Angelucci and Gunther: Snakes of a Feather...
Marc E. Angelucci, a Los Angeles attorney who has helped David Allen Gunther file lawsuits against small businesses, doesn't know the difference between the Weekly and the Register. This only highlights his trouble seeing reality. Along with a series of outright misrepresentations of our cover story, he also says the public should be thanking Gunther and his legal team, headed by Morse Mehrban:
I just read your one-sided, sensationalistic opinion-
Meant to blog this yesterday, based on something we saw on ABC's Nightline, but it's also reported on by InfoWorld. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on May 4. Among the speakers was a specialist whose company we taxpayers are paying more than $7 million a year. Their job: to scour the Internet for instances where al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are recruiting new members online. So this specialist tells the committee that his group had recently discovered t
Three OC Weekly writers were nominated for L.A. Press Club Awards, and none of them came home empty-handed last night.
Gustavo Arellano won the President's Award for "Ask a Mexican."
R. Scott Moxley took first place in "Investigative/Series" for his piece "The New Crips." The judges said "We liked how Moxley laid out the case against this disabled 'activist' while treating him fairly and pointing out that the law is actually on his side. The story serves as much as an expose of the law as it d
'There is no life left in the paper. No humor, no edge, no spank. You are plain and boring. I dont know what you did to all these good people to run away, but I can guess. I wont pick up OC Weekly
'This article is CRAP. This interview never happened, and falsifying information in that way is wrong for so many reasons. Mickey Mouse is a household name. Its like slandering Jesus; you just dont do it'
'The review of Proof in Santa Ana was the best bar review Ive ever read . . . considering I dont read many bar reviews . . . and Ive been drinking . . . and its noon on Sunday'
'Moxleys use of "wheelchair-bound" and one "confined" to a wheelchair has been recognized as journalistically incorrect in the Associated Press stylebook for over a decade now. Why go out of the way to be politically inco
'The real issue is not the motives of the Gunther-the-Terribles but the thousands of California business establishments that refuse to comply with the ADA until a Gunther-the-Terrible comes along and sues'
Hanna Montessori's Killer Gets An Unpleasant SurpriseJonathan Phong Khanh Tran--dubbed by a homicide detective as "the nicest killer" he'd ever met--has waited 17 months in a California prison in hopes that a state court of appeal would overturn his rape, oral copulation and murder convictions in the famed killing of Hanna Montessori, a 15-year-old prostitute related to the founder of Montessori schools. But late yesterday a three-judge panel based in Santa Ana delivered two rounds of bad new
