Montana

This 'Leviathan' Has Sea Legs

Steel yourself for a watery knockout

Reggie Watts' Humor Might Hurt Your Head

When it comes to the humor this beatboxing madman, it's best to not overthink it

Forget Medical: Colorado Legalizes Recreational Weed

If there's anything that Californians have learned in the 16 years since voters passed Proposition 215, it's this: medical marijuana is a mess. On the one hand, marijuana has gotten a lot easier to come by over the years. What used to be only available on the street or in a few scattered dispensarie ... More >>

[UPDATED with More Delegates Join Revolt:] Is a GOP Goon Squad Intimidating Ron Paul Delegates into Voting Romney at Convention?

See update at end of this post about 40 more national convention delegates seeking to join the 123 who have filed suit and "hundreds more" possibly ready to do the same. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 13, 12:39 P.M.: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is using violence, intimidation and ballot stuffing t ... More >>

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

[Crossing the Line] New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall

UPDATED with Capture: Federal Judge David O. Carter Orders Posse to Find Fugitive Brad Keith Lee

​UPDATE: Acting on the orders of a pissed off federal judge in Orange County, law enforcement officials this month arrested Brad Keith Lee in Washington state for probation violations; now he'll face the unhappy judge at a future date.ORIGINAL POST: 3/7/2012: David O. Carter is undoubtedly Orange ... More >>

Gregory Alan Isakov Says Horticulture is a Lot Like Songwriting

 ​Gregory Alan Isakov is a singer-songwriter from Colorado who puts together delicate melodies that are also--at the same time!--lushly layered and well thought out. "I probably listen to too much Leonard Cohen," Isakov says over the phone from Colorado while trying to sort out his influences ... More >>

Rand Study On Medical Pot Among Year's Worst, Scientific American Says

​Remember that Rand Corporation study from earlier this year that claimed crime actually increased in L.A. neighborhoods where cops closed medical marijuana dispensaries? The one that forgot to include crime statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Police Department?? The one that Rand had to retrac ... More >>

Scientists Say Kiss Goodbye to America's Trout Population Due to Global Warming

Flickr user Fishking_1​I've never had the pleasure of participating in trout fishing, but oh, that fish: on a cedar plank, smoked, as jerky, the turkey of America's fishes.Well, folks, you better enjoy them while you can, especially you fishers: scientists have just published a study showing that ... More >>

Greg MacGillivray, Local Filmmaker, Honored with Wildlife Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award

Greg MacGillivray​Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman founded MacGillivray Freeman Films in the mid-1960s, and the Laguna Beach-based company has been making large-format films, documentaries on the natural world mostly, ever since.Freeman was tragically killed in a Sierra Nevada helicopter crash in ... More >>

Remembering a Buddy at Buddy Blue Festival V

Photo by Tim Ames/BuddyBlue.netBuddy Blue strikes a chord at Pete's Place.​My, how time flies when you're missing your buddy. Bernard "Buddy" Seigal was a former OC Weekly music editor, a connoisseur of subversive comics, disturbing porn and bottomless whiskey shots, and, under the stage name "Bud ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Senate Kills Immigration Bill Comment by BLUECITRUS: Let's clean this country up! Is this still the United States?Comment by DJMUNOZ: Fleas on your dog, oops I mean Feliz Navidad.Comment by FCPROP: This just proves the fact that we are shooting are self in the foot for generations if we ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

​News highlights include:They've fallen and we can't get upGet paid about three times the normal rate for a city government job. Move into a taxpayer subsidized apartment. The catch? Well, you've got to vote to keep the city's incumbent politicians in power, reports the Los Angeles Times on the la ... More >>

Are OC Republicans Lying or Businessmen Stupid for Leaving Country's Most Popular State?

​The kind of Orange County Republicans who would launch a recall of a Southern California politician from their own party tell you higher taxes are driving businesses out of California. They'll compare Cali's various tax rates with a backwater state like Nevada, or send their pupp ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

​What better food crime story is there than a car crashing through a fast-food chain? This one happened in--of all places--Billings, Montana. Who knew there was Taco Bell in Billings, or cars in Montana?A four-door Dodge crashed through the main doors of the Central Avenue Taco Bell Friday evening ... More >>

Navel Gazing: The Avis of Journalistic Blogs in the West

Dear readers, prepare to withstand some navel gazing about Navel Gazing, the OC Weekly staff news blog: It has won second-place honors from Best of the West, which was founded in 1987 to promote freedom of information and reward journalistic excellence, mainly through its contest for newspapers and ... More >>

Gary Quite Contrary

As the video from June 26 reveals, Gary Rapport is ultra sincere as he tells a business group how important entrepreneurism is to the future of Wood River Valley, Idaho. But the newly hired Ketchum Community Development Corporation executive director abruptly resigned his post on July 8. And now the ... More >>

Robert Schuller to Bury Evel Knievel

For another reason why this paper has been historically softer on the Reverend Robert Schuller than on Orange County's other wacky Christians (though read this article for proof we're not that soft), look no further than the announcement that Schuller will preside over Evel Knievel's funeral in Mont ... More >>

These Boots Are Made for Kickin' Ass

Gore Gore Girls’ High-Maintenance Garage Rock Is Worth the Effort

Letters

Allow me to write a similar column to !Ask a Mexican! called Ask an American, and lets see which column people like more

Letters

'If you dont like him, dont listen to him, you fuckin moron'

Shifting Gears

Brian Malesardi, The Gear Trader

Highly Evolved

One day, Laurie Hassolds creatures will rule the Earth

Prop 90: Enriching the Rich, Making Us Their Bitch

Congressman John Campbell (R-Irvine Company) has signed on to support Proposition 90, the Taxpayer Trap Initiative (or Save our Homes, if you're gullible). This is no surprise; back in September 2005, Prop 90's main backers poured $120,000 into Campbell for Congress, the campaign committee formed to ... More >>

Get Out!

June 1 - June 8: Skulls and Whiskey

Good Timing, Bad Air

The Orange County Register reports this morning that the Irvine-based Beckman Foundation has donated $20 million to the City of Hope in Duarte, to help finance cancer research. The Foundation has an excellent sense of timing– because, as every other newspaper in the state is reporting this mor ... More >>

Out to Pasture

Wim Wenders flaccid Western reverie

Dirty Sweets

The seedy side of Found magazine

The Tragedy of It All

Orange Countys own Hurricane Katrina: the Great Flood of 1938

Silver Lining

Macarthur, The Market And Mary Reilly

Its Snot Unusual

Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction

Pussies Galore!

What local candidates dont want voters to know

Alien Cover-Up Scores Victory

KFI replaces space junkie Noory with yet another right-wing wacko

Winged Migration

Angels in the architecture

Remembering a Fallen Friend With an Angels Voice

Stereolab vocalist/guitarist Mary Hansen, 1966-2002

Straight-Up Realism

Maile Meloys stubborn insistence on story

No Escape

A night of illegal camping

Deadly Quiet, Noisy Death

Killing time in the Badlands

Dickless Farmers?

Buddy vs. Buddy on the Beat Farmers Reunion

Damn Dirty Remakes

Summer flicks 2001

Decongestant!

Back the Fuck Off!

Shut That Bitch Up!

'Noise and Chaos'

Relish on the road with Warped

Three-Hour Tour

A Sams Seafood Escape

Movers and Shakers

FRIEZE FRAME

Re-creating the Masters

Summertime

Santora slumbers in the sun

Letters

ITEOTWAWKI Strikes Again

Don't move to Montana yet!