It started with a promise Rich Cook made to himself: if 12 men showed up, he’d begin. On a September night in 2001, 13 walked through the door, and MenAlive was born. Twenty-five years later, that ...

The best meal I had in Singapore was a dish called Hainan chicken rice. And as with all great food found in Singapore, I had it inside an unbearably hot-and-humid hawker center from a stand that made ...

As an 11-year-old kid in the summer of 1981, life was, by all discernible metrics, pretty cool. Even in the nascent months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, very little seemed of consequence—or even ...

Contrary to popular belief, radio isn’t dead! The truth is, video didn’t kill the radio star; it was free entertainment on the internet that almost did. It’s hard to fathom, but before the internet ...

Standing on what was a quiet orange grove more than half a century ago is a small faux grass hut. A diverse crowd gathers outside: tourists wearing mouse ears, children savoring the sweet tang of a ...

Steve Martin and Disneyland both arrived in Orange County in the same year: 1955. And the transitioning county–then shifting from rural agrarian farm country to the idyllic travel poster for suburban ...

Fullerton’s punk-rock history has recently taken back-to-back blows in a mosh pit of bummer news. First, word that the city’s longest-running record store, Black Hole Records, is moving from the brick ...

Jonas Bevacqua, Kanye West and Consequence (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images). It’s not everyday a company pops up in your backyard and takes over the scene. In this case, Lifted Research Group ...

Van Der Mark yells at a woman in Santa Monica (YouTube screenshot) The ranks of Orange County’s alt-right are fractured and in decline a year after the infamous Battle of Berkeley where figures made a ...

Editor’s Note: For this year’s annual sex issue, OC Weekly spoke to three sex workers in Orange County. Their stories are gritty and graphic, but they also reveal a sense of personal pride, dignity ...

“You’ve got 15 minutes,” Coleen Hansen warned me as I opened the door to her Westside Costa Mesa alterations shop at 6:45 on a recent weeknight. “Jeopardy‘s almost on, and it’s the Tournament of ...

The gleaming black Cadillac Escalade trembles at the intersection of Beach Boulevard and Cerritos Avenue in Stanton. Four young Mexican men inside, all buzz cuts and oversized white T-shirts and ...