Say cheeeese! Tom Joyner and Poorman pose with Oprah. Photo courtesy of Poorman It was 1986, the year of the “shock jock.” That was the term for radio personalities who did outrageous things on air.

A fraudster convicted of running an investment scam emerged from prison as a pastor who targeted Orange County’s Vietnamese community in a $25 million Ponzi scheme, alleges the Securities and Exchange ...

Hitler is heiled. Then chaos ensues. (credit: Slim Shoots Bands) One great thing about the recently revamped Garden Grove Amphitheater is that they know how to throw an awesome punk show. This past ...

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 ...

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 ...

The small, circular island at the center of the iconic traffic circle at the heart of Old Towne Orange is one of the town’s most prominent celebrities (step aside, Amber Lynn). The Plaza or the Circle ...

When Anthony Armer—better known as the formerly anonymous thrill-seeker 8booth—flew through the cold night air after leaping off the top of Laguna Beach’s Pacific Edge Hotel late last December, he had ...

There’s OC underground punk, and then there’s My Name Is Harold: I Am an Outlaw!, a 1981 tape recorded by the Omlits. It starts with heavy guitars and a man introducing himself as “Punk Harold.” He ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that heavy metal music can be a bit morbid and macabre. Heavy metal artists have never been afraid to musically confront mortality, pain, suffering and other grim topics by creating ...