Mike Harris

Notes, Quotes and Observations from Last Night's "Mad Meat Men" Bird Finale at Picnics in Costa Mesa

With apologies to the dearly missed former Orange County Register sports columnist Randy Youngman, notes, quotes, and observations from last night's game fowl extravaganza at Picnics Kitchen in Costa Mesa hosted by the Mad Meat Men.*Fucking Dave, I swear: fucking mensch! Unlike me, he's not a shamel ... More >>

Mad Meat Men: Come Eat Our (Boar) Meat

Occasionally, and as a direct result of an OSHA investigation, the management of this blog unchains me and gives me a few hours of liberty; I like to spend it with a group of carnivores known as the Mad Meat Men.A little while back, eight of us went in on an entire boar from Da-Le Ranch in Lake Elsi ... More >>

Anaïs Raya: Farmers Markets Produce, Weekly Feasts, and Culinary Education

People ask food critics such unimaginative questions. What's your favorite restaurant? Where should I eat? Do you really eat everything you write about?Every food critic I know secretly wants home cooking. They want to go to a place and not have to be anonymous or photograph the food; they want simp ... More >>

Diatribe With Dave: Pop Up Restaurants Are The Flavor Of The Month In The OC Food Scene

Dave MauBy Dave Mau As the culinary world turns, so do the fads and foibles that inhabit restaurant culture. Food truck mania (except for some standouts) is slowly fading into the past, joining others like taco Tuesday, gastro pubs and overly-gourmand street tacos in realm of passé food OC concepts ... More >>

Diocese of Orange Settles Another Michael Harris Pedo-Priest Case, This One for $2 Million

Just got word from John Manly, the badass attorney who has for the past decade exposed the Catholic Diocese of Orange for the pedo-protection racket that it is, that the trial he was all ready to start on today involving the notorious Michael Harris ain't going to trial anymore. That's because repre ... More >>

Tom Fuentes Is Burning in Hell

And other recent revelations from the world of pedophile-priest protectors in the Diocese of Orange

Tom Fuentes' Funeral a Parade of Pedophile Protectors and Apologists

We at the Weekly had enough respect for former GOP chairman Tom Fuentes to not invade his funeral yesterday and cause a scene--but we're beholden to the truth, so damn straight we're going to blast his funeral for the parade of pedophile apologists and protectors that it was.The main attraction, of ... More >>

SLAPFISH: Brick and Mortar Preview

"We want to change the way people think about and choose their seafood" says SLAPFISH co-owners Andrew Gruel and Jethro Naude. "The idea is to get people to eat more seafood, but the right types of seafood, because sustainable tastes better."When we interviewed Andrew for On the Line last summer, we ... More >>

Another Civil Lawsuit Filed Against Diocese of Orange and Pedo-Priest it Protected, Denis Lyons

​Not even a week after Denis Lyons pleaded guilty to being a child molester, another civil lawsuit has been filed against him and his longtime protector, the Catholic Diocese of Orange.The lawsuit was actually introduced into Orange County Superior Court in September but was just delivered to Lyon ... More >>

Detroit Bar Owner Jon Reiser Shares A Secret

Danielle Bacher​Even if you don't know him by name, you've probably attended at least one show at a Jon Reiser venue in the past decade. He owns Detroit Bar with Dan Bradley, Diego Velasco, David Hastie, Mike Harris and Scott Hamilton (who also own all Memphis Restaurants and Tin Lizzie Salo ... More >>

Bishop Tod Brown Involved in Another Sex-Abuse Scandal He Never Bothered to Disclose

Brown: Rocking that lavendar!​My gawd, was there ever a time when Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown wasn't a lying, conniving, pervert-protecting coward? Over the weekend, the Idaho Statesman revealed that the Diocese of Boise (headed by Bishop Michael Driscoll, who ranks second only to John U ... More >>

The Myth that Norman McFarland was a Financial Genius

McFarland: About as efficient with money as a poor person who just won the lottery...​Now that the body of former Diocese of Orange Bishop Norman McFarland is cold and in dead in the ground, let's piss on his grave--specifically, the lie passed off as fact by the mainstream media that McFarland wa ... More >>

Satan Calls Former OC Bishop Norman McFarland Back Home

McFarland: Now finding lodging in the Ninth Circle...​Longtime Diocese of Orange Bishop Norman McFarland died yesterday, and more than a few people rejoiced because of his role in creating the see's sex-abuse scandal. McFarland wasn't as clumsy as current Bishop Tod D. Brown, as clueless as foundi ... More >>

Mater Dei Assistant Principal Becomes Head of OC Catholic Schools--No Pedo-Surprise There!

Dhuyvetter: What did he know about Mater Dei's many pedophiles?​Apologies for sounding like a broken record, but nothing at the Diocese of Orange has changed in regards to its sex-abuse scandal. Bishop Tod D. Brown has just appointed a longtime Mater Dei High administrator to serve as the superint ... More >>

Since When did the OC Register Take Writing Lessons from the Diocese of Orange?

Bishop Brown: Does he take his lattes extra-frothy?​Ever since the Catholic Diocese of Orange has employed boy-diddlers and girl-rapists, the official party line has always been this, a party line swallowed whole by its apologists: when it came to teenagers molested by its employees, it wasn't rap ... More >>

Tod Brown Allowed Funeral of Pervert Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann at Holy Family Cathedral

Ziemann: Inflicted Hell, now receiving it...​Sorry we're late to the party, but G. Patrick Ziemann--a teacher at Mater Dei during the early 1970s who went on to become an auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles and head bishop at the Diocese of Santa Rosa before resigning in disgrace for screwing up its f ... More >>

Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case

Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, form ... More >>

Why Does Dana Point's St. Edward the Confessor Church Continue to Honor A Teen Rapist?

Leninan second from right, in a picture Brown would eventually StalinizePoor St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Dana Point. They have the inglorious Diocese of Orange record of having hosted the most pedo-priests (five) in its history. Just recently, Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown settled anoth ... More >>

John Urell Shown To Be Even More of an Asshole to Sex-Abuse Victims than First Thought

Urell at the moment he went cuckooIn 1986, after the death of founding Diocese of Orange Bishop William Johnson, a young John Urell penned a moving tribute in the Los Angeles Times to the man whom set the diocese on its proud pedo-priest-protecting path. Urell--then the secretary to Johnson, now pas ... More >>

How William Lobdell Lost His Faith in Orange County

Cirilo Flores Rarely Pursued Discipline of Molesting Priests While Serving on Important Church Board

John Manly Writes to John Moorlach Regarding Pedo-Apologist Baird

Perhaps no one* has more moral weight in the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal than Newport Beach lawyer John Manly, of Manly & Stewart. It's because of Manly's law offices that so many victims have found justice through civil courts, that the public knows about the pedo-protecting ways of Ora ... More >>

Board of Supes Invite Pedo-Priest Apologist To Give Invocation This Monday**

What is it with the Orange County Board of Supervisors and their love of pedophile apologists? In 2006, Third District Supe Bill Campbell tried placing Monsignor John Urell, the right-hand man of Diocese of Orange bishops for a good decade of their sex-abuse scandal, on the county's human relations ... More >>

Go Welcome John Urell at His New Parish This Sunday

The last time we heard from Monsignor John Urell, he was busy having a nervous breakdown for his role in the rapes of innocents in the Diocese of Orange. Shortly after returning from six months of therapy in Canada, Urell announced to parishioners at St. Norbert in Orange that he was leaving to beco ... More >>

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 >>

Spot the Pedophilia in YouTube Mater Dei Video!

You know those quizzes where folks post the same photo except with tweaks (different-striped tie, etc.)? This isn't one of those--no this is better! Start with viewing this 1987 Mater Dei promotional video: Now, list the different associations with Mater Dei pedophiles! Answers after the jump!

Joelle Casteix Fights for Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Victims While Pursuing Her Own Abuser

Diocesan Lawyers All of a Sudden Uppity

For decades, the Catholic Diocese of Orange has dealt with survivors of its pedo-priests in secrecy--sealed settlements, claimed ignorance, and always, always, away from a jury. In none of the civil settlements that the Orange diocese signed off on were there any admission of guilt by the priest or ... More >>

Bad Moves

The bishop broke his covenant. The former chancellor broke down. But the truth about the Diocese of Orange's sex-abuse scandal is emerging in court anyway

Hardwood Babylon

A decade later, Mater Dei High Schools still protecting a coach accused of sleeping with students

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

King of the County Pedophiles

The life, death and final escape of Eleuterio Ramos

Gracious

Your DA declines to prosecute his friends

Letters

Northern Exposure

By trashing Spitzer, Register protects GOP, Catholic Church

Personnel Bile No. 5: The List

The List

Loftus' Luster Lost

Controversial professor is latest UCI employee associated with pedo-priests

Boy-Buggering Bingo!

10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

Deposition Men

They arent priests, but these four are sure to get deposed in Orange Dioceses boy-buggering trials

Catholic Confessional Confidential

Church correspondence reveals alleged molestation by visiting bishop

Letters

The Army of God

How a monk, an altar boy, and a sex-abuse victim joined forces to battle their common enemy: the Catholic Church

Slammer Time!

Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case

Slammer Time!

Huntington Beach councilwoman faces federal case

All Aboard the Pedo-Train!

New evidence reveals former OC Bishop Norman McFarland knew more about the pedophilic priests roaming county parishes than he ever admitted

Let Us Prey

Despite recent conviction, critics say the DA goes easy on child-molesting priests

Television Killed the Catholic Star

Given the chance to come clean on sex abuse, Bishop Brown chokesagain

Letters

The Bawdy of Christ

Is St. Josephs Christ mural symbolic of Diocesan pedophilia problems?