![Don’t Share Your Junk [Hey, You!]](https://www.ocweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hey-you-dicpic-credit-Bob-Aul-348x180.jpg)
A group of friends and I met you on a Tuesday night in Sunset Beach. We didn’t want to meet you, but you insisted. We were in celebration mode, and Turc’s was the last place open for a nightcap. It seemed like you’d been there for a while based on how wasted you were, but […]
Columns
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 […]
‘Art Colony: The Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1935’ at Laguna Art Museum Revisits Another Time of Upheaval
A great art upheaval hit the United States in 1913, as the first abstract paintings arrived from Europe in such great numbers that an armory was needed to display them all. Horror and outrage was the response, not unlike European audiences’ near riots at The Rite of Spring, a ballet with dissonance in Stravinsky’s score […]
![Quickies [Savage Love]](https://www.ocweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/savage-348x180.jpg)
Quickies [Savage Love]
This woman has gone down on me (I’m a man) more than half a dozen times in the past three months. Each time seems to be better than the previous! She does not want reciprocation. She has also turned down all my offers for intercourse. As far as I know, she is heterosexual just like […]
Ammatolí Mediterranean Bites Is One of the Most Exciting New Restaurants in Long Beach
In classical times, a large swath of the Eastern Mediterranean—from Turkey through Syria and around the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt—was known as a single cultural region, with a shared history, its own Arabic dialect and a cuisine that reflected its location at the literal crossroads of the world. In Arabic, the area was called Sham […]
New Podcast Sleuth Highlights Mysteries in Bizarre Orange County Double Murder
While digging into one of Southern California’s most bizarre double-murder case, investigative journalist Linda Sawyer answered her phone in 2015 to hear the voice of Daniel Wozniak, the killer. A veteran of ABC, MTV, CBS, FOX, PBS and HBO as a producer/writer, Sawyer—as most crime reporters would—felt a mix of apprehension and excitement. Wozniak’s gruesome […]
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 […]
RIP, Queen Aretha: Exhibit A for Proof of the Human Soul
For a nation that fought a bloody war of independence to toss the notion of royalty onto the trash heap of history, we sure do love royals. Consider our British friends: Most of the Brits I know regard their royal family as inbred, blood-engorged ticks sucking on their necks, while we here fawn over the […]
![Eating Crow [Hey, You!]](https://www.ocweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hey-you-Eating-Crow-credit-Bob-Aul-1-348x180.jpg)
Eating Crow [Hey, You!]
You were the hawk that took shelter a few feet from my window a week ago. It appeared you were hiding from a bunch of angry crows. My back yard is usually full of crows this time of year because they feed on the rotting figs in my tree. But the other day, I spotted […]
Pickles & Surrogates [Savage Love]
I’m in a pickle. All I want is to experience touch, intimacy and sexual pleasure—but without freaking out. I grew up with a lot of negative messages from men because of developing early, as well as having some other physical/sexual trauma (no rape or abuse), but the combination has me seriously fucked-up. Whenever I get […]
OCSD’s Secret Telephonic Data Mining System Expands Scope of Jail Scandal
Hints of Sheriff Sandra Hutchens’ latest ugly scandal—the law-enforcement recording and studying of phone calls between defense attorneys and their pretrial, in-custody clients—surfaced without fanfare inside Fullerton courtroom N-11 in June 2016. That’s when Superior Court Judge Michael A. Leversen presided over the trial of Hugo Jovanny Jimenez. Prosecutors accused the 23-year-old Stanton resident of […]
Long Beach’s Organic Fork Has Good Tacos and Better Tortas
The first time I went to Organic Fork, I ordered a romaine salad, thinking it would be a flagship that goes with the white walls, open kitchen and “healthy food” mantra. But as I sipped on an alkaline-water jamaica-lime agua fresca and stabbed into a compostable bowl of herbal, seed-loaded crunch (which still felt substantial, […]
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 […]
Radical Grace in “Women Making Waves” Exhibit at SHACC
Four phenomenal athletes are profiled in Surfing Heritage and Culture Center’s (SHACC) exhibit “Women Making Waves.” Their prowess on the fiercest waves is only part of what makes these surfers legendary. Fearlessness in life, challenging the status quo, and taking action to overcome hurdles for others as well as themselves make them role models and […]
A Sanctuary of Old California Art Closes After 20 Years
Lost amid the industrial buildings and automotive businesses that line Artesia Boulevard in Bellflower is a preserved California and Western America art sanctuary. Inside, the aroma of old books, natural musk (not the stuff modern-day hippies wear) creates a familiar feeling of home. Wood panels hug the walls while tan shag carpet cushions your feet. […]
![Draw Your Brakes [Hey, You!]](https://www.ocweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hey-you-Rotational-Differences-credit-Bob-Aul-348x180-1534454288.jpg)
Draw Your Brakes [Hey, You!]
You’re the guys with the sharp haircuts in the North OC shop where I went to get my tires rotated. You threw in a service inspection and presented me with a list of things needing repair or replacement, namely brakes (“down to 2mm”), struts, brake fluid and a worn serpentine belt. You delivered this news […]
Dana Watch: Clone Wars
Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Pearl Necklace) is the most endangered “Trump clone” in Congress. That’s the opinion of Mother Jones magazine’s Dan Spinelli, who on Aug. 9 unveiled a “guide to the Trumpiest lawmakers in Washington—and how likely they are to lose.” According to the San Francisco-based magazine’s publishers, “Mother Jones was founded as a […]
Secret Perving [Savage Love]
I’ve been enjoying consensual nonmonogamy for the past two years, in part thanks to your column and podcast. I have a delightful young lover, and our connection has evolved into a kind of Master/slave relationship. I “allow” her to fuck other men and women, and she delights in asking my permission and recounting the details […]
Long Beach’s Past, Present and Future MVP’s Grill & Patio
I still don’t understand how I fell into food writing. Was I the only person in Long Beach who never cooked because their apartment is so old that if you wanted a fridge, it had to go where an oven was supposed to be? Besides loving my city immensely, was I qualified at all to […]
Dana Watch: Raising McCain
ABC’s The View made a “hot topic” July 16 out of Sacha Baron Cohen’s series Who Is America? (This space also did so July 16 online and July 20 in print.) On that show, which had premiered the night before on Showtime, the comedian posed as an Israeli anti-terrorism expert pitching his “Kinder-Guardians” initiative, which […]
![Baby-Stroller Bumper Car [Hey, You!]](https://www.ocweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hey-you-Heated-credit-Bob-Aul-1-348x180.jpg)
Baby-Stroller Bumper Car [Hey, You!]
You were the mother pushing her stroller through the mouse-loving multitudes at Disneyland. When the crowd bottlenecked around New Orleans Square, your stroller wheels revved up my ankles on more than one occasion, each time burning my skin more than the last. “Do it again, and I’ll kick your baby!” I warned. “Maybe you should […]
