Irvine

Opening This Summer: Umami Burger in the Arts District

The neighborhood where Traction meets 3rd will become even more of a foodist attraction come this summer when Umami Burger opens just steps away from Wurstkuche, The Pie Hole, and Angel City Brewery. The new Arts District spot marks the 15th Southern California post in Adam Fleischman's ever-growing ... More >>

Christopher Dorner: New Photos Of Suspect Released By Irvine Police

Irvine police today released new photos of suspected cop killer Christopher Dorner. They are still shots from security video captured Jan. 28 at an Orange County hotel, Irvine police said in a statement. The release of the images this afternoon was intended to help the public understand what he lo ... More >>

Christopher Jordan Dorner, Disgraced LAPD Cop, Suspected In Irvine Murders

UPDATED BELOW with a list of dead and wounded police and other victims and comments by Chief Charlie Beck on the LAPD's accidental predawn shooting of paper delivery women at a staked-out site in the manhunt for Dorner. The search for the suspect has focused on San Diego. Cops were on the lookout t ... More >>

Christopher Jordan Dorner Manifesto Highlights

We redacted most of the names mentioned in the "manifesto" after the LAPD expressed concern for the safety of its personnel. The man who cops say gunned down a young Irvine couple is an ex-LAPD cop who had a beef with the father of one of the victims. In an alleged manifesto, the suspect appears t ... More >>

Christopher Dorner LAPD Murder Rampage Timeline

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013: Monica Quan, 28, daughter of an ex-LAPD captain who Christopher Dorner apparently believed represented him poorly before LAPD fired him, is slain along with her boyfriend Keith Lawrence, 27. The bodies are found in a car in their condo's Irvine parking garage. Quan was an assis ... More >>

Assembly-Line Pizza Fight: Clusi Batusi vs. PizzaRev

Some have it called the "Chiptole-ization of pizza." Some have described it as the city's "next big one" in the world of casual dining. Whatever you call it, quick service pizza joints, which specialize in customizable pizzas cooked in minutes flat and served counterside, are quickly becoming the ne ... More >>

A Fashion Show That Jazzes Up Conservative Clothing For Muslim Women

Marwa Atik needs five pieces of trim, the kind embellished with pearls and black jewels. At a store in downtown L.A.'s Fashion District, boxes of trimmings line the walls from floor to ceiling, but Atik scans quickly and zeroes in on what she wants. At her direction, a clerk climbs a tall, wooden la ... More >>

Jenny Lewis, Ab-Soul, Céu

Also, Vinny Golia Sextet, Mary Anne Hobbs, Delta Rae and others

Boiling Point Coming to San Gabriel in June

Boiling Point is coming soon to Valley Blvd.'s Life Plaza Center. The hot pot chain has been aggressively expanding within the past couple of years, with current locations in Arcadia, Hacienda, Monterey Park and Irvine.

Jamie Lynne Grumet, L.A. MILF Breastfeeding on Cover of TIME, Sees Her Blog Crash Amid Controversy

So of course you've peeped the new cover of TIME Magazine. The story's about attachment parenting, and its cover star is (unavoidably young, hot) L.A. mommy blogger Jamie Lynne Grumet. Annnd she happens to have a three-(going on four)-year-old attached to her left nipple. Grumet is part of a new wa ... More >>

New York Has Nothing on SoCal When it Comes to America's Most Fashionable Cities

For all its high-fashion pretense, New York is not "the most fashionable city in America." That hipster haven known as Brooklyn barely makes the Top 20. No, the place you want to be for sashaying is the city with no downtown, Irvine. It's No. 1 when it comes to cash-spending, "fashion-conscious hou ... More >>

Video: Nude O.C. Thief Jumps From Smoking Hummer Limo, Fends Off German Shepherd

Worth it? (Doubtful.)​Tustin resident Ahmad Mabrok, 29, may have just set a new standard for worst Saturday night ever. Or best, we suppose -- if you're into jumping from fiery stolen vehicles and getting your junk licked by ferocious police dogs. (And, uh, spending the rest of your life tryi ... More >>

Japanese Curry House CoCo Ichibanya Opens in Rowland Heights

ProfessorSalt.comCoco Ichibanya's Katsu-curry​Do you love Japanese curry and need to fix that jones in the eastern San Gabriel Valley? We told you this summer that CoCo Ichibanya was coming to Rowland Heights, and we just found out that location opened two months sooner than we expected, on Se ... More >>

85°C Bakery-Café Opens in Hacienda Heights

Jim ThurmanLine at grand opening of 85°C Bakery-Café, Hacienda Heights​ The number of international chains with outlets in Los Angeles County grew by one when 85°C Bakery-Café opened in Hacienda Heights on Saturday. The Taiwanese chain, with nearly 500 stores in Taiwan, China and Australia ... More >>

CoCo Ichibanya: Japanese Curry X 10 ( 2 More Locations Coming)

ProfessorSalt.comTonkatsu curry at Coco Ichinbanya​Just as every American kid grows up eating grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken noodle soup, children in Japan eat karei raisu, curry and rice. On any given day, school cafeterias, company shokudos, casual restaurants and home cooks across th ... More >>

Minh Kinh Dang, 20, Killed When He And Three Friends Tried to Hold Up L.A. Marijuana Delivery Driver, Cops Say

File photo: Not the actual delivery vehicle in this case.​A marijuana delivery from an L.A. dispensary turned deadly this week when four suspects apparently ambushed the pot shop driver and his security guard and tried to rob them. While we don't want to make light of the situation, we're kin ... More >>

Ashton Sweet, OC Cheerleader Left Brain-Dead by Alleged Drunk Driver, to be Organ Donor

Ashton Sweet, forever young, victim of a drunk driver.​Update: KNX 1070 Newsradio's David Singer tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the teenager has died. Ashton Sweet smiles in the photograph, gorgeous with her long dark blond hair and almond eyes. A jerk in a truck, Austin Farley, guilty of dru ... More >>

In-N-Out Opens First Texas Locations

Flickr user thomashawk​ Irvine-based In-N-Out Burger opened their first two Texas stores this week, to much fanfare and long lines. How long was the line? Youtube user armenw estimated 150 cars parked outside the Allen, Texas, location five minutes before the doors opened. Youtuber kylycorey shot ... More >>

Kim Rebar Henry, Middle-Aged O.C. Woman, Allegedly Moonlights as Racist Graffiti Artist

Anaheim Police DepartmentKim Rebar Henry probably hates you​Holy freakshow. We didn't give the January spree of nine highly offensive tags in Orange County much of a thought, back at the time of their inception -- probably just some young punk trying to get back at the world for not giving a ... More >>

Taco Bell Beefs Up Response to Meat Lawsuit

Malcolm Bedell/FromAwayExactly what is in that Taco Bell Crunchy Beef burrito?​ Taco Bell President Greg Creed told USA Today late Friday that his company is "retaining outside counsel" and is seriously considering a countersuit again the recent lawsuit that charges that his company's taco fil ... More >>

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Jerry Brown Sues Sikder Family, Owners Of Koi Restaurant, For 'Worker Exploitation' At Car Washes

​California Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is pulling out all the stops in his quest for the Latino vote. After outing challenger Meg Whitman as a former employer of an undocumented housekeeper, on Monday he slapped the owners of TMZ hot-spot restaurant Koi for "worke ... More >>

Alleged O.C. Shoplifter Leads Authorities On Car Chase To Sherman Oaks

KCAL9​A woman alleged to have shoplifted at the Shops at Mission Viejo mall led authorities on a freeway pursuit all the way to Sherman Oaks Wednesday afternoon. KTLA News picked up the chase about 1:40 p.m. as it headed north on the 405 passed LAX, through Culver City and West L.A. and into t ... More >>

Southern California Awards Honor Mischievous Pets

​Southern California-based Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. is holding its second annual competition for the most unusual pet insurance claim of the year. The twelve finalists of the "VPI Hambone Award" were named on Monday. The award is named after a VPI-insured dog that got stuck in a refrig ... More >>

The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend -- Roger S., Booka Shade, Lillyanne

Roger S.​Staying in L.A. this weekend? You won't be disappointed. Lightning In A Bottle brings a little bit of Burning Man to Irvine for all three days, and New York club king Roger Sanchez is coming to Avalon Saturday. It's all good. Friday: Melodic, arena-techno duo Booka Shade performs tra ... More >>

DJ Q&A: A Few Questions For Booka Shade's Arno Kammermeier

Berlin duo Booka Shade has broken out of the Berlin underground and into The New York Times with its accessibly melodic techno and mesmerizing stage presence. The pair that started out with groovy choons found mostly via online outlets such as Beatport has become a big-league electronic act known to ... More >>

Brooklyn Boys Food Truck Brings Deli Fare to O.C.

Brooklyn BoysThe Brooklyn Boys food truck​Orange County isn't known for its abundance of New York and Jewish-style delis, but the Brooklyn Boys food truck, launched on Feb. 1, hopes to change that. Roaming from Fullerton and Placentia on the northern tip to Santa Ana and Irvine and all the w ... More >>

Natural Products Expo: Get Ready, Big Mouths May Be Coming Soon To A Store Near You

All Natural Extermination​Trade shows like this weekend's Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim are ideal for studying the brilliant beginnings and soon-to-be lifeless remains of capitalism. It's here that you can almost taste product success in the the tiniest nibbles of caramelized peanut an ... More >>

Self-Proclaimed SoCal Mosque Spy Sues FBI

John Gilhooley for OC WeeklyCraig Monteilh.​A man who has repeatedly claimed he performed counter-terrorism spy work for the FBI in Southern California mosques is suing the agency essentially for cutting him off and failing to pay him what he says he was promised. Forty-seven-year-old Irvine ... More >>

Today In WTF: L.A. Tornado Warning Issued (UPDATED

​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 >>

Man Admits To Uploading Crap Movie; All He Gets Is Probation

​An Irvine man has agreed to plead guilty to uploading a screener of The Love Guru before its release. In exchange for his cooperation the U.S. Attorney's Office has agreed to recommend three years of probation instead of the possible maximum sentence of three years in federal prison. We say ... More >>

Why They Hate Us: The Life of L.A. Stereotypes

File under Too Good to Be True: Jacksonville.com, the Florida Times-Union Web site, has a Dare to Ask column and today's question came from a 21-year-old Angeleno seeking to learn why the rest of the country "think[s] we're all a bunch of jet-setting, fast-talking, unfriendly, shallow, flaky yuppies ... More >>

Beck Interviews Will Ferrell, Talks Cirque du Soleil, Unitards, Fusion Bands, Funny Words

​ Beck interviews Will Ferrell at Beck.com, and it's a laugh-out-loud conversation, for sure, replete with discussions about red unitards, Cirques du Soleil, cassette technology and Beck's desire to start a fusion band called Kudos. For example, this exchange, in which they talk about "The Ci ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Arrest in Homeless Slay Case Benjamin Mathew Martin, 30, was apprehended in Rancho Mirage for the gruesome death of John Robert McGraham, a homeless man who was set on fire last fall in an alley off of Third Street near Berendo Street. Meet the Bark Beetles The news about climate change's effects on ... More >>

Orange County's Pink Slips

The O.C. Register reports online that Orange County's top five employers have announced they will lay off 2,500 employees in the coming year. The full list is topped by Irvine's J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, which plans to issue 514 pink slips, with Aliso Viejo's Marvell Semiconductor Inc. only sacking on ... More >>

Live in LA: Iron Maiden invokes Coleridge, Crowley, Eddie in Irvine

Iron Maiden at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, May 31 By Skylaire Alfvegren (photos by Anne Varak). “I’ve got to pinch myself and say it’s not Long Beach Arena in 1985,” Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson bellowed to the sold out crowd of 15,000 at the Verizon Amphitheater on S ... More >>

Grape Exaltations

Monkeying around at �Future Ape

Dancing in the Rain

U.S. Iraqis visit the polls twice to vote

Letters

Last Stand at San Onofre

Visit one of Southern California�s wildest and most famous surf spots � before it gets bulldozed for a toll road

The Three Ages of Jacques Derrida

An interview with the father of Deconstructionism

Land and LAPD Scapes

Photographs by Warren Neidich, Laurie Brown, Anthony Hernandez. Plus, 100 years of crime and punishment

Peripheral Visions

The edge of L.A. in three dimensions

All-American

Time Capsules

1989 Timeline

On All Fours

Irvine plant closed after workers

Home of the Brave