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Blogs
April 27, 2012
Brea Bank Inside Job Bandit Gets Punished By Federal Judge
An Orange County bank teller plotted the January 2007 robbery of her place of employment, got arrested in part because of a boneheaded move and eventually pleaded guilty.For her crimes, Sheryl Anntoinette Alexander, an active church member in Ontario and teller at Brea's Credit Union of Southern Cal ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Tavazo Dried Nuts & Fruits Store Opens in Irvine
Tavazo Dried Nuts and Fruits opened quietly in Irvine last week, or perhaps the week before. Like I said, it was a quiet debut. This outlet of a mostly Ontario, Canada-based Persian goods purveyor can be found next to Smart & Final and Trader Joe's at Culver and Walnut.
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Long Beach's Cold War Kids Announce Fall U.S. Tour
Long Beach's very own Cold War Kids just announced the second leg of their fall North American tour in support of their latest release, Mine Is Yours (Downtown/DGC/Interscope Records).
Blogs
June 22, 2011
[UPDATED with No Action:] San Onofre Nuke Plant Shutdown Tempts San Clemente City Council
UPDATE, JUNE 22, 4:36 P.M.: Travel back in time, kiddies, to one month and four days ago. The world was so much different then. Facing a full house of potential voters opposed to the continued operation of the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the San Clemente City Council g ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Persian Dried Fruits And Nuts Purveyor To Open First American Store in Irvine
Photo from Tavazo's Facebook PageTavazo, a seller of dried fruits and nuts based out of Ontario, Canada, is planning to open its first store in the U.S. this summer in Irvine. The outlet, next to Smart & Final and Trader Joe's at Culver and Walnut, will also boast 300 kind of spices, dried o ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Region is 4th Worst in U.S. for Finding Jobs
A list based on data from the government and a job-search website reveals the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana area is the fourth worst metropolitan area for finding a job.U.S. News & World Report analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and job search website indeed.com to com ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
[UPDATED with Federal Action Sought:] No Neighboring Nukes Tempt San Clemente City Council
UPDATE, MAY 18, 11:31 A.M.: Facing a full house of potential voters opposed to the continued operation of the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the San Clemente City Council decided Tuesday night to send letters to lawmakers seeking removal of radioactive waste from the plant. ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Lakers Return to Honda Center Oct. 19
The Lakers are down 2-0 to the Mavs, and if they lose tonight in Dallas all hope will be lost for a three-peat.Speaking of elimination, the Honda Center in Anaheim won't be the home of an NBA team for at least another season.Are you ready for some basketball?
Blogs
January 25, 2011
The Big Four 4--Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax--Coming to Indio
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyMetallica at the Honda Center, Dec. 10, 2009There have been whispers all week about the Big Four Festival--that's Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax at one festival--and details were announced just this morning.
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November 11, 2010
The Birthday Massacre: A Vampire Band for the 'Twilight' Set
2005 was the breakout year for the Birthday Massacre. That was the year they signed two label deals, one with Repo Records in Europe and the other with Metropolis Records, the perfect label home for their dark vampire rock. The band first surfaced in 2000 in Ontario as Imagica. Two years later ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
Octomom Nadya Suleman Fundraiser in the 909
Hot off the heels of the well-publicized yard sale in front of her La Habra home that raised $2,600 aimed at helping keep her and her 14 kids under a roof, Octomom Nadya Suleman is being treated to another fund-raiser, this time at a taco joint in Ontario tomorrow night.As you'll see on the poste ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Airport Airspace Changes Prompted by Mid-Air Collision Warnings Come in for Criticism
Looking up at the skies over north Costa Mesa a couple weeks ago produced a most disturbing site: a JetBlue plane making its normal descent into Long Beach Airport was passed maybe 100 feet above by another airliner heading for either LAX or the landing line at John Wayne Airport. Maybe that's a ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
Charlene "Charlie" Padilla, Mother of Chino Inmate, to Get Prestigious Journalism Award
Perhaps you know someone doing time in Chino right now. Charlene Padilla does: her son. And the concern "Charlie," as she is known, has for her boy was spun into an unlikely reporting assignment and a prestigious journalism award.Padilla is one of four individuals and a newspaper that will be hon ... More >>
Columns
July 22, 2010
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Perhaps you know someone doing time in Chino right now. Charlene Padilla does: her son. And the concern "Charlie," as she is known, has for her boy was spun into an unlikely reporting assignment and a prestigious journalism award.Padilla is one of four individuals and a newspaper that will be hon ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
USA! USA! America Advances at World Cup With 1-0 Win Over Algeria
In his preview of the FIFA World Cup, Josh Cain ran down the locals and almost locals competing for the United States team. Among them was Landon Donovan, the 28-year-old Ontario native who just scored the winning goal that has sent America to the second round for the first time since the Stone A ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
The Union Line Tour With Local Natives
So we just heard that The Union Line will be touring with their buddies Local Natives this fall. The Local Natives are really blowing up, performing in festivals around the world this summer. This is also the third time the Union Line is going on the road, and the difference is that mos ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
Ugo Allesina of Prego, Part One
Kimberly ValenzuelaOf all the Los Angeles-area airports, John Wayne has the best food within easy striking distance. The traffic at LAX prevents people from eating nearby; Burbank's airport is in an absolute desert of food, and Ontario is even worse. Long Beach has some good options, but if you'r ... More >>
Food
June 10, 2010
Buy Me Some Sushi and Cracker Jack
[Summer Guide] A rundown of the best non-chain eats at the Big A
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Alex's Bar and John Reis Team Up For SXSW
Flickr user BenGoettingJohn Reis performing with the Night Marchers at Alex's Bar, Long Beach, Feb. 10, 2008.Long Beach and Orange County bands aren't the only locals headed to the cheerfully soul-trying SXSW music-biz death march in Austin this week. 562-ers Alex's Bar and owner Alex Hernandez w ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
Texting, Tweeting and Facebooking Teens Are Stupid Again!
Two weeks after a study partly funded by the British Academy concluded phone texting leads to more literate youths, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, claims messaging via cellphones is contributing to a generation of college students who can't write.Their evidence: the rising failure ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2010
"King of the World" Box Office's Orange County Connection
James Cameron makes a point with actor Sam Worthington behind the scenes on "Avatar."James Cameron's Avatar overtook his own Titanic, reaching the $1.292 billion mark in worldwide box office grosses on Sunday. The sinking ship story had reigned at $1.242 billion. However, Avatar is still $49 mill ... More >>
Calendar
November 12, 2009
Tim Chizmar's Wildass Comedy Party
Brea Improv
Blogs
October 16, 2009
Lady Gaga Announces Tour, Skips Orange County
OK, so we all know by now that the Kanye West/Lady Gaga show at the Honda Center, once scheduled for November 15, isn't happening. Heck, the whole "Fame Kills" tour isn't happening. But even though Kanye is dealing with his own post-Taylor Swift issues, the hope still remained that the seemingly ... More >>
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October 12, 2009
Proposed LA to San Diego High Speed Train Would Avoid OC
A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2009
Laptop Loss Much Less Frequent at John Wayne Than Most U.S. Airports
Often when searching for the best air travel bargains, Orange Countians will choose to fly out of Ontario or Los Angeles International because fares are cheaper than at John Wayne Airport--even given the higher costs associated with ground travel and lost time to those airports, which are reachable ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2009
Crime Time: Hey, Mister in the Miniskirt Looking at Porn!
Very early Tuesday in Tustin. Not the real crime but an amazing facsimile. Once again, it's the Weekly's weekly round-up of Orange County police calls...MONDAY, JUNE 22Breaking Up the Boredom of a Bank Line: Shortly after noon, a man clutching a backpack threatened to blow up the Bank of America bra ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2009
Big weekend at Detroit...again, yeeesh.
Okay, so most of you who read this blog probably get the sense that us Heard Mentality goons generally like what happens at Detroit Bar on a weekly basis. Sometimes we write about them way too much considering that there are about 100 or so perfectly good (or at least mediocre) places to get drunk a ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2008
Mexican Kids Hating Mexican Kids, And Why It's Okay
La Opinión had a fascinating front-page piece yesterday about kiddies at Creek View Elementary School in Ontario regaling each other with a rhyme that translates as, "I don't want to go to Mexico ever again, again, again/Mexico stinks, stinks, stinks/There's a fat policeman at the door, door, door. ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2007
Sunday's Headlines & Surprises: iPhone Thumb Surgery?
Picking themselves up with your bootstraps: The lobbyists at the Orange County Tourism Council believe they are entitled yet again to a public handout. And, once again, they're going to get it without even a minute of public debate. The board of supervisors placed on its Tuesday consent calender a ... More >>
Film
May 10, 2007
Memory Loss
Love and marriage meet life and Alzheimers in Away From Her
Music
March 8, 2007
Canadian Collectives
Do Make Say Think
Music
January 18, 2007
Surfin' USA
Dekes Guitar Geek Festival Wipes You Out
Music
May 18, 2006
Our Musical Neighbors to the North
Bedouin Soundclash
Film
May 18, 2006
Clean and Sober
Olivier Assayas hypnotic rock ballad
News
April 7, 2005
Well-Behaved Nations Rarely Make History
On trading Canada for California and nice for nasty
Culture
January 27, 2005
The Rebel Comedy Promoter
Doug James may resemble an actor or billionaire, but comedy is his game
News
January 27, 2005
Dam Us!
Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man
Features
October 21, 2004
Best of OC 2004: Part 3
Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man
Music
September 18, 2003
Learning to Survive
The Constantines right-before-the-morning-after music
Columns
February 27, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
The Constantines right-before-the-morning-after music
Columns
August 15, 2002
Capitol Idea!
Commie Girl in Sacramento
News
January 24, 2002
Whats Orange County?
Commie Girl in Sacramento
Columns
December 13, 2001
OC Hillbillies
Commie Girl in Sacramento
News
November 8, 2001
Spin Recycle
Truth still grounded after El Toro approval
Supplement
February 15, 2001
Taxi Driver Confessions
Are you flirtin with me?
Unknown
July 20, 2000
Welcome to Long Breach Airport
Are you flirtin with me?
News
September 16, 1999
Not Ready For Prime Time
Does new California law spell the end for the states junk-gun makers?
Columns
December 31, 1998
Let's Get Mikey
Does new California law spell the end for the states junk-gun makers?
Columns
December 24, 1998
You Gotta Keep 'em Separated
Does new California law spell the end for the states junk-gun makers?
Columns
September 10, 1998
Letters
Does new California law spell the end for the states junk-gun makers?
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