Mitch Lucker, vocalist for revered Riverside extreme metal band Suicide Silence, died early this morning from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash in Huntington Beach last night. He was 28 years old. See also: The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums According to the Orange County ... More >>
Whoever declared a few years back that Halloween has basically turned into Dress Like A Hooker Day was indeed a prophetic genius. It won't be long until we simply go out as walking genitalia. Until then, the viral success of the kink-infested book Fifty Shades of Grey has at least kept a small laye ... More >>
The LAPD really thinks you're retarded. Here's your chance to prove the department wrong. You see, L.A. police officials are afraid that you'll be so wowed by the site of retired Space Shuttle Endeavour cruising above town on a 747 that you'll take your eyes off the road and crash your car Friday m ... More >>
The LAPD really thinks you're retarded. Here's your chance to prove the department wrong. You see, L.A. police officials are afraid that you'll be so wowed by the site of retired Space Shuttle Endeavour cruising above town on a 747 that you'll take your eyes off the road and crash your car Friday m ... More >>
Much has been made lately of the Republican party's move to the right and its stubborn refusal to work with Democrats even on issues that some of them it once championed (such as Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care plan). Well, welcome to opposite land, California, where a conservative Orange ... More >>
The Brewers Association has just released this year's numbers on U.S. beer sales. If you prefer Manifesto Eagle Rock Wit to Blue Moon (which is owned by MillerCoors) the news is good. Beer sales slowed overall, slipping 1.3% by volume. Within the craft beer industry numbers continued to rise with a ... More >>
Updated at bottom: police believe there may be more victims out there. First posted at 10:54 a.m. on Mar. 2. Police believe they have identified the man responsible for the death of Alexander Merman, the Russian-born artist who was found stabbed to death inside his apartment in Santa Monica in 200 ... More >>
KTLA via DMVAnnette Lujan reportedly attempted to exit a CSULB elevator just as it began to move.The victim has been identified as 48-year-old Annette Lujan, a resident of Huntington Beach. She had worked at CSULB's grants and contracts office for nine years. More details at the bottom. Orig ... More >>
Chris Carlson/APUpdated at the bottom: The suspect has been identified in reports. First posted at 3:29 p.m. A man opened fire at a beauty salon on Seal Beach this afternoon, killing eight six and wounding one three others, authorities said. Police first received calls of shots fired about ... More >>
Chris Carlson/APUpdated at the bottom: The suspect has been identified in reports. First posted at 3:29 p.m. A man opened fire at a beauty salon on Seal Beach this afternoon, killing eight six and wounding one three others, authorities said. Police first received calls of shots fired about ... More >>
Oh, the memories at 1935 Lake Street.Unsurprisingly, Robert Rizzo, the slimy Bell politician who was (allegedly; LOL) paying himself $800,000 per year with a $1 million pension, didn't think it wise to live among his duped constituents. So he settled for a $1.13 million mansion in Huntington ... More >>
Jon ShafferA surfer at Huntington Beach.Surfers have a certain reputation. Let's just say that, in California, they often enjoy the right to partake of legal medicine. But in-the-water delivery? That's ridiculous. Authorities say they stopped a small fishing boat after those inside had tried ... More >>
Don't sue us.Updated at the bottom with a statement from the Wyland Foundation, which suggests the new plate is a "poor imitation" of the artist's original. First posted at 8:09 a.m. Tuesday. In typical Hollywood fashion, California's iconic whale tail license plate has been retired for a ho ... More >>
Don't sue us.Updated at the bottom with a statement from the Wyland Foundation, which suggests the new plate is a "poor imitation" of the artist's original. First posted at 8:09 a.m. Tuesday. In typical Hollywood fashion, California's iconic whale tail license plate has been retired for a ho ... More >>
Santa Monica seafood restaurant i. Cugini, open for over 20 years on Ocean Avenue, announced plans to close this summer, by June 19th. "It was a very difficult decision for us to make," says Sam King, CEO of King's Seafood Company, in a press release. "We truly enjoyed operating i. Cugini ove ... More >>
Gloria Allred departs Hollywood for a Huntington Beach middle school todayUpdated after the jump: Gloria and 200 angry middle-schoolers give police, school administrators -- and most of all Chevron -- a piece of their mind. We're more used to seeing L.A. attorney Gloria Allred fight for the ... More >>
MySpaceAaron Saenz' profile pictureUpdated after the jump: Four Loko apologizes. Over a month after the FDA banned Four Loko in its most toxic form -- a mix of alcohol, caffeine, guarana and taurine -- the "blackout in a can" apparently isn't done doing its damage. On Friday morning at abou ... More >>
This is the Texas-based Pyromania. Not the Huntington Beach one. Got it? Southern California Def Leppard Cover Band is NOT looking for a one-armed drummer. The Texan Def Leppard cover band Pyromania, however, is looking for a one-armed drummer, reports our colleagues at fellow alt-weekly T ... More >>
Caroline on CrackDon the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach.Tie on a Mai Tai and break out the ukulele. Starting tonight, Don the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach hosts Waitiki, a three-night festival of tiki music and cocktails. Tonight, the Waitiki quartet will play. The two following nights, ... More >>
Huntington Beach is hungry for some small-fryIt's official! Orange County has approved the Huntington Beach City Council's decision to swallow Sunset Beach into its giant coastal sprawl. Sunset Beach: quaint 84-acre OC surf stop, population one-thousand-something (they haven't measured since ... More >>
Big House WineThe Big House Online Rehab RoomWith beer, silly names are second nature -- so much that it feels like breaking news when a brewery doesn't add a pun to every bottle label. With wine, the idiotic references have no doubt increased in recent years, but there's still that shock fac ... More >>
There are true believers in the concept of hot and dry earthquake weather. They got some fodder for their theory when a 4.0 struck the Santa Monica Bay Monday night. The quake centered three miles north-northeast of Santa Barbara Island struck at 10:42 p.m. according to the Southern Californ ... More >>
In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>
In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>
SoulwaxThe two most pressing questions about Saturday's HARD Summer in downtown Los Angeles have nothing to do with quality. With Soulwax, Crystal Castles and Major Lazer topping a bill that includes the likes of Flying Lotus and Diplo, promoter Gary Richards has assembled the kind of dance ... More >>
Surf City USA just got more waves this week as the Huntington Beach City Council voted 5-2 to annex the small, neighboring ocean-side community of Sunset Beach. While residents in the Sunset Beach Community Association didn't want to become a part of the larger city, Huntington Beach officia ... More >>
The Huntington Beach City Council is slated to vote on Monday whether or not it should annex the neighboring community of Sunset Beach. The move would expect to bring Huntington Beach about $624,000 in property, sales and occupancy taxes.
Fifteen members of congress, including a few from Southern California, recently wrote a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner requesting that he tell banks to lay off the accounts of medical marijuana dispensaries that operate in states where the drug is legal, the group American ... More >>
Oh, Letterman... While everyone was all caught up in the Leno/Coco fight, we must admit we learned to rediscover cranky, adulterous uncle Dave. He is what he is and does what he does and you either get it or not. If the absurdity of calling a company "Worldwide Pants" or relentlessly championing ac ... More >>
Mixed martial arts fighter Tito Ortiz was arrested shortly before noon Monday after his live-in girlfriend, former porn star Jenna Jameson, said he assaulted her and police sent to the scene then reported seeing at least one visible injury on her, Huntington Beach police told LA Weekly. Lt. ... More >>
A fisherman who allegedly stomped on the beak of a pelican that swooped down and attempted to eat his bait at Newport Beach Pier will face a judge Friday. Orange County District Attorney's spokeswoman Farrah Emami told the Weekly that 19-year-old Daniel Richard Moreno, III has been charged w ... More >>
How Sandy West was lost
View more photos in the "Convicted Serial Killer Rodney Alcala's Creepy Personal Photograph Collection" slideshow. Huntington Beach Police Department detectives are trying to identify women, girls, boys and toddlers who appear in hundreds of photos seized from a storage locker in Seattle, Washingt ... More >>
One mans murderous romp through polite society
If you're a bar owner--or patron--planning to celebrate any of the number of upcoming booze-related holidays (the Super Bowl, St. Patrick's Day, Oktoberfest, somebody's birthday, doing your laundry, whatever really) by playing drinking games, you might not want to party in Huntington Beach. On Tuesd ... More >>
A tornado warning for south central Los Angeles County has been canceled Tuesday afternoon, but another was issued for southeastern Orange County, southwester Riverside County and northwestern San Diego County. This as the second of three successive winter storms hit the Southland Tuesday. T ... More >>
Avenged Sevenfold drummer James Owen Sullivan, better known by his stage name "The Rev," was found dead in his Huntington Beach home earlier today on December 28 at approximately 1 p.m., according to the Orange County Register and Blabbermouth. He was 28 years old. The Orange County Coroner' ... More >>
Sometimes we feel sorry for the paparazzi. Sure, most of them didn't go to Northwestern, intern for big newspapers or get bright-green LAPD press cards. They don't bring us news we can use. But they do capture an aspect of history, work their butts off, and face great bodily harm daily (especially w ... More >>
Tank is the drummer for Huntington Beach-based band The Change Viet Rock. When he's not on stage, he pops up in the most unexpected places with a camera person and a few friends to show the world how to do the industrial stomp. His moves are tight and his enthusiasm is infectious. Check out his inte ... More >>
If you cook at home a lot, if you have kids who can't feed everything they won't eat to their dog, if you have a garden or would like to, if you have an orange tree that catapults its fruit faster than you can make marmalade, if you've spent any time at all contemplating the landfill univer ... More >>
The new Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual survey of American extremist organizations, finds no fewer than 84 hate groups that call California home, sweet homeland. Locally, we can count on the National Socialist Movement, headquartered in Glendale (or is it Riverside?), w ... More >>
The new Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual survey of American extremist organizations, finds no fewer than 84 hate groups that call California home, sweet homeland. Locally, we can count on the National Socialist Movement, headquartered in Glendale (or is it Riverside?), w ... More >>
The new Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual survey of American extremist organizations, finds no fewer than 84 hate groups that call California home, sweet homeland. Locally, we can count on the National Socialist Movement, headquartered in Glendale (or is it Riverside?), w ... More >>
What to do in Los Angeles this week
Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with their girlfriends. And most disturbingly, I discovered that morning host Joe Escalante/Dr. LegalDouche is, apparently, an amateur toreador. Ole! ... More >>
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