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The Cokscars? Or: The Awards the Newport Beach Film Festival Didn't Hand Out

For your consideration, 16 commendations that really matter

Long Beach Lunch: Pasty Bakery

Pasty Bakery in Downtown Long Beach could use a little help. A liquor license, a spruced-up exterior, a marketing campaign that actually tells people it exists--anything to ensure that the sweet Welsh man who freshly bakes pasties with his Salvadoran wife in the back corner storefront of Pine Avenue ... More >>

Dr. Phil: "Explosive" Interview Today On Grizzly Costa Mesa-Tied Murders

On today's Dr. Phil show, a 25-year-old Orange County actress accused of being an accessory to a sensational 2010 double murder defends her innocence.But pre-episode publicity hints that the interview with the veteran TV therapist may not have gone too well.In promotional material, a hostile Dr. Phi ... More >>

Left of the Dial Reopens New Santa Ana Location

Every now and then, it's nice to be able to say that you can't keep a good record store down. A little over a month after shuttering their old location in Seal Beach, revered wax palace Left of the Dial has reemerged in SanTana. That's right, no more tussling with the Bermuda triangle of shittiness ... More >>

OC's Scariest People 2012!

Child molesters, Shaheen Sadeghi, serial killers, Dana Rohrabacher and so many more!

Troy Edgar Loses Key Endorsement In State Assembly Run After Cheating Revelations

At one point 10 months ago, Troy Edgar enjoyed support from a long list of Orange County Republicans in his attempts to leave the Los Alamitos city council for higher public office.But recent months haven't been kind to Edgar--especially after the Weekly revealed he'd doctored mandatory federal camp ... More >>

Troy Edgar's Missing Mailer Money

[Moxley Confidential] A Los Alamitos mayor and state assembly candidate doesn't want you to know who's financing his campaign

Brea and San Juan Capistrano DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Buena Park's is Saturday Night

Labor Day weekend has creeped up, and so has the countywide Labor Day weekend enforcement against boozing drivers on the road.Besides saturation patrols in Orange County's four corners--are there four?--Brea and San Juan Capistrano have DUI checkpoints tonight and Buena Park conducts another Saturda ... More >>

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Alejandro Arias, Nurse Assistant, Guilty of Sex Assaults on GILF Patients

See update at the end of this post on Alejandro Arias being found guilty.Between April 1 and July 18, 2008, male nurse's assistant Alejandro Arias entered the care center rooms of two women, ages 50 and 60, under the pretense of performing legitimate medical procedures.But, according to prosecutors, ... More >>

New York Times Discovers Perverts are Banned From Many Orange County Parks

The Old Gray Lady has confronted your friendly neighborhood park pervert.Chuting in from an international kerfuffle unknown, The New York Times has discovered the growing phenomenon of Orange County parks being declared off limits to convicted sex offenders.

[UPDATED with Scott Evans Dekraai Insanity Plea Predicted:] 6 Women and 2 Men, OC Homicides Nos. 45-52: Massacred at Beauty Salon

​UPDATE, NOV. 29, 12:30 P.M.: During today's arraignment hearing, where Scott Evans Dekraai pleaded not guilty to murdering eight people and critically injuring a ninth, Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders objected to press photographers being in the courtroom, saying this kind of media coverage ... More >>

[UPDATED with Yorba Linda and Lake Forest Votes:] Hugo Godinez, Sex Offender Busted in County Park, is Ammo for Two More Cities Considering Bans

​UPDATE, NOV. 16, 4:05 P.M.: The Yorba Linda City Council voted unanimously Tuesday for an ordinance on first reading to keep registered sex offenders out of city parks unless they first get permission from the Brea Police Department, which also patrols Yorba Linda.The ordinance would be enacted 3 ... More >>

[UPDATED with Laguna Hills Council Connection:] Todd Sousa, Irvine Swim Coach, Backstroking to Prison for Unlawful Sex with 15-Year-Old Girl

Lautenschle​UPDATE, OCT. 29, 9:54 A.M.: Swim instructor Todd Robert Sousa, who was sentenced Friday to prison time and a sex offender tag for unlawful sex with a 15-year-old girl he taught, is the son-in-law of Laguna Hills City Councilman Joel Lautenschleger. Sousa has children with Lautenschlege ... More >>

Seal Beach Shooting: Friends and Family Share Memories of Victims at Candlelight Vigil (PHOTOS)

Michelle Woo/OC Weekly​To longtime clients, Salon Meritage was more than a place to get their hair cut and nails trimmed. "It was like a family," said Sally Brayton of Lakewood. "You would walk through the door and Randy would be right there to greet you. He knew everyone by name and just mad ... More >>

What Makes a Farmers Market a Farmers Market?

Dave LiebermanThe Ponderosa Park farmers market in Anaheim, a certified farmers market​The number of farmers markets in the United States has gone up almost sixfold in the last fifteen years. Whether they started out as a consolidation of honor-system fruit stands or as a place for farmers to sell ... More >>

Little Saigon Might Be Lumped With, Dominated By Long Beach In New Congressional Redistricting Plan

​In the ongoing struggle over which congressional district to put Little Saigon in, the latest proposal may end up lumping it in with Long Beach. The OC Register's political reporter Martin Wisckol reports that the recently revealed map puts Little Saigon and other parts of Orange County in a ... More >>

Did Prayer Close a Newport Beach Abortion Clinic?

Made it!​It's often said that Southern California residents are apathetic in comparison to other areas of the nation, but for years you could drive by a building not far from the gates of John Wayne Airport and see a large group of adults on the sidewalk holding signs and hands, and praying.The ta ... More >>

Final Pho Round 1: AnQi vs. Benley

​Second match in our 16-restaurant tournament to determine once and for all who sells the best pho in Orange County. Tune in tomorrow for Shuji 's showdown!In an earlier review of the place, I summarized Benley as a Vietnamese restaurant for the non-Vietnamese. I even went so far as to warn anyon ... More >>

Three Separate Food Truck Gatherings Today

Photo by Christopher Victorio​Last week, more than most weeks, was a food truck lover's week. I got wind of three events bringing together roaming luxe-loncheras at three separate venues. And all seemed to have gone as planned. Rachel Klemek of Blackmarket Bakery tells me that the Saturday thre ... More >>

Rossmoor War on Coyotes Ugly

​So, the residents of Rossmoor, Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and East Long Beach are perturbed because coyotes are apparently attacking defenseless Fidos and Garfields with ever more frequency, and the response from officialdom is to leave the American jackals be. But close readers of this space shoul ... More >>

Hero Shot While Foiling Bank Robbery Presses His Case--Against the Bank

​An Irvine lawyer and his client--a bank customer who was shot and wounded when he tackled the man believed to be the "Sports Bike Bandit"--have gone to the media to press their case, which is not against the alleged bank robber whose gun went off but the bank.Lawyer Eric Dubin says Richard Camp h ... More >>

Juri "Julie" Kibuishi Would Do Anything for a Friend, Say Murder Victim's Parents, Brother

​Julie Kibuishi loved music, fashion and her family, but nothing gave the 23-year-old Orange County High School of the Arts graduate more pleasure than hanging out with friends, her parents and one brother related in a tearful and impromptu meeting with local media this morning.Indeed, Julie, who ... More >>

Samuel Eliezer Herr, OC Homicide No. 22: Shot, Dismembered, Body Parts Spread Around

Courtesy of Costa Mesa Police DepartmentSammy Herr went from murder suspect to murder victim.​Originally believing Samuel Eliezer Herr to be the prime suspect in the murder of 23-year-old Irvine resident Juri Julie Kibuishi in his own apartment (see OC Homicide No. 19), Costa Mesa police detective ... More >>

Top 10 OC Public High Schools*

​* based on state rankingsThe California Department of Education's just-released Academic Performance Index (API) rankings show 120 of 554 Orange County schools rank among the state's best. And 82 schools received the highest ranking when compared with schools with similar demographics.The Orange ... More >>

Who Is Craig Hunter?

[Moxley Confidential] And can he get into a runoff in the sheriff's race by being more OC than Sandra Hutchens and less right-wing than Bill Hunt?

Most Racist City in Orange County--Is it Fullerton??? Our Top Five

Henry W. Head, founding father of OC, longtime Santa Ana doctor...​I was speaking with a local GOP operative recently when he said something that shocked me. The topic was my recent cover story on the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos and one pendeja who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Be ... More >>

Top 5 Hate Crime Reports in June--and a [Non-]Bogus Bonus [THE RE-WRITE]

Kevin O'Grady, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Orange County/Long Beach office, was kind enough to email over five hate-crime reports his office received this past June, in reverse chronological order. While that format may be helpful to give readers a sense of ... More >>

Attention: Kogi Taco Truck Lands in Lakewood Tomorrow! Not O.C., But Close Enough. **UPDATE**

UPDATE: Moving this up as a reminder to those in the La Palma, Buena Park, and Los Alamitos area of O.C.!!! KOGI WILL BE IN LAKEWOOD, AT THE ABC DRIVING SCHOOL FROM 10 P.M-1 A.M. TONIGHT!!! That's right next door! KogiAttention all Kogi Taco Truck followers. Kogi is going to be *THIS CLOSE* to ... More >>

Disgraced Ex-Los Al Mayor Has a Facebook Fan Page!

What is it with the recent trend of disgraced politicians insisting their 15 minutes ain't up? The national case is ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich; the local example is former Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose, the fool who forwarded along the cartoon to your left with the caption "No Easter egg h ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 5

Orange County Register: Four earthquakes have shook North Orange County in a week. Jeez, gay people, what have you done to piss off God now? . . . OC banruptcies jumped 57 percent in January. So you've got to love Southern California Edison's timing in these fucked-up financial times: included ... More >>

OC talent gets its kicks in the MLS playoffs

While most of the country keeps its attention on football, there are those of us who also enjoy the unbridled, over-the-top passion of futbol. With the Major League Soccer playoffs just around the corner (they start this Thursday), it is only fitting to give props to the OC natives who are represe ... More >>

Grub Guide

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Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Kids in the Hall

Los Alamitos almost-band Lightmusic prepare to ditch the almost

Grub Guide

The county's best damn dining guide

Best of OC

Cant We All Just Get Along?

Why LA should love OCand why OC should let them

Letters

Bombs, Balls and Broads

Joel Beers theater notes

Diary of a Mad County

Cypress

Capital of Bionic Records

Active Eats

And its one, two, threewhat are we dining for?

The Year in Bits:July - December

Brian Brannon

Rage Against the Classical Machine

Christopher Russell leads the OCHSA orchestra into new terrain

Summer Eats

Part Two

Blood Money

Anti-abortion activists attack cozy relationship between county republicans and abortion doctor

'BLOOD MONEY' ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVISTS ATTACK COZY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTY REPUBLICANS AND ABORTION DOCTOR