Not every day at a film fest yields winners. On the contrary, some reveal their auteurs as wieners.
Okay, that’s unnecessarily flip. Normally, I try to give some credit to struggling directors, and find the good even in the bad. I also felt a bit bad at having walked out on some of the previous programs – a practice I find unforgivable if reviewing a single film for assignment, but more acceptable if the article being worked on is a multi-film piece, like a festival wrap-up.
I was sorely t
Grammy nominated artist (and Long Beach native) Nate Dogg plead guilty to domestic abuse charges on Tuesday in an Orange County court room.
He broke into a house and punched his ex’s new boyfriend back in 2006.
The rapper is being ordered to complete a domestic violence issues treatment program, three years probation, and was stripped of rights to own a weapon for the next 10 years.
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I've been expounding on the genius of Rotten.com in the Weekly's pages for years--not so much the gore but rather their fabulous library and Daily Rotten (think of it as Wikipedia and the Drudge Report written by libertarian conspiracy- and porno-obsessed geeks--but isn't this characterization quadruply redundant?). Orange County dots the Library--read these wonderful entries on Disneyland and Richard Nixon, but we occasionally make the weird history that is their "Today in Rotten History" eleme
Mmm, yeah. There are no words. The only Garth Brooks songs I can think of off the top of my head right now seem wholly inappropriate for lullabye material--"Friends In Low Places" (drinking!), "The Thunder Rolls" (domestic abuse!). But you have to admit that the headset microphone on that dog is a nice, and adorable, touch.
Dr. Ana NogalesA new, nonprofit mental health center for families who have been victimized by crime is scheduled to open Friday in downtown Santa Ana. Casa de la Familia arrives at a time of great need. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit agency dedicated to ending domestic violence, reveals that 75 percent of domestic violence shelters in the U.S. have reported an increase in women seeking help since September, something 73 percent of these shelters attribute a rise in fina
www.hitthebitch.dk"Hit the Bitch" suffers a black eye.The furor over "Hit the Bitch" now prevents you from visiting the supposed "anti-violence website" out of Denmark that allows a mouse-powered (and male-looking) hand to repeatedly
smack and slap a young woman.
