Subject: Moscow

• The Great Wallenberg of Fullerton

  December 14, 2000

• Finally a Blow Sheriff Carona isn't Enjoying

  According to the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs website tonight, incumbent Sheriff Mike Carona has received a major vote of no confidence in his leadership after eight, scandal-ridden years in office. The group reports that Carona received just 44 percent of the vote of men/women in his own department while Bill Hunt captured 48.2 percent. Ralph Martin grabbed 7.4 percent. More than 55 percent of these law enforcement officers who know Carona well do not want him to stay in offic

  March 29, 2006

• Is It Over Already?

  Overseas observers say we were sunk before we started: longtime political snipers at Moscow's eXile predict Republicans going two for two not so much because of fraud but because America gets the government it deserves, or deserves the government it gets, or both. Says editor Mark Ames: What makes us so confident? Dr. Johnson once wrote that "a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." The same is true when you watch a fourth election in which observers believe that the American p

  November 7, 2006

• All's Fair in Love and OC

  When it's the opening day of the Orange County Fair, you have plenty of time in traffic — an hour, in fact, just to get from Santa Ana to the fairgrounds — to realize just how poorly the 55 is designed. Immediately after some major road feeds into it, forcing a mass slowing as a new torrent of cars merges inward, yet another major road feeds into it, and just as soon as that's integrated, another still. Even when the freeway's just about to end, there are still major roads feeding in, and if

  July 16, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Poor Mike Carona

  OC's Embarrassing Buford T. Justice: Law-enforcement helicopters and ground crews normally — blatantly — tail me. You should have seen them after I revealed that local cops had planted a handgun on a DUI suspect, after I wrote about a cop who ejaculated on a female motorist in Laguna Beach, and when I published photos of Sheriff Mike Carona warmly embracing a female Russian, uh, “interpreter” in his Moscow hotel room. Anyway, the cop harassment has increased recently, and I'd wondered w

  July 17, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

  'Biggest racist ever' back on Anaheim school board: Last week, the Anaheim Union School District appointed Harald Martin to an open board seat created by the death of Denise Mansfield-Reinking. I managed to obtain the board's top-secret qualifications checklist for Martin: Racist, check. Uneducated cop mentality, check. Nincompoop, check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Of course, I'm kidding. Nothing was top secret. We all know about Martin's history during his previous board service.

  July 22, 2007

• Sam Zell's gonna cut you, man

  Joseph Pulitzer, famed newspaper magnate and founder of the Pulitzer Prize once said, "Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together." Sam Zell, billionaire and CEO of the Los Angeles Times parent Tribune Co. once said, "Everyone likes pussy. It’s un-American not to like pussy." With such an eloquent man at the helm of the Southland's flagship newspaper, there's little doubt that our press, along with our Republic, are once again on the rise. That is, as long as we're not talking abou

  February 26, 2008

• Live Review: Let's Be Friends at The Vault 350 on 03/01

  Review by Jeff Phifer. Photos by Fever Dragon. First there was the Rock and Roll Circus (Cirque du Rock and Roll), then there was the Circus of the Sun (Cirque du Soleil) and now there is the Circus of the Moon (Cirque du Lune) a.k.a. “Lets Be Friends” at The Vault 350. The bands on the bill were local and well used to playing in small, darkly lit dive bar venues. Yet on Saturday they planted their sneakers on a stage fit for The Wailers, Boz Scags, Chris Isaac and Death by Stereo. Perfo

  March 3, 2008

• So Live: David J Spins at Detroit Bar Tonight

  Bauhaus/Love and Rockets bassist/vocalist David J will be DJing tonight at Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar for the LaBoiteFunk Dance Party. “I shall be spinning a deep lounge concoction of electronic Latin Jazz tinged grooves / dub & more,” David J said, when contacted via MySpace. Also, FYI: I've heard rumors to the effect that anyone requesting "Bela Lugosi's Dead” will be thrown into a vat full of guano. Also on the bill: Them Jeans of Dim Mak Tuesdays at Cinespace, Colossal KNXN, Keith 2.0

  May 9, 2008

• The Ho Story

  February 25, 1999

• The Virtual New Year

  December 30, 1999

• Tuva or Bust!

  March 15, 2001

• The OC Weekly Book Of Food Lists!

  July 24, 2003

• This Hole-in-the-Wall County

  Orange Countys 74 Greatest Holes-in-the-Wall

  July 15, 2004

• Can Joe The Juror Help Mike Carona in Corruption Trial?

  Brian Sun, the Los Angles-based lawyer representing indicted ex-Orange County sheriff Mike Carona, emerged from U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford's Santa Ana courtroom this afternoon all smiles. Minutes before, Sun and federal prosecutor Ken Julian had selected a panel of 12 citizens to hear USA vs. Carona. "It's ironic . . . ," Sun began to say enthusiastically to gathered Jones Day lemmings. But he spied me nearby, holding a pen on notepad. He hushed his voice and continued his asses

  October 28, 2008

• To Do This Weekend 1/16-1/18

  Dirty Little Secrets Burlesque Troop, Friday, 9 p.m.Almost nude dancing gals, what could be better?The Pike Bar & Grill,1836 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, CA; 562-437-4453 Change is Now Exhibit, Saturday, 7 p.m.A collective group of artists will be collaborating live on a mural, inspired by the change Barack Obama has initiated.The Light Gallery, 440 E.17th St., Costa Mesa, CA; (949) 515-2018Gregory Popovich's Comedy Pet Theatre, Saturday and Sunday 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.Gregory P

  January 16, 2009

• [Summer Guide] Notable Music Releases for Those Who Still Buy Albums

  June 4, 2009

• Big Top Fifi

  January 15, 2009

• Raising Standards

  October 16, 2008

• They Got the Sheriff

  OC Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s reign has been equal parts tragedy and comedy. With his indictment, it enters its final act.

  November 1, 2007

• Standard Bearer

  On the eve of Doubt, Linda Gehringer riffs on her SCR acting resume

  October 25, 2007

• The Arts and Other Highfalutin' Stuff

  Actors, troubadours, campfire singers, cowboy poets & purty pictures (Please don’t  shoot the piano player!)
  

  September 20, 2007

• Moscow Deli

  May 13, 2004

• A Star is Bourne (Again)

  Amnesiac-spy trilogy culminates in a thrilling Ultimatum

  August 2, 2007

• The Little Girls Understand

  Change is afoot at Ballet Pacifica Academy

  August 18, 2005

• Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

  Mapping todays kiddie-movie landscape

  May 18, 2006

• More Festival Reviews . . .

  What's playing at the Newport Beach Film Fest

  April 19, 2007

• Your Effing Country

  Chili cheese fries eating competition

  February 15, 2007

• The Forerunners of Commie Girl

  October 12, 2006

• Someone Needs New Underwear

  May 4, 2006

• Grub Guide

  April 13, 2006

• Head-Turning

  Catching up with the guy who made the scariest movie everand then did opera

  March 16, 2006

• This Week in Russkie Fangs

  February 23, 2006

• Grub Guide

  February 16, 2006

• And the winners are ...

  March 24, 2005

• Wet Hankie

  March 17, 2005

• Grass Skirts Optional

  March 10, 2005

• From Russia with Lovers

  February 10, 2005

• This Week in Soup

  November 4, 2004

• Love and War

  October 7, 2004

• Letters

  August 5, 2004

• Thats Our Bush!

  September 11, 2003

• Life In the Airport Lounge

  March 13, 2003

• Reality Check

  September 26, 2002

• Trawling for Tinis

  July 25, 2002

• Choir Masters

  October 18, 2001

• In a Lonely Place

  December 28, 2000

• It Lives!

  October 12, 2000

• Head of State

  April 29, 1999

• The Tatum Chronicles

  April 2, 1998