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  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Silversun Pickups' Nikki Monninger Learns How to Be Spontaneous

    See also: Our review of KROQ Weenie Roast y Fiesta Since forming in 2002, the Silversun Pickups have spread their catchy indie/alt rock from Silver Lake across the globe. Today, their third full-length, Neck of the Woods, will be released via Dangerbird Records. Recorded in Topanga Canyon under the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Coachella Rainy Day Fashions: Clothing Designer Jennifer Daking Gives Advice

    When it comes to Coachella, what's better: 103-degree temperatures or a drizzley, windy, muddy polo field? The latter is what many festival-goers might be facing this Friday: The forecast as of time of publishing is a high of 69-degrees with a 50 percent chance of rain. And as Dennis Romero repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Remember Wu-Tang Clan's Terrible Video Game? We Do

    ​​In order to broach the subject of musicians appearing in video games, we're legally obligated to mention Rock Band and Guitar Hero in the first sentence, so there. Putting aside those big franchises, several other games have featured musicians in increasingly unusual capacities. Both The Beatl ... More >>

  • Food

    November 10, 2011

    Taco Maria Signals El Return of El Native

    [Hole In the Wall] Carlos Salgado stuns Orange County with his wholly Mexican luxe lonchera

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    The Power of Whole Foods: Almost One Million 696,132 Living Social Deals Sold So Far

    ​UPDATE, SEPT. 13, 10:30 P.M.: The Washington Post is reporting that the Whole Foods Living Social deal was their most fastest-selling offer ever: Approximately 115,000/hour, which breaks down to 30 deals/second.ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 13, 2011, 11:23 A.M.: Around here, Whole Foods is referred to as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Santa Ana Gentrifiers to Rename Former Fiesta Marketplace "East End Promenade"--HA!

    ​Hipsters, gentrifiers, and their enablers are so predictable in their schemes, it would be laughable if they weren't so pathetic. And one of their most-cherished steps is trying to rename an area to suite whatever promotional needs they may need, even if such names fly in the face of logic or his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    [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. 

  • Music

    December 23, 2010

    Caifanes Reunite to Play Coachella?

    [Mental Notes] Also, the Fling get signed (woo-hoo!), Kottonmouth Kings get high (duh!)

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Cold War Kids Try to Get Over the Sophomore Slump With 'Mine is Yours'--Will They Make It?

    Lilledeshan Bose​Nope, not a Christian rock band. But that's a label that much of the music press would attempt to tag the Cold War Kids with following their breakout success in 2006. When they were new, the Cold War Kids dominated pop and indie radio with a pair of quirky hits-- "Hang Me Out t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Picking Your Own Apples at Willowbrook Apple Farm

    ​"What are you doing this weekend?" the jefe asked before I left on Friday."Apple picking with the chica somewhere in Oak Glen," I responded."Beat you to it--I went with my family two weeks ago," he replied."Why didn't you blog about it?" I wondered.Silence.Thus, this post: a brief summation of a ... More >>

  • Music

    September 16, 2010

    Los Angeles, That Other Scene

    ​"What are you doing this weekend?" the jefe asked before I left on Friday."Apple picking with the chica somewhere in Oak Glen," I responded."Beat you to it--I went with my family two weeks ago," he replied."Why didn't you blog about it?" I wondered.Silence.Thus, this post: a brief summation of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Gettin' Made: Home Ec in Silver Lake Closing

    Crafty friends, it's with a heavy heart that I share this news. Late last week, Jenny Ryan announced the closing of the brick and mortar side of Home Ec in Silver Lake at the end of July. Photo from the Home Ec website​ After the jump, details on the craft-class-slash-supply ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Weeding Out the Weenie Roast

    Our handy-dandy guide to sorting the wieners from the dogs

  • Music

    April 8, 2010

    Local Natives: Going Places

    [Coachella 2010] Buzz band soars from OC squalor to the Coachella stage, with stops in Silver Lake, Austin and the U.K.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Record Review: Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Method Man, 'Wu-Massacre'

    ​The Hype: When legendary Wu-Tang Clan members Ghostface Killah, Raekwon the Chef and Method Man announced their plans to record an entire album together in July 2009, the anticipation among Wu-heads was palpable. Then we waited for it...and waited....and waited. 

  • Music

    March 11, 2010

    OC/LBC Bands Representing at SXSW

    Local acts aim to create buzz in Austin

  • Culture

    December 31, 2009
  • News

    November 19, 2009
  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    To Do Tonight - 6/10

    Hoobastank: Exclusive Acoustic Performance, 9 p.m.Yes, you read that correctly. Hoobastank--the brains behind musical masterpieces like "The Reason" and, well we can't really think of any other song's they've done--are here in Orange County. One night only. Be there. Sutra Lounge, Triangle Square, ... More >>

  • Music

    August 9, 2007

    Cream of Elite

    Sporting perhaps the greatest hip-hop bill ever, Rock the Bells enshrines rap's history—and foreshadows its future

  • Music

    January 18, 2007

    Guilty of Being Goth Behemoths

    Type O Negative test positive for skeletons

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2006

    Rocco's Modern Life

    It's possible that, by censuring trustee Steve Rocco, the Orange Unified School District may be hastening the Second Coming. Not of Jesus, mind you, but of Andy Kaufman. The Weekly recently received the following graphic from a reader. At first we were puzzled—the first picture is clearly ... More >>

  • Film

    July 27, 2006

    London Fog

    Woody Allens second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Two Days in the Valley

    Coachellas always gritty and stinky and yet were still going. Again

  • Music

    February 16, 2006

    Sam's Club

    Twenty years ago, Safari Sams owner Sam Lanni had his dreams crushed by Huntington Beach. Now hes got a new dream on Sunset Boulevard

  • Unknown

    April 14, 2005

    Live Previews

    Twenty years ago, Safari Sams owner Sam Lanni had his dreams crushed by Huntington Beach. Now hes got a new dream on Sunset Boulevard

  • Music

    January 6, 2005

    2004 Scorecard

    Twenty years ago, Safari Sams owner Sam Lanni had his dreams crushed by Huntington Beach. Now hes got a new dream on Sunset Boulevard

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    Bush or Burns?

    The lipless wonder vs. ol ferret face Greg Stacy

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    Before Sunset

    LA is very little of all its cracked up to be, what ho!

  • Columns

    July 22, 2004

    I Am a Gay!

    All the world loves a Kerry-lover

  • Culture

    March 11, 2004

    Gap Kids

    Glass House lets art/music cross-pollinate

  • Columns

    December 18, 2003

    Singing a different 'toon

    Glass House lets art/music cross-pollinate

  • Film

    December 18, 2003

    Song of the South

    Cold Mountain

  • News

    July 17, 2003

    Drop Wood!

    Skimboarding awaits the next big break

  • Music

    February 20, 2003

    Revolucion Grrrl Style Now!

    Dominatrix make you hurt real bad

  • Columns

    June 13, 2002

    Hell Week

    We werent doing sex stuff! We were just having spit fights!

  • Music

    March 7, 2002

    Rapitalism

    $till down with the Wu-Tang?

  • Culture

    December 13, 2001

    Figures

    Everyone is at LAM. Everyone

  • Music

    November 29, 2001

    Crammed Down My Throat

    The hating of Tenacious D

  • Columns

    July 26, 2001

    Letters

    The hating of Tenacious D

  • Features

    June 28, 2001

    How to Build a Band

    As told to Alison M. Rosen

  • Columns

    June 28, 2001

    How to Build a Band

    As told to Alison M. Rosen

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    New Music

    As told to Alison M. Rosen

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Lounging Around

    As told to Alison M. Rosen

  • Columns

    February 22, 2001

    Synchronicity

    When good things happen to bad people

  • Columns

    November 2, 2000

    Lost Weekend

    Finding the OC in LA

  • Music

    June 29, 2000

    IKEY OWENS, KEYBOARD LEGEND

    Finding the OC in LA

  • Unknown

    May 25, 2000

    Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

    Finding the OC in LA

  • Columns

    May 11, 2000

    Thank Yew, Richuhd Blade!

    But its Riverside in tha house

  • Columns

    June 24, 1999

    Shag It, Baby

    Yet another column about gay people, plus a really vicious fight

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