Subject: Darth Vader

• Transformers: Less Than Meets the Need

  This past Saturday was the official release date for Transformers movie toys, and of the three toy-inspired movies coming out this summer (Bratz and Care Bears: Oopsy Does It being the other two), this was clearly the one with the must-have merchandise. Though the giant morphing robots in the movie are—perhaps deliberately—too complicated to replicate exactly in miniature plastic form, the folks at Hasbro have managed to come close, maintaining the general look and compromising only

  June 4, 2007

• LAFF 2007: Lost Girls and Mighty Black Men

  One of the ideas the festival is heavily pushing this year is that for every movie you attend that you planned on seeing, you should go to another one you don’t know anything about, or might not be inclined to go to normally. I tend to do this sometimes when I attend something simply because it’s playing at the right time, and thus found myself in BAJO JUAREZ, a movie with the all-lowercase secondary title of “the city devouring its daughters.” It’s a documentary about Juarez, a Mexi

  June 23, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Darth Vader Chases Janet Nguyen

  October 11, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids

  $50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But “the settlement does not require the order to admit fault” and “more than a dozen” priests escaped criminal charges, according to the article. “Many plaintiffs said their once devoutly Cathol

  November 19, 2007

• Schroeder Law Enforcement Empire At Stake Today

  Mike Schroeder will jump out of bed this morning in Corona del Mar, neatly hang his Darth Vader pajamas in the closet, shower, kneel at his USC football altar and don an expensive, natty suit befitting Orange County’s leading Republican strategist-slash-chiropractic insurance company king. It’s a big day in Schroederdom. He’ll drive his jumbo-sized, black Hummer to the state court of appeal (COA) in Santa Ana in the hopes of teaching a onetime disciple a lesson: Don’t Mess with Mike. S

  December 18, 2007

• OC Register Death Watch Part Two

  Last week, I reported that the Orange County Register is in secret talks with Dean Singleton, owner of the Denver-based MediaNews Inc. and an all-around Darth Vader of daily news--he bought and all but killed the Long Beach Press Telegram, just as one example--to share content and lay off writers. I also wrote that Register publisher Terry Horne plans to give away free issues and depend on ad sales to save his failing paper. Horne wouldn't comment for my story, but confirmed the details in a p

  February 20, 2008

• Rumblefished!

  May 23, 2002

• Floral Park's Segregated Halloween Continues

  *Updated, with new info on the bottom... Floral Park imagines itself as an oasis of tranquility in SanTana, a respite from the city's gritty reality. Really, this neighborhood--roughly bordered by Bristol to the west, 17th Street to the South, Broadway to the east, and Memory Lane in the north--is a neighborhood built on apartheid. Need proof? There's a house in Floral Park with "TARA" on its front gate, for chrissakes, and direct access is blocked if you're coming north from the rest of the c

  November 1, 2008

• Star Wars

  March 5, 2009

• The Best Posts of 2008, Direct From the Weekly's Parallel Universe

  January 1, 2009

• Crystal Cathedral's 'Glory of Christmas' Delivers Baby Jesus, Flying Angels and Camel Poop

  December 18, 2008

• [Game On] A Bit Force-ed: Lightsabers and Tits Don't Quite Hide 'Soul Calibur IV''s Lack of Ideas

  August 14, 2008

• Was Phuc Van Tran Sane When He Put On a Darth Vader Mask and Shot a Man?

  March 27, 2008

• Snow Job

  Amanda Bynes updates another classic—but why?
  

  September 20, 2007

• Letters

  December 26, 2002

• Tales from the dark side

  July 11, 2002

• Use the Force

  Art Institute professor brings Star Wars to the classroom

  June 21, 2007

• [Newport Beach Film Fest] An Encapsulated Diary Digesting the Decade-Old Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 16, 2009

• Sometimes Dead Is Better

  March 16, 2006

• Special Screenings

  January 5, 2006

• Attack of the Big Head Floating in the Sky

  August 18, 2005

• The Emperors New Groove

  July 7, 2005

• Movies That Aren't Star Wars

  May 19, 2005

• Drawn Out

  March 17, 2005

• Newport Beach Film Festival: Schedule of events

  Compiled by Greg Stacy

  April 15, 2004

• Straight Talk From the White House

  April 3, 2003

• Slate Nailer

  December 19, 2002

• O

  October 24, 2002

• The Fandom Menace

  June 6, 2002

• Look at Those . . . Ow!

  June 28, 2001

• One Very Funky Week

  February 15, 2001

• Out of Nothing, This

  September 14, 2000

• ALIEN ABDUCTIONS

  January 6, 2000

• Ire Land

  May 13, 1999

• Sister Act Two

  September 18, 1997

• Dishney: D23 Revelations!

  Paul Hiffmeyer/Disney​D23: It's all over! On September 10-13, the massive D23 Expo converged all things Disney--films, theme parks, merch--into one convenient building. And to be honest? We were kinda bored. Sure, some major announcements were made (stay tuned for that) and we got to see some cool things (Nightmare Before Christmas! In 3D!) but we found it a bit slow for our liking. The Convention Center was split into three floors: The first brought us the main exhibition hall, full of booths

  September 14, 2009

• Star Wars: In Concert

  September 24, 2009

• Republican Assemblyman Republicans Are Targeting for Recall Blames Orange County Republicans, Newport Beach Insiders

  Local Republicans are gunning for Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia). Assemblyman Anthony Adams (R-Hesperia), who has been targeted for a recall election because he voted for a state budget that included billions of dollars in new taxes, swung back at his opponents today, blaming "Orange County Republicans" and "Newport Beach activists" for his current predicament.

  October 7, 2009