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March 5, 2007
The Los Angeles Times is Stupid (Canto MCXVI)
It's painful picking up the Los Angeles Times every morning and notice it's getting lighter every week. While they're doing this, however, their Chicago pendejo overseers are spending mucho millions on how to attract more readers. Their supposed salvation: Mexicans. If so, why in God's green earth ... More >>
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May 18, 2007
Got stamina?
In front of the AMC multiplex at The Block, they've erected a security gate, with warnings of guard dogs. It looks forbidding, until you read the name on the columns that border it: "Fort Fridge." Beyond the chainlink fencing lies a plexiglass box, inside of which is another plexiglass box, and insi ... More >>
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May 23, 2007
Got Winners? Yes
Didn't mean to leave everyone in suspense about the Fort Fridge contest, if indeed you were. It was over by Tuesday; here, courtesy of the official press release, is how it ended: Twenty-five-year-old law clerk Geovannie De La Torre toughed it out against 28 other determined Californians. The third ... More >>
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September 14, 2007
Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown
Didn't mean to leave everyone in suspense about the Fort Fridge contest, if indeed you were. It was over by Tuesday; here, courtesy of the official press release, is how it ended: Twenty-five-year-old law clerk Geovannie De La Torre toughed it out against 28 other determined Californians. The third ... More >>
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September 18, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Anaheim Subsidizes Private Tennis Club
Slow Road to China: Officials at the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) are puzzled as to why a private construction company is repeatedly missing deadlines to finish the $550-million road-widening project, according to a story by Ellyn Pak at the Register. The delays aren't just costing ... More >>
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October 1, 2007
Register Fails to Reveal Relationship Between Loftus and Catholic Church
Yesterday, Orange County Register crime reporter Rachanee Srisavasdi interviewed the man who claims Orange diocese Bishop Tod D. Brown abused him decades ago. Scott Hicks of Fresno claims that he suppressed the thoughts of abuse for years and recalled them only after therapy recovered those memories ... More >>
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December 24, 2007
Register, Times Slam Santa Ana Good--And a Challenge
If there's one thing that Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut hates more than Sheriff Mike Carona, it's city-controlled urban planning, and he ripped SanTana officials a new one and then some yesterday in a piece blasting the city's much-ballyhooed Renaissance Specific Plan. Prop ... More >>
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June 18, 2008
Lock Up Your Daughters: Today All Three Are Free
If there's one thing that Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut hates more than Sheriff Mike Carona, it's city-controlled urban planning, and he ripped SanTana officials a new one and then some yesterday in a piece blasting the city's much-ballyhooed Renaissance Specific Plan. Prop ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
Heat And Activism In Fresno: A Prop. 8 Protest Journal
Dave Barton Thousands rallied on 5/30 in Fresno for Meet in the Middle 4 Marriage Equality event, which included a 14-mile march. Protest organizers chose the city of Fresno--instead of marching to the capitol or in so-called "gay ghettos"--because they city had voted 65%-70% for the passing of Pro ... More >>
Columns
October 7, 1999
Sallys!
Rockers golf badly, spark up and drive fastall for the kids
Columns
December 11, 2003
Letters
Rockers golf badly, spark up and drive fastall for the kids
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January 15, 2004
Pussy Galore
Rockers golf badly, spark up and drive fastall for the kids
Blogs
May 30, 2009
Zots from the UCI Baseball 'Eaters' Defeat of Fresno State Last Night
*Written by Weekly intern and UCI New University student paper managing editor David Nicolas...The UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team put down the Fresno Bulldogs in the first game of the Irvine NCAA regional playoff series, edging the 'Dogs 4-2. UCI's starting pitcher Daniel Bibona quieted Fresno's ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.
Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-is ... More >>
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April 4, 2009
Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case
Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, form ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
TONIGHT: The Valley Arena at Detroit Bar
Detroit Bar's weekly "Busy Work" night is known for its DJs (like resident "spinner," ugh, hate that term, Dan Sena), and getting folks from bands--like Efrem Schulz from Death by Stereo, to name a recent one--to man the 1s and 2s. But tonight, there's an actual live band performing there, as well? ... More >>
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October 2, 2008
Ain't Dead Yet
OC Children's Book Festival
News
December 20, 2007
Sisterly Concern
UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers
Columns
August 1, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers
Film
February 8, 2007
Old World Charm
Ken Davitian makes laughter for benefit grateful moviegoers of America
Blogs
April 16, 2009
TOMORROW: Local Natives and The Union Line at The Gypsy Lounge
Okay, I guess we all saw this coming. Local Natives have officially changed their origin to Silver Lake on their Myspace page....sigh, okay guys. Well, hopefully you and the OC can still be friends. For those of you who have followed the harmaonizing echoes, rumbling rhythms and spangly guitar chord ... More >>
News
April 26, 2007
Nailed?
Bishop Tod Brown and his undisclosed molestation accusation
News
January 4, 2007
The Effects of a Fresno Boy
Gary Soto
Music
November 23, 2006
All Do Crazy Things
Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 23 - Nov. 30
Columns
July 20, 2006
Commie Girl
California Coming Home: How I deducted my summer vacation
Features
June 2, 2005
Capitol Punishment
How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests
Culture
March 31, 2005
Beverly Center? Weve Got Two of Those!
And we know how to use them
Columns
June 24, 2004
All This Useless Boozy
Miss Huntington Beach takes on drunks driving
Features
October 30, 2003
Best Shopping and Porn
Miss Huntington Beach takes on drunks driving
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April 3, 2003
Rally Round Jah School
Saddleback students face cuts by tuning out
Columns
July 26, 2001
Daahk, Veddy, Veddy Daahk
Mermaids, Hitler, vampires and Dwight Yoakam, but not yet Halloween
Music
December 16, 1999
Holy (Rock &) Rollers
Stavesacres leap of faith
Culture
November 11, 1999
The Iceworker Cometh
Andres Montoyas poems for the rest of us
Blogs
June 23, 2009
GLAAD Claims KDOC-TV Aired Anti-Gay Infomercial
OCProgressive.com gets the credit for catching this first, but the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation says it received complaints about the re-emergence of an anti-gay infomercial titled Speechless: Silencing the Christians--and among the stations around the country that just showed ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2009
Vegan Mel Carries Out Her Nude Protest
Photo by Keith MayHear Vegan Mel roar!You were told this morning about the vow made by Melissa Sehgal, who also goes by Vegan Mel, to sit in a cage in Anaheim while her nude body was painted like a tiger. If you point your eyes in that direction, you can still make out the smoke trail produced when ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
Big Week for the ADA and the Disabled
Eddie Rea, 21, an emerging disability rights leader from Fresno, is the youth speaker at the Sacramento forum's luncheon.It's a big week for the disabled in Sacramento--and, no, that was not a timely dig at the governor and legislature.Well, not this time.The 18th annual Youth Leadership Forum fo ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2009
2009 Postseason Throwdown: 26 Reasons to Hate Boston, Bostonians and Other Massholes
Those rubes in Boston probably find this pretty.UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS . . . Before Angel fans can truly hate the Boston Red Sox--actually, if 1986 playoffs didn't do it, nothing will--they must first hate the team's fans, the residents of the town surrounding Fe ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
[UPDATED] UC Budget Protest at UCLA is Rowdy. Cal State Protest in Long Beach? Not So Much
UPDATE: University of California Regents voted for a 32 percent tuition increase today, with a dissenting vote coming from the student-regent. The vote was taken and debated over loud protests outside from hundreds of demonstrators. Our big sis' LA Weekly reports one arrest today. See also the Lo ... More >>
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March 1, 2010
High Speed Train May Demolish Buena Park Homes Designed to Be Near Trains
California High Speed Rail AuthorityIf only the new train had only to contend with windmills...Sunday's Los Angeles Times carried a piece that largely rehashed a few low-boiling controversies about the planned high speed train line that, when eventually completed, will connect Anaheim and San Die ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
Diane Harkey Tries to Kill High-Speed Rail Financing
One woman stands in its way...State assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point, etc.) has proposed a law to stop California's high-speed rail project... in its tracks. To derail it. To cause it to lose steam. To, uh, poo-poo the choo-choo.
Blogs
April 30, 2010
Register's Watchdog Team Nabs Honor
The folks over at The Orange County Register's OC Watchdog team submitted just four of their journalist accomplishments to a California Newspaper Publishers Association public service contest and deservedly won first place.Those stories included revelations about:
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Today on the High-Speed Rail Seesaw...
Are the current plans for a $40-billion high-speed train meant to connect Fresno and San Francisco with Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Diego brilliant or reckless? Everytime you start to form an opinion, something comes the other way down the tracks. Take, for example, the past 24 hours:
Blogs
September 16, 2010
Gabe Gordon of Beachwood BBQ, Part Three
Photo by Todd Barnes For our final installment of On The Line with Gabe Gordon of Beachwood BBQ, our subject shares a recipe. If you missed the first or second part of our Q&A, click here and here. Otherwise click onward.
Blogs
December 6, 2010
John Steinbock, Former Pedo-Priest-Protecting Diocese of Orange Bishop and Current Fresno Bishop, Now Rotting in Hell
John Steinbock, the bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, no longer has to suffer through the hell that is cancer after passing away yesterday, but he can now look forward to an eternity of Satan for his lifetime of protecting pedophile priests. And before some apologist comments that I shou ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Five New Years' Resolutions for Orange County Diners
Flickr user tinfoilraccoonNew Year's Day is coming. In the interest of the gastronomic improvement of our fair readership area, I offer the following set of suggested New Years' resolutions for the diners of Orange County.
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Vang Pao, Former General of CIA Secret Army in Laos, RIP
The Associated Press is reporting today that Vang Pao, the former leader of the CIA's secret army in Laos whose war on communism ended when he and tens of thousands of fellow Hmong fled the country in 1975, has died. Until recently a resident of a modest house in Westminister, Vang reportedly die ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2011
Lou Correa, The Inquisitor?
Grrrrrrr!There are probably several descriptions you could give Orange County state Senator Lou Correa, but who knew one would be watchdog?According to a Sacramento Bee article today, at a Tuesday hearing, Correa (D-Anaheim) grilled California National Guard officials about lingering and widespr ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2011
A Brief History of Tamales in Santa Ana
You know that book about the history of Mexican food in the United States that I mention in every other post? I released a brief, brief preview of it in the Food section of today's Los Angeles Times, specifically on the tamale wagons that ruled the streets of Southern California in the late 1890s ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2011
A Taste of Fall Event Features Sustainable Menu
This Friday, 11/11/11 from 7 to 11 p.m., PositivePlate.org presents a special event featuring sustainable dishes prepared by some of our top local chefs. Haven Gastropub, Avanti Cafe, Sol Cocina, Taco Asyum, Sage, Duke's, Xanh Bistro, and Haute Cakes are those expected to serve signature s ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Stephen John Frea Held for New Year's Eve Stabbing Outside Goat Hill Tavern
2011 began in Orange County with Robert Sickles, 27, of Mission Viejo, being stabbed to death outside a New Year's Eve party in a Costa Mesa hotel.2012 almost began the same way, with a different victim, of course, but in the same city, only 4 1/2 miles from the New Year's Eve 2011 attack.
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