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On the Line: Gregory Moro of Nieuport 17, Part One

Greg Moro knew he was destined to be a chef. He found a photograph of himself (at age 10) holding a cheeseburger and with the craziest smile on his face, just psyched about eating it. He played with matches as a youngster, lighting everything on fire. He collected pocket knives and swords. Then it d ... More >>

Police Hunt for a Vampire (Tattoo): craigslist Men-Seeking-Men Ad Leads to Robbery

A guy places a craigslist personal ad for another guy on Tuesday. The ad placer quickly receives a response for a fellow who sends photos of himself. A meeting is set up at 11:30 a.m. that same day in the ad placer's home in the 13000 Block of Blue Spruce Avenue in Garden Grove.And that's when thing ... More >>

How Does a Small Band Book a Tour?

By Jessica Hopper Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is ... More >>

Rusko Talks About Bringing UK Dubstep to Cali and Shares His New EP for Free

Born Christopher Mercer, the English 27 year-old dubstep king better known as Rusko announced that his new EP titled Kapow will be released on his website via Rusko Recordings this Sunday November 4th for free with an iTunes release on November 6th. Currently on a three-month tour to promote the EP, ... More >>

Chinese Restaurant Customer in Irvine Orders 'Something With Eyeballs,' Freaks Out And Tries To Give It Away On Craigslist

Oh, the things you can find on Craigslist! On Saturday night, a customer at Capital Seafood in Irvine ordered the jumbo garlic shrimp but had no idea that in Chinese cuisine, eyeballs are commonly left on in fish dishes. A meal that looks like it's staring back at you was apparently too much for thi ... More >>

Top Five Videos of People Eating Live Shrimp

Did you read Michelle's post this morning on the Craigslist poster in Irvine who tried to give away a dish of shrimp because they didn't realize it included the heads? I have to assume it was those wee beady eyes. In a society where meat is often faceless, limbless, skinless and boneless, seeing the ... More >>

The Five Best Food Categories For Control Freaks

We thought it was just us-- the satisfaction felt after explaining exactly how our entree should be prepared. It's the Sally Albright syndrome. Although we quickly learned that if you don't like the selection, order something else. Changing a chef's interpretation of a dish means you've messed with ... More >>

Looking for Obama Love in All the Wrong Places

It will surprise no one when Orange County goes Romney in November. Republicans, with 42 percent of the registered voters in the region, hold an 11-point edge over Democrats, with the only good news for donkeys being the GOP held a 55 percent chunk in 1992. However, there are some Obama supporters i ... More >>

Half of Craigslist iPhone Counterfeit Currency Ring in Orange County Pleads Guilty

A 24-year-old Orange County man indicted earlier this year with his buddy for targeting Apple iPhone sellers on Craigslist in a counterfeit currency plot has acknowledged he's guilty.Matthew An faced six federal counts but pleaded guilty to one conspiracy charge and now faces a maximum prison senten ... More >>

Craigslist High School Prostitution Freak Gets Stiff Prison Sentence

A Southern California man arrested last October for using the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist to brazenly lure high school girls into prostitution changed his plea to guilty this week in U.S. District Court.Leo James Zabala Jr. of Whittier acknowledges that in 2011 he used a Yahoo email ac ... More >>

Denis Yoshio Cruz Ramirez Earns Immigration Hold for craigslist Ad Hawking Stolen Bike

​A fellow checking the craigslist want ads could not take his eyes off a black 21-speed Fuji Road Bike on sale for $280. That's because he was convinced it was his black 21-speed Fuji Road Bike, valued at $450 and recently stolen from the front yard of his Huntington Beach home.That set in motion ... More >>

Another Day, Another Craigslist Crime in Irvine

​The city of Irvine proudly proclaims itself America's safest city, and it surely is when it comes to your garden variety rapes, assaults and murders. But even America's safest city must deal with scam artists, boiler room operators and FBI informants who infiltrate mosques. Indeed, it's that ball ... More >>

Luther Clayborn Dawson Jr. Caught in the Act of Selling Phony iPhones: Police

​Irvine Police detectives say they got Luther Clayborn Dawson Jr.'s number, arresting the San Marcos 41-year-old Monday for allegedly using craigslist to find iPhone buyers who later discovered the iPhone boxes only contained owner manuals and rectangular pieces of ceramic tile. Police Lt. Julia E ... More >>

Feds Bust Alleged Internet Auto/Boat Sales Scam By Russians

​The U.S. Department of Justice in Los Angeles announced this afternoon that a federal grand jury has indicted six foreign nationals--including one in Costa Mesa--for operating an Internet-based sales scam that allegedly defrauded more than $4.2 million from unsuspecting shoppers since 2007.Accord ... More >>

Leo James Zabala Jr. Accused of Posting Craigslist Personals Seeking Sex With High School Girls

​After a personal ad posted Sept. 6 in Craigslist's Orange County "Casual Encounters" section offered to pay high school girls $60 for intercourse and $40 for head, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alerted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investi ... More >>

Anyone Lose a Breast Implant at Fashion Island?

​Having been familiar in a previous life with the Lost and Found Department at Disneyland, I know that the strangest things find their way into those boxes. But the item found in the bushes outside Forever 21 at Fashion Island takes the cake.Actually, "cakes" is a euphemism for the wrong body part ... More >>

Craigslist Deal Turned Robbery in Garden Grove, Police Still Looking for 1 Suspect

Laron James​I think I smell a sequel to the Craigslist Killer movie here. An appropriate title: the Hellacious Heist in Garden Grove.​​Garden Grove police arrested two robbery suspects--and are still looking for a third man--after a cell-phone sale initiated on Craigslist w ... More >>

[UPDATED with Statement From Staff Pro] Coachella Security Uniform for Sale on Craigslist (!)

​UPDATE, April 14, 9:58 a.m.: In a phone conversation, Suzanne Thoreson, Chief Operating Officer of Staff Pro (the company whose uniform is being sold online) said that the said uniform was stolen, the logo trademarked and that an investigation is ongoing. Further than saying nothing like this has ... More >>

Robert Gonzales Arrested for Alleged iPhone Scam, Spurs Cops to Issue Warning About Buying Goods Through Craigslist

​The Garden Grove Police Department recently received a theft report from a man who was selling his iPhone through Craigslist but had it stolen by another man who responded to the ad. Coupled with other reports of someone using counterfeit money to buy used iPhones through Craigslist, the cops dec ... More >>

How to Score Coachella Tickets, Even Though It's Been Sold Out For Months

Vickie Chang​If you missed your chance to buy Coachella tickets for the six days in January that they were still onsale, you're in luck. This late in the game, we found a couple of ways to score tickets. Price tag? From free to $975 !

Gregory Ruiz Aguirre, Nabbed in Craigslist Underage Sex Sting, Gets Jail, Probation and Sex Offender Tag

​The Huntington Beach Police Department has scored some high-profile arrests of alleged solicitors of sex with children through phony advertisements on Craigslist.Now comes the latest sentence in the Surf City stings: Gregory Ruiz Aguirre, 53, of El Monte, just got 457 days in jail, 5 years proba ... More >>

Women's Funding Network Sex-Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

Today's Concert-Going Lesson: Don't Buy Tickets Off Scalpers

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​According to the LA Times, a woman from Hermosa Beach who allegedly sold dozens of fake tickets to a Lady Gaga concert on Craigslist has been ordered to pay at least $7,000 in restitution.  

Coachella Tickets Sell Out, Scalpers and Gal on Craigslist 'Willing to Do Anything' Come Out to Play

Vickie Chang/OC WeeklyThe crowd during Arcade Fire's set, Coachella 2007.​So it's true: Coachella 2011 has officially sold out, and the scalpers, resellers, flippers and general assholes have come out in droves on the Internet.

Top 10 Accused Perverts of 2010

​Gropers. Kiddie rapers. Sex blackmailers. Public masturbators. Kiddie porn possessors. And a dude who wanted women to fuck his dog.Yep, Orange County's got some winners all right.What follows is a list of the top 10 accused perverts of 2010. Keep in mind that these folks are innocent until proven ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Makes PR Blunder List in Sex Escort Case

​As Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez's Republican general election opponent, Van Tran repeatedly portrayed the veteran Anaheim Democrat as an odorous floozy.And sure enough: Fineman PR, a San Francisco-based public relations firm, has included Sanchez in its 16th annual Top 10 PR Blunders List.The bl ... More >>

Jinan Montecristo of Les Amis, Part Two

Photo by Todd BarnesJinan Montecristo and husband, Juan Carlos​ Today we continue our Q&A with Jinan Montecristo of Les Amis in Fullerton, a Lebanese restaurant she, her husband and her parents co-own together and have built up a faithful following of toum-loving diners. Stay tuned for a re ... More >>

Orange County Interwebs Double Entendre

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Kevin Michael Sianez, Alleged Fraudster, Intimidator and Puppy Pimper, Now in Custody

​We told you here about alleged puppy pimper Kevin Michael Sianez, the former Santa Ana and Stanton police officer slapped with a 63-count criminal complaint claiming he defrauded clients as an unlicensed private investigator and intimidated his detractors.Oh yeah, and then there's the misdemean ... More >>

Craigslist Strippers Work Theft and Pepper Spray Into Their Bachelor Party Gig

​Like soon-to-be best men throughout the land, a Huntington Beach man pulled up the adult services page on Craigslist, hit the w4m tab and started scanning the listings for a bachelor party stripper.Hell, he thought, at these prices we can get two!As arranged, the "exotic dancers" showed up at the ... More >>

Meet Anaheim's All-Star Female Escorts!

While otherwise quiet, peaceful Orange County neighborhoods within a five-mile radius of Angel's Stadium in Anaheim tonight are enduring the ridiculously low and frantic loops of an apparently bored law enforcement plane pilot, another All-Star Game, of sorts, is underway without concern on the grou ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Kevin Michael Sianez, Ex-Cop Allegedly Defrauded P.I. Clients, Intimidated Critics and Sought Women to Screw His Dog

​UPDATE: Former cop Kevin Michael Sianez, who failed to show up for his Tuesday arraignment, turned himself in (updates throughout). After Kevin Michael Sianez failed to show up for his scheduled arraignment Tuesday morning on a 63-count criminal complaint that alleges the former Santa Ana and Sta ... More >>

Blair Christopher Hanloh Allegedly Took, Fixed and Rented Out Homes He Did Not Own

​Blair Christopher Hanloh, 46, of Long Beach, was charged Friday with stealing more than $3.5 million in a fraudulent scheme that had him allegedly taking over homes he did not own, fixing them up a little, taking ads out on Craigslist and renting the houses out to the unsuspecting.Hanloh, who is ... More >>

Fake craigslist Ad Brings Rush of Lookiloos to San Clemente Home

From Peepers​Dennis Romero over at our big sis' paper LA Weekly has a post about a craigslist rental advertisement that sent a bunch of lookiloos to a San Clemente pad that was going to be leased out for $3,500 a month.The problem was the couple living in the 2,800-square-foot home had not yet pla ... More >>

Coheed and Cambria at the Fox Theater on May 4

Andrew Youssef​After Coheed and Cambria scored a coveted main stage slot at Coachella (as one of the few metal bands on the bill, no less), they come back to SoCal for a victory lap this Tuesday, May 4. The Fox Theater show in Pomona is sold-out, which means you're going to have to lurk around the ... More >>

SCP's Crustacean Will Now Be Called AnQi & Slated to Open Winter 2009

Photo Courtesy Crustacean​ Crustacean at South Coast Plaza, the long-planned sequel to the much-hyped and oh-so-trendy Vietnamese Beverly Hills restaurant that I love to complain about (let's just say that I've never paid so much to be ignored by the wait staff and underwhelmed by the kit ... More >>

Not Another Crappy Orange County Teen Reality Show . . . Oh, Wait, Yes It Is

Poor? What you talking about, Seth?​Can you smell that?No, not the smoke from the inland wildfire of the week. That other, more ghastly odor. Go ahead, take a big whiff.SNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNORT!That, dear friends, is the smell of another lame TV show focusing on Orange County teens."WEALTHY TEEN ... More >>

OC Craigslist Erotic Services: A Farewell

Flick / Creative Commons / **Mary**Whenever I have to describe the publication I work for to anyone only vaguely familiar with OC media, I usually start innocuous: "It's that free paper you pick up at the car wash or coffee shop." But that often gets a blank stare. So..."You know, the one with the s ... More >>

John Burgess To Be Sentenced; Donna Jou's Family To Send Letter To Craiglist

Courtesy of Jou familyDonna JouA press release sent out this weekend by lawyer Gloria Allred notifies us that John Steven Burgess, the man who plead guilty to manslaughter and concealing an accidental death in the case of Rancho Santa Margarita's Donna Jou, faces sentencing in Los Angeles Superior C ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Craigslist to Shut Down Erotic Services

Gene X. Hwang/Orange PhotographyCraigslist founder Craig NewmarkThe Los Angeles Times is reporting that mega-popular classified listings site Craigslist will shut down its "erotic services" section, after criticism from lawmakers and the media -- which you can read about in the latest Weekly cover s ... More >>

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

'But for Craigslist, Donna Might Be Alive Today'

It's a Quick Read 7

Orange County Register: Danger on Mexican streets will force captains and crews in the annual Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht race to remain on their ships. But who'll get ripped off by the Hussong's mariachis? . . . I went to a Laguna Woods Village board meeting and a UFC Smackdown broke ... 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 >>

[Summer Guide] Biking It: A Field Guide to the Two-Wheeled Pedal-Pusher

To Do Tonight - 01/25

RELEASE THE BATS, 9 p.m. Ahem, "Hard drinkin' foul mouthed in yer face American Gothic dance club." Que Sera, 1923 E. Seventh St. Long Beach INTO THE WOODS, 7:30 p.m. The twisted mind of Stephen Sondheim meets the Brothers Grimm. What could possibly go wrong? Rose Center Theater, 14140 All American ... More >>

OC Dumpster Diving

New York-based website www.Freegan.info hopes to become the craigslist of dumpster diving by providing a forum for refuse eaters all over the country to meet and share tips. With listings of the best places to forage for free discarded goodies in cities all over the country (only a few so far, mos ... More >>

Tuesday's Headlines

The Register discovers prostitution on -gasp- Craigslist: One reader responds "Thank you OCR writer for ruining my NSA sex hook up. This article was written like 5 years ago." Almost as bad as the Times discovering Matt Drudge? Crumbling masterpieces: The LAT's Ashley Powers profiles Greg LeBon and ... More >>

That's Classified

I get everything on Craigslist. My digital SLR, drag-queen house mate and 49-year-old boyfriend. My sister's Koreatown apartment. A stint editing this Russian chick's e-book. And then there was that graveyard-shift cop-beat job with City News Service. The OC online classifieds are a weirdo haunt, a ... More >>