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  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2012
  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 23, 2010
  • 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 >>

  • Calendar

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    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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