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  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Mysteries of Brea Canyon: Portola Expedition

    ​If you've ever sped north through Brea Canyon Road on your way to the 57 freeway, or less likely to Diamond Bar, you've noticed a few things: massive oil derricks standing like silent sentinels along the cliffs, flotsam and jetsam dumped in the surrounding foliage, and flattened road kill. But th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Dana Point BBQ Championship

    ProfessorSalt.comBeef brisket from Los Alamitos team Inhale BBQ​Last Friday and Saturday, September 23 - 24, fifty BBQ teams from across the Western states took over the lush lawns of Sea Terrace Park for the inaugural Dana Point BBQ Championship. Top teams featured on TLC's BBQ Pitmasters show su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Approved Redistricting Maps Favor California Democrats, Help OC Dems, Too

    ​Well, things are looking up for California Democrats. The latest round of congressional and state legislative redistricting maps, which the California Citizens Redistricting Commission approved this morning, favor Democrats--at least according to a couple of different news sources. In h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    [UPDATED with More Details:] OC's Largest Municipal Solar Energy Efficiency Project Shines Today

    ​UPDATE, JULY 21, 8:47 A.M.: Though the ribbon-cutting unveiling the largest municipal solar energy efficiency project in Orange County is this morning, the city of Brea is already reaping savings that have exceeded expectations. For the month of June, there was a 65% reduction in electricity cost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    [UPDATED with Sentence for Deborah Pauly Threats:] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

    Paul Dean Andrews​UPDATE, MAY 25, 3:46 P.M.: A San Pedro man was sentenced today to 97 days in jail, three years probation and an order to stay away from Deborah Pauly for threatening violence against the Villa Park city councilwoman via a Facebook message. Paul Dean Andrews, 28, was slapped with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    [UPDATED with New Anti-Muslim Rally Plans:] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

    Muzammil Siddiqi​Here we go again.Organizers of February's controversial and much-blasted anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda have issued an ultimatum to the Orange County Human Relations Commission: rescind the Community Leader award it is presenting to Islamic Society of Orange County Imam Muzammil ... More >>

  • Food

    March 31, 2011

    Koba Tofu Grill Offers Lovable Lava

    This new Irvine entry in the Korean chain offers many soft-tofu soups that burn and roil, but, boy, are they delish!

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    [UPDATE: OC Democrats Blast Pauly] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

    ​UPDATE, MARCH 25, 4:40 P.M.: The Democratic Party of Orange County has weighed in on Villa Park City Councilwoman's Deborah Pauly's harsh remarks at an anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda last month. (Welcome to the party, folks!)As you might expect from a party philosophically opposite of a teabagg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County, Arizona's Sheriff and Pink Undies Distributor, Seizes Nixon Library

    ​Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks in Yorba Linda tonight, but protesters may have a hard time getting themselves, their noisemakers and their picket signs near Maricopa County, Arizona's no-shit-taking, immigrant-jailing, pink-underwear-dispensing lawman.That's because he'll be inside the gated, guarded ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Philip L. Liberatore Jumps From Political Circus to a Real One

    ​The last time we heard from Phil Liberatore, he was seeking the Republican nomination to knock off Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) and picking up support from Arizona's controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Obviously having licked his wounds from his June primary loss to the 11-year incumbent, the te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Progressive "Brownbaggers" Invite Teabaggers to Join Them in Government Spending Protests

    Tim Carpenter hammers away at the war.​Former Orange County progressive activist Tim Carpenter, who now does his agitating for the Michigan-based Progressive Democrats of America, is inviting tea partiers to protests at congressional district offices nationwide Wednesday aimed at reducing "unjusti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

    ​ Headline: Huntington Beach Fires Police Officer Accused of Rapes, AssaultsComment by surf714: I admire the HBPD. They've kept our city safe for many years. HB used to rank either #1 or #2 in the nation as the safest city (over 100,000). Of course, then parts of it started to look like Tijuana, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2009

    Crime Time: F-Bombers, Tiki Takers, Beatles Fans, Creepy Molesters and Tawny Kitaen on the Loose

    FACES OF TAWNY Actress, ex-Anaheim Angel wife, car hood buffer, supposedly reformed druggie and all-around hot mess Tawny Kitaen is shown on a February 2004 Weekly sex issue cover (left); in a booking photo from her April 2002 assault on then husband Chuck Finley in Newport Beach (top right); and wr ... More >>

  • News

    June 18, 2009

    Autopsy Report: Angels Pitcher Adenhart's Driver Was DUI

    FACES OF TAWNY Actress, ex-Anaheim Angel wife, car hood buffer, supposedly reformed druggie and all-around hot mess Tawny Kitaen is shown on a February 2004 Weekly sex issue cover (left); in a booking photo from her April 2002 assault on then husband Chuck Finley in Newport Beach (top right); and wr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Help Titan Jon Wilhite, Honor Titan Courtney Stewart

    It's been highly publicized that Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, was killed in a collision just after midnight Friday. Some reporters have even added that Courtney Frances Stewart, the 20-year-old Diamond Bar resident who was driving the Mitsubishi Eclipse Adenhart rode in, and another pass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 31: Weekend and Monday Edition

    Orange County Register: Andrew Thomas Gallo, 22, San Gabriel, is scheduled to be arraigned today on murder charges stemming from the Fullerton car crash that claimed the lives of Nick Adenhart, also 22 and an Angels rookie; Courtney Frances Stewart, 20, Diamond Bar; and Henry Niguel Pears ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 28

    Orange County Register: The third Disney theme park April Fools prankster comes clean. . . . Two teens are busted in the Old Towne Orange tagging spree. Holiday sales were down 18 percent at South Coast Plaza. . . . Sokol: Military members living under Don't Ask, Don't Tell tell. . . . Mickadei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 9: Weekend and Monday Edition

    Orange County Register: 700 lbs. tires were flipped, hunks of steel were moved and a U-Haul truck was upended at Main Beach in Huntington Beach on Saturday. No, it was not another joy-riding HBPD cop. It was Southern California's Strongest Man competition. . . . Mexican immigrants are returning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Supremes' Prop. 8 Oral Arguments Generate Vigils, Viewing Parties, Rallies

    Okay, Prop. 8, supporters, be honest: Would you rather attend a party thrown by gays or straights? If you answered the latter, well, then, you haven't been to a party thrown by gays, have you? Think of all the collected knowledge of Martha Stewart, the Queer Eye guys and Chelsea Handler funneled int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Fox Pomona Theater opens this month...hopefully

    This may not be news to most of you in the 909 (or 951, whatever) but for the rest of us who consider The Glass House the only good reason to drive past Diamond Bar, the legendary Fox Theater is set to re-open this month. Pitted in the heart of P-town's colorful Arts Colony, the Fox originally opene ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2008

    Warung Pojok: New Indonesian Eatery Opens in Garden Grove

    When Asian Deli skedaddled to Diamond Bar a few years ago, it left Orange County deprived of its only Indonesian restaurant. The nearest alternative for hungry expats existed just beyond the Orange County line, at Toko Rame in Bellflower. Meanwhile, in O.C., Indonesian food remained the Rodney Dan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    Cracking Open a Miller

    Congressman Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) has jack-assed his way back into the news. Seems he owns $20,000 in toll road bonds. What's the big deal? Miller is a big-time toll-road supporter, putting his signature on letters of support to the project as well as garnering earmark after earmark of pork-ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2008

    To Do Tonight 6/5

    Thursday Night Cheese & Wine Tasting, 5:30 p.m. Mmmmm Laguna Culinary Arts 845 Laguna Canyon Rd. Laguna Beach, CA 949-494-4006 Open Jam Night, 9 p.m. Closed jelly Perq's 117 Main St. Huntington Beach, CA 714-960-9996 Club Kiss, 9 p.m. Don't tell Scribbles 245 Gentle Springs Lane Diamond Bar, CA ... More >>

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    They Didn't Pave Paradise: The top 10 reasons why the Foothill South Toll Road extension failed

    Thursday Night Cheese & Wine Tasting, 5:30 p.m. Mmmmm Laguna Culinary Arts 845 Laguna Canyon Rd. Laguna Beach, CA 949-494-4006 Open Jam Night, 9 p.m. Closed jelly Perq's 117 Main St. Huntington Beach, CA 714-960-9996 Club Kiss, 9 p.m. Don't tell Scribbles 245 Gentle Springs Lane Diamond Bar, CA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

    Haunted OC Hotspots

    In honor of Halloween the OC Weekly has compiled a list of haunted Orange County locations courtesy the database of haunted places on Shadowlands.net. So take some time and have a read. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, at least you can learn about some local legends and scare yourself silly! M ... More >>

  • Articles

    September 20, 2007

    Grub Guide

    In honor of Halloween the OC Weekly has compiled a list of haunted Orange County locations courtesy the database of haunted places on Shadowlands.net. So take some time and have a read. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, at least you can learn about some local legends and scare yourself silly! M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2007

    From Most Corrupt to Most Wanted?

    Some of the FBI agents not busy investigating what you're pulling out of the tubes of the internet are engaged in truly worthwhile work: investigating the imaginative land deals of Congressman Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar, and one of the 20 most corrupt members of Congress according to Citizens for R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2006

    Public Service for Fun and Profit (Gary Miller edition)

    Is it any wonder that Congressman Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) coasts to easy wins every election? His district, the 42nd (which covers eastern OC and doglegs down over Mission Viejo), is one of the state's most reliably Republican districts, and Gary Miller doesn't just embrace those beliefs Republ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2006

    More Mud Flung at Local Reps

    Five days after we pointed you to a Washington Post story on two ethically challenged local congressman, both got a curtain call for being among the 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress. For their eyebrow-raising, borderline illegal land dealings, Reps. Ken Calvert (R-Riverside, but his district incl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2006

    Something Stinks, 3 for 3

    For good measure, we also received this link to a Washington Post article on Orange County congressman Ken Calvert (R-Riverside; his district includes southernmost Orange County) and Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar; his district includes northernmost Orange County), along with House Speaker Dennis Haster ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 17, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    Aug. 9 - Aug. 15

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2006

    Drilling Bit Players

    Further proving that otherwise politically conservative Newport Beach has an environmental streak when it comes to its own shores (but no one else's): Rep. John Campbell (R-The Arches) joined Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) as the only members of the Orange County congressional delegation to v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2006

    Rohrabacher, Big Oil: a Match Made in Hell

    Ah, Huntington Beach with its smelly smokestacks, oily bathtub-ring-like shoreline and human waste bobbing in the ocean. What's not to love? Your congressman, the esteemed Dana Rohrabacher (R-Abramoff), certainly showed he's got your back, Surf City-zens, as he voted just last night to let those poo ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 29, 2005

    !Ask a Mexican!

    The year in Mexican-bashing

  • Food

    January 30, 2003

    Soju Satori

    Is the Korean liquor soju the next St. Johns Wort?

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Landslide 2002

    What we saw on election night

  • Columns

    October 31, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    What we saw on election night

  • Music

    April 11, 2002

    Midnight Wine

    What we saw on election night

  • Columns

    March 7, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    What we saw on election night

  • Columns

    November 15, 2001

    Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves

    Okay, now roll them down. Now back up again. . . . Now: down, quick!

  • Columns

    February 22, 2001

    End of Grays

    Okay, now roll them down. Now back up again. . . . Now: down, quick!

  • Columns

    February 3, 2000

    Coming Clean

    Okay, now roll them down. Now back up again. . . . Now: down, quick!

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Were Gonna Puke

    Patients rights? Not if Chris Cox gets his way

  • Columns

    February 11, 1999

    Rich People Are Bad

    But Ultrathin are phat

  • Features

    January 7, 1999

    January-March

    But Ultrathin are phat

  • Features

    January 7, 1999

    April-June

    But Ultrathin are phat

  • Columns

    December 24, 1998

    You Gotta Keep 'em Separated

    But Ultrathin are phat

  • Columns

    October 29, 1998

    Show Stopper

    It's two, two, two weeks in one as Clockwork plays catch-up after the hiatus brought on by last week's boffo Best of OC issue.

  • Columns

    September 17, 1998

    Taming the Beast

    State lawmakers try to regulate the global Net

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