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  • Calendar

    April 12, 2012
  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Newport Beach Film Fest Goes Freeway Dancing

    ​Every spring, the Newport Beach Film Festival exposes hidden cinematic gems to local audiences, and the 13th run coming up April 26-May 3 will no doubt provide many more of the same. But, let's face it, clunkers do somehow make it into the lineup, something that is bound to happen when you are sh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2012
  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    [UPDATE] Law Enforcement Descends on 'OC Weekly' Building!

    Brandon Ferguson​UPDATE, 2:30 P.M., SEPTEMBER 6, 2011: It's been eerily quiet in the hallways surrounding Weekly world headquarters since our neighbors at the Law Offices of Anthony Kassas were escorted off the premises nearly three weeks ago by officials from the California Department of Justice. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Law Enforcement Descends on OC Weekly Building!

    Brandon Ferguson​Usually, when an aspiring journalist imagines the excitement of his job, he has visions of far-flung battlefields or back alley crime scenes in some gritty urban environment, not the sterile office-park building that houses the Costa Mesa newsroom where he works.But that's exactly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Entrepreneur, the Magazine for Entrepreneurs, Sics Its Lawyers on Entrepreneur

    ​Entrepreneur, the Irvine-based magazine, is threatening to sue a real-life entrepreneur.Paul M. Barrett writes for Bloomberg that lawyers for Entrepreneur Media Inc. (EMI) sent a cease-and-desist letter to a veteran Austin, Texas, entrepreneur who started a law firm, a mortgage company and a real ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    The Vandals Win First Round in Variety Lawsuit

    ​The Vandals scored a major victory today in their ongoing legal frivolity of a lawsuit filed against them by entertainment trade publication The Daily Variety. The entertainment trade magazine had filed a second trademark infringement suit against the OC punk band for their cover artwork of 2004' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Adzookie Wants to Paint Your House

    ​Adzookie.com is not out to paint the town red, but the Orange advertising company for the mobile communications industry would like to slap a few new coats on your house.Yes, there is a catch."We're doing something a bit out there," informs Adzookie's Mark Oskorus. "We're turning homes into billb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Possibly the Best Butter Commercial Ever

    Is there a better ingredient than real, honest butter? I think not. With the Super Bowl right around the corner, I'd like take a moment to share this production for a food product that deserves a nomination for the best food commercial ever.  Now, compare and contrast with what we produce.

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Saddleback Valley Unified Loses Appeal of $1.4 Million Judgment Against the School District

    Darren Hester / Flickr / Creative Commons​Former Weekling Spencer Kornhaber wrote last year about "The Curious Case of Saddleback Unified's $1.4 Million Lawsuit Loss."Mission Viejo-based Saddleback Valley Unified School District appealed that trial court decision in favor of Mepco Services, Inc.-- ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Grinding Justice

    Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, doesn't work

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Fees Charged Students in Tustin and Long Beach Cited in ACLU Lawsuit Against State

    ​Fees charged to public school students in Tustin and Long Beach are part of the evidence the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is citing in a class action lawsuit filed today against the state of California and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.The suit contends the state is violating the Californ ... More >>

  • Music

    September 9, 2010

    Painful Parody

    In the battle of the Vandals vs the Daily Variety, there seems to be no end in sight

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Last $10 for 10: Tickets For Lilith And More Coming Up

    www.sarahmclachlan.comIf you buy tickets today you can watch Sarah Mclachlan for $10!​Live Nation is offering $10 tickets  for the last 10 days of June, where the concert promoter is hosting the "No Service Fee June" promo. That means every day until June 30, select shows will have $10 ticke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards Ceremony is a Sausage Fest

    ​At the the ninth annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards this week, the Orange County Business Journal and the Ernst & Young accounting firm honored Joshua Hong of the free-to-play video game company K2Network Inc./ GamersFirst of Irvine.Also singled out were David Kim of the apartment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Real-Sugar Pepsi and Mountain Dew To Hit Store Shelves

    bevreview.com​Jason Arango at the Daily Fork posted yesterday about Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, versions of the popular soft drinks that are made with sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, sold in the usual plastic bottles with retro labels.Not to be outdone, the Dr Pepper Sna ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2009

    LUTZ Radio Hour

    Long Beach Playhouse

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Opening of Local CNG Dispenser Has an Unusual Back Story

    ​A compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling dispenser opening at a San Juan Capistrano Shell gas station, while unusual, certainly isn't going to bring out the big media spotlight.But a life-changing event brought the owner and engineer of Go Natural Gas at 28662 Camino Capistrano together.

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Accountant Gets 4 Years for Stealing $500,000 From Trust Fund to Pay for Doll Collection

    ​A Laguna Hills accountant hired to manage a brother and sister's trust fund has been sentenced to four years in state prison for stealing more than a half million dollars to pay for a doll collection.  Margot Jean Strawn, 58, had pleaded guilty to two felony counts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    County Lawyer Seeks State Probe of OC Fair Privatization Plan

    What has Dick been doing?​The County of Orange's lawyer is calling on the California Attorney General to investigate potential illegal deals that could give private control of the $100 million-plus Orange County Fairgrounds property in Costa Mesa to well-connected political insiders.In an Oct. 30, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Live Nation's Latest Promotion: 'Twitter Scavenger Hunt'

    ​The folks behind Beverly Hills-based concert promoters Live Nation have been promoting the heck out of themselves lately, with the company unleashing a variety of P.T. Barnum-esque stunts to drum up attention for their events in this flagging economy.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2009

    Live Nation and Great Park May Team Up on Amphitheater

    ​When the Orange County Great Park Corporation Board meets Thursday morning at Irvine City Hall, directors will consider a $93,000 "feasibility study funding agreement" with mega concert promoter Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. for an amphitheater at the former El Toro Marines Corps Air Station.Los An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    Fifty Bucks Gets You Alotta Shows with New Live Nation Deal

    ​Concert promoter Live Nation has a pretty sweet deal on the table. For $49.99, people who purchase something called a "Club Passport" get admission to all shows at a few local venues (including the Anaheim House of Blues) for the remainder of the year. When you consider your average ticket costs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Irvine-Based Toshiba Presents Boring vs. Normal Deathmatch

    It took a most unusual campaign for advertising/public-relations/brand-identification firm Young & Rubicam Brands to convince fellow Irvine-based company Toshiba U.S. to jump back into advertising via television commercials after being absent from the airwaves for several years. The above ad fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Mega-Connected Firm Wins Anaheim Design Contract

    Whoa! They're moving the Sydney Opera House to Anaheim!Oh wait, no. That's the newly approved design for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a.k.a. ARTIC.On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council awarded architecture firm Parsons Brinckerhoff/HOK with the contract to design and lay the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2008

    Zack and Miri Lose a Title

    You can understand ABC Family, Radio Disney and the Christian Science Monitor lopping off the second half of the title to Kevin Smith's new dramatic comedy or comedic drama Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It doesn't make it any more right, but you can understand it. But for it to be done by Comedy Cent ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    Sock Hop

    Battle in the Ballroom

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2008

    Upcoming in LA Times Obits: The Sunday Magazine

    Remember those Sunday mornings when the LA Times magazine was something to look forward to? Terrific profiles/color pieces/semi-newsy features—in-depth stuff you went back and read a second time (and, admit it, clipped and filed in your battered ol’ copy of Websters, under the appropriate word)? ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2008

    No More Tickling

    When Elmo Grows Up

  • Calendar

    April 17, 2008

    Green Thumb

    Spring Garden Show

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2007

    New Developments In Disney Censorship

    Anaheim’s House Of Blues cancellation of the Machine Head show earlier this month was just the beginning in Disney’s slow and steady elimination of all things metal. Immediately after the cancellation, Machine Head released a statement citing the venue’s reasons for canceling the show (with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2007

    Crazy-ass Reg letter o' the day!

    (Category: World-Is-Going-To-Hell) SELLING LUST, NOT HAMBURGERS "I am appalled every time I see the new Carl's Jr. ad about 'flat buns.' These ads certainly are helping to destroy our culture. The ads degrade both teachers and students. Please tell Carl's Jr. and the television channels that air th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2007

    Mickey Nixes Metal Concert

    Raise your hand if you saw this coming... The powers that be at Walt Disney Properties have pressured concert promoter Live Nation into cancelling tomorrow’s Machine Head show at the House Of Blues, the reason being “violent imagery, undesirable fans and inflammatory lyrics”. The Happiest Pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2007

    Del Taco: Chicken-Checkers

    So I'm cruising over the 241 toll road Monday listening to the Angels-Yankees game on 710, when a Del Taco commercial drifts over the airwaves. There's some blah-blah-blah, and then the ad does exactly what the Lake Forest-based fauxMex chain's marketing department hopes it'll do: It gets my attenti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2007

    The OC Post Death Watch?

    Since the news broke the other day about the Register moving its completely ridiculous faux alt-weekly Squeeze OC to an all-online format as well as laying off several of its staffers, we couldn't help but wonder how long the OC Post, the Reggie's other lame attempt at capturing younger readers, wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2006

    Anti-Carona Commercial to Air

    Los Angeles County Sheriff's commander Ralph Martin, who is trying to unseat third-term-seeking Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, has apparently made a huge cable television advertising buy so he can broadcast the following campaign commerical (Windows Media) into local homes. The beauty of the ad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2006

    Su®f City

    Because nothing evokes the true spirit of surfing like the smell of lawyers and advertising executives in the morning, we can all rejoice at the news that Huntington Beach is now officially "Surf City USA", in the very real and legally binding sense of those words. According to the L.A. Times, "[The ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    The Regulatory Disaster That Isnt

    Cox and the media spin a tale of government red tape that should be killing American companiesbut isnt

  • News

    June 2, 2005

    Cox by the Numbers

    Cox and the media spin a tale of government red tape that should be killing American companiesbut isnt

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    Represent What?

    The Registers New Campaign

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    Total Recall

    Welcome to the politics of outercourse

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Track Record

    A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig

  • Culture

    February 6, 2003

    Same as the Old Boss

    Curses of the New Economy workplace

  • News

    July 25, 2002

    Reform-School Congress

    Curses of the New Economy workplace

  • Features

    March 7, 2002

    Made in Newport Beach

    How Chris Cox helped produce the Enron scandal

  • Film

    September 27, 2001

    Tunnel Vision

    Kornbluths film debut undercooked

  • News

    March 29, 2001

    He Knows the Way to San Jose

    Newport councilman Gary Proctor lives in $820,000 home up north

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Back to Business

    OCs Tom Umberg leaves the White House for the Big Bucks

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Browser Beware

    Cookie monster may be following you

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