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Did Bobby Hatfield Lose That Livin' Feelin' from Plot in Costa Mesa Suicide Bomber's Essay?

Confession time: Like many in the media, I looked at Kevin E. Harris blowing himself up, having covered his Costa Mesa house in foil to prevent the government from reading his mind and writing the gubment was also behind the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson, John Lennon and everyone who perished ... More >>

[UPDATED with Child Endangerment Count:] Nadia Maria Davis Lockyer Faces Meth and Child Abuse Charges

See Update No. 2 at the end of this post about DA getting child abuse count added, Ms. Lockyer's statement.See Update No. 1 about today's postponed court hearing.ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 5, 6:44 P.M.: Nadia Maria Davis Lockyer, the former Alameda County supervisor, estranged wife of state Treasurer Bill ... More >>

Teemu Selanne Plans Return to Anaheim Ducks

Vain loukkaantuminen tai vastaava muu takaisku estäisi Teemu Selänteen uran jatkon, kirjoittaa asiasta hyvin perillä oleva toimittaja . . . Oops, sorry, forgot to turn on the English translation to Veikkaaja magazine's very Finnish report about 41-year-old right wing Teemu Selänne planning to pl ... More >>

Kaba Modern Created a Dance Dance Revolution

Popping and locking with UC Irvine's dance crew and the movement it helped to create

Joseph A. Fletcher Was 2nd Highest Paid Muni Worker in State as Santa Ana's City Attorney

​City Attorney Joseph A. Fletcher left the cracked streets of Santa Ana a January ago with more than $605,000 in salary, severance and benies, and new data released by the State Controller show that brought him this "distinction":Fletcher earned more in 2010 than any other municipal employee in Ca ... More >>

It's Gotten Costa Messy In Costa Mesa

Scenes from the civic dissolution of America's latest public-employee battleground

Reza Abedi's Greatest Escape

A local high-school-wrestling coach gave up his Olympic dreams to flee Khomeini's Iran

Sade and John Legend Team Up for Tour Concluding at Honda Center

​R&B singer/songwriter Sade announced that she will be joined by John Legend for her "Once and a Lifetime" tour. Yes, he will be at every single concert. The Live Nation-produced tour hits the Staples Center in L.A.  Aug. 19 and 20. Since the demand was so high, they slated their last dat ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Goes to the Net for the Vietnamese

​Here in the goldarn US of A, we argue about Net neutrality, but over in Vietnam, there are citizens struggling just to get access to the Internet. It's like a mass of people who would looooooove dial-up AOL.Help for them is coming from this side of the world--in Washington, D.C., to be precise--w ... More >>

Register Columnist Apparently On to Something About a Sacramento Kings Move to Anaheim

​When Orange County Register sports columnist Randy Youngman wrote a few days ago about the possibility of the Sacramento Kings moving into the Honda Center in Anaheim, it still read like a pipe dream. Several other cities could also land the NBA franchise, selling the team could send the team any ... More >>

Orange County Interwebs Horror Show Surfs Cities

​This week's Orange County Interwebs Horror Show goes from city to city to see what is being said about them on the Interwebs. Mayors, chambers of commerce officials and visitors and convention bureaucrats may want to skip this one. (Especially in Fullerton, Santa Ana, Mission Viejo, Huntington Be ... More >>

The Real Squatters of OC

Can you really just show up at a multimillion-dollar Newport Coast home and move in without buying it or paying rent? Apparently, yes

Animal Research Protesters Face Terrorism Charges

A Long Beach couple could do five years in federal prison for aggressively protesting animal research at UC schools up north

Last Night: Paul McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl, 3/30

Andrew Youssef​See the slideshow here!Last Night: Paul motherfucking McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl.Better Than: Pretty much everything. In the world. Including sunshine. And rainbows. I laughed, I cried, I swooned for a man who could be my grandfather twice over. Such are the emotions of a Paul ... More >>

Somebody Up There is Pulling for Larry Norman Bio-doc "Fallen Angel"

​The Weekly's October 2008 cover story "Rock Angel" detailed the challenges Garden Grove filmmaker David Di Sabatino faced making a documentary on the late "Father of Christian Rock Music," Larry Norman. It didn't get any easier after the film Fallen Angel was in the can. Di Sabatino has been bera ... More >>

Elliott Almond on the Breaks of OC, Life and Journalism

Photo by Tim Harvey You might have seen Elliott Almond on his board in Newport Beach, Huntington Beach or San Onofre. Here he sits on a mini-mal at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.Today's OC Weekly Summer Guide features a Q&A with Elliott Almond, who spent several years covering surfing and ot ... More >>

[Newport Beach Film Fest] You Don't Want to Miss These Films, Documentaries and Shorts

Culture Clash Looks for the Real Orange County at South Coast Rep

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

It's Fun to (Not) Pay for the YMCA

On the corner of Santa Ana Boulevard and Broadway in SanTana stands a magnificent YMCA building (pictured here in the city's pre-Mexico days) that's been abandoned for years. Developers have proposed various ideas—turn it into a boutique hotel, reopen it as gym, transform the structure into an ext ... More >>

Waiting With Red-baited Breath

Little Saigon’s latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly

Finding a Scapegoat

Nick Schou's Kill the Messenger

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Lee the People

Filmmaker goes looking for her fellow G.L.s

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from OC's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Bluehair Woodstock

Welcome to America's Mazatlan

Letters

"Now Thats the American Dream: Hoping for a Windfall on Anothers Downfall"

So Board With the USA

Seeking low wages and lax environmental laws, OC boardmakers reluctantly find themselves in Asia

Dr. Death Revisited

In French TV documentary, ex-CIA official admits ties to CIA-cocaine scandal character

Diary of A Mad Year

2004 regurgitated

This Week in Good Chains

Unspecial Delivery

Newport officials freak over wine delivered with your pizza

Taco Towns

Community through comestibles

Im a Puss

But sos Governor Gray Davis

Diary of a mad county

Orange County, California: 2001

Polka Politics

The evolution of Los Tigres del Norte

Leaving for Spain, Developer Takes a Moment to Grab Newport City Hall

Going Ballistic

Headlines from around America

MORE DIRT, PLEASE

Re-creating Vietnam

Youll Die of Pleasure!

A roots week during which you may discover the point of the Japanese porn film Empire of the Senses

Viva Vasquez!

Small, Fuzzy Justice

Lies, corruption and a sock-stealing house pet

The Few, the Proud, the Spies

Spying on civilians was part of El Toros mission

DWUS

Driving While a UCI Student

Guerrilla in the Midst

The man behind the human-rights rhetoric

Culture Shock

Anti-Asian rants rile netizens

Take Me Online to the Ballgame

Angels fans fight to the inevitable end