Mood Disorders

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 >>

'Side Effects' May Induce Queasy Pleasure

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

[UPDATED with Insanity Plea:] A Tale of Two Sonias: One Mom Welcomes OC's 1st Baby of 2013, Other Allegedly Murdered Boy

See the update at the end of this post on Sonia Hermosillo's insanity plea today.ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 2, 9:38 A.M.: Two Orange County mothers named Sonia enter 2013 in very different places. At 12:03 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, at Western Medical Center Anaheim, Sonia Gonzalez delivered Pamela Cristal Belt ... More >>

Lisa Becker Has Patience for the Patients

The bipolar activist wants to cure OC's problem with the homeless who are mentally ill

The Outlook Is Mostly Cloudy in 'Silver Linings Playbook'

Looking for David O. Russell

[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 >>

Anthony Nicholas Orban, Rapist Cop, Has Juror Misconduct Allegation Delay His Sentencing

Irvine resident Anthony Nicholas Orban struck out when he tried to argue he was insane and therefore not guilty of brutally raping a waitress, with a jury in Rancho Cucamonga convicting the former Westminster police detective and combat Marine in June.But Orban may have been spared a life sentence t ... More >>

Muffin Spencer-Devlin Is the Best Lesbian, Manic-Depressive, Glass-Blowing Golfer of Them All

The Laguna Beach resident made history when she came out while on the LPGA Tour. That was the easy part

When a Mentally Ill Child Becomes a Mentally Ill Adult

OC parents find they are out of care options unless Laura's Law is adopted

[UPDATED with Woman Reunited with Family:] Erika Lopez is Missing and Off Her Meds

​UPDATE, SEPT. 19, 6:08 P.M.: The Newport Beach-by-way-of-Boston woman who had been missing since Aug. 23 was found Monday in Irvine and reunited with her frantic family. Many feared the worst because Erika Lopez was alone, homeless, without a car and off her medication for schizophrenia and bipol ... More >>

Listening To Music All Day Linked To Depression: Here's Five Songs to Get Your Mope On

Jezebel yesterday published a story saying kids who listen to music are most likely to be depressed, while kids who read books were least likely. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studied 106 teens, 46 of whom were clinically depressed, over five weekends, and surveyed ... More >>

Menopause the Musical

Center Theater

Jesus Hates Me

South Coast Repertory

The Cribs

The Glass House

It's a Wonderful Life

Lido Theater

It's a Wonderful Life

Bay Theater

Candy Kush Machines

The future is now; the future is Marijuana Vending Machines. Technically termed PVMs, or Prescription Vending Machines, and now available at Herbal Nutrition Center in LA, the similarity between these and candy or soda machines ends at the name. They're installed behind secure dispensary doors, only ... 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 >>

Drugs Did Danny

Smith: Sad (AP) Hot off the Associated Press: Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a U.S.-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said Wednesday. Toxicology tests showed Daniel Smith had methadone, Zoloft and Lexap ... More >>

Hey, You!

The Look of Love

The History of O

Jonathan Margolis Observes the Orgasm

Diary of a Mad County

Cruelest Month

Stolen Summer is less than well-served by its mentors

How to Profit From Your Coming Extinction

Making it through 2002

Buck Up

Notes from the West Coast Puke-Haters Convention

Time Crawls When Youre Miserable

Can we make life seem like its taking forever?

Unhealthy incomes

Too many of OCs best-paid executives work for HMOs

The Great Depression

Does the Net really bum you out?