Subject: Fairs and Carnivals

• All's Fair in Love and OC

  When it's the opening day of the Orange County Fair, you have plenty of time in traffic — an hour, in fact, just to get from Santa Ana to the fairgrounds — to realize just how poorly the 55 is designed. Immediately after some major road feeds into it, forcing a mass slowing as a new torrent of cars merges inward, yet another major road feeds into it, and just as soon as that's integrated, another still. Even when the freeway's just about to end, there are still major roads feeding in, and if

  July 16, 2007

• To Do Today - 10/06

  GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND, 8am Come out and show your support for the 10th annual “Gay Days” at Disneyland. Numerous events will be held all day throughout the park. Remember to wear red. Disneyland, 1313 S Harbor Blvd., Anaheim www.gaydaysanaheim.com KIDSFAIRE, 10am This is one to take the whole family to. With interactive exhibits and stage shows, the kids are bound to be entertained. If you can’t make it today, the fair is also held Sunday. Orange County Fair & Exposition Center, 88 Fair

  October 6, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines. No Surprises: Disney wins

  More dirt on Debbie? Yesterday we noted that Debbie Carona was doing her darndest to wriggle her way out of a case that's mainly against her husband. Wait a second, missy. Today, Christine Hanley and Garrett Therolf at the Times report that the sheriff's wife urged Orange County Fair Board directors to support a swap meet operator who donated thousands to her husband's political campaigns despite a proposal from rival firm. Hanley and Therolf are having tons of fun poking around the Costa Mesa

  November 28, 2007

• Wake Up and Suck the Orange 1.31.08

  POORMAN SUES KDOC: LA Times - Dana Parsons covers the Poorman with typical dollops of smarminess. No genital warts mentioned whatsoever. I'd wax moronic but Luke Y. Thompson already covered this like a month ago (Exit Poorman, Feb. 3). So will he be a Richman? Do fiddlers play on roofs? DEBBIE #1 GETS A BREAK: OC Register - Deborah Carona, wife of former Sheriff Mike Carona, will not be charged with inappropriate behavior while a member of the Orange County Fair Board, although the prosecution

  January 31, 2008

• Family First

  November 8, 2007

• This Sunday: Tustin Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off

  Perhaps the greatest South Park episode ever made is "Scott Tenorman Must Die." If you've seen it, then you know where I'm going with this. Yes. I am making the connection between Cartman's Chili Con Carnival with this Sunday's Tustin Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off. Seriously, if you haven't, watch the episode. It's a classic. Or perhaps, don't. Not if you intend to enjoy the Chili Cook-Off without giggling uncontrollably like a crazy person. Tustin's event deserves respect, dang it!

  June 5, 2009

• Maloof Money Cup Promotional Video

  This video is a couple weeks old (I just saw it yesterday on LAist), but it promotes the Maloof Money Cup, "the premiere showcase for amateur and professional skateboarding in 2009," which runs as a three-day festival during the opening weekend of the Orange County Fair July 10-12 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Last year's Maloof Money Cup boasted the largest purse in the history of professional skateboarding with more than $450,000 in prize money awarded in three professional

  June 16, 2009

• Maloof Rides Into etnies to Talk Maloof Money Cup

  Joe Maloof (left) and Pierra Andres Senizergues appear ready to hop on a board in etnies' training facility.Joe Maloof--who with his brother Gavin owns the Sacramento Kings of the NBA, the Sacramento Monarchs of the WNBA, ARCO Arena, the Palms resort and casino in Las Vegas and film, music and television production ventures--was in Orange County last week to discuss plans for the richest skateboarding competition in history.Maloof, who is president of Maloof Companies, was at the Lake Forest hea

  June 30, 2009

• UPDATE: Eat It! Michael Jackson To Get Butter Statue

  If you didn't manage to get tickets to the MJ memorial at Staples Center tomorrow, fear not: you can probably still book a flight to Des Moines for the Iowa State Fair in August, when Jackson will be immortalized in butter. For ten days, the dairy King of Pop will stand next to the fair's traditional butter cow. Sculptor Sarah Pratt chose to portray the singer's famous moonwalk pose as a nod to the 40th anniversary of the moon landings this summer. Two years after that momentous event, the

  August 18, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Renegade Craft Fair

  Hey Folks! The Gettin' Made Feature is moving to the Heard Mentality section of the OC Weekly site, make a note of it! Heard Mentality is transforming like your fave yellow Camero into an all-emcompassing culture section.   Renegade Craft Fair is finally coming to southern California - this is one of the big awesome craft shows (think Felt Club flavor) that goes on yearly in the U.S., but up until this point it's been held in far-away fabled lands  with exotic names like Brooklyn

  July 8, 2009

• Orange County Mud Run

  July 16, 2009

• The More the OC Fair Has Changed, the More Its Rites and Rituals Have Stayed the Same

  July 16, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Head North This Weekend!

  Folks, I don't know if you realize, but it's summer out there. Aw, but times are too tight to fly somewhere for a little weekend vacation. Time to hit the streets for a crafty road trip to Northern California! Julia McCabe of JnJ Designs will be taking part in Saturday's Design Downtown block party in Sacramento, won't you go pay her a visit? Lei Lani bracelet from the Sea Swept Collection by JnJ Designs

  July 17, 2009

• X

  July 23, 2009

• When Orange Countians Loved Mexicans

  Am deep in the vaults for an upcoming...something, when I stumbled across an ad in the then-Santa Ana Register for the 1969 Orange County Fair. The theme for that year? "Fiesta of Fun," with its logo a clown wearing a sombrero that read, "¡Vamos Amigos!" (upside-down exclamation point in the original!). The theme was picked to celebrate California's bicentennial in the wasichu world, and the text for the ad boasted that the fair would feature mariachi bands strolling around the fairgrounds to g

  August 10, 2009

• TAPS in Brea Scoops Five Medals At California Beer Competitions

  The restaurant's brewmaster, Victor Novak (who sounds like a film noir actor, if you ask me), now has 37 awards to his name, thanks to the new haul. The California State Fair (which takes place from August 21 to September 7 in Sacramento) has given TAPS' Cream Ale a gold medal and its Irish Red a bronze, while the International Beer Fest (formerly the LA County Fair, held from September 5 to October 4) is dishing out a gold for the restaurant's Cream Ale, a silver for its Hefeweizen and a bronze

  July 8, 2009

• Gettin' Made: Renegade Craft Fair

  The Gettin' Made blog feature is moving to the Heard Mentality section of the OC Weekly site, make a note of it! Heard Mentality is transforming like your fave yellow Camaro into an all-emcompassing culture section. copyright i made you a beard Renegade Craft Fair is finally coming to Southern California, and it's one of the larger sized awesome craft shows (think of the annual Felt Club extravaganza at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles) that goes on yearly in the United States. Up un

  July 9, 2009

• A Taste of Greece

  September 24, 2009

• Foes of Proposed Orange County Fair Sale Launch Website

  Photo by Jennie WarrenAre certain fair board elements taking Orange Countians and state taxpayers for a ride?Some anonymous Orange County Fair employees have created a website that channels their displeasure with the proposed sale of the state-owned fairgrounds in Costa Mesa.OCUnfair.com takes particular aim at: Steve Beazley, the Orange County Fair president and CEO; David Ellis, a Newport Coast resident who serves on the governor-appointed Orange County Fair Board of Directors; and Richard "Di

  September 21, 2009

• County Lawyer Seeks State Probe of OC Fair Privatization Plan

  What has Dick been doing?​The County of Orange's lawyer is calling on the California Attorney General to investigate potential illegal deals that could give private control of the $100 million-plus Orange County Fairgrounds property in Costa Mesa to well-connected political insiders.In an Oct. 30, 2009, letter to Gary Schons--the state AG's top-ranking official in Southern California--County Counsel Nicholas S. Chrisos writes, "it appears" that the public board of the state-owned fairgrounds b

  November 16, 2009