Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Marcus Jarosch's Family Sues Allergan for Teen's Wrongful Death via Botox Injections

The parents of a teen who died of botulism claim in Orange County Superior Court it was caused by Allergan of Irvine illegally pushing off-label uses of Botox.Doctors can prescribe drugs for uses beyond what is specified on warning labels, but drug companies cannot by law.

Men Alive: Strike a Pose!

Irvine Barclay Theater

Patient Med-Aid: For Those Sick Enough to Smoke

A peek inside Orange County's most exclusive medical-marijuana club, one no one wants to join

Did Santa Ana Unified Serve Students Peanut Butter Sandwiches Possibly Contaminated With Salmonella Despite Company Recall?

Coming on the heels of a Weekly exposé documenting how officials at the Santa Ana Unified School District let lettuce rot, then threw it away comes rumors that workers served peanut butter sandwich to students that was the subject of a recall due to possible salmonella contamination--this despite d ... More >>

Ralphie May Talks Jews, Dancing With The Stars' Man Pumps and Being a "Filthy Fuck"

When you look at Ralphie May, you might see big, and you'd be right. He draws big crowds, brings big talent and has the ability to cross big boarders and be loved by people worldwide. We'd say that's a big accomplishment and this weekend, you've gotta get in on the big laughs that Ralphie May will b ... More >>

Deer Tick Want You

To be politically aware, frolic in sandals (if you're a girl) and avoid Mitt Romney

Deer Tick

Yost

Toad the Wet Sprocket

The Coach House

Dengue Fever Going Back to Southeast Asia to Tour for the Third Time

​Dengue Fever is going back to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in November on the "Electric Mekong Tour" with the cooperation and support of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. embassies in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and local promoter in Cambodia, Dickon Verey. The band received the Arts Envoy grant, d ... More >>

As Ducks Die in OC, Are Gnatcatchers Next?

Small but deadly to land developers.​Readers of the Weekly before there was a Weekly may recall the California gnatcatcher, a cute little bird who managed to stop development in its tracks in Orange County in the early 1990s, cause Donald Bren to forever be saddled with a menacing Mr. Burns squint ... More >>

'Contagion' Shows It Can Happen Here

Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head

Nobel Laureate: Pathogen in Beef May Cause Colon Cancer

​Harald zur Hausen is a towering figure in the world of cancer research, being that he was the first scientist to link cervical cancer to the human papilloma virus (HPV) and has produced other groundbreaking research on the subject. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2008, so whe ... More >>

Memorial Day Metal: Free Sampler from Victory Records

​If you're looking for a thunderous soundtrack for the Memorial Day barbecue scene, check out the Victory Records Facebook page for a free 13-track sampler available through Monday.    The highlights are "Unravel" from Cleveland's Ringworm, and "Firefight" from Blackguard's newest releas ... More >>

Gettin' Made: She Blinded Me With Crafty Science

One of my best friends is a microbiologist, and with that comes a special love for all science-themed crafts. So when I saw a link to the Scientific Culture shop on Etsy, it was love at first smarty-pants sight. Lab Ware art post cards by Scientific Culture​ After the jump, get your s ... More >>

Free Tickets: Dengue Fever Pocahaunted; Canvas Berlin

www.myspace.com/denguefevermusic​ So we're giving away two pairs of tickets to Dengue Fever's show at the Detroit on May 29, Saturday and a pair of tickets to Santa Ana indie pop band Canvas and old-school, local new wave band Berlin's show at the House of Blues on Friday, May 28.  Find out h ... More >>

What You Missed: AIDS Walk Orange County, the National, Doheny Blues Festival

Christopher Victorio24th Annual AIDS Walk Orange County​On Saturday morning, Harvey Milk Day, the 24th annual AIDS Walk Orange County raised awareness of much-needed funds for HIV/AIDS prevention. The day's events included art, a family fun zone and food festival, a pie-eating contest, Great Pa ... More >>

Angelina Armani vs. Darren James Porn Star Smackdown

Darren James: Wrap 'em​The question before state regulators last week was whether to form a committee to explore whether porn actors have to wear condoms while shooting dirty pictures.As we mentioned here, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards is under pressure from t ... More >>

Obama, Economy, War, Swine Flu, Iran Election Crack Alamanac's Top 10 News Topics of 2009

Here are The World Almanac and Book of Facts Top Ten News Topics of 2009:​1. Obama Presidency Begins. With the U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Barack Obama swearing in as the nation's 44th president Jan. 20 in Washington, DC.her ... More >>

B HERE is Here for Hepatitis B Sufferers with Free Art Exhibit and Live Show Today

Comedienne Happy Slip performs tonight--and you can see her free.​The B HERE campaign that raises awareness of the life-threatening disease hepatitis B launched Thursday, but it really swings into high gear on the UC Irvine campus today. First, a free art exhibit featuring works ... More >>

"Natural Doctor" featured in OC Register Charged With Being a Fake

Daryn Peterson Daryn Peterson must have been flying pretty high on June 10, when he opened the Orange County Register and read Courtney Perkes' feature story on him, "A Rejection of Western Medicine." Today, the 37-year-old Las Vegas resident was arrested and charged with unauth ... More >>

SOL Cucina to Open This Month in Newport Beach

Got word that a new Mexican restaurant called SOL Cucina is slated to open in Newport Beach at the end of the month in the space vacated by Ristorante Mama Gina (251 Pacific Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92660).  Here are snippets from the website:  "An open 'proscenium' kitchen with c ... More >>

Center Long Beach Presents Its 1st Charity Bike Ride

The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach  presents its first ever Changing Gears Long Beach Bike Ride Saturday, offering riders the choice of a 40-mile or 75-mile loop starting and ending at Shoreline Village and winding down the coast through Irvine. The ride begins at 7 a.m. and ... More >>

Potential Unlikely Swine Flu Victims THIS Close to OC (Updated!)

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that recent two deaths in LA County are being investigated by the coroner as possibly resulting from swine flu. The location of the two suspected flu victims? Long Beach and La Mirada, two Orange County border towns.With most of the previously reported Southern Cal ... More >>

TONIGHT: Last Chance to See Huntingfield and The Ringers for Free at Detroit Bar

Some people might say "free is always a good thing," but that's not really true. What about, like, a free jar of infectious diseases? That'd be pretty lame. Luckily, tonight's show at Detroit Bar is not only free to get in, but completely free of jars of infectious diseases. Hurray! It's your last c ... More >>

Chloe Lum of AIDS Wolf Is Sick. No, Really

Angels in America

Maverick Theater

Eat, Drink and Be Gay Married! After 27 Years, One Couple Finally Has Its Big, Fat, Mexican Wedding

Gay Marriage Portends Increase in Urine Sex, OC Reverend Reveals!

Usually I like to pretend Wiley Drake is really on to something when I blog about his crazy shit, but this email, which sat in my junk folder and remains there (I cut and pasted from it) is outrageously ridiculous enough to print verbatim: What Legal Same Sex Marriages Bring into society........... ... More >>

Viva La Mujer

Portrait of Ten Women

John McCain Is Older Than The Chocolate Chip Cookie

... and the shopping cart, the Polio Vaccine and the Golden Gate Bridge. Should the Republican take office, he would be the oldest U.S. president ever elected. The Weekly would never promote ageism or anything ridiculous like that, but check out this website for more fun facts about the elder stat ... More >>

At the Miss Hermosa y Protegida Pageant, the Curves Can Be Fake, But the Messages Are Very Real

Ron Paul Liked Bill Dannemeyer

In The New Republic's recent critique of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's old wacky newsletters, there's one disturbing Orange County connection, according to author James Kirchick: They frequently quoted Paul's "old colleague," Representative William Dannemeyer--who advocated quarantin ... More >>

Stint in OC inspired Obama to run?

Last month's edition of The Atlantic profiles Barack Obama in several articles. One of them, "Teacher and Apprentice," a must-read piece on the Obama-Clinton relationship by Marc Ambinder, contains a couple of theories about what lit a fire under the man's ass and made him decide to seek presidency. ... More >>

Jerry Falwell's OC Connections

Noted evangelical windbag Jerry Falwell was raptured today, and we're sure God strained his back from carrying that hefty sack into the sky. In honor of his death, we submit some of Falwell's brushes with our sordid county: • Back in the early 1990s, Orange County-based Citizens for Honest gov ... More >>

Commie Girl

Everyone Has AIDS! (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS, AIDS!)

Yellow Fever's Secondary Infections

Our superlative editorial assistant, Vickie Chang, published a thought-provoking article (Yellow Fever) on the fascination of some with Asian-American females. Unfortunately, it also functioned to provoke the thoughtless, whom she discusses in Your Fetish, My Life in the current issue. The internet ... More >>

Your Fetish, My Life

Vickie Chang responds to letters about Yellow Fever

Benford Tools, er, Toils

Sci-fi writer and UC Irvine physics professor and Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Cambridge University visiting fellow and Lord Prize winner and American Physical Society Fellow and NASA consultant and blah-blah-blah Greg Benford has joined forces with UCI environmental biologist Michael Rose, whose list ... More >>

Ouch!

Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?

Live Previews

Eight Days

Eat, Drink and Push the Jager

Thinking Oktoberfest, talking cholera

High Cost of Freedom

Patriotism means opening your wallet

Say, Ah

Doctor predicts exoneration as state investigators check into allegations he gave AIDS patients bogus injections

My Conscience Is Killing Me

A nurse says a prominent Newport Beach physician gave AIDS patients bogus drugs. The doctor says hes being blackmailed

Bob Outs Himself!

Empty Chairs

Disappearing humans

Waste Waterworld

Will poop-to-tap plan raise a stink?

Commie Girl: The Decoy

Now, how do you make gay-bashing funny?

Letters to the Editor 1/15/99