Subject: Buena Park

• Shoot me once...

  A Buena Park man who was shot in the head last August during a robbery at the liquor store he worked at was pistol-whipped until he was unconscious during a holdup at the same store Wednesday morning. Mote Malhaus was working behind the counter at Sunshine Market and Liquor when two men in hooded sweat shirts walked in, jumped over the counter, put Malhaus in a choke hold and clocked him over the head with a gun repeatedly, The Orange County Register reported. The Weekly placed a call to the

  June 5, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines

  The Register discovers prostitution on -gasp- Craigslist: One reader responds "Thank you OCR writer for ruining my NSA sex hook up. This article was written like 5 years ago." Almost as bad as the Times discovering Matt Drudge? Crumbling masterpieces: The LAT's Ashley Powers profiles Greg LeBon and his Orange County sand sculpting team, Archisand. Read Powers' OC coverage while you can. Rumor has it she'll be reporting from Vegas soon. It's 8 a.m., where in the world is the Buena Park City Cou

  September 4, 2007

• Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: Carona stripped of more powers

  Stripping Carona: Sheriff Mike Carona is no longer on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He says he resigned. The feds say he was forced out. Yet another deputy behaving badly? Richard Rodriguez, 43, a sheriff's deputy assigned to OCTA, has been charged with the false imprisonment of 12 prostitutes, who he allegedly sexually assaulted while pretending to be on police business, reports the Times. Cops! On ebay! The police aren't just trolling chat rooms for predators these days. They're on

  November 16, 2007

• Citizen of the Week!

  On Dec. 17, 2005, Gi Jeon Moon thought it would be cool to pull down his pants and masturbate next to a sleeping young woman. Though just friends who’d met at DUI classes several years earlier, she’d come to his Buena Park apartment that night for dinner. They drank beer, and after she’d become intoxicated, she asked to sleep over because she didn’t want to drive home drunk. Moon suggested more drinks. She declined, noting the late hour and her tired condition. Still being a gentleman, h

  May 28, 2008

• To Do Tonight 10/9

  OC Weekly's Best of OC Party, 7 p.m. Celebrate the release of our 13th annual Best Of OC issue with live entertainment, eclectic hors d'oeuvres and complimentary beer, wine and spirits. i Lounge 18912 Macarthur Blvd. Irvine, CA 92612 The Crystal Method, 9 p.m. Um, yeah. Tentation Ultra Lounge 4647 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach, CA 949-660-1010 Club Rok, 8:30 p.m. Beats the hell out of club scissors. Cantina Lounge 2736 E. Nutwood Ave. Fullerton, CA (714) 879-8094 Quarantine Premiere At Knott

  October 9, 2008

• Armed and Dangerous

  November 4, 1999

• To Do Tonight 10/13

  Myspace Music Presents Goldrush featuring: Santogold, Mates of State, Low vs. Diamond, Alice Smith, 8 p.m. Woot woot! $22.50-$25.50 House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim, CA 714-778-2583 Karaoke Madness, 9 p.m. O the madness! Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach, CA 949-261-6270 Drive for Special Olympics, 11 a.m. The fifth annual golf tournament and fundraiser, exclusively benefiting Special Olympics Orange County. Arroyo Trabuco Golf Course 26772 Avery Parkway Mission Vi

  October 13, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "Good Medicine" Daffodil J. Altan interviews Mary Jo Frawley of Doctors Without Borders, who may live in Sunset Beach, but her head and hart are in Sri Lanka, Somalia, Mexico, Angola . . . News has Daffodil J. Altan explaining how Santa Ana Unified School District offers a lesson in upgrading and downsizing at the same time in "Renovation Under the Radar". Plus... • The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey You! and Savage Love. • Restaurant reviews of Irvine's newes

  December 5, 2008

• Mobile Dairy Classroom Ignores La Palma, Cypress, and Why That Matters

  It's cool that the Dairy Council of California is in the midst of an Orange County elementary school tour involving a Holstein cow and calf and lessons on how milk is made, but there's just one major oversight. The self-described "educational milking parlor on wheels" will visit kiddies in SanTana, Orange, Anaheim, and Buena Park, but whither Cypress and La Palma? After all, those two cities were the epicenter of the Orange County milking industry, so much so that each originally incorporated as

  February 16, 2009

• [Hole in the Wall] Manila Grille Takes the Pinoy Path

  March 12, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 21

  Orange County Register: It's not the happiest place on Earth today, as Disneyland begins laying off back-office employees and telling employees of a Paradise Pier Hotel restaurant it will close. . . . Motivational speaker Gary Shawkey was booked into Orange County Jail on murder charges after spinning wild tales about criss-crossing the country in search of his business partner, who is believed to be the victim. . . . Firefighters battling a blaze at a Santa Ana commercial storage building

  March 27, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 24

  Orange County Register: Remember that recent lawsuit brought by the Newport Beach cop who claimed to have been passed over for promotions amid rumors and derogatory comments he was gay? Moxley has been blogging all about it. Anyhoo, Buena Park police officer Pedro Montez has filed a suit alleging the same thing--with a Latin twist! CALIENTE! . . . But who'll save the wee mountain lions? Scientists who track cougars (the non-Desperate Housewives kind) say t

  April 2, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 29

  Orange County Register: Anaheim police want to question two men shown in an Angel Stadium surveillance video in the opening day assault death of Brian Powers, 27, of Buena Park. That's right, sports fans, they're even watching you in the cheap seats. . . . A man who was arrested at Disneyland last year was sentenced to 429 years to life in jail. No, it's not Mickey Mouse justice. Police learned wanted felon Anthony Hislar, 27, of Monrovia, was at the theme park, where he was apprehended and

  April 9, 2009

• [This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Pay Teriyaki Forward at Tokyo Teriyaki

  December 4, 2008

• Flowers of the Sea

  November 20, 2008

• Mrs. Robinson?

  April 24, 2008

• Did Crimes Kamran Mashayekhi Witnessed Put His Life in Danger?

  February 21, 2008

• Out of the Ashes

  The delectable saga of Thai Nakorn enters its third act

  May 10, 2007

• Grub Guide

  December 7, 2006

• Grub Guide

  October 12, 2006

• Grub Guide

  October 5, 2006

• Grub Guide

  September 21, 2006

• Grub Guide

  September 14, 2006

• Grub Guide

  August 10, 2006

• Grub Guide

  June 8, 2006

• The CPCs Hidden Empire

  June 8, 2006

• Eight Days

  November 10, 2005

• 'Wooooooooooow!'

  October 27, 2005

• Buena Park

  October 20, 2005

• Meat Loaf Matinee

  December 23, 2004

• WELCOME WAGON

  May 8, 2003

• Exit Strategies

  February 13, 2003

• B

  October 24, 2002

• Buena Park

  September 27, 2001

• In the Name of the Father

  December 28, 2000

• WENCHES

  January 6, 2000

• An Open Letter to the Residents of Buena Park

  December 16, 1999

• Bye Bye Birdie

  December 16, 1999

• Diver Down

  August 13, 1998

• The Last Crime Mike Carona Committed on His Sentencing Day (To Our Knowledge)?

  Since no one correctly guessed who made the prison-rape crack about disgraced, felonious ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona (it was Buena Park pastor Wiley Drake, although the last guess--KOCE-TV's Real Orange anchor Ann Pulice--was HILARIOUS) and we so desperately want to give away the cover above, I submit another trivia challenge:As Carona, his wife, and attorney Brian Sun left the courthouse Monday and the mob of amateur reporters (bloggers and YouTubers) that trailed them like stray dogs

  April 29, 2009

• Kogi, At Last!

  Saturday, May 2, 2009. This was the night. I could feel it. I was going to finally sink my teeth into something the whole of L.A. had been talking about and enjoying for months. Unless you've been holed up in the Unabomber shack or haven't been reading my entries on this blog, I'm talking, of course, about the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck. But first, a little history. Flash back to last October, when out of the blue, I got an e-mail from a person named Alice. She reads my blog, she said

  May 3, 2009

• It's Finally Kogi Korean-Barbecue Taco Truck Season in OC

  May 14, 2009

• Moderate Earthquake Strikes LA, OC

  Crashing PlatesAt 8:39 p.m., an estimated 5.0 magnitude earthquake centered in the Hawthorne/Inglewood area rocked Los Angeles and Orange County, according to me, my neighbors and Caltech. In Santa Ana, the quake felt like it lasted about 15 seconds and seemed determined to topple a bookcase. LA news outlets are wrongly reporting that only LA residents felt the shaking.No doubt that Rev. Wiley Drake of Buena Park will blame the plate tectonics on the Long Beach gay pride festival that's underw

  May 17, 2009

• Kogi in OC! Kogi in OC! Tonight!!!

  Just got late breaking word about Kogi. Because of troubles with the Lakewood police, they are changing their location to Buena Park tonight: 9 p.m.-12 a.m. Corner of Fresca & Valley View, one block east of Orangethorphe!!!! Also, a reminder: be nice, people! Don't cut, don't fight, and be respectful of the rules. Lines will be long, but don't give the cops a reason to bust up the party again. UPDATE: There was a last minute location change to Santa Fe Springs, logged around 10 p.m. Tun

  April 25, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Leads List of OC's July 4 Teabaggers

  Just call him Rev. TeabaggerThe Rev. Wiley Drake, last heard from praying for President Barack Obama's death, leads the list of Orange Countains who have stepped up to lead the "Official Tax Day TEA Party" in their communities on July 4.TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way. Besides the controversial pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, teabaggers and the towns they represent include: Greyson Peltier, Aliso Viejo; Roberto Guererro, also Buena Park; Barbara Smyth, Dana

  June 15, 2009

• Crime Time: Small Fries, Bad Tenants and the Church Lady

  It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--small fry edition . . . MONDAY, JULY 20Artist's rendering of Bank of America robber. He may belong to that notorious street gang, the Lollipop Kids.​Watch Those Kids at the Playground A 3-year-old boy was at the playground in Ponderosa Park in the 2100 block of South Haster Street, Anaheim, with his 11-year-old sister and 12-year-old cousin, their moms keeping an eye on them. As the littlest one slid down the slide around 10:30 a.m., a m

  July 28, 2009

• Just Another Orange County Murder: Jasmine Fiore Car Found

  UPDATED THROUGHOUT! The final piece in the puzzle explaining how swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore was brutally murdered and mutilated, as well as whether anyone helped now dead murder suspect Ryan Alexander Jenkins kill and/or dispose of the body in a Buena Park dumpster, could have been found with the discovery of the victim's missing luxury car in West Hollywood. A Trader Joe's shopper called police Wednesday afternoon to report the white 2007 Mercedes-Benz was parked ne

  August 27, 2009

• John's Incredible Pizza Co. Opens Today in Buena Park Downtown

  johnspizza.com The official story here is that John's Incredible Pizza Co. opens at Buena Park Downtown today.  It has been reported that the 60,000 square feet mega restaurant occupies the whole lower floor of the mall.  And I mean the whole lower floor.A few months ago, I saw the construction, and it looks ambitious -- sort of like a Chuck E. Cheese merged with a Dave and Busters, times two.  This fact is confirmed by the virtual tour that they have on their website, which I have to say is

  July 13, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 6/1

  Engage/NEA Writers Event, 2 p.m.You think you have what it takes to be a writer? Too bad you're so old. Luckily age is just a number to the folks at Engage, a nationally recognized nonprofit leader in the field of creativity and aging. They're hosting a National Endowment for the Arts today where writers and artists will offer presentations to low-income seniors living in affordable senior apartment communities in Fountain Valley and Buena Park. Founders Village Senior Center, 17967 Bushard Str

  June 1, 2009

• Just Another Orange County Murder: George Springer

  View Larger Map Police responding to a shots fired call around 12:20 a.m. Sunday in the 8500 block of Bel Air Street in Buena Park arrived to find 42-year-old George Stringer lying face down in front of a home. He'd been blasted with a shotgun.

  September 14, 2009