Subject: San Pedro

• Tuesday's Headlines

  Apologetic at gunpoint: The Oxford-shirt-and-khaki-pants-donning man known as the "Irreconcilable Bandit" held up his 16th bank Monday—a California National Bank in Newport Beach. He repeatedly apologized to the teller, saying he was going through "hard times" and needed the money, said the FBI. Coastal curiosity: Giant squid started washing up on San Pedro's shore last Wednesday. And they're still rolling in. Before that, they were showing up in San Diego. Good news, bad

  June 5, 2007

• Yacht 'Cha!

  Not-too-early morning brought the start of the TransPacific yacht race to Honolulu, complete with free continental breakfast and pretty girls wearing leather knee-high riding boots (to a yacht race? I think we’re mixing our upper-class leisure events here, aren’t we?). Throw in Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, smiling with the whole of his catcher’s-mitt face, and I’m hooked. Of course I was there! In Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor on Sunday, the last wave of TransPac racers sailed by the

  July 17, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Ass Slapping Fun!

  Worm Attack in Dana Point? TMZ reports that Orange County police are investigating former Los Angeles Laker/Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman for allegedly committing a “crime” inside the Hennessy's Tavern near PCH in Dana Point. The celebrity website says Rodman was accused of slapping a female customer's ass so hard it left a “major mark.” No word on what part of his anatomy did the slapping. Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman, said dicks in his department's “sex crimes unit” are on

  September 24, 2007

• Last Night: Savage Republic at The Press

  By Waleed Rashidi Savage Republic January 12, 2008 The Press Better than: Savage Garden fronted by Fred Savage, that's for damned sure. Download: A live version of "Jamahiriya." Some bands get back together because the money's too good. Others reunite simply 'cause it's supposedly the honorable thing to do after they've chucked large speaker cabinets, empty Heineken bottles and reams of copy paper at each other when they last congregated in one sweaty rehearsal room a couple decades prior.

  January 13, 2008

• Letters

  July 1, 1999

• It Wasnt the Cheese!

  August 9, 2001

• Ears Shall Bleed!

  March 6, 2003

• Death and the Sale Woman

  October 30, 2003

• Gap Kids

  March 11, 2004

• We Have the Van

  June 23, 2005

• Urine, You're Out, You're Back In Again

  News item: A Huntington Beach man who co-owns the company that makes the "Whizzinator" that allows workers, job-seekers and parolees to fake drug tests pleaded guilty in a Pittsburgh, Pa., federal court Monday to conspiracy to defraud the government and conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia.   Joining Robert Dennis Catalano in pleading guilty were the 62-year-old's partner, George W. Wills, 65, of San Pedro, and their Signal Hill-based Puck Technology Inc. They are schedule

  November 26, 2008

• Shakespeare by the Sea

  April 2, 2009

• Thorns of Life Secret Shows

  Photo by Andrew YoussefSo maybe neither of the two secret Thorns of Life shows this weekend were in Orange County proper, but that doesn't matter because the influence of the members who comprise this new band stretch much further than any invisible lines.If you don't know, now you know...Thorns of Life is a trio featuring former Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil singer/guitarist Blake Schwarzenbach, former Gr'ups bassist/The L Word actress Daniela Sea and Pinhead Gunpowder drummer/punk zinester extra

  January 27, 2009

• OC Music Awards Nominees Announced

  I'll have some more thoughts on the more, uh, interesting choices made by the academy (which I am not a part of, despite what their Web site says) a little later, but for now here's the full list of nominees, unedited from the OC Music Awards press release.

  February 25, 2009

• Ben Weasel at the Knitting Factory

  I know this has nothing to do with Orange County, but once I overheard people mention they came from Salt Lake City to see this show, I figured I was in the clear. Anyway...Ben Weasel, frontman for pop-punk bands Screeching Weasel and the Riverdales (and now a solo artist), played his first two shows EVER in Los Angeles this weekend. I went to the Saturday show and felt something I had felt at a punk show in more than a decade: excitement and fun.

  March 16, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  January 22, 2009

• [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

  June 12, 2008

• Controversial Developer Robert Bisno Brings His Grease-a-Palm Politics to Santa Ana

  March 6, 2008

• Locals Only

  Seatbelt & the Pecking Order

  November 29, 2007

• Keep the Engine Running

  December 11, 2003

• Beyond Politics

  April 1, 1999

• Letters

  'The real issue is not the motives of the Gunther-the-Terribles but the thousands of California business establishments that refuse to comply with the ADA until a Gunther-the-Terrible comes along and sues'

  October 26, 2006

• Special Screenings

  September 7, 2006

• Commie Girl

  July 27, 2006

• Obsession, He Calls It

  June 15, 2006

• Commie Girl

  February 16, 2006

• Letters

  February 9, 2006

• Art

  January 12, 2006

• Orange

  October 20, 2005

• Tastes Like Downtown LBC

  November 18, 2004

• Feedback

  June 17, 2004

• Built This City On Dislocated Shoulders

  June 3, 2004

• My Duet With Lucinda Williams!

  May 27, 2004

• Eight Days

  May 20, 2004

• Chewing the Scenery

  May 13, 2004

• Bring Us Your Torturers Yearning to Breathe Free

  March 25, 2004

• Split your head down the middle

  February 26, 2004

• Moon Over Mesa

  August 21, 2003

• Yes, Depression

  January 23, 2003

• Enemies in Our Midst?

  August 22, 2002

• I Am Totally Insane

  July 18, 2002

• Mega Watt

  September 13, 2001

• Pompeii Dog

  August 9, 2001

• Cry Baby Beach

  May 31, 2001

• Heal the SUV

  June 8, 2000

• No Sellout

  May 11, 2000

• We Glimpse Krishna!

  July 1, 1999

• Letters

  June 10, 1999

• To Do This Weekend 5/22 - 5/24

  Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, Fri., May 22 thru Sun., May 31, 8 p.m.The new production titled, Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, will feature a large cast of performers. The story is set in 1920's San Pedro, the Port Town of Los Angeles amid the demonstrations of union activists during the worker's movement.Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, CA; 310-433-8774Battlestar Abstractica, Daily 1 p.m. thru June 30Fantastical visions of what the future might possibly be li

  May 22, 2009

• Snap Judgments About the Late, Lamented Polaroid at the Hibbleton

  August 13, 2009