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Long Beach Lunch: Wa Wa

Not to be confused with the East Coast convenience store chain of the same name, Long Beach's Wa Wa is a quick-n-dirty Chinese restaurant with cheap combo plates and made-to-order specialties that has dragged office zombies out of their Downtown cubicles for more than a decade. The red-and-white til ... More >>

How To Steal $1 Million in California & Avoid Prison

Before he became a wildly successful Verizon franchisee in Southern California, Michael Scott Grayson was a crook.We know this fact because in 2008 the FBI arrested Grayson for his role in a 2004-2005 conspiracy that used false statements and fake documents to steal enormous amounts of money in ... More >>

Raymond Sean Clark, Homeless in LBC, Held in Murder by SUV fire; Police Seek Witnesses

Long Beach police detectives are investigating a "horrific" murder pinned to a homeless man who allegedly burned a 63-year-old man to death inside his SUV parked in a convenience store lot along Pacific Coast Highway. Cops, hoping witnesses will come forward, have released surveillance footage from ... More >>

LinX To Offer Breakfast Corn Dogs

I reviewed LinX this week for the dead-tree edition, but it was, alas, too early for me to try what promises to be their most intriguing and calorically irresponsible item yet. LinX announced via its Facebook a few days ago that it plans to start serving breakfast beginning April 20th. They'll featu ... More >>

The 13 Grossest Things Found on a Recent Cleanup of Black Star Canyon

February 2 marked the first gathering of the Canyon Guardians, a league of energetic volunteers committed to the stewardship of our local wilderness. High school and middle-school students, outdoor enthusiasts, and naturalists joined forces to remove as much trail trash and graffiti as possible wi ... More >>

Orange County 7-Eleven Clerk Gets Prison For Brea Mall Meth Deal

With the help of a buddy, Pakistani national Noman Saeed, an Orange County 7-Eleven clerk, plotted to sell 12 ounces of methamphetamine for $12,000 at Brea Mall in November 2010.Saeed and partner Mohammad Masud hoped to split a $1,000 profit as a way to cushion their poor finances, according to cour ... More >>

Paul Grigore Patrulescu and Ciprian Patrulescu Get Jail for Beating the Hell Out of 83 y.o. Lady

Two brothers who beat the living crap out of an 83-year-old homeless lady sitting at a Costa Mesa bus stop in the wee hours have received probation, jail time and mandatory anger management classes.Paul Grigore Patrulescu, 30, and Ciprian Patrulescu, 31, pleaded guilty to felony injury to an elder ... More >>

Tacos de Pescado Los Originales: Naked, Flaked, and Sacred

It's time to take back the fish taco.Enough with the soft, mushy, grilled "healthy" fish tacos. Find a different name for it--tacos de guacareada come to mind--and leave the original tacos de pescado estilo Ensenada alone. A real fish taco is a piece of deep-fried fish--preferably shark, but any moi ... More >>

Dave Reviews OC Yelp Reviews, Part 1

I have bad news for all of you power-tripping, I'm-a-real-food-critic-now Elite Yelpoids out there: your little tales of woe are totally and completely useless. All those complaints--when I do look at them I read them aloud in a neo-Valley Girl accent--don't actually mean a damn thing, because nobod ... More >>

Ciprian Patrulescu and Paul G. Patrulescu in Court for Allegedly Beating 83 y.o. Woman

Two brothers who apparently followed a night of drinking with an early morning of beating--an 83-year-old woman!--are scheduled to be arraigned on elder abuse charges this morning.Paul Grigore Patrulescu, 30, and Ciprian Patrulescu, 31, both of Costa Mesa, face a felony count each of inflicting in ... More >>

5 Ways To Caffeinate For Free (Or Cheap) On National Coffee Day This Saturday

As if we needed another reason to load up on caffeine, it's National Coffee Day this Saturday. (It just happens to come the day after National Drink Beer Day--thank you, calendar gods!) A handful of chains are offering coffee freebies (and cheepies). Here's where to go to score a cup of joe.   ... More >>

No Doubt In Their Own Words

An oral history of OC's greatest band and their newest album, 'Push and Shove'

[UPDATED with Reda Safieddine Charged:] Valle Valeriano, OC Homicide No. 29: 187 of 17 y.o. Outside 7-Eleven

See Update No. 4 at the end of this post disclosing Reda Safieddine has been charged with murder and what was used to kill Valle Valeriano.See Update Nos. 1-3 identifying Safieddine and Valeriano and providing social-network details on the suspected killer.ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 13, 3:45 P.M.: A 1 ... More >>

Famima!! Convenience Store Opens in Newport Beach

I had thought I had seen the last of Famima!!, the name for a concocted by FamilyMart, the Japanese company with thousands of such stores throughout the planet, including a few in L.A. Picture 7-Eleven and Mitsuwa siring an offspring, and that would be Famima!! a convenience store that sells Po ... More >>

[UPDATED with Booking Photo:] Andrew James Jurjaks, Skinhead Brother of Hate Crime Convict, Held in Murder Attempt

UPDATE, MAY 23, 2:23 P.M.: The Costa Mesa Police Department has released the booking photo of Andrew James Jurjaks, the 30-year-old local skinhead accused of trying to fatally stab a man early Tuesday.The full version of the shot at right follows on the next page . . .

[UPDATED with Suspect I.D., Charges:] Edgar Cervantes, OC Homicide No. 7: Stabbed in Fight

​UPDATE, MARCH 21, 2:17 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) office has announced the 17-year-old accused of fatally stabbing Edgar Cervantes, 19, of Riverside, in Anaheim Monday night will be tried as an adult.As such, the OCDA identified him as Ryan Nichols Coale of Anaheim.

Chad Martin Jurjaks, "Fucking Mexicans!" Beater, Gets Nearly 3 Years in Prison

​One wonders if Chad Martin Jurjaks believes it was worth it: two years and eight months in state prison for yelling "Fucking Mexicans" at a 42-year-old Latino man and his 26-year-old nephew before punching them outside a 7-Eleven in Costa Mesa last March. The Caucasian brawler is just lucky he di ... More >>

What We Learned, Feb. 11-17

​A look back at the last week and the snark that came from it all.FEB. 11: Whitney Houston dies in Beverly Hills, and a shrine goes up in . . . Laguna Hills? It's at the home of Mike and Mahi Pasha now, but in 2006 the legendary singer rented the place to be closer to her drug counselor. What We L ... More >>

Chad Martin Jurjaks, "Fucking Mexicans" Attacker, Pleads Guilty to Hate Crimes

​Chad Martin Jurjaks, a Costa Mesa white dude, pleaded guilty Thursday to yelling "Fucking Mexicans" as, without provocation, he punched a 42-year-old man and his 26-year-old nephew outside a 7-Eleven in his racially charged hometown last March. The counts the 31-year-old copped to were two felony ... More >>

It's Coffee Day, Which Means FREE Coffee!

​It's Coffee Day! It's Coffee Day! It's Coffee Day! (We may or may not have taken advantage already.)  As part of National Coffee Day (wheee!), a couple chains are giving away--yep--free coffee.Here's the info: 

420 Times Expands Circulation to Orange County

​Starting with this month's issue, which hit the streets on July 15, The 420 Times, Southern California's premiere glossy magazine dedicated to "alternative healing," will finally be available in Orange County. According to a press release just issued by the company, anyone eager to get the latest ... More >>

Ben White Is a Southern Boy by the Sea

[Locals Only] Hear the folk noirist pluck out tunes in the LBC

Eric Naposki Murder Trial Wins Laughter in Day 2

OC Register pool photoA tame second quarter for Eric Naposki​I wish I could have yesterday back in the case of the People of California versus Eric Naposki, and not just because of mid-morning indigestion from a rubbery courthouse cafeteria blueberry muffin.On Monday, the trial's opening day, Napo ... More >>

'Super 8' Flirts With Disaster

J.J. Abrams deploys humor and destruction in his super-fun, super-loud catastrophe flick

Ugly Police Mug of the Week Goes to Man Wanted in '92 Slaying, Rojelio Reyes Calvillo

​This week's ugly police mug "honors" go to Rojelio Reyes Calvillo, who is accused of fatally shooting Santa Ana 22-year-old Antonio Cisneros, who was murdered as he was sitting in a car in the 7-Eleven store parking lot at McFadden Avenue and Fairview Street . . . . . . on October 3, 1992!Calv ... More >>

Writing Drunk on Four Loko

We went with the purple can.​Web Editor Vickie wanted one of us in the office to drink something called Four Loko, some energy drink with 12-percent alcohol that's making schools nervous, that was just banned in Michigan, and makes students excited. No one on our staff is stupid enough to waste th ... More >>

In Vogue Again

The Middle Class are reuniting after 30 years

Miguel Antonio Mendoza Accused of Sexually Assaulting Boy and Distributing Porn to Minors

​Do you know this man?More importantly, do your boys know Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 20, of Orange?The former part-time aide in Villa Park Elementary School's afterschool program is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and using a cell phone application to distribute pornography to ot ... More >>

7-Eleven Day Brings Free Slurpees This Sunday

Flickr user ryanrocketship​This Sunday, 7-Eleven is celebrating their birthday by giving away free Slurpees all day.

Crime Time: Indoor Pot Farming, Bandits on Bikes, Satellite Surveillance Pleas, Teen-on-Teen Stabbings and a Whole Lotta Armed Robberies

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local crimes and police calls--now with waaaaaay more armed robberies, bike-riding/-taking bandits and indoor pot busts. ​MONDAY, NOV. 16Wee Hour Party Goes to Pot During a party in a home in the 700 block of Maplewood Avenue in Fullerton, a resident whipp ... More >>

Crime Time: Beer Bandits, Blood Drippers, Ripped-Off Stripper Drivers, Bowling Alley Knife Fights, Men With No Pants Roaming San Clemente

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more beer bandits, wild chases, ripped-off stripper drivers, bowling alley knife fights and men without pants.TUESDAY, SEPT. 8Strippers' Backup Needs Backup A man who told police he was hired to be a driver for strippers met with anot ... More >>

Batter Up at England Fish & Chips

Starbucks Doing Cheap Breakfast Combos?

"Starbucks Launches Cheaper Coffee-and-Food Combos" the article in Reuters was titled, and with it, I saw two words I'd never thought I'd see in the same sentence with the name "Starbucks": Cheaper and Food Combos.  But that's exactly what they're doing. Why? Well, I.T.E.S (it's the economy stupi ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Never-Ending Navidad

Here's the Story

Ken Ruzics tikis give us back our very Brady childhood

Super Fantastisch

Loving just about everything at Biggs

He Fights for Your Right to Pate

Michael Mina leads St. Regis through the resort wars with Stonehill Tavern

Felt So Good

Murs and Lisa Bonet make for some real Atmosphere

Juiced Up

A day on Trek

More Cheap Less Trick

How Many Popes In the Pizza?

Give us some of that old-time religion!

Crime Dog McGruff, the Early Years

We Respond

Hell on Wheels

Driving in OC, in your own words

Revenge of the Nerds

Night-Lite

Let the Bastards Burn!

Wait a minute: Thats us in Birks war between the Californias

China Beach, San Clemente

Every Saturday night

A Higher Fire Power

Carona puts his faith in more guns after ambush of deputy

Beach Boulevard Breakdown

A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare