The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) is today heralding the 11th injunction brought against an unnamed “multi-generational gang” in Stanton that is “one of the oldest in ...

It’s time to retire the outdated image of the typical college student: fresh out of high school, moving into a dorm and late-night study sessions. Today’s college classroom looks very ...

Social Distortion were among the first generation of OC punk bands, and arguably is one of the most influential, turbulent, and commercially successful. Formed in Fullerton in 1979, a primitive ...

The Orange County Board of Supervisors extended the John Wayne Airport curfew through 2035 on Tuesday while also allowing for more flights and passengers–years from now, when those board members ...

Nowadays going by María del Pilar, this 2010 pop ditty came about at the height of America's most recent anti-immigrant madness. Written by the former frontwoman for cult group Los Abandoned, the ...

One of the most vivid images of Sublime's iconography is Bradley Nowell's famous Dalmatian, Lou Dog. Named after Nowell's grandfather, Louie Nowell, the mythology of Lou Dog was epic. He has ...

DEAR MEXICAN: A young California high school boy of Latino heritage asked me why did we whities stole California from Mexico? I asked him who told him that, and he said his father. I told him we ...

The beat goes on: Kelvin Anderson with Domino. Photo by LBC Photographer For 40 years, the World Famous VIP Records and Tapes was central Long Beach’s cornerstone. Not only was it the mecca of G ...

“There was just a huge mob barreling towards me as I was trying to shoot a band,” says photographer Tyson Ellingsen. The neo-nazis, outnumbered as they were, were chased out of the show and ...

At the end of October, The Orange County Register did what any Southern California media outlet looking for an easy Halloween story does: send a reporter to Black Star Canyon. The remote site ...

Last week, NPR inspired a lot of foodie hand-wringing with a post about an interview that superstar chef Rick Bayless did with a public-radio outfit regarding whether it was okay for a gabacho ...

Decades later, long after federal authorities deported the last of her students, Arletta Kelly still remembered the cactus. In the 1920s and 1930s, Kelly had worked as an Americanization teacher ...