrested in a second in Irvine if he ever step foot--our kind of colum ... More >>

Thieves Who Stole From Children's Center Didn't Watch Enough After-School Specials

The universe must have something against students who live in the canyons. Shuttering a 105-year elementary school apparently wasn't enough. Sometime after Silverado Children's Center was closed at 6 p.m. Thursday, someone (or a band of assholic someones) broke in and allegedly stole $100, ... More >>

Canyon Complaints Due Soon, "Tree Huggers"!

The public comment period on an environmental impact report related to a controversial development plan in the canyons east of Orange will be open until July 20 at 5 p.m.Monks from St. Michael's Abbey on El Toro Road near Cook's Corner bought land at the former Holtz Ranch in Silverado Canyon and ai ... More >>

Hootenanny - Oak Canyon - 7/7/12

The hot sun was no match for greasers and cowboys who drove out to God's country to partake in some classic rockabilly and punk music at the 18th annual Hootenanny at Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado Canyon on Saturday. Though there was no question what type of scene this was (read: cherry sundresses a ... More >>

The Norbertine Code

Monks and canyon dwellers go mano a mano in Silverado Canyon

A Deliberately Vague Guide to OC Mines

[Summer Guide 2012] Gold Rush history is as close as your back yard

Star Slinger Talks New Album, Remembers Notorious B.I.G.

Darren Williams' life as polymath producer Star Slinger is a series of genre-defying leaps and bounds. One day, he's working on a track for Stunnaman and Lil B, the next he's producing R&B, and somehow, before night falls, he manages to churn out a collaboration with Bay Area club rap weirdo ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Lightning in a Bottle's COMPLETE Lineup

Oak Canyon Ranch's Lightning in a Bottle festival, the 10-year-old music and wellness festival that takes place on May 24-28 in Silverado, released their full musical lineup last March. And while the festival is a musical experience quite unlike any other, what really sets it apart are its intangibl ... More >>

The Biggest Music Headlines of 2011

[Mental Notes] The news that kept us talking this year

Monster Massive Cancels Two Weeks Before Event

[Mental Notes] Annual Halloween mega-rave had no venue, even as it was briskly selling tickets and advertising the event

Atlantis 2011: The Show Will Go On, With Less Stages and Earlier Closing Time

​First things first: Rumors going around that the electronic event Atlantis 2011 is cancelled are not true. The show, which will have Dash Berlin, Headhunterz, DJ Isaac, Heatbeat, Miles Dyson, Starkillers, Swanky Tunes, Mord Fustang, Cookie Monsta, Chaosphere and 6blocc spinning, will go on as sch ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Headlines Steve Aoki's Pacific Festival: OC 2011 (Also, What an Awesome Lineup!)

Chad Sengstock/OC Weekly​Get ready: Snoop Dogg is the official festival headliner of Steve Aoki's second annual Pacific Festival: OC, to be held August 13 (from 10 a.m. to midnight). Last year it was at Trafalgar Square venues; this year, like Lightning in a Bottle, it upgrades to Oak Canyon Ranc ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Storm Damage: Mother Nature Owes OC $23 Million

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyThere is substantial work to be done along the boardwalk at Laguna Beach.​Update, December 29, 4:22 p.m.: Photographic evidence of the storm-caused carnage at Main Beach in Laguna Beach. 

[UPDATED:] Storm Status: Road and Shelter Closures

​Update, December 22, 10:08 p.m.: The emergency shelter at Mission Viejo High School has closed, the county announced this evening.Evacuated residents in need of shelter can still go to Laguna Beach High School and El Modena High School in Orange. (Addresses are on the next page.)The county's most ... More >>

Silverado County Fair and Art Fest

Silverado Community Center

It's Reader's Choice!

[Summer Guide] Choose your own musical adventure this summer—regardless of time, money or personal taste, we've got the concert for you

Over The Weekend: Lightning In A Bottle

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyHeadliners Booka Shade performed at Lightning in a Bottle on Friday​Check out our slideshow of Day 1 and Day 2.The Hype:  Ostensibly, LA's "electronic experimentalists" DoLab put Lightning in a Bottle together as the median between mainstream Coachella and the e ... More >>

Blue Light

UC Irvine Studio Theater

Got Manure? Santa Ana Holds the Real Power

​NEWS ITEM:  Author, former Earth First activist and clean-water advocate Patrick Mitchell, who hired on at Silverado Canyon's Carbondale Ranch in June, wants to use the tons of manure produced there to make electricity.  INSTA-PUNDITRY: Wouldn't they collect much more of the ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Wedding Edition

WEB EXCLUSIVE!

Silverado County Fair

Silverado Community Center

Cowboy Celtic

Silverado Country Fair

Last Night: First Annual Ambrosia Wine Fest

Dead/Not Dead

Tree Hugger's Ball

Blowing Smoke

Did a landfill explosion cause the Santiago Canyon Fire? Umm . . .

Thursday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona Free (For Now)

Carona free (for now): Yesterday, Sheriff Mike Carona walked out of the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse with his wife, Debbie, after being cuffed and held in a cell for hours. They'll be back to enter their pleas Monday. Bail was set at $20,000 for each Carona and $10,000 for the sheriff's mistres ... More >>

Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: Slut Day instead of Halloween

It's Day Six and the Santiago fire is still only 30 percent contained. Fourteen homes were destroyed, and 750 more are threatened in Silverado Canyon. The Register reports that a liquid was used to ignite the blaze along Santiago Canyon Road at two separate points. Sheriff Carona says his departmen ... More >>

A chat with the Battalion Chief

Tonight the Weekly drove past roadblocks on Santiago Canyon Road to see the destruction left by the blaze firsthand. What we saw was depressing, but the planes spewing fire retardant overhead were a hopeful sight. Photos will be up before the night's over, we promise are up. Before visiting the sce ... More >>

Howdy in the Hills

Silverado Country Fair and Art Festival

Man Bites Frog

OC Board of Supervisors Meeting

The Cowbell Tolls for Thee

Silverado County Fair

'They'll Beat Your Ass'

DA wins battle, loses war against canyon activist

Bushwhacked

County officials wage war on Silverado Canyon bush-planter

No Sweat

County officials say no to swimming, but yes to recycling at Irvine Lake

!Ask a Mexican!

This Week In Small-City Dining

George Bush, Failed Corporate Crook

Club Fed

A brief history of two bad ideas

Pomp & Circumstances

Five graduations! Hot students! Good vs. evil! Dave Brubeck vs. Eleanor Roosevelt! All this and a pack of Trojans!