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The Night Marchers at Alex's Bar - Alex's Bar - February 23, 2013

Night MarchersFeb. 23, 2013Alex's BarIt's fair to argue that if the Night Marchers' frontman Jonathan Reis hadn't been in such seminal 80s/90s bands as Drive Like Jehu and Rocket from the Crypt, he couldn't draw the same crowd as the one that showed at Alex's bar on Saturday night. Much like Hot Sna ... More >>

Top Five Best Jazz Concerts in Orange County This Weekend

Often when people imagine jazz concerts, they think about a smokey room filled with clinking glasses, beatniks, and a time and generation distant from our own.  A galaxy far far away.  It's hard not to believe that our generation missed out on witnessing the icons of jazz, the iconoclasts, ... More >>

'Ruby Sparks': Kill Your Darlings

Finally, the fantasy girlfriend is fiction

Top Five Movie Soundtracks Made By Handpicked Rockstars

When a film is made, part of the main process of getting the soundtrack together is finding the right musician's to play for the album. Sometimes it's a single song or it is an entire soundtrack. These top five albums made for a movie by handpicked musicians have been, for the most part, nominated ... More >>

Lookmatic Is Spec-tacular

[Trendzilla] Whether you need glasses or just use them to look cool, this website sells them cheap and cool

10 Signs You're a Hipster Parent

​You know how it goes: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage!" It's the same for everyone--even embittered hipsters who view love ironically fall prey to evolution and feel the need to procreate, so to speak. But if you're eschewing all sorts of labels (along w ... More >>

Death Cab for Cutie in Awe of the Foo Fighters and Other Things You Didn't Know About DCFC

Jeremiah Garcia/KCRW​Last night we hiked up to Santa Monica in rush hour traffic to check out Death Cab for Cutie at probably the smallest venue we'll ever see them at--Apogee's Berkeley Street Studio, for a KCRW show that will broadcast on Morning Becomes Eclectic on November 1.

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'Our Idiot Brother' Asks: Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?

Paul Rudd's long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his siblings

'Cars 2' and Others Are Summer's Season Openers

[SUMMER GUIDE] Superheroes, sequels and TWO Conans!

'Your Highness' Is Stoned and Throned

James Franco's latest offers dirty jokes for the D&D crowd

WTF of the Week: Death Cab for Cutie Get Photo Book

www.deathcabforcutie.com​WTF?Pitchfork reported yesterday that famed rock & roll photographer Autumn de Wilde will release a bound collection featuring 200 images of the indie kings, Death Cab for Cutie.Wilde has released such tomes in the past--including a book chronicling the introspective, ... More >>

Orange Bits: Lilith Fair, Billy Kernkamp, Pacific Amphitheatre and More

Meg Strouse / OC WeeklyEmmylou Harris at Lilith.​This week in local music coverage that isn't ours: Lilith Fair gets positive-yet-bored reviews, Billy Kernkamp gets real, big-name touring acts get money problems.

Five Indie Sell Outs: Does Anyone Really Care Anymore?

Andrew YoussefPearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheater last September​There was a time when leveling the word "sellout" at a band was the equivalent of pinning a scarlet letter to a musician's leather jacket. For some of those bands who made it big in the '90s, fame was ostensibly a lamentable state o ... More >>

Last Night: Ximena Sariñana at Detroit Bar

We don't have any live shots from Detroit Bar, but were able to grab this alluring photo from Ximena's Facebook fan page. We don't know for sure if she leaned on any cars during her time in Costa Mesa, but it's distinctly possible.​The Hype: Two years ago, Guadalajara-born former telenovela star X ... More >>

What You Missed: Coachella, Coachella Parties, America's Family Pet Expo, Anaheim Comic Con

Andrew YoussefClockwise from top left: Alison Mossheart of the Dead Weather, Jay-Z, Zooey Deschanel of She & Him, Matt Bellamy of Muse.​It's all over! Three long days of music, crowds, tents that smell like armpit and more--Coachella 2010! We hope you kept up with us throughout our up-to-date ... More >>

Day One at Coachella: Long Lines, LCD Soundsystem... and Beyonce!

Spencer Kornhaber / OC WeeklyOf course there were unicorns.​Click here for a slideshow of Day One performances!It would have been cute if it wasn't so appropriate: a mass of half-dressed hipsters outside of Coachella, waiting to get to the front of the mass for wristbands to get into the festival, ... More >>

Multiple Sounds for MS Benefit at the Yost

[Mental Notes] Also: the New Limb's homey debut, Coachella's late-night special

Beyond the Headliners

[Coachella 2010] Nine acts that stand out from the sweaty, dusty crowd

Record Review: She & Him, 'Volume Two'

​The Hype: Considering how gentle their music is, it funny--yet fitting--how loudly critics praise the tag team of She & Him, better known as Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward (that's M. Ward to you). Any skepticism about a bubbly indie actress colliding with Portland's prolifi ... More >>

Tanya Petrovna of Native Foods, Part II

​Tanya Petrovna is the chef and owner of Native Foods. Her ever-expanding vegan eatery started out in Palm Springs in 1994, but we in OC know her best from her restaurant at The Camp, which is housed inside a yurt. She has two other restaurants in OC, not all of them in yurts, but serving the ... More >>

Today in Music News: The Strokes, She & Him, Flaming Lips, Aerosmith

While frontman Julian Casablancas serenaded the good people of Southern California this past month via his residency at the Downtown Palace Theater, it appears other members of his band the Strokes were making plan to regroup, return to stage and studio.She & Him to release Volume Two! And my ir ... More >>

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

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

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?   T ... More >>

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

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

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 a ... More >>

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 celeb ... More >>

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; ... More >>

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 fr ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 fantasti ... More >>

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

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

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 actres ... More >>

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 S ... More >>

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

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

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

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

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, ... More >>

The Big Con

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

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 ... More >>

The Sound and the Fury

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New Reviews

Aquamarine, Deep Sea 3D, Ultraviolet, Winter Passing

Elizabethtown

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

Galaxy Quest

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

Songs of Innocence and Experience

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