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The S.S. Sinaloa Sets Sail for OC's Ongoing Potpocalypse

Newport Beach Yacht Seized With Epic Haul Of Weed

In his breakthrough novel The Death and Life of Bobby Z, author Don Winslow wrote about a homeless acid casualty from the 1960s nicknamed "One Way," who wandered up and down the Orange County coastline talking to nobody in particular. One Way's favorite conversational topic: the imminent arrival of ... More >>

Greg Long: Mr. Big Wave

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This Week, Mexican Human Smuggler Gets Nine Months More In Prison Than Caucasian Guilty of Same Crime

While on routine patrol just after 4 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2011, the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Petrel spotted an open-bow, panga boat operating without lights in rough waters near San Diego.The boat weaved through commercial freightliners in an attempt to avoid detection, but the Coast ... More >>

On the Line: Raquel Jubran of the Attic, Part Two

If there is one thing diners should know about cuisine at the Attic, it's that it is an all-scratch kitchen. Sometimes it takes a little longer for food to come out of the kitchen. There isn't a walk-in freezer or pantry full of cans, and the staff put out breakfast, lunch and dinner. For example, e ... More >>

Did Stoner Sailor Cause the Mysterious Newport-Ensenada Boat Crash?

That's the question Orange County Register readers are asking themselves, thanks to an Aug. 1 story in the paper headlined "Marijuana found in body of Newport-Ensenada sailor," a reference to the crash of the Aegean, which set sail from Newport Beach along with dozens of other boats on April 27 but ... More >>

The Horror In Uniform of 'The Invisible War'

Kirby Dick's documentary reveals a military that is 'target rich' for sexual predators

Four Tons of Floating Weed Discovered Off Dana Point

Presumably this is unrelated to the arrival of Japanese tsunami debris along the California coastline that we've all been hearing about. But at about noon yesterday, a boater who either really hates marijuana or really loves obeying the law, called authorities to report several large bales of weed f ... More >>

Kevin Williams, Irvine College Student Studying in Florida, Swept Up in Underage Sex Sting

You know those Huntington Beach Police Department stings that have officers pose as underage girls on social networking sites to catch sexual predators? Guess Kevin Williams wasn't paying attention to those when he was back home in Irvine.The student at Eckerd College in Pinellas County, Florida, w ... More >>

[UPDATED with New Spotting:] Gray Whale Entangled in Fishing Net

UPDATE, APRIL 24, 3:09 P.M.: The good news about the 40-foot gray whale who'd been entangled in a fishing net off Laguna Beach and San Onofre last week is it's headed in the right direction.The nonprofit Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach reports that the whale was spotted today off Gorda ... More >>

Occupy Orange County's Protest Courts Disaster

The dying movement turns into a song-and-dance routine

[UPDATED With Body ID'd as Missing Swimmer's:] Joewayne Benford Disappears in Pounding Surf

​UPDATE, SEPT. 19, 2:30 P.M.: The coroner has confirmed a body found by a patrol boat Thursday at a Seal Beach jetty as that of Joewayne Benford. The 24-year-old Long Beach resident disappeared while body boarding with friends in strong rip currents off Seal Beach the evening of Aug. 31. Lifeguard ... More >>

Mexico Navy Tangles with Newport Beach Anglers

​An 80-year-old Newport Beach boater who has fished Mexican waters for years recently took his 27-foot Orca sportfisher and former naval officer buddy to search for yellowtail and white seabass near the Los Coronados islands.What Barry McKay found instead was trouble--with a Mexican Navy vessel h ... More >>

Power Boat Washes Up on Strands Beach in Dana Point: One Boater Dies, Three Rescued

Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyOn Tuesday morning, the boat was still beached.​Authorities are still trying to determine what exactly happened off the coast of Dana Point late Sunday afternoon, resulting in one man's death and a 25-foot Bayliner stranded on the sand at Strands Beach. Late Sunday af ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Oil Tanker Terror Plot Hits Close to Home

​The Department of Homeland Security announced today that among the materials Navy SEALS found in Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan hideout were al-Qaida plans to hijack and detonate oil tankers last summer to provoke an "extreme economic crisis" in the West.Officials disclosed no specific U.S. targets. ... More >>

Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L.: Bedeviled

In his new book, the infamous OC punk rocker describes how he exorcised 'An American Demon': Himself

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Officials Intercept Mexican Smuggling Boat Near Dana Point Comment by OC1143: Nice work!!!!!!! send those savages back to their own countryComment by FUNKYMONKY: Why do they keep coming?? There's no work here....Unless you want to hire them.

FAIR-y Tales In the Immigration Debate

Anti-immigrant think tanks are aiming their dubious statistics at the 14th Amendment

What You Missed: Long Beach Street Food Festival, Black Lips, Seafest, ElecTRONica

​What'd you miss this weekend? We checked out part two of the Long Beach Street Food Festival with dozens and dozens of those fancy gourmet food trucks. Then we saw the Black Lips at FILTER Magazine's Culture Collide Fest (no puke this time, sorry). Then came Seafest in San Clemente with gallons o ... More >>

As Everyone Looks Down at What Gulf Oil Spill Has Wrought, UC Irvine Researchers Look Up

​Tar balls created by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico reached the Texas shore today.But researchers from UC Irvine are not looking at the sands, shorelines and waters impacted by the muck, they are checking out the air hovering over the spill zone. The initial findings: all is not well.

Amazing But True: No Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade Deaths

ChristmasBoatParade.comThe death toll was apparently zero for the 101st Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade Wednesday through Sunday.​When the morning news reporter informed on the teevee that an 8-year-old boy was killed and five people were injured when boats collided at a Christmas boat parade ... More >>

Crime Time: Indoor Pot Farming, Bandits on Bikes, Satellite Surveillance Pleas, Teen-on-Teen Stabbings and a Whole Lotta Armed Robberies

It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local crimes and police calls--now with waaaaaay more armed robberies, bike-riding/-taking bandits and indoor pot busts. ​MONDAY, NOV. 16Wee Hour Party Goes to Pot During a party in a home in the 700 block of Maplewood Avenue in Fullerton, a resident whipp ... More >>

The Border Patrol Gets Pimped Out On Reality T.V.

If you didn't think reality television could get any more crass than the grating weekly doses of collagen-injected OC busybodies, guess again. ABC is scheduled to air its new border patrol  reality T.V. show during the same time slot as our desperate little OC housewives beginning in January. T ... More >>

Rohrabacher Cuts and Runs

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher had his ass handed to him yesterday in not one but two debates with opponent Jim Brandt. At least, I think he did. It's kinda hard to find out. Why is that? It's because the only mention of Rohrabacher in the past day's press is as Tan Nguyen's former opponent. Damn it. ... More >>

That Sinking Feeling

Coast Guard epic The Guardian succumbs to watery cliches

Standard Operating Procedures

There are those who say that the Department of Homeland Security, which the Bush administration frankensteined into existence in 2002, is a dysfunctional government agency, but this morning's New York Times brings evidence that DHS is clearly following in the steps of such well established and widel ... More >>

Porn for the Paranoid

Fabrice Gygi feels your fear

A Clockwork Orange

Jesus Un-rises

Graham Drubs Dubya

Each year, its a little less wonderful

David Weddles Newport Beach

A Byrd in hand is worth two Bushes

Leviathan Overlord

Grave Error

Tim Garcia is no anti-immigration martyr

Ashcroft Hypes a Dirty Bomber

Diary of a mad county

Orange County, California: 2001

Dating Lessons for Dorks

Cocaine Decision

Endless Bummer

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