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Political Transvestism, Puma Killing, and The Blotter's Clairvoyance
Political transvestism and puma killing are in the news today, and both were implicit in posts on The Blotter yesterday. Coincidence or clairvoyance? Yesterday's first Blotter post dealt with the investigation by State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Garden Grove) into the California National Guard's spying on political activists and ended with a reference to the man who combined illegal political spying with a flair cross-dressing, J. Edgar Hoover. And today in the LA Times, there's a story on Democrats
March 2, 2006Mike from Rancho Santa Margarita: Slag Off!
A couple of weeks ago in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, the Los Angeles Times published a great article about how minorities fret that one of their own is the guilty party whenever a violent tragedy occurs. Shameful apprehension is exactly what I feel whenever I read stories involving the commentary of kooks about a sensitive issue 'cause it's usually someone from Orange County's who's the idiot. Shameful apprehension is what I felt when I recently read the blog of Christine Daniels, th
May 5, 2007Surf City Rolls 'Em
In recent weeks, smallish films deserving a second look have found a home in Huntington Beach. Actually, two homes if you count the Regency Charter Centre (formerly an Edwards), which has shown a penchant for holding on to some worthy flicks even as the huge summer blockbusters roll into town. For instance, though The Da Vinci Code and X-Men: The Last Stand are swallowing up seemingly every other screen in the county, when the titles change on Friday Charter Centre will still be holding onto the
May 31, 2006OC Fire: Reader Photos
Some readers have shared their fire photos with us. Click the photo to see them. So far, we have snaps of the blaze from Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest and Foothill Ranch. Send yours to jpkahn@ocweekly.com with a short description (and the photographer's name) and we'll add them to the slideshow. Photo by Mike Funk.
October 25, 2007Memorial Concert for OC Musician Shane Gooding
Folk-rocker Shane Gooding died of cancer in 2007, but his music made a strong impact on many of his fellow OC/LA musicians. Consequently, MJ Lazarsky is organizing a tribute concert to Gooding, scheduled for May 18 in Rancho Santa Margarita, 1 p.m.-7 p.m. [see details below] Called FG-V, it will feature 10 locals acts, including Steve Heaviside, Whitton, Jack Marko, Ron Hexagon, Sandra B, One String King and Francesca Valle. Lago Santa Margarita Park 21472 Avenida De Los Fundadores Rancho Sa
May 13, 2008FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER
December 25, 2003Special Screenings
January 12, 2006Special Screenings
July 13, 2006Protest Prop 8 tonight and Sunday
Is your activist streak feeling unloved after watching footage of yesterday's protests in LA against the passage of Proposition 8? Well, here's your chance to vent (peacefully, people, peacefully...). Tonight (Friday), the Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Center is organizing a protest march down Broadway, starting at 7 p.m., and beginning on the corner of Broadway & Redondo. The march will head westward along Broadway, ending at Hamburger Mary's. Then on Sunday, an OC march/rally is being planned in,
November 7, 2008Water District Dinged $130K-plus for Sewage Spills
The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board today fined Orange County's Santa Margarita Water District $133,190 for two spills that flushed 857,934 gallons of shit into San Juan Creek and Cristianitos Creek. The water district - Orange County's second largest, serving more than 150,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Las Flores, Ladera Ranch, and Talega - falls within the northern part of the San Diego region's boundaries, whi
December 10, 2008Howard Ahmanson Jr. Only the Second Biggest Hater
Gustavo's pal Howard F. Ahmanson Jr. just missed the top spot on the Dishonor Roll published online by Californians Against Hate. The Knights of Columbus of New Haven, Conn., gave $1.425 million to the campaign for the same-sex-marriage-barring Prop. 8, while Howie only ponied up $1.395 million.Hey, it was a tough year.Other Orange County haters of note include former state Sen. Rob Hurtt, who owns Container Supply Co. in Garden Grove and gave $550,000, just edging out repellant James Dobson's F
February 3, 2009John Taylor Describes His Last Day on the Job at Nixon Library
John H. Taylor, who left his longtime gig as the executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation to lead St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church and School as the Rancho Santa Margarita church's vicar, describes the events of his last day on the job in Yorba Linda here.It was highlighted by a visit from Edward Nixon, Dick's younger brother and the sole survivor among Hannah and Frank Nixon's five boys, who recounted childhood tales, hawked his new book The Nixons: A Fami
February 18, 2009It's a Quick Read 18: Gone Since Friday Edition
Orange County Register: Miss me? Great economic news! Pier 1 Imports will only close 80 or so stores, not the 125 anticipated originally. . . . The California Energy Commission is considering a ban on big screen televisions. It's not the pollution network programmers spew that is spurring the proposal but a desire to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. . . . Who says Santa Ana is not welcoming? Its city jail will soon house more immigrant detainees. . . . Signature gathering
March 23, 2009Capistrano Unified Recall Leader Weighs In On Film, Is Mum About Excluded Journalist
City of Rancho Santa MargaritaTony BeallAs if to demonstrate why anyone would be interested in a movie about school districts, Capistrano Unified delivered some of its trademark drama at last night's premier of Not As Good As You Think (which we previewed here). Capistrano Dispatch editor Jonathan Volzke apparently wasn't invited to the event -- though the Weekly and the Register were -- and he was told that space was full when he tried to register for a seat at the screening. That's strange on
May 21, 2009It's a Quick Read 29
Orange County Register: Anaheim police want to question two men shown in an Angel Stadium surveillance video in the opening day assault death of Brian Powers, 27, of Buena Park. That's right, sports fans, they're even watching you in the cheap seats. . . . A man who was arrested at Disneyland last year was sentenced to 429 years to life in jail. No, it's not Mickey Mouse justice. Police learned wanted felon Anthony Hislar, 27, of Monrovia, was at the theme park, where he was apprehended and
April 9, 2009Why Do People Have a Problem With OC-Raised USC QB Mark Sanchez Being Proud of His Mexican Heritage?
August 21, 2008Hard Knocks
October 4, 2007Letters
Add in a completely substandard produce section and meat that I could find cheaper elsewhere, and you have the perfect storm of crap
September 27, 2007Acing the Exam
The pad see ewe reveals all about Rice and Spice Thai
August 23, 2007See You, Suckers!
This time, she means it
February 1, 2007This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
April 5, 2007Special Screenings
May 11, 2006Special Screenings
April 13, 2006Special Screenings
April 6, 2006This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
March 30, 2006Special Screenings
March 9, 2006Special Screenings
February 9, 2006Special Screenings
January 19, 2006Special Screenings
January 5, 2006The Year in the 241 Toll Road
December 29, 2005Toll Road Rage: 2005 in Review
December 29, 2005Special Screenings
December 22, 2005Special Screenings
December 15, 2005When the Moon Is the Only Light We See
November 17, 2005Best of OC
October 20, 2005Rancho Santa Margarita
October 20, 2005Frozen Assets
October 23, 2003R
October 24, 2002The Boys From Company JC
April 18, 2002Terror Town, USA
December 27, 2001Rancho Santa Margarita
September 27, 2001Something Beige This Way Comes
June 21, 2001Now You See It, Now You Don't
June 14, 2001[Special Screenings] 'Under the Bombs,' 'Border Café,' 'The Big Lebowski,' More
May 14, 2009It's a Quick Read 30
Orange County Register: Fans gathered around a makeshift memorial outside Angel Stadium to honor pitcher Nick Adenhart, who died in a car accident. . . . A woman driving a car with a baby aboard was shot and killed in Santa Ana after leading police on a high-speed chase that began in Buena Park. . . . Another woman was not shot and killed in Rancho Santa Margarita after leading the CHP on a high-speed chase that began in Long Beach. . . . Orange County Transportation Authority spent ne
April 10, 2009Death, Taxes and the FPPC
Millionaire Richard J. O'Neill died, reportedly of natural causes, on April 6, but not before the government took its last piece of flesh from Orange County's monumental Democrat. The 85-year-old real estate developer who headed the California Democratic Party 30 years ago and was a major contributor to Democratic candidates in OC and throughout the state during his life was fined $1,500 by the state's Fair Political Practices Commission a month a two days before he died.His mistake? Failing to
April 6, 2009TONIGHT: Lost Art and Abtract Rude at Blue Cafe in Long Beach
The life of a local hip hop artist is a saga that usually leaks its way into the inspiration of their rhymes, more so than any other genre. And in that regard, tracks by Rancho Santa Margarita emcee The Lost Art is rife with true life tales. I spoke of him a while ago when he released his second album Escape From Lala Land last summer. Since then, this sure fire lyricist has laid low, with not many shows to speak of. But tonight he plans to make the most of his time at the Blue Cafe,the
August 14, 2009Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier
It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cypress discovered two girls, ages 9 and 11, who had been left alone overnight amid knee-high trash piles, toilets overflowing with human feces, frozen bugs inside a refrigerator and unfrozen bugs and m
July 14, 2009Rule 1 for Being a USC Trojan Pigskin Slinger
Clockwise from top left: Mark Sanchez (Santa Margarita Catholic High School, Rancho Santa Margarita); Todd Marinovich (Capistrano Valley and Mater Dei high schools); Matt Leinart (Mater Dei); and Carson Palmer (Santa Margarital). Steven Travers, a USC graduate, sports historian and former pro baseball player in the A's and Cardinals organizations, has written a book titled What It Means to Be a Trojan: Southern Cal's Greatest Players Talk About Trojans Football (hardbound, $27.95)
August 21, 2009Finky Gets to the Bottom of the Stinky in Mission Viejo
"I can't believe there hasn't been any stories in regards to the foul odor that is covering Mission Viejo, CA like an airborne bacteria," writes a reader named Cori. "(Well . . . actually, in this Prozac laden city of Stepford, I'm surprised when anyone notices anything outside the 'norm.') The only information I've found about it is from a local blogger."The local blogger would be Finky the Kid, who writes (the bold emphasis being his): "Mission Viejo, CA stinks. I mean, it reeks to high hea
November 2, 2009
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