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February 22, 2012
OC Music Awards Announces Launch of iPhone App
The OC Music Awards announced the launch of its free iPhone app today featuring interviews, photos and playlists of bands participating in the nine-week competition. We here at Weekly World Headquarters were rightly hooked by the word "free," and proceeded to tap furiously at the faces of our pho ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
Inside the Mind of Luis Mijangos, Sextortion Hacker "Mistah X"
January's GQ has a fascinating piece on a fellow who turned up in our crime coverage the past couple years: Luis Mijangos, the so-called "sextortion" hacker out of Santa Ana sentenced Sept. 1 to six years in prison for cyber-terrorism. The 32-year-old undocumented immigrant hacked into dozens of ... More >>
Columns
September 15, 2011
Getting a Rise Out of Me
[Hey, You!] After sunset, you should probably keep the Good News to yourself
Blogs
September 2, 2011
WeedMaps Unveils New Amazon-Friendly Android App
General Cannabis, the Newport Beach company that owns WeedMaps, is celebrating the official launch of a new marijuana-club locating phone application. While WeedMaps has already released I-Tunes and Google Android apps, this latest version is specially designed to work for Amazon-platform Android ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
[UPDATED with Sentencing] Gary A. Shawkey's Trail of Lies Ends in Santa Ana, Where He's Found Guilty of Murdering Partner
ShawkeyUPDATED, JULY 22, 12:40 P.M.: Today in a Santa Ana courtroom, Gary A. Shawkey received his sentence for murdering a 71-year-old business partner in 2008: life in prison without the chance for parole. The victim was last seen on a boat with Shawkey, leaving Dana Point Harbor. It is believed ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
TSA Agents No Longer Get To See You Naked
BlueflySoon, air travel will no longer require passengers to put on a virtual strip show.The Transportation Security Administration announced that over the next few months, full-body scanners at airports nationwide will be upgraded with new software that eliminates "passenger-speci ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Kelly Janeth Mejia, Fullerton Cop, Placed on Paid Leave for Alleged Theft of iPad in Miami
Fullerton police officer Kelly Janeth Mejia was arrested last month for allegedly stealing an iPad from another traveler at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Miami International Airport.This week, the six-year veteran of the department was placed on paid administrati ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2011
E3 2011: Hands-off Impressions of New Kinect Hardware
Peter Mai/OC WeeklyUnlike Nintendo and Sony, Microsoft's biggest focus this year is all about software--specifically, software to support the Kinect sensor that was released half a year ago. Although the peripheral sold a world-record amount of units since launch, the amount of games and applicat ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
[UPDATED with Charges:] Trevor Harwell, Computer Tech, Accused of Using Spyware to Get Images of Naked Female Customers
UPDATE, JUNE 10, 1:11 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) has announced the charges filed against Trevor Timothy Harwell, the 20-year-old computer technician accused of secretly installing spyware on female customers' hard drives to capture images of them naked.The Fullerton ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2011
iPad-Equipped Restaurant Opens Tomorrow in Torrance; Cerritos in the Fall
Our sister blog Squid Ink and other LA food sites have been writing about Stacked for months. The hook of the restaurant is that each table is equipped with an iPad from which you order and customize your burgers, pizzas and salads via dragging the ingredients on Apple's tablet computer. You pay ... More >>
Film
April 21, 2011
Newport Beach Film Festival: Programmers' Picks!
A dozen of the finest the fest has to offer
Blogs
April 11, 2011
WeedMaps Owner Expanding OC Headquarters
No, General Cannabis isn't a Jamaican dancehall singer. It's a Nevada-based technology company that owns Weedmaps.com, CannaCare.com and other medical marijuana related concerns. The company is currently headquartered in Costa Mesa, but according to a press release today, it just moved into new o ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
New iPhone App Counts Calories in Your Food Photos
Usually, when we snap a cell phone pic of our meal, we're proclaiming to the world (or at least our Facebook followers), "This mac and cheese is scrumptious!"--not, "I just consumed 1,623 calories!" But alas, technology wins again. Meal Snap, a new iPhone app by DailyBurn, automat ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Controversy Over Smartphone Apps That List DUI Checkpoints
The Checkpointer iPhone App Accidentally drank too many brewskies and now need to bypass the cops on the dangerous drive home? There's an app for that. Several of them, actually, including the $4.99 iPhone "Checkpointer" by Baron Zweber, which lists DUI checkpoints in OC. According to ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Me Arlene Settle Could Get Stiff Prison Sentence for Role in International Phishing Ring
When federal indictments were announced in the fall of 2009 as part of Operation "Phish Phry," a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that led to charges against 100 people, it was hailed as the largest number of defendants ever charged in a cybercrime case. Fiv ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Forget The App, It's A Playable Angry Birds Cake!
There's SweetSpot Baker's Workshop, where they encourage fun Color-Me-Mine-ing your own cupcake. The gang at Blackmarket Bakery will even get you started with flames or waves, but the finishing touches are at your discretion. And you'll remember Michelle's post on the Angry Birds gingerbread hous ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
The Art of iPhone Photography
Facebook photo albums are littered with the digital debris of people spontaneously whipping out their iPhones and snapping the most mundane images. Kittens, gay beefcake, drunken frat parties, new babies, Republican Congressmen answering Craigslist postings; an influx of images, ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
UCI Presentation Explores Designing, Sharing and Customizing Video Games in Your Browser
An academic from Switzerland will be at UC Irvine this afternoon advocating a web-based game-design program aimed at the general public.Navid Ahmadi, who is on the faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, will present AgentWeb, a first-of-its-kind web-based game design and ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System
Don't know about you, but we got pretty attached to the Captcha commenting system. What started out as merely a utilitarian tool to make you prove that you weren't some bot trying to sell us UGG boots actually kind of grew on us.But now, Captcha--otherwise known as the Wavy Band Name Generator (" ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System
Don't know about you, but we got pretty attached to the Captcha commenting system. What started out as merely a utilitarian tool to make you prove that you weren't some bot trying to sell us UGG boots actually kind of grew on us.But now, Captcha--otherwise known as the Wavy Band Name Generator (" ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Introducing the New Disqus Commenting System
Don't know about you, but we got pretty attached to the Captcha commenting system. What started out as merely a utilitarian tool to make you prove that you aren't some bot trying to sell us UGG boots actually kind of grew on us.But now, Captcha--otherwise known as the Wavy Band Name Generat ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
[UPDATE] Three Things You Didn't Know About the 'Tron: Legacy' Soundtrack
The whole interview is up on KCRW.com. Listen to it here. "Solar Sailer," an instrumental track, will be offered today only as a free download.Last Saturday in Santa Monica, California, Disney unveiled parts of the Tron: Legacy soundtrack. Five of the 22 tracks were previewed, and director Jose ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Miguel Antonio Mendoza Accused of Sexually Assaulting Boy and Distributing Porn to Minors
Do you know this man?More importantly, do your boys know Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 20, of Orange?The former part-time aide in Villa Park Elementary School's afterschool program is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and using a cell phone application to distribute pornography to ot ... More >>
Columns
July 29, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Do you know this man?More importantly, do your boys know Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 20, of Orange?The former part-time aide in Villa Park Elementary School's afterschool program is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and using a cell phone application to distribute pornography to ot ... More >>
Columns
July 22, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Do you know this man?More importantly, do your boys know Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 20, of Orange?The former part-time aide in Villa Park Elementary School's afterschool program is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and using a cell phone application to distribute pornography to ot ... More >>
Columns
July 15, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Do you know this man?More importantly, do your boys know Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 20, of Orange?The former part-time aide in Villa Park Elementary School's afterschool program is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and using a cell phone application to distribute pornography to ot ... More >>
Columns
July 1, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Do you know this man?More importantly, do your boys know Miguel Antonio Mendoza, 20, of Orange?The former part-time aide in Villa Park Elementary School's afterschool program is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and using a cell phone application to distribute pornography to ot ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
Forgotten Amid the Apple iPad Hype
Photo by David BaconSomehow this must have slipped by amid all the hoopla for the Apple iPad: hours were so long and conditions were so bad for Chinese workers making the gizmos that some committed suicide.That was the motivation behind a protest in front of Apple's flagship San Francisco store o ... More >>
Columns
June 17, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Photo by David BaconSomehow this must have slipped by amid all the hoopla for the Apple iPad: hours were so long and conditions were so bad for Chinese workers making the gizmos that some committed suicide.That was the motivation behind a protest in front of Apple's flagship San Francisco store o ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2010
Video Game Lecture Wades Into Walden Pond
Walden, a game about the experience of author Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, helps demonstrate experimental video game design at a UC Irvine presentation this afternoon.
Columns
June 3, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Walden, a game about the experience of author Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, helps demonstrate experimental video game design at a UC Irvine presentation this afternoon.
Columns
May 27, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Walden, a game about the experience of author Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, helps demonstrate experimental video game design at a UC Irvine presentation this afternoon.
Columns
May 20, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Walden, a game about the experience of author Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, helps demonstrate experimental video game design at a UC Irvine presentation this afternoon.
Blogs
October 8, 2009
Dance Music Pick of the Week: Joris Voorn at Code
Krijin van NoordwijkOnce every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced th ... More >>
Culture
October 8, 2009
[Trendzilla] Laptops of Luxury
Krijin van NoordwijkOnce every few years a game-changing album will accelerate the evolution of electronic dance music. The Prodigy added punk rock aggression to the scene in 1992 (Experience), the Chemical Brothers became the Beatles of club-land in 1995 (Exit Planet Dust) and Moby introduced th ... More >>
Calendar
September 24, 2009
Christian TV
Chain Reaction
Blogs
July 23, 2009
Welcome to Agrestic, errrrr, Orange County
When did Showtime's Weeds, which is set in Valencia or Calabasas or Santa Clarita or Stevenson Ranch or Gorman or wherever the hell it is, spring up in Orange County? It's sure seeming very Agrestic-like based on two police incidents mere hours apart Wednesday.First, cops started going door-to ... More >>
Blogs
August 22, 2008
Pardon Our Digital Dust
So our website has changed quite a bit. Many of the differences are intentional. Some of the others are, um, not. If you're having problems using our online article archive search feature, or if you click through on a link and it takes you nowhere, it's not you. It's us. Our crack development team ... More >>
Music
January 10, 2008
Aural Reports
Debutante Squall: Millionaires' naughty intentions and catchy electro pay dividends
Blogs
November 19, 2007
Graveyard shift at the Times' OC plant, anyone?
If your dream job involves working 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. or 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., has the Los Angeles Times got something for you! Get Informed about a company built on courage, achievement and creativity. A company that’s part of the most dynamic industry in the world – media! The Los An ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2007
Earth to Sol-T
Listen, buddy. Nominating yourself for "best local hip-hop artist" on our online poll DOZENS of times ain't gonna get you a place in print. So quit spamming my inbox. Besides, aren't you from...Los Angeles? Which makes the nomination, y'know, moot. UPDATE: Sol-T's people tell us that page was outd ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2007
Beach Break: Send in the Clowns - Eventually
On the corner of Pine Avenue and Shoreline Drive in downtown Long Beach hangs a banner. It says "COMING SOON." and it's been hanging for years from what is supposed to be the newest Laugh Factory at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor. A November 2003 article in the Long Beach Press Telegram celebrated th ... More >>
News
January 11, 2007
Theyre My friends and Im a Swinger!
OC businessman allegedly sold fake computers during the day, call girls at night
Blogs
December 20, 2005
Insta-Feedback to the New Website
The names have been withheld to protect our incense. Your Favorite Time-Waster's answers--not that anyone asked for them--appear in groovy italics: Where did the link to the personals.ocweekly go on the home page? http://personals.ocweekly.com With the new website format instituted today, WHAT ... More >>
News
March 27, 2003
The Danger of Google History in a Time of War
Or Dennis Prager called me a liar
Music
August 22, 2002
Mad-Scientist Rock!
Or Dennis Prager called me a liar
Culture
July 19, 2001
By Any Means Necessary
Finding new, free music without Napster
Unknown
September 28, 2000
Burning Sensation
Finding new, free music without Napster
News
April 29, 1999
Bombay Breakdown
Finding new, free music without Napster
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December 24, 1998
Millennium Plan Madness
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