The El Toro Shuffle? The Great Park Gavotte? The Irvine Ranch Water District Toxic Waltz? We should come up a name for the little dance.
It's a simple four step dance, and very familiar one. Scientists point out a looming environmental threat and call for government action. The Bush administration, refusing to act and attempting to dismiss the scientists as panic-mongers and tree-huggers, calls for even more scientific study before it will even consider acting. The further study is completed, a
Karaoke Madness, 9 p.m.
Oh the madness!
Hogue Barmichael's
3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-261-6270
Joyride Mondays, 8 p.m.
I can ride the joy with no handlebars.
The Pike Bar & Grill
1836 E. Fourth St. Long Beach, CA 90802
562-437-4453
Neil Verni, Until 7 p.m.
Laguna Beach artist Neil Verni's first solo art exhibit.
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Rd. Laguna Hills, CA
949-497-2787
Reflections of Spring, Until 6 p.m.
Roger’s Gardens' new Fine Art Gallery specializes in contem
Irvine City Council members say they hear from residents convinced that unsafe levels of trichloroethelyne (TCE)--a volatile organic compound linked to cancer, other nasty illnesses and death--is in their drinking water. Those fears lead to media-fueled alarm, public confrontations and snarky blog posts. (God, are those annoying!) Councilman Larry Agran also suspects “plaintiff attorneys” are hovering around town “looking for the next Love Canal.”
However, based on Thursday’s presenta
Last week we blogged that Navy and Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) officials had declared Irvine's drinking water safe at a presentation before the Orange County Great Park board--despite an acknowledged polluted plume under parts of the city and its source, the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station base that will become the Great Park. The Navy is in charge of cleaning up that plume, coordinating with the IRWD.Resident Marsha Taylor was watching that presentation from home on the loca
Joshua Peters / LunchboxUnlimitedThe proposed Woodbridge (Irvine) cell-tower mentioned in the opening to the cell-madness story in the latest Weekly has, unsurprisingly, been canned. As our story noted, residents were skeptical when T-Mobile presented its plan in an informational meeting on April 29 at the Woodbridge Village Association. A day after the meeting, T-Mobile zoning and governmental affairs manager Joe Thompson told me he didn't think the cell tower in Springacre Park would ever be b
Stephen C. Smith calls on others to keep tabs on Irvine City Hall.CORRECTED!Lost in Santa Ana a few months ago, half paying attention to the street signs and half to Larry Mantle's KPCC interview show blaring out of the car speakers, I heard the host steer his Orange County "roundtable" guests--Orange County Register senior editorial writer Steven Greenhut; former LA Times religion writer William Lobdell and the Weekly's irrepressible Gustavo Arellano--into the topic of local bloggers. The three
