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Orange County Register Wildfire Coverage Has a Huge Hole in It: Media Watchdog

Orange County fire officials recently held a press conference to go over their strategies and, more importantly, warn the public about an ever-earlier fire season. The Orange County Register covered this, as it did Southern California's recent wildfires, but a media watchdog saw a huge hole in the c ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Benefit Concert

DiPiazza's

All-Breed Dog Show Holiday Classic

OC Fair and Event Center

Chill: The Ice Kingdom

Queen Mary

Hillgrass Bluebilly SoCal Kickoff

Alex's Bar

Flights & Sounds Summer Festival: Aquabats

OCGP

King Tuff

Alex's Bar

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

[Update at 2:48 a.m]: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom.Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a result of high winds buffeting tall sound s ... More >>

Patchwork Spring Festival

Sycamore and Second St., Santa Ana

Urinetown

Waltmar Theatre

3hree Things: On Getting Ready For Tour (Or Not)

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.​ I leave for tour in two days. And I'm not ready. Again.You'd think that after touring for ab ... More >>

True Food Kitchen Offering Free Food When You Ride Your Bike TODAY

Photo by Kevin LaraHead chef Nathan Coulon​What will someone do for free? Stand in line; print a coupon; make a purchase; dress like a duck. The well-balanced souls over at Fashion Island's True Food Kitchen are banking that diners will take it a step further--in this case, a pedal forward.The Wea ... More >>

The Ten Commandments

Regency South Coast Village

The Orange County Interwebs Horror (Road) Show

​This week's horrific show--which is composed to things said about and/or from Orange County on the Interwebs--takes a road trip. After the jump, you'll be treated to a freeway trickster, an Ultimate Fighter outta gas, a family that lives out of an RV (on purpose) and a surfing skier (and the read ... More >>

San Clemente Seafest

San Clemente Pier

Caddyshack 30th Anniversary

Bay Theatre

Rob Schneider

Brea Improv

At the Farmers' Market: Strawberries

Dave Lieberman​Quick, when was the last time you had a juicy, sweet, fragrant strawberry?Back in June and July?Well, there's some good news. While cool, dry weather in November makes the meteorologists and climate folks freak out, lovers of fruit can rejoice, because it means an extra crop of stra ... More >>

As Wags Ridicule Great Park Balloon, Irvine Makes It Brighter

​The fact that after all the fighting, gubmenting and millions and millions and millions in spending the Orange County Great Park only has a balloon ride in the middle of a small Preview Park has been the subject of much ridicule, most recently by Orange County Register columnist Frank Mickadeit a ... More >>

The Eight: Reindeer Monolgues

The Chance Theater

Stockpile the Snickers! America Might Run Out of Sugar!

​That was the dire prediction made this week by a group of major food manufacturers such as Kraft, Hershey, Mars and General Mills, who claim that import restrictions will soon leave us bereft of the sweet stuff. Apparently, domestic sugar supplies are falling dramatically (the Agriculture Departm ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Cute Drunk Guys In Shorts!

Heal The Bay Gives the Baby Beach a Clean Bill Of Health

Heal the Bay has released its annual report card of California beach water quality. Each of Orange County's beaches has received a grade, and the 88-page report has some other info on the county. Let's break it down:We've got two "beach bummers." On Heal the Bay's list of the top 10 worst beaches in ... More >>

Nanny State Wants Us To Go Thirsty

The South Coast Water District is considering an ordinance that, among other things, would prevent restaurants from bringing water to customers who haven't requested it. The law is intended to stymie water shortages or something, but screw that. My pet peeve: Restaurants cheaping you out on water an ... More >>

The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm

Discovery Center

Crocoshit Dundee?

Local water officials, who are looking to Australia for expertise on how to survive one of the worst droughts in California's recorded history, hosted former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at its monthly luncheon on Thursday, something that prompted Rupert Murdoch's Aussie papers to mock Beattie, ... More >>

Sopping Wet

Angels vs. Mariners

It’s the Humidity

Bayou Fest

To Do Tonight 4/16

Xile, 9 p.m. Gothic Orange County comes alive! Belluno 12361 Chapman Ave. Anaheim CA 92840 714-971-8520 Hard Day's Night, 9 p.m. You should be sleeping like a dog. Proof Bar 215 N. Broadway Santa Ana CA 92701 714-953-2660 DJ Josh, 9 p.m. Josh DJs Kitsch Bar 891 Baker St., Ste. A10 Costa Mesa C ... More >>

Bentastic

I was just the other day lamenting the drought of free crap from the mail that used to provide so much blog fodder a year ago when I was brand new here. But it seems I can always count on Cartoon Network for the goods. I don't really know what the deal is with Ben 10, but I know they previously sen ... More >>

Farmers' Market

OC Fairgrounds

Wednesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Disney wins

More dirt on Debbie? Yesterday we noted that Debbie Carona was doing her darndest to wriggle her way out of a case that's mainly against her husband. Wait a second, missy. Today, Christine Hanley and Garrett Therolf at the Times report that the sheriff's wife urged Orange County Fair Board director ... More >>

The Fire of the Century . . . of the Year

Hellish fires now, Sahara Desert later, says UCI doom prophet Mike Davis

Icey U P

Over on CNN.com there's plenty of coverage on the ice storm. If you haven't heard, a massive weather system caused chaos and death from Texas to Illinois, then relocated towards New England. Thousands upon thousands are without power, 36 are already dead, so naturally I'm going to make a snarky edit ... More >>

We're doomed, doomed...

… or maybe not. The AP reports: Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007. "I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television ... More >>

Bad News With Al

OnDVD: An Inconvenient Truth

How Stella Got Her Groove in the First Place

CSUF dishes up a little-known Tennessee Williams play

Baby, It's Warm Outside

The Inconvenient Truth is on its way to becoming the box-office champeen of documentaries (pound sand, Michael Moore!). Orders are already brisk for the DVDs that won't be out until November. However, because Truth starred Satan's spawn Al Gore, there's a good chance many holy rollers skipped it and ... More >>

Live Review

Dreamy and Dreary

See MirrorMask, Help the Hungry

A Clockwork Orange

Dam Us!

Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man

A River Runs Beneath It

Santa Ana River toll road elevates eco-fears