Subject: San Bernardino

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

  John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still inhaling cigarettes and liquor while coughing up pro-Nixon platitudes.) Aragon writes that “soon after [Wayne] died [in 1979], his ghostly image was reportedly seen numerous times aboard the vessel.â€

  July 15, 2007

• Friday's Headlines. No Surprises: March of the day laborers

  In town - the third favorite Dem: Later this afternoon, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards will be at the Disneyland Hotel to speak at the Orange County Democratic Party's 13th annual Harry Truman Awards & Dinner. In a CNN poll released Tuesday, Edwards followed Clinton (51 percent) and Obama (21 percent) with 15 percent. In other Edwards news, his wife Elizabeth will appear on NBC's "Deal or No Deal" at 8 p.m. tonight. March of the day laborers: This morning at 8:30, day laborers are expe

  October 19, 2007

• Monday's Headlines. No Surprises: Pot not a drug, says Schwarzenegger

  To catch an arsonist: "We will hunt down the people responsible for (the Santiago Fire). We will not fail," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said over the weekend. "If I were one of those people who started the fire, I would not sleep soundly." Strong words, but how much weight do they carry? Four years ago, a man was witnessed starting the fire that killed four people and burned more than 200 homes in San Bernardino. Was he ever caught? Nope. Still on fire: Though containment is now at 65 percent, t

  October 29, 2007

• OC Register Loses Sheriff Candidate

  Notice anything odd about this online Orange County Register story teaser from last night and this morning? Check our Total Buzz blog to find out what candidates Bill Hunt, Craig Hunter, Sharon Hutchens, Randy Adams, Jack Anderson, Salt Lake City undersheriff Beau Babka, San Bernardino undersheriff Richard Beemer and Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Walters had to say. Yep, Register editors left out one of the nine interviewed candidates for sheriff: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Commander Ralph M

  May 28, 2008

• Fullerton Chicano Murals Saved!

  Got a MySpace message from Sancho the Latin Blogger regarding a community meeting this past Tuesday in Fullerton regarding the city's endangered Chicano murals on Lemon Street south of Valencia (I would've gone but made the mistake of trying to leave San Bernardino at 5pm--HELL). Not only are the murals not coming down, but Fullerton is receiving a $10,000 grant to restore the murals and the city will actively collaborate with the Maple Street barrio to get the treasures looking their best again

  May 29, 2008

• Earthquake Strikes So Cal

  Just before noon this morning, an earthquake rocked Southern California--Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles. From the fifth floor of OC Weekly's Santa Ana headquarters, the 5.8** magnitude quake felt like I was standing on a rocking waterbed for at least 12 seconds. The building swayed back and forth. A large corkboard fell off my office wall. An energy drink can stupidly placed (by me) on top of a file cabinet flew three feet in the air. The staff quickly evacuated the b

  July 29, 2008

• In Search of... Skatejam2000

  June 8, 2000

• Get Out!

  June 22, 2006

• LowBallVideoChatter: U2, "New Year's Day" (from the 1983 US Festival)

  OK, a bit too obvious, sure, but I know I'm not the only one who automatically thinks of this song every January 1. This clip is from the 1983 US Festival (I believe the day that was branded as "New Wave Day") near San Bernardino, on the site that years later would become the Blockbuster/Hyundai/San Manuel Pavilion, capturing U2 before the fatal infection of pretense set in . . .  

  January 1, 2009

• Paid Dues Festival Line Up Announced

  As of yesterday, the 4th Annual Paid Dues festival actually ANNOUNCED it's line-up slated to perform at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino on Mar. 28.  The festival is presented by rapper Murs (or Murs 3:16, whatever) in association with Guerilla Union (one of hip hop's most venerable omni-brands, if you don't know,you betta ask somebody). Over the years, it's been dubbed by many as the hip hop equivalent to Coachella. The day long event is known for supporting some of country's most i

  January 28, 2009

• First of Two Reasons to Visit San Bernardino

  My chica has recently enrolled in a food preservation course offered by the University of California all the way in San Bernardino. She usually carpools every Monday with a chef who works at one of the Disney restaurants, but I drove the two of them last week, hoping to finally enjoy the mythical Rosa Maria's.Clockwork Coker, who grew up in San Berdoo, first mentioned this restaurant years ago as a place that opened and closed according to the owner's whims but that served amazing tamales. He ne

  March 17, 2009

• Stinkin' Royal George Brett Buys Angels Farm Team

  The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, which has been an Angels farm team since 2001, has been sold to a group led by Bobby Brett and his former Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer brother, George Brett. Majority owner Hank Stickney of Valley Baseball Club Inc., which moved the Quakes to Rancho Cucamonga from nearby San Bernardino in 1993, made the announcement this morning at the Epicenter, the site of many big league Angels' rehabilitation assignments following injuries. With or without the Major Leaguers,

  March 17, 2009

• This Week In Food

  We may have been slightly distracted by Obama's visit to the OC this week, but that didn't stop us from blogging with gusto... Indeed, I tried to guess where the President might eat during his Southland trip (I'm still none the wiser).I also blew the lid off popcorn prices, which have risen an evil 666% since 1929. Okay, that's 80 years, but movie tickets have gone up a relatively paltry 66% over the same period.Edwin was devastated to find out too late--thanks to his iPhone running out of juice

  March 20, 2009

• A Blast from Bishop Cirilo Flores' Child-Abuse-Condoning Past!

  See no evil, hear no evil...no evil!Blessed are the anonymous sources, for they bring justice to the little ones...Turns out newly ordained Diocese of Orange Bishop Cirilo Flores has a proud past of defending and condoning child abusers--and I'm not even talking about his treatment of numerous Orange diocese pedophile priests. Nearly 30 years ago, Flores was involved in investigating a nationally notorious child-abuse case in the Diocese of San Bernardino and not only did nothing about it, he ag

  April 7, 2009

• Please Rewind

  December 21, 2000

• Walk Until They Don't Drop

  September 20, 2007

• All Right, Okay, You Win

  Emith

  June 14, 2007

• An Inconvenient Slope

  Big Bears ski resorts are covered in snow despite a chronic lack of natural snowfall. So where are the crowds? Dont blame global warmingblame the media

  February 15, 2007

• Style Wars

  Supernatural sets world records

  December 21, 2006

• All Do Crazy Things

  Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 23 - Nov. 30

  November 23, 2006

• Felt So Good

  March 9, 2006

• This Week in Real Rasslin'

  January 12, 2006

• SHOCKING THEMSELVES

  JUNE 23-JUNE 30

  June 23, 2005

• Dam Us!

  Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man

  January 27, 2005

• Season 2, Episode 8

  January 13, 2005

• Last Minute Gift Guide

  December 16, 2004

• Beyond the Valley of the Dirt People

  November 11, 2004

• Ouch!

  Why are county health officials in West Nile Denial?

  September 23, 2004

• Summer Guide

  May 20, 2004

• Scorecard

  July 10, 2003

• A Road Runs Through It

  July 3, 2003

• Balboa Fun Zone

  May 29, 2003

• Anthrax? Yawn

  November 22, 2001

• A Guide to our Advertisers

  August 9, 2001

• To Da Break of Dawn

  April 26, 2001

• Waiting

  October 12, 2000

• Glowstick Smackdown

  September 21, 2000

• Coming Clean

  February 3, 2000

• Say Cheese!

  April 1, 1999

• Smoke on the Water

  February 18, 1999

• Abstaining from Reality

  March 27, 1997

• Navel Gazing: The Avis of Journalistic Blogs in the West

  Dear readers, prepare to withstand some navel gazing about Navel Gazing, the OC Weekly staff news blog: It has won second-place honors from Best of the West, which was founded in 1987 to promote freedom of information and reward journalistic excellence, mainly through its contest for newspapers and newspaper-run websites in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.2009 Best of the West Journalism Contest judges waded

  April 29, 2009

• Best Crime Story of the Week!

  Racists Give Birth TooDeputies in California's Inland Empire are on the ball. Searching for criminal white supremacist gang members and their associates, the San Bernardino County officers recently staked out local maternity wards in the area of Hesperia, Winchester and Perris. Why? Because they anticipated correctly that pregnant mothers in the gang desperately wanted to give birth on April 20, Adolf Hitler's birthday. According to the San Bernardino Sun, two of these mothers were captured at h

  April 24, 2009

• Calling All Loquat Tree Owners!

  Ernest Miller is a cook at the Disneyland Resort who also blogs at Culinary Safaris and is enrolled alongside my chica in the Master Food Preserver that has me going to San Bernardino more times than any non-909er should ever have to. He has an interesting request for SAFII readers: anyone has loquats you can give him? As a final project for the class, Miller wants to make loquat barbecue sauce, loquat jam, loquat butter, loquat preserves, and loquat brandy. He has a loquat tree in his Whittier

  April 23, 2009

• OC Register Says Advertisers, Clients Screwed Them Out of $350,000

  Lawyers for the Orange County Register have filed nine lawsuits in the last nine months--including two in recent days--seeking more than $350,000 in outstanding debt from advertisers, commercial printing clients and at least one distributor of OC's largest daily newspaper.According to Superior Court records, the Register wants $73,000 from Viet Tide, a Little Saigon weekly; $24,000 from Hyundai of Costa Mesa; $30,000 from Avalanche Mechanical Inc. in San Diego; $23,000 from Foto Classificados Ma

  June 12, 2009

• Wanted: Spaceballs Fans to Find the Mystery Obscenity

  Either an evil crew in "Spaceballs" or Black and Decker corporate dickwads.William Medina, 25, believes he got sacked from a Black and Decker warehouse job in Rialto because the company brass misinterpreted a 14-word message he posted on Twitter. He explained to the San Bernardino Sun that he recently moved with his stepson and pregnant wife from Colton, which is the dustbowl right next to the dustbowl of Rialto, 115 miles away to Ventura. During a recent Saturday shift, he was told he was neede

  July 7, 2009

• Anti-Prop 8/Pro-Gay Marriage Summit Deemed "a Disaster"

  ​Chris Prevatt of TheLiberalOC blogged and tweeted from a LGBT Leadership Summit in San Bernardino aimed at repealing Prop 8 and restoring marriage equality for all Californians. The gathering revealed a schism within the movement between activists who want to get a Prop 8 counter measure on the 2010 ballot and a leadership that, staring down the political realities, sees 2012 as a more likely year such a measure would pass.The meeting itself was a disaster. The agenda was not distributed in a

  July 27, 2009

• Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

    Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and racists and supremacists and Hitler lovers and Mexican bashers and hater/racist skinheads of Huntington Beach (and, yes, not all skinheads are hater/racists, so hold that comment). Oh, yes, the

  July 30, 2009

• Where There's Smoke, Newport Beach Hotel Sees Money

  Other than losing the services of 100 firefighters who have been dispatched to the mammoth blazes in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, Orange County has escaped unscathed from Southern California's current round of infernos. There hasn't even been that much smoke here, which is precisely what the Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach is banking on.

  September 3, 2009

• Locals Among Dozens Caught Up in International Criminal Phishing Scheme

  No, not that kind of fish fry. ​Congratulations, Orange County! Some of your residents were among today's arrestees in the largest cyber crime case of its kind. "Operation Phish Phry," the first joint cyber investigation between Egyptian law enforcement authorities and United States officials, netted the most defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case, turning up domestic suspects in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, elsewhere in&nb

  October 7, 2009