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  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Fruit Flies Back in OC to Bedevil Jerry Brown

    ​The bane of Jerry Brown's first go-round as governor is back.It's a teeny-weeny, eensy-weensy fruit fly. Actually, it's two of them, found in Westminster earlier this month. They join two more trapped in the Anaheim-Yorba Linda area near the end of June and start of July.How can four fruit flies ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County

    Looking back at 2010 on our news blog, one Top 10 List at a time

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Was Dana Rohrabacher Playing Kingmaker in Central America?

    Rohrabacher: exporting his nutty ideas​Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher likes to fancy himself as this country's real secretary of state regardless of who is put in the position by a president. It's a comical stance for a man who who skipped Vietnam War duty, champions U.S. tax ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Dana Rohrabacher Finds New Reason For Fear

    Uncle Slammed: Be very afraid​Orange County's self-proclaimed surfin' congressman who doesn't surf but plops his substantial stomach on a boogie board to ride non-threatening waves has found a new boogeyman for America.Yes, Dana Rohrabacher, the man who once assertively lobbied on behalf of the Ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    "Death in California" Author Signing is Close to Final Chapter's Killing Scene

    ​David Kulczyk (pronounced "coal-check") travels from his home in Sacramento to Laguna Beach Saturday to talk about and sign copies of his new book Death in California: The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State ($15.95 from Linden Publishing). Latitude 33 Bookshop ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2009

    'Slave Hunter' Aaron Cohen Throws the Book at Human Trafficking

    ​David Kulczyk (pronounced "coal-check") travels from his home in Sacramento to Laguna Beach Saturday to talk about and sign copies of his new book Death in California: The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State ($15.95 from Linden Publishing). Latitude 33 Bookshop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    "Slave Hunter" Co-Authors Chime in on Technology, Internet

    CORRECTED VERSION...You'll find separate interviews on this site with Aaron Cohen and Christine Buckley, the co-authors of Slave Hunter: One's Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking (Simon & Schuster). One thing you won't read in those Q&As is their shared beliefs that techn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Scott "Playboy" Flanders Keeps Mum About Freedom

    Scott Flanders, just missing the pipe, robe and Depends.Scott Flanders is the president and CEO of Irvine-based, Orange County Register-owner Freedom Communications until July 1, when he becomes the first non-Hefner CEO of Playboy Enterprises. Folio, a magazine/online network for magazine and e-netw ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 1, 2009

    Comics Best Kept From the Kids: The Year's Best Graphic Books and Novels

    Scott Flanders, just missing the pipe, robe and Depends.Scott Flanders is the president and CEO of Irvine-based, Orange County Register-owner Freedom Communications until July 1, when he becomes the first non-Hefner CEO of Playboy Enterprises. Folio, a magazine/online network for magazine and e-netw ... More >>

  • Music

    April 10, 2008

    [Hits!] Top-Selling Records at Electric Chair, Huntington Beach

    Scott Flanders, just missing the pipe, robe and Depends.Scott Flanders is the president and CEO of Irvine-based, Orange County Register-owner Freedom Communications until July 1, when he becomes the first non-Hefner CEO of Playboy Enterprises. Folio, a magazine/online network for magazine and e-netw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 1-25-08

    RAMBO. I wish I had been watching it last night instead of MEET THE SPARTANS (see review here), but duty called, and my assignment took precedence. I knew what I was getting into. And I also think I know what I'm getting into with RAMBO. I do have a problem with the title. The second Rambo movie w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    VVM top dogs arrested for writing an article—and released

    Village Voice Media execs and New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin (aka the guys who sign our paychecks at OC Weekly, and at LA Weekly) were arrested at their Arizona homes late Thursday night for revealing grand jury information in a story they published earlier in the day, "Breathtaking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2007

    Rohrabacher: Why aren't we causing a revolution in China?

    Last night in a C-SPAN televised speech, Dana Rohrabacher called Chinese government officials “gangsters,” slammed both Bush presidential administrations for failing to challenge China’s human rights abuses and complained that the U.S. Government isn’t working to spur a democratic revolution ... More >>

  • Features

    June 28, 2007

    From Hunter to Hunted

    In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Hero or Heroin?

    Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media

  • Features

    December 28, 2006

    The Year the Superstar DJ Died

    WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Dinosaurs rule the dancefloors no more

  • Music

    April 21, 2005

    Perfect Sound forever

    Everything in the world is Aaron Ximms pop song

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    Pop Off the Tops

    Ten to score in 2004, plus a few more

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Colonial Capitalism

    Ten to score in 2004, plus a few more

  • Features

    July 25, 2002

    The Island of Lost Drinks

    Ten to score in 2004, plus a few more

  • Columns

    May 30, 2002

    Diary of a mad county

    Ten to score in 2004, plus a few more

  • Columns

    November 23, 2000

    Hog Heaven

    Exploding GOP heads, nipples with pasties and people who were mean to me

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    The Phantom Menace

    Are American POWs still being held in Southeast Asia?

  • News

    December 24, 1998

    Season's Beatings

    Visions of sweatshops dance in Disney's head

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