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May 14, 2012
HBO's The Weight of the Nation Scales Santa Ana's Obesity Problem
Santa Ana gets a closeup in tonight's HBO documentary The Weight of the Nation.Not that Santa Ana's chamber of commerce is trumpeting the appearance. The documentary is about the obesity epidemic in the United States.
Blogs
March 16, 2012
This Week in Terrifying Food News: Red Meat Kills, Fatty Food Zaps Sperm, Imported Seafood Causes Outbreaks
Hate to be a buzzkill right before St. Patrick's de Drinko, but man, this week sucked in food news. Let's recap, shall we? (Spoiler alert: We're all gonna die.)
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Freeway Pollution Linked to Brain Damage, Autism
Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal, of all places, put it best: "Congested cities are fast becoming test tubes for scientists studying the impact of traffic fumes on the brain."And what are these researchers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston, New York, North Carolina, Beij ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Ivan Von Staich, Convicted Murderer Who Scored Win in Parole Bid, Has Menaced Courts for Years
The state parole board Wednesday found suitable for parole a two-time jail escapee convicted of bludgeoning a former girlfriend with a claw hammer and fatally shooting her husband in 1983. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas opposed Ivan Von Staich's parole bid, but if the 55-year-old is ultimately ... More >>
Film
September 8, 2011
'Contagion' Shows It Can Happen Here
Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head
Blogs
September 6, 2011
William Charles Payton, Who Still Sits on Death Row for 1980 Rape-Murder, Loses Latest Appeal
CDCPaytonWilliam Charles Payton raped and murdered Pamela Montgomery in the early morning hours of May 26, 1980, stabbing her 12 times, six of the wounds in a line from Montgomery's stomach to her groin. After that he repeatedly stabbed Montgomery's Garden Grove boarding house landlady, Patricia ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2011
Why Is Subway Adding Vitamin D and Calcium To Its Bread?
Edwin GoeiSubway has announced that it will add Vitamin D and calcium to all its breads, except for their English muffins and flatbreads. According to Nation's Restaurant News, eating a Subway six-inch sub will now give you 30% of the recommended daily allowance of calcium and 20% of the recommen ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
[UPDATED: Billboards Removed] Anti-Choice Billboards Pop Up in California, Call a Latina's Womb 'Dangerous'
UPDATE, JUNE 21, 3:57 P.M.: If you haven't seen the anti-choice billboards in Los Angeles that proclaim, "The most dangerous place for a Latino is in the womb," you missed your chance--at least for now.All three billboards, which were paid for by The Latino Partnership for Conservative P ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Anti-Choice Billboards Pop Up in California, Call a Latina's Womb 'Dangerous'
Where's the most dangerous place for a Latino/a to be?unidosporlavida.org.mxWell, according to a throng of recently-unveiled billboards in Los Angeles, it's inside their mom's womb. Gabriela Valle, senior director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, says the billboards, which st ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Lawsuits Allege Salmonella Poisoning!
In 2010, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention linked Taco Bell to a salmonella outbreak that left hundreds sick (but thankfully none dead). Two of those supposedly affected are now suing the company in Ohio courts, but I'm going to highlight the eating exploits of one of them affect ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
In 2010, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention linked Taco Bell to a salmonella outbreak that left hundreds sick (but thankfully none dead). Two of those supposedly affected are now suing the company in Ohio courts, but I'm going to highlight the eating exploits of one of them affect ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Andy Irons' Widow Trying To Delay Release Of Autopsy Report
©ASP/RobertsonHis win in Tahiti was Andy Irons' last before passing away.Controversy and questions have surrounded the tragic passing of world champion surfer Andy Irons, who was found dead in a Grapevine, Texas hotel room on Nov. 2, 2010.There was talk of drugs and foul play, or possibly a bad ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
World AIDS Day is Marked in Orange County and Marked in Red in Downtown Long Beach
Orange County does not go as ga-ga--Lady or otherwise--for World AIDS Day as many other municipalities (especially nearby Long Beach). But there are some commemorations today in the onetime gay mecca of Laguna Beach and Saturday in the future gay mecca of Santa Ana.
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Sexually Aggressive Kids More Likely to Have Seen Violent Porn, Claims Local Research
Viewing violent x-rated material may contribute to sexually aggressive behavior among 10-17 year olds, according to a Santa Ana-based research firm. Youth who look at violent porn are six times more likely to force someone else to do something sexual online or in-person versus kids who are not ex ... More >>
News
November 18, 2010
Shock the Junkie
A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?
Blogs
August 5, 2010
Serpentine to Avoid Flying Serpentine!
When state Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) recently proposed legislation that would de-list serpentine as the state rock on grounds the mineral "contains asbestos, a known carcinogen," it raised hackles from the left and right.For instance, the New York Times editorial board opined, "To our m ... More >>
Columns
April 29, 2010
Iceback-Spotting?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And: Do Mexicans measure up?
Columns
December 17, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Do Mexican Muchachos Like Asian Muchachas?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And: Do Mexicans measure up?
Columns
September 3, 2009
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Wedding-Bell Azules
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And: Do Mexicans measure up?
Blogs
April 29, 2009
Hey CSULB Students, Don't Bother With the Surgi Masks, They're Useless!
After essentially quarantining a CSULB student who has received a "probable positive test" (um, is it or isn't it?) for piggy flu, health officials on the Long Beach campus handed out surgical face masks to students on campus who have "been paranoid," according to a Press Telegram report. Only probl ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2009
Supervisors Abort Planned Parenthood Funding
As anticipated, the Orange County Board of Supervisors today cut about $300,000 in Planned Parenthood health education funding by canceling the nonprofit's contract through the Coalition of Orange County Community Clinics. Each Supe cited a moral objection to Orange-based Planned Parenthood providin ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
MADD Has Become "a Tastless Joke," According to Study Author
You were told here about a study published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion that argues California should lower its drinking age for beer and wine to 18 and set up a system of low-alcohol bars. Mike Males, the study's author and senior researcher at the San Francis ... More >>
Columns
July 31, 2008
[Pucker Up] Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men
You were told here about a study published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion that argues California should lower its drinking age for beer and wine to 18 and set up a system of low-alcohol bars. Mike Males, the study's author and senior researcher at the San Francis ... More >>
Culture
January 24, 2008
The Future Is Now!
Beirut is a timeless metaphor of the past
Blogs
July 19, 2007
Beach Break: Swimming in shit
Three months ago, Heal the Bay, a Santa Monica-based environmental group, released its 17th Annual Beach Report Card. Although the group noted an overall improvement in the quality of water at California beaches, it reported that Long Beach had suffered a “dramatic drop in water quality” during ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2006
25 years later
It was twenty-five years ago today, June, 5, 1981, that the first cases of what would become known as HIV/AIDS were reported in the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It was by no means the beginning of the disease– a recent study has identified the earliest i ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2006
A Little Bit Pregnant
Whoever said you can't be a little bit pregnant never reckoned with the can-do spirit of the Bush administration. As the Washington Post reports: New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant ... More >>
Columns
April 20, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
April 12 - April 18
News
August 25, 2005
Less Christ, More Right
Rick Warren unveils his strategy to fight AIDS: the gospel of the GOP
Features
August 25, 2005
Fat Like Me
A pigs-eye view of the Happiest Place on Earth
Features
October 21, 2004
Best of OC 2004: Part 1
A pigs-eye view of the Happiest Place on Earth
Features
September 23, 2004
Ouch!
Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?
Features
September 2, 2004
Its Snot Unusual
Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction
News
April 22, 2004
In one corner, Jimmy Breslin!
In another, the foremost clerical authority on degenerate sex!
Features
January 15, 2004
Like,Gross!
Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!
Columns
January 16, 2003
Is That a Stinger Missile in Your Pants?
Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!
News
April 11, 2002
Seizures in the Middle East
Four Reasons to Throw Away this Issue NOW!
Features
February 14, 2002
I Could Fill Your Ear
Quotations from the files of the Reverend Lou Sheldon
Features
January 18, 2001
True Life at the Register
My so-called life at Orange Countys biggest daily newspaper
Columns
February 10, 2000
Crisis in the Mosh Pit
My so-called life at Orange Countys biggest daily newspaper
News
October 7, 1999
The Death Ray
Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world
Columns
July 15, 1999
Letters
Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world
News
July 15, 1999
Dana Swings
Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world
News
May 13, 1999
This Sister Oughta Be Famous
But of local publicity, this world-famous AIDS activist gets nun
Columns
October 1, 1998
Out of Sight
But of local publicity, this world-famous AIDS activist gets nun
News
August 13, 1998
Hail, Caesar Salad
Budget's stuck, so Wilson scrambles for egg bill

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