Rosemead

Fare Thee Well Sweet, Sweet Bahooka

Every second and fourth Wednesday night of the month, legendary bartender/chef/restaurant insider Dave Mau hosts Dinner with Dave at Memphis at the Santora, where he treats drinkers to a free meal and live music as the evening progresses. To remind ustedes of this great night, Dave treats us ev ... More >>

Ace Hoffman Is Tilting at 'Nofre

The anti-nuke activist has spent years fighting the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Now, the impossible is on his horizon: its permanent shutdown

Sriracha Stiletto Heels Now Available

Sriracha water bottles. Sriracha lip balm. Sriracha underwear. Now there's apparently Sriracha stiletto heels for that fashionista who's also a hipster foodie.

4 Get Prison Time (with More Likely to Come) in Massive Unity Medical Billing Fraud Scheme

An attorney, an accountant, and two medical center administrators walk into a bar . . . oops, that should be behind bars--for their roles in the nation's largest medical fraud prosecution. Four people who should have known better Thursday became the latest Unity Surgical Outpatient Center muckity-mu ... More >>

Blowing Smoke: OC Weekly's Top Ten Marijuana Stories of 2012

2012 was a busy year for marijuana. It began with what looked like the beginning of the end of the medical marijuana industry in California and ended with the legalization of recreational weed in both Colorado and Washington State. Looking back through the posts in Navel Gazing's Cannabis Chron ... More >>

$6 Million Worth of Marijuana Seized in Diamond Bar, Hacienda Heights?

On Wed., Oct 3, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested two men in connection with three different houses where some 2,000 pot plants and 20 pounds of marijuana was discovered. The men arrested were Binh Ly, 43, from Rosemead and Thank Chiem, 45, of San Jose. Because of the fac ... More >>

Sriracha Company Expands Its Empire

Willy BlackmoreMove over, Sriracha imposters. We're gonna need more shelf space. ​The Cock is getting huge. (TWSS.) Huy Fong Foods, maker of the almighty Sriracha, aka rooster sauce, is relocating from Rosemead to Irwindale, building a 655,000 square foot corporate site and factory that ... More >>

Panda Express Heading to . . . China?

Wiki CommonsPanda Express may introduce the people of China to . . . Chinese food--or at least the American bastardization of it.​First, Taco Bell made its way to Mexico. Now, Panda Express, which we can thank for bringing glazed orange chicken to mall food courts across the country, may find a pl ... More >>

Belinda Exon, Surf City Escrow Chief, Gets 3 Years for Stealing $4 Mil in Poor-Housing Funds

​Why is your kid still huffing lead and other nasty toxins in your low-income housing unit despite the federal government having already sent your Orange County city funds to remedy the hazard?Blame Belinda Exon. The president of Rehab Financial Services, Inc., a now-defunct Huntington Beach comp ... More >>

At Last: The Sriracha Cookbook

​We already squeeze gobs of it on our food. Now let's cook some into it, too! LA-based chef Randy Clemens has written The Sriracha Cookook: 50 "Rooster Sauce" Recipes That Pack a Punch, out Jan. 18. Think honey-Sriracha-glazed Buffalo wings, bacon-Sriracha cornbread and peach-Sriracha sorbet. Then ... More >>

$3.6 Million Fraud Plot Used Several Mortgages on Same House

Not the home in question but an amazing facsimile.​A married couple from Fountain Valley and a Newport Coast mortgage broker are scheduled to be arraigned in a Santa Ana courthouse this morning for their alleged roles in a $3.6 million fraud scheme that involved several mortgages being taken out o ... More >>

Acid Circus' Vargas Brothers 'Rock Out' Their DJ Sets

Broccoli, er, Barack Obama Remarks Are Best Served Prepared

Prepared remarks for a town hall meeting? Isn't that why they used to unload on Bush? No, it was because ol' Dubya's questioners seemed even better briefed than he was. Observers say President Obama truly chose folks at random during his first presidential visit to Southern California and Orange ... More >>