International Relations

Ace Hoffman, Legendary Anti-Nukes Activist, on Our Ace Hoffman Cover Story This Week!

Our cover story this week, on legendary anti-nukes activist Ace Hoffman, has already generated mucho buzz and kind words. But it was very nice to get a letter from Hoffman himself.Of course, Hoffman being Hoffman, it wasn't just your usual gracias but a piece of art unto itself complete with stats, ... More >>

The Wailers perform 'Uprising'

House of Blues

Dengue Fever Going Back to Southeast Asia to Tour for the Third Time

​Dengue Fever is going back to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in November on the "Electric Mekong Tour" with the cooperation and support of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. embassies in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and local promoter in Cambodia, Dickon Verey. The band received the Arts Envoy grant, d ... More >>

Futures of Syria and Bashar Assad Aired at Town Hall

​The focus of the international media may have switched from Syria to Israel-Palestine (for now), but that won't stop the Los Angeles chapter of the Syrian American Council from holding its third town hall meeting in Anaheim Saturday to examine the current situation and future outlook for members' ... More >>

Locals Push Bill Spreading Religious Freedom

​A Santa Ana-based group pushing for religious freedom worldwide has launched a new advocacy campaign aimed at beefing up the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and, with it, U.S. foreign policy. Turmoil in Nigeria, the Middle East, Northern Africa and Pakistan--including the burning of ... More >>

Food Profiling: Avocados From Orange County Produce

​There's an area in Irvine that's a bit of a mystery to most. If you drive Jeffrey Road as far northeast as possible, the road is restricted beyond Portola. However, if you look up into the hillside, you'll see them: avocado trees. This quickly explains why the neighborhood's name is Orchard Hills ... More >>

End Days Alert: Radioactive Plume to Reach OC From Japan Late Friday

​Here's the bad news: a United Nations forecast says that a so-called "plume" of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will reach Southern California by late Friday after blowing across the Pacific Ocean via the Aleutian Islands. The plume is then expected to continue its eastward journey ... More >>

Locals Seek Support for Harassed Christians in Egypt and the Middle East

​As the attention of the world seems to have shifted to Libya (or Charlie Sheen), some locals would like the media light to shine on Christians who were struggling to survive in Egypt even before the Hosni Mubarak government collapsed."Three weeks ago, nine out of ten tweets I received were relate ... More >>

Ed Royce Slams Hillary Clinton For Coddling Vietnam

Royce doesn't like Ho Chi Minh's legacy​Republican Congressman Ed Royce must be getting tired of U.S. officials ignoring what he sees as Vietnam's "ugly human rights record."The latest offender to Royce's sensibilities on the subject is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.According to the veteran F ... More >>

Rainbow Harbor Terror Attack is Just a Drill

​If you swing by Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach today and notice an unusually large presence of law enforcement types running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you are witnessing neither an actual terror attack nor filming of pick-up scenes for Monday night's 24 finale.

Bill Clinton Hospitalized After Chest Pains

​Bill Clinton was admitted to a New York City hospital after suffering from chest pain and received two stents in one of his coronary arteries, the Washington Post reports. ILongtime Clinton aide Douglas Bend said the 63-year-old former president "was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York P ... More >>

M.A.C. Gives Back

The Shops at MIssion Viejo

Invisible Children: Together We Are Free

Folino Theater

Green Party Meeting

Irvine Ranch Water District

Peace Conference

Golden West College

The Return of Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante

Here were told you about our question to Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante, the chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) who was all over the news last week after Comm ... More >>

Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante: We're Doomed

As chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA), Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante (pictured) is all over the news today, reacting bitterly to the Commerce Secretary Carl ... More >>

Hasan Nouri Pitched Plans to Stabilize Aliso Creek and His Native Afghanistan, But No One Listened

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Special Guadalupe Edition

Mahvash Mossaed: I Paint a Woman's Life Opening Reception

Mahvash Mossaed: I Paint a Woman's Life Opening Reception

Barbara Coe Upset Sarah Palin Doesn't Acknowledge Her

On Sept. 15, California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe sent off a questionnaire to Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. "The California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) is a nationally recognized nonpartisan grassroots organization representing thousands of p ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 5-21-08

Film pick of the weekend comes early this week, because when weekends go long, the movies open sooner. And we all know what you're going to go see at midnight tonight. I call it INDIANA JONES AND THE KICKING OF YOUR CRYSTAL ASS. (Don't tell me that "crystal ass" makes no sense. If Echo and the Bun ... More >>

Why The Toll Road Is Dead

The Foothill-South (241) toll road extension, as we know it, is dead. Bold claim, you say? Presumptuous, maybe? Not so. Recently, mi hermano Gustavo Arellano pinpointed the root cause of the Transportation Corridor Agencies' failure to gain Coastal Commission approval for their Final Solution to ... More >>

Embracing Our Contradictions

Jenna Bush, Author

The Woman with a Limp

When her Aunt Virginia died in 1982, Lorna Catling had no idea that forty years earlier the Gestapo had declared her aunt "the most dangerous of all Allied spies" in France, and issued orders to "find and destroy her."  Virginia Hall seldom spoke about what she had done during World War II, and ... More >>

Registration Deadline

Today is the last day to register if you want to vote in the November 7 election. Answers to any questions you might have can be found at the Secretary of State's website, or by calling one of his office's toll-free helplines. English: 1-800-345-VOTE Spanish: 1-800-232-VOTA Chinese: 1-800-339-2857 ... More >>

Oedipus Wrecks

By now everyone has seen pictures or video of President Bush's laying on of hands on German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G-8 summit (the "love attack", as it's known in the German press). And this far into his second term, everyone has heard the theory that what really motivates W. is the burning ... More >>

Paul Craig Roberts for President

Fuckin' A, when a buddy sent over this link, this bass ackward timepiece confused Paul Craig Roberts with John Roberts and figured this would be some rant against a recent Supreme Court decision. In case you're as clueless as we are (and cut us some slack; we're only on our fourth cuppa coffee. Ever ... More >>

Hunger Strike

Dressed to Thrill

Pollacks The Interpreter

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics

Patriots Travel Package

Facts and Shivers

Colonial Capitalism

We Are a Legitimate Military Target

If you think only Saddam places civilians near military targets, visit your local military base

Moidering Dem Bums

Are OCs Democrats Dunn?

Kiss My Axis!

An Immodest Proposal

Pacifist professor: Lets bomb Baghdad

Political Theater

The best of the anti-Bush demonstration at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana Point, Aug. 23, 2002

November Surprise?

What Gives?

Bye, Tim Carpenter

Space Case

Apparently theres something called Space Command . . . and theyll control the weather

Islam-o-phobia

Welcome to OC Muslims new world

Welcome to Kissinger Country

Former secretary of state dazzles OC press but fails to explain his alleged complicity in war crimes

Boom "Times"

Paper promotes missile defense like theres no tomorrow

The Year in Letters

Just Declare Victory

Little Saigon embraces Vietnam trade

Letters

Ho Chi Minute Rice

Congress debates trade with Vietnam, Little Saigon goes shopping