Freight Transportation

Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... More >>

The Postal Service - Fox Theatre Pomona - April 15, 2013

The Postal Service Fox Theatre Pomona April 15, 2013 With the news of the horrific Boston Marathon bombing, seeing two police cars parked in front of the Fox Theatre Pomona produced an eery calm to the evening. The exhilaration of surviving Coachella quickly dissipated upon hearing the terrifying ne ... More >>

The Best of Coachella: Weekend One

Karen O's Outfit Karen O's wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah's front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might have worn had he ever bee ... More >>

The Postal Service

Fox Theater

Notes From the Underground Economy

Are companies at the Port of Long Beach cheating truckers out of their rightful wages?

Young Romans

Viento Y Agua

Port of Long Beach Pact Allowing Truckers to Police Clean Trucks Program Draws Judge's Rebuke

​The Long Beach Harbor Commission illegally violated state environmental law when it weakened its truck cleanup program without first performing the required environmental review, a federal judge has ruled. Finding in favor of the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas go on Hiatus; Four Other Groups That Should Take a Break Too

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​This week the Black Eyed Peas announced at their Staffordshire show that it was the "last time we're going to be in England for a long time." So yes, the group is taking a break, but they're not breaking up--at least, not according to Fergie and will.i.am.Sure, there ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Oil Tanker Terror Plot Hits Close to Home

​The Department of Homeland Security announced today that among the materials Navy SEALS found in Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan hideout were al-Qaida plans to hijack and detonate oil tankers last summer to provoke an "extreme economic crisis" in the West.Officials disclosed no specific U.S. targets. ... More >>

Listen to This: Reservoir Tips, a Dahga Bloom Spin-Off

​Apparently some members of Dahga Bloom were bored and decided to write some electronic music you can sing to, but not in a Postal Service way. Now it's a band called Reservoir Tips, and they have shows and a demo and stuff. Or something. 

A Freight Train, a Busy Crossing and an 80-Year-Old on a Moving Scooter: This is Going to Get Ugly

​There are so many traffic accidents in Orange County that you can generally predict the outcome 99 percent of the time based solely on the particulars. Take yesterday morning's collision at a railroad crossing on Lampson, east of Western in Garden Grove. An 80-year-old man on a scooter that perfo ... More >>

Nike Messenger Project

Memphis Cafe

Bike Messenger Project Opening Reception

Memphis Cafe

Dark Harbor

Queen Mary

Blue Whales Amass Off an Orange Coast

​Veteran whale watchers and sports-fishing operators report dense numbers of blue whales--the largest animals ever known to have existed--frolicking off the Southern California coast, from Santa Barbara to southern Orange County.Thank our unseasonably cold weather: chilly water favorable to the sh ... More >>

Neon Trees

The Glass House

Mail-Stealing Mail Worker Sent to Jail

Flickr user Steve 2.0 / Creative Commons.​Tired of using the excuse that your grandma's birthday card didn't ever arrive because it was "lost in the mail?" Instead try this one: It was stolen by a postal worker.That would have been a valid excuse coming from many victims of former US Postal Servic ... More >>

[Summer Guide] What Not to Do When You're Desperate and Hungry for Money

Going Postal to Help Hungry Orange Countians

When the postman drops letters, magazines and packages off at your Orange County home or business on Saturday, he or she is going to want something in return: food.To help combat a sharply increasing need for emergency food assistance, U.S. Postal Service letter carriers will seek donated food items ... More >>

A note to Rick Reiff regarding a whiff of corruption

Dear Rick: As the host of KOCE's Inside OC, you nearly have a monopoly when it comes to getting important stories on local television. I watched a rerun tonight of your recent interview with embattled OC Treasurer/Tax Collector Chriss (I'm sick of people emailing me on this. His first name is spel ... More >>

Explosive Gas

With the exception of the friendly folks at Sound Energy Solutions (SES), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi and ConocoPhillips, just about nobody in Long Beach—Mayor Bob Foster and most residents who already think there's enough industrial pollution at the port—want to see a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

May 24 - May 30

Sunset Beach

Lush Life

Bukowski in and out of his cups

Death Cab For Cutie

Daily Journal

Steven Daily paints what he is

Remembering the Future of Orange Countys Great Park

Tax day: A Diary of My Pain

In-Fight Testing

El Toro Airport Watch No. 119

Never Mind War, El Toro Is Hell

El Toro Airport Watch No. 109

Interim Misuse

El Toro Airport Watch No. 107

Cargo Hatched

El Toro Airport Watch No.94