You think these are cupcakes. But in fact, they are "Beasley Poppers," and Paris Hilton likes them.
In the interests of objectivity, since they were sent to me for some reason -- most likely because of my stunning resemblance to Paris Hilton -- I recuse myself from reviewing them, and instead defer to some of my fellow staffers.
Gustavo Arellano [making a shrugging gesture]: "Mm-ph."
Derek Olson: "It's diabetilicious."
Janine Kahn: "Things taste better when they're free."
Vickie Chang:
Last Friday Weekly web editor extraordinaire Janine Kahn and I were cordially treated to a fantastic voyage on the Irvine Great Park's $5 million big orange helium airship attraction. While publications like the OC Register and Los Angeles Times — a bunch of negative Nancies — dwell on the balloon's extravagant cost as well as its projected $850,000 deficit the first year, I say sometimes the finer things in life are worth the cost.
As the Great Park's architect Ken Smith told me, "It's onl
This is the real ghost train.
San Diego, Wednesday night, downtown, after dark. All that's here is a smattering of oases of light, from cheap drug stores to greasy spoons offering a "really big Taco Plate" for $3.50. The streets, for now, are mostly empty, and those riding the trolley around you are dirty and old, with faces that bespeak hard labor for too little pay...and judging by the content of their mouths, no dental insurance.
The allegedly spooky rides at the OC Fair have been easily be
For the past month, OC Weekly staffer Nick Schou (with an assist from web editor Janine Kahn) has followed protests at Viet Weekly's Garden Grove offices by Vietnamese who accuse the paper of communist sympathies. Coverage of the protests by the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register has been non-existent or sympathetic toward the protestors--until this weekend. That's when Times reporter Mike Anton parachuted into Little Saigon and filed a dispatch reporting the same points Schou did rega
Sheriff Mike Carona, facing federal criminal corruption charges, turned himself in early this morning at the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in downtown Santa Ana. Later in the afternoon, Carona, along with his wife Debbie and mistress Debra Hoffman, appeared in the courtroom of Judge Robert Block for a pre-arraignment hearing . . . aaahhh, you don't wanna read that stuff.
And I don't wanna write it, either. Seriously, you can find all that blah-blah somewhere else (excepting maybe the OC Regi
Our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center just released their latest issue of the muckraking Intelligence Report, which features a doozy of a feature on the Orange County-created Exodus International Ministry, the folks who say they can take the homo out of any homo sapiens. The story follows up on our Janine Kahn's beautiful July piece on the battle between ex-gays and ex-ex-gays by documenting Exodus' connections to extremists, homophobes and plain ol' weirdos. God bless the Intelligence
As an immigrant to our shores, it's little shock that Governor Schwarzenneger has a hard time understanding the plight of our indigenous peoples. Maybe that's why, in his letter supporting the TCA's 241 Foothill-South toll road extension, he makes his support conditional on the TCA's protection of cottages, coastal scrub and a surf spot. No mention is made WHATSOEVER of the Juaneno village-site of Panhe, threatened with severe and illegal impacts from the road, nor the lawsuit filed on its behal
Your favorite rag did pretty damn good last night at the Los Angeles Press Club Awards considering we're not even from Los Angeles. Daffodil Altan won first place for Sports profile in a paper with a circulation under 100,000 for her profile of SanTana boxer Ronny Rios, while former staffer Luke Y. Thompson was a winner in the Entertainment criticism category under 100,000 for his review of Transformers. Even more impressively, however, this very Navel Gazing won for best group blog in Southern
'Homosexuality is unnatural, defined by the Bible as a sin and is unhealty physically, mentally and socially for those who choose to live that lifestyle'
