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Students to Protest Tomorrow at UC Irvine Over Proposed Health Care Fee Increases Across UC System

Back in my grad school days at UCLA, I made frequent use of my health care there--not because I suffered from anything more than the occasional stomach ulcer, but because I was a hypochondriac. Besides, it was cheap, accessible, and it was the first time in my life I ever had health care. That was i ... More >>

Working Wardrobes Smart Women 2013 Launch

Pacific Club

Monterey Jazz Festival

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

2 Chainz

The Glass House

Jo Koy

Brea Improv

You Know What April 17 is: Equal Pay Day

It's April 17, so you know what that means . . .Wait, what? It's tax day? What the blazes is that?It's obviously Equal Pay Day, which the nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families is marking with data showing a wide gender wage gap in California.

David Clyde: Onetime Texas Pitching Phenom and Lost Boy of Baseball Schools Young Players

​Interviewing David Clyde for today's "The Lost Boys of Summer" feature, it's as if the onetime pitching phenom suffers from baseball Tourette's. That's because, in between March thunderstorms, the former Texas Ranger is speaking with me on the phone while schooling a young pitcher at a North Hous ... More >>

Suburban Legends Wants YOU To Open For Their Band (But You Have To Make a Silly Video First)

​Suburban Legends is looking for an opening act for their CD release show for their upcoming album Day Job (out April 3), but you can't do anything as mundane as audition for it like normal human beings. You're going to have to make a "creative video" and send it to SLCowboyContest@gmail.com by M ... More >>

Blizzard To Lay Off 600 Employees

​Blizzard Entertainment, maker of the mammoth online game "World of Warcraft," is laying off about 600 workers from its global operation. About ninety percent of the jobs being cut are not related to game development, and the "World of Warcraft" development team will not be impacted. (And hopefull ... More >>

Happy Birthday to Gabriel Zambrano of Soho Taco!

​Usually, I don't give a shit about my birthday for reasons no one ever seems to want to understand. But last year, after the accolades heralding my 846th year on this planet, I realized I shared February 3 with a far-more important person: Gabriel Zambrano of Soho Taco.

'I Don't Know How She Does It' Sacrifices Nothing

In the fantasy adaptation, working moms can have it all

This Elephant Never Remembers

[Hey, You!] Trunk off, GOP push-pollster!

Friendly Frank and Friends

Irvine Improv

Costa Mesa Becomes Wisconsin Tonight

​Costa Mesa becomes Wisconsin this evening.No, "Goat Hill" is not getting a giant brewery, a Super Bowl-caliber football team or mountains of free Oshkosh jumpers in the Bloomies parking lot at South Coast Plaza.What the near-coastal town is getting is the same type of spat that pits Wisconsin sta ... More >>

[UPDATED, With Mouse Response] Lawsuit: Disney Encodes Its Workers' Social Security Numbers on ID Cards, Exposes Them to Identity Theft

​UPDATED, 1:59 p.m.: About 20 Disneyland workers stood outside the driveway that leads into the Grand Californian for a press conference announcing a class-action lawsuit against Disneyland. Although the suit portends to represent more than 20,000 Mouse minions, it was strictly a Unite HERE/progre ... More >>

How Wienerschnitzel Owes its Existence to Taco Bell

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.Wiernschnitzel is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year by bringing back the "Der" grammatical article that was the original name of the hot dog stand that John Galardi opened in 1961. The story is well-known that Galardi got the name ... More >>

Acclaim Technical Services of Huntington Beach Must Shell Out More Than $230,000 to Fort Irwin Workers

​Following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation, a Huntington Beach company and two government contractors must pay $1,060,554 in back wages to about 885 employees at Fort Irwin, near Death Valley National Park.The share for Acclaim Technical Services is $234,311 to 177 employees.

We are the Pilots

Detroit Bar

U.S. Senate Candidate Accused of Closing Santa Ana Plant and Sending Its Jobs to Mexico

Binnie​A former Santa Ana plastics company is being dragged into the U.S. Senate Republican primary race in New Hampshire.William Harrison "Bill" Binnie is self-funding his campaign for the seat held by Republican incumbent Judd Gregg, who is retiring from the upper house. Binnie currently serves ... More >>

Do You Suffer from "Matt Leinart Disease"?

​A coach is using the fall of Matt Leinart, the NFL quarterback by way of USC and Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, to teach his eager players a vital skill.But this coach's specialty is not offenses or defenses--at least not in the gridiron sense.And his players (think playahs) deal with totall ... More >>

Jane Harman, Michael Jackson's Family and Nancy Pelosi's Daughter: Saviors for Orange County Motel Kids and Foster Children?

Courtesy of HBO​Wouldn't it be something if substantial help for Orange County "motel kids" and adult foster children comes not from local churches, Loretta Sanchez or the social-program slashing Orange County Board of Supervisors but a Los Angeles charity, Jermaine Jackson and the daughter of Nan ... More >>

Disney Drama Escalates, Employees Walk Out

​Things are getting heady at the Happiest Place on Earth: walk-outs, labor disputes and premiere crashing. Back in February, 10 Disney employees with the UniteHere Local 11 Union fasted for a week, in an attempt to bring attention to unfair work practices. More than 2,000 employees had b ... More >>

Today in Music News: Coachella, Big Boi, Paul McCartney, Them Crooked Vultures, Killers, Cleveland Orchestra are Bitches

Official Coachella roster expected to be released later this morning--for now, the "leaked artists.""Big Boi, Ted Leo, Mogwai, A.C. Newman, Patti Smith, Bun B Do Haiti Benefits," reports Pitchfork.com.Paul McCartney almost joined Them Crooked Vultures! Killers going on hiatus, which sounds like a f ... More >>

Ex-Weekly Reporter Lands Sacramento Investigative Gig

Pignataro​Ex-OC Weekly investigative reporter Anthony Pignataro has joined the staff of the new Sacramento-based CalWatchdog.com which launched its website yesterday.Controlled by ex-Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut on behalf of a libertarian-leaning California think tank, C ... More >>

Criminal Defense of the Day: "I'm An Unemployed Wine Taster"

Lil Erna / Flickr / Creative Commons​Imagine you're a vagrant wino (in these times, not hard to imagine). You get picked up by Newport Beach police. How to explain the stink on the breath... the unwashed clothes... the sad look in your eyes?From Corona Del Mar Today:Two transient men were arrested ... More >>

Healthcare Workers to Protest Job Cuts at Kaiser Orange County

Coming to Anaheim Thursday.​Kaiser Permanente employees will picket outside the Kaiser Orange County facility Thursday to protest the health behemoth's plans to slash 1,350 jobs in coming months.Kaiser workers in purple shirts are scheduled to chant, carry signs and speak with patients about the e ... More >>

Is OCTA Sacrificing Transit Service for Executive Pay?

Courtesy of OCTAWill Kempton moves to OCTA from Caltrans, where he has served for five years.The hiring of Caltrans director Will Kempton for the Orange County Transportation Authority's vacant executive director position would seem like a step down. After all, the Schwarzenegger appointee oversees ... More >>

Source Says Furloughs Will Be Forced on Register Employees

An insider confirms what until now had been a rumor whispered around the water coolers at the Orange County Register: employees will be subjected to furloughs in the next quarter. Now the  rumor being whispered in front of the vending machine is that the unpaid, one-week vacations will be manda ... More >>

Mission Viejo Councilwoman Cathy Schlicht Tries to Deliver, But Is Running Into an Opposing Majority

The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm

Discovery Center

OC Weekly Not Alone; Village Voice Media Cuts Widespread

As editor Ted B. Kissell's "A Bad Week at the Weekly" post about layoffs at OC Weekly continued (and is continuing) to generate comments, newsroom staffers received a memo about the matter this week from our Village Voice Media overlords. Now, before I reveal what was in the memo, let me itera ... More >>

Musical Advent Calendar: The Ramones, 'Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)'

From a latter-day Ramones work--1989's Brain Drain. Great stuff, especially the skits in the beginning and the end. Nope, those aren't lame at all.

Democrats Proudly Wear the Union Label

Above the “Teamsters Local 952 Orange County and Vicinity” logo on the wall behind the speaker’s podium at the Orange union hall on Marks Way is the image of two horse heads. Instead of suggesting that represents the calling card of some syndicates that have been known to associate with labor ... More >>

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Tone Loc

Love Them Madly

Wild Child

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Santiago Creek Restoration

Quizzes To Kill Time

They're kind of cheesy, but some of the questions in Quizland.com's Rock Trivia and Yetanotherdot.com's '80s Lyrics Quiz are actually rather stumpifying. Such as: What act holds the record for most #2 records without ever hitting #1? Ummm.... The Carpenters? Nope. and what "don't feel like it shou ... More >>

Ex-Sheriff's Dept. Officials Create Bold, New Firm!

Over at the Orange County Register, ace reporter Peggy Lowe writes tonight on Orange County Sheriff's Department blog news that two of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona's Yes Folks (YF) quit today: assistant sheriffs Jo Ann Galisky and Steve Bishop. Somehow the third and final major YFer embarrassme ... More >>

Re-drawing the Line

Aeromyth

Walk Until They Don't Drop

Walk to Stop Executions

Eggleston to LA Times: Sorry for Lying 'Bout You

A couple of weeks ago, this infernal blog reported on G. Wayne Eggleston, the San Clemente councilmember who memorably told Los Angeles Times reporter Garrett Therolf, "I wouldn't want to stop in Stanton, much less patrol it," claimed he was misquoted and then told OCBlog readers to "not co-operate ... More >>

My Favorite Sex Offender

The AP wires are humming today with news that Brian Doyle, former deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, has been sentenced. Doyle was caught sending sexually explicit messages to Sheriff's deputies posing as a 14-year-old girl named Ashlynne, for which he has been sentenced ... More >>

Nuts Come Out for Nguyen, Take Daucher Along for Ride

Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, Teamsters Local Something or Other--We've been told state senate staffers are here, giving up vacation time to walk for Lou Correa, Democrat for OC's 34th state Senate District. People here are sitting in chairs, too (union thing?), looking at the Tee ... More >>

W's Finest Hour

What did our one and only president, George W. Bush, tell the German weekly Bild am Sonntag was his "best moment of all" since he took office? For the answer, click here. Strange? Yes. Childish? You bet. Though to be fair to W, if you were president and the buck stopped with you for things like th ... More >>

They Don't Know Sith

O.C. Film & Music Festival is a no CGI zone

The Barkeeps Keeper

Sweat Seal

OC retailer runs afoul of state anti-sweatshop law

Good Gaddi Almighty!

Even as Edison was claiming it was nearly bankrupt, it paid the new Peace Corps chief more than $300,000 in bonuses