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Preview for SoCal Restaurant Show on KLAA-AM 830: Marcus Samuelsson, Montage Eating, and Our Own Bill Esparza!

If it's a Friday afternoon, that means it's time for the SoCal Restaurant Show on KLAA-AM 830 to give us a scoop on what they'll have on their Saturday morning show. Without further ado, here's producer (and kinda-co-host) Andy Harris with the details!

News & Notes as Newport Beach Film Festival Opens Tonight with Doc Broadway Idiot

The greatest thing about last Thursday's Newport Beach Film Festival issue was that I freely said with pride that I was on the cover, the idea being people assumed that was a reference to the rock-hard abbed fellow holding the giant film reels, not the "By Matt Coker" type on the lower right.Those w ... More >>

10 Who Have Been or Could be Mistaken for Manhunt Subject Christopher Jordan Dorner

Thanks to Facebook, fan sites and law enforcement alerts, it seems as if we have seen every known photo and video of Christopher Jordan Dorner created over the past decade or so.But that hasn't stopped lookiloos, his hunters and conspiracy theorists from confusing the 33-year-old with a whole bunch ... More >>

William Scott Spalding, Gemologist-Movie Producer, Gets 10 Years for $280k Gold Scam

William Scott Spalding, the 47-year-old Irvine "gemologist" and "movie producer" who conned a single Huntington Beach mom out of $280,000 in a fake gold investment scam, pleaded guilty to a laundry list of charges today and was promptly sentenced to 10 years in state prison.He was also ordered to pa ... More >>

SportPharm, Prescription Drug Tracker for NFL, Claims to be Cleared in DEA Probe of Chargers

A Huntington Beach company that tracks medications used by NFL players reportedly claims its been cleared in a federal investigation that followed the May 2010 arrest of former San Diego Chargers safety Kevin Ellison, who had 100 painkillers illegally in his possession when his car was stopped in R ... More >>

Reggae Legends The Wailers To Play Long Beach This Saturday

See Also: *2J's Cocktail Lounge Goes Country on the Weekends, Apparently it Brings in the Chicks *311 - Slightly Stoopid - Verizon Amphitheater - 8/24/12 *Summer Sensation Concert Rallys Young, Santa Ana Community Organizers Everyone knows who Bob Marley is, right? Alright, cool. Now that we've es ... More >>

Punk Band Dodge Dart Returns With Punk Fury and Prison Stories

In some ways, OC punk/pop band Dodge Dart has been around forever. And in others, they haven't. That's because the group has taken a few, shall we say, hiatuses, during its career. These lapses in activity aren't due to the usual inter-band fightings or the guitarist devoting himself to yoga. Nope, ... More >>

Ex-NFL & USC Star Johnnie Morton Jr. Sentenced For Federal Grand Jury Lies in Orange County

Former University of Southern California and Detroit Lions football star Johnnie Morton, Jr. faced up to five years in prison for repeatedly lying to a federal grand jury in 2009, but caught a break this morning in Santa Ana.U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney, a onetime football star himself ... More >>

OC Fishermen Are Out to Sea

Thanks to overregulation in the name of conservation, these hard-working men face extinction

Man Plans To Bike 80 Miles From South OC to UCLA After Surviving Life-Threatening Illness

"One year from now, I'm going to bike ride from my house to this hospital," thought then-20-year-old Omar Romero as he huffed and puffed after walking from one end of his hospital bedroom to the other. His muscles had atrophied after being bedridden for nearly two weeks with a fever. He needed to ex ... More >>

Newport Beach Ranks 3rd Among American Cities That Most Value Sex

​Newport Beach ranks third among American cities where adults most value sex in a relationship.So that's why our hook-up ads sell so well!By the way, this wasn't some crappy greeting card company survey.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Richest Orange County Congressman of Them All?

​U.S. Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-Brea), is the eighth wealthiest Member of Congress, the 18th wealthiest when combining members of both houses and Orange County's richest congressman by far, according to numbers recently crunched by the Center for Responsive Politics. The nonprofit and nonpartisan cen ... More >>

Ruling Likely Kills Bans on Day Laborers Seeking Work on Streets of Costa Mesa and Mission Viejo

​Laws in Costa Mesa and Mission Viejo that ban day laborers from standing on public sidewalks to seek work from passing motorists are in jeopardy following a federal appeals court ruling.When the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided 9-2 Friday to affirm a district court's previous ruling th ... More >>

Joel Lee Craft Jr., Seller of Telemarketing Leads, Indicted in $25 Million Indie Movie Investment Scam

​David Mamet's independent movie (and play that preceded it) Glengarry Glen Ross is about slick salesmen using underhanded tactics to rope in would-be property investors culled from what is known as "lead lists."  The CEO of a San Clemente information company that sells such lists to telemark ... More >>

Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L.: Bedeviled

In his new book, the infamous OC punk rocker describes how he exorcised 'An American Demon': Himself

Tustin Sacks Popular City Manager 4 Months into Job

​Just four months after the Tustin City Council unanimously voted to hire David Biggs as city manager, he's been unceremoniously sacked from the job in a 3-2 vote. So far, no explanation has emerged for why the city would fire the former Redondo Beach assistant city manager so soon, but rumors hav ... More >>

California Pervert Guilty For Cyber Sex "Touching" of Fake 13-year-old Girl

Stillittano: Webcam superstar​Can you imagine the shock on Jeffrey Andrew Stillittano's face when he learned that he'd jacked off three times in two days on his webcam for Jamie, a 13-year-old girl who was, in fact, a fictitious character being played by undercover vice squad cops at the Anaheim p ... More >>

Ws China Bistro Shutters in Irvine

Edwin Goei​If you've been browsing our Drunk After Work archives and thought, "Hmm, this Ws China Bistro sounds like they have a great Happy Hour!", forget it.

Dead Woman Wins State Senate Seat, Dead Man Loses City Council Bid

Jenny Oropeza​Bill Barker did not win one of three open Mission Viejo City Council seats Tuesday, although the fact he received the seventh-most votes out of 12 candidates--and that he died hours before the polls opened--is impressive.But not nearly as impressive as the feat achieved by state Sen. ... More >>

Mariachi Divas Party With WeeMan in Their First Music Video

​ The Grammy-Award winning Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea (we've written about them here before) have just released their first ever music video featuring Jason "Wee Man" Acuña of Jackass fame. Coming in support of the group's soon to be released sixth studio album Viva La Diva, the video for the s ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Haitian Charity From a Convicted Cheat

Suzie Graf might have a criminal record, but those PODS full of donations she solicited are on their way to Haiti

Belacan Grill Now Open In Tustin

avlxyz @ flickr.com CC BY-SA 2.0​For years, the question of where to get Malaysian food in the LA area was answered on the Chowhound boards with "Belacan Grill in Redondo Beach or Tropika in Tustin."Then Tropika closed and we Orange Countians were forced to endure the awful, awful trek to LA's Sou ... More >>

Five Great International Sodas

Obvious observation of the year: it's hot. Go to these place we haven't discussed in years, all fine eateries, and cool down with their native sodas:​PUPUSERIA SAN SIVAR: The hole-in-the-strip-mall takes special care with their pupusas, which have a crispy yet malleable crust encasing thick, stick ... More >>

Revolving Door of Malaysian Cuisine: Belacan Grill To Replace Defunct Tropika

​As excited as we were to discover last night that there's a new Malaysian restaurant in town (Tustin, to be precise), we soon realized that it's on the very same site as Tropika, also Malaysian, which closed in June. The new joint, Belacan Grill, is the second venture of the people who own the or ... More >>

Half-Priced Slices At Cheesecake Factory On Thursday, July 30

Oh, yes, for some wonderful person once decreed that 30 July would be National Cheesecake Day. Hurrah!On that day, all day, all cheesecake slices (dine-in only) will be half off. Rejoice!At the same time, the CF is debuting its new flavor, "Stefanie's Ultimate Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake", which won ... More >>

De La Soul

Galaxy Theater

[Sound Guy] Abandoned for a Year, the Galaxy Theatre Makes an Unlikely Return

THIS WEEKEND: The Galaxy Reopens with Franki Doll and More

It's not the De La Soul show originally planned for the venue's reopening--that was moved to Redondo Beach--but there will still be a show at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana this Saturday, the first show at the venue in over a year. It's sort of a soft opening, with performances from Franki Doll and ... More >>

Galaxy Theatre Update: De La Soul Moved, Bronx Canceled

The planned reopening of the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana--scheduled for March 14 with legendary hip-hop trio De La Soul--has been delayed.The De La Soul show has been moved to the Brixton in Redondo Beach on that same day, and a scheduled gig with LA punks the Bronx, slated for March 26, has been st ... More >>

Beach Break: Killing Nemo

Cut off from the powerful, cleansing waves of the Pacific ocean by a massive concrete breakwater, the gentle swells that lap the Long Beach coastline are so dirty that they were recently ranked the most polluted beach water in California by the Santa Monica-based environmental group Heal The Bay. A ... More >>

Stealth Loretta

Is Congresswoman Sanchez a whore orworsea Republican?

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Hooverville

Little Miss Sunshine lights into the American family

Summer Grub Guide

Your guide to the best damn eats in OC

!Ay, Mi Estomago!

Orange Countys 61 best Latino restaurantes

Porn-secution

The Bush administration has a new weapon in its war on porn: stalkers

Pussy Galore

Sophia Pottishs life in celluloid

This Tantric Life

Just like the first time

This Hole-In-The-Wall Life

Rogue Statesman

Congressman Dana Rohrabachers absolutely crazy, quite possibly illegal back-channel chats with the villains of Sept. 11

Aint No Sin to Be Glad

Jungle Boogie are committed deeply to something shallow

Who the Hells in Charge?

District attorney Tony Rackauckas says his organized-crime agents are out of control. His agents say hes hanging out with a mobster

People Have the Power

Patti Smith, 53-year-old mother of two, is still ready for revolution

Human Waste Project

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

The Death Ray

Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world

Noodling

The art of flour and water

Body Snatchers