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Pacific Ocean

  • News

    April 26, 2012

    Meet Jane Doe from the Haidl Gang Rape Trial

    OC's most famous sexual-assault victim breaks her silence on the 10th anniversary of the Haidl gang rape

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    David Haldane Has a Mail-Order Bride And Wants His OC Neighbors to Be Cool With It

    David Haldane went online, met a girl and married her. But this isn't your typical Internet-age love story. To meet this young lady in person for the first time, 63-year-old Haldane had to take a 16-hour plane ride to the Philippines, where her mother immediately inquired, "So, you want to marry my ... More >>

  • News

    March 15, 2012

    Newport Coast Offers Stunning Ocean Views and an Arsenic Mystery

    [Moxley Confidential] Wealthy mother Anna D. Steiner, who complained about the poisoning of her children, finds herself in a police-state nightmare

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    John Steven "Sinjin" Burgess Gets Out of Jail Early for Dumping Donna Jou's Body in Pacific

    ​A Rancho Santa Margarita family and their supporters are protesting outside the Criminal Justice Building in Los Angeles this morning over today's scheduled release of an inmate who only served half his five-year sentence for dumping the body of a 19-year-old college honors student into the Pacif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Dustin Kensrue On New Thrice Album and Folk Music

    Taylor Hamby/OC Weekly​Dustin KensrueAugust 5, 2011US Open of Surfing, Pac Sun StageDustin Kensrue's acoustic strums seem like a good soundtrack to the lively and carefree party that is the US Open of Surfing. The Huntington Beach pier and Pacific Ocean waves framed Kensrue's performance perfectly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Riley Breckenridge's Top 10 11 Radiohead Songs

    (Last week, the news that Daniel Radcliffe listened to a lot of Radiohead to get into character for the lastest installment of Harry Potter triggered this list of top 10 Radiohead songs for various ultra fans. Riley Breckenridge, 3hree Things columnist and Thrice drummer, talks about his best songs, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    [GUILTY!] Eric Naposki's Verdict Shines Spotlight on Newport Beach Police Department Heroics

    OC Register media pool photoProsecutor Matt Murphy nabs another murderer​In most respects, today was a typical day in Orange County: Surfers hit Pacific Ocean waves under a cloudless sky. Shoppers crammed into South Coast Plaza. The notorious 55 freeway wrecked people's schedules. Excited tourists ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    100 Reasons to Be Ecstatic About Summer In OC!

    Summer here is bliss, better than anyplace else in the States

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    End Days Alert: Radioactive Plume to Reach OC From Japan Late Friday

    ​Here's the bad news: a United Nations forecast says that a so-called "plume" of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will reach Southern California by late Friday after blowing across the Pacific Ocean via the Aleutian Islands. The plume is then expected to continue its eastward journey ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Japan Radiation No Threat to California, Officials Say

    ​Maybe it's the fact that Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has already suffered several explosions, is currently leaking radiation into the air, and seems to be headed toward total meltdown. Maybe it's the fact that a cold pressure system is sucking cold wind out of China and Korea and sendin ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2011

    Big-Wave Surfing's Swell Guys

    The monster swells can be big business, but for one group of OC surfers, it's still all about the ride

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Newport Coast Squatters Featured in OC Weekly Get Arrested

    The Real Squatters of OC: busted​Christopher and Robin Duncan, the subjects of a November OC Weekly cover story, must have had the shock of their lives today.Newport Beach Police Department detectives slapped handcuffs on the couple and hauled them to jail after the Orange County district attorney ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2010

    The Real Squatters of OC

    Can you really just show up at a multimillion-dollar Newport Coast home and move in without buying it or paying rent? Apparently, yes

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2010

    Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez

    ​Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republican; U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a Republican; and Whitman, yep, a Republican. "From our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

    ​Headline: Police: Boy Hit By Undocumented Driver Will Need SurgeriesComment by WICKEDWHITE: When two candidates are running to be the next California Governor have three different debates and one of them is in Spanish then the end is near !Comment by HEREWEGOAGAIN420: If this would have been an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    #33. Sweet Corn Soup at Raya at The Ritz Carlton

    Edwin GoeiWe continue to countdown our 100 favorite dishes at local restaurants. We'll be sharing these with you every weekday until our annual Best Of Issue comes out. Enjoy! #33. Sweet Corn Soup at Raya at The Ritz Carlton In a recent review of Raya at the Ritz I said that the sweet corn sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Cold War Kids at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach

    John Gilhooley/OC Weekly​Check out our Cold War Kids slideshow!Cold War Kids August 3, 2010 Huntington Beach Blinded by the glare of the Pacific Ocean and of the thousands of fake Ray Ban sunglasses sported by seas of preteen hipsters, the Cold War Kids sailed through a 13-song set y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Seize BP Sets Sights on Shamed Oil Company and Long Beach Aquarium

    ​The national Seize BP Campaign--it has organized demonstrations against British Petroleum through Thursday in more than 50 cities across the country--is coming to Long Beach Wednesday to protest the shamed oil company and a new target: Aquarium of the Pacific."The Aquarium, which claims its missi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Film Curator Brings Trashy Ocean Issue Home With Tonight's "Kaisei" Screening

    It's not often that a film series curator gets to present a motion picture she was intimately involved with the making of, but Keiko Beatie will do so tonight when the Laguna Beach Film Society presents Kaisei: Journey Into The Plastic Vortex.

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    State Intervention Sought to Reverse Laguna Beach Park and Beach Curfews

    All that's missing is the closed sign.​A local environmentalist is trying to enlist the state Coastal Commission to help reverse a recent Laguna Beach City Council action aimed at closing city parks and beaches from 1 to 5 a.m. daily.With Councilwoman Verna Rollinger lodging the only nay vote, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2009

    UPDATED: The Irvine Co. Gift That Keeps on Giving

    UPDATED WITH PHOTOS FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING . . . Photo by Keith MayCounty Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana.​He's got a gift. Donald Bren, the secretive, aging multi-billi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2009

    Tsunami Warning Un-Issued for Newport Beach

    Not coming to Newport Beach.​The Daily Voice, a website that covers Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, breaks the following news: a tsunami wreaking havoc on American Samoa and possibly Hawaii next will not hit Newport Beach.Repeat: a tsunami thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean will not hit N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Author Tells of Her Relationship with Killer Skylar Deleon

    "I sat down with a killer the other day," begins Tina Dirmann's feature in the March issue of Orange Coast. "Funny, I thought, how, up close the face of evil often doesn't look so very evil at all."Dirmann's subject is Skylar Deleon, the former Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actor turned con man, dru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2008

    Orange County's Original Minutemen

    I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>

  • Music

    August 28, 2008

    The Long Beach Blues Festival Is the Anti-Warped/Anti-Coachella Experience

    I get two kinds of reactions whenever I state Orange County is the Mexican-hating capital of America: knowing nods or protestations saying another domain is worse. Never any debate, though, about the Mexican-hating essence of us. I make the case for this dishonor in my book, and I keep digging up mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Citizen of the Week!

    Don't assume that because Deep Arora won a top prize at a math competition that women wouldn't find him irresistible. On February 16, 2006, Emily, whom he'd met online that evening, invited Arora to drive from Placentia (where he lived with his parents) to her Laguna Beach apartment. The 19-year-ol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    California High Court Okays Prosecutor-Movie Director Deal

    California's Supreme Court yesterday reversed a lower court's finding that a Santa Barbara County prosecutor should have been disqualified in the sensational Jesse James Hollywood (pictured, upper left) murder trial after forming a partnership with a movie director. Veteran deputy district attorne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2007

    Friday's Headlines & Surprises: The Drake Two-Step

    Dancing With the Fibber: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake has inspired a new dance. We’re calling it the Drake Two-Step, and it goes like this: hire, lie, fire, lie, rehire, wiggle. For a story in today’s Times, Drake admits that he “bungled” the firing last week of Erwin Chemerinsky a ... More >>

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Blazing Saddles!

    Sheriff Carona takes his posse on a European tour

  • Features

    June 22, 2006

    June Gloom Boom

    Its getting hot in here . . . wait, no it isnt

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Un-Made in Mexico

    Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Costa Mesa

    Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Huntington Beach

    Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

  • Columns

    December 11, 2003

    Letters

    Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

  • News

    November 20, 2003

    Turning Water into Whine

    Environmental concerns stall HB desalination plant

  • Features

    October 30, 2003

    Introduction

    Environmental concerns stall HB desalination plant

  • Culture

    June 5, 2003

    Making Everyone Miserable With Me

    Rachel McKibbens Writes From the Other OC

  • Columns

    February 14, 2002

    French-Kissing Facesitters

    A brief history of Orange County sex

  • Features

    December 6, 2001

    Hurry!

    Strange packages. High anxiety. Low-grade terror. Its holiday shopping time again, with us as your guides

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    The T Word

    Rigoberta Menchu Tum gives OC a new definition of terrorism

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Dana Point

    We killed Killer Dana

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    He Learned It by Watching Bob!

    Former Dornan aide Brian Bennett promises to save SoCal Edison by any means necessary

  • Features

    May 3, 2001

    The Wreckfinder

    No plane crash is too small or too old for Gary Patric Macha

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Now Open for Business

    Because of a flawed deed, the countys Talbert nature preserve is available for development

  • Columns

    June 8, 2000

    Welcome to the Monkey Pit

    Pulled out fo gloom on pulleys of Chris Gaffney's invention

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Human Waste Project

    Local official disputes report saying he knew people poop polluted Aliso Creek

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    LONDON CALLING

    Re-creating European cities

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Down the Drain

    Despite activists efforts, county officials ignore urban runoff

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    An Incomplete History of Gay & Lesbian OC

    Despite activists efforts, county officials ignore urban runoff

  • Columns

    September 11, 1997

    Body Snatchers

    Despite activists efforts, county officials ignore urban runoff

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