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  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Orange County "Wealth Coach" Sentenced To Federal Prison For Running $25 Million Scam

    Thanks in part to licenses to practice law and mortgage brokering in California, Gerald Lawrence Wolfe once boasted that he and his wife enjoyed monthly income that topped $150,000.Wolfe, 42, bragged so much about his financial acumen that he confidently presented himself as a "Wealth Coach" with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Anthony Bourdain To Collaborate With Olive Garden Reviewer

    Bourdain. Bourdain. Bourdain. The Travel Channel host, ex-chef and author people seem to like to label a "bad boy" and "foul-mouthed" has been everywhere these past couple of days. He was on The Daily Show last week plugging the new season of No Reservations, but he's also been revealing a lot in in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Mysteries of Fullerton: Tony Bushala and the Schumacher Building

    ​It was sometime in the mid 1980s, when the family of local blogger (and scourge of three-fifths of Fullerton's city council) Tony Bushala acquired a unique piece of property near the Fullerton train station. A 375-square-foot building at the rear of the lot was used by the previous owners as a ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    'Anonymous' Hack Emails of American Third Position Party, Show Proof of Meetings and Calls Between Neo-Nazi Group and Ron Paul

    ​The Orange County-based white supremacist American Third Position Party finds itself in the headlines again as Anonymous defaced its website yesterday, with the flag of the Soviet Union serving as backdrop with superimposed images of the seal of the amorphous hackers and a rainbow-maned pony! The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Gary Samuel Cochran, Who Filmed Video of 8-year-old Girl Having Sex, Gets 26 Years

    ​Gary Samuel Cochran, a registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, was sentenced Monday to 26 years in federal prison. The 53-year-old had agreed in September to a plea deal after federal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Five Great Minnesota Versions of Hotdish (a.k.a. Casserole)

    ​As winter approaches, with its occasional rain and frigid mid-50s-high temperatures, people break out the sweaters, boots and think about hot, stick-to-your-ribs food. In the winter, a lot of baking happens and a lot of lasagne, but when it's chilly out, I think of the time I spent in Minnesota a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Arnold Palmer Approves Alcoholic Version of Arnold Palmer Drink--Arnold Palmer HARD

    ​It's my chica who enjoys Arnold Palmers, the mixture of half-lemonade, half-iced tea that's the favorite of bland types everywhere looking to spice up their lives. It's me who likes Arnold Palmer, the legendary golfer who brought golf to the masses. And now we can enjoy Arnold Palmer as one, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Gary Samuel Cochran, Child Porn Convict Swept Up in Peer-to-Peer Network Probe, Cuts Deal with Feds

    ​Gary Samuel Cochran, a 53-year-old registered sex offender who was among 55 men nabbed after a multi-agency probe into child pornography exchanged via peer-to-peer networks like Limewire, agreed Thursday to plea guilty to making kiddie porn, federal prosecutors say.How kiddie? A search of Cochr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    University of Washington Conducts Expensive Study, Discovers Junk Food Is Cheaper Than Healthy Food

    ​A paper recently published in the Health Affairs professional journal suggests that eating healthy foods costs more than eating unhealthy foods.Gee, thanks, Captain Obvious!The paper, by Pablo Monsivais, Anju Aggarwal and Adam Drewnowski of the University of Washington and based on a survey of 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2011

    Five Ways To Tell Which Dave Lieberman Is Which

    Food NetworkDid you know there are two food people named Dave Lieberman? Only one looks like this... and it's not me.​There's been somewhat of a rash of people lately asking me what happened in my career that I'm suddenly writing here. I was confused the first time or two, until I realized they th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Initiative Would Raise Alcohol Taxes Up to 12775%

    One of the great pleasures of living in California is that, comparatively speaking, our alcohol laws and fees are not draconian. We don't have blue laws, liquor can be sold in normal supermarkets, and there are precious few moratoria on liquor licenses here in the Golden State. Alcohol is freely ava ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    From Scrooge McDuck to Ebenezer Scrooge for Chuck DeVore

    Photo by John GilhooleyAs California burns, DeVore tweets.Perhaps you missed it in our recent flurry of online and old-timey print coverage of Chuck DeVore--the Republican assemblyman out of Irvine making noise about running for Democrat Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat in 2010--but at one point Chu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    13 Ways to Dress for Coen Brothers Success

    Edwards University Town Center 6 is billing itself as Coen Brothers Central this week as the Irvine theater will have two prints of the new film Burn After Reading when it opens Friday. Advance tickets are on sale now, and it's a sure bet University will have no trouble filling seats considering wri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2008

    Reporting live from the Ron Paul party in Newport

    Ron Paul supporters watch the results come in. Not looking too good, but that doesn't mean give up!

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: OC Judge Slaps Guv

    Will a murder inmate defeat the Guv? Orange County Superior Court Judge Kazuharo Makino — a quiet, often-expressionless fellow who is married to a court reporter — ruled yesterday that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was wrong to deny parole to Delbert “Dale” Chrittenden. The inmate was foun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2007

    Back behind the wheel

    Will a murder inmate defeat the Guv? Orange County Superior Court Judge Kazuharo Makino — a quiet, often-expressionless fellow who is married to a court reporter — ruled yesterday that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was wrong to deny parole to Delbert “Dale” Chrittenden. The inmate was foun ... More >>

  • Film

    February 1, 2007

    New Reviews

    Becket; Constellation; Hurricane on the Bayou; The Messengers

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2007

    ND Beats CA

    If, as the governor recently asserted, California is both the new Athens and the new Sparta, where the future of America is busily being created, then what the hell is North Dakota? Because in one patch of the future, North Dakota is set to leave California in the dust. The state best known for fro ... More >>

  • News

    November 23, 2006

    Boy Crazy

    The sad chronicles of a man who wants a boy to love him

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2006

    Fresh Perspective

    "Fresh perspective" and "new eyes" have been Bush administration buzzwords since the nomination of Robert Gates to be Secretary of Defense was announced. Whether the eyes of Mr. Gates-- which saw no evil when he was the Number 2 man at the CIA while the Reagan administration was busy undermining th ... More >>

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    A Friend in Weed

    Pot coulda been a contender in DeVore race. Then the Terminator harshed his mellow

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    Throwback

    Covering the bases with Angels good guy Darin Erstad

  • Columns

    September 30, 2004

    Silver Lining

    Macarthur, The Market And Mary Reilly

  • Columns

    August 12, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    Macarthur, The Market And Mary Reilly

  • Culture

    March 4, 2004

    Hyperminimalist Yuks

    Stages Dirt Cheap Musicals

  • Columns

    October 9, 2003

    Spy the Friendly Skies

    Stages Dirt Cheap Musicals

  • News

    April 11, 2002

    Seizures in the Middle East

    Stages Dirt Cheap Musicals

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    Fair Deal

    Will the OC Fair finally stop blowing corn-dog chunks?

  • Food

    June 3, 1999

    Dont Rescue Me

    No one wants to leave the Raft

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