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  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Steve Rocco, Ex-Educator, Andy Kaufman Reincarnator and Ketchup Thief, Now Running For OC Supervisor!

    ​It'll take more than a lifetime of failed election bids (not including one wildly successful, from a comedic point of view, tenure as a school trustee), and repeated arrests for shoplifting to stop Steve Rocco. On March 8, one day after Janet Nguyen filed her own declaration of candidacy for a se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Ten Great Chinese Restaurants in Orange County

    ​Orange County doesn't have the San Gabriel Valley, lined end-to-end with great Chinese restaurants. We do, however, have Irvine, which is where most of these recommendations are, and where you can eat well from just about any region of China.As with all these sorts of lists, there will be the ine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Keeping Track: Where Are All The Weekly Clustertrucks?

    ​UPDATE: Anne Eng informed us that as of now, the Wednesday clustertruck is not occurring every week. They are still coordinating with other luxe loncheras for a steady rotation. Best to follow Panfiniti for updates.ORIGINAL POST: Per our friends at Panfiniti, the newest clustertruck is on Wednesd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Want to Protest the Girl Scout Cookie Boycott? There's An App For That!

    ​Earlier this morning, Anne Marie posted about the Girl Scout Cookie ban proposed by a Girl Scout named Taylor from Ventura, California. It set my blood boiling, especially this quote:"But most disturbing to me and my family, is that they've also admitted to already have placed transgender boys th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Five (Supposedly) Haunted Orange County Eateries

    anaheimwhitehouse.comCurrently owned by a CNN Top 10 Hero, built in 1909, has mysterious blue lights and chandeliers that spin for no reason.​Sometimes they're friendly ghosts and sometimes they're not-so-friendly ghosts, but these five Orange County food spots (which includes one supermarket) all ... More >>

  • Food

    August 25, 2011

    Brunch a Bunch Across OC!

    OC's best brunches: The ethnic, the gorgeous views and the bottomless booze!

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    New High-Concept Restaurants Slated for Laguna Beach

    Starfish​Ah, Laguna Beach.  If there was a rallying point where the high-concept restaurants flock, it'd be here.  There are at least three new restaurants slated for the Laguna coast this year, all of them fit for a town that seems to demand a new restaurant or bar to go to every weeken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Fear-mongering at the Farmers' Market Over Strawberries and Radiation

    ​We have a ritual, my daughter and I. Every Saturday we wake up quietly (well, as quietly as a small child and a pre-caffeinated father can manage, anyway) and head to the farmers' market. We make a stop at the bank and then at a coffeeshop: coffee for me and chocolate milk for her, and we share a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Eat Here, Not There: Orange Chicken

    Dave Lieberman​This is Orange County. Our best efforts here at Stick A Fork In It notwithstanding, Orange County loves chain food, and we love our comfort food. Even we, your indefatigable food bloggers, occasionally succumb to the lure of the fast food and the national chain.That doesn't mean, ho ... More >>

  • Food

    October 14, 2010

    Culinary Badass, Cosmo Drinker

    [Best of OC 2010] Haley Nguyen's 10 OC Survival Tips

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Irvine is as Boring as You Make It

    ​If you think Irvine is a boring city, take a look at the article by UCI's Aaron Elias in the student newspaper New University, and think twice!With "Waging War Against Irvine Boredom," Elias makes clear what most of us already know: UCI is a nerd school.

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Thomas Michio Taniguchi Learns it Pays to Discover--and That Crime Does Not Pay

    ​It pays to discover. In fact, Thomas Michio Taniguchi, who is already sitting a state prison cell serving a four-year term for credit-card fraud, just discovered he will be paying another seven years behind bars for his Discover Card misuse at 33 Orange County locations.The 50-year-old former Nor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Little Bull Sandwiches: Bocadillos de Toritos

    Dave Lieberman​I'm going to make a bold prediction here: I see toritos as the next appetizer to hit our Mexican restaurants, especially our finer-dining ones, in a big way. A torito, for those of you who've never ventured south of the border, is a chile güero (a yellow chile that looks like a mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Battle Supermarket Sushi

    It'd be nice to be able to eat Bluefin or Shibucho every time the sushi urge strikes, but sometimes lunch is grabbed on the way between two meetings; sometimes dinner needs to be a quick pick-up before drinking the bulk of one's daily calories (other people do this, right?) and that precludes a real ... More >>

  • Food

    March 4, 2010

    How Far Can Dexter Holland's Gringo Bandito Go?

    What started as a gag gift by the Offspring singer is becoming a serious business

  • News

    December 31, 2009

    [Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009

    What started as a gag gift by the Offspring singer is becoming a serious business

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Life on the Veg: Meatless Meats at Albertsons Supermarket

    Have you ever spent ages in the "Specialty Foods" isle mulling over a package of overpriced meatless protein? Does it really taste like meat? Is it worth shelling out $5 bucks? Will it give me indigestion? These were basically my thoughts as I stood last night in a Huntington Beach Albertsons superm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    A Tale of Two Hatch Chile Roasts

    Picture to come once my chica updates her blog...Maybe there's really nothing to do in La Habra. Maybe Newport Beach was too drunk already tailgating for the USC game to care. But, boy, was there a hell of a difference at the county's two public Hatch chile roasts.The first one occurred August 22 at ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 21, 2009

    [Trendzilla] Go Wet 'n Wild (Again)

    Picture to come once my chica updates her blog...Maybe there's really nothing to do in La Habra. Maybe Newport Beach was too drunk already tailgating for the USC game to care. But, boy, was there a hell of a difference at the county's two public Hatch chile roasts.The first one occurred August 22 at ... More >>

  • News

    April 23, 2009

    Another Conspiratorial Twist In the Seemingly Never-Ending Story of Steve Rocco

    Picture to come once my chica updates her blog...Maybe there's really nothing to do in La Habra. Maybe Newport Beach was too drunk already tailgating for the USC game to care. But, boy, was there a hell of a difference at the county's two public Hatch chile roasts.The first one occurred August 22 at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    A Reader's First Impressions of the New Anaheim Hills' Wholesome Choice

    A week ago I reported on the soft-opening of the Wholesome Choice in Anaheim Hills. In the post I asked our readers who went for their impressions. One came through with a detailed review. Since most of you probably missed it, I will reprint J. Hunter's detailed comment here: I went there on Sa ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    The Bizarre Case of the People vs. ex-Orange School District Trustee Steve Rocco

    A week ago I reported on the soft-opening of the Wholesome Choice in Anaheim Hills. In the post I asked our readers who went for their impressions. One came through with a detailed review. Since most of you probably missed it, I will reprint J. Hunter's detailed comment here: I went there on Sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    New Anaheim Hills Wholesome Choice Expected To Open Tomorrow

    For those in Anaheim Hills waiting in anticipation for a taste of freshly baked sangak bread, I have an update on Wholesome Choice, the Persian-market-cum-Whole-Foods-cum-International-Food-Court that will be opening in your neighborhood.  As you may recall in a post last December, I wrote that it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    The Great Ketchup Caper Trial, Day Three

    The defendant showed up for court today in the same outfit he was wearing last Wednesday: green pants, loose black loafers, a big bandage on his head and sunglasses clipped to his eyeglasses that were flipped up for indoor use. It was day three of the strange case of the People vs. Steve Rocco, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Ex-Orange School Trustee Steve Rocco Hits Weekly with Subpoena!

    During my lunch break today, a nice lady with the Orange County Sheriff's Department dropped by the Weekly's offices looking to serve me with a subpoena. I won't go into the myriad possibilities of pissed-off people who crossed my mind, but suffice it to say I assumed this was some crazy or disgrunt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Surf City Obama Monkey Girl Speaks!

    The t-shirt in question?It's rare that we ever get a response from the offending party in our Hey, You! column, and even rarer to get a retort from the writer to said response. Yet that's what has seemed to happen with the Hey, You! of a couple of weeks ago, in which someone took a teenage girl to t ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    The Best Posts of 2008, Direct From the Weekly's Parallel Universe

    The t-shirt in question?It's rare that we ever get a response from the offending party in our Hey, You! column, and even rarer to get a retort from the writer to said response. Yet that's what has seemed to happen with the Hey, You! of a couple of weeks ago, in which someone took a teenage girl to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2008

    The Reg-O-Meter© -- Week Ending March 15

    The t-shirt in question?It's rare that we ever get a response from the offending party in our Hey, You! column, and even rarer to get a retort from the writer to said response. Yet that's what has seemed to happen with the Hey, You! of a couple of weeks ago, in which someone took a teenage girl to t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 6, 2007

    Surf on Our Turf

    Catch a Wave

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2007

    Return of the Rocco Files: Rocco Lives!

    An article (if you can call a 10-sentence blurb, including the writer's contact information, an article) in yesterday's Orange County Register confirms that Steve Rocco, Orange County's favorite edgoo-ma-caterer, has survived the latest assassination attempt by the secret cabal that controls local p ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 27, 2007

    Letters

    Add in a completely substandard produce section and meat that I could find cheaper elsewhere, and you have the perfect storm of crap

  • News

    August 23, 2007

    Recall Madness!

    The nuts and bolts (with extra nuts) of direct democracy gone wild

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007

    C'mon baby light my dryer!

    A blaring siren in my Costa Mesa neighborhood usually doesn't raise my eyebrow, but last night, as I hump home an armload of goods from Albertsons, a swarm of fire engines descending on my condo complex rouses my interest. When one of the trucks enters my driveway and the street behind it fills with ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2006

    Crime Wave

    A sampling of OCs recent lapses in judgment

  • News

    November 9, 2006

    Osama's Gun

    How to not build bin Ladens AK-47 without even trying

  • Features

    October 27, 2005

    OC's 31 Scariest People

    Now 25 percent more terrifying!

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Just a Smokescreen

    Remember the 1999 Little Saigon protests? They were a conspiracy against Steve Rocco

  • Unknown

    April 21, 2005

    Whos the Real Mystery Man?

    Not me, says Orange school trustee Steve Rocco

  • Columns

    March 17, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Not me, says Orange school trustee Steve Rocco

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    You Have To Be Afraid

    Orange Trustee Rocco Unveils The Partnership

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    Its Puzzlementary!

    Internet company linking Rocco, Kaufman claims no link between Rocco, Kaufman

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    The Rocco Files

    Internet company linking Rocco, Kaufman claims no link between Rocco, Kaufman

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    The Rocco Horror Picture Show

    The world wants to know: Who is Oranges newest school trustee?

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Grocery Sax

    Bringing an Irvine Albertsons a little night music

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    Picking at Scabs

    Bringing an Irvine Albertsons a little night music

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Scorecard

    Bringing an Irvine Albertsons a little night music

  • Columns

    December 5, 2002

    Lunching With Losers

    Why are these men smiling?

  • Columns

    November 8, 2001

    No Beer Here

    Why are these men smiling?

  • Food

    October 4, 2001

    Continental Drift

    Brittas brings Europe a little closer

  • Columns

    April 5, 2001

    Clear-Cutting Sherwood Forest

    Angry hippies haunt our past

  • More >>
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