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Catalina Island

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Steamers Jazz on Catalina Island

    ​Fullerton's Steamers Jazz Club continues its weekly summer series tonight on Catalina Island with the Edmund Velasco Quintet. The Friday night show is the latest highlighting Grammy-winning and up-and-coming musicians taking place at the Catalina Country Club.

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    100 Reasons to Be Ecstatic About Summer In OC!

    Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Dirty Heads to Play Catalina

    John Gilhooley/OC Weekly​Catalina Island is about to get a boost in its entertainment options via a musical performance from Huntington Beach stoner crew the Dirty Heads. The band will be playing July 29 at the Decanso Beach Club courtesy of the Santa Catalina Island Company who hooked up with loc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    [UPDATED with Honor Roll Beaches:] OC Beaches Score Excellent Grades on Heal the Bay Report Card

    Photo by Chasen Marshall/OC Weekly​UPDATE, MAY 27, 4:49 P.M.: The original report on Orange County's excellent showing on Heal the Bay's Beach Report Card left off the beaches that made the 2010-11 Honor Roll, and for good reason: the link to that list was broken.The link has since been repaired, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Party Foul: Dude on Beach Busted With 1500 Pounds of Weed

    ​There's an interesting little story on the Long Beach Press Telegram website today about what has to be the biggest marijuana bust on Catalina Island in recent memory. "Deputies arrested one man and seized 1,500 pounds of marijuana on a Catalina Island beach, authorities said today," the story sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    [UPDATED with Board Denial:] Parole for Lawrence Rayburn Cowell, Who Threw Buddy Out of Plane, Doesn't Fly With Rackauckas

    UPDATE, APRIL 26, 5:30 P.M.: The Board of Parole Hearings, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations today denied parole for Lawrence Rayburn Cowell.He will be eligible for his next parole hearing in 2016.The board heard opposition to the 62-year-old's parole on double 25 years to ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2010

    The Real Squatters of OC

    Can you really just show up at a multimillion-dollar Newport Coast home and move in without buying it or paying rent? Apparently, yes

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    New York Times OC Beach Advice is a Bust

    ​Poor Whitney Lomazow.She recently moved to Irvine from the Midwest and decided to turn to a dubious source for advice on which Orange County beaches to visit:The New York Times.That's like asking Betty White which skateboard to buy.

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Dana Rohrabacher Fibs Again

    ​"This is not done with any type of belligerency."--The hilariously disingenuous statement earlier this month by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher while visiting Catalina Island to confront a lone Mexican consulate official for distributing ID cards in the resort town of Avalon. To launch his June 3 el ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Dana Rohrabacher Blasts the Catholic Church on its Aztlanista Tendencies--Why Not on its Pedophilia?

    ​Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban Apologist) has been beating the drums against illegal immigrants recently, and is now going against the Catholic Church for following the wasy of the Nazarene when it comes to strangers in a foreign land, which begs the question: why has Dana never criticiz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Now, the Bad News for Orange County in Annual Beach Report Card From Heal the Bay

    flickr user AndrewEick​As mentioned in the accompanying post on "good news" for Orange County in Heal the Bay's annual Beach Report Card, many OC beaches scored perfect A grades and, overall, our shoreline experienced its cleanest dry weather season in six years.But not everything smells like a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Local Surfer Jodie Nelson Makes a Friend on Her Marathon Paddle

    Courtesy of Paddle With Purpose​Last weekend, co-founder of the SUP Spot and highly respected ambassador of stand-up paddling, Jodie Nelson, set out for an intense 39.8 mile paddle from Catalina Island to Dana Point during the Ohana Ocean Catalina Challenge, becoming the first woman ever to comple ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Local Surfer Jodie Nelson Paddles For Breast Cancer Awareness

    ​This weekend, co-founder of the SUP Spot and highly respected ambassador of stand-up paddling, Jodie Nelson, prepares for a historic challenge of being the first woman ever to paddle a grueling 39.8 miles from Catalina Island to Dana Point.

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2010

    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

    Bowers Museum

  • News

    February 4, 2010

    Drake Doremus' 'Douchebag' at Sundance

    OC stage prodigy-turned-filmmaker Drake Doremus brings his 'very personal' movie to Park City, Utah

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Irvine's Jen Schumacher Finishes Swim From Catalina

    JenSchumacher.com​Irvine's Jen Schumacher, who pushed off from Catalina Island around midnight and swam the channel to the Palos Verdes shore, arrived safely just before 9 this morning. Her official time: 9:02:43. After swimming past trash and plastic bags in the ocean, Schumacher decided to embar ... More >>

  • Food

    January 22, 2009

    At Pelican Hill's Andrea, the Service Is Everything You'd Expect, But the Food Is Unexpectedly Dull

    JenSchumacher.com​Irvine's Jen Schumacher, who pushed off from Catalina Island around midnight and swam the channel to the Palos Verdes shore, arrived safely just before 9 this morning. Her official time: 9:02:43. After swimming past trash and plastic bags in the ocean, Schumacher decided to embar ... More >>

  • Features

    June 12, 2008

    [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

    JenSchumacher.com​Irvine's Jen Schumacher, who pushed off from Catalina Island around midnight and swam the channel to the Palos Verdes shore, arrived safely just before 9 this morning. Her official time: 9:02:43. After swimming past trash and plastic bags in the ocean, Schumacher decided to embar ... More >>

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    A Bluer Shade of Orange

    The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

  • Features

    September 20, 2007

    Readers' Poll Winners

    Dont blame us: You picked em

  • Features

    September 20, 2007

    On the Range

    Ridin’, ropin’, rasslin’ & other games of skill & contests of  strength, blazing trails, seeing sights &, of course, Anteaters

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2007

    More Dead Birds

    Earlier this year, an impressive number of birds died near the mouth of the Santa Ana River. The cause of the deaths was never discovered. Today, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that seabirds all along the West Coast have been dying in exceptionally large numbers. This is the third year that s ... More >>

  • Features

    June 22, 2006

    June Gloom Boom

    Its getting hot in here . . . wait, no it isnt

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Fish-Free Sea

    You may live to see it in your lifetime

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    Persecution of a freedom fighter

    My day in the park with Michael Lavery

  • Features

    February 20, 2003

    Electric Horsemen

    Is a rodeo mafia covering up evidence of animal abuse in California?

  • Features

    February 1, 2001

    The People Behind the Food...

    Is a rodeo mafia covering up evidence of animal abuse in California?

  • Culture

    September 23, 1999

    Flyer Crashes

    Is a rodeo mafia covering up evidence of animal abuse in California?

  • Music

    May 27, 1999

    Beach Fest 99, with a whole bunch of bands and a good, bloody fistfight

    Is a rodeo mafia covering up evidence of animal abuse in California?

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