Subject: Coto de Caza

• Disturbia

  A man using crutches but holding a gun still failed at carjacking. A motorist threw hot coffee on a bicyclist. Before he lost his wig and shoes, a man tried to steal a Nintendo game from a Laguna Beach hotel room. A man sitting in a restaurant issued death threats. A burglar stole only syringes from a business. Someone threw a brick through a window and struck a man in the head. A store employee choked a customer. A man used a flashlight to provoke a neighbor's dog into a frenzy. Three men broke

  May 7, 2007

• The "Real" Housewives of Orange County

  So I got back from a brief vacation last week with two episodes of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" saved on my DVR. I knew I had to sit through the darned things to review the show, but I also knew I didn't really have to watch them to understand how ridiculously stupid and pointless the thing was going to be. Yes, call it a hunch, but I could somehow sense that watching a show about five women with more money than they deserve and so much plastic surgery that they resemble Rob Schne

  November 19, 2007

• Cheaters Never Win

  Ouch. A high school senior from Coto de Caza accused of being dumb enough to think that he could get away with an elaborate test-stealing, computer-hacking, grade-altering scheme now faces 38 years in prison. Shit. Our advice: You should have just studied for the test, bonehead. The Tesoro High student, Omar Khan, allegedly hacked into a registrar's computer and reworked his grades via late night school break-ins so that he could challenge a UC admissions rejection. He's also accused of st

  June 17, 2008

• The Media-O-Meter: Reggie Thievery; Desperate Mickadeit; Blind Item Bonanza

  BITE ME! The Orange County Register blatantly steals ideas from other publications! Not that that's too shocking--the Reggie has been lifting from the Weekly for years without giving us credit, and the rare times they have, it usually takes the form of some vague "other media outlets" brushoff. But now they’ve gone and ripped off the New York Times, fer chrissakes! Granted, the thieves aren’t working at the Reggie itself, but instead, the Reggie-owned glossy magazine Coast. Never hea

  July 12, 2008

• Citizen of the Week!

  Coto de Caza residential weed picker Raul Salvador Marin wanted to tell the petite 20-year-old at a June 2004 Trabuco Canyon patio party that she was "a really pretty girl, white, young," but he didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish. The woman wasn't interested in Marin anyway. She spurned his attempts to dance with her, to touch her and, after he chased her 100 yards down a dark, desolate path, to have sex with her. Later, veteran Orange County Sheriff's Department detective Dani

  September 17, 2008

• Planet of the AIDS

  August 9, 2001

• Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race

  *Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't like Schiff because he dared tried to pass a House resolution that would acknowledge the Armenian genocide, a historical fact that only Turkish nationalists and their apologists deny. Leading the charge

  November 4, 2008

• Indicted Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Claimed the Bible ran his daily life

  "Silly ass . . . no shit . . . shit . . . fuck you . . . fuck . . . get fucked . . . get fucked . . . fucked . . . fucking . . . two cocksuckers . . . shit . . . shit . . . shit . . . damn . . . fuck . . . all that shit . . . bitchin! . . . shit . . . Look at the size on that one! . . . bullshit . . . fucking . . . shitting . . . fuck . . . shit . . . fucking . . . All he had to do was be a white guy about it . . . bite them in the ass . . . fucking . . . shit . . . evil fucking evil . . . fucki

  November 15, 2008

• Water District Dinged $130K-plus for Sewage Spills

  The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board today fined Orange County's Santa Margarita Water District $133,190 for two spills that flushed 857,934 gallons of shit into San Juan Creek and Cristianitos Creek.   The water district - Orange County's second largest, serving more than 150,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Las Flores,  Ladera Ranch, and Talega - falls within the northern part of the San Diego region's boundaries, whi

  December 10, 2008

• La Voz de Aztlán Not Just Anti-Semitic, but Also Anti-Facts

  Our second-favorite piece of Internet effluvia (after Barbara Coe's e-mails, that is), is La Voz de Aztlán, the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing website run by Hector Carreon, a former Buena Park city employee who operates his one-man digital dung heap out of Whittier. What's funniest about Carreon is that he tries to portray himself as anti-Zionist, not anti-Jew, but fails miserably again and again. "La Voz de Aztlan stands against Anti-Semitism and any form of hate, xenophobia, racism and bigotry,"

  February 25, 2009

• Map Your Way Out Of Homelessness

  Nifty little site making the rounds: PadMapper. It takes Craigslist rental listings and puts em on a Google Map. Click on the flag over Orange County to get a look at our for-rent housing scene. You can filter by criteria such as price, location, size and pet-acceptance. Shockingly, it looks like there's no opportunity for your next bro-pad, lady-lair or post-foreclosure-I-just-don't-want-to-sleep-in-the-rain domicile to be in Coto de Caza.

  March 2, 2009

• This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

  September 11, 2008

• Instant Ritz

  March 1, 2001

• When San Juan Capistrano Boots Ignacio Lujano From His Orange Groves, OC's Citrus Era Will End

  May 22, 2008

• The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

  May 15, 2008

• Letters

  "Don't be hating on Latinas because you can't get like them, all pretty and beautiful"

  September 13, 2007

• Noise, Noise, Noise

  June 17, 1999

• Desperate Homeowners

  September 6, 2007

• Crime Wave

  A sampling of OCs recent lapses in judgment

  November 30, 2006

• Shameless

  May 25, 2006

• Letters

  'I Must Say, Darling, Youre Right Up There With Fitzgerald!'

  March 30, 2006

• Commie Girl

  March 23, 2006

• Abstract Art

  March 2, 2006

• Commie Girl

  February 2, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  February 24, 2005

• All Up In Your Grill

  September 30, 2004

• Dear Register Reader

  January 22, 2004

• Letters

  October 2, 2003

• Power to the Peephole, Right On!

  February 27, 2003

• L

  October 24, 2002

• All Thrills, No Chills

  September 5, 2002

• Peace, Funk and O.J., Too!

  June 27, 2002

• Terror Town, USA

  December 27, 2001

• Public Display of Affection

  October 18, 2001

• Swamp Land in Orange

  June 22, 2000

• Call Your Mother!

  May 18, 2000

• How the F Was Won

  March 30, 2000

• Highway Robbery - Toll Roads

  January 20, 2000

• Percentage Issue

  December 16, 1999

• Flight Test Dummies

  August 5, 1999

• We Glimpse Krishna!

  July 1, 1999

• April-June

  January 7, 1999

• Orange County's Scariest People!

  November 5, 1998

• Letters

  October 15, 1998

• Letters

  September 24, 1998

• Anacrime, Stabba Ana, Guadalahabra and Other Wonderful OC City Slurs

  I've been doing book signings across the region recently (shout-outs to the Buena Park Public Library, the Long Beach Car Show, Long Beach Rotary Club, and the Patrick Henry Democratic Club OC chapter!), and nothing is better than fielding questions from the audience. In Buena Park, we started talking about how quaint and wonderful the city is in comparison to others--for chrissakes, no one could think of a derogatory nickname for it! Someone mentioned an all-time classic--Guadalahabra, for La H

  July 6, 2009

• From "Acknowledged Leader" to Convicted Felon for Reed Diehl

  Reed Diehl, during better days at Cal.UPDATED WITH THE TWO CENTS OF THE FBI...With the guilty plea in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme entered by Reed Diehl, the standout Mater Dei High School center who went on to an impressive college football career at the University of California and a brief stint with the Tennessee Titans, it's interesting to look back at some of what was written years ago about the Coto de Caza man now facing up to 70 years in prison. (See refinement of this by the FBI

  July 14, 2009

• Ex-Coto de Caza Fraudster Gets 27 Years in Federal Pokey

  ​Former Coto de Caza resident golf equipment company CEO Colin Nathanson was sentenced today to 27 years in federal prison for his admitted masterminding of a multifaceted fraud scheme that bilked hundreds of victims out of approximately $55 million. Nathanson, 62, who lived in Coto de Caza until his arrest in 2005, was sentenced to 324 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney. Nathanson had been

  August 19, 2009

• OC Reality TV Produces (At Least) 6 Who've Drawn Police Calls [UPDATED]

  Too much reality for Orange County law enforcement (clockwise from top left): Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Josh Waring, Renzo Gamboa, Dennis Rodman, Jason Wahler and Matt Keough.​ UPDATED TO REFLECT MURDER CHARGE, CRIMINAL BATTERY COMPLAINT AGAINST JENKINS. If anyone in Orange County with a Hispanic surname, baggy jeans and a tattoo can be branded "gang affiliated" and therefore subjected to a life as a suspect in any goddamn local crime, then why the hell can't scofflaws tied to reality TV

  August 20, 2009

• Local Armenian Genocide Denier Issues Lamest Legal Threat Ever!

  We hadn't heard anything particularly wacky from Orange County's own obsessive Ottoman, the racist Ergun Kirlikovali of Coto de Caza, for quite some time--that is, anything other than the same tired slanders he spews of Armenians as treasonous ingrates and those who know the Ottoman Empire genocided Armenians around World War I as anti-Turkish. I actually stopped regularly checking Turkla.com, a Turkish-American website where he is the featured columnist, to see if Kirlikovali had published anyt

  July 9, 2009