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May 20, 2009
Heal The Bay Gives the Baby Beach a Clean Bill Of Health
Heal the Bay has released its annual report card of California beach water quality. Each of Orange County's beaches has received a grade, and the 88-page report has some other info on the county. Let's break it down:We've got two "beach bummers." On Heal the Bay's list of the top 10 worst beaches in ... More >>
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June 23, 2006
Can you hear me... Arrgghhh!
Cell phones, as you know, can kill you. While there is still some controversy over whether your cell phone is capable of killing you slowly (e.g. brain tumors), there's no doubt about the cell phone's ability to facilitate a quick death (e.g. the idiot behind the wheel of a car whose phone conversio ... More >>
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August 11, 2006
A Postmortem on the Heat Wave
A story in this morning's New York Times on last month's heat wave makes for grim reading. According to the paper's examination of records, approximately 140 Californians died from the heat during the month of July, "a death toll unlike any the state had seen from high temperatures since 1955, state ... More >>
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October 22, 2007
Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Red Sky at Night
As the sun rose this morning over Orange County, a huge plume of smoke near Irvine painted the horizon an eerie orange, blue, brown and gray. Renewed Santa Ana wind gusts up to 45 mph whistled through neighborhoods, blew trash cans down streets and slammed into palm trees seemingly ready to pop from ... More >>
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October 22, 2007
Fire Officials Seek Information on OC Arsonist
The folks over at the Register are doing a fine job reporting on the massive Orange County arson fire that’s threatening to keep firefighters at work for another two days as winds approaching hurricane force continue to pound the region. Residents in Foothill Ranch are the latest to see their neig ... More >>
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November 2, 2007
The Blakes Play The Doll Hut 11/1
Last night I ventured to Anaheim’s famous Doll Hut to see Seattle-based rock band The Blakes. I was worried I had missed them, showing up at 10 when the show started at 9. Nope. Doll Hut owner Juan Reynoso, who was working the door (gotta love that!) told me they had yet to go on. I was in luc ... More >>
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February 5, 2008
FOX NEWS: Why New Mexico is so close
Some googly-eyed, drooly-mouthed Fox News talking head just said that the reason why New Mexico is so tight between Obama and Clinton (as of 10:50 p.m.) is because parts of the state were hit with a snowstorm today, and that many of Hillary's Latino supporters couldn't claw their way out of the snow ... More >>
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November 4, 1999
Crystal Method
Irvine Co.s Crystal Cove project raises eco-disaster fears
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December 5, 2002
Return of the Native?
Wish they all could be California plants
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January 14, 2009
Don't Fire Until You See the Reds of Their Flags
NEWS ITEM: The National Weather Service announces today a red flag warning will be in effect the rest of the week in Southern California due to unseasonably warm weather increasing the danger of fire in the local mountains.. . . AND NOW THE REST OF THE STORY: Little Saigon protesters vehemently lash ... More >>
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April 9, 2009
The Glory of Easter
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January 15, 2009
Lightning: Ben Franklin was Lucky
Bowers Museum
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September 11, 2008
A Woman's Touch
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June 19, 2008
Octopus' Garden
Ocean Friendly Gardening
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June 3, 2004
Theres Got to Be a Morning After
The Day After Tomorrow
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March 1, 2007
Letters
'Give us all a breakthe Mexican wetback has become the majority.'
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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
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June 1, 2006
Typhoon in a Teacup
Asian action movies dont get much less significant than this one.
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December 14, 2000
Snow Job
The definition of softcore weather porn
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September 1, 2005
A CLOCKWORK NARANJA
The definition of softcore weather porn
Culture
July 21, 2005
Electric Blues
Cole Gerst gets lit
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January 27, 2005
Dam Us!
Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man
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March 27, 2003
No Blood for Water!
Drinking the water Dana Rohrabacher surfs in
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December 26, 2002
A River Will Run Through It
Orange officials okay plan to build homes in Santiago creek streambed
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March 15, 2001
Breaking News!
Orange officials okay plan to build homes in Santiago creek streambed
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June 22, 2000
Swamp Land in Orange
How officials okayed a plan to turn flood land into hot real estate
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June 15, 2000
When the Levee Broke
How a boy reporter stopped a flood with a letter
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April 27, 2000
It's the End of the World As You Know It, and I Don't Feel Fine
How a boy reporter stopped a flood with a letter
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September 23, 1999
A Sewer Runs Through It
The life and death of the Santa Ana River
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December 6, 2007
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August 20, 2009
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September 29, 2009
Film Exposes Locals to WWI American Soldiers Known as the Polar Bears
Dr. Peter Karpawhich, a Detroit area physician, plays a Bolshevik lieutenant firing a pistol at American soldiers as another re-enactor takes aim in waist-deep snow in "Voices of a Never Ending Dawn."Voices of a Never Ending Dawn, a documentary on the 5,500 young American soldiers who were unexpe ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
At the Farmers' Market: Strawberries
Dave LiebermanQuick, when was the last time you had a juicy, sweet, fragrant strawberry?Back in June and July?Well, there's some good news. While cool, dry weather in November makes the meteorologists and climate folks freak out, lovers of fruit can rejoice, because it means an extra crop of stra ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
OC Fire: Here Come 'Da Floods
The Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) is reminding residents that the best way to prevent flooding is to prepare before the rain starts falling. Now they tell us!Dry as this is being typed, my backyard, residential street and busy boulevard one block over were flooded a few hours ago.If o ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Heal the Bay Releases 2010 Beach Report Card; First, the Good News for Orange County
Heal the Bay, the 13,000-member strong clean water advocacy group that started 25 years ago to demand action on Santa Monica Bay pollution and now monitors the entire California coastline, released its annual Beach Report Card Wednesday. There are some positive trends when it comes t ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Now, the Bad News for Orange County in Annual Beach Report Card From Heal the Bay
flickr user AndrewEickAs mentioned in the accompanying post on "good news" for Orange County in Heal the Bay's annual Beach Report Card, many OC beaches scored perfect A grades and, overall, our shoreline experienced its cleanest dry weather season in six years.But not everything smells like a r ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
You Weren't Imagining It: This July Was One of the Coldest
If you feel like Orange County's June gloom only turned into July gloomier, you're right. The OC Register reported that, according to the National Weather Service, last July "was one of the coldest on record for coastal California." Fullerton's high temperature, for example, averaged around 79 de ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Thank you, Global Warming: UCI-Led Study Shows Sea Levels Steadily Rising
Frequent and extreme storms tied to global warming are causing more freshwater to flow into the Earth's oceans and sea levels to rise, concludes a team of researchers led by Jay Famiglietti, a UC Irvine Earth system science professor."All told, 18 percent more water fed into the world's oceans fr ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Al Gore, Please Pick Up the Newport Beach Courtesy Phone
Those who come down with the sniffles whenever there are wide temperature fluctuations hopefully stayed out of Southern California the past couple weeks. On Sept. 27, a record was set for the hottest recorded day in 133 years. By Oct. 5, chilly rain blanketed the region. No where had a more radi ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
Rain, Rain, Go Away! Oh, You're Back ...
You know how lightning and thunderstorms slammed central and south Orange County this morning--including Westminster, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Irvine and Costa Mesa? And how the National Weather Service issued a flood warning through 1 p.m., adding the rains would quickly lighten up and mo ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Body Heat
The Bay Theater
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December 21, 2010
[UPDATED:] Local Emergency Declared in Soggy OC
Update, December 21, 10:59 a.m.: The county just announced that as a result of the local emergency proclamation issued due to the weather, two emergency shelters will now be open 24/7. They are the National Guard armories at 612 E. Warner Ave., Santa Ana, and 400 S. Brookhurst Rd., Fullerton. Cou ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
The Inconvenient Truth Underlying Al Gore's Snowball Fight With Matt Drudge and Bill O'Reilly
The killer snowstorms socking much of the country are providing pundits on the right all the ammunition they need to mow down poor ol' Al Gore. Mr. Inconvenient Truth was called out last week by Bill O'Reilly, who wanted to know, if global warming exists, "Why has southern New York turned into t ... More >>
Film
February 4, 2011
The Big Chill
The mysterious world of mumble-noir in Cold Weather
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February 26, 2011
Snow in Costa Mesa?
Snow fell this weekend in San Francisco and it's being anticipated in the coastal foothills of Los Angeles--but could it really happen here in Costa Mesa?According to the the weather app on the iPhone? Sure. Maybe. Possibly. It's currently 50-degrees out there, which is something like 20-degrees ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
[UPDATED with Honor Roll Beaches:] OC Beaches Score Excellent Grades on Heal the Bay Report Card
Photo by Chasen Marshall/OC WeeklyUPDATE, MAY 27, 4:49 P.M.: The original report on Orange County's excellent showing on Heal the Bay's Beach Report Card left off the beaches that made the 2010-11 Honor Roll, and for good reason: the link to that list was broken.The link has since been repaired, ... More >>
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September 10, 2011
[BREAKING, PHOTOS:] Hail! Thunder! Freaky Weather Hits OC
Thunder followed by what sounded like Buddy Rich pummeling cymbals at my side yard just woke me from my Saturday morning stupor.Looking out the back door of my Costa Mesa abode produced the sight of hail the size of, uh, really big balls of hail.Sorry, folks, not used to having to measure hail in ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Sign Collapses During High Winds!
Taco Bell announced last week or so that it was cutting about 100 corporate jobs. They can make all the excuses I want, but I feel a fundamental change in the air, one akin to what took down El Torito: America is graduating from Cal-Mex to Mex-Mex. I'll, of course, TOTALLY wax poetic on the subje ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Wind Storm That's Pounded the Rest of Southern California Kicks Ups in OC
Orange County seemed to be spared from the "once a decade type wind storm" that has toppled trees, overturned big rigs and knocked out power to 300,000 people in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties overnight. But while the winds are dying down in those areas, they have started to k ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
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