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Please bear with us. We’re still getting used to these heels as we sashay to Urge Overkill’s version of “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon.” Hey, call us traditionalists, but that first dance is a big deal! As this paper (yes, now metaphorically crowned as a 15-year-old Latina, at least for a week) twirls into …
OC Weekly continues its winning ways in 2010, following up regional and national journalism honors with 22 awards from the Orange County Press Club last night. Multiple winners included Nick Schou, R. Scott Moxley, Gustavo Arellano, Spencer Kornhaber, Vickie Chang and the Navel Gazing news blog. ] At a dinner ceremony at the Island Hotel …
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Ego, sense of entitlement, expectations and any other kind of bullshit typically associated with stars and ceremonies never surfaced Saturday at the Grove of Anaheim, where a mix of emerging and certified luminaries repping myriad music styles gathered for the Ninth Annual OC Music Awards. I'm not a big fan of competition when it …
it, one of the most commercially successful alternative rock bands to emerge from Orange County in the 1990s, will perform at the OC Music Awards. The event takes place Saturday March 6 at the Grove of Anaheim. It also features such local standouts as the Dirty Heads, which are the newly named opening act for the …
The OC Music Awards takes place today at OC Tavern in San Clemente. Local artists Skee, Carly Layne, Parker Macy Blues, Christina Dietz and Allensworth will be competing in the Best Live Acoustic category. The first performance is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. (so far, pretty much every week they've started exactly on time) …
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If you hopped into a way-back machine to the very early days of the OC Weekly, you could scan the advertisements from a fellow who went by the handle Ki Master. You'd immediately zero in on these because of the accompanying photos, which showed a middle-age man dangling a Sparklett's…
With its 15 awards for stories published in 2008, OC Weekly won more Orange County Press Club honors than any other publication during a ceremony Thursday at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach.The club's first journalism awards competition since 2002 also drew entries from the Orange County Register, Los Angeles…
Former Weekly music editor Jim Washburn just emailed us with the sad news of OC musical icon Chris Gaffney's passing: “I apologize for not calling personally to pass this on, but I'm finding it hard to speak: Chris Gaffney's brother Greg called to say that Chris passed away this morning. His family was with him, …
Chris Gaffney, who for years has been pretty much OC's go-to guy for quality country music playing, singing and songwriting, has been diagnosed with liver cancer. And, like far too many musicians, he needs help to pay for his very costly chemotherapy treatments. Even though Gaffney has health insurance, it's still not enough, and an …
This is the first and last time you will ever read anything positive about the Orange County Register's nauseatingly chipper intellectual black hole of a weekly newspaper, Squeeze OC. Okay, so that wasn't nice. But it is nice of Squeeze OCto sponsor Memphis at the Santora's upcoming fundraiser for artists devastated by Hurricane Katrina. There, …
So why doesn't Dana Rohrabacher want to talk to his Democratic counterparts in California's congressional delegation in bipartisan meetings? Sure, we've heard the official version— and based on that, I concluded Wednesday morning it was probably just another case of small-minded partisanship. But on Wednesday afternoon, the Surfin' Congressman appeared on CNN's Nativist Variety Hour …
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The Hacienda Brothers were supposed to make their second album all covers, but upon receipt of What's Wrong With Right I found only five, and the rest were Hacienda originals, which I learned only after careful research because they all sounded equivalently good. And I guess that was the problem: too many good originals? Ha …