Let Robert Irvine Take You On a Ride With Restaurant Express

Chef, restaurateur, and all-around bad ass Robert Irvine definitely kept us entertained and interested over the years with shows like Dinner: Impossible and Restaurant Impossible. But starting on November 3rd, Irvine is into a whole new game. His newest show Restaurant Express is hitting the Food Network like a freight train full of grub and …

La Familia Valera Miranda, Acclaimed Cuban Son Group, Make a Rare Visit to Santa Ana

La Familia Valera Miranda hasn't been stateside since 2001, but the musicians from Santiago de Cuba are currently on tour. Lucky for us naranjeros, they will make a stop in Santa Ana along the way! The septet from la isla are virtuosos in the tradition of Cuban son. The musical style spread widely throughout Latin …

Jenna Jameson Good Day New York TV Appearance Won't Help Her Custody Case

Is this any way to get custody of the twin sons Tito Ortiz is raising in Huntington Beach. Jenna Jameson ended a week of bad personal news by appearing on Good Day New York Monday morning to promote her new novel Sugar, but the interview was apparently cut short because producers thought the ex-porn queen …

Tom Hayden Alert! OC Assemblyman-Labeled “Traitor” to Sneak Behind the Orange Curtain

Remember when Newport Beach's then-Assemblyman (and then-living) Gil Ferguson called his colleague on the Democratic side of the aisle Tom Hayden of Santa Monica a traitor? Good times … Go ahead, ask Hayden about it when he makes an appearance behind the fabled Orange Curtain next week. ] Hayden leads a cast of lefties who'll …

'14@<40': Young at Art

Recently, a photographer friend of mine was grousing about how she felt shut out of the art market because of collectors' incessant focus on youth. I was sympathetic, but argued that art collectors are just being smart business people: Collect when an artist is young and prices are low, hope they'll gain prestige, and then …

Jenna Jameson Gets It From Both Sides, First Tito Ortiz and Then “Tanning Mom”

“Porning Mom” has been dissed by “Tanning Mom.” A month after her baby daddy of Huntington Harbour said his life is better without Jenna Jameson in it, the former porn queen was dissed by that walking piece of beef jerky Patricia Krentcil, who called Ms. Club Vivid a “whore.” ] MMA legend Tito Ortiz was …

DelSushi, Another Sushi Delivery Service For UCI Students Pulling All-Nighters Opens

If I'm not mistaken, there used to be only one sushi-delivery company dedicated to serving UCI and its surrounding neighborhood with sushi rolls at ungodly hours of the night (they open at 6 p.m. and close at 2 a.m.). Now there are two. ] DelSushi is Ippo's main and only competition (I think), and it …

Jelly of the Month Club's Kindie Rock is All About “Farts, Puke, Burping and Being Goofy”

Jelly of the Month Club is the gift that keeps on giving. It was Eddie, cousin-in-law to Clark Griswold, who tried to put that fact in perspective in the famous wingding Christmas-bonus scene in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. After all, it's an exclusive membership, one that just got way cooler thanks to members of Sublime, …

On FX's The Bridge, Serial Killers Are a First-World Problem

Mild spoilers up to The Bridge's ninth episode below. Artisanal murders are all the rage these days. On Showtime's Dexter, NBC's Hannibal and Fox's The Following, small-batch, labor-intensive, sold-with-a-story slaughters have become TV's equivalent of the Cronut. Handsome, intelligent, and mannered as court eunuchs, serial killers have become the new artists and aesthetes. On Hannibal, …

'Showgirl Is My Yentl': The 145-Minute Showgirls Sequel That Could

Written, produced, directed, and edited by Rena Riffel, who also reprises her role as Penny from the original Showgirls, Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven has been available on VOD for at least a year, but is now being released on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing, thus conferring onto it the legitimacy that physical media somehow …