Tourism

Focus on Art: Antonio Bernie

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'Paradise: Love' Is a Holiday in Other People's Misery

Ulrich Seidl swipes at greatness—and your summer vacation

Huntington Beach Visitors Bureau Petitions Air Quality Regulators to Allow Fire Rings

You seen Change.org mentioned on this site for various petition drives, from those calling for the firing or reprimanding of all six Fullerton Police officers involved in the Kelly Thomas murder to a Seal Beach massacre victim's husband seeking tighter gun control law--to even a plea for gender-neut ... More >>

Focus on Art: Walter Goldfarb

MOLAA

Champanties

The Prospector

[VIDEO:] Local Waters Overrun (Overswum?) by "Dolphin Stampede"

You may have seen the reports on the recent giant squid invasion in Orange County waters.We included video of this from one boat operator out of Dana Harbor.Now a second has posted an eye-opening video of its own, but it's not of giant squid wreaking havoc but a "dolphin stampede."

VIDEO: Wake for It ... Wake for It ... Now Catch Hardcore Surfers Hang Fin

Summer is the season most of us associate with surfing because when we stick our toes in the water any other time the water is too dang cold.But hardcore surfers kill the waves any time of year, as witnessed by those hanging ten . . . er . . . hanging fin in the wake of a Dana Point whale watching b ... More >>

A Taste of Greece

St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church

Jack Hanna Into the Wild Live!

Carpenter Center

Steve Aoki

Sutra

OC Board Set To Waste $150k On Corporate Subsidies For Tourism

Companies worth billions demand taxpayer gifts again​The Orange County Board of Supervisors is on the verge of subsidizing local tourism businesses with $150,000 in taxpayer funds.According to the agenda for the all-Republican board's Oct. 25 meeting, the Orange County Tourism Council--which inclu ... More >>

Fender Factory Opens to Public

[Mental Notes] Also: Latina theater group Breath of Fire goes gypsy

Stoked to Be Studying: New Surf Research Center at San Diego State University

​San Diego State University's Center for Surf Research may not be quite what you may think or hope it is. The curriculum will not include watching North Shore, analyzing the behavior of Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High or studying the hydrodynamics of a surfboard riding upon ... More >>

Fender Factory Opens its Doors

Brandon FergusonPhyllis Fender speaks at the grand opening of the visitor center at the Fender manufacturing plant in Corona​Though it moved a relatively short distance from the quaint shopping district surrounding downtown Fullerton to the bucolic splendor of Corona (cough), Fender has truly ... More >>

Long Beach Pride Fest

Shoreline Village

Whale Watching

Captain Dave's Dolphin & Whale Safari

Cultural Comedy Chaos

Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union

Gay Rights Groups Again Link Carly Fiorina to Latino Outreach Bus That Breezed Through OC

​We began Monday morning by noting the "Vota Tus Valores" ("Vote your values") bus filled with conservative Hispanics and marriage inequality proponents was in Santa Ana, following up with the news that a demonstrator against the Latino outreach effort there claimed he had been roughed up by someo ... More >>

A Shadowy Month in Fullerton

The city of Fullerton, long known as the Paris of North Orange County, is also the most artistically dense city in the OC. Want proof? Try Fullerton Shadows, a month-long theater--and other artsy stuff--festival involving 120 events on display at eight venues scattered across town. Since this is Oc ... More >>

Blue Whales Amass Off an Orange Coast

​Veteran whale watchers and sports-fishing operators report dense numbers of blue whales--the largest animals ever known to have existed--frolicking off the Southern California coast, from Santa Barbara to southern Orange County.Thank our unseasonably cold weather: chilly water favorable to the sh ... More >>

Obama's Oil Drilling Pipe Dream Harshes Surfrider's Mellow

oceanswavesbeaches.blogspot.com​The Surfrider Foundation released a statement today, expressing their disapproval of Obama's proposal to open areas of the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic coastline and Arctic coastline to oil drilling and exploration. They are not stoked.

En La Noche

Museum of Latin American Art

How Many Gay Whales Can You Fit in a Subaru?

​MPowerOC, "Orange County's premiere men's social group for gay and bisexual men between the ages of 18 & 29," on Sunday, Feb. 28, presents its free "2nd Annual Newport Beach Gay Whale Watching Expedition."Which begs the question . . . 

Don Bren's Gift That Keeps On Taking Public Money (or Trying to, Anyway)

Haunted Fullerton Walking Tour

Fullerton Museum

National Trails Day

Crystal Cove State Park

Spring Breakers: Forget Cancun, El Paso Is Where It's At!

ZereshkEl Paso: Better than Cancun?The pages of Navel Gazing have long narrated the increasingly crumbly and futile efforts by OC's loose network of immigrant haters to work Americans up into a fit of rage over illegal immigration. But this latest effort by the usual suspects (Barbara Coe, CCIR, the ... More >>

Winter Awakening Hike

Crystal Cove State Park

Want to Get Away, Really Get Away? Come to Israel

    According to Travel Mole, "the online community for the travel and tourism industry," visiting Israel is at an all-time high amid the bombs raining down courtesy of the Hamas theme park: Despite the Strife, Tourism in Israel is at an all Time High Perhaps it's the ... More >>

Gustavo KPFK Show, Part III--Preview and Review

Part I at 4 p.m.: Downtown Los Angeles walking tour of lynch spots! Interview with the man behind this ultimate tourist trap, Scripps College Professor Ken Gonzales-Day.Part II at 4:20 p.m.: Southern California ethnic news aggregator LA Beez.Part II at 4:40 p.m.: Your calls regarding your favorite S ... More >>

Tour de Orange

OC Wildlife and Beach Tour

Tall Tail

Whale and Dolphin Cruise

Goodwill Mission

Day Trip to the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens

Check Out My Package

It's pretty well-known that I'll go almost anywhere I'm invited if there's free food and booze, but some invites make more sense than others. Movie premieres, I understand. Art gallery openings, sure. But a meeting held by a package tour company to pitch their getaways to local travel agents? I mean ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 10/03

6TH ANNUAL “HAUNTED FULLERTON WALKING TOURS,” 6pm Get in the spirit of Halloween by taking some time to tour the spookier parts of Fullerton. Make sure to call and reserve a spot on the tour as reservations are required. The tours run every Wednesday and Thursday until November 9. Fullerton Mus ... More >>

Tobin's Spirit Guide

Haunted Fullerton Walking Tour

Ceci N'est Pas un Ghetto

French Park Holiday Home Tour

Wandering Stars

"…wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever." Jude (1:13) Jude, brother of James, obviously wasn't thinking about the Newport Beach Walk of Fame in his Epistle, but it's still a fairly apt description Newport Beach's attempt at combining celebrity and paving m ... More >>

Business as Unusual

Garofalo with a pen is a danger to society

Poland

Post Cards From Auschwitz

Expanaheim!

Building a bigger Mouse trap

Back up to Speed

Recent votes suggest HB Councilman Garofalo is up to his old tricks

The New-And-Improved HB City Council

Now with an abundance of caution!

Account Dracula

Searching for Swallows

DIVE!

Re-creating the Cold War

Tourists, Go Home Page

OC ain't the box Disneyland came in