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Rupert Murdoch

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Don Mattingly Says Angels are Mets to Dodgers' Yankees

    ​Moments before the first full-squad workout of spring training and the launch of another disappointing season for the hapless Los Angeles Dodgers, manager Don Mattingly created some poster board material today by comparing his team to the New York Yankees and the Angels to the New York Mets.In ot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Four Big Facts The Daily Got Wrong In Its History of the Burrito

    ​Here's to hoping my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America is hitting the cultural caliente list at the right time--and it is, if you go by recent histories on Mexican food published by mainstream publications. I know Smithsonian Magazine is working on something because they called me for c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Trevor Noah Talks About America, Accents and Audiences

    ​Trevor Noah is a big deal in South Africa, having starred on TV and worked with the best talents, but now he's taking his jokes to the States. He'll show the Irvine Improv how humor translates across the globe.

  • Music

    July 7, 2011

    Justin Timberlake to Hold Office in Irvine?

    [Mental Notes] Pop star buys a piece of the old-school Internet. Plus, Paul Leary on Rome Ramirez

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Justin Timberlake Buys MySpace; Will We Be Having Justin Sightings in Irvine?

    ​Yes, you read that right. Justin Timberlake is bringing MySpace back, after it was revealed that Timberlake was a key player behind the $35m deal for the original social networking site.The weirdest thing about this is that Timberlake played Facebook investor Sean Parker in the movie The Social ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    [UPDATED with Tribune Talks Back On:] Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies

    ​UPDATE, JUNE 16, 9:22 A.M.: Now that merger talks with MediaNews have broken down, Irvine-based owner of the Orange County Register Freedom Communications has revived negotiations with that other Southern California newspaper  publisher.No, not the Los Angeles investment company that bought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Walll Street Journal Grumbles About Cupcakes About a Year After the Trend

    ​Time was when the Wall Street Journal was a respected paper: always with a business-friendly, mostly conservative point of view, but one at least respected. But ever since Rupert Murdoch acquired it a couple of years ago, it has ditched the gravitas for the sort of knee-jerk captain-of-industry p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    2/1 Odds Set Conan Splits "Tonight Show" by June

    ​An Irish bookmaker is offering short odds of 2/1 that Conan O'Brien quits as The Tonight Show host before June 2010.

  • Film

    December 17, 2009

    All That Glitters—James Cameron's 'Avatar,' Specifically—Isn't Gold

    ​An Irish bookmaker is offering short odds of 2/1 that Conan O'Brien quits as The Tonight Show host before June 2010.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    2009 Postseason Throwdown: 5 Drugs the Ump Could've Been On Before Making the Worst Call of All Time

    McClelland. McDipShit.​In the top of the fifth inning of the Angels' 10-1 loss to the Yankees last night, umpire Tim McClelland made what Yahoo! Big League Stew blogger Duk has labeled "the worst call of all time."  ​"Yes, you read that right," Duk declares. "The worst call ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2009

    Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a UCI Muslim Student Union Fave, an Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Coward

    Ali, with a UCI goon trying to intimidate Levin by snapping a shot of himEvery year for the past couple of years, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union has invited a hilarious hater named Abdel Malik Ali, one so noxious that the Southern Poverty Law Center profiled the pendejo. I'm not sure why the MSU k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    La Voz de Aztlán Not Just Anti-Semitic, but Also Anti-Facts

    Our second-favorite piece of Internet effluvia (after Barbara Coe's e-mails, that is), is La Voz de Aztlán, the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing website run by Hector Carreon, a former Buena Park city employee who operates his one-man digital dung heap out of Whittier. What's funniest about Carreon is tha ... More >>

  • Film

    January 8, 2009

    [Special Screenings] Movie of the Week: 'Xanadu!'

    Our second-favorite piece of Internet effluvia (after Barbara Coe's e-mails, that is), is La Voz de Aztlán, the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing website run by Hector Carreon, a former Buena Park city employee who operates his one-man digital dung heap out of Whittier. What's funniest about Carreon is tha ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 4, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Our second-favorite piece of Internet effluvia (after Barbara Coe's e-mails, that is), is La Voz de Aztlán, the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing website run by Hector Carreon, a former Buena Park city employee who operates his one-man digital dung heap out of Whittier. What's funniest about Carreon is tha ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 28, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    Our second-favorite piece of Internet effluvia (after Barbara Coe's e-mails, that is), is La Voz de Aztlán, the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing website run by Hector Carreon, a former Buena Park city employee who operates his one-man digital dung heap out of Whittier. What's funniest about Carreon is tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Crocoshit Dundee?

    Local water officials, who are looking to Australia for expertise on how to survive one of the worst droughts in California's recorded history, hosted former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at its monthly luncheon on Thursday, something that prompted Rupert Murdoch's Aussie papers to mock Beattie, ... More >>

  • Music

    May 1, 2008

    Why Southern Hip-Hop Is the Same as FOX News

    Local water officials, who are looking to Australia for expertise on how to survive one of the worst droughts in California's recorded history, hosted former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie at its monthly luncheon on Thursday, something that prompted Rupert Murdoch's Aussie papers to mock Beattie, ... More >>

  • Features

    November 8, 2007

    Enter Poorman

    Life's a (bikini) beach for KDOC's returning late-night host

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2007

    SoCal Independent Film Festival: Saturday out of the Sun

    Nothing like a little suspense to kickstart one's Saturday. I'm not just talking about the festival's first program of shorts, either, but the suspense over whether an actual parking spot would be had. It'd be great to say that the festival was just so popular due to our press coverage that fans pa ... More >>

  • Film

    July 26, 2007

    It Doesnt Suck!

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent

  • Features

    May 24, 2007

    The Boras Factor

    Some fans and team officials think hes the devil. His player clients think hes an angel. Everyone agrees that super agent Scott Boras has changed baseballbut for better or worse? And what does he want now?

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2007

    Register Gone Red?

    The Orange County Register's parent company, Blackstone Group, said Red money is good money May 22 as they accepted $3 billion from its newest partner, the Chinese government, according to reports from several news agencies. Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that owns 28 daily newspapers and ... More >>

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    The Wrath of Wendy

    Chapman University professor fights lawsuit filed by controversial newspaper owner

  • Film

    October 5, 2006

    Money for Nothing

    Iraq for Sale loads more anti-war cannon fodder

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    Brave New Filmmaker

    Jim Gilliam of Uncovered, Outfoxed and Wal-Mart fame designs new distribution and fund-raising mod

  • Columns

    October 6, 2005

    Letters

    Jim Gilliam of Uncovered, Outfoxed and Wal-Mart fame designs new distribution and fund-raising mod

  • Columns

    December 23, 2004

    Diary of A Mad County

    Jim Gilliam of Uncovered, Outfoxed and Wal-Mart fame designs new distribution and fund-raising mod

  • Columns

    September 16, 2004

    Eight Days

    Jim Gilliam of Uncovered, Outfoxed and Wal-Mart fame designs new distribution and fund-raising mod

  • Features

    March 4, 2004

    American Bigmouth

    The right, and even some on the left, would love to shut up Michael Moore. But he aint budging

  • Columns

    February 5, 2004

    Of Mice and Menstruation

    Or Venus in Fur, with Convenient Slits

  • Columns

    November 20, 2003

    Feel the Love

    Or Venus in Fur, with Convenient Slits

  • Columns

    May 29, 2003

    Give Blood, Replenish with Merlot

    How to live during the summer of our discontent

  • Columns

    April 17, 2003

    The Last Resort

    Iraq is rocked, but our desert rocks

  • Columns

    April 3, 2003

    Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw

    Iraq is rocked, but our desert rocks

  • Features

    March 6, 2003

    War College

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Columns

    March 6, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Danas Follies

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Features

    May 30, 2002

    War! Huh?

    Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

  • Unknown

    April 11, 2002

    Dull Blade

    Patient: Blade II

  • News

    September 6, 2001

    Orange (County) Julius

    Touch Paul Franks monkeyonline

  • Columns

    May 3, 2001

    She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

    Touch Paul Franks monkeyonline

  • Culture

    March 15, 2001

    Populism and Plunder

    Thomas Franks history of bad ideas

  • Columns

    February 1, 2001

    Joan of Park

    Thomas Franks history of bad ideas

  • Features

    September 14, 2000

    Out of Nothing, This

    An OC Weekly Time Line

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Magnet Night

    How to attract the fans to a loser

  • Music

    September 16, 1999

    Holiday in Anaheim

    Notes from a week at Chain Reaction

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Fantasy Candidates

    Notes from a week at Chain Reaction

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Surf City, Here We Go

    Australia steals professional surfing . . . and Texas still sucks

  • Columns

    July 15, 1999

    The Ol Switcheroo

    Australia steals professional surfing . . . and Texas still sucks

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Goddamn You, Vin Scully

    Australia steals professional surfing . . . and Texas still sucks

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