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Ray Elbe, MMA Fighter Who Trained in Irvine, Looks Forward to Life After Broken Penis

All you may have wanted for Christmas was your two front teeth, but all MMA fighter Ray Elbe wanted was an unbroken penis.As Navel Gazing launches an investigation into how the hell we missed this one last month, you should know the "Ultimate Fighter 9" combatant, who lived in Irvine while training ... More >>

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McDonald's Introduces Lamb Burger; KFC Offers Shrimp Stars; Pizza Hut Creates a Pizza That Squirts

Depending on how you look at it, the fast food consumers abroad get the best or weirdest stuff from our American chains. Over the past few days there was news that Australian McDonald's has introduced a Lamb Burger (seasoned with oregano and rosemary, topped with a fried egg); the Colonel has s ... More >>

James S. Eberhart, Internet Huckster, Faces 11 Counts of Mail Fraud and Nine Counts of Money Laundering

A former Newport Beach resident who fled the country in 1999 after federal authorities executed a search warrant at his allegedly fraudulent Internet company landed back in the United States on Thursday after being deported earlier this week from Malaysia. James S. Eberhart, 71, arrived at Los ... More >>

Vela Scarves Blends Western Fashion With Islamic Tradition

Vela's signature piece, the ruffled "Mademoiselle"​"Victorian Lace," "Black Ruffle Prima Ballerina" and "Cat's Meow" are names of the top-selling products at Vela Scarves, a Fountain Valley-based online fashion company that produces high quality hijabs, or headscarves, for Muslim women."Vela is a ... More >>

Nguyen Cao Ky, Former President of South Vietnam, Passes Away

From Bolsavik.com​Word has come from Malaysia that Nguyen Cao Ky, the former president of South Vietnam who spent years in Orange County after the Vietnam War, has passed away.The story first appeared in the English-language media via  Bolsavik, the English-language blog of Nguoi Viet editor ... More >>

No. 75: Roti at Bangok Taste

​Welcome to the Weekly's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011! Tune in every day until we get to número uno! Now, on to the latest entry. . . Thai Nakorn rightfully gets all the praise for local Thai, but I still find myself more often at Bangkok Taste because it offers rarities even Thai Nak ... More >>

Ten Shocking Revelations from Kenny Rogers' Memoirs

​ Country music star, TV movie mainstay and lifelong beard farmer Kenny Rogers announced that he's releasing his memoirs this fall. Having scored an advanced copy of "The Gambler" singer's book, we present ten of its most shocking revelations. 10. He's never had plastic surgery Most of us ... More >>

Little Saigon Bids Farewell to a Beloved Troubadour

Grace LeTue Tri Nguyen (Laguna Niguel) and Nhan Vo (Virginia)​Yesterday, Little Saigon was struck by the abrupt passing of a generational icon. An illustrious composer and prominent player in Vietnamese-American media, Quang Duc Nguyen died early Sunday morn ... More >>

On The Line: Azmin Ghahreman of Sapphire, Part Two

Photo Courtesy of Sapphire Laguna​Today's installment of our three part Q&A with Chef Ghahreman of Sapphire is where we get a little more personal with our subject and where he tells us what George H.W. Bush asked for him to prepare.  If you missed the first part, click here.  Come b ... More >>

Local Food Blogger Gets a Book Deal

Burnt Lumpia​Local food blogger (he's in the 909) Marvin Galputos started Burnt Lumpia to learn and explore Filipino food, the cuisine of his homeland. That led him to creating the first Filipino food truck in LA, The Manila Machine.

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: 11 Muslim Students Charged in UCI Protest Editor's Note: Today's post is part one of a series. . . .Comment by GOOFBALL42: Islam is a religion of conquest, and as people all over the world ignore Islam they do so at their own peril. Muslims from the Middle East and Malaysia will try to ... More >>

Taco Bell to Invade Southeast Asia?

​Will the spread of Mexican food across the world ever cease? No.Will Taco Bell be there every step of the way to act as the gateway drug and make billions?Damn straight. Details after the jump!

Chomping the Chomp Chomp Truck

Dave Lieberman​Singaporean food is not exactly commonplace in Orange County; there are exactly zero Singaporean restaurants here, and even Los Angeles is not teeming with stalls dishing up chilli crab, Hainan chicken rice and popiah. So it was exciting to hear of the Chomp Chomp truck, a new, O ... More >>

The National at the Fox Pomona Theater

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Check out our slideshow of the National and Owen Pallett here!The National and Owen PallettOct. 16, 2010The Fox Pomona TheaterThe show: Telling twins apart when they repeatedly switch positions on stage is hard, so I can only attribute this quote to one of the National's ... More >>

Court: U.S. Can Deport Ex-South Vietnam Soldier and Family

U.S. bombs still falling on friendly South Vietnamese​The Vietnam War, which ended 35 years ago, claimed four more casualties today.Sadly, the victims are a former South Vietnam army sergeant, who was captured and tortured by communist soldiers during the war, and three members of his family.But t ... More >>

Sharpies and Coffee Cups and Mr. Boey

Photos Courtesy of Cheeming Boey​Boyishly grinning in his black hoodie and jeans, artist Cheeming Boey easily blended into the crowd at Laguna Art Museum's OsCene. (Read Dave Barton's review of the whole exhibit here.) Yet, his exhibit--simply titled "Sharpie on Styrofoam Cup"--stole the spotlight ... More >>

Five Foods First Eaten Out of Desperation

Certain foods are obviously tasty just from the look; ripe strawberries, rice and rabbits all look delicious. Certain foods don't look delicious, but are close enough to delicious-looking food to understand how humankind got started eating it; bitter melon, cow's milk and Seville oranges fall into t ... More >>

Zee Avi: Live From NPR's Little Desk

Former Costa Mesa resident (by way of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and first gal to ever sign to Brushfire Records Zee Avi is currently being featured on the front page of NPR Music online. Check out three live tracks, "Honeybee," "First of the Gang" (Morrissey cover) and "You and Me," recorded at NPR's ... More >>

12 Things I'll Always Remember About Street Scene '09

Beth Stirnaman​It's Monday morning and another Street Scene is officially in the books. And while it's important to note that this parking lot extravaganza of fog-filled stages, oddly eclectic line-ups, mind-altering drugs and festival food has reached it's 25th year, it's also worth mentioning th ... More >>

Zee Avi Brings Her Personal Lyrics From Malaysia to Costa Mesa

VIDEO: Zee Avi Covering 'I Fought the Law'

Costa Mesa-by-way-of-Malaysia singer-songwriter Zee Avi first netted attention through YouTube videos of her performances, some of which have racked up more than 800,000 views. Now she's on Brushfire records and touring the country with Pete Yorn, but she hasn't abandoned her .flv file roots, thus t ... More >>

Tomorrow: Free In-store performance by Zee Avi at Finger Prints

If there were ever a study to test the boundless possibilities of music via You Tube, I'm thinking Malaysia might be a good place to start. For there is probably no other way to explain how the beautiful, chirpy talents of singer song writer Zee Avi landed on the roster of Jack Johnson's Brush Fire ... More >>

Is Irvine Industrial Launderer Prudential Overall Supply Cheating Workers Out of a Living Wage?

Check Out My Package

It's pretty well-known that I'll go almost anywhere I'm invited if there's free food and booze, but some invites make more sense than others. Movie premieres, I understand. Art gallery openings, sure. But a meeting held by a package tour company to pitch their getaways to local travel agents? I mean ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 11/08

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Head Butting Cars Isn't Healthy

Not Sure Why His Head Continued to Slam Into My Baton: Norberto Santana, Jr. at the Register reports that an unidentified “28-year-old inmate at the Orange County jail died Friday after deputies used a taser gun to subdue him.” Damon Micalizzi, the taxpayer-paid flack assigned to get Sheriff Mi ... More >>

Michelle Malkin Bashes Gwen Stefani

There are only two national blogs we read, and both of them are conservative: local loudmouth Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin, whose whiny diatribes we've been catching since her days as a syndicated columnist that appeared in The Orange County Register. Malkin is the Filipina-American columnist who ... More >>

From Hunter to Hunted

In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

Dana and the Porn King

OC Christian politician takes money from pornographer

A Sweet Life's Work

The Ritzs Jean-Francois Lehuede leaves em wanting more

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Visits Without End: Tropika

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

24-Hour Pho

The Spy Who Loved Me

Why does George W. Bush want the terrorists to win?

Diary of a Mad County

Court Jousters

Bushwa

Does the Times have the courage to call the president a hypocrite?

Cha, Cha, Cha

Tea bar brews superlative stuff