Subject: Cars and Car Design

• Popcorn and Greenhouse Gases (non Al Gore edition)

  Hot on the heels of last night's Orange County Film Society's premier of Chris Paine's Who Killed the Electric Car?– a documentary that makes the "compelling case: that oil companies, automakers, lawmakers, consumers and the media killed a workable solution to air pollution, global warming, soaring gas prices, dwindling oil reserves and international terrorism", according to the Weekly's film maven (and chicken and vegan pasta enthusiast) Matt Coker– comes the news that "American car

  June 28, 2006

• The Undercover War on Terror at UCI

  Muslim students at UC Irvine are upset by the actions of an undercover FBI agent on campus, according to a report by Marla Jo Fisher in today's Orange County Register. Here's Fisher: This week, UCI's Muslim Student Union has been holding twice-daily speeches and rallies called "Israel: Apartheid Resurrected" to protest Israeli policies toward Palestinians. As part of the protests, students erected a mock wall near the student center. UCI officials, citing university policy about large displa

  May 18, 2007

• Children's Dreams Splattered Across 5 Freeway

  Oh, God, it was awful. There I was, driving home, around 6:30, on the I-5 South. There is almost always traffic, but I noticed it was especially congested yesterday. Whatever—I only had a couple exits to go. So as I inched along, the cars in front of me were merging away from the middle lane. We've all see it before: A nasty old piece of furniture falls off a moving van, or some truck loses a box of something. But not yesterday. As I approached the scene, I was horrified to see . .

  June 8, 2007

• Lamborghini's on the Wall

  Don't know if you caught last Saturday's LA Times story on millionaire Richard Moriarty bolting a Lamborghini he paid $60,000 for 10 years ago to the wall of his $2 million, Newport Beach oceanfront estate. If Moriarty does, as he threatened to near the end of the article and have tire tread marks painted on his wall, betcha he'll have plenty of visitors who'll think Bo Stefan Eriksson drove it up there. But as Your Favorite Black Power-Fisted It's Time-piece was reading the Moriarty piece, we f

  May 18, 2006

• Ink Envy

  June 13, 2007

• Snap Judgment: Fad Feet

  I was running across a parking lot at the OC Fair this afternoon when I spotted the sticker pictured here on a parked Ford SUV. That's probably the cutest version of the "family in car" mass fad sticker I've seen yet. It's usually the semi-sexist girls-in-skirts and guys-as-people family portrait I spy on the highway. Or the tacky everyone-in-Mickey-hats sticker ironically seen on another vehicle a few cars down. Poll - Take Our Poll

  August 4, 2007

• Pop Rocks

  December 11, 2008

• Sailor Donald

  November 13, 2008

• Cold Sweat

  September 4, 2008

• Motor Heads

  September 4, 2008

• Built for Speed

  July 3, 2008

• Begin to Hope

  January 10, 2008

• Burning Up

  January 10, 2008

• Shahab Zargari and Heela Naqshband's Top 5

  June 26, 2003

• Baby, You Can Still Drive My Electric Car

  May 18, 2006

• American to the Bone, Daddy

  Hootenanny Fest goes 'Yee-Hah!' for cars, girls and roots music

  July 5, 2007

• German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

  December 18, 2003

• Prius Drivers Have Discovered the Hybrid Car Can Take Them On an Unexpected Adventure

  April 23, 2009

• 'We've Ridden Every Mile'

  August 3, 2006

• Hey, You!

  May 4, 2006

• This Week in Demolition Derby Losers

  February 2, 2006

• Beeming

  July 7, 2005

• Pardon My Lunch

  November 25, 2004

• All Up In Your Grill

  September 30, 2004

• Eight Days

  April 1, 2004

• TIWJD

  March 11, 2004

• Hot-Rod Home

  February 12, 2004

• German Healthcare, Santa Ana Politics

  December 25, 2003

• Patriots Travel Package

  November 20, 2003

• Real Men Make Furniture

  October 30, 2003

• Dude, Wheres My Electric Car!?!

  May 15, 2003

• Squirrel Masher 5000!

  November 21, 2002

• Flipper Off

  November 14, 2002

• Want Sushi, Slacks and a Massage With That Mercedes?

  October 17, 2002

• Letters

  May 9, 2002

• Bombshell!

  February 14, 2002

• Man Bites Snake

  November 15, 2001

• Ad Infinitum

  June 28, 2001

• The Edwards Crown Affair

  October 19, 2000

• Heal the SUV

  June 8, 2000

• Letters

  November 4, 1999

• The $1.2 Million Holiday!

  December 17, 1998

• To Do This Weekend 5/22 - 5/24

  Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, Fri., May 22 thru Sun., May 31, 8 p.m.The new production titled, Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, will feature a large cast of performers. The story is set in 1920's San Pedro, the Port Town of Los Angeles amid the demonstrations of union activists during the worker's movement.Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, CA; 310-433-8774Battlestar Abstractica, Daily 1 p.m. thru June 30Fantastical visions of what the future might possibly be li

  May 22, 2009

• Classic Car Show

  December 25, 2008

• Hootenanny

  July 2, 2009

• Treasures of Napoleon

  October 8, 2009

• What Do Futuristic Cars, Hooters Girls and 18-Foot-Tall Autobot "Bumblebee" Have in Common?

  "Futuristic concept cars, eye-popping exotics, pre-production models, interactive ride and drives and the latest alternative fuel options" are promised at the OC Auto Show, which opens for a four-day run at Anaheim Convention Center this afternoon. Swell. When will our flying Jetsons cars roll off the line?

  October 15, 2009

• Rumble and Rock

  October 15, 2009

• Wing, Wheels, Rotors and Expo

  October 22, 2009

• Rock Around the Park

  November 12, 2009