Subject: West Hollywood

• Oh, those crazy Angelenos

  June 26, 2007

• What's on Sly Stone's Mind?

  Some ambitious comeback plans, a call for any—any—hip-hop artists to collaborate, and not a little crazy shit. Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart is about to return to the stage after a long absence. He's performing with a makeshift version of the Family Stone (rumor has it that Sly's bro Freddie Stone may appear; Greg Errico, however, informs me that he will be recording in New Orleans and unable to sit in on the drums) at the Anaheim House of Blues April 25 and at its West Hollywood count

  April 24, 2008

• OC Faux Pas of the Millennium!!!

  Setting: West Hollywood Book Fair, 'round noon, Librería Martínez booth. Protagonists: Me, Librería Martinez volunteer Jess Baudillo, and a gaggle of gals from the Mission VIejo Public Library. Scene: They had just invited me to speak at some author's festival they're proposing for next year. I, having a new book to hawk, graciously accepted. I told them I had a successful book signing a couple of weeks ago sponsored through Librería Martínez. Silence. "You've never heard of Librería M

  September 30, 2008

• Jack's Mannequin to Play 'Secret' Show Tonight

  Jack's Mannequin, the current project of Something Corporate lead singer and Dana Hills High School in Dana Point alumnus Andrew McMahon, is playing a "secret" show tonight at the Viper Room in West Hollywood. Why is "secret" in sarcastic quotation marks? Well, it's announced on both the Jack's Mannequin site and the Viper Room's site. Though the Jack's Mannequin site says tickets are available online, that appears to not be true, so walk-up at the door is probably your only hope. And a slim on

  October 10, 2008

• Who Let the Dogme Out?

  October 11, 2001

• Lesbians!

  January 15, 2004

• You Really Can't Live a Day Without a Gay

  The KTLA Morning News just ran a story about a campaign launched by West Hollywood's Sean Hertherington to have everyone "call in to work gay" today to demonstrate outrage over the passage of Prop. 8 and how, "You really can't live a day without a gay." The memo obviously did not reach World Weekly HQ. In fact, it did not reach much of West Hollywood, as KTLA's reporter interviewed several people at a Starbucks there--on their way to work. Hertherington's heart is in the right pl

  December 10, 2008

• Is Rick Warren Outing His Tolerant Self of Just Bluffing?

  UPDATED WITH PASTOR WILEY DRAKE SAYING GOD WILL PUNISH RICK WARREN FOR PARTICIPATING IN OBAMA INAUGURATION (SEE THE VERY END).The choice of Rick Warren as Barack Obama's inaugural invocation giver has apparently so touched the leader of Lake Forest's Saddleback Church that he has become The Most Tolerant Pastor Ever!!!He posed for a photo that has his arm around an openly gay guy at the Out of the Closet thrift store in West Hollywood. He met with Melissa Etheridge, apologizing for the way

  December 23, 2008

• Supremes' Prop. 8 Oral Arguments Generate Vigils, Viewing Parties, Rallies

  Okay, Prop. 8, supporters, be honest: Would you rather attend a party thrown by gays or straights? If you answered the latter, well, then, you haven't been to a party thrown by gays, have you? Think of all the collected knowledge of Martha Stewart, the Queer Eye guys and Chelsea Handler funneled into a single event, and you get an idea of what kind of fab do you'd be in for.  So, perhaps you should put away your hateful signs and come on out to Eve of Justice, which refers to the evening be

  March 3, 2009

• F&*k!! The Credit Crunch Hits Gordon Ramsay

  It's been a difficult time recently for British celebrity chefs. First, eateries owned by Antony Worrall Thompson and Tom Aikens hit money trouble. Then last week it was reported that Heston Blumenthal's famed Fat Duck restaurant has had to close because hundreds of diners became ill after eating there (the cause is still unknown, although the restaurant has now been allowed to reopen). Suffice to say that certain biological samples are involved). Now it's Gordon Ramsay who's making headlin

  March 9, 2009

• Iowa Gay Marriage Ruling Means Everything or Nothing

  The Iowa Supreme Court's overturning of the law banning same-sex marriage in that state either bolsters the arguments of those pushing for gay marriage in California or has nothing to do with the issue here. It depends on who you ask.National Center for Lesbian Rights legal director Shannon Minter:"The fact that two state supreme courts--including now a court in the heartland of our country--have now followed the California Supreme Court's holding on that issue underscores very powerfully that t

  April 3, 2009

• The Politics of Punk: Strung Out Become a Badass McLaughlin Group On Their Latest

  November 20, 2008

• Ed McKie Has Been Stymied in His Efforts to Create a Safe Space for Gay Meth Addicts in Santa Ana

  July 31, 2008

• Americas Gayest County!

  May 13, 2004

• Away From Hollywood

  At 28, Sarah Polley begins the next chapter of her careeras usual, on her own terms

  May 10, 2007

• Wander This World

  June 28, 2001

• Award Addendum

  February 28, 2002

• The Gay Inferno

  May 4, 2000

• New Reviews

  Everyone's Hero; Haven; One: The Movie; Sherrybaby

  September 14, 2006

• Grub Guide

  March 16, 2006

• Live Review

  February 2, 2006

• Sex & Drugs & Sex & Rock & Roll

  August 4, 2005

• Trusting Gregg

  May 26, 2005

• This Week in the Birds

  January 6, 2005

• What Boys Like

  October 28, 2004

• This Week in High-Class Grubbing

  August 19, 2004

• Still Partying at Ground Zero

  January 29, 2004

• Air Guitar Hero

  January 1, 2004

• Pale Fire

  September 25, 2003

• Shrimp Balls and Chococat Coitus

  September 18, 2003

• Secret Agent Men

  November 28, 2002

• No Pride

  June 13, 2002

• Cancer: Survivor

  December 6, 2001

• Heavy!

  May 24, 2001

• Life Wont Wait

  December 23, 1999

• An Incomplete History of Gay & Lesbian OC

  August 19, 1999

• Shag It, Baby

  June 24, 1999

• Fresher Mode

  June 10, 1999

• Letters to the Editor 1/15/99

  January 21, 1999

• Out of Sight

  October 1, 1998

• GLAAD Claims KDOC-TV Aired Anti-Gay Infomercial

  OCProgressive.com gets the credit for catching this first, but the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation says it received complaints about the re-emergence of an anti-gay infomercial titled Speechless: Silencing the Christians--and among the stations around the country that just showed it apparently was Santa Ana-based KDOC-TV/Channel 56.According to glaadBLOG, a West Hollywood resident contacted the alliance after seeing Speechless on KDOC from 7 to 8 p.m. on Sunday. Other viewers

  June 23, 2009

• Jacko and Freedom CEO Flanders: Just Beat It

  Not sure which stage of grief this falls under, but as the initial reports of Michael Jackson's death were coming out, what are assumed to be Orange County Register and/or Freedom Communications insiders were linking the King of Pop's departure from Earth with Freedom CEO Scott Flanders' departure for the CEO post at Playboy Enterprises. This all played out in the comments section of this OC Register Death Watch post on Navel Gazing:Just Beat It at 6:13 p.m. Thursday: A story just crossing the

  June 26, 2009

• Orange County LGBT Pride Festival "Revival" Starts Small

  Sasha Baron Cohen's comedy has nothing to do with OC pride festivals. We just can't find photos from past fests. ​Orange County's first-ever gay and lesbian pride festival was held in Santa Ana's Centennial Park in 1988, when angry Christian conservatives showed up not because they'd finally come out of the closet (knew it!) but to fling urine-filled balloons, taunt attendees with chants of "Go back to your closet," and cheer on an airplane they'd hired to fly over the event with a banner read

  July 29, 2009

• Brand New Changes Album Title

  In yet another move for Brand New followers to keep up with, the band has changed the title of their upcoming album to Daisy, rather than, And One Head Can Never Die, only two days after reporting the latter as the title. The release date for the band's fourth full length is the same, Sept. 22, 2009. United Kingdom music magazine Kerrang! spoke with frontman Jesse Lacey recently and he had this to say about the new release:"I'm a little worried about it. It's a pretty exhaustin

  July 9, 2009

• Breaking News Shocker: Gretchen Rossi Will Not Get a Boob Job

  These Real Housewives' are real!​Fox News has just broken this jaw-dropping exclusive: Gretchen Rossi will not get a boob job. REPEAT: NO NEW BOOBS FOR GRETCHEN ROSSI! Oh, the humanity! Seriously, what happened to humanity?

  October 7, 2009

• Locals Only Extra! MP3: He's Not Gay, 'Saving James'

  This week's Locals Only spotlights pop punk trio He's Not Gay, a band with the type of name that you have no choice but to pay at least some attention to them--and thankfully, they're worth it. They're from Buena Park, clearly establishing them as the most exciting thing to come from the city since Pirate's Dinner Adventure. (At last, pirates and dinner all at one convenient location!)If you missed them playing yesterday at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, fear not: they're playing October 1 (sooner t

  September 21, 2009

• On the Line: David Slay, Chef at Park Ave

  ​Stanton may be an unlikely place to open a destination restaurant, but, with Park Ave, chef and managing partner David Slay has made it work. OK, you may find a burger on the menu, but it'll be sitting alongside the likes of scallops and filet mignon. And those 'fresh-clipped greens (which, as you can see below, Slay is partial to himself)? They're exactly that--he takes great pride in Park Ave's garden (ask your server and you may even get a tour). 1. Dish that you cook that most represents

  September 22, 2009

• Four Local Bands in Top 15 of 98.7's Rockstar Contest

  ​Of all the ways to make your band's wildest dreams come true, winning a radio station contest might not have the most street cred, but it certainly seems efficient.

  September 17, 2009

• Topz "Healthier Burger Grill" Shutters All Over

  Edwin Goei​Topz "The Healthier Burger Grill" seems to be shutting down all over. The Hutton Center location was completely barren, the space already available for lease. And the Orange store's phone number has been disconnected. Reports of other Topz locations locations shuttering include West Hollywood and also a location in San Mateo. I would want to see what other locations are still in business, but their main company website is down with a nothing but a logo, a contact e-mail address,

  October 26, 2009

• Have One Helluva Happy Halloween

  ​ Find yourself all trick-or-treated out? Too tired to bedazzle your buttocks and head out to the mayhem in West Hollywood? Well, get a load of this list of the Halloween hi jinx taking place right here in Orange County before you decide to retire your cleverly constructed Ben Bernanke costume to the closet.

  October 29, 2009