Imperial Beach

Four Pot Legalization Proposals That Won't Help Orange County

Unlike Colorado and Washington State, where voters have a chance this November to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for consenting adults, California has no such proposal on the statewide election ballot this year. We had our chance two years ago with Proposition 19, but the folks backing i ... More >>

Laguna Niguel's Ray Karch Takes First Place at U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition

John Gilhooley/OC WeeklyMr. Sandman Ray Karch in 2006.​​Sandcastle master Ray Karch got down and dirty this past weekend, winning big at the U.S. Open Sandcastle Competition in Imperial Beach. The 59-year-old Laguna Niguel resident and his three-man team, The Green Lantern Corps, ... More >>

Ismael Calixto Ortiz, Wanted in '05 Santa Ana Rape, Apprehended After Hopping Border

​In a brushy area of Imperial Beach in San Diego County early Monday, a Border Patrol agent confronted two Mexican nationals who illegally entered the United States. The agent managed to detain one man but the second resisted. Just as a second agent arrived, the combative man tried to yank the fir ... More >>

Cupcakes Out, Pies In: Someone Gets Paid To Predict Food Trends

Flickr user vpickeringWhere food trend predictions come from...​We're coming up to the end of the year, which means it's time for would-be tastemakers to make all sorts of bold and useless predictions about what the new trends are. That people pay to hear this nonsense is hysterical (though the fa ... More >>

Mike Hynson, Co-Star of 'The Endless Summer,' Resurfaces With Tales of the Brotherhood

San Diego: Screw Trestles

San Diego has no business in San Diego County. At least, that's what their City Council seems to think. In our Best "Best of OC" Issue yet, Dave Wielenga eloquently described one of the major problems with the Save Trestles campaign: apathy. Surfers and the surf industry pay lip service to their be ... More >>

Ed Royce Makes a Run for the Border

The San Diego Union-Tribune, whose editorials typically lean solidly to the right, has come out firmly against mixing illegal immigration with the war on terror--and with "The Wrong Mix," they more specifically chide OC's own Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for chairing an Imperial Beach congressional h ... More >>

Ask Not for Whom the Toll Blows

San Diego wakes up, finds an Orange County freeway in its yard

California Dreaming Gone Seriously Sour

Kem Nunn on environmental apocalypse, surfing subcultures and his new novel, Tijuana Straits

Which Side Are You On?

Political consultant Tom Shepard puts himself on both sides of Argyros

Constitutional Cuisinart

OC congressmen try to chop U.S. birthright out of the 14th Amendment

Political Mercenary

Rise of GOP strategist signals transformation of anti-airport coalition