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First Look: Provisions Market In Old Towne Orange

With 30 beers on tap and another 300 by the bottle, Wil Dee has his work cut out for him. Haven Gastropub's beverage director dropped in as Greg Daniels conducted our tour of the soon-to-be open Provisions Market (formerly The Bruery Provisions). We discussed their menu, changes to the space and the ... More >>

Two 40 South's Wine-a-Whirl

How fun are the vino-vending machines at the Brea bistro? Very!

Charles Best, DonorsChoose.org CEO, Explains How To Feel Good About Paying for Gasoline

The way gas prices have yo-yo'd recently, it's time to fill up as they're down--as I type this, anyway, before the Hurricane Sandy excuse hits the West Coast, as to the last excuse when California's prices were higher than everyone else's because, uh, California refineries are so damn close to us. W ... More >>

The Five Best Wins for Democracy in Orange County Last Night

You're going to read a lot about our experiences last night tomorrow, when the dead-tree edition of this infernal rag appears. Today? A buncha lists breaking down what was a giant win for Democrats last night, but also conservative victories that ensure this county is slowly, truly becoming an egali ... More >>

5 Sets of 2012 Orange County Election Losers

Anyone else hope someone switches the seating cards at the next Orange County Mayors Breakfast so that Tri sits next to Tita? Tri Ta became Westminster's first Vietnamese-American mayor and, he claims, the first in the country to win a mayoral seat via the voters rather than appointment. Meanwhile, ... More >>

Long Beach Lunch: Dave's World Famous Burgers

For far too long, the 1950s-era face clock attached to the Dave's Burgers sign on Atlantic Avenue has sat looming over the roadway with no hands, mocking me. "Time To Eat!" the face of the clock declared. And yet, it never actually told me the time. But last month, a new replica of the weathered, ... More >>

Danny Noriego Doesn't Like ICE

[Moxley Confidential] Why are government officials protecting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who almost killed an innocent Anaheim man?

Five Gas Stations In Orange County That You Don't Want to Fill Up On

​It used to be said that everything was more expensive in California. And until our housing market crashed, it might have been true. But at least one thing remains ridiculously overpriced here--gasoline. California's average cost of gas is now $4.34 for regular gas, while the national average is c ... More >>

Rogelio Nava-Rivera Accused of Machete Attack

Rogelio Nava-Rivera​Imagine pulling into your neighborhood Chevron station and seeing a guy with a machete hacking up a vehicle's hood, smashing the driver's and rear driver's side window and then turning the blade to the driver inside.This happened at my neighborhood Chevron station Wednesday eve ... More >>

Newport Beach Chevron Station Owner Who Cooked the Books Must Pay Oil Giant's Attorney Fees

​Trouble began for Newport Beach Chevron gas station owner Mansoor Ghaneeian when his bookkeeper told a Chevron USA auditor that the company's designated dealer of record kept a second set of accounting books.That eventually led to a suit against Ghaneeian by Chevron, a counterclaim that a feder ... More >>

[UPDATED with More Details:] OC's Largest Municipal Solar Energy Efficiency Project Shines Today

​UPDATE, JULY 21, 8:47 A.M.: Though the ribbon-cutting unveiling the largest municipal solar energy efficiency project in Orange County is this morning, the city of Brea is already reaping savings that have exceeded expectations. For the month of June, there was a 65% reduction in electricity cost ... More >>

Little Scream: 'Just Thinking of Elliot Smith Helps Me Write Better Songs'

​Montreal's Little Scream renews my faith in music. Singer/songwriter Laurel Sprengelmeyer (who looks like a young Susan Sarandon, apparently) is touring to support her debut, The Golden Record, a gorgeous set of folk/pop songs that she named after the 1977 Voyager space-shuttle time-cap ... More >>

Homeboy Industries Music Releases 'The Big Lay-Off'

​ Last year was a tumultuous ride for the heralded LA-based institution known as Homeboy Industries. Despite its reputable work over two decades in transforming the lives of gang members through employment and other programs, its money coffers have dried up. The organization, founded by Boyle Heig ... More >>

Hibbleton Gallery Owner on Coyote Hills, Chevron, Supervisorial Candidate Shawn Nelson, and James Lipton

​​​​Every once in a while, we get dispatches from community members--some good, some bad, some hackish. The following is good, and comes from a good guy: Jesse La Tour, owner of the awesome Hibbleton Gallery in Fullerton, one of the few places for art that I bother to visit. Here is his acco ... More >>

"Green" Company to Pay $15 Million for Polluting

​Safety-Kleen System Inc. is a national distributor of cleaning solvents. Their products have names like Ecopower motor oil, Icebreaker windshield washer fluid, Khameleon antifreeze and KleenMist II wastewater treatment. They say they are green, well, they better be made of it, because they owe $1 ... More >>

Screw Who Tiger Woods Screws, And Pay Attention to Chevron!

By now, everyone knows of the scandal involving Cypress' own Tiger Woods, involved in a mysterious car crash near his Orlando-area home this past Thanksgiving holiday supposedly caused by his philandering ways (our favorite rumor: that he told a pal he needs a "Kobe Special," also known as a Zales r ... More >>

Wacky Snacks: Zooland & Carland Printed Biscuits

​ So it's been a while since we've done one of these "Wacky Snacks" posts.  It was put on hiatus not because there was a lack of "Wacky Snacks" out there, but because it takes a lot of time to produce an episode, er, blog post, what with the picture taking and ingredient li ... More >>

Full Film Slate: "Imagine This," "Crude," (the Return of) "The Cove," "Coco Before Chanel" and Michael Moore's Latest Polemic

Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead. "Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains. First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion ... More >>

Crime Time: Beer Bandits, Blood Drippers, Ripped-Off Stripper Drivers, Bowling Alley Knife Fights, Men With No Pants Roaming San Clemente

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more beer bandits, wild chases, ripped-off stripper drivers, bowling alley knife fights and men without pants.TUESDAY, SEPT. 8Strippers' Backup Needs Backup A man who told police he was hired to be a driver for strippers met with anot ... More >>

Crime Time: Stabbings, Curfews, Drunk Marines, Drunk Councilman and Van's a-Rockin'

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more stabbings and [alleged] drunken-driving politicians . . . Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentKnew those Trader Joe's bags were good for something . . .​MONDAY, JULY 27Cash and Carry A man walked up with a Trader Joe's b ... More >>

Battle Over What Remains of Coyote Hills Heats Up Again

WestCoyoteHills.comPacific Coast Homes rendering for a section of West Coyote Hills. Whenever plans heat up to build ever more estate homes in the highlands ringing Fullerton, Friends of Coyote Hills mobilizes the masses in the flats to come out against more building there. Well, here we are in the ... More >>

Spain, Chapman University Debaters Are Out to Get John Yoo

So the big question when John Yoo speaks at Chapman University next week about presidential power is: Will he be shackled? Probably not, seeing as how this is not Spain, but were Orange within the Iberian Peninsula nation and NATO ally, he'd be under criminal indictment for sanctioning torture at Gu ... More >>

The Hibbleton Exhibits Photographers With the Rot Stuff

Tiger Woods: Corporate Stooge?

One of my favorite columns is "Edge of Sports," written by Dave Zirin. The man combines the best of sportswriting and progressive politics, disproving those asshole hipsters who say sports means nothing in this world. When Zirin's People's History of Sports arrives later this year, y'all crazy lefti ... More >>

Mostly, No

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, the propositions!

Thar's Coyotes in Them Thar Hills

Downtown Street March

Baby, You Can Still Drive My Electric Car

As gas prices soar and Americans lose their taste for foreign oil, OC's biggest EV booster sounds like a prophet

'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

NOT showing at NBFF: Pray for Me: The Jason Jessee Movie

Change in the air?

This is certainly a refreshing development, although the participation of a gubernatorial candidate smacks of political posturing. NEW REPORT ON COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA, ELSEWHERE TO FIND WIDE DISPARITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSES; INVESTORS WILL PUSH POOR-PERFORMING FIRMS TO SHAPE UP NEWS ADVISOR ... More >>

La Habra

It Must Have Been One Hell of a Party

Light & Space playboys come to Irvine older, richer

Eight Days

Fire Foxes in the Hen House?

HB Fire Department overrules planners, residents on soil safety

Ooze Responsible?

Oil leak just the latest example of neglect at Surf City dumpsite

Bitter Harvest

Four Huntington Beach kids have died of a rare disease. Officials say theres no pattern. The parents say the answer could be underground

Crude Attitude

Residents pressure city to test for contamination at former Chevron site

Feel the Love

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Emo Incorporated

Seduced by Flour Chips!

The lure of Ricardos El Ranchito

Sweeeeeet!

Her life is a box of chocolates

Now You See It, Now You Don't

The Old and the Restless

Kimberly Akimbo seems irrelevent

Shut That Bitch Up!

Rage Among the Weight Machines

Yoove Gott a Frend in Gee-zus

Road to Nowhere

Irvines Car Culture is desperately in need of speed

Got Gas?

25 things to consider on April 30

Beach Boulevard Breakdown

A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare