The focus of controversial officer-involved shootings in Anaheim will turn to the Santa Ana office of the Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckus tomorrow morning. Family members who have lost loved ones will hold a demonstration at 9 a.m. asking supporters to join in the effort."We've been ... More >>
See the update at the end of this post with the name of the man police shot in the chest Sunday.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 22, 2:54 P.M.: The Anaheim neighborhood where 14-year-old John Perez was murdered in what police believe to be a gang shooting last week is growing increasingly sketchier. First, an of ... More >>
See the update at the end of this post with the dead young man's name and a college staff member's accusation of local media racism.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 1, 9 A.M.: Two men walking along West Ball Road near South Roberts Street in Anaheim early Saturday discovered a man who had been stabbed and was cl ... More >>
Updated, with new information on the bottom...ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 16, 6:30 A.M.: Well, this fucking rocks: the very week where we named Save Anaheim the best blog in Orange County for our annual Best Of issue, the minions of former Anaheim mayor Curt Pringle wage an all-out war on its author, Jason ... More >>
Monday, October 15Big BusinessAlex's BarFor those not familiar with the genre Sludge Metal, meet Big Business. Hailing from Seattle and signed to Gold Metal Records, they traffic in crunchy, chugging jams with wonky, drop-tuned strings. Reminiscent of instrumental metal band Pelican, Big Business fe ... More >>
One in an occasional series on the county's craziest political races...and while we don't endorse candidates, we can sure as hell tell you who's more pendejo than others!There is no municipal election that will grab more attention this year than Anaheim. This is the city, after all, that burned th ... More >>
After the police killings and riots in Anaheim this past summer, Theresa Smith wanted one day for the city of Anaheim to get together for a day of peace and healing. After taking her request to the Anaheim City Council for a community event during a public comment session on Aug. 8, fellow com ... More >>
There's so much to love about Oktoberfest--old men in cute little hats and suspenders, buxom beer babes, drunken sing-a-longs, sausages galore, the bicep workout you get while chugging out of steins. "Oans, zwoa, drei, Gsuffa!" (One, two, three, drink up!) We're in the height of t ... More >>
The five-day Anaheim Film Festival & Media Arts Expo opens Oct. 24 at the Ultraluxe Anaheim Cinemas at GardenWalk. It says so on the nonprofit Anaheim Film Arts Society's website. But if we've learned anything about showbiz, it's don't always believe your lying eyes.
Friday, September 28The English BeatThe Coach HouseIf we had to pick one '80s band with enough energy and tenacity to put most younger acts to shame, it would probably be the English Beat. Anyone who's caught one of their shows in recent years is aware that when it comes to performing, the legendary ... More >>
See Update No. 2 at the end of this post on a pet-industry lobby also having opposed the ban.See Update No. 1 on the performing animal ban proposal being pulled.ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 25, 9:41 A.M.: In showbiz, timing is everything, which explains why Feld Entertainment is bringing the big guns to ton ... More >>
Root for the vegetarian food, even though it's so-so, at Anaheim's deserted-for-now Center Street Promenade
Seven of nine candidates vying for two open seats on the Anaheim city council gathered last night for the first--and hopefully not the last--forum in the lead up to the November elections. Hosted by the West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council (WAND), the event, which took place at the Magnolia ... More >>
Opening statements began today in the criminal trial against Dr. David Hung Do, a former general practitioner accused of sexually assaulting three female patients by touching their breasts and vaginas during routine medical exams at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Anaheim. That should actually read ... More >>
It's that time of year when political aspirants put up campaign signs on every fence, light pole, and mound of dirt that will hold them. After winners and losers are sorted out at the ballot box, candidates in search of a little name recognition usually retreat until there's no sign of them anywhere ... More >>
[Editor's Note: This new Weekly music feature highlights outtakes and personal stories from bands who just finished working their asses off to put out new music.]Las Cafeteras, a seven-piece Latino folk-fusion band birthed out of the Eastside Café in El Sereno, keep the rhythms of son jarocho a ... More >>
As gazes were fixated on the space shuttle Endeavour flight in the skies above, the Gutierrez-Perez family and their Occupy allies announced a key victory this morning in the struggle to keep their Anaheim home. Earlier this month, an eviction notice was served effective September 2 on their residen ... More >>
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Jose Ucelo Gonzalez sought an honest day's work and compensation as many do outside the Home Depot on Brookhurst Street and Crescent Avenue in Anaheim back in March. The day laborer was hired by Michael Tebb, an Anaheim employer who used "Nick" as an alias, for a job in Garden Grove that unfortunate ... More >>
Occupy Orange County is planning a Rally for Justice event for Saturday in Pearson Park in Anaheim, celebrating of the upcoming one-year anniversary since protesters took over Zuccotti Park in New York City. Although the occupation of Zuccotti Park lasted for a mere eight weeks, and the subsequ ... More >>
Daniel Vidal Santana pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping, assault producing great bodily injury, two counts of sexual assault and auto theft for an early morning crime wave that included beating up a stripper he met at an Anaheim Club. As the Stanton resident awaits an Oct. 26 Superior Court senten ... More >>
As I said in my essay on Anaheim's Troubles this summer, I've long stayed away from city politics to protect friends and family who work at City Hall from vindictive politicos. Well, thank God city politics are so rotten that they deserve my attention, especially the biddy councilwoman named Gail Ea ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesBoth the Anaheim police officer who shot and killed 25 year-old Manuel Diaz on July 21 and the other who killed 21 year-old Joel Acevedo the very next day on July 22 are no longer on paid administrative leave. The two back-to-back officer-involved s ... More >>
See update at the end of this post on the arrest of Joseph Robert Suess.ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 30, 9:10 A.M.: Anaheim Police received an anonymous call shortly after midnight today about a possible burglary in progress in the 800 block of North Zeyn Street near Anaheim Boulevard.Officers arrived short ... More >>
PETA-Ringling Bros. war spills into Anaheim council chambers, where a circus-animal ban is proposed
See Also:*Cochinas Know How to Work the Streets*Pussy Riot Sentenced to Two Years for Anti-Putin Punk Prayer*Heretic to Film Live DVD in Santa AnaIf you're like me, then a big portion of your life before you were able to legally get wasted in public was making regular pilgrimages to makeshift all-ag ... More >>
A video of an alleged Anaheim Police brutality incident has gone viral, showing police beating a drunk man in an apartment complex. A contributor to BeforeItsNews.com posted the video, claiming the drunk man in the video initially resisted arrest after being restrained successfully, police continued ... More >>
The Buena Park Police Department is holding a DUI/drivers license checkpoint from 7 tonight to 2 a.m. Saturday in the 8000 block of La Palma.It's just one of several anti-DUI enforcement efforts planned around Orange County through Labor Day (Sept. 3).
Now that the whole world knows who is Anaheim city council candidate Steve Lodge--the pendejo who magically decided to start using a surname he hadn't professionally used in decades, if ever--because of a lawsuit, the well-funded, Republican-backed cop is crying he's the victim of an out-of-towner, ... More >>
"As part of an ongoing initiative against the commercial marijuana industry in California"--a.k.a. two-faced Obama's war on patients for Big Pharma--the feds today filed three asset forfeiture lawsuits targeting Anaheim clinics. "While these marijuana stores purport to be 'medical marijuana dispen ... More >>
If you need any further proof of how deluded the lords of Anaheim are, look no further than Bill O'Connell. He's one of the developers who successfully lobbied the Anaheim City Council to pass a controversial measure that allows him and his partner to collect 80 percent of the city's bed tax for the ... More >>
You know Anaheim Police have a thing for parolees.This month, cops there are also keeping an eye out especially for unlawful motorcyclists.So, if you are a parolee on a bike . . .
When three or more concepts are too close for comfort in similarity, us Forkers deem it a trend. Last year, we found Pieology sprouting by Cal State Fullerton, paralleling Chipotle's concept across the way. The "kustom" pizza strategy took off just down the street from where Yogurtland founder Phili ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting and subsequent desmadre archivesLike the good Boy Scouts they are, Anaheim cops were über-prepared two weeks ago when protesters, angered by the officer-involved shooting deaths of Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo, announced they would demand justice on July 2 ... More >>
Dozens of arrests were carried out today following a year-long investigation dubbed Operation Halo headed by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. The raid which, hit 54 locations including Anna Drive where unarmed resident Manuel Diaz was shot by police last month, was aimed a ... More >>
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Dozens of Anaheim residents outraged by the recent spate of officer involved shootings focused their anger addressing the city council again last night. A phalanx of news vans was parked on Lincoln Avenue as hundreds of people gathered in the massive auditorium at Anaheim High School. The location w ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting and subsequent desmadre archivesI'm far away from my beloved Anaheim right now, in the salt mines working on...something...but I couldn't help but to check in on the Kabuki theater that was last night's city council meeting held at my alma mater, Anaheim Hi ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesAhead of today's special council meeting at Anaheim High School's Cook Auditorium, the Disneyland Resort has backed the scrapping of at-large elections in the city in favor of a new district system, but not without throwing its dos centavos in as to ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesWith officer-involved shootings and angry protests in Anaheim exposing its race and class divisions across national and international headlines, Duane Roberts feels that the timing is right to make a bid for city council. In taking the first step, t ... More >>
Just returned from a weekend reunion of lifelong friends, political comrades and good eggs. We were young together once, and lived in tents on the lawn at UCLA, doing everybody's best to politicize other students and faculty, and talk the UC Regents into divesting from racist, apartheid So ... More >>
A vanished neighborhood holds the secrets to Anaheim's simmering discontent
A week after shootings that roiled the city, Anaheim still looks like a warzone
The scene that set the stage for Anaheim Latinos' eternal mistrust of police
Today, a small group of Anaheim residents addressed an emergency meeting of the city council before public officials went behind closed doors to discuss, among other things, a recent lawsuit brought against the city by the ACLU. The suit filed in June alleges the city's majority Latino population is ... More >>
A week after the streets outside Anaheim City Hall became the scene of a tense clash between protesters and police, community members gathered atop its steps today addressing the lack of Latino representation inside the council chambers. As it currently stands, the Mayor and three of the four city c ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesUPDATE, JULY 27, 2:37 P.M.: The fatal officer-involved shooting in an alley that ended the life of Martin Angel Hernandez earlier this year provoked differing accounts from the community and the Anaheim Police Department simmering tensions tha ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesEmails, tweets, and texts since Friday have been alerting me about how the Anaheim Police Department plan to confront the thousands of protestors expected to march today against police brutality and Anaheim City Council incompetence: with a armed fo ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesGo to the end of the story for the latest update...ORIGINAL POST, JULY 27, 7:51 A.M.: Reports are coming out of Anaheim this morning that there was a third officer-involved shooting early this morning. Police say that they responded to a burglary ca ... More >>
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesGo to the end of this post for the latest... ORIGINAL POST, JULY 27, 10:26 A.M.: Facebook is currently abuzz with members of Kelly's Army who were at the Anaheim protest on Tuesday alleging that they caught a police plant.According to onlookers ... More >>
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