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  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Ron Paul Supporters Invade LA Times Festival of Books, Make Asses of Themselves

    Just like their candidate, Ron Paul supporters don't seem to know the meaning of the words "sit down."It took an auditorium full of annoyed bookish types to start yelling this command during the Q&A session of the Narrating Disaster panel at this past weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Book ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 27, 2011

    Irvine Fine Arts Center Welcomes the 99 Percent

    Three exhibits show the world in perpetual Occupy mode

  • Culture

    October 20, 2011

    Be Hipster Ariel for Halloween This Year!

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  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    MoveOn.org Comes to the Rescue of Taxes Today

    ​Taxes must be suffering from battered women's syndrome about now. We're all like, "Aw come on, baby. You know I loves ya," Then--BAM!--corporations and rich people rap taxes upside the head, saying they ain't returning to Clinton-era levels. Then we get all lovey-dovey again and--WHAM!--House Rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Reg Reporter Jon Cassidy Proves News Doesn't Have to be Bland

    Roarbarker​Too often mainstream news reports of political meetings are boring, colorless recitations that quickly drive readers to the next story.But Jon Cassidy at The Orange County Register recently demonstrated that this sad state of affairs doesn't always have to be the case.On March 25, Cassi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Obama Administration Announces Ban On New Offshore Drilling; Thank The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Hopefully not for at least another 7 years.​In direct conflict with its previous proclamations, the Obama administration today announced that there will not be any further new offshore oil drilling along the Atlantic Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Coast. At least, not for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    EXCLUSIVE! Online Premiere of the Steelwells' Video, 'El Capitan'

    ​When Fullerton's the Steelwells won Best New Artist and Best Song at the OC Music Awards earlier this year, they took home more than just a statue. Part of the prize for Best Song was an opportunity to make a music video courtesy of the OC Music Awards and Akorn Entertainment. Watch the e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Stephanie Morgan of Seabirds, Part Two

    Photo by Kimberly Valenzuela​Today we continue our Q&A with Stephanie Morgan of Seabirds, the one and only vegan gourmet food truck in Orange County. If you missed the first part, click here. Stay tuned tomorrow for our final installment: a recipe. What would you'd like to see more of i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Battle Report: Blake Lively Uses Comic-Con to Bring Out Her Big Guns

    ​Katy Perry might have fired the first shot in this year's Boob War, but it looks like Blake Lively might be the one to fire the last one that ends it all.Our battle report shows who has the advantage.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Seal Beach, Saying Enough is Enough, Wants BP/ARCO to Remove Contaminated Soil

    David Falconer/National Archives​After three decades of trying to end contamination from a gasoline station leak in Seal Beach, the City Council has voted to direct BP/ARCO to dig out the tainted soil.The company was asked 25 years ago to do something about the contamination at PCH and Fifth Stree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    As Everyone Looks Down at What Gulf Oil Spill Has Wrought, UC Irvine Researchers Look Up

    ​Tar balls created by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico reached the Texas shore today.But researchers from UC Irvine are not looking at the sands, shorelines and waters impacted by the muck, they are checking out the air hovering over the spill zone. The initial findings: all is not well.

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Orly Taitz Wants to Sue for Gen. McChrystal, Testify Against Elena Kagan

    Christopher Victorio / OC Weekly​On the heels of her failed bid to become the Republican nominee for Secretary of State, Orange County's top birther and not-top dentist Orly Taitz has kept up her fervent blogging. The theme of late seems to be Taitz wondering aloud about which soon- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2010

    Titanic

    Bay Theatre

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    John Campbell Weighs in on Totally Predictable BP Apology Scandal

    Flickr user tifotter / Creative Commons​A mild brouhaha broke out today when Texas congressman Joe Barton told BP CEO Tony Hayward that he was "ashamed" at the way the Obama administration had asked the notorious oil-spilling company to set aside $20 billion in a fund to help cover the damages cau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Gettin' Made: Shopping to Help the Gulf

    Face it, folks. The BP oil debacle in the Gulf Coast is depressing as hell. And the fact that there's not a whole lot any of us can do about it doesn't help things. Kate from Etsy shop Flapperdoodle has stepped up to try and give us a way to do something, though, by starting up a collective sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    All Disasters Aren't Created Equal: Six Reasons the Music Industry Isn't Singing Over Spilt Oil

    ​Every summer has its Big Story This year, it's the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an ecological and financial disaster that is quickly reaching such staggering proportions that the human mind can't comprehend it. It's like trying to count grains of sand on a beach -- or in this case grains o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Coal-Mountain Mama Julia Bonds Talks to the Tree-Huggers

    ​What's an Applachian coal-mining foe doing in the GOP tea party stronghold of Orange County?"She's red meat for the eco-nuts," said Ed Amador, co-organizer of Saturday's Treehuggers' Ball in bucolic Baker Canyon for the Canyon Land Conservation Fund. There was more vegan cheese than beef at this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Seal Beach Neighbors to Protest BP and Arco

    ​Residents of the Bridgeport neighborhood in Seal Beach have previously warned those living along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline that they may have a long wait before British Petroluem (BP) cleans up its oily mess. The Orange Countians know because they have been fighting BP for years over contamina ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Seize BP Sets Sights on Shamed Oil Company and Long Beach Aquarium

    ​The national Seize BP Campaign--it has organized demonstrations against British Petroleum through Thursday in more than 50 cities across the country--is coming to Long Beach Wednesday to protest the shamed oil company and a new target: Aquarium of the Pacific."The Aquarium, which claims its missi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Seize BP Has an OC Protest, Too

    ecotrust.org​Turns out there's an Orange County protest against British Petroleum Wednesday to go along with the one we wrote about here in neighboring Long Beach, at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Details after the jump.

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Map Brings Home British Petroleum Disaster

    ​The website If It Was My Home allows anyone to personalize the magnitude of the British Petroleum (BO) Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill--also known as "the greatest environmental disaster in United States history."The site opens with a map superimposing the shape of the spill as of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Costa Mesa Arco Gas Station Tries to Hide its Relationship with British Petroleum

    Fill 'er up with spin!​I think the only people more hated right now by Americans than Mexicans is anything or anyone having any relationship with British Petroleum, or BP for short. Knowing that, the Arco gas station on the corner of Red Hill and Bristol in Costa Mesa has gone to the extraordinary ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2006

    SpongeTodd: Mr. Spitzer masters the freebie

    Proving once again that the driest of bureaucratic documents often contain the most interesting things, Judy Lin of the Sacramento Bee digs through the disclosure forms that state lawmakers are required to file and discovers: ... from January 2005 to June 30, 2006, groups with business at the Capito ... More >>

  • News

    January 15, 2004

    Watching the Carbon Detective

    UCI prof Sue Trumbore is out to find the Missing Sink

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Mr. Spineless, to You

    New suit, more questions ON DA, ARCO

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Spot the Gas Leak

    The year in Tony Rackauckas

  • Features

    December 26, 2002

    Toxic Politics

    District Attorney Tony Rackauckas weighed his own political future against the safety of Orange County's drinking water and decided to save his own skin

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    ARCO settlement

    District Attorney Tony Rackauckas weighed his own political future against the safety of Orange County's drinking water and decided to save his own skin

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    George Bush, Failed Corporate Crook

    District Attorney Tony Rackauckas weighed his own political future against the safety of Orange County's drinking water and decided to save his own skin

  • Columns

    June 14, 2001

    Now You See It, Now You Don't

    District Attorney Tony Rackauckas weighed his own political future against the safety of Orange County's drinking water and decided to save his own skin

  • Columns

    September 21, 2000

    Screaming Bedlam

    Horrifying stories ripped from the pages of todays newspapers

  • News

    February 17, 2000

    Globaloney

    Rohrabacher torches latest global-warming report

  • News

    September 2, 1999

    Down on the Fuel-Tank Farm

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 116

  • News

    May 6, 1999

    Got Gas?

    25 things to consider on April 30

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