Subject: Mission Viejo

• To Do Tonight 5/27

  Cooking Class: Exceptional Pizza, 6 p.m. Why not cook your own pizza for once? You lazy little... Blackmarket Bakery 17941 Sky Park Circle, Suite E Irvine, CA 92614 949-852-4689 Mic Check Tuesday, 9 p.m. One. Two. The Blue Café 210 N. Promenade Long Beach, CA 90802 562-983-7111 Orange County's Native American Sacred Sites, 7 p.m. Learn how you can help save sacred Native American sites in OC Tapestry 25801 Obrero Dr. #9 Mission Viejo, CA Patrick Henry Democratic Club, 6:30 p.m. Those crazy

  May 27, 2008

• Lance MacLean and the Slums of Mission Viejo

  March 26, 2009

• First Team All-Americans

  When you think of soldiers and especially those killed in action, you generally conclude most came from the poorer parts of town. But with five young servicemen cut down in their primes, Irvine is the Orange County hometown with the most war dead from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's also the fourth best place to live in the country, according to new Money magazine rankings that would have placed Irvine higher were real estate not so expensive there. According to figures compiled by

  July 17, 2008

• Mission Viejo Recall Target Fires Back

  Lance MacLeanMission Viejo Mayor Pro Tem Lance MacLean sent out a press release a little more than an hour ago responding to the recall petition presented to him two Mondays ago. Here is the 200-word statement to voters that he's legally asked to issue:"I have been honored to represent you since 2002 and I am proud of my verifiable accomplishments.  In conjunction with ALL my City of Mission Viejo council colleagues Kelley, Ury, Ledesma and Schlicht, I have delivered on my promise to improv

  February 11, 2009

• Try on a Bra, Fight Breast Cancer

  You--not you, sir--can help fight breast cancer while receiving a complimentary bra fitting at various local locations over the next few weeks.For every woman who tries on a Wacoal or b.tempt'd bra with a fit specialist and signs up to receive monthly reminders to do self-breast exams, Wacoal will donate $2 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for breast cancer research and community health programs. Wacoal will also donate an additional $2 for every Wacoal bra, shapewear piece or b.tempt'd bra purcha

  April 13, 2009

• Lance MacLean Has Learned That Mission Viejo's Political Players Always Go for the Throat

  March 5, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Mission Viejo Rapper Apoetnomadali Explores the Fake and Real OCs

  January 29, 2009

• Do Tell

  August 7, 2008

• Hard Knocks

  October 4, 2007

• Grub Guide

  January 25, 2007

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  September 28, 2006

• Grub Guide

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  August 9, 2007

• Phil Shane Slept Here

  Patsys Mission Viejo pub gives you crabs

  January 25, 2007

• TOMORROW: Local Natives and The Union Line at The Gypsy Lounge

  Okay, I guess we all saw this coming. Local Natives have officially changed their origin to Silver Lake on their Myspace page....sigh, okay guys. Well, hopefully you and the OC can still be friends. For those of you who have followed the harmaonizing echoes, rumbling rhythms and spangly guitar chords of this band since their Mission Viejo days, tomorrow may be one of the slim chances you get to rock out to these guys in South County for a month or so, maybe more. They will be playing The Gypsy L

  April 16, 2009

• Not So Boring

  A brief history of crime in Orange Countys safest city

  November 9, 2006

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  August 16, 2007

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  March 15, 2007

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  November 30, 2006

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  January 5, 2006

• Mission Viejo

  October 20, 2005

• We Are Blessed By God

  May 12, 2005

• We Respond to Register Letters

  November 6, 2003

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  October 24, 2002

• Mission Viejo

  September 27, 2001

• How to Score With Women

  August 9, 2001

• Down These Mean Equestrian Trails

  May 6, 1999

• Sex and the Single Gun

  April 22, 1999

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  September 20, 2007

• Aww, There's a Tea-Bagging Reunion Today

  Spencer Kornhaber / OCWApril 15, 2009. Remember that? Best day of your life, right? Not just because you got to pay taxes, but rather because you got a chance to complain about paying those taxes. The Weekly, at least, had a pretty good time at last month's tax-hating/liberals-bashing Tea Party in Santa Ana. We covered it here, and even made a pretty slideshow of all the crazy signs and costumes! Santa Ana may have been OC's biggest anti-tax bash that day, but there was a slew of other ones too.

  May 18, 2009

• The MacLean Recall: It's On

  Ed Piskor / OC WeeklyMore than a month after Mission Viejo Mayor Pro Tem was presented a letter stating the intention of 51 citizens to have him recalled from office, MacLean's opponents have gotten the go-ahead to begin gathering signatures from the general populace to get the recall on the ballot. Yesterday, Mission Viejo city clerk Karen Hamman finally signed off on the format of the the statement against MacLean, after originally sending it back to recall leader Dale Tyler to have him fix ty

  March 19, 2009

• Creek Trail Boondoggle Demonstrates The Mission Viejo Difference

  Ed Piskor / OC WeeklyAs I just posted: In Dana Point, when you use state and federal grants to fund a $7 million beautification project disguised as congestion relief, you don't have to worry a whole lot about public scrutiny and can expect a crowd of impressed citizens when you complete the project.But in nearby Mission Viejo, if you want to try and use grant money to build some decorative signs, you better be ready for holy hell to be raised at city council meetings and the local blogosphere.W

  May 22, 2009

• KSBR Birthday Bash

  May 21, 2009

• Crime Time: A Weekly Round-Up of OC Police Calls

  The "Clean-Cut Bandit": Coming to a bank near you?MONDAY, JUNE 1Shroomin' in Lagoonan: Laguna Beach Police arrested three people at a La Mirada Street property for alleged possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, heroin, Xanax, Levitra, Alprazolam and "numerous other unknown pills." Steven Christopher Aiello, 27, of Mission Viejo; Joseph Donovan Black, 26, of Laguna Beach; and Cable Jonathan Jansen, 19, of Aliso Viejo, were arrested on suspicion of trespassing and various drug offenses. Upon his

  June 9, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Leads List of OC's July 4 Teabaggers

  Just call him Rev. TeabaggerThe Rev. Wiley Drake, last heard from praying for President Barack Obama's death, leads the list of Orange Countains who have stepped up to lead the "Official Tax Day TEA Party" in their communities on July 4.TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way. Besides the controversial pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, teabaggers and the towns they represent include: Greyson Peltier, Aliso Viejo; Roberto Guererro, also Buena Park; Barbara Smyth, Dana

  June 15, 2009

• His Way

  January 10, 2008

• Teabagging or Partisan Hackery?

  Hey, hey, hey, the beauty of all these anti- (take your pick) -tax, -deficit, -progress tea parties was that they were truly grass-roots, free from the partisan political hackery that many believe in responsible for the country's fiscal woes in the first place. Then what to make of the Saddleback Republican Assembly announcing it "is finalizing plans for Mission Viejo's July 4th TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party"? That sounds about as grass-roots as a monster truck pull.The actual party is expect

  June 30, 2009

• Crime Time: Hey, Mister in the Miniskirt Looking at Porn!

  Very early Tuesday in Tustin. Not the real crime but an amazing facsimile. Once again, it's the Weekly's weekly round-up of Orange County police calls...MONDAY, JUNE 22Breaking Up the Boredom of a Bank Line: Shortly after noon, a man clutching a backpack threatened to blow up the Bank of America branch near Westcliff Drive and Irvine Avenue in Newport Beach, tossed a bag inside and walked away. Employees and customers evacuated the building and the Orange County Sheriff Department's bomb squad k

  June 30, 2009

• "Puppy Store-Free Orange County" Campaign Expands to Brea

  Activists from Best Friends, Orange County People for Animals and Last Chance for Animals have stood outside pet stores in Los Angeles, Thousands Oaks and Mission Viejo "educating: shoppers and convincing them to adopt and not buy puppies. Now, the so-called "Puppy Store-Free Orange County" campaign is moving into Brea as well. An OCPA email blast says the Barkworks store in Brea Mall can now expect activists outside. Best Friends already has a regular presence at the Barkworks at the Westside P

  July 1, 2009

• [Hole in the Wall] Chilly Salvation at Sno On the Go in Mission Viejo

  August 6, 2009

• Club Pick: Tuesdays at The Derby

  ​Hey! I'm OC Weekly's new clubs editor! You may remember me as the guy who hung out with that one birther lady, but forget about that. I'm here for the drinks now.Thus far, this job has pretty much consisted of me revisiting the places I went during childhood, but getting drunk at them. Yeah, I grew up in south OC. I didn't imbibe until I was 18, and that was at far-away college land. I didn't "club" in OC till... a week ago? Something like that.So I'll occasionally be blogging about my post-g

  August 17, 2009

• Prepare For The Untold Disasters In South County's Future

  The St. Regis adopts policy banning bailed-out banker parties: Are you ready for this South County disaster?​Do your best to imagine the following:The year is 2010. I Love Bagels has run out of shmear. Golden Spoon only offers gummy bears as topping. Lauren Conrad L.A. Candy has fallen off of the Amazon Top 1000 list. Dana Point Harbor no longer smells like cigarettes, fish and ice cream. The roots have begun to show in Diane Harkey's bang highlights. Laguna Beach High School has switched its

  October 16, 2009

• Restaurant Closures During September--More Than In Previous Months

  ​Following a period in which the number of closures was down, they've now increased again. September saw five OC places shut up shop for good. They were:Wienerschnitzel, Mission ViejoJaponaise Bakery, Tustin (for Edwin's full report, CLICK HERE)Contodo Mexican Grill, OrangeVessia Ristorante, IrvineYum Yum Donuts, Costa Mesa

  October 1, 2009

• Sleepy South-County Towns Make US News's List Of Political Junky Zones

  Ed Piskor / OC Weekly​A proponent of the Lance MacLean recall (blogged about earlier today) just tipped me off to a list in published in US News and World Report last week: "10 Cities for Political Junkies." Orange County towns comprise one-fifth of the cities on the list, which seeks to document "where those obsessed with political affairs live." You might assume Santa Ana, with its GOP-run county seat hemmed in by liberal-leaning ethnic communities and activist groups, would make the cut. Di

  September 28, 2009

• Recall Of Mission Viejo's MacLean Heads To Ballot

  ​Late Friday afternoon, the Orange County Registrar of Voters announced it had certified the signatures gathered by Mission Viejo city activists seeking to recall Mayor Pro Tem Lance MacLean. It's a big step for the recall movement, which gathered nearly 14,000 signatures -- though they only needed 9,393 registered Mission Viejo voters to agree to a recall. The city council will ultimately set the date for the recall election, which could be held as early as January 2010.Have no idea what

  September 28, 2009

• Updated: DUI Crackdown In OC's Three Biggest Party Towns Tonight

  ​Watch out, sinning citizens of OC's sinningest towns. The OC Sheriff's Department will be on the streets tonight looking for drunk drivers as part of a federal anti-DUI program that targets "areas that have a high incidence of DUI related arrests and collisions."So, naturally, they're headed for the county's three biggest party zones: Lake Forest, Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Magarita.That's right. Those of you drinking Patron with your pies at Cocos off Crown Valley, beware. Think twice be

  October 16, 2009

• Expect a Big Crowd at Thursday's OC Microsoft Store Opening

  ​The Microsoft mall gods have blessed the Shops at Mission Viejo with the honor of being home to the second ever Microsoft retail story in the world. Why Mission Viejo? We're betting they want to staff the store with Nadadores, but who really knows.The store opens Thursday. The Mission Viejo Dispatch previews: A large white curtain should drop at 10 am to permit entrance and to expose of the large digital video wall... The first 1,000 people are expected to receiv

  October 26, 2009

• Mission Viejo Recall Proponent Becomes Candidate

  ​Dale Tyler, the man who was signatory number one of 52 on the initial letter announcing the recall of Mission Viejo Mayor Pro Tem Lance MacLean, has moved to be the first candidate in the race to potentially replace embattled councilman.No other candidates have yet pulled papers with the City of Mission Viejo, though if they do you'll be able to see it here.The election will be on Feb. 2, 2010. On the ballot will be two questions. One will ask whether MacLean should be recalled; the second wi

  October 28, 2009

• Finky Gets to the Bottom of the Stinky in Mission Viejo

  ​"I can't believe there hasn't been any stories in regards to the foul odor that is covering Mission Viejo, CA like an airborne bacteria," writes a reader named Cori. "(Well . . . actually, in this Prozac laden city of Stepford, I'm surprised when anyone notices anything outside the 'norm.') The only information I've found about it is from a local blogger."The local blogger would be Finky the Kid, who writes (the bold emphasis being his): "Mission Viejo, CA stinks. I mean, it reeks to high hea

  November 2, 2009