Navel Gazing

A group of 20 undocumented youth and their supporters protested for a “clean” Dream Act in front of Disneyland, briefly blocking the theme park’s shuttle entrance this morning. Senate leaders moved closer to ending a three-day government shutdown before the action started around 9:30 a.m., voting on a three-week funding extension in exchange for a […]

More than an hour before the holiday boat parade was to start, the Dana Point Harbor parking lot was overflowing, with a line of cars waiting to get in. It looked as if my car was blocked by a parked sedan, but it wasn’t. I walked in front of the white car, expecting to be […]

Artist statement by Bob Aul: I heard on NPR a while ago about bacteria in goose shit which was found to thrive on toxins in highly polluted waters of an abandoned pit mine in Montana—waters that actually killed the geese by the thousands. Donald Trump is kind of like that bacteria—thriving in the toxic cultural […]

I’m a professional dominatrix, and I thought I’d seen everything in the past five years. But this situation completely baffled the entire dungeon. This middle-aged guy, seemingly in fine health, booked an appointment with me and my colleague for one hour of some very light play and a golden shower to finish off with. We […]

The prospects of Robert “Bob” Manning being transferred to Israel to serve out the rest of his life sentence chilled supporters of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American activist killed by a rigged pipe bomb when he opened the door to his Santa Ana office on Oct. 11, 1985. Manning, a member of the Jewish Defense League […]

It was really nice to see your sushi place near the Newport pier still open and brightly lit on Christmas Eve, when it seemed the whole town was otherwise already dark and closed up. I’d been craving sushi all day, so I made a beeline there. You guys welcomed me in and took my order, […]

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department holds a DUI/drivers license checkpoint tonight from 7 through 3 a.m. in Laguna Niguel. The exact location was not disclosed. Santa Ana Police Department has released the spot for its DUI/drivers license checkpoint tonight from 9:30 through 2:30 a.m. It’s in the area of 1400 South Bristol Street, according to […]

The Medical Board of California is looking at a new accusation against an Orange family medicine doctor whose license, in a separate case of alleged gross negligence, was placed on probation last March. The accusation against Dr. Christopher Holden became effective on Dec. 28, according to the medical board. Click here to read the latest […]

Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Jock Strap) is being accused today of having melted down on CNN. Leading into the Jan. 5 interview with CNN anchor Ana Cabrera, the Mouth That Rohrabachered had made the rounds up and down the dial and across the interwebs blasting Jeff Sessions for “betraying” President Donald Trump with the Attorney […]

After closing Monday and Tuesday to let the storm pass, Snow Valley Mountain Resort outside Running Springs and Mountain High near Wrightwood reopened this morning for skiiers and snowboarders. You could actually see the rain and snow clouds forming during Olympic champion Shaun White’s Air + Style LA snowboarding event Saturday at Bear Mountain in Big […]

The Medical Board of California recently filed an accusation against the license of an Anaheim family medicine doctor, according to state records. The accusation, which is the first disciplinary step in license revocation proceedings, became effective Dec. 28 for the medical license of Dr. David Todd Asher. Click here to read the state’s case. Two […]

Voters in the 48th congressional district will be exposed to all eight Democrats in the June primary race tonight in Newport Beach, as well as four of the “front runners” Saturday morning in Huntington Beach. The 48th is the coastal Orange County district that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s loins) has represented since before the first […]

When the Trump Administration decided to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September, hundreds protested in the streets of Santa Ana. Barbara Hernandez, a 26-year-old Santa Ana resident and DACA recipient, took the news a little differently by walking off her job. “I went into a panic shock,” she says. “The […]

Artist Statement by Algae: Garbage is gold in Santa Ana! The city just signed a $1 Billion no-bid contract for trash collection with Waste Management, Inc. Santa Ana hasn’t had an open bid since 1993, resulting in residents paying a third more for garbage pickup than their neighbors in Irvine. And, wait ’til the State […]

I’m a 67-year-old gay man. After a breakup 15 years ago, I believed the possibility of emotional and sexual intimacy with a partner was over for me. Then a couple of months ago, my desire for sexual contact increased dramatically. For the first time, I began using apps, and I felt like the proverbial kid […]