Comic-Con 2007: Day 2 Photos
It's Friday at the con and we're going batty. (OK, maybe that's just me.) Click the photo to see the crazy cool things (and people) we ran into today. Need more eye candy? Check out our photo gallery page.
Comic-Con 2007: The Lionsgate Party
LYT crashed (OK, was invited to) last night's Lionsgate party on the roof of San Diego's Ivy hotel. He got pictures of a host of celebs, including Jessica Alba, Vinnie Jones and SAW director Darren Lynn Bousman (below). Click the photo to see those and more.
Comic-Con 2007: Star Wars Day!
Friday is Star Wars Day at the con. Yes, we have all the Yodas, Vaders and slave girls you can handle. Click the photo for that.
Comic-Con 2007: Swag that Sucks
NECA's exclusive He-Man mini-statue (see left). Horrible, sloppy paint job, and a sculpt that's sooooo ten years ago. I regret dropping 30 bucks on it. The King Leonidas exclusive looks okay though. Check that out over here. And see more exclusive figures at our slide shows: here and here.
Comic-Con 2007: Preview Night Photos
We were there, and you weren't. So click the photo and check out our exclusive shots of Preview Night at the San Diego Comic-Con.
The Closet and the Cross
In the scorching heat of the summer sun, a crowd gathers in silence around a wall covered in large sheets of white poster paper. It's the last Saturday of June in this UC Irvine courtyard, and most eyes are fixed on the text atop the collage, which reads, “Ex-gay experiences” on one side, and on …
Fading Away to Nada
Chicano-themed murals dot North and Central County, but some pop up in bizarre locales and are known only to residents. These treasures are fading away, and no one is doing anything about it. Here are the most mysterious. CORNER OF BRADFORD AVENUE AND SANTA FE STREET, PLACENTIA Placentia's Placita Santa Fe neighborhood hosts a couple …
Comic-Con 2007: The Beginning
This is the real ghost train. San Diego, Wednesday night, downtown, after dark. All that's here is a smattering of oases of light, from cheap drug stores to greasy spoons offering a “really big Taco Plate” for $3.50. The streets, for now, are mostly empty, and those riding the trolley around you are dirty and …
Comic-Con is coming!
To get an idea of the kind of coverage we'll be doing, we've just added a new slideshow of photos taken by and of me from the last two years. However, here's the difference — in 2005 and 2006 I was blogging strictly for my own readership, with no wireless access. This year, I'm going …
Queens of the Stone Age Rock the Boys and Girls of Summer
It was a night of clichés and familiarities last night at the Pacific Amphitheatre, some good, some not so much. Not so good cliché: Horrifically awkward looking people single handedly driving up the county average body mass index (I know – at the fair???). Oh so good clichés: a blissfully warm summer night, three hours …
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Rich Kane Returns!
Remember Rich Kane? Our longtime music editor and author of the immortal LowBallAssChatter column? Who personified all that was/is wonderful and snarky about your favorite rag? But mysteriously disappeared from our pages in 2005? And ended up in the Inland Empire Weekly, a paper started by longtime OC Weekly advertising god Jeremy Zachary, himself mysteriously …
Yacht 'Cha!
Not-too-early morning brought the start of the TransPacific yacht race to Honolulu, complete with free continental breakfast and pretty girls wearing leather knee-high riding boots (to a yacht race? I think we’re mixing our upper-class leisure events here, aren’t we?). Throw in Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, smiling with the whole of his catcher’s-mitt face, …