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Chris Cox Still Sits on 2004 Campaign Cash While Bob Dornan Remains In Debt For 1996 Presidential Run

It's been eight years since Newport Beach Republican Congressman Christopher Cox last campaigned for office and, though his seat was never in jeopardy in the Republican-rich coastal Orange County district, he collected millions of dollars in contributions.Cox, long an opponent of pro-consumer financ ... More >>

'How to Survive a Plague': Who Saved the World?

David France on the stirring history of ACT UP

Occupy OC to Celebrate One-Year Anniversary of Wall Street Occupation in Anaheim

Occupy Orange County is planning a Rally for Justice event for Saturday in Pearson Park in Anaheim, celebrating of the upcoming one-year anniversary since protesters took over Zuccotti Park in New York City. Although the occupation of Zuccotti Park lasted for a mere eight weeks, and the subsequ ... More >>

Daryl Hannah to Appear at Tree Huggers Ball

Daryl Hannah is expected to make a splash at the Canyon Land Conservation Fund's 8th Annual Tree Hugger Ball in the canyons, which is a great place for summer lovers. The event, which takes place on June 23, hopes to raise money to protect the wild area of the Santa Ana Mountains, a fight under ... More >>

[UPDATED with Firm Saying Oh No We Di'int:] Did PIMCO Spark Tweets That Sank Market?

UPDATE, JUNE 7, 8:31 A.M.: Despite the tweets and reports about Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) advising employees to hold off summer vacation plans due to a looming market meltdown, the Newport Beach-based financial juggernaut swears it ain't so. A statement a PIMCO spokesman emailed in r ... More >>

OC Bookly at the LA Times Festival of Books

I've attended nearly all of the previous 16 years of the annual Los Angeles Times books festivals, this one again on the campus of USC. There was that one year I missed, when the bibliochild was born and some friends, fellow writers and Santa Monica Review volunteers staffed the SMR booth, ... More >>

Five Gas Stations In Orange County That You Don't Want to Fill Up On

​It used to be said that everything was more expensive in California. And until our housing market crashed, it might have been true. But at least one thing remains ridiculously overpriced here--gasoline. California's average cost of gas is now $4.34 for regular gas, while the national average is c ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball; Do We Expect Too Little From Our Pop Stars?

​The United States is finally showing signs of recovering from the malaise that's plagued it for the past four (or so) years, and yet I haven't heard a significant voice in music dedicate a body of work to the alarming social inequities. It seems like people would rather listen to mindless pop mus ... More >>

You'll Know the Occupiers by Their Bio-Hazard Suits at Natural Products Expo in Anaheim

​When more than 30,000 attendees arrive at the Anaheim Convention Center Friday for Expo West, North America's largest trade show for the natural products industry, many may tread lightly.How else is one supposed to act around folks creeping around in bio-hazmat suits?

Occupy Orange County's Irvine Protest Inspires Lefty Slogans

Huge lefty crowd in Irvine chanted their belief that they "will win"​Though today's energetic, historic Occupy Orange County protest in Irvine generally tilted liberal, participants didn't all agree on the message they meant to deliver.That's not surprising given that the diverse crowd of perhaps ... More >>

Angels Desperately Need to Defeat the Evil Empire Yankees--For You, Me and America

Would be nice if that could be true, at least for this weekend.​The Angels are getting hot!They're fading!They're on the heels of the Rangers!They can't win a game!They're back in the chase!(Make up your damn mind, Scioscia--are your boys making the playoffs or not?!)This up-and-down push toward t ... More >>

[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 >>

Nurses Rally Against Government Healthcare and Social Security Cuts

​Just to be clear, the more than 100 registered nurses huddled around Irvine's Civic Center Plaza at high noon today are not there to implant a conscious into Larry Agran. The RNs are joining community activists to rally against any cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

Sarah Palin Fingers Ed Royce For Powerful House Financial Post

Royce​Ed Royce, the Fullerton Republican congressman dreaming of taking over Rep. Barney Frank's House financial services committee, has captured a powerful ally: Sarah Palin.The new alliance apparently wasn't based on Royce's competence but because he is not Spencer Bachus, a more senior Alabama ... More >>

Explaining the Shitty Economy Through LMFAO's 'Shots'

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​The Great Recession may have been long declared over, but the pain continues for many everyday people. For the curious, the bottoming out of the U.S. economy prompted inquiry into what the hell went down. The subject of economics, however, is all too often unnecessar ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

Rizzo: I've been sodomized!​Local news highlights include:Ex-Bell city manager says he is a rape victimIn case you haven't heard: Robert Rizzo, Bell's city manager who paid himself $1.5 million annually, was sexually assaulted. Yep, and Rizzo is naming names. The perpetrator? The LA Times, he says ... More >>

Ugo Allesina of Prego, Part One

Kimberly Valenzuela​Of all the Los Angeles-area airports, John Wayne has the best food within easy striking distance. The traffic at LAX prevents people from eating nearby; Burbank's airport is in an absolute desert of food, and Ontario is even worse. Long Beach has some good options, but if you'r ... More >>

Healthcare Celebration Today, Healthcare Protest Tomorrow

​Supporters of the historic healthcare reform bill signed into law by President Barack Obama will gather in front of the Garden Grove district office of Rep. Loretta Sanchez this afternoon to thank Orange County's only Democratic member of Congress for her yes vote on the controversial legislation ... More >>

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 >>

Shamed ex-SEC Chairman Chris Cox to Float Not on Ice Floe But Orange County Republican Party Boat

John McCain wanted Christopher Cox fired as the George W. Bush-appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Los Angeles Times opined that Cox's chairmanship will be characterized by missing the signs that Wall Street was poised for a meltdown, noting the critics who said Cox's l ... More >>

Believe the Investment Advice From the Man With No Mustache

In mock congressional testimony, Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), said today the U.S. should only nationalize banks as a last resort, that focus should instead be placed on shoring up lending and staving off foreclosures a ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' More

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 >>

[Pucker Up] Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men

Total Recall

Canvas? and Terry Kim remember the good 80s

The Essence of Cool

How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) defines Melvin Van Peebles

Un-Made in Mexico

Sex, drugs and the American flag: The true tale of an Orange County family

Gooooooaaaalll!

FIFA 2005 introduces Mexicans to save its luster

Go Time

Ex-toll-road boss had one last project before he left: His own financial windfall

Burning Bush

Lets Get Physical

Beware the Pinnochian underworld of Ocean Brewing Co.

Summer Reading

A five-part course in Don DeLillo

Spicy Protest Jambalaya

Armed only with paintings, Mark Chamberlain takes on Bush

Same as the Old Boss

Curses of the New Economy workplace

Fool's Gold

The Party's Over

Reform-School Congress

Diary of a Mad County

Victims of the Dragnet

Made in Newport Beach

How Chris Cox helped produce the Enron scandal

The Visible Invisible Man

Male Malfeasance

Dont Say a Word, plus Hearts in Atlantis

Its a Living

You think your jobs tough? Try being the Ty-D-Bowl Man for Huntington Beach

Getting More Retail than Sinatra

A River Runs Beneath It

Santa Ana River toll road elevates eco-fears

The Shock of the Nude

How would the Pageant of the Masters score Guernica?

Merrill Lynch Mob

The firm's Laguna Beach project backers are paving a little piece of paradise

Mo Money

Out of Sight