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Scott Evans Dekraai Sued by Families of Two of the Eight People He Allegedly Murdered

​If lawsuits were assholes, Scott Evans Dekraai would have two of them.Friday, the Seal Beach massacre suspect was sued for wrongful death by the parents of his slain ex-wife, Michelle Fournier, and grandparents of their 8-year-old son. Monday, the troubled man authorities say confessed to the ram ... More >>

[UPDATED with Ex-Veep's "Arrest":] Dick Cheney Greeted by Protesters at Nixon Library

​UPDATE, SEPT. 8, 9:56 A.M.: As Dick Cheney was lauding his profound role in Bush administration wars on terror, the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution before a polite Nixon Library crowd Wednesday evening, he was "arrested."Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans rose from her chair in the East ... More >>

Woman Wins $10 Million "Spoofing" Judgment Against No-Show Santa Ana Debt Collection Dickwads

​A West Virginia woman who was repeatedly harassed on the phone over her son's supposed credit-card debt was recently awarded a $10 million judgment in court, but Diana Mey may never see a penny of it because the defendant, a Santa Ana-based collection agency, simply walked away from the case. The ... More >>

Hardees Commercials for Fried Bologna Biscuits

​ You may or may not like Carl's Jr's. commercials. They're purposely polarizing and provocative. The ads use either tits or creepers to capture your eyeballs and your wallet. Now they're using both at the same time--creepy old man moobies to sell Hardee's Fried Bologna Biscuit breakfast sandwic ... More >>

[UPDATED with Mistrial:] Mary Katheryn Sharpski, Her Lover and His Butcher Friend Tried for Machete Attack on Her Husband

The wife​UPDATE, JUNE 2, 10:06 A.M.: The murder trial of the wife and lover accused of getting a butcher to kill her husband with a machete--which, ironically, is the name of the new John Grisham novel--has ended in mistrial.After deliberating for two days, the four-man, eight-woman jury informed ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Pushes Anti-Stalking Law With Anti-Gay Dingbat

Virginia Foxx, dingbat​In a bipartisan effort with a notorious North Carolina Republican, Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is proposing a new federal anti-stalking law that is designed to aid law enforcement in capturing offenders.The pair has dubbed their House Resolution 196 the Simpl ... More >>

Anti-Gay Fred Phelps Is A No-Show But Police Helicopters Nevertheless Go Into Frenzy

Helicopter crew: We want to feel important​The OC Register reported tonight that "hundreds" of protesters gathered in Santa Ana tonight to demonstrate against anti-gay bigots who'd claimed they would appear from Kansas in opposition to a play about the brutal murder of a Wyoming gay man, Matthew S ... More >>

Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps Brings Hate Crusade to OC The Laramie Project Staging

​Fred Phelps' "God Hates Fags" crusade comes to Santa Ana Saturday night for another demonstration of a play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, whose funeral was infamously picketed by the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas.The threat has prompted a downtown Santa Ana business ... More >>

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Grand Central Theatre

OC's Scariest People

Crypt from the headlines, here are our annual 31 flavors of fiendishness

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 >>

Director's Own Words: Chris Kitchen of "Freedom Riders"

Director Chris Kitchen films a mountain biker in Freedom Riders.​"There were some glances exchanged and a few tense moments, but eventually we ended up talking about our respective projects and agreeing to join forces. After the success of Freedom Riders, we have embarked upon several other projec ... More >>

Haitian Charity From a Convicted Cheat

Suzie Graf might have a criminal record, but those PODS full of donations she solicited are on their way to Haiti

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

​When I first read this dispatch from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I thought that the criminal involved was a homeless guy who was honestly hungry and thus felt sad. Turns out the guy wasn't homeless and had a blood-alcohol count nearly three times over the driving limit. Ah, boozing...anyway, the repor ... More >>

To Haiti With Love--From A Convicted Fraudster?

Susan Graf served 10 months in a Wyoming prison for fraud​ On Jan. 21, the San Clemente Times ran a heartwarming story about local citizens eager to help the suffering people of Haiti in the wake of that country's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. "Suzie Graf just knew she had to do something," the ... More >>

Ten or 100 Years Later, 'The Laramie Project' Remains Relevant

Ten years later or 100 years later, the murder of Matthew Shepard and The Laramie Project will remain relevant

Battle of the Bad Mexican Fast-Food Chains: Taco Bell vs. Taco John's

​BROOKINGS, S.D.--I'm speaking tonight at South Dakota State University, a day after having spent the week eating my way through Tex-Mex heaven in San Antonio. Quite a difference from the land of Flaco Jimenez to that of Laura Ingalls Wilder--and then there's the Mexican food.In San Antonio, I ate ... More >>

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Wilshire Audotorium, Fullerton College

Navel Gazing: The Avis of Journalistic Blogs in the West

Dear readers, prepare to withstand some navel gazing about Navel Gazing, the OC Weekly staff news blog: It has won second-place honors from Best of the West, which was founded in 1987 to promote freedom of information and reward journalistic excellence, mainly through its contest for newspapers and ... More >>

NBFF: Snow Jobs and Sausages

Sometimes I wonder about the power of coincidence. Both times I've covered the Newport Beach Film Festival, I have been unable to attend every day because some or other duty at the office ends up taking a lot more of my time than expected. So I was called home on Tuesday, thereby missing both THE RE ... More >>

Sic Transit...

It seem there might be a princess– princess in the sense of being the child of a European royal– somewhere in the Inland Empire. Albert Grimaldi, the ruling prince of Monaco (and one of the least inbred of Europe's royal relics, thanks to the genetic material of Grace Kelly), is reported ... More >>

Good Timing, Bad Air

The Orange County Register reports this morning that the Irvine-based Beckman Foundation has donated $20 million to the City of Hope in Duarte, to help finance cancer research. The Foundation has an excellent sense of timing– because, as every other newspaper in the state is reporting this mor ... More >>

Giant Queer Movies!

WEB EXCLUSIVE! B. Ruby Rich Loves Brokeback Mountain

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee's lovelorn cowboys

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee's lovelorn cowboys

By Ella Taylor

Punchin' Judy

NY Times First Amendment 'martyr' Miller comes to town

Give em Enough Rope

Laramie explains itself

The (Not So) Odd Couple

Collaboration is the soul of the Offices Saratoga

The Year the Music Died

First They Came for the Communists . . .

Let It Snow

Warren Millers Journey kicks off another ski season

Please Release Me . . .

The special joy of the bad-movie press release

Corporate Vulture

Philip Anschutz tries to thread his way into heaven

Resolved

Philip Anschutz tries to thread his way into heaven

The Year in Girl

Congressman Rohrabacher? Meet Jan from the Vandals!

Casting lott

Congressman Rohrabacher? Meet Jan from the Vandals!

American Girl

Screw Cheneyland! Homes where bold types dwell

Enemies in Our Midst?

For Japanese-Americans, Bushs war on terror is deja vu

Khmer Rap

Long Beachs Prach Ly drops rhymes about the Killing Fields

Seizures in the Middle East

Long Beachs Prach Ly drops rhymes about the Killing Fields

Diary of a Mad County

Long Beachs Prach Ly drops rhymes about the Killing Fields

Dangerous Dream Houses

If we were 5 cm tall, wed live in Michael Jantzens Dwelling Places

The Hysterical Jesus

Gay activists are ready for a fight over a Santa Ana production of Terrence McNallys worst play ever

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Y2K: Now With Fewer Cranky Christians!

Christians stop praying for high-tech Apocalypse

A Love/Hate Thing

Web prank stonewalls anti-gay attorneys

The Faggot Factor

The chickens came home to roost at Columbine High

Hey, Kuehl Aid!

OC Board of Education torpedoes protection of gay students

The Gaff Is Back

And he's brought his Cold Hard Facts, too

The Banality of Eros

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