The Best and Worst of the Wilmore 9 Film and Music Festival

This weekend saw the first-ever Wilmore 9 Film and Music Festival, a two-day affair that featured over fifty bands and over twenty films scattered around various venues and theaters around Downtown Long Beach. And as anyone who's been present for the developmental years of a festival knows, the earliest years are the the ones with …

Chapman University's Dodge College Film School Ranked Seventh Best in the Country

For the second straight year, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Chapman University's film school one of the 10 best in the country. Finishing high on this year's list of “The Top 25 Film Schools in America” is extra special for the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts because, for the first time, voting was done …

Dominik Wodarz and Natalia Komarova, UCI Math Professors, See Gun Control in Numbers

Could a husband-and-wife team of math department eggheads at UC Irvine have picked a more controversial issue to explain through formulas? Professors Dominik Wodarz and Natalia Komarova are using numbers and graphs and whizzamabangs to chart whether gun owners are more likely to die via homicide and whether data leans more favorably toward banning firearms …

Atreyu Were Hated By Other OC Bands When They Started Out. Thankfully, That Changed.

By: Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman Last week, the Weekly published our unscientific list of the 10 Greatest OC Metal Bands of All Time. Some of you may have noticed the absence of Atreyu on that list–one of the pioneering metalcore bands to blow up in OC with the advent of their 2002 Victory Records …

Sierra Club Counters SoCal Edison and PG&E with Campaign Championing Rooftop Solar

The Sierra Club today announced the launch of an online advertising campaign designed to extoll the benefits of rooftop solar in California–and to counter negative campaigns against the energy source foisted by Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas and Electric. But Matt, you may be saying, don't those same utility …

Researchers Find High Levels of Lead in Mexican Hot Sauces; Here are the 5 Worst Culprits

Over the past week or so, the foodie world's been abuzz over a report from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas showing that there are high levels of lead in Mexican hot sauces. Researchers bought 25 brands of hot sauces in Latino grocery stores around Las Vegas and put them under the microscope to see …

Under the Influence Tour – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre – July 18, 2013

Under the Influence Tour featuring Wiz Khalifa, A$AP Rock and more Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 7/18/2013 Orange County was blessed to be the second stop on the 2013 Under The Influence Tour featuring the rap games newest group of heavy hitters. Only the second stop of the 38 date tour, acts rocked the stage with the …

Orange County's Action-Sports Companies Are Trying to Go Eco Before It's Too Late

“You want to surf clean water,” says Steve Zeldin, a former editor of Surfing magazine, and co-publisher of magazine and website What Youth. “After it rains, you're getting grass clippings, motor oil, used condoms and diapers, all from 60 to 70 miles away, dumped in Mother Ocean. . . . A lot of surfers have …