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Toll Road Warriors

Because You're Ugly: Etsy Local Crafters--Handamade

No, your eyes do not deceive you—that is indeed an apple cozy. Hand-knit by San Clemente-based Handamade, I can't exactly say fruit cozies—pear cozies and coffee cup cozies are also up for sale—are entirely necessary, but they sure are reeeeeeeal freaking adorable. The cozies might ward off ... More >>

Toll Road Rage: Polls and Tolls

Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics

Slideshow: Agent Orange, Chapel of Thieves and the Pegs at OC Tavern

Beth Stirnaman was at the OC Tavern in San Clemente on Friday, and is back with pictures of Agent Orange, Chapel of Theives (who are, somewhat coincidentally, featured in this Friday's upcoming Locals Only column) and the Pegs. Pictures are here!

[Aural Reports] San Clemente's Büddafinger Just Wanna Be Heard

Beth Stirnaman was at the OC Tavern in San Clemente on Friday, and is back with pictures of Agent Orange, Chapel of Theives (who are, somewhat coincidentally, featured in this Friday's upcoming Locals Only column) and the Pegs. Pictures are here!

Wave Hello

San Clemente Ocean Fest

[Hey, You!] One Hundred Percent Perspiration

San Clemente Ocean Fest

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' and More

San Clemente Ocean Fest

Shelter

Its a Dogs Life

Hey, You!

Self-service

'In My Book, Rod Stewart . . . Kicked the Bucket in 1977'

Self-service

San Clemente

Self-service

Toll Road Rage: Gone Fission

Half-Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous

La Galette Creperie

Half-Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous

Noise Nazis

The heat keeps San Clemente bars sleepy

Afroman

The heat keeps San Clemente bars sleepy

TONIGHT: Afroman at OC Tavern

Damn, if you ever had a reason to truck out to San Clemente, tonight is the night (unless of course you live in San Clemente...in that case, just stay put). Touring in preparation of his new album Frobama, to be released  this week on May 5, rapper Afroman (pictured) takes a trip to OC's deep s ... More >>

San Clemente's White Horses To Be Replaced by New Italian Restaurant

White Horses, the esteemed restaurant by Marc Norris that we dubbed the Best Restaurant in Orange County, is going to serve its last meal June 30th.  Immediately afterwards -- like the next day -- new owners will take the reins (pun intended).  Their restaurant will be an Italian one calle ... More >>

OC Restaurant Closures During June--None, Not Even White Horses

Just spoke to Mark Norris at San Clemente's White Horses, who confirmed that the restaurant is in escrow--and that he'll be moving on to his new venture, Crispin's, as and when the sale is completed--but that it's staying open in the meantime. That's good news for fans of the esteemed ... More >>

Crime Time: Stabbings, Curfews, Drunk Marines, Drunk Councilman and Van's a-Rockin'

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more stabbings and [alleged] drunken-driving politicians . . . Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's DepartmentKnew those Trader Joe's bags were good for something . . .​MONDAY, JULY 27Cash and Carry A man walked up with a Trader Joe's b ... More >>

TONIGHT: Aquabats, TSOL at OC Tavern

​Well, how about this? A free local show tonight from two of the most prominent veteran Orange County bands. Life could be worse.It's the "Surfercross After Party," from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the OC Tavern in San Clemente, and featuring performances from the Aquabats (pictured, but you already knew ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off: Surfrider Foundation Builds Green

Surfrider.org​The buildings of Surfrider's global headquarters in San Clemente make up just one more demonstration of their commitment to preserving our coastal environment. The U.S Green Building Council (USGBC), an organization with a strict rating system for design and construction, awarded Sur ... More >>

Five Great Iconic, Old-School Restaurants

Where bird is the Eternal Word...​Recently, a reader wrote to complain about my choice of Aloha BBQ as the best restaurant in Mission Viejo for my book, Orange County: A Personal History. Her choice of Capriccio's wasn't better--really, Aloha's main competition is Hatam. But the email got me think ... More >>

A Weekend of Lines n' Numbers for Climate Action

Spencer Kornhaber / OC Weekly​The International Day of Climate Action came and went, and global warming has been solved. What? Oh, sorry. It's still a problem. But at least some people tried to do something about it.This was true in Orange County. I stopped by the 350.org event in San Clemente on ... More >>

Crazy Morning in San Clemente

​A 23-year-old man whose actions brought Orange County sheriff's deputies to a San Clemente apartment early today is innocent of any criminal charges against him until they are proven in court, but it is safe to say he's at least guilty of making a spectacle out of himself.

Is This The Best California Police Mug of 2009?

Good stuff, man!​Bayron Reyes Lopez (pictured in sheriff's custody) was allegedly under the influence of narcotics this week in San Clemente when the 26-year-old gruesomely choked to death a small dog, poured coffee over his head, stripped and ran naked around a tennis club before his capture, acc ... More >>

Rock Bottom Perform at 420 Freestyle Rap Session on KUCI

It's not uncommon for a sufficiently skilled hip-hop crew to nudge their way onto college radio and spit a couple verses over the airwaves. But this video of San Clemente/Laguna Nigel rap trio Rock Bottom (featured in last week's Locals Only column) let's us know that the group's crazy-off-t ... More >>

Get Gastronimica at Rags Next to Crosby

​A food critic has few culinary rituals, given he or she must constantly push forward in the search for the newest, best places. I can count a couple I follow--drunk sessions at Memphis at the Santora, Anaheim meetings at Kareem's Restaurant, rest stop at the Surfin' Chicken in San Clemente, and m ... More >>

A New Gastropub to Debut in San Clemente

​Though The Next Door in San Clemente calls itself "a local bar & kitchen" and not a gastropub, hearing the details about the soon-to-be open restaurant will all but confirm it is one. There's, of course, the name, which closely resembles the last gastropub to debut around these parts, Sid ... More >>

Wanted: Beach Cam Photo Caption

​Reader Diane E. Johnson shares the photo after the jump and this observation:"Here's a pic from the San Clemente Beach Cam.  Well, at least I thought it was amusing!"It is. But it's in desperate need of a caption. Any nominees out there?

Get Farmer's Tan, Head to OC Film Fiesta

Farmer's Tan​The local film scene heats up this weekend with the San Clemente screening of a film about an Orange County high school student facing shame for taking his farmer's tan to school and the Santa Ana continuation of the OC Film Fiesta.

San Clemente Home With Ocean View, 4 Bedrooms and Suicide-Pact Past Gets Offers

​A beautiful home in San Clemente's Sea Pointe Estates is getting purchase offers, which is great for the out-of-state owners because at least one blogger reports the 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath abode has mold and termite problems.Oh, yeah, and then there's the little matter of a family of five being foun ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: 'Alien' Sightings Reported in San ClementeStory Highlights: Teens in costume invade downtown San Clemente and pier, drawing puzzled looks from passersbyComment by ICEDAMERICANO: Great to see kids being expressive through creativity, rather than all the negative ways they find. This look ... More >>

The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show Goes Downhill Fast

​Have you ever seen the YouTube videos of the annual Big Wheel races down Lombard Street in San Francisco? Adults in costumes get behind the handlebars of the kiddie scoot-scoots before putting their lives at risk on one of the world's most-windy streets. No wonder the sacrificial ritual is held a ... More >>

Patios, Back Yards Collapse Into Canyons in San Clemente Landslide

ABC7​Six houses in San Clemente's Shorecliffs community are losing ground, literally, after a hillside behind them gave way last Thursday. Four of the homes lost portions of their back yards and patios and have been red-tagged (declared too dangerous to inhabit).   The displaced res ... More >>

Glenn Thomas Langohr, 'Drug War-Prison' Novelist, Arrested Again

​Glenn Thomas Langohr, a limousine-business owner and San Clemente-based author, has written about organizing a rally "against the California prison union for using terror tactics to control laws and farming prisoners to other states to deal with overcrowding."He may be able to hold that rally b ... More >>

Mini Darth Vader in Super Bowl Commercial Is From OC

​The Force is from OC.  The kid under the Darth Vader helmet in one of this year's most talked-about Super Bowl commercials is 6-year-old actor Max Page of San Clemente. He's become famous for starring as the pint-sized Star Wars villain in an ad for the 2012 Volkswagen Pa ... More >>

Did Arrestee at Border Pucker Up With a Meth Mouth?

​Four pounds of crystal meth were found taped inside the jacket of a woman at the San Clemente border checkpoint Sunday morning, according to the feds.The 34-year-old Chula Vista woman (and yes, haters, U.S. citizen) was riding in a van headed north on the 5 freeway. When she got out of the van, a ... More >>

[UPDATED with More and Scarier Details:] Young Man Wades Nude, Then Eats Beach Sand

​UPDATE, APRIL 6, 3:34 P.M.: California State Parks confirmed that the naked man arrested after coming out of the San Clemente surf Tuesday morning was Jesse William Sauder, 18, of San Clemente.And, according to district supervisor Ken Kramer, the incident was more dangerous than might be indicate ... More >>

Beware the Meathead

[Hey, You!] Bogarting the corned beef on St. Patrick's Day

[UPDATED with Federal Action Sought:] No Neighboring Nukes Tempt San Clemente City Council

​UPDATE, MAY 18, 11:31 A.M.: Facing a full house of potential voters opposed to the continued operation of the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the San Clemente City Council decided Tuesday night to send letters to lawmakers seeking removal of radioactive waste from the plant. ... More >>

San Clemente Classic Car Show

Avenida Del Mar in Downtown San Clemente

Sobriety Checkpoint at an Undisclosed Location in San Clemente Tonight

​If you and a few friends are going to be partake in a bit of drinking and debauchery in San Clemente on this Friday evening, be sure to cut someone off early or assign the dreaded DD role when the night begins. The city's finest will be stationed at a sobriety checkpoint, looking to take a few dr ... More >>

[UPDATED with No Action:] San Onofre Nuke Plant Shutdown Tempts San Clemente City Council

​UPDATE, JUNE 22, 4:36 P.M.: Travel back in time, kiddies, to one month and four days ago. The world was so much different then. Facing a full house of potential voters opposed to the continued operation of the nearby San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), the San Clemente City Council g ... More >>

Anti-Nuke Activists To Turn San Onofre Meltdown Scenario Into Street Art

​If you live anywhere near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, (SONGS) which straddles the border of Orange and San Diego counties near San Clemente and Camp Pendleton, then boy does the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility have a treat for you. All this week, according to a story in yesterd ... More >>

Anarchy in the SC! Posters for Global Revolution Group Anonymous Paper San Clemente

​Mysterious posters popped up on trees and light poles along Avenida Pico, Avenida Del Mar and the downtown in San Clemente over the weekend, just as they have in other Orange County cities lately.They advertise the "global revolution group" Anonymous and direct people to whatis-theplan.org, an eq ... More >>

[UPDATED: Lights On!] Life in South Orange County; CUSD Schools Closed Friday

​UPDATE, SEPT. 9, 9:43 A.M.: While most of South Orange County was already asleep or elsewhere--seeing as how the power had been out for hours and SDG&E was expecting the blackout to extend into Friday--the lights came back on in Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano and parts of Laguna Niguel, shor ... More >>

Capistrano School Program To Teach Kids in Chinese

​Ni hao. Recognizing that China is set to become the next global superpower and that Mandarin is the most-spoken language in the world, Capistrano Unified School District trustees approved what will be the county's first Chinese-English language program.  Those in the program, which ... More >>

241 Extension Builders Figure If You Can't Beat 'Em, Piecemeal 'Em

​Developers of the despised Foothill (241) Toll Road expansion into San Clemente figure if you can't beat 'em, piecemeal 'em.That's the takeaway from a Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency committee approving $206 million be spent for the first four miles of a planned 16-mile extension ... More >>

Daniel P. Morgan, Navy Corpsman Whose Bomb Scare Cleared High School, Gets More Brig Time

​Daniel P. Morgan, the Navy medic responsible for clearing San Clemente High School classrooms on the first day of school after Camp Pendleton officials discovered he'd scribbled bomb fantasies involving the campus, was reportedly sentenced Tuesday to four months in the brig--to go with the 137 ... More >>