Silicon Valley

In Downloaded, It's Not Stealing, Sharing

In a new doc, Napster's still playing dumb

U.S. Innovation, Chinese Start-Up Money and Death by China Mix at UC Irvine

UC Irvine Economics Professor Peter Navarro famously authored with Greg Autry the book Death by China, which argues the People's Republic's "ruthless and corrupt" Communist government threatens global economic stability. (Navarro also appears prominently in the recent documentary based on and with t ... More >>

Brice Harris, New State Community Colleges Chancellor, and Timothy P. White, Incoming CSU Chancellor, Challenged from the Get-go

Brice Harris took over the California Community Colleges system as chancellor on Nov. 6. Timothy P. White will be installed as the California State University system chancellor at the end of this month. Both are being welcomed to office by a broad, nonprofit coalition of education, business and ci ... More >>

Tesla Motors Becomes OC Weekly's Second-Coolest Neighbor

Time was, OC Weekly world headquarters was the coolest, most-Earth-friendly place in our neighborhood, which is in the area of Kalmus, Pullman and Red Hill in Costa Mesa.Then came the Mother's Market distribution facility, now the second coolest, most-Earth-friendly place at Kalmus and Pullman. Now ... More >>

Ripe Author Cheryl Sternman Rule Stops in OC For Intimate Garden Dinner Event

Produce porn may not be a thing--yet. But when readers page through Ripe: A Fresh, Colorful Approach To Fruits and Vegetables, moaning often ensues. The book, packed with recipes, stories, kitchen tips and mouthwatering photos, is like a love letter to food grown from the ground, one that even non-h ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Have So Many Names?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And your last reminder to buy 'Taco USA' before Gustavo gets deported!

[UPDATED with Correction:] Revenge of the Electric Car ALREADY ROLLED Into Long Beach

​CORRECTION, DEC. 12, 9:50 A.M.: No, it was not a bank of dead batteries that prevented filmmaker Chris Paine and his new documentary Revenge of the Electric Car from showing up as advertised (by . . . gulp . . . me) at the Art Theatre in Long Beach Sunday. As it turns out, that event was Dec. 4. ... More >>

'Building 31,' A Boeing-Owned Lab in Huntington Beach, Is Prepping To Close Its Doors

​Did you know that Boeing developed big ol' scary weapons at a lab in Huntington Beach? But now, "Building 31", which designed rockets, lasers, plane parts and secret Pentagon weapons, is prepping to close its doors. In a post by Wired magazine's Danger Room blog, which broke the story, ... More >>

Rick Perry to Bring His Anti-Social Security Message to Orange County's GOP Social Security Recipients

​The day after the Sept. 7 Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Texas Governor Rick Perry will navigate the Southern California freeway system (or probably fly over it) for private meetings with fat-cat donors in San Diego and Newport Beach.But worry not, mortgaged ... More >>

[UPDATED with Tribune Talks Back On:] Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies

​UPDATE, JUNE 16, 9:22 A.M.: Now that merger talks with MediaNews have broken down, Irvine-based owner of the Orange County Register Freedom Communications has revived negotiations with that other Southern California newspaper  publisher.No, not the Los Angeles investment company that bought ... More >>

Five Ridiculous Music Lawsuits to Top David Byrne's

​ David Byrne celebrated a legal victory this week against former Florida governor Charlie Crist, who used Byrne's song Road To Nowhere in a campaign last year without permission. Along with pocketing an undisclosed sum of cash, Byrne's victory led to Crist releasing a stammering, videotaped apo ... More >>

Register Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies: Media Expert

​A newspaper journalist-turned-Silicon Valley media mogul sets up the dominoes which, once tipped over, could lead "a single entity" to "publish all the dailies from the Tehachapi Mountains at the north end of metro L.A. to the Mexican border."At the middle of it all is the pending sale of the Ora ... More >>

Prop 19 Backers Set Sights on 2012

​Backers of Prop 19 say they will return . . . in two years."We plan to continue this discussion," spokeswoman Dale Jones said at a news conference in the Yes on 19 campaign's downtown Oakland headquarters. "There's a seat at the table for 2012," she confided. "This is not a matter of if, but when ... More >>

Inaugural CleanTech OC Conference Should Have Been Better Attended

​If attendees took anything other than swag away from the inaugural CleanTech OC Conference & Expo in Irvine Monday, it was this: the green revolution is back, baby. After a red hot 2008, the clean technology industry was battered for a spell by the recession, but banks are back to lending, ve ... More >>

Feinstein Leads Opposition to Prop. 19, But Sting is For It and Rohrabacher's Not Sure

Illustration by Jay Brockman​Dianne Feinstein, our U.S. senator who is not up for reelection this November, joins Reps. Darrell Issa (R-San Diego) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Marin) and gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman in coming out against Prop. 19, the marijuana legalization initiati ... More >>

Little Games Are Big Business at Armor Games

These guys take 'casual' games very seriously

Forgotten Amid the Apple iPad Hype

Photo by David Bacon​Somehow this must have slipped by amid all the hoopla for the Apple iPad: hours were so long and conditions were so bad for Chinese workers making the gizmos that some committed suicide.That was the motivation behind a protest in front of Apple's flagship San Francisco store o ... More >>

Newport Beach and South Coast Plaza Go Green With Natural Gas and Electric Charging Stations

​Newport Beach got a little greener this week with the opening of its first natural gas fueling station and word that plans are set for a luxury electric automaker's takeover next month of a former Rolls Royce dealer's lot on Pacific Coast Highway.A $1-million compressed natural gas (CNG) facility ... More >>

Hot Air, Mad Men and Hog Slopping at the California GOP Convention

Carly Fiorina--the former Silicon Valley CEO and current U.S. Senate candidate who ruffled the feathers of Irvine assemblyman and fellow Republican nomination seeker Chuck DeVore with her campaign's "demon sheep" ad--apparently scored a big hit at this past weekend's GOP state convention in Santa Cl ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Gilt-y Pleasures on the Internet

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Save Yourself From McG's 'Terminator'

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Dollars

In a state which has had as governor both Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, two men who could squeeze campaign contributions out of a stone, it would take a very special politician to set a new standard for money grubbing. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very special politician. A story from The Associated P ... More >>

Lee the People

Filmmaker goes looking for her fellow G.L.s

Rock on to Electric Car Avenue

In yesterday's thrilling Clockwork, we shared the weirdness that ensued after we interviewed Who Killed the Electric Car? writer-director Chris Paine, when we discovered during the entire chat our Los Angeles Times was open, unbeknownst to lil' ol' us, to an Associated Press story with the headline: ... More >>

Weirdest Thing EVER!

We're flipping through this morning's Los Angeles Times, waiting for Who Killed the Electric Car? director Chris Paine to call. He does, and we have a nice chat, as he's still flying high from a well-received Los Angeles Film Festival screening two nights previous. After hanging up, we go to the Wee ... More >>

What Lies Beneath

Proving once again that the internet is good for something other than pornography and pirating music, one of the more useful state agencies you've never heard of, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, has created EnviroStors, an online database of contaminated sites throughout the s ... More >>

Same Cox, New Box!

Once savagely anti-investor, the new-and-improved OC Republican says he's ready to run the SEC for the people

Stop Time

Eadweard Muybridge and the Age of the Image

Letters

Same as the Old Boss

Curses of the New Economy workplace

Made in Newport Beach

How Chris Cox helped produce the Enron scandal

Very, Very Ridiculous

Tom Wolfe, chronicler of the comfort class

1: Shall We Begin?

I'll Tumble for You

Anthony Micheal Hall! Candy Apples! Sandra Ramos! The loney drunk guy 15 years past his frat-boy prime!

Who Lost High-Tech?

The Times knows, but it ain't saying who's responsible for the high-tech letdown

Proposition Me

Our modest take on the tuesday ballot

The Needles Eye

Talkin smack where smacks due

MORE DIRT, PLEASE

Re-creating Vietnam

Losers

El Toro Airport Watch No. 125

Ghostsites

Somebody forgot to take out the garbage on the information superhighway

Dear Bill

What Gates should be reading this summer

Ain't He a Pisser?

West Coast Wrap

East vs. West in ultimate cyber death match

Way Far Right

Likely new chairman promises to make state GOP the Party of God

Non-Windows Users of the World, Unite!

Microsoft Windows Refund Day is just around the corner

The Year in Cyberspace