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Maryland

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Orange County Register's Freedom Overlords Sell 8 TV Stations to Conservative Concern

    Freedom Communications, the Irvine-based media company whose flagship newspaper is the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, has completed the sale of its eight television stations to the company that famously ordered its ABC affiliates not to show an April 30, 2004, Nightline tribute to American sol ... More >>

  • Film

    March 1, 2012

    The Subbasement Tapes of 'Last Days Here'

    Tracking a heavy-metal near-casualty

  • Music

    September 8, 2011

    George Hartline Goes From South to South OC

    [Locals Only] He and the Harmless Doves bring roots rock blues music to Southern California

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Kenneth Joseph Lucas II Gets 13 Years for Running International Phishing Scam and Indoor Pot Farm

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 28, 2 P.M.: Sentences totaling 13 years for convictions in two cases have been given to Kenneth Joseph Lucas II, the "kingpin" of an international "phishing" operation that used spam e-mails and bogus websites to collect personal information used to defraud American banks. The 27- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Local Record Review: George Hartline and the Harmless Doves

    ​George Hartline and the Harmless Doves George Hartline and the Harmless Doves EP www.reverbnation.com/georgehartline OC's been on a pretty steady kick of classic rock inspired bands lately--not perhaps all that surprising given that it's an easy way to contrast against the club rush--but the lead ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Get This In Your Belly: Coloradito de Puerco at El Moctezuma #2

    Dave Lieberman​I've been to El Moctezuma many times. I'm slowly working my way through its menu of Oaxacan specialities such as memelas; tlayudas; huge, banana-leaf-wrapped tamales; and of course plenty of moles.Until we took a visiting Marylander for Oaxacan food last week, I had never had the co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    [UPDATED] Rachel Ann Hicks Busted for Allegedly Raping Maryland Boy She Met in X-Box Chat Room

    ​Update, Jan. 17, 3:14 p.m.: Lake Forest resident Rachel Ann Hicks, 36, signed a court waiver last week allowing her to be extradited to Maryland to answer to charges she had sex with a 13-year-old boy in his bedroom around Thanksgiving 2010.Hicks was being held without bail in Orange County for t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Congressman Darrell Issa to Oversee Federal Food Regulation: Good or Bad?

    ​With the newest Congress sworn in comes Capitol Hill's traditional musical chairs of parties switching leadership roles for committees and the like. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is charged with investigating the government's regulations to see if they're overreaching. Th ... More >>

  • Food

    December 30, 2010

    Grab Bag o' Goodies

    Nine great posts from our Stick a Fork In It blog you might've missed

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Five Great Regional Burgers McDonald's Offers That They Should Offer Everywhere

    Flickr user fugutabetai syashin​If you spent your youth with the McRib, you're just happier than a hog in slop right now with the re-launch of that sandwich at every US McDonald's franchise. I admit it: I liked them as kid, but I've since learned about real barbecue, and welcomed the news with a s ... More >>

  • Music

    October 28, 2010

    Animals As Leaders Riff Out

    There's more to Tosin Abasi's instrumental prog-metal outfit than guitar heroics

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Andrew Thomas Gallo, Accused of Killing Angel Pitcher Nick Adenhart and 2 Others, Wants His Murder Trial Moved Out of OC

    Photos courtesy of BackCountry.comAndrew Thomas Gallo is shown in bookings photos following arrests for being (from left): drunk in public in 2006, drunk and disorderly in 2007 and drunk behind the wheel in a triple-fatal crash a year ago.​Andrew Thomas Gallo, who is charged with killing Angels pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Jim Gilchrist Saves Journalism

    God bless Jim Gilchrist!​So, on C-SPAN: THE DEUCE the other day, John Nichols of The Nation and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism was telling an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that 140 newspapers closed down in the past year, 1,000 newspaper employees ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Prop 8 Testimony Cited as "Ex-Gay" Materials Sent to High School Students

    ​Report cards aren't the only thing they gave out at a Maryland county's high schools recently. The Washington Post reports that Montgomery County high schools distributed fliers from Parents & Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays Seeking Tolerance for All (PFOX).The fliers included the following mes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    On the Line: Bobby Bognar of History Channel's "Food Tech"

    Courtesy of Bobby Bognar​It's ironic that the latest food show to hit the airwaves isn't on the Food Network (they're much too busy showing pointless, boring challenge shows) but on the History Channel.Though the format is a lot like "Unwrapped" and "Follow That Food", the last time Marc Summers i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    Busy Days Ahead at the Nixon Library

    ​A birthday celebration, the arrival of important records and some good old fashioned revisionism: yep, busy days are ahead at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. (Which is where you'll also find the creepy bust above.)

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Cops, Judges, Prosecutors, Police Chiefs, Prison Wardens, FBI/DEA Agents: Legalize All Drugs

    Tom Angell caught Clockwork's recent post "As Cannabis Initiative Heads for Ballot, Former Police Chief Advocates Legalizing All Drugs." It was based on a recent column by Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and 34-year veteran cop, of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). An ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 22, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Tom Angell caught Clockwork's recent post "As Cannabis Initiative Heads for Ballot, Former Police Chief Advocates Legalizing All Drugs." It was based on a recent column by Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and 34-year veteran cop, of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    Eight Questions With Alfunction

    ​There's not much to say about the Costa Mesa man/myth/legend that is Alfunction.that hasn't already been said, so I'll keep it at this. When he's not playing guitar in SiX, he's screen printing t-shirts, stickers and whatever else he can put ink on and currently he's the guitar tech for Maryland- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    And Speaking of John Dean in Orange County . . .

    UPDATED WITH CORRECTED GENDER FOR ONE MAN, JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER (THANK YOU, REV. TAYLOR). Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, whose June appearance drew 300 people to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and the wrath of the private Richard Nixon Library & Birth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    On the Line: Marc Cohen of Watermarc

    watermarcrestaurant.com Marc Cohen's newest restaurant, Watermarc, is a flat out hit, even by Laguna Beach standards.  If you haven't heard of it, you will.  And if you haven't had his food, you need to.Here are his answers for our list of 8 frivolous questions.1. Dish that you cook that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Nick Adenhart Memorial Fund Presents First $5,000 Check

    The Nick Adenhart Memorial Fund, a charitable fund set up in the name of the Angels pitcher who was killed along with two other in an April 9 auto accident in Fullerton, has presented its first $5,000 check benefiting Little League baseball in Adenhart's home state of Maryland. Jim Adenhart, N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    State Budget Mess Takes Toll on Annual Easter Seals Camp

    Due to California's budget mess, $52,000 in annual state support for Easter Seals Southern California's week-long camp for people with disabilities is likely not coming July 1, so the nonprofit will be scrambling over the next five weeks to make up for the loss and continue the 36-year run at Camp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Attention Coupon Holders: Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries Is Open at Metro Pointe

    Edwin Goei In what seems to be the second documented case of "jump-the-gun-itis" we've seen in recent weeks, it's been widely reported that Maryland-based chain Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries sent out coupons to eager customers prior to the opening of its first ever California store.  This w ... More >>

  • News

    June 25, 2009

    [Moxley Confidential] Sources Say Paul Walters Won't Run for Sheriff

    Edwin Goei In what seems to be the second documented case of "jump-the-gun-itis" we've seen in recent weeks, it's been widely reported that Maryland-based chain Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries sent out coupons to eager customers prior to the opening of its first ever California store.  This w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries Almost Open

    We broke the news last March that Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries, a Maryland-based chain, was opening its first California outlet here in the space vacated by Irezumi Sushi. Well, it's mid-June now and things are getting closer to being open, but not quite. In fact, some Yelpers (actually, jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    WTF!?! Pastor Wiley Drake Opens Dialogue With Muslims

    CORRECTED...In stark contrast to Muslims hating Jews--and vice versa--at UC Irvine comes a revelation from Buena Park that must be accompanied by visions of flying pigs, a frozen-over Hell and galloping steeds of the Apocalypse. First Southern Baptist Church Pastor Wiley Drake is hosting an appearan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 35

    Orange County Register: Cypress father and Long Beach Memorial hospital pharmacy manager Hugo Bustamante, 46, was one of the two victims slain by a fellow pharmacy worker Mario Ramirez, 50, who then took his own life. . . . Harold Edward Trees, a 36-year-old Orange man who is believed to be a member ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

    Finally, some fire at at Taco Bell joint. From Maryland: Discarded cigarettes cause a two-alarm blaze that destroyed a Taco Bell restaurant in Germantown on Monday, firefighters said this week. "What the fire didn't damage, smoke and water did," said Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spoke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Fullerton Crash

    *Moved up by Gustavo, because dumb-ass trolls have hijacked a tragedy to go on and rail about Mexicans. Give 'em hell, gentle readers...Nick Adenhart, the Angels starter who pitched six scoreless innings in last night's 6-4 loss to the A's, was one of three people killed in a collision involvin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries To Take Over Irezumi Sushi Spot at South Coast Metro Pointe

    Photo Courtesy of Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries As long as we're talkin' about chains from The South penetrating our borders and tickling our tongues, let's talk about Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries. It will open at South Coast Metro Pointe, next door to Arriba's (no word yet on an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Local Political Bloggers Dangerous? You Don't Say.

    gorriti / Flickr / Creative CommonsThe Associated Press put out an item to the national wires last Friday about the mayor of Salisbury, Maryland who took some time from his state-of-the-city address to carp about the bloggers and gadflies whose antics have placed their city "under siege": Daily, I r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

    I thought people in Maryland gorged themselves on crab cakes? From the Old Line State: Two occupants of a vehicle parked at the Taco Bell in Solomons on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. were found to be in possession of suspected marijuana.  DFC James Smith subsequently arrested Derek Craig Bradley, 20, and B ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 15, 2009

    The Hibbleton Exhibits Photographers With the Rot Stuff

    I thought people in Maryland gorged themselves on crab cakes? From the Old Line State: Two occupants of a vehicle parked at the Taco Bell in Solomons on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. were found to be in possession of suspected marijuana.  DFC James Smith subsequently arrested Derek Craig Bradley, 20, and B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Orange County Bishops and Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card: A History

    I'm getting disappointed with Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. As of recently, I've been reporting more on the kooky actions of former Orange bishops, whether it was homo-hating or homo-hypocrisy, than the current head of the county's Catholics. So it hurts me to report that the latest in Oran ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 13, 2008

    [Trendzilla] Feathers and Fringe, the Native American Look

    I'm getting disappointed with Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. As of recently, I've been reporting more on the kooky actions of former Orange bishops, whether it was homo-hating or homo-hypocrisy, than the current head of the county's Catholics. So it hurts me to report that the latest in Oran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Marine Land

    Dorothy Green: remembered Academics, government officials, business people and clean-water advocates have been meeting since Tuesday at the seventh annual Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference at the Westin Long Beach, and unless they all got swallowed up by the creatures they gawked at during free ... More >>

  • News

    May 15, 2008

    The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

    Dorothy Green: remembered Academics, government officials, business people and clean-water advocates have been meeting since Tuesday at the seventh annual Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference at the Westin Long Beach, and unless they all got swallowed up by the creatures they gawked at during free ... More >>

  • Features

    February 8, 2007

    Camera dCheatin

    The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

  • Features

    December 28, 2006

    The Year the Superstar DJ Died

    WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Dinosaurs rule the dancefloors no more

  • Music

    May 4, 2006

    CD Review

    Wilderness, Vessel States (Jagjaguwar)

  • Food

    February 16, 2006

    Meat Juices Down Your Throat!

    Savannah Steak and Chop House sizzles

  • Columns

    June 3, 2004

    Diary Of A Mad County

    Savannah Steak and Chop House sizzles

  • Columns

    December 25, 2003

    FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

    Savannah Steak and Chop House sizzles

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Archiving Nixon

    Savannah Steak and Chop House sizzles

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Perp Walks

    Savannah Steak and Chop House sizzles

  • News

    July 11, 2002

    No Escape

    Savannah Steak and Chop House sizzles

  • Film

    November 2, 2000

    Scary Movies

    Joe Berlingers worked-over Blair Witch 2, Mark Singers lovely Dark Days

  • Culture

    November 26, 1998

    Between the Generations

    Sexual politics and moral ambiguity take the stage

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