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Orange County's Jeremy Yamaguchi Wins National TV Stage At Conservative Pow Wow

Orange County's Jeremy Yamaguchi--the Republican activist and Boy Scout who first won election to the Placentia City Council as a 19-year-old Cal State Fullerton student in 2008--garnered a national cable television audience on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washi ... More >>

Top 10 Recent Rock Star Meltdowns

We get it. There are some pressures of rockstardom that no mere mortal should ever have to endure. But for some, it goes beyond the typical frustration of playing the same songs night after night, brutal scrutiny from the press, copious amounts of drugs, and road fatigue. Take the volatile combinati ... More >>

Meet the Politicians in 'The Campaign'

F-bombs and bestiality aside, Jay Roach's film is a small-town fable

Five Best Choices to Permanently Replace Suspended Talk-Show Pendejos John & Ken on KFI

​Man, I would've loved to be in the room when KFI-AM 640 bigwigs called in John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou last week and told them they were being suspended for calling Whitney Houston a crack ho. I would've loved to see the brass strain for credulity in telling JohnKen that finally--finally! After y ... More >>

Save the Humans In 'Big Miracle'!

It's the actors who need rescue in this trapped-whale saga

[UPDATED] Loretta Sanchez Calls Republican Attack on Planned Parenthood "A Shame"

​[UPDATE at 5 p.m.: After her morning TV appearance, Congresswoman Sanchez appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews in the afternoon and reiterated her stance that "it's really sad" that Komen for the Cure has decided for political reasons to attack "a very important" medical resource for countles ... More >>

Common Catches Heat From Conservatives Over White House Invitation

facebook.com/thinkcommon​Rapper Common suddenly finds himself in the midst of controversy after accepting an invitation to be part of the White House's "Poetry Night" this week. The Chi-town MC, who will join Jill Scott, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander and others as guests of President Barack O ... More >>

'The Reach of Resonance' Connects the Dots

Steve Elkins and David G. Marks' documentary is burning up the art-film circuit

We're Giving Away Tickets to See Railroad to Alaska, Beneath the Buried and Omaha at the House of Blues

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​It's time to get your metal on. On February 27, the House of Blues is presenting Bill Bennett's Metal Madhouse featuring Railroad to Alaska, Beneath the Buried and Omaha. Railroad to Alaska's lead singer Justin Suitor said that there will also be one other performanc ... More >>

Slappy White Wants to Fuck Valentine's Day

Not this Slappy White...​It's been some time since the illustrious Rev. Slappy White (not Red Foxx's old pal) the brazenly Fascist impresario behind Slappy White & his Calvacade of Comic All-Stars, has graced the county with his presence. The driving force behind the sort-of-annual A ... More >>

Bristol Palin to UC Irvine: I Want to Come There and Talk Abstinence. OC Gays to Bristol Palin: Keep Out

​Hot hater spawn, unwed teen mom and Dancing With the Stars runner-up Bristol Palin wants to talk abstinence on university campuses, including Orange County's UC Irvine.That desire has prompted some OC gays to send a letter to the University of California urging a rejection of such an appearance.

Van Tran Move Makes Sacramento Bee's "Worst" List

Van Tran ​There's no doubt that three months before the November election polling showed Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez might be in danger of losing to Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran.To thwart Tran's potential rise, Sanchez--already known as a tireless campaigner--doubled he ... More >>

Van Tran Filed Inaccurate Pre-Election Disclosure Reports

Tran: Oops​In his energetic but losing attempt to unseat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran under reported pre-election money pouring into his campaign, according to amended financial disclosure reports filed at the Federal Election Commission (FEC).Size of the ... More >>

Black Eyed Peas Swat Off Lawsuits

[Mental Notes] Antoine Dodson beyond the Internet, plus Justin Bieber in comic-book form

Under Bieber Achiever: Bio's Biggest Crime Isn't That It's Bad But That It's So Damn Boring

Bluewater Comics/Michal SzyksznianTo preview ​tonight's concert at Honda Center, Heard Mentality reviews the bio comic Fame: Justin Bieber Unauthorized so you don't have to read it.It's a common and universally agreed-upon idea among critics that there's nothing easier--and in most cases ... More >>

Can Van Tran Get Loretta Sanchez Fired?

[Moxley Confidential] Republican challenger says he will boot OC's lone Democrat from Congress

What You Missed: Sarah Palin, Anaheim Film Festival BMX Exhibition, Artopia, the National

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​It been a drizzly last few days, but that didn't stop the weekend--as part of our Anaheim Film Festival coverage, photographer Keith May visited the Anaheim Garden Walk for their BMX exhibition. Sarah Palin also rallied her Mama Grizzlies in Anaheim that day (scary). ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Launches Positive TV Ad

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySanchez says she's one of us​An emotionally bruised Van Tran can sigh in relief.Loretta Sanchez's new TV ad in Orange County's most heated congressional race is all about her. It doesn't even mention Tran, her Republican challenger, or him sleeping on the job, ignorin ... More >>

Five Things the National Media Should Note About Loretta Sanchez in their Parachute Profiles of the Sanchez-Tran Congressional Race

​The national media is starting to send its reporters to our sordid little burb, specifically the 47th Congressional District, where incumbent Loretta Sanchez is facing her first true challenger ever in State Assemblymember Van Tran. Politico did an okay job; the Los Angeles Times published a retr ... More >>

Obama-Palin Comics: Heal Our Country by Putting the Right Words in Archie's Mouth

Archie Comics/Dan Parent and Tito Pena​Oh, comic book publishers, how you love to splash President Obama and Resident Crazy Palin on your covers. It's a compulsion with you people, isn't it? It's like watching an alcoholic try to convince you that he can stop at anytime while scouring the house fo ... More >>

Ex-Congressman Drops Facebook Friendship with Orly Taitz; Who's Next?

​The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported last week that Orly Taitz--the Laguna Niguel dentist who famously claims that Barack Obama isn't eligible for the office he holds--lost one of her Facebook friends recently. On Thursday, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal shed his social-networki ... More >>

Can Someone Please Get Orly Taitz a Spell Check?

Christopher Victorio/ OC Weekly​In Orange County, we've grown accustomed (read: numb) to Orly Taitz's nauseating logic, hate-mongering rhetoric, and borderline paranoid-schizophrenic anxiety attacks regarding left-wing conspiracies and Obama's citizenship.  But c'mon, Orly: you supposedly ear ... More >>

UPDATED: Orly Taitz Pancake Painter Promises to Reveal Reveals the Pancake Puppet Master

Originally posted June 10 at 7:30 a.m. Updated July 6 at 5:45 p.m.: Lacey has revealed his secret! See bottom of post.​Pancake painter Dan Lacey's artwork enraged one of his portrait subjects, Laguna Niguel's Dr. Orly Taitz. The birther activist, dentist and failed Secretary of State candidate las ... More >>

James Hirsen, Fox's Anti-Hollywood Pundit, Indoctrinates Local Screenwriters Tonight

​OC Screen Writers Association, a nonprofit organization formed to help amateur and professional writers and filmmakers pool their talents to help one another, warns that the guest speaker for its first networking event tonight is "not buying the drinks."That's a shame because members may need ... More >>

Lady Gaga Bio Comic: Low On Gaga, Big On Bill

​Bluewater Comics has made a name for itself in non-comics circles thanks to its line of biographical books featuring such luminaries as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi and Stephenie Meyer. Last week, the publisher released the Fame: Lady Gaga bio comic, and with it, Bluewater d ... More >>

Portugal. The Man Keep the Budget Low, But Their Spirits High

Five years after moving from Alaska, they still don't need money to be happy

Teabagging Chuck DeVore

Photo by John GilhooleyDoes Chuck DeVore have an app for teabagging?​Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who's in the middle of a longshot bid to become your U.S. senator, is cooing about his impending endorsement Sunday from the Tea Party Express, the national conservative movement that helped s ... More >>

Feeling Slutty? Let Us Dress You Up as OC's Scariest People!

More Republi-Drama at OC GOP Meeting

Chris Norby, in the fray​After a not-so-harmonious Western Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend and amidst a downright ugly state assembly race in north county, Red County's Alan Bartlett reports that last night's OC GOP Central Committee contained a few moments of strife and hand ... More >>

SportsNation Loves Angel Nation!

If the Angels are America's Team, does that make Barbara Coe the new Sarah Palin?​What is going on with America? Forget about the economy, the Know Nothings, the garbage-dwelling Linda Ackerman campaign and refry this: in an ESPN SportsNation poll that I can't find online but was just broadcast on ... More >>

The Top Five Artistic Depictions of Orly Taitz

Clockwork Coker sent me this Photoshop job he saw posted on Crooks and Liars:​ It's the "Taitz-Tanic," see. Lou Dobbs is being targeted by Media Matters for his questions about Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidency, while Laguna Niguel's attorney/dentist Orly Taitz has recently faced a num ... More >>

Al Qaeda's Goat Boy: Back from the Dead and as Annoying as Ever

Goat Boy: I'm Ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack!​ Apparently, your teabagging grandma isn't the only person who thinks the election of Barack Obama spells doom for America. In celebration of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Al Qaeda has just released a video called "The West and the Dark Tunnel." In the video, ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Fashion-Off With Sarah Palin Draws Response From Congresswoman's Chief of Staff

Courtesy Rep. Loretta Sanchez's Office The congresswoman presses the flesh at Little Saigon's Tet Festival. For years and years and years--beginning long before most of you were born--Clockwork has taken potshots at Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove). For that, this wind-up Cra ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 19

Orange County Register: Yvonne Pampellonne--who it must be noted, based on her DMV mugshot, "That's a man, baby"--is wanted by Huntington Beach Police for grand theft fake boobies. Okay, technically the 30-year-old is accused in a $20,000 arrest warrant of stealing another woman's id ... More >>

Amazingly, Hugh Hewitt Only Classy Local Conservative Pundit for Obama Inauguration

The great tragedy of our local conservative yakmouth-gone-big Hugh Hewitt is that there is intellect in him. Yeah, he always seems to walk lockstep with wackos (see: Nixon, Romney, Palin), but the guy is well-read, fund-raises often for good non-political causes and isn't ultimately noxious. Silly, ... More >>

When the Going Gets Tough, the Rick Warren Scandal Gets Weird

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has today's best assessment of the Rick Warren-Barack Obama invocation dust up: "Not only is it getting worse, it's getting weirder."Yesterday, there was Pastor Wiley Drake of First Baptist Church in Buena Park demonizing Warren's participation in the Jan. 20 inauguration of ou ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

Presidency by Numbers: Orange County Edition

Gramps is just gonna rest his eyes some... Orange County Democrats are justifiably happy today as their presidential candidate will be sworn in on Inauguration Day Jan. 20, 2009. And they can take some pride in the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Democratic ticket's 401,605 votes being only 28,755 votes shy ... More >>

In Seal Beach: Measure Z Passes

Almost from the day I moved to Seal Beach four months ago, my eyes have had to endure the visual pollution of campaign signs begging for either a Yes or No vote on Measure Z. The Yes people gave the No folks a serious ass-kicking on Tuesday, as you can see: Z-Seal Beach, Measure to Establish Unifo ... More >>

The Party's Over

State GOP chairman Ron Nehring: "Lease, don't buy..." The state GOP's "Victory Night Party" (hah!) was over before it started. Driving over to the Hyatt Regency Irvine to make the 8:30 p.m. start time, I was talking on my Bluetooth to my brother in San Francisco when he informed me John McCain was ... More >>

Halloween Shows! Spooky! Scary!

H-ween's almost here, dudes. If you're wondering where you and your Don Draper, Sarah Palin or Sexy Jailed Ted Stevens costume should show up to, here are some ideas on what to do this Friday. Or should I say what to BOO! Ahahaha. Right.

What You Missed Over the Weekend: Margaret Cho

She opened Saturday night's show with a scowl and a simple "I really fucking hate Sarah Palin." It may seem obvious—particularly from a bleedin' heart lib, fag hag, Christian right-hatin' (and, notably: former Sunday school teacher) comedienne like Margaret Cho. She was met with cheers of course. ... More >>

[Election 2008] 25 Reasons Why John Sidney McCain III Sucks

The Great Debate: John McCain and Barack Obama vs. John Oates

There are two very important cultural happenings tonight. Presidential nominees John "My Friends" McCain and Barack Obama will engage in a sure-to-be-scintillating debate of domestic policy and the economy at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex on the campus of Hofstra University in Long ... More >>

Nativo Lopez Organization Cowardly Stays "Neutral" on Propositions 8 and 4

Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent t ... More >>

Obama Lets the Nuns at St. Joseph's Have It

There seems to be some confusion out there regarding a band of courageous Catholic nuns turned anti-union, the staff who now work at their multi-hospital system and the big union trying to organize them. Just to add more spice to the mix, Barack Obama has now chimed in, calling on the Sisters of S ... More >>

Will Rappers Cost Obama the Election?

Please, Plies, come out in support of Sarah Palin Young Jeezy's brief flirtation with John McCain on the set of Saturday Night Live aside, it's clear rappers favor Barack Obama by a wide margin in this election. (Check out this survey, for starters.) Though emcee after emcee has supported Obama wit ... More >>

Say You Will Build It, and They Will Come . . . If the 'It' Is a Toll Road Over Trestles Parkland

The Mexican invades . . . Signal Hill?

Once Grand, 'The Women' Is Now Just Another Chick Flick