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Did Lawrence Anthony Witsoe Receive the Dumbest Bribery Conviction in California History?

[Moxley Confidential] Mission Viejo lawyer faces 35 years for helping a client get charges dropped—and didn't earn a dime

DEA Bribery Trial Evidence Befuddles Orange County Jurors

Federal prosecutor Rob Keenan possesses unquestionable proof that a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force agent in Riverside repeatedly lied to Orange County prosecutors in hopes of tricking them into giving unwarranted, special treatment to an accused John Wayne Airport assault defendant ... More >>

[SLIDESHOW] What the TSA Confiscates at John Wayne Airport

When it comes to John Wayne Airport, thankfully, amazingly not much contraband is found on passengers by your friendly local Transportation Security Administration helpers. In 2011, the TSA at John Wayne confiscated 111 items that they deemed "extremely dangerous," according to Nico Melendez, the ... More >>

The Five Next Big Trends in Mexican Food in the United States

This Thursday, I fly to the University of Houston in what will be the official end of my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America tour. It's been a great ride that has taken  me from the Bay Area to Texas about a million times, the South and virtually all other points, but while the tour en ... More >>

More American Than Jay Chen?

Ignoring racist emails is all in a day's work for the Democratic congressional candidate

AAA Electra 99 Closes Its Doors in Anaheim, Looking to Move to Costa Mesa

See Also:*Cochinas Know How to Work the Streets*Pussy Riot Sentenced to Two Years for Anti-Putin Punk Prayer*Heretic to Film Live DVD in Santa AnaIf you're like me, then a big portion of your life before you were able to legally get wasted in public was making regular pilgrimages to makeshift all-ag ... More >>

The Mein Event: OC's Best Noodles

Noodles, noodles everywhere, from pho to pad Thai and everything else

UC Irvine MFA Writers: Your Clip-and-Save Review

The end of the academic year approaches, which finids Mr. Bib looking forward to the arrival of annual literary journals sponsored by local colleges and universities. Alas, The Ear, Irvine Valley College's magazine is long gone as, it appears, is Orange Coast Review, out of OCC. Still UC Riverside p ... More >>

WINNER'S CIRCLE: Dee Nguyen

[BEST OF 2011: GAME ON!] Owner of Break of Dawn

241 Extension Builders Figure If You Can't Beat 'Em, Piecemeal 'Em

​Developers of the despised Foothill (241) Toll Road expansion into San Clemente figure if you can't beat 'em, piecemeal 'em.That's the takeaway from a Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency committee approving $206 million be spent for the first four miles of a planned 16-mile extension ... More >>

Pilot of Airbus That Nearly Collided with Plane Sees Dark Days Ahead in Skies Above John Wayne Airport

​A cockpit alarm prevented a collision between a small aircraft and an Airbus 319 jetliner in the skies above John Wayne Airport (JWA) this past September.Later, on the FAA's Aviation Safety Reporting System log, the Airbus 319 pilot predicted that the mix of large jets and light aircraft at JWA " ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Sheen and Urinal Cakes Star in The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show

​Hippies love Rush Limbaugh? Hips become boobs? A drug for laughing and crying? Attorneys advertising on piss walls? And the really, really, really friendly skies?Yup, you'll find all this and more in this week's collection of things written from and about Orange County on the Interwebs.

Knows the Constitution Says, 'Don't H8'

[Best of OC 2010] Zoe Nicholson's 10 OC Survival Tips

Flickr Photo of the Week: All Clear For Landing

Flickr user Eric Nelson​Behind the jump: Check out this week's Flickr Photo of the Week, by Flickr user Eric Nelson. Got some photos of life in or around Orange County you'd like to share with your community? Join the OC Weekly Flickr pool!

NPR on Kook: Making Orange County An Adventure

​NPR's All Things Considered has featured Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave by travel writer Peter Heller.According to the report, Heller "has sailed the Antarctic Sea with eco-pirates in pursuit of an illegal Japanese whaling fleet, and traversed the dee ... More >>

Your Essential OC Happy Hour Guide

Where to go for the best deals and drinks

Kobe Bryant, at Home and on the Heli-Pad

Photo by Andrew YoussefTwo Orange County icons thrill Disneyland guests last June.​J. R. Moehringer is a former Times Orange County sportswriter and the ghostwriter of Andre Agassi's controversial autobiography Open. Moehringer profiles Kobe Bryant in the March issue of GQ. Actually, it's more lik ... More >>

'Slave Hunter' Aaron Cohen Throws the Book at Human Trafficking

JWA Scene: Richard Branson, MC Hammer, Bimbos, Himbos

Courtesy of GadlingNice turbines!Clockwork's invite to Virgin America's inaugural flight to Orange County and John Wayne Airport launch party last week apparently got lost in the mail. Fortunately, Grant Martin received his, attended and lived to blog about it on his Gadling travel site.Some people ... More >>

[Newport Beach Film Fest] An Encapsulated Diary Digesting the Decade-Old Newport Beach Film Festival

Irvine City Manager Says Drinking Water Critics Are All Wet

Groups that are purporting to be concerned about high concentrations of toxins in Irvine's drinking water today received a strong rebuke from City Manager Sean Joyce.Marsha Taylor of El Toro Now!, the group of mostly John Wayne Airport-impacted Newport Beach residents clinging to the idea of a comme ... More >>

Lacking Latkes at Arnie's Manhattan Deli

Amongst the many Jewish contributions to world culture, one stands out for me: Don Rickles. Oh, and the latke, the simple potato pancake upon which generations of eaters have found so much joy and clogged arteries. Any proper deli stocks them, but few Orange County places do latkes well, being there ... More >>

Travel Blogger Predicts Air Fares Between OC and SF Will Drop

BNET (Business Net) travel blogger Brett Snyder predicts Virgin America's new presence at John Wayne Airport, coupled with Southwest Airlines' expansion of flights to and from San Francisco, will result in lower air fares between SFO and SNA, whose bustling terminal is shown here.That's crazy talk f ... More >>

Weekly Move Coincides With Huge Drop in OC Office Rental Market

They say that timing is everything in the news business. Or is it the guillotine-operation business? Whatever. All I'm saying is OC Weekly has picked a fortuitous time to move, leaving our deluxe penthouse in the fifth floor sky overlooking a Santa Ana Norm's for first-floor digs in office park near ... More >>

More Blast From the Past Fraud Allegations in Irvine Election

This examines a fraud case from the past involving a big donor to, ironically enough, Irvine Citizens for Ethics in Government, the independent committee against Irvine's Measure R, which asks residents to give a vote of approval to the Irvine City Council's planning of the Great Park on the old El ... More >>

Irvine magazine "Live OC" picks the Mets in the baseball playoffs

A handful of upstart publications have made rather determined efforts over the years to compete with the Weekly during our 13-year existence---I'd stick yet another fork in the rancid corpse of the Register's embarrassing Squeeze OC right about here, except at this point its bones have rotted down ... More >>

Sandra Hutchens' First Action as OC Sheriff Should Be...

...Getting her boys and girls in green off Segways. Yesterday, as I was waiting for someone to pick me up from John Wayne Airport, I saw a sheriff's deputy traipsing around in a Segway, those overhyped, useless monstrosities of technology. If I see a deputy walking around, I respect their authority ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according t ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

The Good Old Days

Pro-airport activists invoke anti-Semitism in their campaign to build El Toro International

Excited!

County unveils new pro-airport magnet

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Cabs Dont Run on Juice

How a powerful obbyist ran a taxi monopoly into the ground

Taxi Standoff

County officials step in crap again

Out of Nothing, This

An OC Weekly Time Line

He Who Forgets History is a Damned Fool

El Toro Airport Watch No. 136

F the Airport, Save Newport Beach!

El Toro Airport Watch No. 134

Math Problem

El Toro Airport Watch No. 132

Merry F#!@*ing Christmas!

El Toro Airport Watch No. 126

Guilty Pleasures

801-900

Guilty Pleasures

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In-Fight Testing

El Toro Airport Watch No. 119

Not Ready For Prime Time

Does new California law spell the end for the states junk-gun makers?

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More on the Moron

Supervisor Silva drops campaign against brighter colleague

Welcome to the Ice

On top at the bottom of the world

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