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It’s hard to believe that the Canadian garage rock duo have been around for well over a decade now — with a year split between 2010 and 2011. Despite the break up and subsequent reemergence, the Montreal natives continue to invigorate fans with their kinetic live show and idiosyncratic songs. Earlier this year, the band …
Every couple of years, a downtown SanTana booster with a very specific vision of what the area should be–by and for hipsters, with all working-class Mexican immigrants and quinceañera shops neatly scrubbed away through the magical process of gentrification–makes a promo video trying to convince the rest of the world that this DTSA is AWESOME. …
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Over the past four years, Beach Goth has morphed from a handmade, hipster Halloween party to a megafest-on-the-rise. The last couple years have seen a serious overgrowth of frenzied fans pile into the Observatory's inside/outside extravaganza not just to see The Growlers at their own festival, but for a host of marquee acts that could …
UPDATE, OCT. 16, 5 A.M.: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sent a letter to Anaheim Ducks Executive Vice President and General Manager Bob Murray seeking a season-long suspension of defenseman Clayton Stoner, during which time he can take an empathy course to learn why slaying and beheading a grizzly bear named …
Welcome to Good News OC Weekly, where it's only good news all the time. Item 1: The blood moon came and went last month without ex-MMA fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller getting arrested in South County. Isn't that wonderful? It's true, the 34-year-old Mission Viejo resident managed to go several weeks without winding up in the …
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Here's a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just so upon the re-animators, the …
The theorists tell us that stories are how we organize our understanding of our lives, that narrative structure guides us in assigning meaning to the vagaries of existence. As a documentarian, Alex Sichel (All Over Me) is more used than most of us to shaping time and action, life's raw ingredients, into coherence. Now, in …
I do wish the best of luck for Hot Dog Place because they need it. They're in the middle of a fancy shopping plaza that mostly serves San Juan Capistrano's well-to-do, people who don't care whatsoever for wieners not attached to a venture capitalist. It's on Rancho Viejo Road, the front road for the city's …
UPDATE NO. 3, SEPT. 30, 12:05 P.M.: Orange County Superior Court Judge Corey S. Cramin today overturned his previous euthanization ruling so Karma the husky mix can be sent to a wolf sanctuary in North Carolina. ] “Despite the nomenclature of 'menacing' or 'vicious' dogs, the court is actually addressing irresponsible pet ownership,” Cramin says …
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In my world–one overloaded with journalists, politicians, cops, bureaucrats, lawyers and judges–a sales pitch that, say, a $3 million personal investment will swell into $100 million in weeks is a knee-slapping, cry-laughing joke. That's one of numerous reasons why the case of Stanley Toy Jr. stands out. A Los Angeles County medical doctor, veteran investor, …
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There isn't much rum and no lash in Shakespeare Orange County's The Pirates of Penzance. But there's plenty of sodomy, if the host of swishy, preening pirates cavorting across the stage is any indication. But it's all in good fun in this energetic, if occasionally problematic, staging by Peter Uribe, the first musical in the …
An x-ray of Olive, a 7-month-old female Labradoodle out of Laguna Niguel, shows that dogs and dinosaurs lived among (and inside of) each other. ] That is, they lived among (and inside of) each other if one was a modern-day doggy who shallowed a T-rex toy. Janine McCaffrey Kahn, the Weekly's former web editor now …