Subject: Anaheim Hills

• OC Doggie Style: With Teeth

  As we raise our children, so we raise our pets. Today's Register contains a Greg Hardesty piece on National Dog Bite Prevention Week. Profiled is Klaudia Estrada, an Anaheim Hills mail carrier who has been twice bitten, one attack piercing the "tanned, smooth skin" of her right leg. Sounds like Hardesty wouldn't mind doing some piercing himself. Estrada was bitten once by a poodle, and once by a cocker-spaniel. Though she said it was "sort of embarrassing" to fall victim to such foofy dogs, keep

  May 24, 2006

• Best new movie gimmick since 3-D?

  Regal Cinemas has just announced a new program called the Guest Response System. Selected cinema patrons, all of whom are members of the Regal Crown frequent-customer rewards program, are given a paging device with four buttons to take into the auditorium. If a problem arises, they can press one of the controls to indicate an issue with (a) sound, (b) picture, (c) piracy, or (d) other disturbance. The manager will then immediately be alerted. Category D really leaves it wide open, though, doesn

  June 1, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Santa Ana Gag Ballers

  Math Skills Looted: Dr. Donny George, director of the Iraqi National Museum during the American invasion, spoke yesterday at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and caused “scattered gasps” by showing photographs of destroyed artifacts, writes Sean Emery at the Register. Emery notes that looters stole “15,000 artworks and artifacts” and a few paragraphs later calculated that “about half of what was taken” or “approximately 3,700” pieces were recovered. Let’s see: subtract the six,

  October 1, 2007

• More Quotes from Louie Perez of Los Lobos

  January 18, 2008

• Fullerton Thief with real Modest(o) "Low Expectations"*

  Wall Street rogue or just opportunistic, minor-league thief, there’s such a thing as setting your sights too high. There’s also setting them too low. . .like WAY too low. Fullerton police are reporting that a computer hard drive, stolen from Systematic Automation Inc., a local data processing outfit, contains the names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 3,500 people. Not residents of upscale, bazillionaire Villa Park, mind you. Not even Anaheim Hills, Irvine, San Clem

  February 13, 2008

• The Reg-O-Meter©: Interpreting Terry Horne's Tuesday reader letter

  Interpreting Register publisher Terry Horne’s Page 2 Tuesday letter to Reg readers, the same day the paper introduced a new slimmed-down format—all pages reduced by a one-inch width to save on the cost of newsprint. (You can just call it shrinkage.) Warning: Horne uses the word “exciting” twice in his letter—in our book, a coded phrase that means more layoffs and buyouts are a-comin’ . . . A MESSAGE FROM THE REGISTER’S PUBLISHER "The Register is making a notable change starting

  June 21, 2008

• Saturday Night Special

  Among the 600 competition shooters from around the world competing at the 2008 National Handgun Championships are four locals: Gary Chan of Anaheim Hills, Brennan Price of Fullerton, Michael Pelissier of Huntington Beach and Chris Endersby of San Clemente. The local pistol packers are now bound for the U.S. Shooting Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the Sept. 6-13 shoot-offs. The competition is presented by the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA). Practical shooting, also known a

  August 25, 2008

• The Kids Are All Right

  June 10, 1999

• Wholesome Choice to Open New Store in Anaheim Hills

  We have great tipsters*. Jerry de Vera is no exception. He sent me these pictures of his sighting, and it's a big one: A new location of Wholesome Choice, that Persian-market-cum-Whole-Foods-cum-International-Food-Court. He writes: "I noticed construction at this former Albertson's on my way to a Vietnamese restaurant located a few doors down. It's located in Anaheim Hills at the corner of Imperial Highway and La Palma, just north of the 91 Freeway." "I am a big fan of the Irvine Wholesome

  December 16, 2008

• 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 was slated to debut in February. Today, I got in touch with one of the managers who said that the Anaheim Hills store is "supposed to open this Friday, March 27th".  That's tomorrow!  Please comme

  March 26, 2009

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

  January 1, 2009

• No Madonna?

  August 14, 2008

• Jeremy Popoff

  June 29, 2000

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 24, 2008

• How the Wolf Survives

  January 17, 2008

• Sunday Best

  The Chance takes a big one with Stephen Sondheim’s smartest musical

  August 16, 2007

• Aural Reports

  Admiral of the Airwaves: John Penny guides KUCI through the non-mainstream

  August 9, 2007

• Nightmare Under a Dreamy Sky

  Suburban Escape hits us where we live

  January 4, 2007

• New Reviews

  Everyone's Hero; Haven; One: The Movie; Sherrybaby

  September 14, 2006

• New Reviews

  July 27, 2006

• Commie Girl

  California Coming Home: How I deducted my summer vacation

  July 20, 2006

• Mama Told Me Not to Come

  July 28, 2005

• BROADWAY HITLER

  July 7, 2005

• Gone Lenten

  March 31, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 17, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 10, 2005

• Playing for Keeps

  January 6, 2005

• White Collar Crackerjack

  September 9, 2004

• Politics-Free Zone

  August 12, 2004

• FDA FUs Plan B

  June 3, 2004

• Hamburger Heaven

  January 15, 2004

• Pass the bong, Shaggy

  August 14, 2003

• Staged Attack

  July 17, 2003

• This Heaven Can Wait

  May 29, 2003

• In New Spaces, No One Can Hear You Scream

  May 8, 2003

• Le Petit Chef

  March 27, 2003

• Fear Bikes Out

  November 28, 2002

• K

  October 24, 2002

• Meat Knowlwood!

  January 24, 2002

• Dont Hate Them Because Theyre Beautiful

  January 17, 2002

• No Beer Here

  November 8, 2001

• Feel Not Sorry for the People of Anaheim Hills

  September 13, 2001

• Its a Living

  September 6, 2001

• 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 Saturday afternoon and the store was packed with mostly people just 'checking things out'. The bakery was not up and running yet, but all of the other hot food stations were. A few observations: The ho

  April 7, 2009

• Starbucks News, Including Four Imminent Closures

  Yet another round of Starbucks closures was recently announced, including a dozen locations in Orange County. Combined with those from the previous wave that are yet to shutter, that makes 15, four of which (in bold below) have definite closing dates at this time.The branches set to close are:Anaheim Hills: 721 S. Weir Canyon Rd. (Sycamore Canyon Plaza)Brea: 2435 E. Imperial Blvd. (Brea Union Plaza). Last day May 10.Brea: 745 N. Brea Blvd.Cypress: 5373 Katella Ave.Dana Point: 24502 Del PradoDana

  May 1, 2009

• "The Back Nine" Returns to Orange County

  The Back Nine, a documentary about a 40-year-old man's dream to make the pro golf tour that made its world premiere at April's Newport Beach Film Festival, returns to an Orange County screen for one night only, Thursday, at the Cinema City Stadium 12 in Anaheim Hills.The 1 hour 40 minute film trails Jon Fitzgerald, who is credited with co-directing The Back Nine with another Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker, Ron Vignone. Now 42, Fitzgerald started working on the project a year before turn

  June 24, 2009

• Three Cheers For The Beers At Wholesome Choice

  Excuse me while I take a stand, but I just don't get the huge fuss over Wholesome Choice. I visited the Irvine store recently, not the newly revamped Anaheim Hills one, and found it overcrowded and underwhelming. Sure, they have some good ethnic foods and a popular food court, but if you need to buy regular groceries such as cereal and butter, the range is far more limited. To me, the fruit and vegetable selection was poor and the meat and fish counters deeply uninspiring.But one thing that did

  July 2, 2009

• OC Restaurant Closures During July

  ​Yes, it's that time again. After an optimistic June, when no restaurants (that we know of) closed for good, a few did so in July:Blue Coral Seafood & Spirits, Fashion Island, Newport BeachDickey's Barbecue Pit, IrvineBaja Fresh, Anaheim HillsZpizza, Foothill RanchTracht's, Long Beach. The official word is that "Suzanne Tracht and the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel have decided to end their business relationship.  Effective July 25, 2009, Tracht's Restaurant was replaced with The Renais

  July 31, 2009

• Tonight: Karaoke at the Foxfire

  My computer ain't working right, which means I have no idea what's going on in the world. But from memory I do know that tonight is karaoke at the Foxfire Restaurant in Anaheim Hills. Should I know that? No. But I do. I've never been to the Foxfire, but I've heard magical things about the place for more than a decade. Singing "Suspicious Minds" to cougars has been on my list of things to review for this here blog for a while now, but I just haven't made it yet. Soon folks, soon. Until then, why

  September 1, 2009

• Chance Theater Garners Six Ovation Awards

  Photo courtesy of the Chance TheaterHair: Give peace a Chance!​Blame the 40th anniversary of Woodstock this summer for the fact that the OC Weekly didn't put the Chance Theater's production of Hair on its must-review list. Just one more aromatic homage in a summer filled with Baby Boomer nostalgia.But, fortunately for the Anaheim Hills theater, lots of other people saw it--and more than several really dug it, because it's garnered six 2009 Ovation Awards.The Ovation Awards, which are chosen by

  October 23, 2009