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Former Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Vouched For a Pedo-Priest Who Went on to Molest Kids in Salinas

Wow, the pathetic legacy of former Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown just keeps getting pathetic-er and pathetic-er-er. The Weekly has obtained a copy of a letter that His Excellency wrote back when he was merely His Stupidity, when Brownie was a Reverend Monsignor at the Diocese of Monterey dur ... More >>

10 Great Chicken Dishes in Orange County (and Long Beach)

There are lot of chicken dishes out there and I have only ten slots on this list. So I picked out my faves using my own unscientific criteria of what constitutes a chicken dish, ruling out others because chicken wasn't the star. What remains are dishes where I felt America's favorite poultry got top ... More >>

McDonald's Plan: Put Out More "Limited-Time Offers"

Perhaps taking its cue from the success of the McRib and Shamrock Shakes, McDonald's has announced that its new strategy will involve more limited-time offers.Last year the Golden Arches offered a total of 8 limited-time specials including Asian Chicken Salad, Frozen Strawberry Lemonade, a ... More >>

On the Line: David Man of Palm Terrace and Lounge, Part Two

While not a luxe lonchera, Palm Terrace now has a catering truck, ready to serve parties of five to 500 wherever they can park it (most recently at the OC Fairgrounds). His mom's infamous cooking makes another appearance in this segment as well, but so does Yoda. It'll make more sense once you perus ... More >>

The Worst of Coachella: Weekend Two

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella. Here are our writers' picks for their least favorite things from the festival's second weekend.

Irvine Korean Festival This Saturday

​Dense in the head that I am, it still took me all of 3 seconds to realize how the City of Irvine came to host the Irvine Korean Cultural Festival tomorrow. Steven Choi, city councilman and a candidate for mayor, is also its founder. Why tomorrow? Well, because today, January 13th, is the day the ... More >>

Shuji's Top Five Restaurants for 2011

ProfessorSalt.comTacos & Carnitas Sahuayo​It's the time of year again when I select a short list of five favorite restaurants. I love places with a tiny menu, tightly focused on producing one thing or variations on the thing at which they excel. Often, that specialist is an ethnic hole-in-the ... More >>

The District in Tustin Loses 3 Restaurants

Edwin Goei​I noticed in walking around The District in Tustin last week how deserted the place was. No, not the Costco part or the part where Target and Whole Foods continue to snarl up traffic; but the area around the theater. After the failure of Borders and Chaparosa Grill a few months ago, ... More >>

Five Foods That Taste Better Processed

Flickr user xiaming​I love fresh food. I love cooking from whole ingredients. I go slightly insane when I can't have plenty of fresh vegetables with my meals, and I live in Southern California, where we have a year-round growing season and farmers markets that make even people from other produce-r ... More >>

LA Times: The History Behind Huntington Beach's Don the Beachcomber

John Gilhooley​If you've ever wondered what the story was behind places like Don The Beachcomber and Trader Vic's, the LA Times published a good but short article on Donn Beach, father of the Polynesian-themed restaurant and a subculture of people called tiki-philes.

[UPDATED with Orly Cyring "Fraud":] Taitz Admits It's About Time to Put Obama Birth Certificate Issue to Rest (Sorta)

​UPDATE, APRIL 27, 1:36 P.M.: Yes, Virginia, there's still a Birther Movement.Apparently, after a few hours of letting the news sink in that President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate and taking a magnifying glass to the image of it on her TV screen, Orly Taitz has concluded t ... More >>

'Local Hero' Chuck Linnen Among Three to Be Inducted Into HB Surfers' Hall of Fame This Summer

​This summer, the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach will add to its ranks a big-wave surfing pioneer, an AAP World Tour veteran and one of HB's local legends. George Downing, Taylor Knox and Chuck Linnen will be enshrined on the sidewalk in front of Huntington Surf & Sport at a ce ... More >>

Proof of Barack Obama's Hawaiian Birth Is Found! Is NOT! Is TOO!

​From the Department of Nothing Important Will Ever Get Done in This Country Because All Sides Cannot Agree on the Facts comes the latest word from Hawaii's new Governor Neil Abercrombie on President Barack Obama's birth in the Aloha State. Those who discount Orly Taitz and fellow birthers as nu ... More >>

Wave of the Future

Surfer magazine's sometimes-wild, sometimes-mild 50-year ride

[UPDATED:] Colt Brennan, Former Mater Dei QB, In Car Accident And In 'Serious Condition'

The record-setting QB is in a Hawaii hospital in serious condition.Update, November 22, 11:03 a.m.: Terry Brennan indicated to reporters that his son, Colt, is "heavily sedated" and is "far from being alert." Colt is able to acknowledge that family and doctors are in the room, through hand signals, ... More >>

Roy's Fall Prixe Fixe Menu

Courtesy of Roy's...​It was 98 F'in degrees out last week. Welcome to "autumn." There's no chilly nip in the air, no smell of fallen leaves, no sense of the coming snowboard season. On a day like this, my thoughts don't turn to spiced cider and pumpkin pie. I'm thinking of sitting under the shade ... More >>

Chapman Constitutional Scholar Rebuffs Orly Taitz's Overtures

​Professor Ronald Rotunda of Orange's Chapman University School of Law scored some publicity at the confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan when he showed up while wearing a natty bow tie and jacket. He may seem to be of another era, but he's definitely plugged into new technologies--so mu ... More >>

Meet Orange County's Other Fact-Challenged, Media-Loving Birther Lawyer

Youtube screen captureFrom left: Anderson Cooper (duh), Paul Rolf Jensen, Lt. Col. Terrance Lakin​Paul Rolf Jensen issued a press release last year in which he called himself a "leading Orange County, California trial lawyer." His personal-injury law firm is based in Costa Mesa.On Friday, CNN anch ... More >>

"BoardHeads" Meet Homeboys in HB

A homeboy shares the stoke in BoardHeads.​Homeboy Industries, whose mission is to take former gang members off the streets and show them there is more to life than gang-bangin', brought young men and women from Los Angeles to Huntington Beach last summer for surf lessons.

Wax On, Wax Off: Winter!

Flickr user Mikebaird​Perhaps winter arrived a couple of weeks ago, but this week seems to have marked the true beginning of the season for surfers and snowboarders of California's South Coast. The usual big swell of early December showed up like clockwork, albeit in diminished proportions since i ... More >>

Are OC Republicans Lying or Businessmen Stupid for Leaving Country's Most Popular State?

​The kind of Orange County Republicans who would launch a recall of a Southern California politician from their own party tell you higher taxes are driving businesses out of California. They'll compare Cali's various tax rates with a backwater state like Nevada, or send their pupp ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern Hates SPAM...and Five Other Irrational (And Not So Irrational) Food Aversions I've Observed in People Around Me

Photo Courtesy Travel Channel​During the SPAM musubi segment of what I would've expected to be the most innocuous part on the Hawaii episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, the bald and doughy Travel Channel personality admitted something that threw me in for a loop: He can't stand SPAM. ... More >>

[Locals Only] Twentyfour64 Play the Numbers Game

Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake Believes He Still Has a Prayer of Unseating Barack Obama

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Oom Mow Mow

Halau Hula Lani Ola—10th Anniversary Ho’ike

To Do Tonight 3/18

Chris Williams Sextet, 8 p.m. See award-winning jazz vocalist Chris Williams perform at the prestigious Steamers Jazz Cafe. Steamers 138 W. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, CA, 92832 (714) 871-8800 Comedy Juice, 8 p.m. One of the most famous comedy shows in the country is now in Brea! Comedy Juice fe ... More >>

What you missed over the weekend: Part VIII

Hungover from Super Bowl Sunday? Us too. (Yes, even those of us who aren't the biggest football nuts by a long shot. . .but when stranded in SFO waiting to head back to John Wayne, there aren't too many entertainment options.) Anyway, we obviously didn't go hog wild on Super Bowl coverage around her ... More >>

Accidents Will Rappin'

How Sparrow Love Crew became the indie rocker's Jurassic 5

The Aloha-ha Spirit

Pepper’s Reggae Rock Brings Much-Needed Levity to the Warped Tour

Yacht 'Cha!

Not-too-early morning brought the start of the TransPacific yacht race to Honolulu, complete with free continental breakfast and pretty girls wearing leather knee-high riding boots (to a yacht race? I think we’re mixing our upper-class leisure events here, aren’t we?). Throw in Long Beach Mayo ... More >>

Sea Shorts by the Seashore (10 Times Fast)

Ocean Revolution Film Fest

Memorial Daze

A military transport plane crash 40 years ago killed 83 people. Steve Bedunah
says hes No. 84

Art for Arts Sake

Graffiti is the real deal

Hawaii Calling

Go on, pick up

Dem Hopes

The profound enjoyment of punching ourselves in the face

Diary of a Mad County

Matiki Island Barbeque

Surfs Way Up

Riding Giants puts the history of big-wave riding on the big screen

Hang Tension

Peralta Swaps Boards For Riding Giants

This Space For Rent

Published in the swingin 70s, this tome told us what to say on our tees

Time for a Plan B

Do you have your morning-after pill?

From Scrubs to Trunks

Twin physicians again surfing in U.S. Open

Letters

A Big, Hairy, Nutty Root!

Youngs Polynesian Produce Paradise brings you taro

IMAXed Out

Bombs Away!

Revising history in Pearl Harbor

Fear Not, Haole!

Nothing packs the gut like tender Spam!

Eat Cheap

or expensive. or somewhere in between

Eat Cheap

or expensive. or somewhere in between

Fast Train Comin'

Havolina Rail Co. are so stupefyingly good you'd swear they were from Austin!