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If there's no way in Helena you can pay what you owe in state income tax by April 15, fear not: you don't have to. That is, you will have to pay your taxes eventually, but the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) today advised those who need extra time to contact the agency immediately for …
We have more good news for fans stoked about seminal Orange County alt-pop act Something Corporate reuniting for the first time in five years to headline the second day of Bamboozle on March 28. The band, which blew up in 2002 with the smash “If You C Jordan,” spent last week in a Santa Monica …
Santa Ana-based indie rock quartet Canvas (formerly Streetlight Affair) turned in a memorable performance marked by fresh material and maximum verve January 29 at the District at Tustin Legacy. Doll Knight and Keila Morris are the main vocalists, George Bernal plays guitar, and Piper Michelle handles keys and bass. Drummer Gustavo Peraza joined the four-piece …
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Let's see, there's calamari, calamari salad, calamari tacos, squid sushi, squid burgers . . . Indeed, locals should demand anyone serving the mollusks to lower their prices considering the number of giant squid being pulled out of our waters. It's the law of supply and demand, baby. Call it squid pro quo. ] Humboldt squid, …
Local Natives are based in the Silver Lake but singer/keyboardist Kelcey Ayer, guitarists/singer Ryan Hahn and guitarist/singer Taylor Ricer are from Orange County, where the band originated. The quintet plays stirring, organic indie rock marked by close vocal harmonies. They're touring Europe in support of their debut disc Gorilla Manor, which will be released in the U.S. …
My chica is a huge magic buff, so it was quite the treat on our visit for her birthday to the world-famous Magic Castle last year that performing that night was Orange County's own Ray Karch: mentalist, sand-castle builder, and lawyer. Dude was awesome, and knew things about my chica that freaked her out considering …
Have you seen the before and after mugshots of meth users on KTLA.com? Creepy. That's not a “before” above, by the way.
EDIT: Updated with Susan Graf's response to the original posting yesterday afternoon. On Jan. 21, the San Clemente Times ran a heartwarming story about local citizens eager to help the suffering people of Haiti in the wake of that country's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. “Suzie Graf just knew she had to do something,” the story, …
My coworker over at our Navel Gazing blog recently posted “OC Impacts Some of Country's Worst Commutes.” The shit gets real thick and nasty on the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles, where speeds average 14 mph during the most congested times. But sitting in the CA-55 on my way home from Costa Mesa to Newport Beach …
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Watch Dakota Fanning (as Cherie Currie) “snort drugs” in Runaways–“the movie, about the all-girl teenage rock band of the same name co-founded by Joan Jett in the 1970s, debuted here at the Sundance Film Festival late Sunday to solid reviews, and it hits movie theaters this coming March.” Like we reported yesterday, the unholy union of …
Editor's note: Sandeep Abraham is an OC Weekly intern studying literary journalism at University of California, Irvine. Chilean-but-very-much-American funny man Pablo Francisco is probably best known for his spot-on impressions of the “movie preview guy,” which are all over YouTube, where you can also find the comic's 2004 special Bits and Pieces: Live from Orange County, posted in five 10-minute segments. …
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Contra–Vampire Weekend's second remake of Paul Simon's Graceland—“is No. 1 album.” Sorry, but I'm pretty sure everything on Graceland bests anything Vampire Weekend has done. As if the world really needed the dead, highly talented creep jumping out that them, Grammys “to show Michael Jackson 'Earth Song' 3-D movie.” Amy Winehouse makes court appearance, which is no big …