Scandals

[Exene Says...] The Way Celebrities Portray Rural White Men With Guns is Really Mature

Have you viewed Jim Carrey's recent video Cold Dead Hand? Clocking in just under six minutes, the video is a satire with a bull's eye painted on gun advocacy, Charleton Heston and Hee-Haw. Basically everything a rural white guy from the '70s is supposed to hold dear. Released four months after a cel ... More >>

Orange County Loses Two Hospitals in Two Weeks Due to Owner's Former Criminal Ways

A week after the closure of Anaheim General Hospital was announced, owner Pacific Health Corp. has revealed it's pulling the plug on Newport Specialty Hospital in Tustin as well. But don't blame these closures, or the shuttering of Pacific Health's Bellflower Medical Center and LA Metropolitan Medic ... More >>

Traffic

Art Theatre

[UPDATED with Conviction:] Mariano Antonio Castro, 58, Guilty of Ongoing Sex with Girl Impregnated at Age 11

See the update at the end of this post on a jury finding the defendant guilty Wednesday.ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 6, 8 A.M.: A 58-year-old Santa Ana man faces trial today on accusations he sexually abused a female relative for nine years and impregnated her at the age of 11. Mariano Antonio Castro has a ... More >>

Marilyn Manson

City National Grove of Anaheim

Mark Pinsky, Best-Selling Religion Author and Reporter, On His Pioneering Work Covering the Diocese of Orange Sex-Abuse Scandal

I have long admired the work of Mark Pinsky, the longtime religion reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and author of the best-selling The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of America's Most Animated Family, a fabulous book that makes its points in a way that leaves you knowing Pinsk ... More >>

Vince Neil and Great White

City National Grove of Anaheim

Michael Stephen Baker, LA Pedophile Priest, Arrested at Resort Pool Surrounded by Kids

The last time we wrote about Michael Stephen Baker, the pedophile priest was arrested in November of last year for violating his probation for kiddie-fiddling. Turns out he violated his probation again, this time on August 17, when probation officers found him next to a swimming pool where kids were ... More >>

Timothy Raemakers, Priest at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Aliso Viejo, Calls Sex-Abuse Allegation Lodged Against Him a "9/11 Moment"

In late 2010, the Catholic Diocese of Orange revealed that they were looking into allegations made by Matthew Carrigan that Father Timothy Ramaekers molested him as a child at St. Justin Martyr Church in Anaheim during the 1980s--this, after Carrigan filed a civil lawsuit in 2009 alleging Ramaekers ... More >>

Tom Fuentes' Funeral a Parade of Pedophile Protectors and Apologists

We at the Weekly had enough respect for former GOP chairman Tom Fuentes to not invade his funeral yesterday and cause a scene--but we're beholden to the truth, so damn straight we're going to blast his funeral for the parade of pedophile apologists and protectors that it was.The main attraction, of ... More >>

Tom Fuentes, Longtime Head of Orange County GOP/Protector of Pedophile Priests, Passes Away from Cancer

Just got word that Tom Fuentes--a titan of local politics for forging the Orange County Republican Party into the freaks that they are today, and a gnat of a man for his role in the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandals--passed away last night after a long battle with cancer. He was 63.The b ... More >>

Goodfellas

Regency South Coast Village

Why Does John Urell, Pedo-Priest Protector Supreme, Sit on the Board of a Catholic School?

​If there were justice in this world, Monsignor John Urell would've been in San Quentin long ago, in prison in a culture where child molesters and their protectors aren't welcomed with open arms like they are at the Diocese of Orange. But there is no justice, and so not only does John Urell remain ... More >>

Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson and More: Five Most Famous Pot Arrests in Texas

​Oh Texas, you're a real buzzkill. We just heard Snoop Dogg was arrested in Texas on Saturday for a misdemeanor drug charge, after a real snoop dog (oh, the irony) sniffed out the marijuana on his tour bus. According to TMZ, agents claimed they found a red prescription bottle with several joints ... More >>

Most "Outrageous" Lawsuits List Forgot Orange County's Notorious Contribution

​A national business lobbying group issued a year end report of its "most outrageous" lawsuits filed in 2011.Included on the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform's list is a woman who sued for $5 million because she was cheated out of an 80-cent refund; kids who sued their mother for not includ ... More >>

The Lobby Improv Team

STAGEStheatre

Conrad Murray Sued by Newport Beach Attorney Repping Imaging Company

​As if looking at four years in state prison for his role in the King of Pop's death is not bad enough, Dr. Conrad Murray is also facing a lawsuit brought by a Newport Beach attorney on behalf of a Poway nuclear medicine imaging systems company.The complaint against Murray, MSNBC and other media c ... More >>

'Tower Heist' Is a High-Rise Robbery

Stealing from the rich to . . . oh, whatever. Funny is the message in this Ben Stiller flick

'The Underpants'

Long Beach Playhouse

Ex-Arnold Schwarzenegger Flight Attendant Files $40 Million Libel Suit Against Gawker, National Enquirer

Schwarzenegger​Arnold Schwarzenegger's longtime personal flight attendant has filed a $40 million lawsuit that claims Gawker, National Enquirer, London Daily Mail and other news outlets libeled her in articles portraying her as the ex-California governor's mistress and one of her son's as his secr ... More >>

NBFF Midway: Reflexoes de um Liquidificador, High Road Premiere, Aaron Sorkin, California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown

Searching the High Road.​Checking in on the Newport Beach Film Festival at its halfway mark, viewers have been treated in this 12th year to the option of sticking to one genre of presentations--say, only shorts or comedies or Spanish-language movies--or creating their own cultural bouillabai ... More >>

Rep. John Campbell Skates in House Ethics Report

​This morning, an independent ethics office recommended the further investigation of Representative John Campbell (R-Newport Beach) and two other congressmen for possible wrongdoing because they raised funds from financial lobbyists around the time in December 2009 the House voted on a sweeping ov ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Ghost Spooks Propofol Maker Teva

​The worldwide scorn directed at those closest to Michael Jackson in his final days may have extended to the drug Propofol and its Irvine-based maker, which announced it is laying off 200 employees this year after having already let go 70 workers.Teva Pharmaceuticals maintains it already discontin ... More >>

Paula Poundstone

Art Theater

Sunset Boulevard

Bay Theater

How John Urell, Pedo-Priest Protector Extraordinaire, Allowed a Pedo-Priest to Teach Kiddies in Laguna Niguel

Urell: Still clueless after all these years...​The years change, the Catholic Church grows and weathers controversies, yet one truth remains in Orange County: John Urell is the most disgusting Catholic in Orange County history. Worse than Serra. Worse than Brownie. Worse than even the king of the ... More >>

Ryan Seacrest Leaves Children's Hospital of OC Without Anyone Trying to Kill Him

​American Idol, E News Daily and KISS-FM host Ryan Seacrest returned to Children's Hospital of Orange County on Monday to brighten the days of young patients, broadcast his radio show live and seek $5 donations to CHOC from listeners.The teeny broadcaster, who also visited CHOC in September 2009, ... More >>

Orange Coast Magazine Pulls All Punches in Article on OC Diocese's Most-Prominent Sex-Abuse Survivor

Orange Coast story...​I'm glad that Joelle Casteix--sex-abuse survivor from the Diocese of Orange's grubby employees and its most-prominent critic--is getting more and more attention, even if Orange Coast's profile of her in this month's issue is a blatant rip-off of my two-year-old Casteix profil ... More >>

Michelle "Bombshell" McGee Teams Up With Mel Gibson's Alleged Mistress for Strip Tour

​It isn't enough that Michelle "Bombshell" McGee contributed to the split of America's sweetheart Sandra Bullock and America's greaseball Jesse James--let alone the eventual disposition of the power couple's former Sunset Beach home.Now, as part of the tattooed tart's constant grasp for fame, she ... More >>

Roger Mahony Calls Family of Sex-Abuse Victim, Victim "Illegal Aliens"

​For years, the greatest shield Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony has used to protect his pedo-priest-protecting ass from the full wrath of the public is Mexicans, specifically of the illegal kind. His Eminence blesses marches for LA's many amnesty rallies, has spoken out against Pr ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Blasts the Catholic Church on its Aztlanista Tendencies--Why Not on its Pedophilia?

​Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban Apologist) has been beating the drums against illegal immigrants recently, and is now going against the Catholic Church for following the wasy of the Nazarene when it comes to strangers in a foreign land, which begs the question: why has Dana never criticiz ... More >>

Bishop Tod Brown Ignores Spiritual Pleas for Help from Suicidal Sex-Abuse Survivor on the Run

Brownie: As clueles as ever with the victims of his pedo-priests...​At its best, the Catholic Church is a refuge for the damned of society--witness the sanctuary movement of the 1980s, when the Church offered refuge to illegal immigrants fleeing war-ravaged Central American countries. It comforts ... More >>

OC Catholic Sex-Abuse Survivor to Protest at St. Angela Merici Tomorrow

Flores: Never met a pedo-priest he didn't cover up for...​While nearly all of us try to relax this Memorial Day weekend, Catholic sex-abuse survivors know that pedo-priest protecting never stops. Thus, the indefatigable Joelle Casteix and other survivors will protest tomorrow at 10 a.m. in front o ... More >>

The Myth that Norman McFarland was a Financial Genius

McFarland: About as efficient with money as a poor person who just won the lottery...​Now that the body of former Diocese of Orange Bishop Norman McFarland is cold and in dead in the ground, let's piss on his grave--specifically, the lie passed off as fact by the mainstream media that McFarland wa ... More >>

Los Ladrones Viejos

Museum of Latin American Art

Two More OC Connections to the Vatican's Current Pedophile Scandal

Trupia: How many boys in OC did he molest?​First in a three-part series this week on Orange County's connections to the "current" pedophilia scandal plaguing the Vatican. Nothing too earth-shattering--just connecting some dots--because I'm saving the good stuff for the near future. I'm warning you ... More >>

Breaking: Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Announces Retirement; Pope Benedict XVI Picks OC Native as Replacement

Heckuva job, Brownie!​In a surprise announcement this morning, Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown announced he would retire at the end of the year."I have enjoyed my time in Orange County, but it is time to move on," the 73-year-old head of Orange County's 1.1 million Catholics announc ... More >>

New Victim of Eleuterio Ramos Comes Forward, Plans to Sue Orange Diocese

Ramos​Even from the depths of Hell, the legacy of Eleuterio Ramos--the most prolific pedophile priest in the history of the Catholic Diocese of Orange, a man shielded from the authorities by every bishop Orange ever hosted--continues to torment the county's Catholic hierarchy. Ramos alone cost Bis ... More >>

Universal Drops CD Prices to $10, Lady Gaga Sued for $30 Million, 'Runaways' Interviews, Alex Chilton Tribute at SXSW

Will you start buying CDs again if they're priced at $10 or less? Universal Music Group hopes so.Producer, self-proclaimed ex-lover, files lawsuit against Lady Gaga for $30 million--claims he basically created the Fame Monster.

Sex, Drugs and Runaways

On the road to ruin or fame with the '70s-era teen proto-punk sensation

Martin Lawrence

Terrace Theater

a Peek at the Bishop's Past

Bishop Brown Escapes OC Court Date, But Now he Must Reckon with Monterey

The Year the Superstar DJ Died

WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Dinosaurs rule the dancefloors no more

'Tittie Twister'!

How the Los Angeles archdiocese stretched, twisted and contorted to hide bad, bad priests in Orange County and how we learned to love it

Facts and Feces

Rewrite history with the Register! Its fun!

Take the Bishop Michael Driscoll Pedo-Quiz!

Boy-Buggering Bingo!

10 unlikely winners and losers in the Orange Diocese sodomy sweepstakes

A Millstone Around Their Necks

Orange Diocese about to settle with sex-abuse victims for millions but will lose nothing

Wishful Adding

Diocese Report Cant Do the Math in Abuse Report

Must-See TV Producer

The Catholic Churchs game of hide-the-priest put Tom Fuentes in charge of an alleged pedophile