Amazing: an Orange County attorney posting a racist rant against Asians on Facebook. Amazinger: the swift and stinging backlash against said attorney that said post produced. Amazingest: the partial scrubbing of said attorney’s bio from her law school’s alumni page and her own business. Christina Ignatius–who goes by “Tenacious Ignatius” on social media and has […]
Long Beach Indie International Film Fest Honors Female Stories and Filmmakers
Films about girls and women in peril were big award winners at Sunday’s culmination of the 2018 Long Beach Indie International Film Festival (LBIIFF). The Broken Rose, which tells the story of human trafficking in Oakland through the eyes of a girl who grew up abused in foster care, received the Best Narrative Feature honor […]
Newport Beach Mojo Works: Trailer is Out for Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind
The release of a trailer for The Other Side of the Wind, which had been lost to time, money and the death of its creator, shows that much has changed since the Weekly began tracking the local connections to what will go down as Orson Welles’ final completed motion picture when it premieres at the […]
Lyft Discount Helps Orange County Riders During Labor Day Weekend DUI Operations
The national, 18-day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign of special anti-DUI enforcement operations through the end of Labor Day weekend continues with a checkpoint in Irvine tonight. The Irvine Police Department announced its sobriety checkpoint runs tonight from 8 p.m. through 2 a.m. in the area of Jeffrey Road and Alton Parkway. The […]
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Just Super [Aug. 30-Sept. 6]
Long Beach Indie International Film Festival. For the fifth year, more than 150 diverse features, shorts, music videos, TV pilots and web series from across the globe are presented. Since its inception in 2014, the indie fest has drawn entries that have gone on to gain national or international distribution as well as Oscar, Golden […]
Dana Watch: My Man Manafort
Because of the multiple felony convictions of Paul Manafort, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Slime Bucket) says he will donate to a local charity the $1,000 Donald Trump’s former campaign manager donated to the congressman . . . in 2013. The timing filled Harley Rouda, the Democrat facing Rohrabacher in November’s race for the 48th Congressional […]
73-year-old Allegedly Slayed Stepdaughter, 11, and Shot and Stabbed 36-year-old Wife
Garden Grove homicide detectives are dealing with one very messed up case: A 73-year-old man is accused of stabbing his 11-year-old stepdaughter to death as well as shooting and stabbing his 36-year-old wife multiple times. Tanh Thien Tran, who resides in Garden Grove, also stabbed himself before officers took him into custody, says Garden Grove […]
Orange Countians Accused of Spying or Bucking Sanctions for Iran
This region has suddenly become a hotbed for spies for the Islamic Republic of Iran. A hearing is set for Sept. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Ahmadreza Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen born in Long Beach, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, who has lived and worked in Costa […]
Devil’s Weed was Sold Unlawfully at the Church of Peace and Glory, Sayeth the Law
California’s new Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) participated in the arrest of a Newport Beach man accused of operating an unlawful marijuana dispensary in Costa Mesa. Omid Delkash, 47, was charged Monday with four misdemeanor counts of unlawful transportation, sale and furnishing marijuana, according to a joint statement from the BCC, the Orange County District […]
The Real Inmates of Orange County Jail, Starring Alexa Curtin
Alexa Curtin is known for three things: 1) Being the daughter of ex-Real Housewives of Orange County cast member and certified hot mess Lynne Curtin. 2) Once being a “barely legal” porn star (under the name Jayden Taylors). 3) Being awarded $2.25 million in a lawsuit against the County of Orange and sheriff’s deputy Nicholas […]
Stick Your Kids in Front of Cartoons While You Enjoy Driving the 2018 Mazda CX-9
Mazda has cars that look as impressive as they drive, including their MX-5/Miatas, flagship Mazda 6 and Vision “Concept Car of the Year.” Besides cross-pollinating design elements brand-wide, Mazda incorporates engine, transmission and other performance features to various models, which is why, when asked to name my favorite test drive vehicle, Mazdas always enter the […]
Here We Go Again: Trang Thu Pham Busted for Alleged Buddhist Temple Hate Crimes
Damn, Trang Thu Pham really has a grudge against someone affiliated with a Santa Ana Buddhist temple. The 49-year-old Santa Ana resident was charged Friday with four counts of felony vandalism with damage of $400 or more and four counts of felony vandalism of religious property with sentencing enhancement allegations of vandalism, grand theft, hate […]
Sexual Harassment Allegations Continue to Dog Congressional Candidate Gil Cisneros
Pretty much ignored sexual harassment allegations lodged in May against Gil Cisneros, the Democrat running for the congressional seat of the retiring Representative Ed Royce (R-Brea), have reemerged in a campaign hit ad produced by a Republican Super PAC linked to House Speaker Paul Ryan. However, the source of the original accusation was a Democrat. […]
Santa Ana and Garden Grove Saturday Checkpoints are Part of National Campaign
Several Orange County law enforcement agencies have announced they are participating in the national, 18-day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign of special anti-DUI enforcement operations through the end of Labor Day weekend. But the Santa Ana and Garden Grove police departments are the only ones so far to reveal their mobilizations not only […]
Dana Watch: Hack Attack
For months, polls showed Dr. Hans Keirstead was the candidate to beat in June’s 48th Congressional District primary race, and he was indeed the top Democrat during much of the final vote count. Alas, the stem-cell scientist wound up 125 votes short of fellow Democrat Harley Rouda, who faces incumbent Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Voting […]
ScreenX Marks the Spot at Irvine Spectrum
The summer blockbuster The Meg continues a string of recent movies that are joint American and Chinese productions, but the Asian influence extends beyond what is onscreen to the actual screen itself. With a 7 p.m. Aug. 16 showing of The Meg, Regal’s Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 became the fifth American moviehouse to host ScreenX, […]
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Not as Charming as You Think You Are [Special Screenings, Aug. 23-30]
Eighth Grade. Standup comic Bo Burnham’s writing and directing feature debut is about an introverted girl (Elsie Fisher) trying to survive her disastrous eighth-grade year before she is off to high school. Directors Cut Cinema at Regency Rancho Niguel, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-0446. Thurs., Aug. 23, 11:50 a.m., 4:50 & 10 […]
Todd Spitzer Tries to Rain on OCDA Tony Rackauckas’ Golden State Killer Parade
Tony Rackauckas, his prosecutors, his investigators and his crime lab were praised by the district attorneys of Tulare, Ventura, Sacramento, Contra Costa and Santa Barabara counties as they stood by the Orange County DA, who announced Tuesday morning alleged Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo will be tried in the state capital. “Tony Rackauckas has […]
Did the Russians Hack Two Democratic Orange County Congressional Candidates?
A bombshell report linking Russian military intelligence to cyberattacks against U.S. conservative think tanks critical of Donald Trump’s presidency follows revelations about the hacking of congressional campaign websites of two Orange County candidates who had been endorsed by the California Democratic Party before losing their primary election bids. Dr. Hans Keirstead, one of the local […]
Offshore Oil Drilling Foes Seek to Educate (and Track) Rohrabacher, Walters and Issa
Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) and Darrell Issa (R-Vista) are among four members of Congress from the Orange County delegation who have not taken a position on new oil drilling off the California coast, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Well, at least they have not officially, such as in […]
Taking in Some Idaho and Lots of Wyoming in a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 4WD LTZ
Chevrolet, the teevee informs us, is in the middle of “Truck Month,” which means you can supposedly get great deals on 2018 Silverados. Those trucks, of course, are being cleared out to make room for the 2019 models, such as the Silverado 4WD LTZ Crew I recently drove through parts of Idaho and Wyoming … […]
