Where To Eat And Drink For Free (Or Cheap) After You've Voted

You've watched hours of presidential debates. You've endured hundreds of brain-numbing political posts on your Facebook feed. You've sat through countless sponsored commercials, suffered the wrath of relatives who don't share your views, and waited in long lines to cast your vote for the candidates and issues you believe in. Phew. Now, go reward yourself …

The Five Best Shows in OC This Week: Tropicool, Voodoo Glow Skulls

Monday, October 22 Harvelle'sFunk Jam Hosted By Delta Nove Long Beach band Delta Nove bring the good kind of funk to Monday nights every week at the underground lounge and nightclub Harvelle's. This live music funk jam (plus special guest DJs weekly) is a sure fire cure for any leftover traces of weekend withdrawal–or if …

Octomom Nadya Suleman Accuser Gina M. Bryson Makes Public Plea for Octuplets

A Rossmoor woman who cared for at least some of Nadya Suleman's 14 children in La Habra is backing up two former caregivers whose allegations of child neglect and other serious accusations against the so-called Octomom led to investigations by police and Child Protective Services (CPS). Gina M. Bryson says she knows of what she …

Now There's a “Sexy” Dia de Los Muertos Costume, and Its Name is “Sugar Skull Beauty”

You know you've made it as an ethnic group in this country when not only is the public at large appropriating your holidays to transform them into bacchanals of booze and women, but when women start slutting up native costumes for Halloween. But still: it's one thing to dress as a spicy señorita, a bandito, …

The Five Best Shows in OC This Weekend: Adam Ant, Frightenend Rabbit

Friday, October, 19 Crocodiles, The Soft Pack The Glass House Two new bands–“new” as in they post-date the Feelies and the Psychedelic Furs, respectively, even if they've both been around for a couple years–with two new albums on which they make some perfect new choices and deliver us some excellent new songs. LA's Soft Pack makes …

[VIDEO: Nads Lawyers Up:] Octomom Nadya Suleman Accused of Child Neglect While Living in La Habra. Again

See Update No. 3 at the end of this post on Nadya Suleman saying she's hired a lawyer to sue her child neglect/sexual abuse accusers for slander. See Update Nos. 1-2 on Octomom's manager leveling accusations against the women whose allegations led to a police investigation, and the Orange County District Attorney's office declining to …

Anaheim City Council Candidates Forum Takes Place on Anna Drive

Over the course of two hours, candidates vying for two open seats on the Anaheim city council fielded questions Tuesday evening from residents of Anna Drive, the neighborhood where an officer-involved shooting claimed the life of unarmed 25-year old Manuel Diaz earlier this summer. The killing and the subsequent firing of less-than-lethal projectiles on a …

Elliott Smith's Former Girlfriend to Participate in Benefit For Suicide Prevention

Our friend Alyson Camus–the intrepid blogger for rockynycliveandrecorded.com, whose attention to the veiled circumstances surrounding the 2001 death of Elliott Smith has yielded some interesting nuggets of information–is at it again.  This weekend she was blogging furiously about fundraising efforts by Jennifer Chiba for the Los Angeles Community Walk, to be held at Media Park on …

Saveur's “150 Classic Recipes” Has Unexpected Depth

Have you seen what Saveur has done? To commemorate their 150th issue, they've put out an indexed list of “150 Classic Recipes” from old issues. Normally, this wouldn't have gotten my attention. I figured it'd have, you know, the usual mac-n-cheese, Zuni Cafe's roast chicken, yadda yadda. But when I actually perused it, I saw a …