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Mark Lijek, Real-Life Embassy Worker Depicted in Argo, Held Hostage by Rick Reiff Tonight

Argo won the Oscar, Sir Ben is back on top and all is right with the world, at least through the Hollywood lens.Or is it?That's what Rick Reiff aims to find out tonight, when the veteran Orange County journo has on his teevee show one of the American embassy workers portrayed in the potboiler.

America's Porn Paradise!

Jenna Haze, Aurora Snow, Dani Daniels and more of the 20 greatest adult film actors and actresses in OC history

Mike Harrah Claims He's Finally Found the Tenant That will Allow Him to Build 37-Story One Broadway Plaza

​Credit for this story goes to the Orange County Business Journal's Rick Reiff, who is actually breaking the news when Inside OC with Rick Reiff airs tomorrow at 1 p.m., which we taped this afternoon but he allowed me to pre-break because he's re-breaking the news in his Monday OCBJ column...wait, ... More >>

PBS SoCal Breaks Ground on Costa Mesa Studios Today

​PBS SoCal, which was formerly known as KOCE/Channel 50, is scheduled to break ground this morning on new studio headquarters on the first floor of the South Coast Corporate Center at 3080 Bristol St., Costa Mesa.Production studios, which are expected to be completed by the fall, will join PBS SoC ... More >>

[BREAKING] House Cuts NPR Funding

​UPDATE, MARCH 17, 12:41 P.M.: The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to defund National Public Radio (NPR). The matter now goes to the Senate.Start buying those tote bags.

Scott Baugh Enlists GOP Attacker In Hopes of Discrediting Factual Story On Lobbying Pact

Scott BaughIn 2006, Daystar wanted to takeover Orange County's public broadcasting channel at KOCE in Huntington Beach. The Texas-based evangelical television network hired Platinum Advisors, a California lobbying outfit, to block legislative attempts to thwart the company's desire. I'll let Rick Re ... More >>

Sheriff Hutchens Unleashes Her Mild Fury in KOCE Debate Tonight

Photo by Christopher VictorioHost Rick Reiff (left) quizzes the next sheriff (and two wannabes) in a debate airing tonight.​Time and again, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has played defense at public debates with her two challengers in the upcoming June election. She smiles uncomfortably quite a bit, tap ... More >>

OCBJ is Up on Henry Nicholas, Down on Angels, Cary Bren

Orange County Business Journal has some enlightening items in this week's issue, although you have to hunt for most of them. That, of course, is not the case with "OC Insider," the weekly column by executive editor Rick Reiff, a seasoned pro who knows to start off with his most newsworthy stuff: T ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] DA Tony Rackauckas Wins Civil Suit, Does Not Cry

Ex-Sheriff Mike Carona Used All the Weapons In His Arsenal to Trick a Jury. He Still Lost

[Moxley Confidential] Sheriff Hutchens' Concealed-Weapon Policy Prompts Talk of Homosexual Plot

[Moxley Confidential] Chris Cox Says He's a Tough Wall Street Regulator, SEC Record Proves Otherwise

Why Selling the Orange County Register to George Argyros is Censorious

The Orange County Business Journal is reporting that local mega-slumlord George Argyros is interested in buying the Orange County Register (we'd link to the OCBJ, but you have to pay to read the article--get with the 21st century, Rick Reiff!). This is a horrible idea, and not just because Argyros k ... More >>

This Is Your Life: A Companion Guide/Shameless Propaganda for 'Orange County: A Personal History'

LA Times Editor Russ Stanton Addresses OC Press Club

With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations, from this night's Orange County Press Clubs shindig at the Island Hotel near Fashion Island: *Event was sold out, which meant there were around 150 people in attendance. Men wore suits; women, dre ... More >>

Last Night: Culture Clash in AmeriCCa

Rather than offer a straightforward review of Culture Clash's Culture Clash in AmeriCCa at South Coast Repertory (anything these guys do is genius, and this show is no different), here's some notes from the Friday night premiere: *FACES IN THE CROWD: Orange County Business Journal honcho Rick Reiff ... More >>

Has It Been a Year Already?

2007: A year to remember

Goodbye, Bishop Soto, and Good Riddance

We've always tried really hard to like Jaime Soto, the auxiliary bishop in the Catholic Diocese of Orange who's leaving this weekend to become coadjutor bishop in the Diocese of Sacramento. He's a virtual Aztlanista on immigration, urges compassion for AIDS victims, and always sports a smile. But ou ... More >>

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Register Slams Sheriff

A broken clock is right more often than Rohrabacher: Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher recently uttered that President George W. Bush deserves another six months to turn things around in Iraq. But the Huntington Beach/Long Beach representative has a shameful history on the subject. More t ... More >>

Scenes from the Mexican Madness

With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my first book signing at Librería Martínez last Thursday: *Fliers for the event promised free tequila for adults courtesy of SanTana-based La Tequilera, but some pendeja called t ... More >>

Orange County History Via KOCE

We love KOCE-TV Channel 50, watch it for television genius (and Orange County Business Journal editor) Rick Reiff's wonderful coif, the in-depth author interviews conducted by Maria Hall-Brown, and the Register-friendly worldview of Real Orange. So it pains us to discover that KOCE president Mel Rog ... More >>

Roughed Up on the Waterfront

Never in a million years would we have thought that our August cover boy and esteemed UC Irvine professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o would suffer indignities and racial profiling in that ethnic melting pot San Francisco, but our pal Rick Reiff—the EE at Orange County Business Journal and host of his ow ... More >>

Goodbye, Jim

Jim Gilchrists new book highlights the failed promises of the Minuteman Project

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Letters

MTBE Lies I Told You

An apology by Will Swaim

1-2-3-4

The Biz Journal dont want your stinkin war!

Summer Eats (Drinks)

Sex, Drugs and Narcissism

The fifth annual Calleys

All That Glistens

I am a Fish Murderer

And other tails of wealth, poverty and imprisonment

Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!

OCs financial meltdown, five years later

Blown Coverage

How to keep ignoring the bankruptcy fallout

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