The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today announced a lawsuit against Orange County’s top two remorseless law enforcement officials for continuing to trample the constitutional rights of charged, pre-trial defendants with the illegal use of jailhouse informants. “The Orange County criminal justice system is in disrepair and disrepute,” the ACLU’s Peter Eliasberg and Brandan Hemme […]
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Emmanuel Nkuranga Lights Up Casa Romantica
Emmanuel Nkuranga was flying from his home in Kigali, Rwanda, to attend his solo show at San Clemente’s Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens, but, as I mentioned in my preview, because of plane delays, he missed the March 20 opening reception. The self-taught artist’s thick, painterly works dazzle with a riot of color and […]
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Tattoo Fail [Hey, You!]
I stood for a couple of minutes at an empty appointment desk while you, the guy who was sitting there for the longest time before I came up, was now standing off to the side. We even made eye contact, but you didn’t seem to care enough that the couple of hundred bucks I was […]
Dana Watch: Cannablitz
There is one industry that political opponents of Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Bongwater) had better not ignore. No, not the space, defense, immigrant roundup, Russian doll or pea green garment-making industries one immediately associates with Rohrabacher. It’s that other one, the cannabis industry or cannabiz. “California’s conservative firebrand and cannabis legalization champion is facing the […]
A Clockwork Orange: A Mormon, a Cop and a Fraud Defendant Walk Into a Bar . . .
It took The Book of Mormon to make me believe. Huh? In musicals. What did you think I meant? The muse moves in mysterious ways, and so it was that the WTF With Marc Maron podcast was my bedtime listening before I caught the March 20 opening performance of The Book of Mormon at the […]
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Cock Locked [Savage Love]
I’m in a D/s relationship. I’m not submissive around the clock, but my partner owns my cock. We’ve purchased several male-chastity devices, but I can pretty easily get my cock out of them. My partner did some investigating and learned that the only effective devices work with a Prince Albert piercing—a ring through the head […]
OC Crime-Lab Boss Dodges Inquiry About Forensic-Science Flip-Flops in Murder Cases
Having come under fire for his Orange County Crime Lab rendering conflicting, pro-prosecution forensic-science testimony that separate murder trial juries unwittingly accepted, director Bruce Houlihan launched a two-prong strategy: deny any wrongdoing to a news reporter, then dodge questions from the attorney who discovered the scandal. But Houlihan’s unforced errors aren’t sitting well with Superior […]
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Ice Cream Treats and Espresso Drinks at Azules Coffee [Hole in the Wall]
Coffee and ice are great on their own, but combined, they make the perfect pick-me-up. Mexi-style parlor Elado Ice Cream, which we’ve praised in the past, has rebranded as Azules Coffee and now offers organic, fair-trade Mexican coffee in addition to its tasty helados. The shop’s name is inspired by Azules finca in Veracruz, the […]
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Finger Pointer [Hey, You!]
You were the driver with eyeglasses, black hair and a backward black ballcap featuring a bird-crap-shaped silver logo. A silver Acura began to drift into your lane—yes, that was fucked-up—and you totally overreacted. After that driver course corrected, you stepped on the gas, changed lanes to position your white Honda Accord in front of the […]
Lost In OC: How High Will You Be When the Big One Hits?
Even if you haven’t been in California long enough to experience one of our deluxe earthquakes, you’re already shook, I suspect. As a human, below our conscious minds, we have oodles of neurons devoted to the flee-or-fight instincts we relied upon during the epochs before we had iPhones and Jiffy Pop to sustain us. So […]
Dana Watch: Baugh’s In Your Court
However you feel about the man, his political party or what he stands for, you have to tip your Kangol to Scott Baugh. A former Huntington Beach-based California assemblyman, state Assembly Republican Leader and Orange County Republican Party chairman, Baugh made a stunning last-minute entry into the 48th Congressional District race on March 9. By […]
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Better Work It, Girl [Special Screenings, March 22-29]
Aliens. The director baton was handed from Alien’s Ridley Scott to James Cameron, and the 1986 sequel is now regarded as a sci-fi classic. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is awakened 57 years after being the lone survivor when her merchant space ship returned to Earth. At first skeptical about her claims regarding who wiped out her […]
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Ace & the Hole [Savage Love]
I’m a 26-year-old cis queer woman. My best friend has identified publicly as asexual for the past two years. She constantly talks about how since she doesn’t “need” sex, this means she is asexual. She does have sex, however, and she enjoys it, which I know isn’t disqualifying. But she also actively seeks out sex […]
Loaded Cafe Is the Mexican-Owned Greasy Spoon the Future Needs
The greasy spoon diner is an icon of mid-century American culture, but it’s most prolific form is really a slice of Southern California. With home-style meals, cozy-booth settings and snappy service, freestanding kitchens slinging pancakes and burgers become important community spaces – where working-class folk from across the community could sit side by side at […]
And Your Next Orange County DA Is . . . Susan Kang Schroeder?
Appearing on an Orange County cable broadcast, embattled District Attorney Tony Rackauckas made a startling, possibly accidental admission: If he wins re-election in June, he plans to handpick an unelected successor who will control the powerful government position for as long as four years. In response to a question about why he wants a sixth […]
Judges Back Cop Liability In 39-Bullet Barrage Case
Two Long Beach police officers who killed an unarmed man during a 39-bullet barrage in 2013 have lost their appeal to escape $2.9 million in liability. Following a report in the Weekly, a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit this week backed a judge and jury’s findings against officers John […]
Rwandan Artist Emmanuel Nkuranga’s Vivid Work Comes to Casa Romantica
Artist Emmanuel Nkuranga is flying from his home in Kigali, Rwanda, but not in time for the opening reception of his solo show at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens March 20 at 6 p.m. The self-taught artist’s painterly abstracts are a riot of color and energetic scrapes, plus a mix of textures and mediums. Think […]
For the Birds: Orange County Was Once the Ostrich Capital of the Nation
There’s something about central Orange County that attracts people to enter into bizarre enterprises involving animals and tourists. Yes, Walt Disney and his mouse are the most exemplary example, but the city has had a storied history filled with folks capitalizing on animalistic entertainment long before Disneyland took over. (In Anaheim, the Mouse owns you!) […]
Dana Watch: For Whom the Bell Trolls
Part of watching Dana requires checking out his Facebook page. However, it was not until a very recent time I did this that I noticed all the comments gremlins leave under his posts. They are hilarious. Take the one under the invitation to the March 11 “St. Patrick’s Fun-raiser” at Skosh Monahan’s in Costa Mesa, […]
A Clockwork Orange: Paging Ms. Robot, Undie Runs and Anti-Abortionists
Before they eliminate humans for being a cancer on the world, robots offer the promise of making our lives better, whether it be by cleaning our houses, eliminating our assembly-line jobs or taking university classes for our bedridden students. The latter recently happened to a pregnant first-year law student at UC Irvine. When Tess Messiha […]
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House Invader [Hey, You!]
You are the alligator lizard who came into my house! I adore all lizards, except your kind because your tail is basically a snake. You are 18 inches long—half of it tail. So gross. I tried to show you the door, but you disappeared under the couch. My friend said to get a cricket for […]
