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May 4, 2012
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 >>
Music
May 3, 2012
Deer Tick Want You
To be politically aware, frolic in sandals (if you're a girl) and avoid Mitt Romney
Calendar
October 27, 2011
Toad the Wet Sprocket
The Coach House
Columns
October 20, 2011
How Did the Chivas Soccer Team Get Its Name?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why won't my hot Mexican gardener take an HIV test?
Blogs
October 6, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
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 >>
Film
September 8, 2011
'Contagion' Shows It Can Happen Here
Steven Soderbergh turns the star-studded Hollywood disaster flick on its head
Blogs
June 29, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
Transgendered, Gay ICE Detainees Sue Over Treatment at Theo Lacy Jail
Guards at Theo Lacy Jail routinely taunted transgendered immigration detainees, abusing them with anti-gay slurs and intrusive and unnecessary searches, while also keeping them locked in their cells for 22 hours a day, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of 13 detainees. According to ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
The Slow Poisoner
The Pike Bar
Blogs
January 18, 2011
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 >>
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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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November 9, 2010
George W. Bush and Pastor Rick Warren, Together Again
George W. Bush is pushing his new book, My Pet Goat . . . er . . . Decision Points. Pastor Rick Warren is pushing Saddleback Church's 6th Civil Forum. In a mysterious cloud of kismet, scrath-one-another's-backsism and divine misunderestimation, the two old pals come together later this month at t ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
May 24, 2010
What You Missed: AIDS Walk Orange County, the National, Doheny Blues Festival
Christopher Victorio24th Annual AIDS Walk Orange CountyOn 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 >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Angelina Armani vs. Darren James Porn Star Smackdown
Darren James: Wrap 'emThe 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 >>
Blogs
January 1, 2010
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 >>
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November 5, 2009
Hats Off to Our Veterans
Los Alammitos Army Airfield
Blogs
October 5, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
September 24, 2009
"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 >>
Blogs
June 9, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
May 1, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
April 28, 2009
~~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 >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
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 >>
Calendar
April 9, 2009
Guys and Dolls
The Little Theatre
Music
March 19, 2009
Chloe Lum of AIDS Wolf Is Sick. No, Really
The Little Theatre
Blogs
September 3, 2008
Hewitt's Hughpocrisy
Hugh Hewitt came out west from the Reagan White House to oversee construction of the Richard Nixon Library and, later, represent The Irvine Co. and other coastal developers in court as they sought to build whatever they desired on their land, “environmental extremism” like the Endangered Species ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2008
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 >>
Blogs
May 19, 2008
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 >>
Features
March 27, 2008
At the Miss Hermosa y Protegida Pageant, the Curves Can Be Fake, But the Messages Are Very Real
... 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 >>
Blogs
January 8, 2008
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 >>
Blogs
January 7, 2008
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 >>
Blogs
May 15, 2007
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 >>
Columns
December 7, 2006
Commie Girl
Everyone Has AIDS! (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS, AIDS!)
Blogs
November 16, 2006
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 >>
News
November 16, 2006
Your Fetish, My Life
Vickie Chang responds to letters about Yellow Fever
Blogs
January 12, 2006
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 >>
Features
September 23, 2004
Ouch!
Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?
Music
September 9, 2004
Live Previews
Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?
Columns
June 24, 2004
Eight Days
Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?
Film
October 9, 2003
Perfect Patsy, Too-Perfect Parent
Denzel Washington in Out of Time, Olympia Dukakis in The Event
Food
September 26, 2002
Eat, Drink and Push the Jager
Thinking Oktoberfest, talking cholera
News
November 8, 2001
High Cost of Freedom
Patriotism means opening your wallet
News
August 16, 2001
Say, Ah
Doctor predicts exoneration as state investigators check into allegations he gave AIDS patients bogus injections
News
August 2, 2001
My Conscience Is Killing Me
A nurse says a prominent Newport Beach physician gave AIDS patients bogus drugs. The doctor says hes being blackmailed
Culture
February 1, 2001
Empty Chairs
Disappearing humans
News
November 30, 2000
Waste Waterworld
Will poop-to-tap plan raise a stink?
Columns
June 17, 1999
Commie Girl: The Decoy
Now, how do you make gay-bashing funny?
Columns
January 21, 1999
Letters to the Editor 1/15/99
Now, how do you make gay-bashing funny?
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