Subject: House and Home

• Wicked Fun

  November 20, 2008

• [Summer Guide] Guerrilla Gardeners Strike an Earthy Tone as They Beautify Medians and Empty Lots

  June 4, 2009

• An Injury to One...

  Pat Brennan (no relation) reports in the Register that fire ants are resurgent in OC. As someone who grew up in South Louisiana, where the ants have freely roamed since Truman was in the White House, allow me to explain what this means to you: it means you're fucked. It means pain. It means little pus-filled welts. It also means that the old union-organizing slogan– "An injury to one is an injury to all"– is absolutely right. Those of you who remember the fire ant problem being decl

  April 24, 2006

• Children's Dreams Splattered Across 5 Freeway

  Oh, God, it was awful. There I was, driving home, around 6:30, on the I-5 South. There is almost always traffic, but I noticed it was especially congested yesterday. Whatever—I only had a couple exits to go. So as I inched along, the cars in front of me were merging away from the middle lane. We've all see it before: A nasty old piece of furniture falls off a moving van, or some truck loses a box of something. But not yesterday. As I approached the scene, I was horrified to see . .

  June 8, 2007

• It's So Funny Because It Just Happened

  So on our home page right as this is ejaculated out, there is one of those flashy Google ads that seemingly scans the page it's on for keywords and then searches its massive database for related advertising links. I don't know if Google pays a premium to have that amazing feature on our site, or if it's just something we're using as a space filler. What do you want from us? We've got a sweeping second hand between our legs? We bring this up because just as we were scanning the home page, we not

  May 4, 2006

• Beach Break: Cheap drugs

  Who doesn't like cheap drugs? Nobody that's who! So lets all jump up and click our heels together in glee because the city of Long Beach has introduced a drug card program that will reduce prescription medication costs by up to 75 percent for its residents! Oh the joy of it all! The UNA Rx Card is valid at over 50,000 national and regional pharmacies! Rapture! It can also be used to cover prescriptions not covered by personal health insurance! Gaiety! It counts toward some pet meds, too!

  August 20, 2007

• Last Night: The Bird and The Bee at Detroit Bar

  Review by Shawn Smith Better Than: Sitting home listening to raindrops hitting the pavement outside your bedroom window while watching reruns of I Love New York 2. The Bird and the Bee's Inara George rocks a granny dress like no one's business. But we'll get to that later. First, we must wax on about Kevin Poush's new band Two Guns (disclosure: Kevin works at OC Weekly and is an all-around fantastic guy). As the former guitarist for Fielding, we already knew to expect big time greatness, a

  January 6, 2008

• And Now, A Complaint

  Believe it or not, we want the Orange County Register to be healthy, to put out a good product. We wish it all the success in the world save for beating us on a story. So, Register: please, por favor, please work on your website. It takes forever to load, frequently misplaces Frank Mickadeit's column, and did we already say it takes too damn long to load?! It took an entire MINUTE to load your home page, a home page I had visited dozens of time today and thus accepted all of your cookies and o

  February 5, 2008

• Ya Gotta Hang On

  February 26, 2009

• The Dahlia Lady of Costa Mesa

  If you've visited Kean Coffee in Newport Beach (...but really Costa Mesa) in the last few months, you'll notice their abundance of beautiful, brightly colored, fresh-cut dahlias in all shapes and sizes—some, bigger than your face—on display. And if you peer even closer, you'll notice homemade business cards advertising fresh-cut dahlias grown by Leah Banks of Costa Mesa. Banks, 58, has been selling fresh-cut dahlias out of her backyard for some 12 years now, but has been tending the fl

  September 9, 2008

• Return of the Native?

  December 5, 2002

• Condo-Mania

  October 23, 2003

• Bangok Taste Closed for a Week--No Worries. I Hope.

  Had dinner earlier this week at Bangkok Taste in SanTana, my current fave Thai restaurant, with the mysterious Ben Dayhoe (contrary to popular rumor, he's not Mr. X). We enjoyed soups, fried tofu, their famous roti dessert, and the peanut-butter soup called khao soy. After our dinner (we ate with our respective ladies), the kind owner, who puts fresh roses on each table every day from her garden, gave the gals a Christmas present: flowers in a glass bubble. She then told us Bangkok Taste is clos

  December 19, 2008

• Rock the Vets

  October 9, 2008

• Birdy Num-Nums

  December 25, 2008

• [Trendzilla] Chanel Jackets and Cheap Chic

  November 27, 2008

• Just a Nibble

  November 20, 2008

• Guess Whose Coming?

  November 6, 2008

• [Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Shops & Wares: Greetings From Stephanie Cook

  October 9, 2008

• Green Thumb

  April 17, 2008

• Some of Alfonso Bustamante’s Tenants Say His Historic Santa Ana Apartments Leave Them Cold

  February 28, 2008

• Hey, You!

  Hot-tempered

  September 27, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  July 19, 2007

• The Soiree Lass

  Are You the Keymaster? I am the Gatekeeper!

  December 7, 2006

• Self-Sufficient

  May 11, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  November 10, 2005

• Gooooooaaaalll!

  March 31, 2005

• Vincent's Market

  March 31, 2005

• Jokes On You

  February 3, 2005

• Ho, Ho, Ho

  December 23, 2004

• Putting the Con in Condo

  Councilwoman may have illegally converted apartments

  May 6, 2004

• Hindustani Soul Bread

  October 2, 2003

• Pile On

  September 12, 2002

• The Sap Spills Like Blood

  August 1, 2002

• Keeping Tabs

  July 25, 2002

• Pink Room Gets Pink!

  June 27, 2002

• Not So Fine

  April 12, 2001

• Lawnbot

  July 13, 2000

• DIY Fest and Really, Really Free Market

  April 30, 2009

• UPDATE: Pascal Olhats Coming to French 75, Fashion Island

  Details at 11, or, rather, as soon as we have them, because everyone is remaining tight-lipped about this at the moment. But French 75 did confirm that famed French chef Olhats is joining them "within the month", that he isn't closing any of his other restaurants and that there will a new menu to celebrate his arrival.Update, Friday May 15: The man himself has confirmed that French 75 is about to become Brasserie Pascal, where he will act as consultant manager. A preview menu--$20 for two course

  May 15, 2009

• Robots and Us

  May 21, 2009

• Tree Huggers Ball

  June 18, 2009

• Cover Me Badd

  November 27, 2008

• Long Beach Antique Market

  November 13, 2008

• Fancy Shmancy

  July 3, 2008

• Leaving Babylon

  I'm bailing for Vegas today and that got me thinking about the idea of leaving. Then I remembered a strange cover version of the Bad Brains song "Leaving Babylon" a week ago. I was in the gardening department at Big Lots (does Big Lots have "departments?") when I heard an acoustic guitar strumming some chords. No big whoop. Then a white guy started singing, "I'm leaving this babylon/leaving this babylon/will not be too long/will not be too long." Instantly my ears perked as I knew that was a Bad

  July 17, 2009

• Cypress Home Wins Fantasy 9/11 Sweepstakes

  Photo by Matt Coker Winner!The winner of the just-made-up Remember 9/11 by Decorating Your Home Sweepstakes is this house in Cypress. Of course, it's possible the abode always looks this way. But a girl can dream, can't she?

  September 14, 2009

• The Art of Vinyl

  September 17, 2009

• Fever Ray

  October 1, 2009