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Capistrano School Board Shitcans World History Textbook for Leaning Too Far to the Left

Reversing a district panel that had narrowly recommended the sixth edition of World Civilizations: The Global Experience for use in AP world history classes, the Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees unanimously rejected the textbook for leaning too far to the left.That's philosophica ... More >>

[Exene Says . . .] Lady Gaga Toothbrush Blues

Exene Cervenka is a writer, visual artist and punk rock pioneer. The OC transplant is the lead singer for X, the Knitters and Original Sinners. Her new column, Exene Says..., is her space to basically just write what's on her mind, everything from crazy life stories to political theories and observa ... More >>

UCI's First Law School Class Has a Better Cali Bar Exam Passage Rate Than All But Stanford

The end of our October blog post on University of California at Irvine School of Law students helping Nigerian activists present a case to the U.S. Supreme Court mentioned that the local school has its critics.The blasts to the law school and its founding dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, began in 2009, but ... More >>

USC Professor/OC Gal Jody Aguis Vallejo's Barrios to Burbs Book Sells Out!

Late last month, I had the honor of rambling in front of the sociology class of USC professor Jody Agius Vallejo, the Placentia native and Dana Point resident who's making waves in academia with her study of non-cholo, non-dropout Mexis via her excellent book Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexi ... More >>

Don't Stop Believing

At long last, David Chase achieves his rock & roll dreams

Is Aaron Kushner the Pied Piper of Print?

Can the novice publisher save The Orange County Register and transform journalism in the process?

Laguna Niguel and Costa Mesa DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Garden Grove on Saturday Night

Anyone taking that weird Laguna Niguel to Costa Mesa route this evening, with an overnight stop before heading on to Garden Grove Saturday night, will want to take extra care as three law enforcement agencies are running sobriety checkpoints in those towns those nights. Tonight's locations are undis ... More >>

DA Tony Rackauckas Wrecks Hoodlum's Quick Prison Trip

Most often hoodlums locked in prison drop the pruno jar and fly off their bunk beds with joy when they hear that an appellate court has issued a reversal in their criminal case.But sadly for Orange County's Daniel Infante the news wasn't worth celebrating.Infante, a Headhunters gangster in the midst ... More >>

The 'California Accent' Is, Like, Totally Real

Though we probably don't notice it because we're too busy giving hella directions to The 405, Californians have an accent. Like, for reals. A team of linguistics researchers from Stanford University has been studying the elusive dialects of the Golden State, which have never been given the same ... More >>

Todd Robert Sousa, Paroled Sex Offender, Accused of Sex with Second Girl Swim Student

Todd Robert Sousa, a former youth swim club coach who owned a swimming school with his wife, was reportedly jailed Wednesday on suspicion of having sex with an underage girl who took lessons from him.That's especially rough for the 38-year-old Irvine father--and son-in-law of a retiring Laguna Hill ... More >>

Young the Giant Are OC's Next Great Band

The Irvine's quintet are house-hunting, but not ready to leave us just yet

The Buena Park Case of the Hairy, Bad Tenant

In March 2009, Zayed Ahmadieh rented a room behind a detached garage in Buena Park and, according to landlord Mohammad Mian, wasn't a good tenant. Ahmadieh changed locks without permission, made loud noises late at night and generally acted strange. Two months later, Mian asked him to move out.Ahmad ... More >>

Orange County Register Sold to Boston Investor

Freedom Communications of Irvine is selling the Orange County Register, six other dailies and other properties to a Boston investor, according to published reports.He is Aaron Kushner of 2100 Trust LLC, which previously tried to purchase the Boston Globe. The deal involving Santa Ana's daily, which ... More >>

Aaron Kushner Promises a Great OC Register But will Boston Businessman Pass the Sincerity Test?

How is this for news enough to make Tricky Dick Nixon roll over fuming mad in his Yorba Linda grave?Aaron Kushner--the under-40, Boston-area man and Georgia native whose private investment firm has bought The Orange County Register--consults with the legendary Washington Post editor who helped bring ... More >>

Aaron Kushner Promises a Great OC Register But Will The Boston Investor Pass The Sincerity Test?

How is this for news enough to make Tricky Dick Nixon roll over fuming mad in his Yorba Linda grave?Aaron Kushner--the under-40, Boston-area man and Georgia native whose private investment firm has bought The Orange County Register--consults with Ben Bradlee. Isn't Bradlee the legendary determined W ... More >>

La Habra Wins For Cheapest Blow Jobs in Orange County

Blow jobs from Newport Beach prostitutes reportedly can cost as much as $500, but 28 miles inland in Nadya Suleman's La Habra street hookers apparently have been willing to provide oral copulation services for just $7.50.That fact emerged in the Orange County criminal case of addiction specialist Ph ... More >>

Poets and Politicians: Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Governor Jerry Brown

​Governor Jerry Brown named Juan Felipe Rivera, UC Riverside poetry professor of Chair of Creative Writing, as California Poet Laureate on Wednesday, but he's just getting to know the wordsmith. The appointment is a first ever for a Latino in the state and the poet's writings articulate the life e ... More >>

Chapman University Religion and Economics Conference Draws Scholars from Far and Wide

​Chapman University today and tomorrow hosts what is billed as "a major international conference" on religion, economics and culture. Participants include Chapman's Nobel laureate in economics Vernon L. Smith and academics not only from the Orange campus and UC Irvine but Yale, Harvard, Notre D ... More >>

Judge Richard W. Stanford Removed from Bench for Playing Favorites

​The state Commission on Judicial Performance has ordered Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard W. Stanford Jr. to step down after determining he waived traffic fines for family and friends. Nine incidents between 2003 and 2010 played a part in the 11-member oversight panel's decision, includ ... More >>

K. Flay Talks Beginnings, Book Reports, And Hamburgers

Courtesy Bailey Blues​Kristine Flaherty (better known by musical moniker K. Flay) isn't your average rapper-singer-songwriter. After graduating from Stanford with degrees in psychology and sociology, she decided to take her then-hobby of writing and performing music more seriously. Besides the occ ... More >>

More Than Skin Color Determines Perceived Race: UC Irvine Research

Black?​When it comes to determining the race of a stranger, our minds see more than skin color. That's the conclusion of a study co-authored by UCI sociologist Andrew Penner, which was really quite simple when it came to the research. Viewers were shown images of the same man in business attire a ... More >>

Pyramid Scheme

Men boasting CIA and FBI ties met in Newport Beach to convince a mysterious billionaire to buy into a secret economy, and nothing was what it seemed

Violent OC Pimp Wins and Still Loses Conviction Appeal

90 minutes of violence nets whopping prison sentence for Brantley​Crystal, a former 23-year-old Texas stripper, worked as a prostitute for Christopher Lamont Brantley, her pimp, in Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C. and, around the time of the 2008 Super Bowl, Orange County.Based on ... More >>

Soka University of America Is a School On a Hill

The Aliso Viejo college was founded by a Buddhist sect that preaches peace—so why are so many former professors alleging the opposite?

Wave of the Future

Surfer magazine's sometimes-wild, sometimes-mild 50-year ride

Prop. 8 Judge Married to ACLU Leader Refuses to Disqualify Himself

​If there's one group that so-called "family values" social conservatives love to hate more than gays, it's the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU. So there's more than a little bit of karma in the fact that Stephen Reinhardt, the judge expected to rule whether Prop. 8, which would deny gay c ... More >>

Just Work It Baby: Three Ways To Experience Theater In Its Rawest Stage

​The Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble is community theater in its finest mode. No, not the kind of stale community theater that churns out tried and true middle-of-the-road fodder, but a theater that cares as much as its surrounding community as it does in getting that community's asses in i ... More >>

'Sex and the City' Ages Disgracefully

Sequel struggles against nature to stay forever young

Bai Ling, Muslim Punks, Black Star Canyon's Warlock Among 15 Newport Beach Film Festival Highlights

Here are 15 things I'm looking forward to at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which kicks off tonight and continues through April 29. These are based on preview screenings, festival descriptions and even less-informed nonsense.Ling-Bai.blogspot.com​1) Bai Ling on the red carpet tonight. Years ago, ... More >>

Orly Taitz Slings Mud at Republican Opponent for Secretary of State

damondunn.com / John GilhooleyBoth Dunn and Taitz like blue!​While we weren't able to attend Dr. Orly Taitz's speech regarding "The Truth About Election Fraud" to the Orange County Federation of Republican Women today, we were, as always, able to read Taitz's blog (we've got good virus protection ... More >>

SEC Investigation of Medical Lender Sets Sail for a Party Yacht

Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Fr ... More >>

The Sad State of Southern California Religion Reporting

After reading the rewritten press releases offered by the Los Angeles Times, Daily Pilot and Orange County Register on the appointment of the Diocese of Orange's latest pedo-priest-protecting bishop, Cirilo Flores, it's become clear that the worst casualty in Southern California's dying newspaper in ... More >>

Racial Tension, Above and Below the Surface, In Neil LaBute's 'Lakeview Terrace'

In 'Smart People,' Intelligence Goes Soft in This Dennis Quaid/Sarah Jessica Parker Rom-Com

Under Wraps

Many of Dr. Brian West's patients didn't know he was in the state medical board's substance-abuse-diversion program. At least six of them claim they're paying the price

That's Not Fair

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro

"You are what you pretend to be" -- Kurt Vonnegut

Like any great actress, Orange County native Azia Kim is skilled in the art of bullshit. So profound are her chops that she successfully fooled an entire 210-resident dorm at Stanford University into believing that she was a second-year biology major. She went so far as to buy textbooks for classes ... More >>

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

In 1969, the Argonaut carried the youngest crew in history to victory in the Transpacific Yacht Race. In next year's race, Disney aims to change history. Through the Morning Light Project and Pacific High Productions, Disney has a threefold mission: 1) assemble the youngest, most diverse team the ra ... More >>

God's Angriest Man

From the OC Weekly Archives - Jan. 3, 1997

Let Us Prey

Despite recent conviction, critics say the DA goes easy on child-molesting priests

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a mad county

Orange County, California: 2001

Hurry!

Strange packages. High anxiety. Low-grade terror. Its holiday shopping time again, with us as your guides

Down Satans Fiery Nostril!

Always bizarre, TBNs Crouches are on a crazy roll

Naked Lunch

Lesson no. 1: Keep Your Mouth Shut

Everything we needed to know about life we learned at University High

Coxs Flaccid Report

Vaunted Chinese Spy Report Unravels

Good News: Youre Unlikely to Die in a Bloody Rampage!

The Reg says chill, the DA says kill