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Long Beach Comic Con

Long Beach Convention Center

Matisyahu Sheds Old Sonic Habits, Among Other Things

With a fresh start and a new look, the reggae/rap anomaly puts his evolution on record

Sullivan & Son Comedy Tour

Irvine Improv

Dana Rohrabacher Blames "Rude" Female for His Gaffes on Bill Maher's HBO show

​Any reasonable person who saw Dana Rohrabacher's Jan. 27 performance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher appreciated that the right-wing Orange County Republican congressman set a new low for political discourse.Hilariously acting as if he's a seasoned, elder statesman, Rohrabacher--the self-descr ... More >>

Jonah Mowry, OC Teen Who Got Support From Lady Gaga, Goes On 'Good Morning America' After His Anti-Bullying Video Went Viral

​Pop goddess Lady Gaga is also an active advocate for gay rights. In her latest move, she threw her support -- via Twitter -- behind an OC teen, whose anti-bullying video went viral this week.In the video, 14-year-old Jonah Mowry of Lake Forest uses notecards to tell his story -- a stor ... More >>

Lewis Black

City National Grove of Anaheim

'Jerry Springer: The Opera'

Chance Theater

It's The Mildred Patty Baena Story of a Lifetime

​The story of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's family maid-turned-baby mama will be the subject of a Lifetime movie.At least The Mildred Patty Baena Story is a go if comedian Kathy Griffin is to be believed.She shared the clip that follows after the jump on Jimmy Kimmel Live rece ... More >>

Stephen Colbert: Easter Eggs are NOT 'Spring Eggs'

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEaster Under Attack - Egg Editionwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive Some people are renaming Easter eggs "Spring Eggs" or "Spring Spheres," a PC-move that has infuriated many ... More >>

Stuffed and Unstrung

Irvine Barclay Theatre

"Merry Christmas, Motherfuckers!": Seven Favorite Hip-Hop Holiday Songs

​While it doesn't happen too much anymore these days, the hip-hop world has been known to put out a holiday album or two--and sometimes the  too-bright cheerfulness of Christmas carols pairs up extra nicely with the often humorous and/or the sometimes, uh, adult content of the lyrics.After th ... More >>

Anti-Commie Activist Kai Chen Claims Victory in Confucius Classroom Spat

​Kai Chen may not have got the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda to remove its life-size statue Mao Tse-Tung, but the Los Angeles-based, Chinese-American activist and others are claiming victory in their spat with the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.District ... More >>

Mike Posner

House of Blues

Adam Richmond

Irvine Improv

Listen to Conan O'Brien's New Single for 24 Hours Only

​Pitchfork posted the improvised, spoken-word single from Conan O'Brien called "And They Call Me Mad" today, where the comedian does a Vincent Price impression  as Frankenstein. The track comes out on 7" vinyl via Jack White's Third Man imprint tomorrow, as we reported last week.Listen to it ... More >>

Wyclef Jean Filed Papers to Run for President of Haiti

www.myspace.com/wyclefjean​We knew it was official; Wyclef Jean did tell Time Magazine he was running for president of Haiti after weeks of rumors yesterday. But a few minutes ago, the AP reported that Jean has filed the paperwork to run for president of Haiti at an electoral council office i ... More >>

Orange Bits: Runner Runner, Cypress Hill, Avi Buffalo

Runner Runner: Good promo pic, or the best?​This week, no one wrote about Orange County music. Well, some people did. But less than usual. Step it up, blogosphere...

What Do Pot Dispensaries, Cannabis Cowboys and "Glee" Have in Common?

​Fox's high school musical-twisted comedy Glee and segments on KCET/Channel 28's SoCal Connected on medical marijuana dispensaries and pot farm-busting law enforcement officers known as "cannabis cowboys" are among the latest winners of prestigious Peabody Awards honoring the best in electronic ... More >>

Top 5 Epic Interviews with GWAR

​How do you sum up 25 years of blood-drenched stage shows, rubber-mutant costumes, cannibalized pop-culture effigies and heavy-metal savagery? You can't. But Oderus Urungus sure can. As the quasi-satanic frontcreature of GWAR, the galaxy's most brutal band of man-eating mutants, Urungus (aka Dave ... More >>

Ingrid Michaelson

Fingerprints CD's & LP's

Chatting With Bill Maher About Rick Warren And Orly Taitz

From Religulous: Bill Maher on the left, Jesus on the right.​Comedian, talk show host and atheist evangelical Bill Maher will perform at the Grove of Anaheim on Sunday, Sept. 13. We got a chance to chat with him on the phone last week, mainly to ask him for his thoughts on all things Orange County ... More >>

Obama's Amerika Cracks Down on Butt Cracks!

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Baracknophobia - Obey comedycentral.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Sure, Jon Stewart can mock those courageous Fox News hounds exposing the wussy Socialist tyrannical ways of the 10-week-old ... More >>

George Galloway

Embassy Suites Anaheim South

Very Special

Mitch Fatel

LowBallVideoChatter: Ryan Bingham

New alt-country at its finest? Howzabout New Mexico singer/songwriter (and former bull rider) Ryan Bingham and his band, the Dead Horses, playing this Saturday night at the fabulous Gypsy Lounge in Lake Forest? Dude's been on Leno and Conan, and got a nice, long profile in March from the LA Times (s ... More >>

Wild Style

Jack Hanna

Meet the Poundstones

Paula Poundstone

Electric Boogaloo

Groovaloo

Fallon for It

Jimmy Fallon

Kiss My Cottontail!

Bobcat Goldthwait

Gustavo Pulls Up to Haruki Murakami, Stuart Woods

Ponder this: Just behind world-famous authors Haruki Murakami and Stuart Woods and ahead of nonfiction giants Greg Palast and John Stossel is OC Weekly's own Gustavo Arellano. Yesterday, Scribner published Gustavo's Ask a Mexican, and a mere day later, Amazon.com is ranking the book No. 81 in natio ... More >>

Letterman, Success!

So I'm a little late on this, but I went to go check out Cold War Kids at Detroit after the Weekly's Christmas party (on a stationary riverboat?) this past Saturday night. It was the third time I've seen CWK at Detroit—and probably the last (I mean, really, at this rate, you kids can sell ... More >>

Esteban Colberto vs. Gustavo Arellano

Just caught Gustavo on The Colbert Report and not only was our hope fulfilled that the host of El Colberto Reporto Gigante would make an appearance, but so did Victor Infante's wish for a Threat Down segment, only it was gay themed (complete with bears!) and not Mexicanized. Gustavo actually began ... More >>

Stephen Colbert vs. The Mexican

That humble, media-shy, wilting flower Gustavo Arellano said he'd Blotterize this yesterday, but he never did, so Your Favorite Comedy Central Time Zoner will have to spill it: the young buck behind the Weekly's wildly successful, written about and commentated upon !Ask a Mexican! column is schedule ... More >>

Does a Bear Shit in the LA Times?

If you read Monday's Los Angeles "By God" Times Business section (and why would you?), you might've choked on your French Roast when you came on C3's three-quarter page advert announcing the California Bear is missing from the state flag. The gloomy gray gus informed that the Grizzly "grew tired of ... More >>

Learning to Live With it

Books that beat back the Bush blues

Deja You

Agran and Kucinich could be twins . . . very wee twins

Gorbasms

Schwarzenegger gets OCs nuts excited

Strangers With Pokin Sticks

Wigfield mocks literary journalism and small-town life

Take the Last Train to Modesto

Dick of Honor

Daily Affirmation