Subject: Laguna Beach (TV Show)

• Unreal City: Laguna Beach

  If you're someone who wants to visit Laguna Beach, but is so filled with inertia that you can't be bothered to step outside your front door, there's good news-- MTV is here to help. MTV, which has already had great success in reducing Laguna Beach to nothing more than a gaggle of impressively self-absorbed teenagers with its show "Laguna Beach: The Real OC", has taken the next step in reduction, and reduced Laguna Beach to lines of binary code that give anyone with a computer the chance to pre

  September 19, 2006

• Laguna Beach For Real

  Kudos to Laguna Beach High School for beating out every other high school in Orange County in the one arena that really matters: alcohol and drug abuse. A California Healthy Families survey claims that LBHS juniors score highest count-wide at getting high (at least, on marijuana and alcohol). Parents were quick to blame MTV, but the music television station is only guilty of failing to televise music. Still, their reality show (Laguna Beach: The Real OC) does present a certain juvenile lifestyle

  November 12, 2006

• FOX seeks OC bar confessions!

  Southern California's reputation for shallow lives will be enhanced this summer by the Fox Reality Channel. Go Go Luckey Productions (producer of Laguna Beach on MTV) says it plans to place private "confessional booths" in several So Cal bars including the lovely Mosun in Laguna Beach, Anaheim's J.C. Fandango (near Cal State Fullerton) and Hollywood's Cabana Bar. Club goers--intoxicated? high? just out of jail or fresh from plastic surgery?--will be encouraged to spill their beans to a Fox cam

  April 18, 2007

• Wednesday's Haul

  Who needs fiction when you have reality? Dinner Escapes: Some Huntington Beach idiot stuck a knife through a Mallard - and the duck lived to tell the tale. Return of the Deported: Four of 23 OC immigrant workers kicked out of the country earlier this year are back - and they want their money from the janitorial firm they used to work for. The four plan to join a lawsuit filed by others in Pennsylvania to demand that Rosenbaum-Cunningham International pay up. More on Azia Kim: Yesterday, we no

  May 30, 2007

• Their Casa is Casa Hogar

  A Laguna Beach High School student--the good kind, not the kind you see on that MTV show--is reaching out to Weekly readers. Dinika Bagga is a member of her campus Interact Club (shout out from a member of Pacific High's Interact Club, 1979-82, yo!), and each year the club travels to an orphanage in Casa Hogar Canon Buena Vista, in a colonia known as El Zorillo, a dozen miles south of Ensenada, Mexico. The 50 or so kids at Casa Hogar depend solely on the kindness of others lest they do hungry. T

  June 19, 2006

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises

  Best medicine you can buy?: Last November, Dr. Prem Reddy—chairman of Prime Healthcare—gave $100,000 to the Oakland charter school created by Attorney General Jerry Brown and—shazam!—three months later, last February, Reddy won AG approval of a sweet hospital deal. Brown said the 100 G's meant nothing to him. Daniel Costello of the LA Times reports today that the AG's staff has blocked Reddy's latest takeover attempt at the nonprofit Anaheim Memorial Medical Center. Yo, Reddy: Perhaps y

  July 12, 2007

• Monday's Headlines

  That's ambitious: A Long Beach city councilman hopes to "once again make our beaches a destination." Good luck cleaning up all that shit, buddy. Adios, Laguna: MTV's shipping out of Laguna Beach and pulling into Newport for the next installment of the 'Real OC.' Poached? The Register has an interesting (and disturbing) tale on unauthorized human egg trafficking up today. The stem cell patron: A Fullerton businessman made UC Irvine's stem cell research program $100,000 richer this week, reports

  July 23, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: MTV films Newport Harbor High!

  A patriot act: To celebrate a trip home from Bagdad to Laguna Niguel, Army Cpl. Jon Warren sipped a Corona beer, smiled and bit into a tuna sandwich. Greg Hardesty of the Reg tells us that Warren spent “a frightening eventful first nine months in combat.” He's been injured in three bomb blasts and “his emotional scars are apparent.” Warren joined the army in 2004 and he says on his first day in Iraq someone tried to blow him up during a patrol. The 25-year-old is “very happy to be hom

  July 24, 2007

• MTV says it puts Newport High males "in the hole"

  Matt Coker, our beloved ex-colleague who is now editor at the Sacramento News & Review, couldn't hide his contempt for MTV's world-(in)famous Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. I'd swear his right eye would uncontrollably twitch at the mention of it. The last season of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County really sucked. I'd rather freebase crack than watch those petty, talentless-on-the-verge-of-incarceration juveniles. Did the show have to feature people who grunt, smirk or whine at e

  August 1, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: 200 million pixel TV!!!

  Is that a freckle? Reporter David Haldane finds that UC Irvine used a $300,000 federal grant to build a screen 100 times more detailed than the current best high-definition television. Its 23-by-9-foot display has 200 million pixels and is called the HIPerWall, according to the Times story. Students and researchers (like Stephen F. Jenks) have used the monitor in medical cases, to aid rescue teams at disaster sites and--imagine this sports nuts: watch the Super Bowl as if you're on the field. A

  August 13, 2007

• Bon Jovi Guitarist Arrested in Laguna Beach

  Richie Sambora: Livin' on a prayer? Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was arrested Tuesday night on Coast Highway in Laguna Beach for drunk driving. The popular axeman was commandeering a black hummer, in whose confines sat three women, two of whom were (and still are) minors. OC Register has the story here. In June 2007, Sambora entered rehab for alcohol abuse, after reportedly flubbing his parts during taping of MTV's Bon Jovi Unplugged.

  March 26, 2008

• Its a Wonderful Life

  August 18, 2005

• Sex on the Beach ... With Mom and Dad?

  A local mom is pissed that her daughter was recently approached at Huntington Beach Pier by MTV staffers looking for teens to appear on Sex … with Mom and Dad, which has so shocked the executive director of the Downtown Business Improvement District that she plans to take the matter up with the City Council. This Hot Topic clearance aisle timepiece's advice: Whoaaaaaaa! While we normally favor any attempt to thwart the forward progress of Dr. Drew Pinsky's gawdawful reality television career

  November 19, 2008

• Looking Back at 2008: The Celeb-Reality Edition

  It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who opined that a new truth is better than an old celebrity-tinged news item, or at least he would have opined that had he lived in our celeb-obsessed times. So it is in that spirit these 15 Orange County brushes with famous folks in '08 are unveiled.   1) Newport Beach city officials revealed in January they were trying to acquire the statue of their adopted Favorite Son, John Wayne, that moseys in front of the Larry Flynt building in Los Angeles. Back when

  January 2, 2009

• The Real Drug Bust of "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County"

  The Peruvian boyfriend of Alex Murrel, a cast member from season 2 of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, was arrested in her rented Laguna Beach house on suspicion of felony possession of cocaine with intent to sell.Murrel, 22, was questioned as a witness last week but is not expected to face charges, according to an E! Online report. It goes on to state: - Laguna Beach Police officers, at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, raided Murrel's residence because her boyfrien

  March 25, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 26: Weekend and Monday Dealie

  Orange County Register: Local law-enforcement officials, business leaders, lawmakers and educators meet at Chapman University Tuesday to wipe out a scourge on polite Orange County society: "sexting." . . . The first pitch of the Angels' season is thrown tonight, and Jeff Miller columnizes they won't make the playoffs. . . . Downtown Disney's Mouse of Blues kills an April 15 gig by Daath, a self-described anti-religious hardcore metal band out of Atlanta. . . . Jonathan Huynh, 20,

  April 6, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Last Call for Gladiator Sandals

  May 1, 2008

• A Bluer Shade of Orange

  The raw vote totals in OC tell the real—and really amazing—story of Super Tuesday

  February 7, 2008

• Famous Food, Part 2

  March 18, 1999

• Eternal Sunshine

  Director William A. Kirkley rediscovers the dark side of OC’s Summer of Love

  June 7, 2007

• Sapphire Shines

  This eclectic Laguna Beach eatery is a real gem

  May 17, 2007

• [Newport Beach Film Fest] Orange County Connections Abound Among This Year's Entries

  April 16, 2009

• More Festival Reviews . . .

  What's playing at the Newport Beach Film Fest

  April 19, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 31, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Aug. 16 - Aug. 22

  August 24, 2006

• Trendzilla

  June 8, 2006

• Up for the Movement

  June 1, 2006

• New Reviews

  April 13, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 6, 2006

• 'In My Book, Rod Stewart . . . Kicked the Bucket in 1977'

  December 15, 2005

• No Nude Naked Adult Lindsay Lohan

  November 10, 2005

• a Clockwork Orange

  September 22, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  September 8, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 25, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 4, 2005

• OC's Scariest People 2004

  October 28, 2004

• Pretty Vacant

  October 7, 2004

• Laguna Beach: 911

  September 30, 2004

• First-Time OC Filmmakers Enter the Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 8, 2004

• For Shame!

  February 12, 2004

• E-GATE

  February 12, 2004

• We Can Multitask

  February 7, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• The Year in Letters

  January 4, 2001

• Bye Bye Birdie

  December 16, 1999

• We're All Just Props for Laguna Beach Reality Shows

  The REAL "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County"Stupid, stupid me. Here I thought Laguna Beach residents had to work their asses off to afford mortgages in Orange County's most idyllic beach-village community. As TheStreet.com's Michael Martin reveals in Life's a Surreality Show in Laguna Beach, MTV and Bravo have nailed it when it comes to exposing true Lagunatics.If you've done your due diligence of watching shows like Laguna Beach or The Real Housewives of Orange County, you'll realize that mo

  May 7, 2009

• Orange County May Become the Avis of Municipal Bankruptcies

  Since 1994, Orange County has held the . . . um . . . honor of having achieved the . . . erm . . . distinction of the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, a $1.64 billion financial fuck-up that has managed to stick like Roger Maris' single-season homerun record.But the seemingly unbeatable always seems to be beat by the equivalent of a hulking, juiced-up Mark McGwire lurking around the corner, followed by an even hulkier, juiced-er Barry Bonds lurking around the next corner.Orange County's B

  May 11, 2009

• We've Got a Price on Villa Rockledge

  Turns out we were waaaay off in our guestimate as to the asking price for Villa Rockledge in Laguna Beach. Like, $26,250,000 waaaay off. Here's the price according to Unique Homes: The World of Luxury Real Estate:$26,500,000Laguna Beach, CARockledge By The Sea. Boasing 190 feet of oceanfront with secluded beach access. Enjoy panaromic coastal views, Catalina sunsets and crashing waves. Privacy, security and seclusion are offered in this desired location. David SchaarPrudential California Realty9

  June 18, 2009

• OC Reality TV Produces (At Least) 6 Who've Drawn Police Calls [UPDATED]

  Too much reality for Orange County law enforcement (clockwise from top left): Ryan Alexander Jenkins, Josh Waring, Renzo Gamboa, Dennis Rodman, Jason Wahler and Matt Keough.​ UPDATED TO REFLECT MURDER CHARGE, CRIMINAL BATTERY COMPLAINT AGAINST JENKINS. If anyone in Orange County with a Hispanic surname, baggy jeans and a tattoo can be branded "gang affiliated" and therefore subjected to a life as a suspect in any goddamn local crime, then why the hell can't scofflaws tied to reality TV

  August 20, 2009

• Prepare For The Untold Disasters In South County's Future

  The St. Regis adopts policy banning bailed-out banker parties: Are you ready for this South County disaster?​Do your best to imagine the following:The year is 2010. I Love Bagels has run out of shmear. Golden Spoon only offers gummy bears as topping. Lauren Conrad L.A. Candy has fallen off of the Amazon Top 1000 list. Dana Point Harbor no longer smells like cigarettes, fish and ice cream. The roots have begun to show in Diane Harkey's bang highlights. Laguna Beach High School has switched its

  October 16, 2009