Subject: Laguna Woods

• Un-safe slumber party

  Ever wonder what would happen if you locked an old woman in a bank safe? You have? Well then you're a sick individual. But lucky for you, Bank of America in Laguna Woods did lock a diabetic 73-year-old woman in a privacy room while she was checking her safe deposit box just yesterday. And what happened to her was kind of predictable; she passed out because she didn't have her medication. Marian Prescher was trapped inside the small room for six hours before being found by a cleaning woman who

  August 20, 2007

• Dennis the Not-Very-Menacing

  Ohio Congressman and looooong shot Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is coming to Republican-dominated Orange County later this month to rally some funds for his cause. During his visit he is expected to speak briefly and then, well, collect money. Here are some things Kucinich might touch upon in his speech: • The fact that he is the only vegan in Congress and he loves yoga • His support of a nationwide ban on public smoking • Wanting 16-year-olds to have the right t

  October 9, 2007

• So you think your day was bad?

  An 84 year-old man in Laguna Woods was using a walker and fell over; then, while he was being treated by a firefighter, he was hit by a car, the LA Times reports. The man suffered broken bones, asphalt abrasions, and burns. He was listed as being in critical condition Sunday night. The firefighter, in a move that would make TJ Hooker proud, "instinctively jumped up in the air and landed onto the hood." He's fine. See what happens when you know your Shatner? (h/t LA Observed)

  December 17, 2007

• The Reg-O-Meter: This Week's Most Embarrassing Register Moment

  THIS WEEK'S MOST EMBARRASSING REGISTER MOMENT So we return from a nice, much-needed vacation to find that just when the Register couldn't possibly get any suckier, it goes off and does exactly that with their “My Incredibly Cute Baby” contest. And to think we actually thought that the editors of OC's fishwrap-of-record were finished humiliating themselves and their staff of tired, chronically demoralized associates (we know, we regularly get the sad, pained e-mails from Reggie peons beg

  June 7, 2008

• Letters

  August 15, 2002

• 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

• 29 Things Seniors Must Deal With If They Get Their Pot Dispensary

  Paloma Esquivel has a touching story in the LA Times about Laguna Woods seniors still awaiting their City Council-approved medicinal marijuana dispensary, which would be the only one in Orange County. Scratch that: the only legal one in Orange County.Perhaps the delay can be blamed on the time it is taking the LW brain trust to deal with the myriad unintended consequences introduction of a ripping pottery will bring to what used to be lovingly referred to as Seizure World. For instance, Laguna W

  February 16, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 7

  Orange County Register: Danger on Mexican streets will force captains and crews in the annual Newport Beach to Ensenada yacht race to remain on their ships. But who'll get ripped off by the Hussong's mariachis? . . . I went to a Laguna Woods Village board meeting and a UFC Smackdown broke out. . . . Sounds like a certain granny needs to put down the water bottle and grab a certain medicinal herb. While you can draw sanctions for traveling 20 mph the wrong direction

  March 5, 2009

• Beasts of Burnin'

  An outlaw animal-rights group targets a local bank branch in its war on animal testing

  November 29, 2007

• 'This Is Bloody War'

  A five-month feud between roommates some 150 years in the making

  September 13, 2007

• Grub Guide

  January 18, 2007

• Brenda Ross

  October 19, 2006

• Best of OC

  October 20, 2005

• Laguna Woods

  October 20, 2005

• Ill Fold Your Teath Back for You'

  August 18, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  Aug. 10 - Aug. 16

  August 18, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  March 3, 2005

• Eight Days

  November 11, 2004

• The Muck Stops Here

  March 25, 2004

• Juke Making Me Crazy!

  February 5, 2004

• Letters

  January 15, 2004

• Letters

  December 25, 2003

• Municide

  December 18, 2003

• Letters

  December 4, 2003

• Just added to the Up in Smoke Tour: Great White!

  March 6, 2003

• L

  October 24, 2002

• Letters

  August 8, 2002

• The Sap Spills Like Blood

  August 1, 2002

• Letters

  August 1, 2002

• Letters

  March 14, 2002

• Letters

  September 27, 2001

• Laguna Woods

  September 27, 2001

• Laguna Hills

  September 27, 2001

• A Guide to our Advertisers

  August 9, 2001

• We Love to See You Smile From a Tree

  March 22, 2001

• Letters

  November 16, 2000

• Beautiful Lake Wilson

  January 20, 2000

• Lets Call It Theft

  September 9, 1999

• Letters

  August 19, 1999

• Summer Eats

  July 1, 1999

• Letters

  April 22, 1999

• It's a Quick Read 38: Missing Wednesday Edition

  It'd be great if there was some great reporting assignment in a far-off jungle with an unreliable wireless connection that caused IaQR from appearing yesterday. The truth is, the author forgot to write it. And, judging by the avalanche of response from disappointed readers--an avalanche that surely will start any millennium now--it was sorely missed. Hopefully, this will catch you up.Orange County Register: Witnesses who saw police shoot and kill wanted parolee Joseph Anthony Galarza, 22, of San

  April 23, 2009

• The New York Times Heads To Laguna Woods For Insights On Aging

  Laguna Woods is famous for many things: elderly people, elderly people and elderly people. So when the nation's best newspaper sends a reporter to the tiny OC city, chances are, the story that comes out is going to be about youth baseball.Just kidding. It's going to be about elderly people.An article published last Thursday in the New York Times peaks in at the bridge game of a group of nonagenarians in the retirement community formerly known as Leisure World. Apparently, Laguna Woods is the sub

  May 26, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Leads List of OC's July 4 Teabaggers

  Just call him Rev. TeabaggerThe Rev. Wiley Drake, last heard from praying for President Barack Obama's death, leads the list of Orange Countains who have stepped up to lead the "Official Tax Day TEA Party" in their communities on July 4.TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way. Besides the controversial pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, teabaggers and the towns they represent include: Greyson Peltier, Aliso Viejo; Roberto Guererro, also Buena Park; Barbara Smyth, Dana

  June 15, 2009

• Silent Shout

  December 6, 2007

• Anacrime, Stabba Ana, Guadalahabra and Other Wonderful OC City Slurs

  I've been doing book signings across the region recently (shout-outs to the Buena Park Public Library, the Long Beach Car Show, Long Beach Rotary Club, and the Patrick Henry Democratic Club OC chapter!), and nothing is better than fielding questions from the audience. In Buena Park, we started talking about how quaint and wonderful the city is in comparison to others--for chrissakes, no one could think of a derogatory nickname for it! Someone mentioned an all-time classic--Guadalahabra, for La H

  July 6, 2009

• Grandma Holding May Bring Lasting Peace to Laguna Woods

  Things can get mighty testy in Laguna Woods, the town formerly known as Leisure World in polite corners and Seizure World in less polite ones. A recent Residents Voice meeting in Clubhouse Five deginerated into a physical assault, according to one United Mutual Board of Directors candidate. It brings to mind the testy clashes Jerry's dad had with his Florida retirement community board colleagues on Seinfeld.Fortunately, as Janet Whitcomb reports in the Register-owned Laguna Woods Globe, a way to

  July 17, 2009

• Scrabble Tournament

  August 6, 2009

• Medical Cannabis Supporters Light Up City Council Meeting

  Photo by Christopher Victorio Ready for face time with the Lake Forest City Council Tuesday night. ​Medical marijuana advocates offered 1,000 free hamburgers to draw supporters to Tuesday night's Lake Forest City Council meeting, but only 300 showed up to plead with city officials to reconsider their attempts to shut down 14 cannabis dispensaries around town. (See photographer Christopher Victorio's slideshow.) With stomachs swelled and munchies satisfied by the burgers, that was

  October 7, 2009

• Aging to End in Manhattan Beach

  ​Call it an anti-death panel. We just received a press release saying that the world's top aging scientists will converge on Manhattan Beach from November 13 through 15 to figure out how to put off that whole getting-old-and-dying thing.The scientists, supposedly, will "predict the end of aging by 2029."Which sounds cool but... We'll all be kinda old by then anyways. Couldn't they get this thing done now?

  October 19, 2009