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  • Blogs

    August 12, 2007

    Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: iPhone Thumb Surgery?

    Picking themselves up with your bootstraps: The lobbyists at the Orange County Tourism Council believe they are entitled yet again to a public handout. And, once again, they're going to get it without even a minute of public debate. The board of supervisors placed on its Tuesday consent calender a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2007

    Big Brother is Watching OC Weekly

    In case you were wondering, air travel still sucks. Flights are more crowded and dirtier than ever (I could swear that stain on my courtesy pillow was blood), and even though transatlantic flights now have video on demand, the equipment for it takes up precious milimeters of legroom, already a scarc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    Sanchez Returns From Vietnam?

    Amid gifts of flowers, hand-made placards and shouts of "We love you Loretta!" from a crowd of approximately 20 people, Rep. Loretta Sanchez--Orange County's lone Democratic voice in Congress--returned from a trip to Vietnam. A website, perhaps tied to Sanchez, has posted a video of her arrival ce ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 18, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Amid gifts of flowers, hand-made placards and shouts of "We love you Loretta!" from a crowd of approximately 20 people, Rep. Loretta Sanchez--Orange County's lone Democratic voice in Congress--returned from a trip to Vietnam. A website, perhaps tied to Sanchez, has posted a video of her arrival ce ... More >>

  • Features

    January 2, 2003

    2002: Diary of a Mad Year

    Amid gifts of flowers, hand-made placards and shouts of "We love you Loretta!" from a crowd of approximately 20 people, Rep. Loretta Sanchez--Orange County's lone Democratic voice in Congress--returned from a trip to Vietnam. A website, perhaps tied to Sanchez, has posted a video of her arrival ce ... More >>

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Protesters Don't Rattle Vietnam's President

    In OC, an affable Nguyen Minh Triet seeks to heal ‘old wounds’

  • News

    April 19, 2007

    So I Married a Terrorist . . .

    Saraah Olsons strange trip through the U.S. war on terror

  • Features

    July 7, 2005

    Lords of Acid

    How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OCs Hippie Mafia

  • Features

    April 22, 2004

    My Eight Marriages for the Mob

    How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OCs Hippie Mafia

  • News

    November 20, 2003

    Patriots Travel Package

    How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OCs Hippie Mafia

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Mitterfired?

    Controversial county CEO down to just one defender: The Times

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    50 Reasons to Hate the Proposed El Toro International Airport

    Controversial county CEO down to just one defender: The Times

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Never Mind War, El Toro Is Hell

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 109

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Is That a Song Bird in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

    A bulbul sings the song of freedom.Sonny Dong was walking through security at Los Angeles International Airport last month when inspectors noticed something odd: bird feathers and droppings on his socks and bird tail feathers under his pants. Upon closer examination it was discovered the 46-year-old ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Laptop Loss Much Less Frequent at John Wayne Than Most U.S. Airports

    Often when searching for the best air travel bargains, Orange Countians will choose to fly out of Ontario or Los Angeles International because fares are cheaper than at John Wayne Airport--even given the higher costs associated with ground travel and lost time to those airports, which are reachable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    [UPDATED] Why Would This Man Try to Burn Down His Beloved Church?

    Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's Office Izad Chavoshan's booking photo. ​UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM A CHURCH OFFICIAL . . . The bizarre case of the Huntington Beach man charged with trying to burn down Orange County Church of Christ not one, two, three but four times (!) just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    One More "Airplane!" Scene Now Dated

    ​No-nonsense, double-sunglassed chief pilot Rex Kramer (Robert Stack) shoves, punches and tosses donation solicitors--including a Hare Krishna (David Leisure)--blocking his path at a busy airport in the 1980 comedy Airplane!Like much of the flick's now-dated humor (Airplane! was the best motion pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    [UPDATED AND CORRECTED:] Today's Sentencing for Smuggling Songbirds From Vietnam

    UPDATE AND CORRECTION: Changes throughout (see below) . . . Courtesy of U.S. Attorney's OfficeI've heard of chicken legs, but this is ridiculous.​Duc Le of Garden Grove pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally bring live Asian songbirds into the United States by attaching them to the legs o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Rainbow Harbor Terror Attack is Just a Drill

    ​If you swing by Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach today and notice an unusually large presence of law enforcement types running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you are witnessing neither an actual terror attack nor filming of pick-up scenes for Monday night's 24 finale.

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    John Wayne Airport Named Among 10 Scariest

    ​John Wayne Airport is one of the 10 scariest airports in the world.That's the opinion of "a couple of pilots, along with SmarterTravel readers," who provided "their insights and experiences with difficult takeoffs and landings" to the travel site.

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Ali Achekzai, Serial Rape Suspect Captured in Austria, to be Back in Orange County Tonight

    ​R. Scott Moxley told you in January about the capture of Ali Achekzai, a onetime Ladera Ranch resident and alleged Southern California serial rapist who was found living in Salzburg, Austria, through a DNA match. Tonight, the 32-year-old on District Attorney Tony Rackauckas' Ten Most Wanted list ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Khapra Beetle: The Destructive Breed of Beetles Discovered in Rice Shipment at LAX

    Not what you want in your rice.​Things could have become pretty buggy for producers of grain and seeds if U.S. Customs and Border Protection would have been slacking on the job. On Dec. 29 at Los Angeles International Airport, CBP intercepted a shipment of Indian rice arriving from Saudi Arab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Samaa Kerba and Young Son Escaped Egypt, But the Mission Viejo Residents' Nightmare Had Only Begun

    ​A Mission Viejo woman and her 4-year-old son were hours away from being sent back to strife-torn Egypt this past weekend before the American Civil Liberties Union intervened on their behalf.Permanent U.S. resident Samaa Kerba, 26, and her son were returning home from Cairo because of the violence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Justin Bieber Eats In-N-Out Before Leaving LAX

    I am not a Canadian, so I do not know what chains they inordinately idolize, so who knows how teeny-bopper Justin Bieber got to In-N-Out before departing on a flight from LAX on Valentine's Day--but order some he did.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    The Real Rap Sheets of the Jackass Cast

    ​ Jackass star Steve-O was arrested in Calgary this week for allegedly assaulting a heckler there eight years ago. Call us jaded, but we think the Canadian authorities are overreacting to behavior that's more an extension of the Jackass brand than a threat to public safety. While Steve-O and his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    5 Examples That Prove When the Going Gets Bizarre, the Bizarre Go to John Wayne Airport

    ​Recent reports of near-misses in the skies near John Wayne Airport are bad enough.But Orange County's commercial airport seems to have shifted from the scary to the bizarre over the past week.Check out the rundown of five recent examples of weirdness involving planes arriving at or leaving from J ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    [UPDATED with Sentence:] Izad Chavoshan Tried to Burn Down Irvine Church Four Times Over Masturbation Teachings

    ​UPDATE, AUG. 19, 11:24 A.M.: Huntington Beach's Izad Chavoshan, who tried four times to burn down Orange County Church of Christ in Irvine because of its teachings against masturbation, was sentenced today to six years and four months in state prison.Not only did Chavoshan earn the ridicule of r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Jeremy Kealoha Belisario Gets 12 Years in Prison and $2.6 Million in Fines and Restitution for Embezzling from Travel Firms He Managed

    ​What do you get if you buy stuff for your boyfriend and yourself from high-end retailers like Sony, Gucci, Neiman Marcus, Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, and Van Cleef & Arpels, as well as 42 Super Bowl tickets for yourself, family and friends for a weekend of partying that includes limos, hotel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Korean Tourist Nabbed at LAX with 63 Pounds of Erection Medicine

    A tale that will wipe the smile of Bob's face​Was a 40-year-old Korean national visiting Southern California hoping to obtain the biggest, longest-lasting erection in world history?Or did he just want everybody he knew to be, well, excited for weeks?Authorities briefly detained the unidentified to ... More >>

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