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You and your husband, who is a cop, constantly walk your foaming-at-the-mouth attack dogs without leashes in violation of a city ordinance. I understand you don’t care that your mutts continuously race up to me and try to bite my legs while I’m carrying grocery bags. You think the encounters are funny, as you insist […]
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Both & Baggage [Savage Love]
When I started dating my husband, he told me he had a low libido. I said I could deal with that. We waited several months before having sex, and then after we started, it was infrequent and impersonal. There was some slow improvement over the three years we dated. Then we got married, and suddenly, […]
OC Right-Wing Activist Files Lawsuit Over Dislikes of His YouTube Videos
Orange County conservative activist Kenneth Strawn—who uses his social media outlets to routinely rant against “retards,” “snowflake Jews,” “blacks,” “lesbian hobbits,” “senile idiots,” “illegal aliens,” “losers” and “intellectually lazy cowards” while championing Donald Trump—has filed a federal lawsuit alleging his constitutional rights have been trampled by people who “dislike” his YouTube videos. Strawn claims a […]
OC Weekly Earns Los Angeles Press Club Honors
At the Los Angeles Press Club’s 60th Southern California Journalism Awards last weekend, OC Weekly’s R. Scott Moxley won three honors, including Best Columnist. The judges wrote that Moxley Confidential represents “a classic example of good, old-fashioned muckraking and watchdog journalism.” Moxley also won honors for News Feature (Forensic Science Deception in SoCal Murder Trials) […]
Dita Von Teese, International Queen of Burlesque, Still Feels Like an Orange County Girl
“Somewhere in the archives,” a satin-smooth voice of a woman on the other end of a San Francisco hotel phone line says, “there’s a picture of a blond me inside this cage.” She estimates the photo would have been taken in the early 1990s: ’91, ’93 maybe. And it would have been used in the […]
The Bookman Move-eth: Beloved Used Bookstore Forced to Move to a New Location
There’s a pivotal scene in the 1947 Frank Capra classic film “It’s A Wonderful Life”, where Jimmy Stewart’s character George Bailey has a moment of clarity–a bitter taste of what life would be like if he had never existed. Bailey’s angel guide, Clarence, sagely remarks, “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other […]
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Quackers [Hey, You!]
You are the two ducks that have attached themselves to the impromptu ecosystem afforded by the excessive sprinkling across the street, where a new building is supposed to break ground. I spotted y’all drinking from the puddles one morning while walking my dog. The next day, you took over the grassy lot that the new landlord is likely […]
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Blown Away [Savage Love]
I am a 24-year-old straight guy who recently broke up with my girlfriend of more than four years. One of the reasons we broke up was a general lack of sexual compatibility. She had a particular aversion to oral sex—both giving and receiving. I didn’t get a blowjob the whole time we were together. Which […]
Beach City Food Tours Shows Off Downtown Long Beach’s Culinary Scene
The only food tour through downtown Long Beach starts big — with a fiery flash, a drizzle of lemon juice and a hearty “Opa!” Five days a week, Beach City Food Tours initiates its lunchtime Downtown Long Beach Walking Tour at George’s Greek Cafe, where visitors savor the local institution’s famous saganaki appetizer, a so-called “flaming […]
California AG’s Protection of Dirty Cops Angers Murder Victim’s Husband
In his campaign to expose Orange County law enforcement corruption, Paul Wilson—who lost his wife in the area’s worse, senseless mass murder in 2011—published a recent editorial pressuring an oddly resistant California Attorney Xavier Becerra into holding dirty cops accountable. A superior court judge found that multiple Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) deputies repeatedly lied […]
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Handshaker [Hey, You!]
Handshakes mean established trust, from longstanding relationships or following even a few words of introduction. Which is why I just kind of stared when you walked up out of the blue and wordlessly put your hand out, interrupting a conversation I was having with my fellow musician while on break from a gig we were […]
A Clockwork Orange: Why the Big A Must Remain Shovel-Ready
There may be an alternative use for a giant shovel that showed up in front of the Big A in Anaheim. Representatives of the city, the Angels, Southern California Gas Co., and Anaheim Fire & Rescue used the 30-foot shovel on April 20 to promote National Safe Digging Month. Close to 3,000 cases of people […]
Political Fútbol: Russia vs. Saudi Arabia
Russia update: This is the opening match of the 2018 World Cup, hosted by Russia. Being the host is the only way Russia could get into the World Cup because, though they’re good atlots of team sports—hockey for one, synchronized election tampering for another—they really suck at soccer. Still, they are formidable opponents given […]
‘Summer of Color’ Brings Walls of Street Art to the Laguna Arts District
The animals charge northward across the west-facing wall of the Fuse Building: horse, goose, snake, wolf and tiger. The creatures have a transparency, as if they were projected, and the guide marks used in the mural’s execution are clearly visible. The words Creatio Continua are emblazoned behind the beasts, assuring us creation/creativity is indestructible, while […]
Dana Watch: Numbers Racket
As my meaty fingers bang the keyboard, Hans Keirstead leads fellow Democrat Harley Rouda by 87 votes to square off against 48th Congressional District incumbent Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s power tool) in the November general election, according to the Orange County Registrar of Voters. But with several mail-in ballots yet to be counted at press time, […]
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Retroactive Blessings [Savage Love]
Without snooping, I came across texts between my wife, “Mary,” and a guy, “Jeremy,” of a very sexual nature. While I would be okay if she were doing this and I knew about it, this has been going on since before we met. (We’ve been together 10 years.) She says she has never met him […]
Did SoCal Cop, Mystery Texas Lady, LA Mobsters & Drug Cartel Unite?
Orange County resident John Saro Balian worked as a cop with the Glendale Police Department and maintained an eyebrow-raising relationship with a Texas woman identified as “SS” in federal law-enforcement files. On multiple occasions, Balian flew to Brownsville and crossed the international border into Mexico with “SS.” One of Balian’s numerous “burner” phones was registered […]
A Clockwork Orange: The Late Spring of Our Discontent
June 21 is the first day of summer, but the heat is already rising thanks to Orange County residents motivated by injustice, gun violence, immigration reform, the current occupant of the White House and burning needs to demonstrate outdoors. Elsewhere on this website, my colleague Gabriel San Román has a report on U.S. Senator Bernie […]
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Pole Position [Hey, You!]
You were the idiot speeding southbound down the 101 freeway during fast-moving Memorial Day traffic. You were probably moving at about 100 mph, expertly weaving in and out of lanes, Pole Position-style. Thing is: Your sports car was emitting a thick, white smoke that almost immediately fogged up all four lanes of traffic to the […]
Political Fútbol: United States vs. the World (Cup)
U.S. UPDATE: The U.S. Men’s National Team will not be in the upcoming World Cup because it couldn’t handle the juggernaut that is Trinidad and Tobago, and by handle, we don’t mean beat T&T—as it is known to friends—but tie. All they had to do was tie the Caribbean nation of 1.3 million people and […]
Democracy In Action: How OC Voters Fared in the June 5 Primary Election
Such a momentous little election. Usually a primary in a non-presidential year elicits less interest than a CHiPS marathon on MeTV. This year is different, since Il Douche in the White House is becoming increasingly unhinged and autocratic by the day (He’s above the law because he IS the fountainhead of the law, see?) and […]
