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Comic books have a nasty habit of forever being associated with superheroes. Even among people who should know better: regular comic book readers. But tying the medium of comics and graphic novels to just stories about Spider-Man and Batman is a bit like saying the novel simply exists to showcase the works of Jane Austen. …
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“Inspired by true events” and shot in Orange, Huntington Beach and other Orange County locales, Jeff Phillips' low-budget indie UrFrenz is about a nosy mom (Gayla Goehl), her popular but damaged teen daughter (Najarra Townsend) and that girl's even more damaged former friend (Lily Holleman), all of whom's lives spin out of control following the …
The legendary Frog House surf shop in Newport Beach has apparently been saved. “Frog House owner T.K. Brimer and Newport Councilman Steve Rosansky, whose district includes the surf shop, both said today that Brimer can request a zoning change from the city that likely would be granted and allow the shop to operate indefinitely,” …
Beginning this year (for the 2011 award season), if you write about food, whether it comes out in print or pixels, the James Beard Foundation will recognize you in the same way. So say you write a magnum opus of a review about Rick Bayless on your food blog, you will be judged with your …
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Jack Grisham's life has taken more twists and turns than the PCH. The 49-year-old gained early notoriety as the lead singer of seminal Orange County punk rockers TSOL. After five years fronting the group, Grisham left amid rumors of substance abuse and acrimony from the more mainstream hard rock direction in which the group was …
On Tuesday, Christopher Wright, Paul Arabella (aka David Paul Hale) and Keith Yackey got on a semi, headed for the 101 freeway and blocked three lanes of traffic at 10:20 a.m. to play one song. The Garden Grove trio, collectively known as Imperial Stars, played their song “Traffic Jam 101” for a captive Los Angeles audience–commuters who were …
Mary Bell/OC Weekly Here it is! The weekly list of links to music coverage (that we didn't write) around the OC music blogosphere. ] Costa Mesa's the Growlers released their new album, Hot Tropics, this week. It is streaming for free exclusively on Filter's website. [Filter] Dusty Rhodes and the River Band released two new songs this week, leaving …
In Part 1 of the interview with Imperial Stars, the band talked about getting offered a reality TV show, money for a benefit concert and more. Here, they talked about the repercussions of the stunt they pulled. I heard the driver of the semi ran away with the keys of the truck. Arabella: We don't know …
Time was, you had to know a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy, and then you had to waste all weekend hanging out with people you didn't really like just to score a bag of weed. Now, it's legal—with a prescription, of course—and all you have to do is walk to your …
You may ask yourself, what's Antoine Dodson up to these days? Have they caught the rapist in Lincoln Park? (No, but he made enough money from his merch sales to buy a house for his family and go back to school.) Has he guested on the Today show? (Yes.) Is he working on an album? …
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I love Avanti Cafe in Costa Mesa for its vegetarian-vegan treats, so the following question from server Dion surprised me: Where can I get a good chimichanga? Being Hispanic Heritage Month is o-vah tomorrow, what better way to end my recent run of Latino-themed questions than with a treatise on this wholly American dish? …
Continue reading “¡Ask a Comida Critic!: A Good Chimichanga?”
Photo Courtesy of Orange County archives, via Orange County History Roundup In 2005, I penned a cover story about the Great Flood of 1938, Orange County's worst natural disaster until the Big One finally decides to erupt. An accompanying column listed the names of every flood victim the Weekly was able to identify, an …