Mental Health

Passion Pit - Club Nokia - April 11, 2013

Passion Pit Club Nokia April 11, 2013 Before embarking on the desert as part of Friday's Coachella lineup, Passion Pit made a pit stop (no pun intended) to Los Angeles' Club Nokia. Led by frontman Michael Angelakos, the electro-pop quintet made quite a spectacle during its pre-festival performance. ... More >>

Slidebar Puts the Kibosh on Metal Mondays After Rowdy Exhumed Show

There are few solid metal venues in OC where you can rely on brake-neck riffs and top notch brutality, on a weekly basis. And even though we knew it wouldn't last forever, it saddened us yesterday to get confirmation that Slidebar is ending its weekly Metal Mondays showcases following another brawl ... More >>

'Side Effects' May Induce Queasy Pleasure

Steven Soderbergh's 'final' film is well-worth risking

[UPDATED with Manner of Death, Court Follow-Up:] Anthony Nicholas Orban, Ex-Westminster Cop Who Kidnapped and Raped Waitress, Found Dead in Jail Cell

See the update at the end of this post about the way Orban died and the court proceeding that was held without him.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 26, 12:45 P.M.: Anthony Nicholas Orban, the former Westminster police detective convicted earlier this year of kidnapping a waitress in Ontario and raping her in Fon ... More >>

The Adicts

House of Blues

Transgender Defender

[Hey, You!] Life's too short to let my looks ruin your ride

Doctor Stands Trial For Overdose Deaths of Three Young Men; One From OC

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Dr. Hsui-Ying "Lisa" Tseng to stand trial for second degree murder in the deaths of three young men, one of whom was Vu Nguyen, 28, from Lake Forest. The decision came after a preliminary hearing that lasted three weeks. The osteopathic medicine doctor alle ... More >>

Fullerton Police Finally Release Records per Mental Health Advocates' Request--But Are They Holding Back?

As promised, activists with Mind(ful) Liberation Project (MLP) have posted 22 pages of documents obtained from the Fullerton Police Department online. Prompted by the Kelly Thomas killing nearly a year ago, the organization filed a records-request for materials related to entry-level training and re ... More >>

'I Am The Fourth': Long Beach Photographer Captures The Face of Mental Illness Through Portrait Project

Family Portrait Day isn't typically an affair to get excited about. Awkward poses, cheesy smiles, getting scolded by Mom for not ironing your shirt--all for a photo that'll eventually get lost in the Facebook abyss.  But for the people that Susan Sabo has met, a photograph is something more. Wh ... More >>

Overtaken, South County Prescription Drug Abuse Documentary, Screens Tonight

Jodi Barber, a Laguna Niguel mother who lost a son to prescription drug abuse, was a catalyst for the documentary Behind the Orange Curtain, which made its world premiere May 2 at the Newport Beach Film Festival, sold out four screenings there and was awarded the Orange County Filmmaking Award.Tonig ... More >>

Ask Exene: My Husband Became an Alcoholic

Exene Cervenka is a writer, visual artist and punk rock pioneer. The OC transplant is the lead singer for X, the Knitters and Original Sinners. If you want to ask the legendary vocalist for advice, send an email to askexene@ocweekly.com. DEAR EXENE: My apologies in advance if this letter sounds li ... More >>

Exene Cervenka's New Advice Column

[Ask Exene] 'When in recovery, love yourself first'

Save the Humans In 'Big Miracle'!

It's the actors who need rescue in this trapped-whale saga

Leigh Steinberg, Onetime Super Sports Agent Hassled by the Irvine Co., Declares Bankruptcy

​Last month, the Irvine Co. accused Leigh Steinberg of being a deadbeat. Wednesday, the super-sports agent made it official.The 62-year-old, who was touted as an inspiration for the titular character in the Tom Cruise flick Jerry Maguire, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and fired off an ... More >>

Kelly Thomas Killing Befuddles The Orange County Register Newsroom

Register: You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be spoon-fed the official police version!​There's no doubt that Fullerton police officers killed Kelly Thomas last July in an outrageous incident that provoked international focus on police brutality in Orange County.I'm focusing on the word "killed" beca ... More >>

Psychopaths Are Misunderstood: UC Irvine Psychologist

​Could Hannibal Lecter maybe have not attacked nine people and eaten their flesh if he went through intensive treatment? Quite possibly, according to new research from a UC Irvine forensic psychologist.   Psychopaths don't just make for great movie characters that cause the sales of fava ... More >>

Bleeding Through

Slidebar

Mikey Welsh, 1971-2011

​According to the official Mikey Welsh Facebook page, musician and artist Mikey Welsh (Weezer, Homie, Juliana Hatfield, Verbena, Special Goodness) passed away unexpectedly earlier today. Welsh was 40-years-old. 

Social Distortion on Guitar Center Sessions Airing Saturday; Mike Ness Tells All

​Social Distortion perform at Guitar Center Sessions which Nic Harcourt hosts. I've missed that slight British accent! Plus, Mike Ness talks about Social D's 30-plus year career, how he started liking music ("By 7th grade I was listening to Lou Reed's Transformer. (While) most kids are just figur ... More >>

Luong Pham Accused of Gross Negligence In Psychiatric Treatment of Inmates, Surrenders Medical License

​Amid accusations of gross negligence in his medical treatment of six inmates and his admission of inadequate record keeping, an Irvine-based doctor's license was surrendered Tuesday. Dr. Luong Pham, who voluntarily surrendered his license, "lost all rights and privileges as a doctor in Calif ... More >>

Art Alexakis

Coach House

[UPDATED:] Lawrence Joseph Brown: District Attorney and Co. Want Him Committed as 'Sexually Violent Predator' and Locked Away for Good

OCDALawrence Joseph Brown's booking photo​UPDATE, APRIL 11, 3:46 P.M.: The Orange County District Attorney's office continues to work toward keeping convicted child rapist Lawrence Joseph Brown off the streets indefinitely, filing a new petition to have him committed to a mental institution as a s ... More >>

Vince Neil's Domestic Battery Treatment Plan

​ Motley Crue singer Vince Neil was arrested for domestic violence in Las Vegas on Friday after allegedly poking his ex-girlfriend in the arm during an argument. Neil, 50, has vowed to fight the charges in court, which means we will all be treated to hilarious footage of the glam rocker testify ... More >>

Douglas John A. Mackenzie, One Sick Bastard, Deserves Sexually Violent Predator Tag: OCDA

​Douglas John A. Mackenzie met a woman and her 7-year-old son at a local church gathering in the U.K., befriended them and moved in with them. Later, when he wasn't raping the boy, he was convincing the mother to conceive a child in-vitro with his sperm because he wanted to be a father but claimed ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Transient Turns Up the Crazy at Music Store

​UPDATE: Suspect identified, more details throughout . . . Westminster Police braced for a long standoff with a man who barricaded himself inside a Bolsa Avenue music store, but it all ended peacefully in less than hour with an arrest and subsequent mental health evaluation. It all began this morn ... More >>

Dreading the Noise

[Hey, You!] Old woman, no call the cops!

Book Signing with Misty May-Treanor

Barnes and Noble

Jesus Contreras: Prison Nurses Want To Break Off My Penis

Shhhh. He's getting a message from a ghost.​Jesus Contreras is mad.

Report: More 12 Year Olds Huff Than Toke, Snort or Trip

​More kids get high huffing legal substances than by ingesting marijuana, cocaine and hallucinogens combined. So says a recent report from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.The study finds:7 percent of 12 year olds sniff inhalants.By comparison, only 1.4 percent of ... More >>

Orange County DA's Office Seethes Over Sex Offender Being Freed

Courtesy of Orange County District Attorney's OfficeFrederick Davison​The Orange County District Attorney's Office is so upset over the dismissal of a civil suit aimed at keeping a convicted rapist and child molester locked up that it is alerting the community about the 40-year-old's man's release ... More >>

Gettin' Made: And Gettin' Mental, Too

"The Social Life Of Yellow Shoes" by Rachel Hillberg   If you're looking to get your culture on this weekend and Bruno's all sold out, make plans to pay a visit to Grand Central Art Center in downtown Santa Ana. Erase Stigmata, a group art show that takes a look at mental health and the ways ... More >>

Conference Aims to Help Returning War Vets With Mental Issues

The National Alliance on Mental Illness/Orange County's second Veterans Front Line Conference--which sheds light on the "gathering storm" of thousands of U.S. military service personnel returning to the States with depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)--runs from 9 a.m. to noon Saturd ... More >>

Club Pick: Rave the Earth at Heat, Thursday April 23

As bull shit as it sounds, you've got to give a dance club credit for at least THINKING about the relevance of Earth Day. So much so that they dedicate a full-blown rave to the holiday (er, what ever you would consider it). And tomorrow Heat Ultra Lounge is blazing the trail with it's Rave the Earth ... More >>

UCI Research May Ease Cocaine Cravings

UC Irvine pharmacological researchers may have hit on a new way to battle cocaine addiction. Material they shared with Science Daily suggests that blocking a hormone related to hunger regulation can limit coke cravings. A study led by Shinjae Chung and Olivier Civelli zeroed in on how the melanin-co ... More >>

Cover Me Badd

Cover Me Badd

¡Ask a Mexican!®

What's a Latin?

¡Ask a Mexican!®

Alcoholism among Mexicans: A blight as terrible as Carlos Mencia

Dear Diary By Lesley Arfin

Satisfying all your voyeuristic tendencies, Leslie Arfin has published her diary. She’s actually been doing this for a long time, one entry at a time in her Vice column: Dear Diary is a collection of entries starting from sixth grade and going until age 25. After every entry, Arfin does an updat ... More >>

Moonier Sentenced

The ballad of Tamara Anne Moonier has reached its final stanza, prosecution-wise. In February, R. Scott Moxley reported how Moonier alleged that she was kidnapped then gang-raped at gunpoint by six men. Doing so allowed her to claim $1,850 in state victim compensation funds. The men, who faced life ... More >>

Hey, You!

The Look of Love

Jose's Choice

County tells man to leave his wifeor lose his kids

Stay Off My Lawn!

UCI prof turns grouchy, predicts end of civilization, criticizes neighborhood kids

Letters

Not a Product of His Environment

J. Rocc buys everything that says jazz on it

Cruelest Month

Stolen Summer is less than well-served by its mentors

How to Profit From Your Coming Extinction

Making it through 2002

The Most Hated Band in America?

Phobia isnt a patriotic band

Finley Quayle Vanguard (Epic)

Unhealthy incomes

Too many of OCs best-paid executives work for HMOs

The Great Depression

Does the Net really bum you out?