The White House

Ten Great First Date Restaurants

Date night. Everyone looks forward to a date except the person who has to plan it, and it's even worse when it's a first date or blind date. It has to be normal--not everyone loves loncheras, for reasons I don't fully grok--and it has to be expensive enough that you don't look miserly.So let's talk ... More >>

The World Uses 700 mL Liquor Bottles. White House Petition Aims To Allow Their Import

I was bemoaning the state of cachaça with fellow Weekling Bill Esparza last week as we sipped from a bootlegged two-liter Coke bottle of cachaça de alambique, straight from the still. Sure, we can get the run-of-the-mill stuff like Ypioca and 51, and on my peregrinations to New Jersey and Massachu ... More >>

The End of the World Came and Went, But Training for the Apocalypse Never Ends

The Mayan end-of-days' days passed without the world ending, but you suspect that won't stop the subjects of Rob VanAlkemade's gripping (and surefire) new documentary from preparing for what they believe to be the inevitable.Training for the Apocalypse, which premiered on NatGeo last spring and is n ... More >>

Foxfire's Cougars and Men

The Anaheim Hills legend is still the place to meet experienced women and have mostly mediocre food—but how can anyone ever hate it?

Ale To The Chief! Now You Can Make The White House Beer At Home

You asked. They answered. Folks, this is government transparency at its finest.When it was revealed that the White House has a secret brewery, a savvy homebrewer filed a FOIA request to get the recipes for the beers it produces. A petition was signed by beer enthusiasts everywhere, and last week, th ... More >>

[UPDATE: Obama Says Yes We Can Have Beer!] Homebrewer Submits FOIA Request For White House Beer Recipe--And Gets A Response!

See update at the end of the post!ORIGINAL POST: Power of the people! For all those who've been feeling like they'll never get a response out of their government, there's at least this. Last week, it was reported that the White House had its own secret beer brewery, and that bottles of the hous ... More >>

The White House (Yes, The White House) Has Its Own Brewery

Looks like Mr. President likes to throw back a good beer just like the rest of us. How very American.  The Des Moines Register reported that Barack Obama has his own secret White House brewery. The news was revealed during the president's bus tour across Iowa, when a man at a coffee shop starti ... More >>

President Barack Obama Set to Land in Bitter Enemy Terrority--Orange County

​Under intense security, Air Force One and Barack Obama landed late this afternoon at Los Angeles International Airport for the president's ninth trip to Southern California and, during a series of fund-raising events, touted his administration's accomplishments, including a repeal of "Don't Ask; ... More >>

Common Catches Heat From Conservatives Over White House Invitation

facebook.com/thinkcommon​Rapper Common suddenly finds himself in the midst of controversy after accepting an invitation to be part of the White House's "Poetry Night" this week. The Chi-town MC, who will join Jill Scott, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander and others as guests of President Barack O ... More >>

House of Balsamic Hosts Rossinian Night This Saturday

House of Balsamic website​If you are looking for an excuse to dust off that tuxedo or use that formal dress just hanging in your closet, you're in luck. The folks from House of Balsamic have the anecdote for spring fever: Rossinian Night, a fanciful evening featuring Italian cuisine and opera, is ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Lt. Dan Choi of Tustin Arrested for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Stunt at White House

UPDATE: Details released for protest in Irvine in support of Lt. Dan Choi and other activists (see below) . . . Clockwork is no expert on military jurisprudence, so does anyone know if getting arrested for chaining oneself to a White House gate--while in uniform, mind you--makes one just as likely t ... More >>

Rock Bottom Perform at 420 Freestyle Rap Session on KUCI

It's not uncommon for a sufficiently skilled hip-hop crew to nudge their way onto college radio and spit a couple verses over the airwaves. But this video of San Clemente/Laguna Nigel rap trio Rock Bottom (featured in last week's Locals Only column) let's us know that the group's crazy-off-t ... More >>

Today in Music News: Katy Perry Crushes on 'American Idol,' Bob Dylan, Grizzly Bear, Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger

Katy Perry gets her snark on as guest judge at American Idol auditions in LA.Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, Natalie Cole, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, Seal, the Blind Boys of Alabama to perform at White House.Grizzly Bear contributes to soundtrack to Philip Seymour Hoffman directo ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez is Nice But Not Serious?

​"Then there was Loretta Sanchez, the colorful Orange County congresswoman. A nice person but not an especially serious idea." --Huffington Post's William Bradley yesterday in his column, "How Jerry Brown Cleared The Democratic Field for Governor of California." For several years, the Garden Gr ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Slams White House & Secret Service

Loretta gives her two cents​"I don't think visiting the White House ought be like shopping in a big box retail [store] on the day after Thanksgiving," said Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez during today's hearing involving U.S. Secret Service boss Mark Sullivan, who admitted that th ... More >>

Richard Nixon, Leonard Bernstein and Frank Gannon

UC Irvine history professor Jon Wiener has mined books, lectures and a documentary film consulting gig out of the FBI spying on John Lennon at the behest of the Richard Nixon White House. So when TheNewNixon.org featured a post this week on Nixon-era surveillance of Leonard Bernstein, you had to wo ... More >>

Rohrabacher Raises Serious Allegations About Mistreatment of Uighurs

Photo by Jack GouldRohrabacher: Against at least some torture.The White House is relieved a home was finally found for 17 Muslim Uighurs from China who were held without justification at Guantanamo Bay, but their leading champion in Congress, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), is still rais ... More >>

WTF Alert!?! John Dean Coming to Nixon Library!

John Dean, shown last year, is coming to the Nixon Library.Over the years, the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace, Museum, Taqueria & Polo Grounds in Yorba Linda has hosted such speakers as Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, Bill O'Reilly, William J. Bennett, Dick Cheney and probably even more repulsive f ... More >>

TONIGHT: Tricky at the House of Blues

Hey, remember the '90s? Sure you do: eight years of peace, Dow at 10,000, icky sex acts in the White House. Also, a British man named Tricky caught the attention of the musical literati with his far-out fusion of hip hop, electronica, trip-hop, rock, coriander, Alice episodes and whatever else he mi ... More >>

Nation Cheers Obama Inauguration, OC Reg Readers Whine

If Barack Obama's move into the White House today is inspiring folks all over the world, here in Orange County the mood, at least as recorded by online comments posted Orange County Register readers, is dour:--"This man has done absolutely nothing, yet is a God. People are so dumb." --"God help us!" ... More >>

Telcom Critics Could Have Issues With Obama Pick

A telecommunications executive today resigned from his director's seat at Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies to work at the White House as Barack Obama's director of presidential personnel.Obama can thus expect heavy scrutiny from net-neutrality advocates fearful of Donald H. Gips' closeness ... More >>

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Rhapsody in White

Despite its obsession with glitz and style, the Anaheim White House delivers plenty of tasty substance

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: 'Stinky' White House

777: The Gabrielino-Tongva tribe is coming to Garden Grove with a huge bag of Halloween goodies. What's the treat? $78 million-a-year to city coffers, 10,000 permanent new jobs and college scholarships to every graduating high school student in the city. The trick? Let the tribe--and some guys name ... More >>

Rohrabacher v. Gonzales

You know a political scandal has sailed past the point of no return when even Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') sounds like a voice of reason. From CBS News: Pressure mounted on the White House Thursday to fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for the abrupt dismissal of U.S. attorneys. More Republican ... More >>

Baby, It's Warm Outside

The Inconvenient Truth is on its way to becoming the box-office champeen of documentaries (pound sand, Michael Moore!). Orders are already brisk for the DVDs that won't be out until November. However, because Truth starred Satan's spawn Al Gore, there's a good chance many holy rollers skipped it and ... More >>

Adapting in Iraq

The last time I checked, the latest Bush administration slogan for its Iraq adventure is "Adapting to Win". This replaced "Stay the Course", which had fallen out of favor with the White House presumably since it might remind people just what "course" events are taking in Iraq. So, is Adapting to W ... More >>

Rummy "Slimy", Not "Slimmy"

While discussing his new book, Conservatives without Conscience, on Firedoglake's Book Salon, John Dean, who first gained fame as the most honest man in the Nixon White House (which admittedly is a little like being the best ice skater in the Sahara), reminisced about the role of a young Donald Rums ... More >>

A Waste of $106,641

Yesterday, the good folks at Think Progress were having a little fun with the White House payroll. Drawing on a list of White House salaries published in the National Journal, the TPers determined the four most overpaid White House staffers. Tucked away between ethics advisers and White House's Dir ... More >>

State Secret: Arnold's Big Night Out

How desperate is Governor Schwarzenegger to avoid reminding people that he belongs to same political party as George W. Bush, let alone remind them that he was one of the featured speakers supporting Bush at the 2004 Republican Convention? Desperate enough to sneak across the country and into the Wh ... More >>

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Who Would Jesus Discriminate Against?

Although it lacks the economic punch of Christmas, Easter is, in theory, the biggest of Christian holidays. "[A]nd if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." according to Paul (1 Corinthians 15:14), whose opinion on the matter commands a certain respect. So how ... More >>

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Cox Says Nothing While White House Sits On Congressional Report Alleging Bush Ignored Warnings About Sept. 11 Attacks

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The prez ignores UCI professors warnings on global warming

Not Too Late for a War Crimes Tribunal

He turns 91 this week, so its possible Ronald Reagan cant remember. But Jim Washburn cant forget

Wellbutrin Time!

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