Subject: Kool-Aid

• Damn Those Yetis

  December 14, 2000

• The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm

  January 15, 2009

• The Sea and Cake's Everybody

  The Sea and Cake Everybody (Thrill Jockey) Release date: May 8, 2007 Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. The Sea and Cake never get ruffled. The Sea and Cake never raise their voices. The Sea and Cake wear white after Labor Day—and get away with it, because they have that much panache. The Sea and Cake ar

  May 21, 2007

• Warning: Now Entering Orange County

  David Reyes has a piece in the Times about plans to widen the I-5 from three to five lanes at the county line. Most surprising is the final paragraph, which might have warranted earlier mention: In other business, Art Leahy, OCTA's chief executive, was given a 6% pay raise and one-time 3% bonus after receiving an excellent performance review. Leahy's annual salary is now $230,336. Most amusing, however, is the meat of the piece--the announcement of a sign on the freeway to inform (warn?) motoris

  November 28, 2006

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises

  Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Earlier this year, Beroletti devoured 47 donuts in five minutes.) Tim “Eater X” Janus dunked his treats in a milk-water mixture and nabbed second place with 37.5 sandwiches. Rich “The Locust” LeF

  August 9, 2007

• Orange Juice Makes Weekly Look Smart

  A couple of weeks ago, this paper named the SanTana-leaning Orange Juice the county's best blog because it represents the best qualities of the blogosphere: scoops, jocularity, personality, with a bit of libel and bad graphics thrown in. And some paranoid arrogance, we thought, after bloggers Sean Mill and Art Pedroza began insinuating that SanTana City Hall forces were conspiring to throw them off the Planning and Housing and Redevelopment Commissions, respectively, because of their hell-raisin

  October 1, 2007

• "Friends of Monsignor John" Already Deletin'

  Scroll for updates after the jump... A support group for embattled Orange diocese Monsignor John Urell isn't even a day old, and already site administrators are deleting messages critical of Urell and his peers' handling of the diocese's sex-abuse scandal. You won't know this from reading their website, of course: they deleted the messages, silly! But this trusty reporter has three of them for you, after the jump:

  October 10, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Horny Priests and Eskimo kids

  $50 million Eskimo Pie: Because its priests and missionaries sexually abused 110 Eskimo children from 1961 to 1987, the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church has almost finalized a deal to pay $50 million to the victims, William Lobdell and Stuart Silverstein report in today’s LA Times. But “the settlement does not require the order to admit fault” and “more than a dozen” priests escaped criminal charges, according to the article. “Many plaintiffs said their once devoutly Cathol

  November 19, 2007

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Another Carona Monster?

  Did Carona Create Yet Another Monster? If I was indicted Sheriff Michael S. Carona, I might be getting tired of Jo Ann Galisky, Kool-Aid Queen. This acting sheriff bit has swelled her mullet. Six weeks after she became temporary head honcho, she's still telling everyone she can that Carona's absence "has had no impact" at the Orange County Sheriff's Department. Galisky (pictured busy at work) barked the line again yesterday, according to Peggy Lowe at the Register. Galisky's wrong again. At a m

  December 12, 2007

• Clashingly Yummy

  September 25, 2003

• An Ode to Cheerwine

  August 17, 2006

• [Summer Guide] Proposed Theme Park Celebrates OC's Part in Bringing the Global Economy to Its Knees

  June 4, 2009

• John and Ken Go After Red County Blog (Again)

  *Originally posted on March 13; moved up by Gustavo 'cause the conversation is HOT!The hosts of KFI-AM 640 The John and Ken Show are ripping Orange County's right-tilted Red County blog once again. (You can listen here.) What set off the anti-tax crusaders--whose recent live Tax Revolt 2009 broadcast (pictured) drew 8,000 people to the Slidebar Café in downtown Fullerton--was a post by Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Pie) shilling for Prop 1A.Like Cook, our Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

  March 16, 2009

• Democratic Candidate Paul Lucas Says He's Still in Trouble for Playing Footsie With Republicans

  August 28, 2008

• [Locals Only] The Fling

  May 1, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  May 1, 2008

• [Locals Only] The Crowd, Reissues of Letter Bomb and Dig Yourself (TKO)

  February 21, 2008

• [Moxley Confidential] The stupidity of indicted ex-Sheriff Mike Carona caught on tape

  February 14, 2008

• Letters

  'Normally, writers of your muckracking calibur would drop the context out of a quote, but you actually left it in. Thanks for doing half the job for me'

  January 17, 2008

• Excerpts: Part 1

  September 14, 2000

• Is There a Doctor in the House?

  Health, in life and film, dominates Cannes

  May 24, 2007

• Beating Off

  December 14, 2000

• Sparkle Motion

  Graceland MafiaUndisputed Kings of Non-Rockabilly

  December 14, 2006

• Fun With Dick

  October 19, 2006

• Harshing Their Mellows

  September 28, 2006

• Happiness Is a Warm Paintball Gun

  National Professional Paintball Leaguers take aim at the future

  March 31, 2005

• Pete Wilson on Steroids

  September 25, 2003

• M

  October 24, 2002

• Nut Cutters! Aaaaaaaiiiie!

  October 18, 2001

• Dont Know What You Got Till it's gone

  July 26, 2001

• Pinehurst Kids & The Ziggens

  February 24, 2000

• Los Angeles Stadium Comes Roaring into North OC

  It seems, from our un-lofty perch in Orange County, as if an NFL stadium will not be built in Los Angeles as long as there is a Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, a rogue's gallery of fumblers if there ever was one.But there are still dreamers who believe they can swing a stadium deal outside LA city limits. The latest incarnation takes us to the City of Industry and its proposed Los Angeles Stadium. As its website proclaims: We can claim some of the most legendary athletes, successful franch

  May 4, 2009