Subject: Spencer Kornhaber

• The Happiest Memorial to a Police Shooting Victim on Earth

  The following is a report by the Weekly's new news fellow, Spencer Kornhaber, who is so new he does not yet have a sign-in for this blog, thus Coker's name shows:Disneyland's Main Street USA is an orgy of good-ole'-days Americana -- penny arcades, horse-drawn carriages, unbelievably enormous piles of ice cream -- so maybe this new proposal from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the parents of a slain Anaheim resident isn't so crazy. They want Disney to install a statue memorializi

  January 5, 2009

• Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. Responds to Weekly Query

  Over the weekend, Christian philanthropist extraordinaire and Weekly reader Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. responded to my post asking whether he'd buy a new property for Newport Beach's St. James Episcopal Church because they're currently homeless for casting their theological lot with a homo-hating Ugandan. His email is below. Dear Gustavo, I am not going to answer any questions on Capistrano, because I don't really understand the situation there. I did that on the recommendation of my chief of staff

  January 26, 2009

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "Cry-Baby" R. Scott Moxley relays how ex-Sheriff Mike Carona used all the weapons in his arsenal to trick the jury in his federal trial, and still lost.And Spencer Kornhaber takes a look at the problems of the Capistrano Unified School Board in "Political Animals." Have they been solved after the recall/reform movement won? Plus... The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant reviews of Andrea in Pelican Hill and BC Broiler in Costa Mesa.Cul

  January 26, 2009

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "South Side Story" Daffodil J. Altan investigates whether a popular legal weapon is putting an end to a 30-year-old gang rivalry in South County or just catching innocent bystanders in its net.And Spencer Kornhaber takes a look at Mission Viejo Councilwoman Cathy Schlicht in "Woman on a Mission." She's trying to deliver on campaign promises, but is running into an opposing majority. Plus... The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant revie

  February 2, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  March 26, 2009

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  April 2, 2009

• TONIGHT: of Montreal at the Glass House

  Noted indie poppers/Elephant 6 collective members/eccentric personalities/Outback Steakhouse pitchmen of Montreal are in concert tonight at the Glass House. Can't make it out there? Our very own Spencer Kornhaber will be there, and will have a full review up here tomorrow. We'll also have photos from Chad Sengstock. You can pretend they don't exist, but we'd prefer you didn't.

  February 19, 2009

• Slideshow: of Montreal at the Glass House

  of Montreal is known for their garish stage shows, so why not take a look at our pictures from last night's show at the Glass House in Pomona from Chad Sengstock? So colorful! Our guy Spencer Kornhaber was there and will have a full report coming later today.

  February 20, 2009

• TONIGHT: Ra Ra Riot, Cut Off Your Hands at Detroit Bar

  Are you sick of hearing about Ra Ra Riot yet? Y'know, the indie band from Syracuse that have been riding a crest of Vampire Weekend-esque buzz for the past few months. Well, you can stop hearing about them and actually hear them, tonight at Detroit Bar. Their record, The Rhumb Line, was Rolling Stone's 38th best album of last year, after all. Everyone knows 38th best is lucky! Opening up are New Zealand's Cut Off Your Hands, who Doug Wallen wrote about for us here, and Seattle's Telekinesis, a n

  March 2, 2009

• Woodrow Carter, In Your Facial

  The Temecula Creek Inn--with its views of miles of verdant, vine-covered hills, a golf course, sumptuous spa treatments and nearby wine tastings--is a splendid spot for a decadent weekend getaway. In late 2007, about a month after beginning his post as Capistrano Unified School District's newest superintendent, A. Woodrow Carter accepted an invitation to spend a weekend at the Inn for the "California Superintendent's Health and Wellness Institute." Carter didn't give many details about the retre

  March 3, 2009

• Don Henley Threatens The Weekly! Will Chuck DeVore Give In?

  Steve Jurvetson / Flickr / WikiMedia CommonsThis Don Henley photo licensed under Creative Commons, so hopefully we won't get sued for using it.We just received a scary letter from the law firm representing Eagles member Don Henley. The gist: Take down that blog-embedded video of Assemblyman Chuck DeVore's anti-Obama "Boys of Summer" parody, or else. Paralegal Naomi Simmons writes:On April 7, 2009, Editorial Fellow Spencer Kornhaber posted an article in the blogs section of the OC Weekly entitled

  April 8, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Everything New Is Old Again--and Vice Versa

  April 9, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  April 9, 2009

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  March 12, 2009

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  February 5, 2009

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  January 29, 2009

• From The Front Lines of the Santa Ana Teabagging

  This guy was introduced as the "creator and administrator of John & Ken's official Facebook group." He's also "head"-ing up the recall-Arnold effort.Yay, rich people!Like bitches and queers have done, the leaders at the Santa Ana Tea Party reclaimed the slurs used against them."According to Homeland Security, you are now a right wing extremist," Shawn Black, a Republican running for Chuck DeVore's vacant assembly seat in 2010, told the crowd at the Civic Center plaza. That phrase -- "right w

  April 15, 2009

• Heard Mentality: Gone Coachella-in'!

  Oh yes. We're road tripping out early in the morn' to the beautiful (sure, why not?) Empire Polo Field for Coachella. I'll be there all three days; my blogging brethren Spencer Kornhaber and Nate Jackson are also hitting the event for a couple days and just might share their thoughts.You won't be able to shut me up, however, so keep an eye both on this blog and on our Twitter page for (nearly) constant updates. Except when I'm driving, that's probably a bad idea. Motel 6 in Palm Springs, I hope

  April 16, 2009

• Live from Coachella: Dr. Dog, Amanda Palmer, Henry Rollins, Shirtless D-Bags

  Sup. Broadcasting LIVE from the Corporately Sponsored AT&T Cool Down Charge Up tent. I am not really doing either at the moment, though. Philly's Dr. Dog just finished up at the Mojave tent a bit ago, and as Larry David might say, they were "pretty, pretty good." Tracks like "Worst Trip" and "The Beach" ruled it, though they made reference to some problems with their distortion pedal. Aww. Why are the little booklets with the settimes and the maps always so hard to come by every year?

  April 18, 2009

• (Not) Live from Coachella: The N00b Reflects

  Spencer KornhaberThe "Hand of Man" crushes autos.While Albert's still sweating it out (literally! ha!) at some polo field in the desert, my Coachella experience -- my first Coachella experience -- is over. But it was fun. Why? Top things about Saturday from a neophyte:This is a good festival. Water wasn't too expensive, drunk nekkid hipsters weren't unbearably obnoxious, and it was pretty easy to see and hear most sets no matter how late you arrived. The fire-spewing dragon sculpture and the gia

  April 19, 2009

• HB Council Moves to Spike School-Adjacent Cell Tower

  Signs were posted near the construction site.Spencer Kornhaber / OCWRemember that brouhaha last Thursday about a cell tower being built next to a Huntington Beach elementary school? Remember the outcry from parents, the indignation from school officials, and the petition from the kid who expressed an interest in having T-Mobile pay for his future cancer bills? Remember how the community around Harbour View park and Harbour View Elementary School weren't notified that a big ole' fake tree would b

  April 27, 2009

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  May 14, 2009

• Aww, There's a Tea-Bagging Reunion Today

  Spencer Kornhaber / OCWApril 15, 2009. Remember that? Best day of your life, right? Not just because you got to pay taxes, but rather because you got a chance to complain about paying those taxes. The Weekly, at least, had a pretty good time at last month's tax-hating/liberals-bashing Tea Party in Santa Ana. We covered it here, and even made a pretty slideshow of all the crazy signs and costumes! Santa Ana may have been OC's biggest anti-tax bash that day, but there was a slew of other ones too.

  May 18, 2009

• Pop Noir Score Gigs Opening for Doves

  Costa Mesa dancey-electro trio Pop Noir will be opening up for noted English indie rockers Doves (also a trio! weird!) during two of their southern California dates this week--Thursday at the House of Blues in San Diego, and Friday right here (well, "here," relatively speaking) at the House of Blues in Anaheim.

  May 12, 2009

• Beating a Dead Horse: Coachella Third Day Pics, Easy Access Links!

  Coachella may be a distant, sweaty, sticky memory at this point, but that doesn't mean that I'm willing or able to shut up about it quite yet. Beth Stirnaman had some car troubles, causing her arduous trek from Indio to be delayed (and nothing's better than being stuck in Indio when there isn't a huge music festival going on), but did that stop her from delivering these great day three images? Heck no! Check them out here. She got Peter Bjorn & John, Perry Farrell, K'naan, the Yeah Yeah Yeah

  April 21, 2009

• Slideshows: Doheny Blues Festival at Doheny State Beach, Earth Crisis at Chain Reaction

  B.B. King? In Dana Point? Oh, it happened. This weekend, in fact, at the Doheny Blues Festival at Doheny State Beach. You might have read Spencer Kornhaber's blog about the two-day event. (If you didn't, for shame, but your chance to make up for it can be found here.) But, when reading that, if you're thinking, "Hey, you know what would be cool to go along with these words--some pictures," well, we've got you covered. Keith May was out there doing the photography thing. The end result? Right her

  May 19, 2009

• Last Weekend: Doheny Blues Festival

  Spencer Kornhaber / OCWElvin Bishop came into the crowd! He's old.Last Weekend: Doheny Blues FestivalBetter Than: A cloudy day at the beach without alcohol.As mentioned in the brief preview, I don't know anything about blues music. High-brow critic types like to say that pop and rock are where "The Culture" is centered at the moment, and if that's true than I guess I'm a drone of The Culture. But I can hear the Doheny Blues Fest from my house; the last time I went, I was probably 15 -- but I do

  May 18, 2009

• Lean, Mean Anti-MacLean Machine Closer to a Recall

  Grocery store haggling and battling has characterized the fight to recall Mission Viejo council member Lance-No-I-Didn't-Choke-The-Guy-MacLean. Back in February, when Spencer Kornhaber wrote his story about a group of disgruntled Mission Viejo NIMBYS and their relentless efforts to recall MacLean, the only sure thing that was that this fight was going to get dirty (whether or not that resulted in actual petition signatures was beside the point). Their list of complaints against MacLean included

  June 9, 2009

• RIP: Trent Reznor's Twitter

  Andrew YoussefTrent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, May 21, 2009.For the last few months, Trent Reznor has been interacting with Nine Inch Nails fans (historically an insanely devoted lot) via Twitter, updating them on the happenings of their tour with Jane's Addiction, running ticket giveaway contests, talking about his romance with fiancee Mariqueen Maandig of West Indian Girl and even raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid a Nevada fan needing a

  June 11, 2009

• Rev. Wiley Drake Leads List of OC's July 4 Teabaggers

  Just call him Rev. TeabaggerThe Rev. Wiley Drake, last heard from praying for President Barack Obama's death, leads the list of Orange Countains who have stepped up to lead the "Official Tax Day TEA Party" in their communities on July 4.TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already, by the way. Besides the controversial pastor at First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, teabaggers and the towns they represent include: Greyson Peltier, Aliso Viejo; Roberto Guererro, also Buena Park; Barbara Smyth, Dana

  June 15, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  June 25, 2009

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  July 2, 2009

• Media Matters Gives a Nod to Weekly Cover Story on Birthers

   A Media Matters rundown on the key nutbars in the "birthers" movement that claims Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. includes a couple plugs of Spencer Kornhaber's "Birth of an Obsession" June 19 cover story. The media watchdogs focus in particular on Kornhaber's reporting on Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel denist, attorney, real estate agent and queen bee of the birthers, and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park Southern Baptist pastor, homeless advocate, Alan Keyes' presidential running mate in

  July 24, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Homecoming Week for Jack's Mannequin, Crystal Antlers and No Doubt

  August 6, 2009

• Last Night: Hellogoodbye, Fun, Limbeck at Chain Reaction

  Hellogoodbye gettin' blurry with it.​Last Night: Hellogoodbye, Fun, Limbeck at Chain Reaction, Anaheim; August 19, 2009.Better Than: Waiting for the next Hellogoodbye album to come out (it's been three years this month since Drive-Thru released Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!).Great Debate: Over the relative quality of District 9. Fun were incredibly turned off, saying that it was too heavy-handed and steeped in allegory. Hellogoodbye repeatedly proclaimed the sci-fi film's awesomeness a

  August 20, 2009

• What You Missed: BlizzCon, Epicenter, Musicians Swap Meet

  ​Oh, hello there. So what'd you miss this weekend this time?Well, first off: It was the annual nuuuurd pilgrimage to Anaheim Convention Center on Friday through Saturday--that's right, BlizzCon!The official gathering for all things Blizzard (you know, that giant video game company based in Irvine that's responsible for putting out everything from Diablo and Starcraft to World of Warcraft?) attracted thousands and thousands of attendees seeking the latest in news from the world of Blizzard--oh,

  August 24, 2009

• Heard Mentality: Headed to Street Scene!

  ​Seeing as how we're the closest Village Voice Media paper to San Diego, we feel a profound sense of obligation to cover this weekend's Street Scene festival. Yes, that's right, obligation--not the opportunity to hang out in the Gaslamp District checking out awesome bands. It's all about obligation, for sure.The OC Weekly all-star team of writer Nate Jackson, photographer Beth Stirnaman and myself will be hitting up both days of the fest, checking out acts like M.I.A., Bands of Horses, Calexic

  August 28, 2009

• Crowdsourced: Modest Mouse at the Grove of Anaheim

  Beth StirnamanDon't be fooled. This picture is actually from Friday at Street Scene in San Diego, not Saturday at the Grove of Anaheim.​You've heard what clubs editor Spencer Kornhaber thought about Saturday night's Modest Mouse show at the Grove of Anaheim, and sure, it was great, and we all loved reading it. But what of the rest of the showgoing public? Why, that's what Twitter is for, friends. Enjoy these nuggets of 140-character-or-less wisdom from the big gig. Apparently the openers, the

  August 31, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 1, 2009

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  October 15, 2009

• Last Night: Blink-182, Weezer at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

  Andrew YoussefNo, you da man.​Last Night: Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Asher Roth at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine; September 17, 2009.Better Than: Growing up.Hostile Territory: Blink-182 is doing a huge promotion with the T-Mobile Sidekick, and advertisements were plastered all over the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Blink-182 and Weezer both released their first albums in 1994. They're both two of the most successful "alternative rock" bands of the last couple decades.

  September 18, 2009

• Slideshow: Epicenter and Pomona Fairplex, Musicians Swap Meet at Old World Village

  ​Do you like to rock? Yes? Well, if so, you probably already were at Saturday's Epicenter show at the Pomona Fairplex in (um, let me guess this one) Pomona. Artists included: Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, Tool, Atreyu, Wolfmother and heaps more. So you were probably totally there, rocking out. Oh, what's this? You didn't make it out? Oh. I see. Well, take a look at this slideshow by Chris Victorio, then. It's the next best thing!OK, OK, backs against the wall here, people. Sounds like you want

  August 24, 2009

• A Weekend of Lines n' Numbers for Climate Action

  Spencer Kornhaber / OC Weekly​The International Day of Climate Action came and went, and global warming has been solved. What? Oh, sorry. It's still a problem. But at least some people tried to do something about it.This was true in Orange County. I stopped by the 350.org event in San Clemente on Saturday to see how they were possibly hoping to form a big human "350" on the pier. Turns out, they didn't. The guy who was going to loan San Clemente Green his remote-control helicopter camera for f

  October 26, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 29, 2009

• OC's Famous Desegregation Case Finally Gets Its Historical Due, But One Family Feels Left Out

  November 5, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  November 5, 2009