Subject: John Wayne Airport

• Cross that bridge when you come it, if it's still there

  Only 6 days after the San Francisco Chronicle first reported on it and 5 days after The Blotter first noted it, the Los Angeles Times today informs its readers about the state of California's bridges. The state: hundreds of bridges are considered at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake because a state retrofitting program to strengthen the bridges was halted in 2002 due to lack of funds. What makes the failure to fund the program all the more appalling is that the state would only have t

  March 12, 2006

• Snoop Dogg Pleads Guilty to OC Felony

  The Orange County District Attorney's office announced late this afternoon that rapper Snoop Dogg has pleaded guilty to knowingly carrying a dangerous weapon into John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana a year ago. The 35-year-old international celebrity, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus, was sentenced to three years probation plus 160 hours of community service. He must also pay $10,000 to the charity Right Trak, according to prosecutors. DA officials say they blocked the rap singer from

  September 20, 2007

• John Wayne Threatened with Oblivion Again

  The Orange County Register reported yesterday that various lords of Orange County are meeting and spending cash "to cash in on the pop-culture phenomenon that is Orange County." I'll closely examine our constant reinvention in my biography-memoir of la naranja next fall, but one thing bears worth noting at this point. Per the article: "Also being floated – but certainly a long-term idea – is a name change that would add "Orange County" to the name of John Wayne Airport." Oh, Orange County.

  December 7, 2007

• "The Glory of Christmas": A Review by Outsiders

  We here in Orange County are so jaded by the Crystal Cathedral's Glory of Christmas spectacular that we frequently forget how stupendous the production is. Leave it to the holy geniuses over at the Wittenburg Door to remind us of our jewel. Under the title, "And They Laid Him in a Manger, Somewhere Out By John Wayne Airport," writer Becky Garrison said The Glory of Christmas can "best be described as a combination Joel Osteen/Andrew Lloyd Weber/Branson, Missouri spectacle of the first two chapte

  December 20, 2007

• The One Good Thing Gordon Dillow Ever Did

  Over the weekend, Orange County Register columnist Gordon "Bootlicker" Dillow wrote some claptrap about the continuing controversy involving the proposed renaming of John Wayne Airport to something reflecting idiot Orange County television shows. But because the Reg is the Reg, that column isn't online despite it coming out yesterday...wait, I just found it after digging. Argh! Where were we? Ah, yes: in trying to find Dillow's most recent column, we stumbled upon a reminder of his one good caus

  February 25, 2008

• John Wayne, Robert Burns and the Great Glasgow Airport Debate

  Member of the Scottish Parliament Alex Neil played the Duke card as he joined Scottish government officials in pressing for renaming Glasgow Prestwick Airport after Robert Burns in honor of the poet, lyricist and Scotland favorite son's 250th birthday in January. "I remember flying into John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, and the fact it was called John Wayne was a big tourist attraction," Neil said. "I don't see why we shouldn't exploit the Burns brand here in Scotland." Alas, as

  July 21, 2008

• Poster Bored

  October 14, 1999

• Friday the 13th, the Mailer

  November 18, 1999

• The Virtual New Year

  December 30, 1999

• Oddit

  May 18, 2000

• Letters the Editor

  March 15, 2001

• Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves

  November 15, 2001

• This Week in the Meats and Eats of Agora Churrascaria

  August 4, 2005

• Privatize This!

  Ever wonder where your local tax dollars go?

  July 6, 2006

• Once You Find It, the Blackmarket Bakery in Irvine Will Merit Many Happy Returns

  August 14, 2008

• Letters

  July 8, 1999

• Delayed Gratification

  August 19, 1999

• RedBatesing

  October 21, 1999

• It's Your Money

  But the government spends it

  August 2, 2007

• It's Your Money

  But the government spends it

  May 17, 2007

• [Hole In the Wall] Get Wrapped Up in the Signature Café

  April 16, 2009

• It Couldve Been the Spitzer Plan

  April 13, 2000

• Matt Costa

  October 19, 2006

• Best of OC 2004: Part 3

  October 21, 2004

• Listen Here, Pilgrim

  June 10, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 25, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  March 28, 2002

• Wheres Rick?

  February 7, 2002

• Travis Bickles

  November 15, 2001

• Spin Recycle

  November 8, 2001

• Newport Beach

  September 27, 2001

• Money and Lies

  June 7, 2001

• Marxist Pinkos!

  May 10, 2001

• Cab Tab

  April 26, 2001

• World Traveler

  December 28, 2000

• Taxidermy

  August 31, 2000

• We Win

  March 23, 2000

• Lie the Friendly Skies

  March 2, 2000

• 50 Reasons to Hate the Proposed El Toro International Airport

  February 3, 2000

• Coming Clean

  February 3, 2000

• Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!

  December 9, 1999

• Air Sick

  October 14, 1999

• The Demand Game

  July 1, 1999

• The Six-Figure Club

  May 20, 1999

• Dirty Work

  April 22, 1999

• Letters

  April 22, 1999

• Disneyland Stops Here

  April 8, 1999

• Something's Stinky

  March 18, 1999

• Crime Time: Nekkid Folks, Robber Baby, Strip-Club Stabbers, Loaded Brownie and a Flaming Bag of Poo

  Courtesy of Orange Police Department and Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentWe call this collage "Robberies, Solved and Unsolved." Top left: a man hands a teller a note demanding cash at Chase Bank in Orange. Top right: Booking photo of Adam J. Bennett, 20, of Santa Ana, who is suspected of robbing $700 from a Mission Viejo Wells Fargo on July 27. Bottom left and right: Surveillance photos from armed robbery that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Orange Olive Mini Market in Orange. ​It'

  August 18, 2009

• The Eagle Has Landed . . . Flapping His Wings at John Wayne

  Photo by Joel Eckman Maus Glenn and Wendy Stearns admire Challenger's wingspan as handler Al Cecere holds the non-releasable bald eagle.​ CHALLENGER'S CHARITY FLIGHT PATH IS CORRECTED . . . "Challenger," the non-releasable American bald eagle we told you about this morning, made his scheduled arrival at John Wayne Airport.

  September 9, 2009