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Utah

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    [UPDATED with Victim Recants?] Darius McClinton-Hunter, Angels Outfielder Torii Hunter's Son, Arrested for Sexual Assault

    UPDATE, MAY 18, 1:30 P.M.: The attorney Angels rightfielder Torii Hunter hired to represent his 17-year-old son Darius McClinton-Hunter, who is fending off allegations of sexual assault on a female classmate in suburban Dallas, claims there is a recording of the 16-year-old girl recanting the boy's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    [UPDATED with Penalty Phase Mistrial:] Jason Balcom Guilty of Newlywed Woman's Rape and Murder

    ​UPDATE, MARCH 28, 12:56 P.M.: Though a jury earlier this month convicted Jason Balcom for the rape and murder of a newly arrived bride in Costa Mesa in 1988, the panel deadlocked 10-2 on whether the 42-year-old Michigan rape convict deserves the death penalty.Superior Court Judge Francisco Brisen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Is Tortillaz Aspiring to be Chipotle?

    ​ I'm not saying that every Mexican chain like Cafe Rio is trying to copy Chipotle. Even though it says it's not, Taco Bell is doing it. And why wouldn't they? It makes business sense to aspire to the same kind of success that Steve Ells Mexi-chain has achieved. There's nothing wrong with that. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Five Ballsy In-N-Out Copycats

    In-N-OutSee that trademark logo? Anybody? ​Trademark lawyers for Irvine-based In-N-Out are busy folks. The iconic burger chain has spawned ripoffs across the world--and that means war.  But the company is smart, and understands that where there's a clone, there's a hungry market. In response ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Two Asian Concepts From the Carolinas to Come to Irvine

    Edwin Goei​Two new Asian concepts, both from the Carolinas, are coming to the Square at the corner of MacArthur and Main in Irvine, near the airport. Twisted Noodles is an import from North Carolina and will be serving Thai food. It's actually not the first Twisted Noodles restaurant to open in O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Bill Gross Reportedly Buys Jennifer Aniston's House for $37 Mil; Chris Cox Settles Down in Laguna Niguel

    ​Bill Gross, the Newport Beach financial manager who co-founded Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) and is worth a billion and change, has reportedly bought a Beverly Hills estate Jennifer Aniston bought in 2006 for $13.5 million, gutted and rebuilt to the fawns of Architectural Digest and p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Federal Judge in Santa Ana Sets Trial For First of Hundreds of Lawsuits Against Toyota In February 2013

    ​A Santa Ana-based federal judge has picked the bellwether case in the slew of freak-acceleration lawsuits lodged against Toyota. The trial, which will undoubtedly influence the litigation of the other cases, is set to start on Feb. 19, 2013, according to a timetable housed on the court' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Extreme Pick-Up Rate Roils Orange County Register

    ​Reality television has been blamed for a coarsening of society, the death of (well) scripted programming and my reason for being.It's also playing a role in the disappearance of the Orange County Register. No, this is not another post about the financial woes of Freedom Communications, the Regist ... More >>

  • Music

    May 12, 2011

    Orange Blossom Special Are In Bloom

    [Locals Only] Unsigned '90s/classic rockers are in the studio to record their first full-length

  • Columns

    May 12, 2011

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    [Locals Only] Unsigned '90s/classic rockers are in the studio to record their first full-length

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Christopher Michael Sheehan, Accused of Killing Partner in Armed Robbery, Parole Opposed by DA

    Ed Deuel​UPDATE, MAY 4, 4:21 P.M.: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations' Board of Parole Hearings today denied parole for Christopher Michael Sheehan, who has been rotting in a San Luis Obispo cell for the 1985 murder of his partner in armed robbery and attempted murder of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    End Days Alert: Radioactive Plume to Reach OC From Japan Late Friday

    ​Here's the bad news: a United Nations forecast says that a so-called "plume" of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant will reach Southern California by late Friday after blowing across the Pacific Ocean via the Aleutian Islands. The plume is then expected to continue its eastward journey ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Food Profiling: Strawberry Season At Tanaka Farms

    Ain't that a beaut?​Tanaka Farms' story begins with Takeo Tanaka, who came to the United States by way of Hiroshima, Japan, in the early 1900s. Takeo had a son, George, born and raised in the Northern California city of Dinuba. Not wanting to fight in Pearl Harbor, George fled to Utah, where he me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2011

    [UPDATED] Like Crazy, Latest Film From OC-Bred Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, Is First Sundance Sale

    ​UPDATE, JAN. 23, 2:51 P.M.: The reaction to Like Crazy getting picked up from Ben York Jones:"I'm completely overwhelmed. I don't think anyone here with the film has gotten more than an hour or two of sleep in the past 36 hours. Those negotiating were up all night doing so, and the rest of us w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Ben York Jones and His Chapman Pals Storm Sundance

    ​The Weekly introduced readers to actor Ben York Jones a year ago, right after the Corona del Mar resident and his childhood pal, filmmaker Drake Doremus, stormed the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with their dramedy Douchebag.Jones returns to Park City, Utah, with Doremus' new indie-drama, Like Craz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    "Everyday Affluent" Can Be Pampered in Newport Coast Vacation Home

    ​Do you consider yourself a member of the "everyday affluent" who has endured poor vacation experiences or, at least, been forced to congregate near common, working-class folks?Well, Brent Handler has an idea you might like:Never lower your standards from the luxury you deserve--especially after B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Cafe Rio A Waste in Every Sense of the Definition.

    Of course, this place is almost always packed--suckers...and not just gabachos, mind you!​I knew it. I knew I shouldn't have wasted my precious time with Cafe Rio, the Utah-based chain of vaguely Tex-Mex, vaguely New Mexican, vaguely Cal-Mex restaurants that opened its first Orange County outpost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Gustavo's Five Commandments of Dining in Orange County

    See Commandment #4...​Recently, some Weeklings have been patronizing East/Borough at the CAMP, and raving about it despite my protestations. See, the pop-up restaurant charges $4.35 (before tax) for an eight-inch bánh mì, and an outlandish $6.40 for a foot-long--this, in a county that's America' ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 10, 2010

    Safe At Home

    [Summer Guide] Meet the OC Flyers' No. 1 host family

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Drake Doremus' Douchebag Wins U.S. Distribution, to be in Theaters This September

    ​The Weekly in January followed Douchebag, the indie dramedy about estranged brothers on an unlikely pre-wedding road trip, to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the buzz was deafening for former Santa Ana resident Drake Doremus' touching and amusing picture.Despite no budget, no big- ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 6, 2010

    Special Arizona Buycott Edition

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] ¡A la chingada with Arizona's SB 1070!

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Let the Sundance Film Festival Bloggage Begin!

    Village Voice Media has launched a film blog featuring posts directly from the Sundance Film Festival, which runs through through Jan. 31. Yours truly will blog on Navel Gazing from Park City, Utah, as well--in the event I find something to plug into.​If I do have the power, having both blogs up d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    High Bid for Orange County Fairgrounds is Low

    ​It was revealed today that Craig Realty Group of Newport Beach was the high bidder in the state's auction of the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa--with a bid that was much lower than the $96 million to $180 million the 150-acre property had been expected to fetch.The owner of several outle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Cafe Rio Opens In Lake Forest

    Edwin Goei ​Cafe Rio, that Utah chain I mentioned in past posts, debuted this week in Lake Forest. But, alas, I was a touch too early to try them. I took the picture above just days before they officially opened, but now that they have, I'm curious on hearing about anyone's who's tried it, e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Resurrected, Boisterous OC Pride Festival "a Smashing Success"

    Photo by Christopher VictorioPark rangers talk with OC Pride participants about the noise at Mason Regional Park in Irvine on Saturday.​The crowd was small but boisterous, there was a minor issue with the noise and some participants did not know at first that the showy police presence was for thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Crime Time: Move Over, Trendzilla!

    The must-have fashion accessory of the season for robbers in Irvine and San Juan Capistrano.It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of Orange County police calls . . . TUESDAY, JUNE 16Forest Firebug is a Pot Farm Exposer to Boot: Seven fires were ignited within a short distance of each other in Trabuco Ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Utah-Based Chain "Cafe Rio" To Open in Lake Forest

    Cafe RioAn observation: Lake Forest seems like it's becoming prime proving grounds for out-of-state chains. Don't quote me on that. I really only have one other data point to support my argument: Boneheads, which is based in Georgia.Now, there's Cafe Rio, which reports that it has just signe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Another Coker Enters the World ... at the Side of a Rainy Highway

    While the Coker you read with great joy makes up the news, the newest Coker makes news. My nephew Ian Coker and niece-in-law Carrie just welcomed their third daughter Josephine into the world--at the side of a rainy highway somewhere or another in Utah. The Fox affiliate up that way got the ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 26, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special April Fools' Day Edition

    While the Coker you read with great joy makes up the news, the newest Coker makes news. My nephew Ian Coker and niece-in-law Carrie just welcomed their third daughter Josephine into the world--at the side of a rainy highway somewhere or another in Utah. The Fox affiliate up that way got the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Prop 8: No Way in Hell Is This Over

    I spent my Election Night trying to find non-existent parking outside Hamburger Mary's in Long Beach. The celebration inside sure looked like fun, though, but I don't think I would have stuck around past midnight to watch all the tears turn from Obama joy to Prop 8 despair. Failing that, I instead d ... More >>

  • News

    May 15, 2008

    The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

    I spent my Election Night trying to find non-existent parking outside Hamburger Mary's in Long Beach. The celebration inside sure looked like fun, though, but I don't think I would have stuck around past midnight to watch all the tears turn from Obama joy to Prop 8 despair. Failing that, I instead d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2007

    Hole in my heart (and ex-homepage)

    I spent my Election Night trying to find non-existent parking outside Hamburger Mary's in Long Beach. The celebration inside sure looked like fun, though, but I don't think I would have stuck around past midnight to watch all the tears turn from Obama joy to Prop 8 despair. Failing that, I instead d ... More >>

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    An Inconvenient Slope

    Big Bears ski resorts are covered in snow despite a chronic lack of natural snowfall. So where are the crowds? Dont blame global warmingblame the media

  • Film

    February 1, 2007

    The Kids Are Not Alright

    From Dakota Fannings rape to John Cusacks daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about the kiddie porn

  • Columns

    January 4, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Special Guadalupe Edition

  • Film

    October 19, 2006

    Dog Fancy

    Bobcat Goldthwait makes a sweet movie out of a sick joke

  • Film

    February 2, 2006

    New Reviews

    A Good Woman; Imagine Me & You; Manderlay; Rang De Basanti; Something New; When a Stranger Calls; The World's Fastest Indian

  • Film

    February 2, 2006

    Here and There and Back Again

    With The Worlds Fastest Indian, Roger Donaldson comes full circle

  • Features

    September 15, 2005

    The Tragedy of It All

    Orange Countys own Hurricane Katrina: the Great Flood of 1938

  • Film

    March 10, 2005

    Head Trip

    Thinking about Deep Throat

  • Film

    January 27, 2005

    Living in Oblivion

    Reagan-era callousness sparked an indie-film renaissance. Will Bush II inspire another?

  • Columns

    August 19, 2004

    State of the Union

    Vacation, time to get away

  • Columns

    May 13, 2004

    Diary of a Mad County

    Vacation, time to get away

  • Music

    January 22, 2004

    Ready for the Country

    Genre-jumping with Limbeck

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    Pop Off the Tops

    Ten to score in 2004, plus a few more

  • Features

    May 29, 2003

    Things We Love About Summer

    Ten to score in 2004, plus a few more

  • Features

    November 21, 2002

    The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Against Mike Davis

    UC Irvine history prof Mike Davis cant write a damn thing without the nuts going nuts. This time, the controversys over an obscure reference to Winston Churchill.

  • Columns

    May 2, 2002

    Rodney King for a Day

    Riots and the rise of the Southern California SUV culture

  • Columns

    February 21, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Riots and the rise of the Southern California SUV culture

  • Columns

    April 12, 2001

    Blow Me

    Riots and the rise of the Southern California SUV culture

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