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Protesting a pedophile's presence: Members of SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) picketed at Seal Beach Sunday, warning locals that Michael Wempe, a convicted pedophile priest, was on parole and living in Leisure World. Sub resurfaces: After a nine-year death, Disney's brin ... More >>
After a polite email exchange with Seal Beach environmental/electric car/anti-Bush activist Doug Korthof -- he was catching This Ticking Time Bum up on what he's been up to lately (lots more than us, that's fer sure) -- it occured to us that if the automakers are telling the truth, our heads will al ... More >>
We swear this will be our final electric-car post, at least until the next one, but there was one other tidbit we learned from Chris Paine, the writer-director of the excellent Who Killed the Electric Car?, which is now playing at Edwards University in Irvine. Paine, Seal Beach activist Doug Kortho ... More >>
Need a Carona/Haidl primer? Paul Pringle and Christine Hanley provide one in today's Times. Or you could just skim the Moxley archives. Flying (and crashing) solo: An OC sheriff's deputy crashed his cruiser into a tree on an on-ramp to the I-405 in Seal Beach early this morning. The Register report ... More >>
JOHN SOLONE’S TRIBUTE TO SINATRA, 6:30 p.m. Luck be a lady. Piccolino Ristorante Pizzeria 28731 Los Alisos Blvd., Ste. 3 Mission Viejo CA 92692 (949) 380-7261 SCREENING: ANNIE HALL, 8 p.m. The odd couple: Diane Keaton and Woody Allen Bay Theater - Seal Beach 340 Main Street (340 Main Street) Seal ... More >>
I'm moving from Placentia to Seal Beach next week—my fourth relocation since 2001—and once again, I'm forced to confront a moral quandary: what the hell am I supposed to do with all the CDs that were given to me by hopeful Orange County and Long Beach bands looking for ink back when I was the ... More >>
Jack's Bad Monkey, Friday 9:30 p.m. Bring bananas. Harp Inn 130 E. 17th St. Costa Mesa CA 92627 949-646-8855 Whos Bad—the world's #1 Michael Jackson tribute band, Friday 8:00 p.m. The one-gloved wonders. House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim CA 92802 714-778-2583 Senior Patriots ... More >>
Jack's Bad Monkey, Friday 9:30 p.m. Bring bananas. Harp Inn 130 E. 17th St. Costa Mesa CA 92627 949-646-8855 Whos Bad—the world's #1 Michael Jackson tribute band, Friday 8:00 p.m. The one-gloved wonders. House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim CA 92802 714-778-2583 Senior Patriots ... More >>
Carnival of Animals, 6:30 p.m.Robert Kapilow, composer and conductor leads a chamber orchestra. Not balloon animals.Cerritos Center, 12700 Center Court Dr. Cerritos, CA800-300-4345 Orange County Mormon Choir Christmas Concert, 7 p.m.The crowd may be slim due to Prop 8 boycotts, but at leas ... More >>
At the Irvine Spectrum, according to this post here on the OC Metblogs. Personally, I've become re-acquainted with the chain's terrific burgers, ever since I moved to Seal Beach and can easily walk to the one at the end of the Seal Beach Pier.....
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Jim Caviolas effort to re-tree Seal Beach
Jim Caviolas effort to re-tree Seal Beach
The Wall, 8 p.m.It's international pot smoking day. Why not partake in this trippy experience? Thanks largely to illustrator Gerald Scarfe and his constantly morphing, slightly disturbing and completely spellbinding images, The Wall is an hour and a half of absolutely mind-bending provocation set to ... More >>
Film Screening: 10, 8 p.m.Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews and Bo Derek star in the 1979 film that made braids and bathing suits go together so well. George, a middle-aged screenwriter, kinda stalks a blonde beauty while on his honeymoon, only to learn that his infatuation isn't exactly what he dreamt o ... More >>
Film Screening: The Bridge on the River Kwai, 8 p.m. This 1957 WWII film classic starring William Holden and Alec Guinness won seven Academy Awards back in the day. See why tonight at the Bay Theater in Seal Beach. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Bay Theater - Seal Beach, ... More >>
Bay Theater
Speed shooter Daniel Horner's aim is true.Burglars, peeping toms and other intruders would be advised to stay away from the Anaheim home of Joey Goodness, the Brea home of Bryan Brockway, the Irvine home of Steve Berry and the Seal Beach home of Glenn Seki. The four are competing through Sunday a ... More >>
Jessica Ford Finbars in Seal Beach, a "New York style" Italian restaurant, serves up heaping bowls of pasta and thin-crust pizzas that stretch over the edge of the plate. The atmosphere is more homey than sophisticated, but it works for this neighborhood favorite, especially among those ... More >>
320 MainThe Place: 320 Main, 320 Main St., Seal Beach; (562) 799-6246.The Hours: 3-6 p.m. daily (including weekends); all day Sunday. Closed Monday.The Deal: $4 draft crafts, $4 house wine, $4 well drinks, $4 appetizers. $5 speciality cocktails Tuesdays.
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Photo by Meg StrousePeople come to 320 Main in Seal Beach to sip the stiff drinks owner Jason Schiffer mixes and chomp the steaks that Chef Joshua Miller sears. We wish we could do a profile on both; but for this feature, Chef Miller gets the stage as he answers our silly questionnaire. Stay tu ... More >>
If you're looking for something to do this weekend, make sure to check out the Seal Beach Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. While you're hanging out at the festival taking place near the pier, be sure not to miss Seal Beach artisan Seth Wegter's h ... More >>
Photo by Todd Barnes Today we continue our Q&A with Gabe Gordon, chef and owner of Beachwood BBQ in Seal Beach. Stay tuned for a recipe from our chef tomorrow. If you missed the first part, click here. What show would you pitch to the Food Network? I don't really watch the Food Network, so ... More >>
Megastores are closing left and right, but vinyl lives on. How else would you explain Fingerprints' expansion and the opening of Seal Beach's newest record store, Left of the Dial Records?LOTDR not only reads like Lord of the Rings in acronym form, it also specializes in psychedelic, garage, powe ... More >>
You're overstuffed with turkey, waterlogged with egg nog and slammed with yams--not to mention recovering from another forced dysfunctional family get-together. So, it might be tempting to bridge the day between Thanksgiving and a relaxing weekend with some of the dog that bit ya. Or, a litter of ... More >>
House of Blues
Flickr user Phillie CasablancaThe big story in the OC food world was the $5 million class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell alleging the chain sells fake beef, but other, better things happened this week. After the jump!
From Twitter, from a gal whose name I can't remember, whose question I can't quote verbatim because it's buried under a pile of tweets, but which went like this:Where can I find a good mimosa near the beach?Actually, she first asked about a good mimosa, period. I recommended Memphis at the Santor ... More >>
Seal Beach: Not LA, but who cares?LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold's list of Los Angeles' 55 best cocktails is essential reading, not so much for the drunk aspect but to hear him drop history bits after history bits on cocktails, restaurants, and so much more. But noth ... More >>
UPDATE, APRIL 27, 10:08 A.M.: Long Beach Fire Department Capt. John Hines began drinking April Fools Day morning at Schooner or Later bar in Long Beach, became heavily intoxicated and early that afternoon climbed behind the wheel of his Chevy pick-up, swerved into a bicyclist who was thrown 70 fe ... More >>
Beachwood BBQ's Facebook pageThey day after you've bungled your own Fourth of July BBQ, there will be hope for redemption: Beachwood BBQ has announced that their second restaurant will be open for business in downtown Long Beach, Tuesday, July 5th. But this, as we've reported before, is not just ... More >>
Beachwood BBQ's Facebook pageThey day after you've bungled your own Fourth of July BBQ, there will be hope for redemption: Beachwood BBQ has announced that their second restaurant will be open for business in downtown Long Beach, Tuesday, July 5th. But this, as we've reported before, is not just ... More >>
UPDATE, OCT. 24, 3:05 P.M.: Orange County Superior Court Judge Erick L. Larsh this afternoon assigned the defense of Scott Evans Dekraai to the Orange County Public Defender's office. The lead attorney (at taxpayers' dime) will now be senior Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders. Dekraai's origin ... More >>
Scott Evans Dekraai, the 41-year-old Huntington Beach man held without bail for last week's mass killing spree in a Seal Beach salon, is a teabagger. This license-plate frame at right was on Dekraai's Toyota SUV, proving that he was a proud member of the gun-lovin', tax-hatin', gubment-despisin' ... More >>
Much attention has been focused on why the gunman killed eight people and wounded another in the worst mass shooting in Orange County history. Much less attention has been focused on the victims who were left behind. These are the hair stylists, other staffers and clients inside Salon Meritage in ... More >>
Earlier today we blogged about ways you can help survivors and the families of victims of last week's mass killing in a Seal Beach hair salon:Seal Beach Hair Salon Shooting: 5 Ways to HelpRelated to one option are scam artists and the special place in hell reserved for them.
"What you will see if you restrict people's gun rights is more of what happened in Seal Beach last week, where people don't have the right to defend themselves." --Jeff Dunhill, an open-carry advocate who is incensed by Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month signing a ban prohibiting the spectacle ... More >>
A Global Warming is Real contributor has drawn a connection between the grief people feel over environmental issues and the Seal Beach hair salon massacre. Carlyle Carsh puts that head-scratching theory forward in her weekly Musings of a Malcontent column titled "Put Down the Gun and Breathe."
UPDATE, OCT. 28, 11:05 A.M.: About 100 people turned out for Thursday night's town hall at McGaugh Elementary School, and the majority opinion was gratitude for the jobs Seal Beach police and firefighters did in the face of the senseless Salon Meritage massacre that claimed eight lives. Police C ... More >>
Ten people were detained early this morning after the Orange County Sheriff's Harbor Patrol intercepted a boat used for human smuggling off Seal Beach, authorities said.A Seal Beach police officer said on live television that the Harbor Patrol had been tipped off about the boat's arrival around 1 ... More >>
Pedestrians around Seal Beach Pier were reportedly treated to a most distressing sight: people getting out of a car, grabbing a pigeon, ripping its head off and smearing birdy blood all over themselves.They are said to have then grabbed some more birds before filing back into the car and darting ... More >>
UPDATE, NOV. 29, 12:30 P.M.: During today's arraignment hearing, where Scott Evans Dekraai pleaded not guilty to murdering eight people and critically injuring a ninth, Deputy Public Defender Scott Sanders objected to press photographers being in the courtroom, saying this kind of media coverage ... More >>
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