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Why Santa Ana's Gun Buyback Won't Do Much

With the Ali Syed freeway shooting spree that ended with four dead this week and the Christopher Dorner nightmare that left five deceased (note I'm counting the gunmen in each), it's not difficult to see why Santa Ana has announced the city's first gun buyback program, which is Saturday near Santa ... More >>

'Parker': A Rough Guide to a Rough Guy

How Jason Statham brings the Stark antihero to the screen for the first, or eighth, time

[UPDATED: Administration-Sanctioned?] Canyon High School Kids Dress Up as "Mexicans" and Border Patrol Agents; School Officials Get Mad

UPDATE, JUNE 9, 8:19 P.M. Gustavo here again. The priceless Elias--who's popping up in the comments below with English barely better than a wab--also has an Instagram photo of a Canyon High poster for Senior Spirit Week with the command for Wednesday being "Señores and Señoritas." It seems every d ... More >>

Who's Gagging Whom In the Irvine 11 Case?

The First Amendment, academic freedom and Islamophobia collide in an OC courtroom

Irvine 11 Trial: Defense Compares Protest to Comedy Club Heckling--'Rude, Not Illegal'

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​"Of course it was planned," said defense attorney Jacqueline Goodman in her opening arguments today, addressing the charge that the so-called Irvine 11 (now 10) conspired to disrupt a public speech.     "They conspired to obey the law, which is the opp ... More >>

Irvine 11 Trial: Students Planned a 'Chicago-Style Disruption,' Emails Reveal

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Trying to show jurors that the Muslim students on trial did not act spontaneously in their disruption of the speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, prosecutors presented a series of emails that were sent by the defendants in the days leading up to the protes ... More >>

[UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

Photos by Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySeven of the Irvine 11​UPDATE, MARCH 11, 4:08 P.M.: The arraignment of the Irvine 11 was continued this morning until April 15 so the court can consider defense motions to seal grand jury documents, remove the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) from the ... More >>

[UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

​UPDATED, FEB. 28, 8:33 A.M.: The Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts "Stand With the Irvine 11: Community Town Hall and Action" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the IIOC Multipurpose Room, 1220 N. State College Blvd., Irvine.The event flier follows after the jump. (Also, scroll down a couple posts i ... More >>

Pissy Neighbors, Slumber Party Providers and Wannabe Machine Gun Owners Star in the Orange County Interwebs Horror Show

​Machine Gun Kelly moves into Huntington Beach, where one resident accuses a neighbor of having sticky fingers. A slumber party provider lets loose. Someone writing about Orange County politics establishes from the first line he doesn't know anything about Orange County politics. Colt Brennan gets ... More >>

Hilton Workers File Yet Another Complaint

​Labor complaints and HEI Hotels and Hospitality-owned properties go together like dinner mints and pillows. The latest wave comes from Long Beach Hilton workers who claim they are being denied 10 minute breaks required under state law.Like workers at the HEI-owned Embassy Suites in Irvine, the Oc ... More >>

Bourgeois Rhetoric: "Interest and Meaning in the Age of the Industrial Revolution"

Chapman University, Wilkinson Hall

[Sprawl of Sound] Eli 'Paperboy' Reed and Yet More Coachella Blurbage

You're a Sick Man, Charlie Brown

Sex and violence go comic in the work of Ivan Brunetti

Eviction Blues

Homeless musician vows crusade against landlords

Lyndon LaDouche

Followers of crackpot felon accuse Weekly of being Cheneys tool

!Ask a Mexican!

Special Sexo Edition

Spy the Friendly Skies

Wise Guys

Christine Todd Witless

Bushs EPA pick has much to learn

A Real Lou-Lou

Frankly Speaking

Everyone's favorite 8-foot monster prowls the stage