Want to start a jihad against jihadis? You'll get your chance this October, when the David Horowitz Freedom Center plans to organize "the biggest conservative campus protest ever" with something called Islamo-Facism Awareness Week in college campuses across America. It didn't surprise us that UC Irvine is amongst the universities that will host the event, due to the campus' wacky Muslims (read Reut Cohen's fascinating blog for more details), but Cal State Fullerton and Santa Ana College? The onl
Mexicans are safe on this one: A report issued recently to the Laguna Beach City Council found that goats will clear vegetation from fire-sensitive slopes for a cost of $198,000 per year, while juveniles working off a crime in the county’s Probation Department would require $385,000. A consultant to the city noted that goats are “advantageous in their ability to work in all types of weather and terrain conditions.” So the goats win again. But tell me recidivism rates for probation punks w
Yet Another USC Criminal: Laguna Beach billionaire Igor Olenicoff has pleaded guilty in a massive tax fraud scheme involving $346 million and Bahama bank accounts. A product of USC after fleeing the Soviet Union and Iran, Olenicoff lied to the IRS about the existence of the off shore accounts. He’ll have to pay back taxes and penalties of more than $52 million. He also faces up to three years in a federal prison, although I bet it’s a couple of months if at all.
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MARS BARS PROTEST, 7 p.m.
Harold Schmitz, chief science officer of Mars candy bars, is set to speak on the future of chocolate. But this isn't cool with PETA, whose members plan to wear body paint in M&M colors and hold banners protesting Mars-funded lab testing.
Beckman Center, 100 Academy, Irvine
THE PHANTOM'S LEADING LADIES, 7 p.m.
Three Christines from a certain Andrew Lloyd Webber fave let their sopranos combine.
Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 Atherton Street, Lon
*Update: It appears young Aaron Westbrook (a teacher arrested Monday for allegedly sleeping with one of his students at Capo Valley High; see below) graduated from Vanguard University, the Christian higher learning post in Costa Mesa where his dad, Ed Westbrook, is a professor of business, is head of the business department and is involved with a whole bunch of Christian teen and children's charities. Dad even served as a judge pro tem in south County for more than ten years. Ouch. What it is it
In March 2008, Nguoi Viet--the Orange County-based largest Vietnamese newspaper in the United States--pushed out its longtime editor Hao-Nhien Vu at a time when rapid right-winger immigrants were calling the very-much-non-communist paper a tool of Hanoi.After his ouster, Hao-Nhien Vu launched his successful Bolsavik.com blog and began teaching at Santa Ana College.But today his exile from Nguoi Viet ended. The paper's management officially brought him back as editor."I think I'm good for