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“It's the most wonderful time of the year,” OC Weekly reporter and pop-culture guru Luke Y. Thompson tells me as I hover over his desk, which is cluttered with press releases and studded with action figures from his wall-to-wall home collection. He's talking about the San Diego Comic-Con, where we're headed to in the last …
Disney's once again trying to recreate their iconic Mouse to appeal to audiences that have long since thrown Mickey in the kiddieland bin. This time, they've got their eye on the hip-hop/street scene/whatever-you-call-it crowd. See snaps from their BLOC28 project (now on display at Downtown Disney) by clicking the photo below: The artwork's not surprisingly …
The Daft Punk mothership lands in Chicago. Click the image for photos of Blonde Redhead, M.I.A. and other bands at the festival:
Click the photo for snaps of bull riding, sky diving – and then some – in Costa Mesa:
OK, I'll admit it. The entry reads “one last look,” but yesterday was in fact my first look at the OC Fair…my first American fair, to confess further. As I was born and raised in Manila, my fair experiences consisted of badly-made (and pretty frickin' dangerous) rides, and Philippine favorites like “Isaw” —barbecued pig intestines—and …
Extra Golden chime in for Dem prez candidate Barack Obama. The Kenyan-American quartet Extra Golden have cut a song big upping presidential hopeful Barack Obama. You can check out “Obama” (which will appear on Extra Golden's Hera Ma Nono Oct. 9) here. Now that the Illinois Senator has this sonic backing, his chances of winning …
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Busy Work is the newish Wednesday night weekly bash thrown by Santa Ana DJ/promoter Dan Sena. When I walked in to Detroit Bar, he was spinning a relentless string of raucous, bludgeoning disco brut from those red-hot French labels I name-checked in my previous Busy Work post. These raw, dirty tracks run roughshod over melody …
The Carson Boxing Center is airy and modern, a far cry from the windowless TKO Boxing Club back on South Center Street in Santa Ana, where Ronny Rios walked in as a skinny, pubescent kid three years ago, never having donned a pair of boxing gloves. “Don't rush it; you have five rounds,” coach Hector Lopez …
This cover of “Immigrant Song” by Heart vocalist Ann Wilson is better than I expected it to be (it will appear on her debut solo album, Hope N Glory, out Sept. 11). Her rendition isn't as bombastic as the original (nothing could be, really), but it's an interesting interpretation of a classic-rock chestnut that retains …
A collection of costume photos for your perusal. More at our other photo galleries, of course. Click the photo for some primo visuals:
We couldn't do everything live — still to come are write-ups involving Disney, the Incredible Hulk, Ray Harryhausen, Balls of Fury, and more. But first, I must drive home. Enjoy the slideshows in the meantime.
Stargate Atlantis buzz cuts, Liv Tyler, slutty Sideshow figures and more. Click the photo for all that jazz…