West Hollywood

Is Anaheim Gayer than Long Beach? The Advocate Says So

I would call my beloved hometown of Anaheim many things: wonderful, Anacrime, home to a corrupt, clueless City Council, diverse, seething working-class, Disneyland, Little Arabia, Filipino, St. Boniface, Romanian, Samoan, Katella--would call it many, many things. But one of the last things I'd call ... More >>

'Any Day Now': A Travesty's Travesty

Travis Fine's 1979-set film makes injustice risible

[UPDATED: Paul Frank Speaks!] Paul Frank Hosts Racist Native American Pow-Wow-Themed Fashion Night Out Party

See message from company founder Paul Frank at the end of this post. ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 10, 1:10 P.M.: Photos: Racist Coachella FashionsIf you were too caught up in President Obama's acceptance speech last Thursday, you might have missed another monumental event that took place that ... More >>

How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score

See Also:*Duran Duran speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the 80s*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandPlaying at the Soundland Festival in Nashville last fall should have been the high wa ... More >>

VHS or Beta At The Roxy Last Saturday Night

Mary Carreon/OC WeeklyVHS or Beta​VHS or BetaRoxy, Los AngelesFeb. 4, 2012 Upon arriving to the world famous Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, I couldn't help but feel a bit overwhelmed by the venue's lush history. Enormous performers and bands such as Bob Marley & the Wailers, Prince, Pearl Ja ... More >>

10 Great Gay Bars in Orange County (and Long Beach)

​A while back, we received instructions from the suits to put together a set of lists of the ten best in several categories. As Gustavo explained, this is meant to make our already awesome Best Of applications even more awesome...er.One of the categories was gay bars, and we all stood around sc ... More >>

Mac Miller: Five Ways to Pre-Game Before His Show

​Mac Miller's affinity for Chuck Taylors and alumni status with Taylor Alderdice's Pittsburgh high school might have you believe that he's a part Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang crew, the truth is Miller and Khalifa couldn't be further apart. Although they both launched their careers with Pittsburgh-bas ... More >>

Joel Lee Craft Jr., Seller of Telemarketing Leads, Indicted in $25 Million Indie Movie Investment Scam

​David Mamet's independent movie (and play that preceded it) Glengarry Glen Ross is about slick salesmen using underhanded tactics to rope in would-be property investors culled from what is known as "lead lists."  The CEO of a San Clemente information company that sells such lists to telemark ... More >>

The Sunset Strip Music Festival Begins and Ends With Mötley Crüe

​Mötley Crüe is kicking off the three-day Sunset Strip Music Festival on Aug. 18 with a special tribute at the House of Blues. They're going to be presented with the Elmer Valentine Award for their contributions to the history of The Sunset Strip. The City of West Hollywood will also recogniz ... More >>

Drake Doremus' Debut, Spooner, Opens March 4

Matthew Lillard plays Herman Spooner.​Like Crazy, Drake Doremus' third film, was picked up by a division of Paramount Pictures at January's Sundance Film Festival for theatrical release this fall. Douchebag, Doremus' second film, was bought after the previous Sundance and had a short theatrical ru ... More >>

Hotel California

Celebrity living has its downside in 'Somewhere'

And Now for a Very Special Octomom Episode of The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show

​Today's compilation of things said from or about Orange County goes all Octomom, all the time. As in the supermarket tabloids, La Habra's Nadya Suleman is a constant topic for those lighting up the series of tubes known as the Interwebs.

Chase Johnson of MTV's Laguna Beach Has His Suit Tossed Over $43,000 Bar Tab

​A judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by Chase Johnson, a former Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County cast member who claimed he should not have to pay the $43,000 bar tab he racked up at a Hollywood nightclub because the establishment knew he was only 20 at the time.The club, My House, last mont ... More >>

Bad Religion's 'The Dissent of Man' and singer Greg Graffin's 'Anarchy Evolution' Out Today; Do a Meet and Greet This Saturday

​Bad Religion is now 30 years old, and the band is still creating mind blowing music. Today they drop The Dissent of Man (stream it in its entirety here), along with Bad Religion singer/author/professor Greg Graffin's new book, Anarchy Evolution. 

Lady Gaga at the Staples Center Last Night

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Check out our Lady Gaga slideshow here!Lady GagaAug. 11, 2010Staples CenterLady Gaga's Monster Ball gets compared to many things: West Hollywood during Halloween, Burning Man, Mardi Gras. But what it's really like is Disneyland--a well-produced, flawless display ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!

'Up In the Air' Director Jason Reitman Has a Good Sense of Where He's From and Where He's Headed

Gettin' Made: Craft Shows Galore This Weekend!

This is like the perfect storm of craft show weekends, a veritable blizzard of mall-free holiday shopping! No matter where you're at in Orange County or beyond, there is sure to be an indie crafting event happening near you. Feliz Navidad Soap by Soap Rehab​ After the jump, details on ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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?

Just Another Orange County Murder: Jasmine Fiore Car Found

UPDATED THROUGHOUT! The final piece in the puzzle explaining how swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore was brutally murdered and mutilated, as well as whether anyone helped now dead murder suspect Ryan Alexander Jenkins kill and/or dispose of the body in a Buena Park dumpster, could have b ... More >>

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 f ... More >>

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:" ... More >>

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 Tol ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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

The Martha Stewart of Sex Parties

Meet the host of LA/OC Jacks

Away From Hollywood

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

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee's lovelorn cowboys

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee's lovelorn cowboys

By Ella Taylor

Trusting Gregg

From Third Rock to Araki with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Imagining Orange County

Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers imagine the real place you call home

What Boys Like

At Club Thrust, theres provocative glances, cocky stances and boys dancing in their underwear

Still Partying at Ground Zero

Fishbone ages well

Air Guitar Hero

The Year in Being Fingered

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

Secret Agent Men

The Quiet American and the explosive Mr. Bond

Cancer: Survivor

From a 45 Grave to a Penis Flytrap

Who Let the Dogme Out?

UCI screens the anti-genre

Semi-Tough

Flub and bluster in Made

Wander This World

Manu Chaos independent spirit

Ready to Inhale

Alan Bock says the medical-marijuana war is over, and the good guys won

The Gay Inferno

Fabulous Hell doesnt try to promote the upbeat living-with-AIDS story

Life Wont Wait

Farside at the crossroads

Shag It, Baby

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

Fresher Mode

Ugly Duckling quack old-school beats

Tip-Toe Thru the Bureau

Paranoid FBI chief ordered Tiny Tim probe

Letters to the Editor 1/15/99