Subject: Zooey Deschanel

• Because You're Ugly: Erin Fetherston for Target

  Stay the hell away from my local Target this Sunday—because it's the date of the latest launch of Target's GO International line. And this time, the guest designer is American Erin Fetherston. Based in Southern California, Fetherston's known for her delicate, sweet looks—think tuxedo fronts, pleats, airy fabrics, light palettes, bows and hearts. And all the celebrities you think would like Fetherston's digs already do: Irina Lazareanu, Kirsten Dunst, Sofia Coppola, Zoey Deschanel. The s

  November 14, 2007

• Heart Beatings

  August 15, 2002

• Last Night: She & Him, Lavender Diamond at the House of Blues

  (photo by Christopher Victorio) Last Night: She & Him, Lavender Diamond at the House of Blues, Anaheim, Nov. 5, 2008. Better Than: "The Happening," this summer's M. Night Shyamalan flick that co-starred Zooey Deschanel. But really, what isn't? Download: The eminently likable "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" from She & Him's Volume One. Though perhaps not yet a household name, Zooey Deschanel is most certainly A Movie Star, having appeared in films as diverse as "Elf" and "The Hitchhiker's Gui

  November 6, 2008

• Matt Costa Models Oliver Peoples Eyewear

  Matt Costa's future is so bright, he's gotta so on and so forth.The dreamy (I'm using that word to describe his music, honest!) Huntington Beach singer/songwriter is featured in the new advertising campaign for upscale eyewear retailer/maker Oliver Peoples. Also featured is similarly adorable actress/She & Him singer Zooey Deschanel (why not read this review of their show in Anaheim last month, eh?). Oliver Peoples (one of their seven b&m stores is in South Coast Plaza) are apparently pl

  December 3, 2008

• Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

  Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the fact that the alb

  December 19, 2008

• Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 24, 2008

• [CD Review] Jenny Lewis, 'Acid Tongue' (Warner)

  September 18, 2008

• Cold War Kids, Matt Costa to Tour with Death Cab for Cutie

  Death Cab for Cutie--led by the newly slimmed down (and engaged to Zooey Deschanel) Ben Gibbard--are going back on tour this spring in support of last year's Narrow Stairs, and they're getting help from two acts from 'round here; Long Beach-based Cold War Kids and Huntington Beach singer/songwriter Matt Costa.Cold War Kids are taking the first leg of the tour along with Syracuse's much-buzzed about Ra Ra Riot, with Matt Costa picking up CWK's slack in May for the final five dates (because the ge

  January 27, 2009

• [Summer Guide] Harry Potter and 39 Other Movies We Can't Wait to See This Season

  June 4, 2009

• Wener Watch: Compound Sentences Galore!

  We've all heard that there's an elegance in simplicity. Well, all of us except for the Orange County Register's music critic/blogger Ben Wener, apparently.Here's the opening paragraph to his nearly 900-word (!) review of U2's latest, No Line on the Horizon. Bring a bookmark:"It's been streaming free for a week on MySpace and just arrived at your nearby Target and Best Buy and such, yet rabid fans who await new U2 missives with evangelical fervor, as well as overheated critics who egg them on,

  March 4, 2009

• Tickets Now on Sale for Newport Beach Film Festival

  Tickets for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF), which runs April 23-30, are now on sale here. Those will cost you $12 for general admission (or $8 if you are a student or senior buying before 5 p.m.); $30 for all Spotlight films and parties; $55 for the Opening Night film and party; and $125 for the Opening Night film and gala, which is like a party only you have to dress like you belong there.The April 23 opener at Edwards Big Newport is a solid one this year: Derick Martini's L

  March 31, 2009

• Top Chef Masters Contestants Announced; O.C. Chefs Shut Out

  Bravo TVThe food blogosphere is on FIRE (pun intended) right now over the announcement of Top Chef Masters, airing on June 10th. Think of it as Top Chef meets Iron Chef America meets WWE Smackdown. If there's such a thing as a foodie-gasm, this is the thing to inspire it. The judges will be celebrities, including Zooey Deschanel, NPH, and, here's a headscratcher, Jeff Lewis (WTF?), along with past Top Chef-testants, and the usual three judges. But blaringly absent from the roster of contesta

  April 8, 2009

• Albert's Favorite Things: OC Weekly's Music Editor Discusses How He Wasted His Life This Year

  December 18, 2008

• 'Yes Man' Repackages Jim Carrey's Greatest Hits, Which Maybe Weren't So Great to Start With

  December 18, 2008

• 'The Happening' Serves Up Effective, Chilling, Occasionally Wrenching Nonsense

  June 12, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

• The Big Con

  Out of the basement and into the spotlight, Comic-Con 2007 is the place to be

  July 19, 2007

• The Sound and the Fury

  Land of Talk

  June 7, 2007

• [Newport Beach Film Fest] An Encapsulated Diary Digesting the Decade-Old Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 16, 2009

• [Special Screenings] 'Rats Is a Four-Letter Word,' 'Gandhi, My Father,' 'The Toxic Avenger,' More

  April 23, 2009

• New Reviews

  Aquamarine, Deep Sea 3D, Ultraviolet, Winter Passing

  March 2, 2006

• Elizabethtown

  In the new Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austens most celebrated heroine continues to bedevil suitors and filmmakers alike

  November 10, 2005

• Galaxy Quest

  Disney waters down sci-fi classic, turning radical wit into not-so-deep space

  April 28, 2005

• Form and Dysfunction

  May 15, 2003

• Songs of Innocence and Experience

  February 20, 2003

• Gonna Make You Groove

  September 21, 2000

• 7 Newport Beach Film Festival Bottom Feeders

  To gear up local filmgoers for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30, the Weekly compiled "10 for the Tenth," brief reviews of some of the best festival features, documentaries and shorts we pre-screened for your consumption. We also blogged 5 more recommendations. 'Cause that's how we roll. But that's not all we saw. Indeed, some efforts were . . . gulp . . . how to put it? Let's just say one man's Gigantic may be another's C

  April 16, 2009

• Newport Beach Film Fest: Final Stretch Report

  The big question on the mind of anyone amid the crowds at Edwards Island Cinema at Fashion Island in Newport Beach Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday nights was: My God, don't these people work? And a second: Don't they know we're teetering on Depression? Finally: Buddy, can you spare a ticket?   The masses were expected at the Newport Beach Film Festival over the weekend, but Monday night's healthy crowd became Tuesday night's packed house which became Wednesday night's mob scene. Bet your hou

  April 30, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Polish Film Festival, 'Battle In Seattle,' More

  April 30, 2009

• '(500) Days of Summer' Is Like a Love Story in a Blender, But in a Good Way

  July 16, 2009

• Jane Magazine To Cease Publication

  This is such sad news. Announced earlier today, Jane magazine will end as we know it with next month's issue. At just under 10 years old, Jane was a fashion/beauty magazine with a spunky attitude unseen in larger publications. It was beautiful, but not in an intimidating, ultra-glam way like Vogue and Cosmo are. (I love you, Vogue, but I'm just hurt right now.) They put quirky girls such as Zooey Deschanel on the cover and documented pranks pulled in public restrooms. They asked Rufus Wainwr

  July 9, 2007