Subject: Botox

• Thursday's Headlines

  About that balloon: The Register has an update on the Great Park balloon story for y'all. Ready? OK: People are actually riding it. Yep, that's the update. Later! (More balloon photos from the Weekly's trip here.) While the web editor's away: Kevin Roderick of LA Observed took a much-needed vacation, but the folks running the site in his absence missed the OC Reg departing publisher story. Roderick would have been all over that one. So they didn't break the news, no big, but it's quite strange

  August 23, 2007

• A note to Rick Reiff regarding a whiff of corruption

  Dear Rick: As the host of KOCE's Inside OC, you nearly have a monopoly when it comes to getting important stories on local television. I watched a rerun tonight of your recent interview with embattled OC Treasurer/Tax Collector Chriss (I'm sick of people emailing me on this. His first name is spelled this way.) Street and Nick Berardino, general manager of the OC (government) Employees Association. For those of you out of the loop, Street is the man in control of a few billion dollars of our

  September 5, 2007

• The "Real" Housewives of Orange County

  Well, this week the housewives were pretty fucking boring. I mean, way more boring than usual. I know it's hard to be more pointless than they already are, but somehow they managed. I really wonder what these women think when they get out of bed in the morning. Do they think their lives are somehow more important or relevant than others' simply because they are on television? It certainly seems that way, at least for some of them. Take Tamra for example. She is one shit-talking, self-obsessed,

  January 9, 2008

• Because You're Ugly: Sponsored by Botox

  Sure, LA Fashion Week has nothing to do with Orange County, but one show did have an open bar, so OCW's Erin DeWitt and Amanda Parsons headed up to the City of Angeles for some cocktails and criticism. Plus, Kara Sahn from Project Runway (season one) was there representing Botox (Amanda needs that), so as avid fans of the show we were there in no time. The GenArt event was held at the Park Plaza hotel; a sprawling decadent venue with two separate rooms featuring designer showcases, an outside

  March 10, 2008

• OC Journalism Loses Reporter, At Least Temporarily

  It's a sad fact that Orange County serves as home to numerous shills pretending to be journalists, but we've also been blessed with excellent reporters who've served their time here before graduating to the national and international stage. To name a few: Dexter Filkins, who has won acclaim for his fearless Iraq War coverage in the New York Times, and best-selling author J.R. Moehringer. The next rising star might be The Orange County Register's Peggy Lowe, who has made often cynical and bitch

  July 28, 2008

• Is Orange County Injecting Itself Into a "Judicial Hellhole"?

  Our stuck-up neighbor to the north, Los Angeles County, is among America's leading "Judicial Hellholes," which is what the American Tort Reform Association calls finalists on its annual list of the nation's most unfair civil court jurisdictions. But don't gloat too hard, Orange Countians, because we made the list of jurisdictions to watch. R. Scott Moxley's Weekly investigation of October 2006 revealed that David Gunther--the ex-drug dealer, dead-beat dad and burglar pictured here--had made a sm

  December 16, 2008

• Because You're Ugly: Orange County Puts Vanity on Hold

  Orange County? Postponing implants and Botox? The New York Times is reporting that in Orange County, "where plastic surgery is a part of [our] culture" (sigh), business is down 30 to 40 percent.  The story chalks it up to both financial constraints and, surprisingly, even a "Botox backlash"--men and women finally disparaging the unnatural, plastic look cosmetic surgeries all too often generates.  And more good news for your Friday afternoon: Other researchers are finding that less sex, more

  December 19, 2008

• Even Our Sister Paper Thinks Orange County Is Lame

  I'm not naive--I knew before coming here that Orange County didn't have the best reputation among outsiders (too conservative, not hip enough, not enough to do, etc.). I didn't think it was a big deal; where I come from doesn't exactly have the most street cred, either, and I've really enjoyed my time here thus far and find the stereotypes to be largely untrue. But the negative perception persists, even among one of our Village Voice Media sister papers, the SF Weekly, who had this to say last w

  January 21, 2009

• [CD Review] Common, 'Universal Mind Control' (Geffen)

  December 11, 2008

• It's a Quick Read 6

  Orange County Register: Mickadeit: He peels off a classic on the squabble between Donna Crean's kids over her fate. . . . Did you feel the window-rattling jolt about 9:15 last night? I did. I figured it was a small earthquake, although it was very quick, like a sonic boom. It violently shook my back patio sliding glass window for about half a second. Hundreds of people all across Orange County experienced this also--and they informed "Science Dude" Gary Robbins, who checked a

  March 4, 2009

• Welcome to the Poorhouse: Saggy Man Boobs Edition

  Whenever they's a wrinkle eating away at vain people, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop not doing a double take as a pair of hooters goes by, I'll be there. . . .. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're in a gentleman's club an' I'll be in the way trophy wives laugh when they're gossiping about their nannies' flat butts an' they know their celery, parsley and air lunch's ready. An' when folks smile like the Joker an' can't shut their eyes when they sneeze--why, I'll be there.To think I tho

  March 26, 2009

• [Hey, You!] Breaking the Circle of Life

  February 26, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Fetishizing Childish Things

  February 5, 2009

• The Curious Case of 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

  December 25, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] Senator Dick Ackerman Does the Right Thing In the Case of James Ochoa

  August 14, 2008

• Despite the Labels and Levity, the Big-Screen 'Sex and the City' Is a Poor-Man's Knockoff

  May 29, 2008

• Culture Clash Looks for the Real Orange County at South Coast Rep

  March 13, 2008

• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

  May 29, 2003

• Summer Smart Growth

  Make sure those D cups runneth over

  June 7, 2007

• New Reviews

  Black Friday; Bridge to Terabithia; Eklavya: The Royal Guard; Ghost Rider; Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls
  

  February 15, 2007

• Diary of a Mad Year

  Jan. 1-Dec. 13

  December 28, 2006

• A Mighty Whiff

  Christopher Guests latest Hollywood dart is duller than his first

  November 23, 2006

• Grave Circumstances

  October 19, 2006

• Infinite Chest

  October 19, 2006

• Do I Look Old in These Jeans?

  May 11, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 23, 2006

• The Real Housewives of Orange County

  January 5, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 24, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  October 20, 2005

• Best Music Writing 2004

  December 30, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 2, 2004

• Best of OC 2004: Part 2

  October 21, 2004

• Eight Days

  August 19, 2004

• Pocketful of Miracles

  August 5, 2004

• New Face in Hell

  July 15, 2004

• Adios, Maria

  February 12, 2004

• Respect the Rear, People!

  February 12, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 3, 2003

• Hyatt Riot

  February 20, 2003

• We Could Be Heroes

  February 20, 2003

• OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

  January 2, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 7, 2002

• Lick My Colin Powell!

  October 10, 2002

• Shoot Me Now

  May 9, 2002

• You Look Super!

  May 9, 2002

• 7 Newport Beach Film Festival Bottom Feeders

  To gear up local filmgoers for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30, the Weekly compiled "10 for the Tenth," brief reviews of some of the best festival features, documentaries and shorts we pre-screened for your consumption. We also blogged 5 more recommendations. 'Cause that's how we roll. But that's not all we saw. Indeed, some efforts were . . . gulp . . . how to put it? Let's just say one man's Gigantic may be another's C

  April 16, 2009

• Newport Beach Film Fest Opens With Flick, Vodka, Hot Porn Action!

  Photos by Bleu Cotton The scene at Fashion Island.The 10th Newport Beach Film Festival opened Thursday night at Edwards "Big Newport" with "celebrity" arrivals, flashing cameras and my exclusive red-carpet interview with Oscar-nominated film composer Marc Shaiman of Hairspray! and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut fame. Marc Shaiman on the red carpetME [seconds after a festival official pushed me in front of Shaiman and ordered an interview]: So, uh, what are you doing here?SHA

  April 24, 2009