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Donald Bren

  • Food

    April 5, 2012

    CUCINA enoteca Is the San Diego Treat

    Irvine's version of a San Diego restaurant that flies against Donald Bren's beige boringness

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    [UPDATED with Weekly Role in Discovery:] George P. Shultz's Head is Found in Trash, But Ronald Reagan's is Still Missing

    ​UPDATE, DEC. 13, 12:22 P.M.: The recyclables searcher who found the head of George P. Shultz in a Huntington Beach garbage bin told his son in Oregon about the find, which led junior to search the Internet and find the OC Weekly Navel Gazing blog post on the former secretary of state's missing no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Ronald Reagan and George P. Shultz Heads Missing from Chapman U

    ​Bring me the heads of Ronald Reagan and George P. Shultz!Shouted in Central America during the 1980s--when Dutch was president and Shultzy was secretary of state--the plea rings out again today in Orange, where Chapman University officials bemoan the loss of busts depicting the GOP warhorses.

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    UCI Presentation Explores Designing, Sharing and Customizing Video Games in Your Browser

    ​An academic from Switzerland will be at UC Irvine this afternoon advocating a web-based game-design program aimed at the general public.Navid Ahmadi, who is on the faculty of Informatics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, will present AgentWeb, a first-of-its-kind web-based game design and ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 9, 2010

    UC Irvine's New Computer-Games Major Gets Its Game On

    The school is banking big on computer games as an emerging discipline

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Donald Bren Ranked Richest in SoCal (Again)

    The latest Forbes list of richest Americans is out, and Newport Beach's reclusive billionaire Donald Bren once again finds himself ranked the richest man in Southern California.Forbes pegs the Irvine Co. chairman's wealth at $12 billion, enough to make him the 21st richest man in these United St ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2010

    Sunday News Notes

    Yours for just $57 million!​Today's news highlights include:Orange County's Real WonderlandJeff Overley reports that Newport Coast, billionaire Donald Bren's masterpiece bubble development, is "nearly finished" after 40 years. Overley calls the area "Pleasantville meets Bel Air," interviews conten ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    OC Real Estate Developer Trick to Gouge Taxpayers Fails

    Irvine Co. perfected tactic fails this time​After a state regulatory agency ordered an Orange County real estate developer to pay for the toxic contamination cleanup costs in December 2005 on its property in Huntington Beach, the developer sold the property to another state agency and then attempt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Video Game Lecture Wades Into Walden Pond

    Walden, a game about the experience of author Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, helps demonstrate experimental video game design at a UC Irvine presentation this afternoon.

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Bai Ling, Muslim Punks, Black Star Canyon's Warlock Among 15 Newport Beach Film Festival Highlights

    Here are 15 things I'm looking forward to at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which kicks off tonight and continues through April 29. These are based on preview screenings, festival descriptions and even less-informed nonsense.Ling-Bai.blogspot.com​1) Bai Ling on the red carpet tonight. Years ago, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Steven Bren, Son of Billionaire Irvine Co. Chairman, Lands on Tax Delinquent List

    Only known photo to exist anywhere and everywhere of Steve Bren, not counting those other ones.​A former Grand Prix racing champion and son of billionaire Irvine Co. chairman Donald Bren occupies the No. 18 spot on the most recently updated list of California's most delinquent tax delinquents.Ste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Rep. Campbell and Irvine Co. War on Christmas: Security Goons Bar Students Singing Carols

    Remember those UC Irvine students who visited the Newport Center office of Rep. John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) on Tuesday afternoon? As the video above shows, the future doctors, lawyers and researchers from UCI's law and medical schools are singing traditional Christmas carols with new lyrics pert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Gestures Gamers Come Up With Are Focus of UCI Gathering

    UCI Center for Computer Games & Virtual WorldsSenior research scientist Walt Scacchi of the UCI Institute for Software Research​Walt Scacchi, the director of research with UC Irvine's Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds, seeks live bodies rather than virtual ones for a lecture he's sp ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    [BEST OF OC] El Profesor (the Professor): Erwin Chemerinsky

    UCI Center for Computer Games & Virtual WorldsSenior research scientist Walt Scacchi of the UCI Institute for Software Research​Walt Scacchi, the director of research with UC Irvine's Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds, seeks live bodies rather than virtual ones for a lecture he's sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    OCBJ is Up on Henry Nicholas, Down on Angels, Cary Bren

    Orange County Business Journal has some enlightening items in this week's issue, although you have to hunt for most of them. That, of course, is not the case with "OC Insider," the weekly column by executive editor Rick Reiff, a seasoned pro who knows to start off with his most newsworthy stuff: T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Welcome to the Poorhouse: Rich Beotch Edition

    Crunching numbers from the latest Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans, Orange County Business Journal concluded that local billionaires lost a combined $5.8 billion of wealth since September. That's not all that has shrunk: there are 793 billionaires on the latest Forbes list, compared with 1,12 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Monday Night Football at The Pelican Grill? Whaaa?

    The Pelican Grill at the Pelican Hill Resort is the last place I would think of when it comes to Monday Night Football. After all, this is a valet-parking, ocean-views, uniformed-waiter, white-table-cloth kind of establishment, where the customers are the country-club types, not the average Joe Six ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2007

    Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: The Shame of Wayne Gross

    Dana Point Gets a Celebrity! Earvin “Magic” Johnson and his wife, Cookie, have purchased a $7.6 million gated-community “vacation” home in Dana Point, according to the Times. Though “Hot Property” reporter Ruth Ryon didn’t share more details about the location, you can assume it’s a ... More >>

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Tom Dumonts 7 Favorite Things

    No Doubt guitarist, producer

  • Features

    July 19, 2007

    Soil to Soul

    Orange County’s freshest farmers, farmers markets, food purveyors—and the chefs who love them

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2007

    Journalism's Best, uh, Deep Throat

    Thirty days after April Fool's Day, Editor & Publisher magazine named Orange County Register boss Nelson Christian Anderson "Publisher of the Year" for the entire nation. Though you may have laughed, that wasn't the inadvertent chuckle line about Anderson, who could pass as the father of both u ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 8, 2007

    Decadence

    Web Exclusive! The result of an art conference, Catalyst 18s Wonder-Room has a little of everything

  • News

    December 14, 2006

    The Reporter vs. the Republican Power Couple

    Will an upcoming LA Times profile unravel or bolster Mike Schroeders empire?

  • Columns

    September 14, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    Sept. 9 - Sept. 12

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    San Juan Capistrano

    Sept. 9 - Sept. 12

  • Features

    September 8, 2005

    Editing a Paper in Your Hometown

    Sept. 9 - Sept. 12

  • Web

    August 4, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    Sept. 9 - Sept. 12

  • Culture

    July 7, 2005

    It Must Have Been One Hell of a Party

    Light & Space playboys come to Irvine older, richer

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Go Time

    Ex-toll-road boss had one last project before he left: His own financial windfall

  • Columns

    October 28, 2004

    Letters

    Ex-toll-road boss had one last project before he left: His own financial windfall

  • Culture

    July 8, 2004

    What Can We Do About Kansas?

    Thomas Franks Unanswered Heartland Question

  • News

    June 3, 2004

    Malled

    The Labs creator discovers theres no I in Irvine

  • Culture

    November 13, 2003

    Episode 9

    The Labs creator discovers theres no I in Irvine

  • Columns

    June 5, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    The Labs creator discovers theres no I in Irvine

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Gifts That Keep on Giving

    Times and Reg express surprise again and again over Irvine Co. donation

  • Columns

    May 16, 2002

    Letters

    Times and Reg express surprise again and again over Irvine Co. donation

  • Columns

    April 25, 2002

    Letters

    Times and Reg express surprise again and again over Irvine Co. donation

  • News

    April 11, 2002

    Mayor Moonbeam, Meet Donald Bren

    The Irvine Co. backs its old nemesis: Larry Agran

  • Columns

    February 1, 2001

    Fired!

    Enemies new and old in the return of the Dark Ages

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Christine Todd Witless

    Bushs EPA pick has much to learn

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Cox Stocks Take Big Knocks

    Newport Republican still backpedaling on Chinese spies

  • Features

    August 17, 2000

    Dear Mr. Fuentes

    Letters to the most powerful Republican in Orange County

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Runaway Runways

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 141

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    The Gift That Keeps on Giving

    Irvine Co. donations generate publicity but little evidence of giving

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    None Dare Call It Coincidence

    A brief history of rabbits in America

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Fantasy Candidates

    A brief history of rabbits in America

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Knock 'Em Down

    Our 15 favorite places OC developers have missed

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    Life of Riley

    Questioning the canonization of former supervisor Tom Riley

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