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Five Hip-Hop Trends We Hope Will End in 2013

2013 is surprisingly already off to a strong start. While years past have brought us a January where most artists recoup and regroup for the next 11 months, we've already had plenty of singles, videos and announcements looking to set the tone for 2013. We at the Weekly would like to get in on the ac ... More >>

Myspace Changed the Game for Musicians Everywhere. Then Facebook Messed Things Up

Why the fallen king of social media was actually pretty damn good

Garden Grove Police: Facebook 'Em, Dano!

The Garden Grove Police Department is partying like it's 2009.That is, the cop shop is rolling out its new Facebook page featuring the "latest headlines, along with useful services and information."Zucker-beautiful!

Newport Harbor High School Students Outed for Being Real Cut-Ups with Cut-Up Cats

I remember the first time my young self encountered a flip cat in the wash near my desert home. I took a stick to flip over the dead feline baked hard by the hot sun, saw the fat maggots still gorging themselves after having eaten half of "Whiskers" and ran like hell in fear.More hardening with age ... More >>

Lowkey, UK-based Rebel Rapper, Calls it Quits

Lowkey's approach to hip-hop was always professorial and politicized. His critically acclaimed independently released double-album Soundtrack to the Struggle last year was layered with lyrical lectures and skits sampling luminaries like Tariq Ali. It was, then, as surprising as it was fitting that t ... More >>

Starbucks CEO Smacks Down NOM Flunky; NOM Organizes Pointless Boycott

​Part of the problem with holding the required annual shareholders' meeting is having to talk to shareholders, as Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz found out yesterday. Shultz was taking questions after his presentation when a representative of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)--the people wh ... More >>

Will Occupy OC Rifts Destroy the Anti-Corporate Greed Protests?

​Despite a reputation for raucousness, some 40 Occupy Orange County members gathered quietly outside of Fullerton city hall last night to discuss the future of the local movement after Wednesday's dismantling of Irvine's three-month protest.While two Occupy leaders outlined negotiations with Fulle ... More >>

[UPDATE: CAIR Demands Apology, Dumitru Tries to Cover His Illiterate Tracks] Jon Dumitru, Orange Councilmember, Posts Anti-Islam Facebook Status Update

Dumitru: Emphasis on the "Dum"​UPDATE, SEPT. 15, 10:45 P.M.: The Southern California chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations is now asking that Dumitru apologize for his moronic remarks"Your hateful statement in which you falsely insinuate that the teachings of Islam and the Quran wo ... More >>

Six Reasons I Don't Want To Open A Restaurant

Flickr user kalyan3​I post pictures and descriptions of the food I cook on Twitter and Facebook, and I certainly have earned a reputation as someone who knows his way around a kitchen. I am honored to have received a lot of compliments, but the one I hear most often is, "You should open a restaura ... More >>

Flickr Photo of the Week: Round and Round It Goes. . .

​Behind the jump: Check out this week's Flickr Photo of the Week, by Flickr user marcie gonzales. Got some photos of life in or around Orange County you'd like to share with your community? Join the OC Weekly Flickr pool!

RIP Crappy School Lunches, or: Six Legendary Cafeteria Menu Items

Flickr user john.murdenA farewell to childhood. ​It's the end of an era. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Trustees has banned flavored milk in school cafeterias, and corn dogs and chicken nuggets are also off the menus. Who knows what's next? No word on whether OC schools are ... More >>

DREAM Act Activists Release 'How To Stop Deportation' Guide

Jonathan Ho/OC Weekly​With the fizzling of the DREAM Act last year and the belief that President Obama is doing little to help their plight, activist groups took matters into their own hands this week, boldly publishing a guide for youth on how not to get deported.Compiled by the Asian Law Caucus, ... More >>

PHOTOS: 'Angry Bird Droppings' Team Takes Second in Red Bull Soapbox Race

Angry Bird Droppings Facebook Page​It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . . actually a bird. An angry bird! On a soapbox!   Flying through the finish line at the always-wacky Red Bull Soapbox Race was Angry Bird Droppings, a Garden Grove-based team made of former UCI engineering students. W ... More >>

Sinclair Roberts, Local Zimbabwean, Ponders the Future of His Country Amid Revolts in North Africa

Sinclair, in a 1980 photo​The day before Egyptian President Hosni Muburak resigned, one local man who has lived the past couple decades under political exile in Orange County wondered if social media could reignite political passions in Zimbabwe against the 31-year rule of dictator Robert Mugabe. ... More >>

[UPDATED: All Clear] BREAKING: Disneyland, The Happiest Place On Earth Ain't so Happy, Currently on Lock-Down

UPDATE, 1:51 P.M.: The Orange County Register reports that authorities indicated the "suspicious device" that was the catalyst for all the Disneyland hysteria was a geocache. Confused? You should be. A geocache is a GPS item that is used for techy treasure hunts.What happened to going door to door a ... More >>

Men Alive: Desperately Seeking Santa

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Amanda Russell, Long Beach Poly Senior, Wins $20,000 from KFC for a Tweet!

Flickr user Ollie Crafoord​In the Department of Participating in Every Zany Contest Fast-Food Chains Offer comes this news: a Long Beach Poly senior won a $20,000 college scholarship from KFC for the best tweet expressing how the chain would help the student better their lives.Amanda Russell didn' ... More >>

Top Five OC Artists to Follow on Twitter

These days, you can't go online without reading about Kanye West letting fans know about his latest drama, or 50 Cent on either how lonely he is or his hilarous racist rants--all on Twitter. And while no local artist is as candid as Kanye or Fitty, here are some of the best OC acts to follow on Twit ... More >>

UPDATED: Man Commits Suicide By Jumping Off Mickey & Friends Parking Structure at Disneyland

Flickr user Never Cool in School​UPDATE: The man has been identified, see bottom of post.Not many details have been released, but according to the LA Times, an Anaheim police spokesman has confirmed that a man committed suicide on Sunday evening by jumping off one of the upper floors of the Mickey ... More >>

KC Tea--Thanks, Tech N9ne & Kutt Calhoun!

​After a recent trip to Kansas City, Missouri, I think it's time to introduce Orange County to the phenomenon that is KC Tea. I mean, come on, the drink has its own Facebook page.

Super-Cheap Chili Cheese Fries at Tommy's Original in Lake Forest TODAY. NOW!

Flickr user Marshal Astor - Food Pornographer​ UPDATE: See bottom of post for update to "password" for discount!Tommy's Original, home of some of the best late-night hangover food thought of by Homo Sapiens, is warming up for its 65th anniversary next year by rolling back the price of its chili c ... More >>

Slideshow: Top 7 NSFW Cupcakes and Cakes

Flickr user ConsumedbyCake​We've scoured Flickr high and low for your giggling pleasure--introducing the top seven (hey, we couldn't just keep it to five, okay?) NSFW cupcakes and cakes. As NSFW as fondant-covered, flesh-toned cupcakes can get, we guess. Click here for the slideshow! After the j ... More >>

Flickr Photo of the Week: Arch Stone, Corona Del Mar

​Behind the jump: Check out this week's Flickr Photo of the Week, by Flickr user dacoach89_89. Got some photos of life in or around Orange Count you'd like to share with your community? Join the OC Weekly Flickr pool!

Anaheim White House Chef To Give Free Demo

Flickr user zagatbuzz​Bruno Serato, owner of the Anaheim White House, and Eddie Meza, executive chef, will give a free cooking demo today from noon to 2 p.m. at the Anaheim Farmers' Market on Center Street Promenade.

Flickr Photo of the Week: "Ninja Sleeps"

Twitter user Almost*​ ​Got something to share with your community? Join the OC Weekly Flickr pool!

Kobe Bryant Visits Disneyland, Wears Himself

Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland​So there might not be a Kobe Bryant or Lakers victory parade this year at Disneyland, but Newport Coast resident Bryant did bring his family and friends to visit the resort yesterday. Which, actually, is a pretty snoozy story in itself. The best part, however, is that the ... More >>

Introducing the iGourmet

Flickr user idiolector​The New York Times broke the news in a blog today that Gourmet magazine, famously edited by Ruth Reichl after her stint as the restaurant critic for the Gray Lady and infamously closed down by its parent company Condé Nast, is back.

Slideshow: Food Disguised As Other Food

Flickr user DebbieDoesCakesBuffalo wings platter cake: Serves 85! The wings are dark chocolate with fondant "skin." To see more by Debbie of DebbieDoesCakes, you can visit her blog here.​Food disguised as other food; quite possibly as cute as kittens. Click though this slideshow where even meat i ... More >>

Long Beach Street Food Festival Coming in July

Flickr user Heart of OakThe OG.​Back in February, over 30 food trucks congregated for the first ever LA Street Food Festival at the LA Center Studios in Downtown Los Angeles. Thousands of people also congregated--resulting in all sorts of crowd issues and growing pains.Long Beach will soon take a ... More >>

McDonald's Will Use Facebook's Geolocation App

Edwin Goei​Would you want people to know you're eating your fifth Big Mac in a week at exactly the moment you eat it? McDonald's and social networking giant Facebook will let you do just that. The two companies are reportedly teaming up to use Facebook's upcoming geolocation feature, which could ... More >>

One Dozen Unique Food Tattoos

Flickr user gwenbell1. Flickr user gwenbell: "He says he has a lifetime of 'bacon-related puns' ahead of him. One can only hope. One can only hope."​ Who loves asparagus, flan, bacon and eggs enough to permanently etch it on their bodies forever? These people do. And we love them for it.

Chuck Ridal Bowls for the Gold in Vegas

Flickr user ACME-NollmeyerStriiiiiiike!​An amateur bowler from Orange County has made it into the sport's version of the Final Four.Chuck Ridal, who bowls out of AMF Cerritos Lanes, represents OC in AMF Bowling Centers' $500,000 National In-League Tournament finale today and Saturday in Las Vegas. ... More >>

That's No Cookie!: Star Wars-Themed Baked Goods

Flickr user SweetSugarBelle​You like baking, you like Star Wars. You love Star Wars-themed cookies. While the Star Wars love/fandom/wankery extends its paws into all aspects of life--bedsheets, video games,  walking around campus listening to a self-made audio tape of Return of the Jedi on yo ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Matthew Castaneda, Held in 12-Year-Old Girl's Sexual Assault, May Be MySpace Predator

UPDATE: As alleged MySpace sexual predator Matthew Castaneda heads to court today, his case has fueled a state bill aimed at banning predators from MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites (details below) . . . PhotobucketCompare this back to the one on the next page.​If Matthew Castan ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Documentary on Early Newport Surf Scene

An anonymous reader was kind enough to send in this video about the early Newport Beach surf scene, circa 1950s and 60s. Apparently an early look at an enigmatic documentary project called Living it Forever  (coming in spring 2010) the clip includes conversations with a diverse selection of New ... More >>

Orly Taitz Interviews Orly Taitz

Eh, kinda funny: See the real thing on Monday, when Dr. Taitz is in Santa Ana federal court again. About 100 people showed up last time, but one supporter on her Facebook page predicted a 10,000 spectator turnout for this one. Line up now!

How to Save Time, Money and Get Wall Street Journal Coverage for Cutting Your Own Hair

How do you get yourself written on Wall Street Journal online? If the nation is gripped by an economic recession whose bad ju-ju has spread even to the usually immune hair salon industry, and you're Dana Point's George Trimm, you start a Facebook group called "I Cut My Own Hair."

Chuck DeVore's Quixotic Attempt to Twitter and Parody-Video His Way Into the U.S. Senate

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