Wall Street

Aaron Cohen, OC-Based Human Trafficking Fighter, Now Has Eyes Set on Helping to End Personal Debt

Article by Cindy CaffertyWeekly readers first met Aaron Cohen in a 2007 article detailing his escapades to rescue victims of labor and sexual slavery. Subsequent web and print articles kept readers updated, and offered greater detail than can be afforded here, on the (then) Costa Mesa resident: h ... More >>

In Which A Teacher Writes Back to His Congressman, Gently Correcting His Writing and Thinking Errors

I am this Sunday morning postponing my terrific and much-anticipated (by me, at least!) reviews of a first novel by OC's own Peggy Hesketh, the new short story collection by Gary Amdahl of Redlands, and Gold Line-chapbook award winner Alisa Slaughter's short stories to offer--completely unsolicited- ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Flip-Flopped on Fiscal Cliff Debate; Claims He Was Confused

As he paced the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. last night, Dana Rohrabacher must have felt knots in his robust belly beneath the soiled tie, incessantly wrung his hands and sweated profusely inside his ill-fitting, polyester-inspired suit.Rohrabacher, who is accustomed to barking ... More >>

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critics' Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey

Bill Gross, PIMCO's Billionaire Investment Guru, Breaks Bad

When Bill Gross talks, people listen, as the billionaire investment guru out of Newport Beach and that tony beach town's PIMCO firm can make calls on markets around the world that ultimately shake the global economy (Hello, Greece . . . Greece? Are you still there?). But Gross' just-posted monthly i ... More >>

KCBS Reporter Dave Lopez to Gov. Jerry Brown on California High-Speed Rail: Hold The Phone!

You know professional politicians are in big trouble when mainstream daily journalists openly mock them.Take the case of veteran KCBS/KCAL television reporter Dave Lopez, who late last week reported Gov. Jerry Brown's press conference to celebrate California's new costly, controversial high-speed ra ... More >>

The Billionaires' Club Gets a Visit From Mitt Romney

Dropping by for campaign funds, the Republican candidate inspires equal loathing from Occupiers and Tea Partiers

Chapman Professor Tells Wall Street Journal Why Everyone Is Leaving California

"California, here we come! . . . Oh, no, wait, let's get the hell out of here!"  If it seems like more and more people are fleeing California to start new lives elsewhere, it's because they are. In the last two decades, four million more people have booked it out of this perhaps-not-so-golden s ... More >>

[BREAKING!] Whitney Houston's Death was a Barack Obama-Hollywood Illuminati Rub Out

​What do Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Barack Obama, a marijuana-toting pilot who wandered into the presidential airspace leaving Corona del Mar and the shooting of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Long Beach have in common?They are all connected to the Hollywood Illuminati A ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher Endorsement Dooms Mitt Romney's Future

Rohrabacher: Channeling Miss Cleo again​You know a presidential campaign is desperate when it hails the endorsement of a loony, laughable and little known congressman from Orange County.On Monday, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) officially endorsed Mitt Romney and instead of prudent ... More >>

'Tower Heist' Is a High-Rise Robbery

Stealing from the rich to . . . oh, whatever. Funny is the message in this Ben Stiller flick

John Boehner's Orange County Tee Party

Thinkprogress.org​The Los Angeles Times and other outlets are reporting that Orange County activists rolled out the welcome mat for House Speaker John Boehner, who was in Newport Beach yesterday. While angry citizens in Irvine protested the cozy relationship between Wall Street and our p ... More >>

Battles at the Glass House Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​BattlesOctober 16th, 2011Glass HousePomona was a hotbed of activity on Sunday night as Battles headlined the Glass House while Foster the People sold out the Fox Theater across the street. In a perfect world, Battles should have been headlining the Fox Theater as they engi ... More >>

Santa Ana Police Threaten Occupy Activists with Arrest

​That whole "occupy" part of Occupy Santa Ana is proving to be a bit difficult. Santa Ana Police officials and City Attorney Teresa Judd met with members of Occupy Santa Ana yesterday and informed them that the municipal code doesn't allow camping on city property. The group initially planned to o ... More >>

When Life Hands You Steak Knives

STAGEStheatre's production of 'Death of a Salesman' shows Arthur Miller's masterpiece is still scarily relevant

Strip Tease

Set in a sleazy NYC club, Abel Ferrara's 'Go Go Tales' is actually kinda sweet

Article: Ed Royce Could Nab Top Financial Post in DC

Royce​For a quirky reason, Fullerton Congressman Ed Royce has a chance to leapfrog over more senior Republicans to become chairman of the powerful House financial services committee, according to a new article in Mother Jones magazine.Royce and Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican with more senio ... More >>

Duane Roberts, Anaheim Activist, Announces U.S. Sentate Run

Roberts​If a former community organizer can become president of the United States, why can't a community organizer become a U.S. senator?Longtime Anaheim activist Duane Roberts announced that he will file papers with the Orange County Registrar of Voters today to put his name on the June primary b ... More >>

Rep. Ed Royce Nails Olympic Backflip!

Royce: Olympic-size fickleness​Ed Royce, the Orange County congressman who claims blocking consumer financial protections from sneaky Wall Street bankers is actually a pro-consumer stance, has found another topic to fumble. This month at Red County blog, the Fullerton Republican blasted President ... More >>

La Voz de Aztlan Defends Local Muslims--By Demonizing Jews

Carreon, at right: Who knew such a venomous man was an beer-bellied, middle-aged pendejo?​If I were a member of UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union, I'd be scared: Hector Carreon is taking up your cause! The sole writer of the notoriously gay-bashing, Jew-trashing La Voz de Aztlán--who has taken to ... More >>

Sexploitation Producer, Rocker Among Those Who Flood Rohrabacher Coffers

Dana Rohrabacher, Vietnam War, combat duty, House of Representatives, Huntington Beach, Wall Street, PACs, Debbie Cook, Sammy Hagar, Sierra Club, oil drilling, California, Robert F. Kennedy, assassination, R. Scott Moxley, OC Weekly, presidential candidate, Los Angeles hotel, Lloyd Kaufman, NSA

They Didn't Pave Paradise: The top 10 reasons why the Foothill South Toll Road extension failed

Fullerton Thief with real Modest(o) "Low Expectations"*

Wall Street rogue or just opportunistic, minor-league thief, there’s such a thing as setting your sights too high. There’s also setting them too low. . .like WAY too low. Fullerton police are reporting that a computer hard drive, stolen from Systematic Automation Inc., a local data processing ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Nov. 8 - Nov. 14

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping Dollars

In a state which has had as governor both Pete Wilson and Gray Davis, two men who could squeeze campaign contributions out of a stone, it would take a very special politician to set a new standard for money grubbing. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very special politician. A story from The Associated P ... More >>

'Back to Square One'

Martin Diedrich celebrates the death of his familys coffee chain

Does a Bear Shit in the LA Times?

If you read Monday's Los Angeles "By God" Times Business section (and why would you?), you might've choked on your French Roast when you came on C3's three-quarter page advert announcing the California Bear is missing from the state flag. The gloomy gray gus informed that the Grizzly "grew tired of ... More >>

The Smart Guy

Chris Cox in charge of Wall Street? Dumb

The Smart Guy

Chris Cox in charge of Wall Street? Dumb

Music Like Dirt

Dr. Freeclouds moves again . . .

A Mob of One

This is about Social Security and . . . Wait! Come back!!

Masta Ace

In Defense of Gay Marriage

So just shut up and buy Adam and Steve a nice present already

Blame the Democrats

They need to stop acting like drunks at court-ordered AA meetings and sober up

Represent What?

The Registers New Campaign

We Live in Paradise!

California Republicans want to do for you what theyve already done for Orange County

Diary of a Mad County

A Clockwork Orange

Diary of a Mad County

Where Are the Cops?

Despite a judges ruling that he defrauded investors of millions, Eddie Allen still runs free

Richer Than Rockefeller

Argyros tells feds hes a billionaire

Cinderella Stories

Amd then we have sex with Simon LeBon

The Year in Bits: January- June

Class Dismissed

Hollywood mines more gold from common folk

Buy Jim's Book

Its about a rich, conservative businessman, and it doesnt suck

Happy Anniversary!

The Times celebrates the rise of Jan Mittermeiers Soviet-style politics

Ed Royce Is Your Friend!

But he likes bankers, too

Angels in the Outhouse

Revisiting the Weeklys Tao Jones

Ass Fault

County officials pave over the true source of toll-road funding: You

Letters

Welcome to the Ice

On top at the bottom of the world