Dance Pick Of The Week: Doc Martin At Focus

It's a little strange to sense all the buzz surrounding Europe's new dark wave of dance floor sounds, which combine tribal drums with deep, chugging bass and a simmering sense of bacchanalia. The likes of Loco Dice, Sven Vath, Dubfire and Radio Slave have been churning out this latest club-land…

Calvary Chapel to Crucify Darwin this Weekend!

While Rick Warren goes around eating ice cream, the mothership Calvary Chapel campus will host a two-day conference starting Friday on the evils of Charles Darwin. Titled, appropriately enough, “Darwin was Wrong,” a press release promises many lectures on the subject by scientists who “will present overwhelming scientific evidence against…

Dance Pick Of The Week: DJ T at Focus

Some would credit Europe with this thing we call electronic dance music by pointing back to the pioneering work of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Can. They would be half right: Contemporary electronic dance music, like blues, rock and jazz, is a progeny of the interplay between black and white music…

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…

Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

Treat Or . . . Trick!CanNt find a costume slutty enough? Let us dress you up as OCNs Scariest People! If youNre like us, youNve been looking through the seemingly endless variety of skimpy, tight, campy Halloween costumes offered in catalogs and superstores, and nothing has really jumped out at…

Former Register Publisher Heads to The Oregonian

The publisher whose vision defined the Orange County Register for much of this decade will become publisher of The Oregonian.N. Christian Anderson helmed Freedom Orange County Information from 1999 to 2007. During his tenure, the paper grabbed a clutch of Pulitzer nominations, but also saw the launches and eventual shutterings…

Cold War Kids Update: New EP and Shows on the Way!

Mondays aren't usually known for being full of good news. But if you're a Cold War Kids fan, today is a joyous anomaly. It's come to our attention that the band announced the upcoming release of their new EP, Behave Yourself, out on Jan. 19 (Downtown Records). And they plan to celebrate…