Coto de Caza

An Incomplete, Embarrassing Timeline of Anti-Black Moments in Orange County

Gustavo's Latest "Orange County Line" for KCRW: How Can OC Attract Even More Tourists?

"Late last year, the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau hired a man from Texas--Texas!--to attract more tourists to Orange County," begins the blurb for my latest "Orange County Line" commentary for KCRW-FM 89.9. "But when you're in charge of bringing people to a place with beache ... More >>

Teemu Selänne: No Flash In the Pan

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Gary Thomas, National Association of Realtors President, Swears That He is Broke

The National Association of Realtors president, who resides in Mission Viejo, is denying allegations he and his two sons fraudulently pulled nearly $580,000 out of their South County real estate company before seeking bankruptcy protection."Exhibit A," as far as Gary Thomas is concerned, would be h ... More >>

Levon Marashlian, Noted Armenian Historian, Details TV Coverage of Karabakh Conflict

After the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in Azerbaijan voted to unify the region with Armenia on Feb. 20, 1988, inter-ethnic fighting broke out. This devolved into a war that lasted through May 1994 and likely received little coverage on the nightly news. Here to fill us in on ... More >>

OC Weekly 2012 Election Guide: South Orange County Community College District

There are three South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees seats to be filled in the Nov. 6 election, but most heat is being emitted from the lone race without an incumbent. The winner for Trustee Area 7, which covers Coto de Caza, Dove Canyon, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Marga ... More >>

Santa Margarita Water District Sued Over its Lead Role in Mojave Groundwater Project

Environmental groups are suing Orange County's second largest retail water district over plans to pump water Mojave Desert groundwater. Santa Margarita Water District, which serves more than 155,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Coto de Caza, Las Flores, Ladera Ranch, Talega and its hom ... More >>

On the Line: Frederic Castan of Motif Restaurant, Part Two

"There's always a great love behind a great man.", per Chef Castan. His wife, Maria, is equally talented in the fine arts as a painter. She attends workshops, and has hundreds of works completed. Maria often travels with Frederic, but admittedly prefers the climate close to home. Good thing he didn' ... More >>

Kenneth Moore, Atiqullah Nabizada and Ahmed Tariq Asghari Held for Alleged Short-Sale Scams

The FBI is accusing three men of causing more than $10 million in losses to investors, homeowners and financial institutions through various real estate schemes.After searches of one man's Tustin home, another suspect's in Coto de Caza and a Santa Ana business, the FBI on Thursday took into custody ... More >>

Reps. Gary Miller and Ken Calvert Get Their Assets Handed Back to Them

​The Washington Post compared the annual financial disclosure reports filed by every member of Congress over the past decade to various public records and discovered that nearly 50 senators and House representatives directed millions of dollars in earmarks to projects that could either enhance ... More >>

Matthew Bransetter, Nolan Wickham, Get 3 Years Prison Time For Anti-Semitic Assault

Matthew Bransetter & Nolan Wickham's Booking PhotosCourtesy Orange County Sheriff's Department​Two Rancho Santa Margarita men were sentenced to three years in state prison Dec. 2 for an assault earlier this in a Coto de Caza park. On the evening of April 6, 2011, Matthew Gregory Bransetter, 19 ... More >>

Sandra Jessee: Accused Murderous, Pot Smoking Granny Takes Witness Stand

Sandra Jessee: Were those tears real today?​Accused of hiring hit men to murder her husband while she shopped at Walmart and Burger King for a fake alibi, Sandra Jessee declined to take the witness stand in her first trial and saw herself and co-defendant, Thomas Aehlert, come within one vote of s ... More >>

[UPDATED: Gov. Brown Vetoes Bill] Lou Correa Pushing New Marijuana Buffer Zone Law in Sacramento

​UPDATED, SEPT. 21, 2011, 2:31 pm: Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed SB847, according to this article in the 420Times. Needless to say, celebratory emails are bouncing all over the medical marijuana activist community, especially among members of Americans for Safe Access, which waged a massive call-in ... More >>

OC vs. Boston: Oh, It's On Again, Bitch

Shreck​Boston is trumpeting the return of investor, entrepreneur and favorite son Michael Shreck, the new CEO of Beantown-based Zmags, a platform for publishing virtual magazines.But in heralding the conquering son's arrival, Gregory T. Huang of Xconomy/Boston ("Business Technology to the Expone ... More >>

Orange County Gets Its Own Version of the Edible Magazine Empire

​If you've been to enough farmers' markets, you'll eventually encounter a magazine called Edible, pertaining to the area the farmers market serves: Edible Los Angeles. Edible San Diego. Edible Ventura. Edible Coto de Caza--kidding!Kind of. This month sees the debut of Edible Orange County, our ent ... More >>

In-n-Out Demolishes Oldest Remaining Location to Build Museum Honoring Said Location

​The only gift Baldwin Park gave to the world was In-n-Out, and you know this to be so when its hometown paper, the San Gabriel Tribune, describes the chain's oldest-remaining location as the "city's most notable landmark." It hadn't been open since 2004, because In-n-Out officials had unveiled a ... More >>

[UPDATED with Not Guilty Plea:] Joe David Nelms, Former Pastor, Accused of Molesting Girl in 1993

​UPDATE, APRIL 9, 10:16 A.M.: 47-year-old Joe David Nelms pleaded not guilty Friday to eight felony counts related to the sexual assault of a then-14-year-old girl he met while serving as a youth pastor in San Clemente in 1993.Nelms, who was extradited to Orange County from Texas, returned to Oran ... More >>

Two Men Arrested for Anti-Semitic Hate Crime in Coto de Caza

Branstetter (L) and Wickham Booking Photos​Two men have been arrested and one has so far evaded capture in an alleged April 6 hate crime attack in Coto de Caza, the Associated Press reports, noting that the classy south OC enclave is "familiar to reality TV show viewers as the home of 'The Real Ho ... More >>

Tonight's Glee to Feature 10-Year-Old Son of Housewife Beau Slade Smiley

Amazing Gray​Tonight's episode of Glee will feature patients of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, including 10-year-old cutie Grayson Arroyo-Smiley.   He's the son of Slade Smiley, boyfriend of Real Housewives of Orange County's Gretchen Rossi and man of child-support-owing, serial-housewife-d ... More >>

Orly Taitz Seeks Help From Cyberstalking Florist

​Is a crazed former Orly Taitz patient who may be violent, used to be a lawyer, is now a florist, may need boner pills, may or may not be from the Valley, more than likely resides in Lake Forest or Coto de Caza, and goes by the nickname "Foggy" when he is not going by the nickname "Captain Cock" s ... More >>

Hollywood Farmers' Market in Danger of Getting Chopped Down at Best, Closed at Worst

​It's not Orange County, but the Hollywood Farmer's Market is a Southern California institution, one that draws tens of thousands of people to the corner of Selma and Ivar avenues--and more than a few of them are from Orange County. I know of one local chef in particular, who's going to wow the st ... More >>

Matt Keough, Ace Pitcher-Turned-Town Drunk, Gets Year in Jail (Sorta) for Latest DUI

​Former Oakland A's pitcher, probable ex-husband of Playboy Playmate-turned-founding The Real Housewives of Orange County cast member Jeana Keough and current boozehound Matt Keough was sentenced today to a year of jail for his latest DUI incident.On the bright side, Keough was granted credit for ... More >>

Peggy Tanous to be Newest Real Housewives of Orange County Blonde

​Another blonde is set to join the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County, and this one already has had camera time on Bravo's reality show.Peggy Tanous, who will appear next season, is a friend of Alexis Bellino, the Real Housewife who really almost lost her twins to the Balboa Bay Club poo ... More >>

Bill Hedrick, Democrat Facing Rep. Calvert in the Fall, is Hottest Candidate. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

​Feast your eyes on the hunk to the right.Bill Hendrick Hedrick, the Democrat facing Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Riverside) in the November mid-term election, has been voted the hottest candidate in the land.But the hopeful for the 44th District that includes San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and the unin ... More >>

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 Hisp ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 talki ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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 150,00 ... More >>

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 . . ... More >>

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 li ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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 Hig ... More >>

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

Letters

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

Desperate Homeowners

Disgruntled rich folks wrangle over the question: ‘When is a Coto de Caza resident not a Coto de Caza resident?’

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 ... More >>

Letters

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

Commie Girl

And the People, They Danced
Danced to the sweet, sweet music of impeachment!

!Ask a Mexican!

All Up In Your Grill

Strut stakes claim to the last word in high-priced grills and car accessories

Dear Register Reader

Planet of the AIDS

Instant Ritz

Saratoga Grill feels like its been here forever

Call Your Mother!

Henry Rollins sweats pure love

Guilty Pleasures

1001-1100

We Glimpse Krishna!

Letters