Southern California

The Steelwells Re-Make Themselves at Home

The Steelwells. Remember them? They're that Fullerton-bred indie-rock outfit that toured with Foster the People and Grouplove, then went into the studio to record an EP . . . two years ago. Well, they want you to know they're alive and well, and they're sorry they never called or sent post cards. Th ... More >>

Levitation Room

Detroit Bar

Lemonade To Open At Fashion Island This Summer

Lemonade, a gourmet cafeteria serving seasonal Southern California comfort food, is expected to open at Fashion Island come mid-July. Headed by chef Alan Jackson and partner Ian Olsen, it will be the chain's twelfth location and first one outside of Los Angeles. With nearly 4,000 square feet, the ... More >>

Tustin Lobsterfest

Peppertree Park

Record and Collectible Swap

Bungalow Building

Cold War Kids - Berkeley Studios - March 6, 2013

Cold War Kids Berkeley StudiosMarch 6, 2013Over the past month or so, the Cold War Kids have been playing small shows in Southern California, highlighted by a local show at The Observatory late last month. They've been showcasing new material from their forthcoming album, Dear Miss Lonely Heart ... More >>

Will Disney's Southland Diss Be Knott's Gain?

Disneyland and California Adventure, which are practically printing money these days they've been so successful with the whole Cars Land thing, announced earlier this week the end to the Southern California resident program that provided reduced admission prices to locals.Perhaps the Mouse House's s ... More >>

Turning a Cheeseburger Inside Out: Minnesotans Did It First, and They Call it the Jucy Lucy

It's great to see new twists on familiar foods, particularly ones that don't smack of douchebaggery ("no ketchup for you! here, eat our artisanal tomato, piloncillo and cardamom coulis that tastes like a curry dump!"). I love the creativity we're seeing with that quintessentially American meal, the ... More >>

Agent Orange

DiPiazza's

Best Coast

Observatory

In-n-Out Gets Sued For Race, Age Discrimination; Why the Lawsuit is Preposterous

You ever wonder why the In-n-Out crew is always so gosh-darn wholesome and young, as opposed to fast-food places, where it seems the average worker is now middle-aged and immigrant? It's because the Irvine-based chain has a specific image they want to project, one they craft carefully and ensure by ... More >>

FYF Fest 2012: Five Reunited Bands We Really Want to See

See Also:*FYF Fest Two-Day Line-up Announced*The Growlers Announce New Album Release* Pacific Festival: The Dunes AnnouncedPlenty of people tend to associate FYF Fest with bands that will soon be filling their iPods with fresh sound for the fall. This year, its lineup of subterranean, local and ... More >>

Lucero's Ben Nichols Answers Important Questions About Women and Work

Among a pack of Southern bands leading the resurgence of gritty, grown-man music, Ben Nichols, front man for Tennessee-based Lucero, stands out as a smoke-throated vocalist preaching rock-n-roll redemption to the lonely and broken-hearted.The Weekly caught up with Nichols by phone, as the band ... More >>

OC Fishermen Are Out to Sea

Thanks to overregulation in the name of conservation, these hard-working men face extinction

Immigration Makes Us Safer, Richer and Better Able to Breathe: UCI Study

Well here's a timely UC Irvine study in light of today's Weekly cover package: The Southern California Regional Progress Report to be released next week shows the large influx of Asian and Latino immigrants into Southern California in the past 50 years has led to less crime, lower joblessness and ... More >>

OC BBQ and Music Festival

OC Fairgrounds

The Head and the Heart

The Observatory

Bahay Kawayan Is Long in the Plate

[Hole In the Wall] Los Alamitos' first Filipino restaurant is small but delicious

DNA Tests of Fish Served In LA and OC Finds Rampant Mislabeling

That snapper you just ate? Chances are it wasn't snapper. According to a study just released by the non-profit advocacy group Oceana, in 34 samples they tested from sushi bars, restaurants, and markets in LA and OC, none of them were actually snapper. 

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Hit-and-Run in Parking Lot, Followed by High-Speed Police Chase!

​Living in Southern California, where high-speed police chases are as common as newscaster promises of weather reports, we tend to forget that other areas of the United States has such entertaining television. But the last place in this country where I'd expect such a thing to happen is in Mansfie ... More >>

The Cults to Play Free Show at Brea Mall

​UPDATE: According to Lamb & Flag, the show has  been moved to Sunday, March 25.  Original post, March 19, 2012, 2:44 p.m.: The Cults may now be based in Brooklyn, but they grew up in Southern California, and they come back to play a slew of shows in the area. Before their actual gig ... More >>

Sister Cities? Study Shows Santa Ana and Malibu Share Similar Level of Racial Diversity

​A new report released by the University of Southern California ranks Orange County fourth among a five-county region when it comes to the number of racially balanced cities."Racially Balanced Cities in Southern California, 1990 to 2010" measured local representation of four major population group ... More >>

The Lions

Alex's Bar

Laguna Art Museum's 'Best Kept Secret' Shows What Zot Wrought

New exhibit remembers when UC Irvine art scandalized OC—and helped to shape the SoCal scene

Two Earthquakes Strike Southern California

Feel that? The end is near.​Two 3.0-plus earthquakes rocked Southern California in a recent 14-hour period.According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the last one, a 3.5 "shallow" strike, hit just before 9 a.m. today in the mountains near Coachella.A Palm Springs newspaper is reporting that resident ... More >>

Evan Kleiman, SoCal Food Goddess and Amiga of OC Weekly, to Close Iconic Angeli Caffe :-(

Photo by Christopher VictorioKleiman (at right) with some random weirdo...​Evan Kleiman needs no introduction to these pages, but here's a brief one for new readers: a Southern California food icon whose Angeli Caffee was one of many iconic restaurants that brought sophisticated cuisine to the reg ... More >>

Tepache at El Chilango

[Hole In the Wall] The Mexico City-style mini-chain serves the rare fermented-pineapple drink—yum!

Santa Ana Sucker, Little Fish at Center of Water Agencies' Suit Against Feds, Gets a Legal Assist

​Inland water agencies may say they want to work with government regulators on a Santa Ana River habitat for a tiny fish known as the Santa Ana Sucker, but as long as the H2O providers press their lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, four conservation groups will press back. The Si ... More >>

[UPDATED with Judge's Ruling:] Justice Dept. Must Pay for Lying in Suit Against FBI by OC Muslims

​UPDATE, NOV. 18, 10:57 A.M.: "The Court must impose monetary sanctions to deter the Government from deceiving the Court again," Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana writes in his Islamic Shura Council v. FBI ruling. He gave the council 14 days to come up with ... More >>

Ozomatli

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Watch Ozomatli for Free at Segerstrom Center

​Segerstrom Center for the Arts is bringing in Grammy Award-winning band Ozomatli to its Arts Plaza for a free concert on October 2 at 5 p.m. As part of Pacific Standard Time (a collaboration of cultural organizations throughout Southern California), Ozomatli's concert pays tribute to the diversit ... More >>

Santa Monica Farmers Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Good Food Festival & Conference

​In the world of farmers markets in Southern California, none is more legendary than the system that runs the Santa Monica Farmers Market. KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food with Evan Kleiman offers their updates from the Wednesday version, head Laura Avery is a Southern California food legend, and more tha ... More >>

3hree Things: Life's Uncanny Ability To Punch My Ego In The Balls

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.growingongrownup.com​Last week, I read that San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt ... More >>

Tiger Army's Octoberflame IV is Coming, with Swingin' Utters, Steller Corpses, Reckless Ones to Open

​In our story previewing his appearance at the OC Fair last month, Nick 13, psychobilly trio Tiger Army's frontman, was hesitant to say whether they were going to push through with their annual Octoberflame (their fourth, and also their 15th anniversary) due to the demands of recording a new album ... More >>

Five Foods That Taste Better Processed

Flickr user xiaming​I love fresh food. I love cooking from whole ingredients. I go slightly insane when I can't have plenty of fresh vegetables with my meals, and I live in Southern California, where we have a year-round growing season and farmers markets that make even people from other produce-r ... More >>

Worldwide Mahi-Mahi Shortage Forces Fish Taco Purveyors to Stop Serving the Fish

Flickr user Erik Charlton​This is scary shit: Gringo Bandito, the bueno hot sauce of Offspring head hombre Dexter Holland is set to host a taco-eating contest at Fred's in Huntington Beach August 3, with legendary competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi set to compete. The initial meat in the tacos was ... More >>

California Watch Investigative Journalism Nonprofit Setting Up Shop at Orange County Register

​Mark Katches wrote and edited for the Orange County Register for a decade. Now he's in Berkeley, serving as editorial director of California Watch, a project of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting that also has an office near the Capitol in Sacramento. California Watch aims to fill t ... More >>

July 16-17: The Weekend of Culinary Desmadre

​Screw Carmageddon. The weekend of culinary desmadre in the Southland is ON. Since the original post, we've discovered that not only will OC be represented at Eat Real, but OC Weekly will--Gustavo is leading panels at 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, and I will be demonstrating preserved lemons ... More >>

A Secret History of Thai Food in Southern California

​By now, any true Southern Californian eats Thai food as part of their regular diet, whether at Thai Nakorn, Bangkok Taste, Siam Taste of Asia, or any of the dozens of Thai restaurants in OC and the hundreds in Southern California. But ever wonder how we became the beneficiary of so much great foo ... More >>

3hree Things: Species of Slow-Pitch Softball Goons

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, in which Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.Saturday, I played in the annual "Irvine Classic", an day-long mens slow-pitch softball tournament ... More >>

Limp Bizkit Perform at Epicenter 2011; First SoCal Show in Over a Decade

​Over dinner last week, a few friends were talking about random brushes with fame when Fred Durst came up. My buddy prefaced it by saying, "I'm sure this story would've been way cooler if it didn't involve Limp Bizkit." A decade ago, he was walking around Minneapolis when Durst came up to him (in ... More >>

[UPDATED with Tribune Talks Back On:] Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies

​UPDATE, JUNE 16, 9:22 A.M.: Now that merger talks with MediaNews have broken down, Irvine-based owner of the Orange County Register Freedom Communications has revived negotiations with that other Southern California newspaper  publisher.No, not the Los Angeles investment company that bought ... More >>

Cooling Off At Mariscos Mocorito

[Hole In the Wall] Orange's new Sinaloan dive helps you attain an aguachile summer

[Hole In the Wall] Build Your Own Pinoy-Mexican Mash-Ups at Adobo & Tacos in Orange

[Hole in the Wall] Cochinita Pibil and Beyond at Anepalco's Cafe in Orange

[Hole in the Wall] Manila Grille Takes the Pinoy Path

A Bridge to the Americas

Museum of Latin American Art

Tustin Farmers' Market

El Camino Real & E. 3rd St.

Gears for Fears

BMX Ride Sessions

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Your Summer Guard: Mil Jugos