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November 4, 1999
When There Were People
In the City recalls a time before Things became God
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November 7, 2006
The Fix Was In For The GOP?
Your hunch at the gas pump was right. In advance of recent federal elections, oil companies seemed to have lowered gas prices--a move that's benefited the party in power: Republicans. But now there's conclusive evidence that you weren't nuts. Last week, the good folks over at The Foundation for Tax ... More >>
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March 7, 2007
Squeezing Money from Corpses in Irvine
That companies which use magical accounting practices to rewrite history to fatten the bank accounts of their executives would try to squeeze money from corpses isn't really too surprising, but it is still disgusting. And it's happening in Irvine. The Wall Street Journal reports that dozens of co ... More >>
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April 28, 2007
Toll Road to Ruin, Chapter 11
This month Orange County's bumbling Transportation Corridors Agency (TCA) devised yet another new plan to solve its continual financial disaster woes: The government agency wants to change its name to the Transportation Corridor System (TCS). Oh, and one other minor detail: They also want to spend ... More >>
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August 9, 2007
Thursday's Headlines & Surprises
Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Ear ... More >>
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June 7, 2008
What's The Deal With OC Billionaires?
We've got the George Argyros-owned apartment empire "systematically ripping off" its largely poor or lower middle class tenants by fabricating excuses for not refunding deposits to literally thousands of people. We've got Donald L. Bren--owner of the Irvine Co. using strong arm tactics on small l ... More >>
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October 3, 2008
This Week in the OC Weekly
We've got the George Argyros-owned apartment empire "systematically ripping off" its largely poor or lower middle class tenants by fabricating excuses for not refunding deposits to literally thousands of people. We've got Donald L. Bren--owner of the Irvine Co. using strong arm tactics on small l ... More >>
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October 20, 2008
OC's Taliban-Loving Congressman to Address OC's Taliban This Wednesday
Ya wanna know why the California Coalition for Immigration Reform are evil, decrepit hypocrites? Because they're hosting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Taliban) this Wednesday at their monthly Klavern at the Garden Grove Woman's Club on the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove Blvd (starts at 7:30 pm ... More >>
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October 20, 2008
Tim Carpenter: Back With a Vengeance
“I haven't seen you since 1988,” Tim Carpenter says with astonishment as he finally recognizes the progressive activist whose hand he's been shaking during a brief break between a press conference and rally for Democratic candidates at the Teamsters Local 952 union hall in Orange last Friday. B ... More >>
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December 4, 2008
Jim and Ted's Excellent (Immigrant-Bashing) Adventure
If you thought you missed your chance to pelt the father of the once headline-gobbling Minuteman Project and his Cricket playing, immigrant-hating homeless sidekick with your burning questions (Why do you wear a straight-jacket-vest-thing over your clothes? Are you gay?), you'll get your chance this ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
As Cox Takes More Heat, a Bizarro World Blast From the Past
The hits keep coming for embattled Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, the former local congressman (R-Newport Beach). Amid the Bernard L. Madoff scandal, Cox last week publicly blamed his staff for not vigorously investigating complaints against the fraudster. Today, we hea ... More >>
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December 18, 2008
Feds Kill Foothill-South Toll Road Proposal. Now What? Punt?
UPDATED WITH TCA NON-RESPONSE RESPONSE; BLOOMBERG REPORT...If the posting times are correct, The Orange County Register (9:40 a.m.) beat the Los Angeles Times (10:03 a.m.) in getting the news out that the U.S. Department of Commerce had announced it would uphold the state Coastal Commission's reject ... More >>
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March 23, 2009
Moyers Picks Brain of Last Socialist (and Weekly Pal)
Saturday Night Live had this skit years ago where they presented a Fugitivesque TV show called The Last Liberal. With all the talk on Fox News and conservative talk radio about the rise of Socialism in Obamerica, Bill Moyers decided to go out and find The Last Socialist to get the other side of the ... More >>
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October 30, 2008
[Scariest People 2008] Count Coxula
Saturday Night Live had this skit years ago where they presented a Fugitivesque TV show called The Last Liberal. With all the talk on Fox News and conservative talk radio about the rise of Socialism in Obamerica, Bill Moyers decided to go out and find The Last Socialist to get the other side of the ... More >>
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October 2, 2008
[Moxley Confidential] Chris Cox Says He's a Tough Wall Street Regulator, SEC Record Proves Otherwise
Saturday Night Live had this skit years ago where they presented a Fugitivesque TV show called The Last Liberal. With all the talk on Fox News and conservative talk radio about the rise of Socialism in Obamerica, Bill Moyers decided to go out and find The Last Socialist to get the other side of the ... More >>
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March 9, 2000
Proposition Me
Our modest take on the tuesday ballot
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May 3, 2007
Toll Road to Ruin
OC agency wants to borrow $4.7 billion more
Film
January 4, 2007
Same Old Story
Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007
Film
March 23, 2006
Catch Me If You Can
By-the-numbers heist flick Spiked with ethnic vaudeville
Film
January 19, 2006
This Week in Glow-in-the-Dark Chevys
OnDVD: Repo Man: Collectors Edition
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November 14, 2002
Uncle Sam Bets Big Money on Iraq
OnDVD: Repo Man: Collectors Edition
Food
October 3, 2002
Let Them Eat Nachos
You, too, can live off happy hour food
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August 8, 2002
It's the Economy, Stupid
You, too, can live off happy hour food
Culture
December 20, 2001
And for the Design-Conscious Hippie?
Shopping the museums
Features
September 6, 2001
Its a Living
You think your jobs tough? Try being the Ty-D-Bowl Man for Huntington Beach
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November 9, 2000
Behind the Smoke
Measure G to the countys poor: Go to the end of the line, and wait there for 20 yearsagain
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August 17, 2000
Death Pool
Pick the dot-com stiffs
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August 10, 2000
Val Garay, Laguna Beach-Based Superproducer
What's humming through the skulls of Orange County?
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March 2, 2000
Its Official!
Dailies report whats been obvious all along: toll roads are in trouble
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December 9, 1999
Bankruptcy? What Bankruptcy?!
OCs financial meltdown, five years later
Columns
July 22, 1999
Putting the P-U in Public/Private Partnerships
OCs financial meltdown, five years later
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February 18, 1999
Blown Coverage
How to keep ignoring the bankruptcy fallout
Features
January 7, 1999
The Safety Dance
1998: The Year of Living Undangerously
News
May 21, 2009
Chuck DeVore Tweets on the Issues!
1998: The Year of Living Undangerously
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August 25, 2009
Consumer Confidence Reports Reach Opposite Conclusions
According to Associated Press economics writer Chrstopher S. Rugaber, "Consumer sentiment rose more than expected in August and expectations hit the highest level since the recession began, indications that Americans' pessimism about the economy may be lifting."Rugaber cites findings from the New ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Ed Royce: He Works Hard For His Money
Congressman Royce, centerIn an alarming "Accused Fraudster Allen Stanford Consorted with Lawmakers," BNET.com's Alain Sherter worked off a recent Miami Herald investigation and noted how just hours after Stanford was charged this year with bilking $7 billion from investors he received a sappy lov ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Labor Rally Chastises Greed of Chase and Bank of America
The reckless greed of Wall Street banks such as Chase and Bank of America has wrecked the American economy and kill American jobs, claims the Orange County Labor Federation, which leads noontime rallies today in front of branches of both banks in Santa Ana.
Blogs
March 25, 2010
Teabagging Chuck DeVore
Photo by John GilhooleyDoes Chuck DeVore have an app for teabagging?Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who's in the middle of a longshot bid to become your U.S. senator, is cooing about his impending endorsement Sunday from the Tea Party Express, the national conservative movement that helped s ... More >>
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June 28, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Police Arrest Men For Disney-Area BurglariesComment by Dina: Do you think we can check their legal status, or will we be sued by La Raza?Comment by Poker: Just by reading the header on a lot of article when it comes to crime or arresting. My first thought would be Mexicans...
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May 23, 2011
Walll Street Journal Grumbles About Cupcakes About a Year After the Trend
Time was when the Wall Street Journal was a respected paper: always with a business-friendly, mostly conservative point of view, but one at least respected. But ever since Rupert Murdoch acquired it a couple of years ago, it has ditched the gravitas for the sort of knee-jerk captain-of-industry p ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Downgraded S&P Rating, China, Cuba, Obama, The Illuminati and Their Scary Ties to Newport Beach
As Republicans in Congress and Democrats in the White House argue over whose role in the debt-ceiling crisis led Standard & Poor's for the first time ever to downgrade U.S debt from an AAA to AA rating, evidence mounts that the cause for this possible push into a double-dip recession was bor ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
[UPDATED with Howard Stern, Creative Accounting:] Greg Laurie Identifies Real Threat to America: One Night Stands
UPDATE, AUG. 17, 9:46 A.M.: So, I follow this link to a post about Pastor Greg Laurie also having said during the three-day Harvest Crusade in Anaheim that Howard Stern needs to find Jesus (and apparently not so the King of All Media can ask the King of Kings what he's packing).More interesting w ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
New (Fake) Ben & Jerry's Flavor: OccuPie Wall Street
Tauntr.comSpeaking of fake Ben & Jerry's flavors, this one is 99 percent awesome. Illustrator John Defreest created the conceptual OccuPie Wall Street, described as "apple pie ice cream with some other good stuff in there, we think. We're not really sure. No one can explain it to us." ... More >>
News
October 20, 2011
Occupy OC Plays the Percentages
[Moxley Confidential] Even Orange County has far more 99 percenters than 1 percenters. Can Occupy OC be part of effecting real change?
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Michael Franti on Occupy Wall Street, His New Album and Fostering Compassion Everywhere
James Minchin A few weeks ago, we caught up with socially conscious hip-hop/reggae artist Michael Franti days after he played at Occupy Wall Street. Spearhead's frontman and driving force has been an activist for more than two decades, and he showed up protest in pigtails and a tall-crowned cow ... More >>
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October 22, 2011
[UPDATE: Four Protesters Arrested] Occupy Orange County Takes Santa Ana and Finds A Republican!
Little boy protests corporate abuses in Santa Ana today.UPDATE: 11:44 P.M., OCT. 22: Click here for updates, including names of the arrested and what the group plans on doing next.UPDATE, 11:11 P.M., OCT. 22: Editor's note--Four arrests confirmed by Occupy OC organizer Alicia Rojas for resisting ... More >>
Columns
November 3, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Little boy protests corporate abuses in Santa Ana today.UPDATE: 11:44 P.M., OCT. 22: Click here for updates, including names of the arrested and what the group plans on doing next.UPDATE, 11:11 P.M., OCT. 22: Editor's note--Four arrests confirmed by Occupy OC organizer Alicia Rojas for resisting ... More >>
Film
November 3, 2011
'Harold and Kumar' Comes Down From Its High
The grass isn't always greener for the doobie brothers
Blogs
November 14, 2011
Five Homemade Holiday Gifts You Can Make Now
Flickr user 29638108@N06So you want to occupy Wall Street? If you really want to stick it to the corporations this year, give homemade gifts. Buy the things you need to make them from independent businesses and give presents that have your unmistakable stamp on them.Yes, it's just barely past Hal ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
A Tale of Two City Desks: Covering Occupy Campers vs. Black Friday Campers
My colleague Vickie Chang just posted an item with a photo that reminded me of something I'd meant to mention here earlier. Has anyone else caught the irony in recent TV news reports on Occupy campers vs. Twilight or Black Friday campers?
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