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April 25, 2013
DJ Shadow
The Observatory
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April 12, 2013
Target Describes Hell He Went Through From FTC-Shuttered Firm's "Smokescreen" Lawsuit
A Newport Beach-based company that provided legal advice to consumers and small businesses facing crushing debt filed a civil suit against four former "employees" accused of stealing client data, but the case was dismissed a year after it was filed--in November 2011.We'd Naval Gazed the complaint b ... More >>
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February 28, 2013
Man Creates Oreo Creme Removal Machine
Wanna see something completely pointless but utterly cool? A Portland man has spent an entire "0.04 years" perfecting an Oreo separator. David Neevel, who is apparently a physicist, has created the contraption using aluminum scraps, wood, a hatchet, a CNC router table and dental floss, to perform on ... More >>
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February 8, 2013
Federal Prosecutors Win Telemarketing Ban Against Orange County Businessman
Orange County businessman Roy M. Cox apparently did not know that no means no.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has won a stipulated judgment and permanent injunction against Cox, a Santa Ana resident who ran an international, robocalling telemarketing business that routinely violated the Nationa ... More >>
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November 28, 2012
Product Placement in Music Videos = Tacky
We'll be honest: product placement in music videos used to not irritate us--we giggled when the Foo Fighters parodied a Mentos commercial in their "Big Me" video back in the 90s--but that was when music videos premiered on MTV--not Vevo--and artists weren't cashing in on aggressive product placement ... More >>
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October 22, 2012
Federal Regulators Win Injunction Against Orange County Debt Relief Business
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this month won a temporary restraining order against Orange County businessman Jeremy Rommel Nelson and several debt relief corporate entities, including Nelson Gamble & Associates, accused of running consumer fraud scams.Without admitting guilt, Rancho Santa M ... More >>
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July 10, 2012
[UPDATED with Charges, New Details:] Christian Marie Murray, OC Homicide No. 24: Thomas Michael Wilhelm Held in Girlfriend's Slaying
See Update No. 4 at the end of this post detailing the charges against Thomas Michael Wilhelm, which include the allegation he stole the murder weapon from a neighbor.See Update No. 3 identifying the victim as Christian Marie Murray and providing her business profile.See Update No 2 providing more d ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
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 >>
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February 23, 2012
CSUF Front & Center presents Heart
Honda Center
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Arby's Plans to Completely Rehaul Menu
According to Business Insider, Arby's just got a new chief marketing officer who's planning a major and total rehaul of the menu, logo, and ads.In 2007, the roast beef-centered fast food chain added Toasted Subs to its menu, which was one of its last major menu revisions since the introduction of ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Telemarketer Who Scammed Job Seekers Ordered to Give Up His Surf City Condo
An executive with a sales company that scammed job applicants out of money through online want ads, has been forced by the Federal Trade Commission to relinquish his half-million-dollar Huntington Beach condominium.Technically, the FTC imposed a $13 million judgment against Santa Barbara-based te ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
UCI Seminar Examines Fallout from Afghanistan War on Public Health Here
The effects of the war in Afghanistan on that country's inhabitants, the U.S. military and geopolitics have been kicked around plenty but what about the cost to America's public health system?That topic gets its due through a UC Irvine seminar surrounding the war's 10th anniversary. It's availabl ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Report: Junk Food Companies Using Product Placement Instead of Commercials
I loved the first Austin Powers movie--still do. Hilarious, witty, fresh. I hated the sequel--still funny, but even then in 1999 (before my great Political Revelation of Groucho Marxism), the amount of product placement was unbearable. Maybe I have to see it again to see if it was intentional or sat ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
San Clemente-Based California Milk Processor Board Pulls Its Ad Campaign Touting Milk As A Cure To PMS
Got milk? Yeah, we know, that marketing slogan stopped being effective, and started being annoying, about a decade ago. The milk industry needed its next big ad campaign and it looks like they just might have found it. The San Clemente-based California Milk Processor Board rec ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Joel Lee Craft Jr., Seller of Telemarketing Leads, Indicted in $25 Million Indie Movie Investment Scam
David Mamet's independent movie (and play that preceded it) Glengarry Glen Ross is about slick salesmen using underhanded tactics to rope in would-be property investors culled from what is known as "lead lists." The CEO of a San Clemente information company that sells such lists to telemark ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2011
Airline Passengers Voice Displeasure Online
With the price of gasoline soaring past $4 per gallon, many summer vacationers are scouting the Interwebs for deals on cheap flights.But that's not the only air travel-related data you'll find online. There are also the results of a new survey that show a large portion of flyers are dissatisfied ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
SEC Posts Complaint Against mUrgent Corp., Accused of Running Boiler Room and $10 Million Scam
The Securities and Exchange Commission has posted online the complaint filed in Santa Ana federal court against mUrgent Corp., a Santa Ana Internet marketing firm for the restaurant and hospitality industry that is accused of using high-pressure sales tactics to defraud investors "in a $10 milli ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Coors Light Exec: "Budweiser is Going Down, Baby"
As I always point out, I'm not a beer drinker, but that doesn't mean I don't taste it. And I've never understood why anyone would bother with either Budweiser or Coors, or their Light derivatives--it all smells like piss to me, and tastes barely better. But that obviously means nothing to America ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Taco Bell Thinks Shrimp are "Fancy Party" Food
Shrimp prices on the commodity market are near an all-time high--nearly $8 per pound, according to the latest figures, but wayyyyyyy below the $189-per-pound price at which the International Monetary Fund is pegging beef prices. Shrimp was always the one seafood we could afford to bring home, the ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Family Mornings at the Museum
Bowers Museum
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Allegiant Air Offers $40.68 Round-Trip Fare Between Long Beach and Sin City--with a Catch
Allegiant Air is offering a screaming deal to promote the budget airline's upcoming new flight service between Long Beach and Las Vegas: a $40.68 round-trip ticket.Certain restrictions apply, and if you bring any luggage other than a carry-on, you'll be charged $35 per bag.Oh, and there are a cou ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Are You With Me, Dr. Fu? Not So Much
Xinming Fu, a 48-year-old Irvine physician, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for his role in a $15 million health care fraud scheme that plied the elderly and mentally ill with candy, doughnuts and cigarettes to get them to undergo unnecessary respiratory treatments that were b ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
New Online Magazine for OC Music Launches
Albert Ching: That byline ring a bell? Dude writes here all the time. Used to have a desk in the office. Is a man about town.Well, he and OC music publicist/KUCI radio host/woman about town Ashley Eliot have launched a new online magazine--Everyday Noise--focusing on Southern California bands, a ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
Lisk Fest
Oak Canyon Park
Blogs
March 10, 2009
Welcome to the Poorhouse: Problem Makers Become "Solvers"
One reason I find myself in the financial fix I am in is because I took took a gamble. The plan hatched with my mortgage broker was to temporarily pay a low, low mortgage--that did not lower my principal--to free up enough cashflow to pay down my credit-card debt. This would improve my credit score ... More >>
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April 3, 2008
Giving Back!
Write On 23rd Annual  Great American Write-In
Columns
November 8, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Blogs
September 4, 2007
Rick Rubin: Music Biz Savior?
The New York Times Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg ponders this crucial matter and concludes that Rubin, the Def Jam impresario/producer (Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash and 17,000 others) who's now employed by Columbia Records, just may be the mensch to prevent this Titanic from ... More >>
Columns
August 23, 2007
It's Your Money
But the government spends it
Columns
August 31, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Aug. 23 - Aug. 29
Blogs
March 3, 2006
Lights! Cola! Action!
We don't know whether to be proud, repulsed, jealous--all three? Chapman University grad stud Rosemary Lambert's short film The Reel Monkey won the Grand Prize in a film competition. So far, so good--until you discover it's the 2006 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Competition. You see, student filmma ... More >>
Film
August 4, 2005
Attack of the 50-ft. Commercials!
Abandon all hope: there's no escape from movie product placements
Culture
August 5, 2004
The Gods Must Be Crazy
ShotPaks takes a good idea straight outta South Africa to a liquor store near you
Features
December 11, 2003
Buying Woodstock
Is Ladera Ranch the green revolution or the same development crap in a new package?
News
September 25, 2003
Represent What?
The Registers New Campaign
Film
December 19, 2002
Kids. Go Figure
Disney gets spanked
News
September 23, 1999
Chillin With Uncle Sam
Feds to teens: Just say no, dude

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