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  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Accused Orange County Terrorism Suspect: FBI is Using Secrecy to Mask a Bad Case

    A lawyer representing an Orange County CVS pharmacist accused in 2011 of lying to the FBI about her role in funding international terrorism claims the government's case is weak and that prosecutors are abusing foreign intelligence secrecy rules.Defending Oytun Ayse Mihalik against the charge when th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Irvine Man Wants Off 'No Fly List,' Sues FBI

    It's easy to complain about air travel, especially when TSA agents feel you up like it's prom night and then the guy behind you plops his flaking feet on your arm rest. But typically, the end reward is getting where you want to go in a conceivable amount of time. Not for Stephen Persaud. On May 11, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    American Airlines' Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy, No Immediate Implications For John Wayne Airport

    ​This morning, American Airlines' parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but, for now at least, it won't impact passengers.AMR Corpororation, the company over American Airlines and American Eagle, voluntarily filed for Chapter 11, saying it was the next logical step in ensuring ... More >>

  • Music

    September 1, 2011

    'That Was a Good Club'

    The Good Foot ends on a high note

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    This Week in Food: Smoked Turkey Legs, Cinco de Drinko, and

    Flickr user madmarv00​This was Cinco de Mayo week, so we understandably went more Mexican than usual. But after the jump are non-Mexi delights and more!

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    5 Examples That Prove When the Going Gets Bizarre, the Bizarre Go to John Wayne Airport

    ​Recent reports of near-misses in the skies near John Wayne Airport are bad enough.But Orange County's commercial airport seems to have shifted from the scary to the bizarre over the past week.Check out the rundown of five recent examples of weirdness involving planes arriving at or leaving from J ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    5 Ways the Airline Industry Has Given Up on Us

    ​It's no secret airline travel has gotten worse in recent years, even before the 9/11 gut check. Normally, businesses facing that perception from customers would change their ways.Recent developments suggest the airline industry is doing just that: by totally giving up on the flying public. Five w ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 9, 2010

    Why Do Mexican Teenage Boys Shave Their Heads?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And do Mexicans care about mistranslations?

  • Culture

    August 12, 2010

    Student Discounts and Beyond, for Clothes and More

    [Trendzilla] Google, others can be your price-cutting pal

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    SeatGuru Lobbies for More Airline Loos

    SeatGuru.com is pooh-poohing the airline industry over "a going concern": customers having to wait in line for restrooms at 30,000 feet.  The online resource for air travelers calls this "bladder abuse." "Airlines with too few bathrooms per passenge ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    Who Killed Tootsie? And Should Her Owner Get Paid for Her Emotional Distress?

    SeatGuru.com is pooh-poohing the airline industry over "a going concern": customers having to wait in line for restrooms at 30,000 feet.  The online resource for air travelers calls this "bladder abuse." "Airlines with too few bathrooms per passenge ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 4, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    SeatGuru.com is pooh-poohing the airline industry over "a going concern": customers having to wait in line for restrooms at 30,000 feet.  The online resource for air travelers calls this "bladder abuse." "Airlines with too few bathrooms per passenge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Pentagon Flyover Hysteria Rocks the Internets

    Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what th ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Do You Believe a Passenger Jet Hit the Pentagon on 9/11? These Men Say You've Been 'PentaConned!'

    Ever since my cover story last Thursday hit the online conspiracy websites, my inbox has been bombarded with emails from folks obsessed with the events of Sept. 11, 2001 as they pertain to the U.S. Pentagon and an American Airlines jet that either did or didn't hit the building, depending on what th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2007

    My Morning Jacket at HOB Anaheim, 01/05/07

    I haven't been excited by any music in a long, long time. Wait, wait. Was that pretentious enough for you? No? Well, how about this: I haven't been excited by any new music in a long, long time. But Friday night's My Morning Jacket show at the House of Blues, Anaheim was the first concert in awh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2006

    Orange County developers snared in hot lesbo love in!

    Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Steven Hatfill's Big Idea

    Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 25, 2002

    Letters

    Don't know if you caught this buried in the LA "By God" Times' Jan. 12 front-pager on Governor Big Lippy sending his chief-of-staff out to court his big-money Republican donors: their first get together will be this coming Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Irvine Co.'s "Fantasy" Island Hotel (formerly the ... More >>

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Flack Attack

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 151

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Hippie Dick

    Raising psychedelic furs at Nixon Library kids camp

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    50 Reasons to Hate the Proposed El Toro International Airport

    Raising psychedelic furs at Nixon Library kids camp

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Off Again

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 112

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