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Parkland Survivors’ Road to Change Tour Rolls Through OC This Weekend
Students from Parkland, Florida are set to pay Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher a visit at his office on Saturday as part of their “Road to Change” tour. The scheduled stop comes on the heels of the lawmaker’s controversial clip in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who is America? where he appeared to endorse the program’s satirical “Kinder Guardians” […]
Union Leafleters Want Rite Aid to do Right by its Workers Ahead of Negotiations
A half-dozen people stand outside a Fullerton Rite Aid donning yellow shirts and passing out hand bills to customers walking into the store. They aren’t being given coupons for Thrifty’s ice cream to cool down an unusually humid summer day. Instead, an organizer with United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324 uses them to […]
Cevichería Nais Chef Danny Godinez at Center of Lawsuit Battle With El Mercado
Two Mexican restaurants on the edge of Santa Ana’s gentrified East End Promenade oppose each other in more ways than one. El Mercado Modern Cuisine rests near the Yost Theater with its heralded cocktails and concept menu featuring flavors from different Mexican states. Across the way from El Mercado is Cevichería Nais, the newest spot […]
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Band Divas [Hey, You!]
We all know it’s hard to be a band on tour. Certain bands don’t make it easy on themselves—such as the band of East Coast hipsters who recently opened for us at a local venue. Look, just because you can draw a decent crowd wherever you’re from (Wow, Brooklyn, you say? . . . Who gives a shit?), you’re not […]
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Connections [Savage Love]
I’m a 20-year-old submissive woman. I’m currently in a confusing affair with a 50-year-old dominant married man. He lives in Europe and has two kids close to my age. We met online when I was 17 and starting to explore my BDSM desires—out of the reach of my overbearing, sex-shaming, disastrously religious parents—and we’ve been […]
Five Orange County Haunts That Kickstarted Steve Martin’s Career
Steve Martin and Disneyland both arrived in Orange County in the same year: 1955. And the transitioning county–then shifting from rural agrarian farm country to the idyllic travel poster for suburban sprawl–has never been the same. As Orange County grew, so too did the theme park and Martin’s career. The A-list actor, author, comedian, magician, […]
Political Fútbol: Dasvidaniya, Russia!
RECAP: Well, it was a World Cup that many said was the best, most exciting ever. The proof was in the fact that old favorites (Brazil, Germany) were upset, small upstarts (Belgium, Croatia) flourished, and many matches were decided by dramatic penalty-kick shootouts, the stupidest way of deciding a contest this side of the Electoral […]
Dana Rohrabacher Pretty Much Agrees He is Congressman in Russian Spy Indictment
UPDATE, JULY 17, 4:36 P.M.: This just in … HARLEY ROUDA STATEMENT ON THE REVELATION THAT ROHRABACHER IS PART OF RUSSIAN SPY INVESTIGATION NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Today, Harley Rouda – Democratic nominee for Congress in California’s 48th District – released the following statement in light of the news that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with […]
Harley Rouda Slightly Leads Dana Rohrabacher in New Poll
First-time candidate Harley Rouda narrowly leads 30-year incumbent Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s push poll) in the 48th congressional district race, according to poll results released this morning. New Jersey-based Monmouth University Polling Institute is conducting polls in hotly contested congressional districts around the country, including California’s 48th district, which had been solidly Republican-leaning for decades. […]
Fountain Valley Anesthesiologist Disciplined in California was Dinged in Boston 11 Years Ago for Snoozing in Surgery, Huffing Gas
A Fountain Valley anesthesiologist, whose license to practice medicine in California was recently restricted, previously had his Massachusetts license revoked for falling asleep during a surgical procedure and inhaling anesthetic gas while on lunch break a month later. The most recent order against the medical license of Dr. Thomas Hwei Ho went into effect on June […]
Dana Rohrabacher Turns Up in Sacha Baron Cohen Send-up on Arming Toddlers
UPDATE NO. 3, JULY 17, 10:48 A.M.: Harley Rouda, the Laguna Beach Democrat attempting to defeat Representative Dana Rohrabacher in November, issued a statement this morning concerning the 48th congressional district incumbent’s appearance on Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?: HARLEY ROUDA RESPONDS TO ROHRABACHER’S PUSH TO ARM CHILDREN NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Today, Harley Rouda […]
Why OC Should Pay Attention to Trump’s Visa Sanctions Against Laos and Myanmar
By Sandra De Anda This Sunday, my partner and I spent the day eating Laotian dishes and drinking Beerlao brews at Royal King Restaurant, a small but bustling hole-in-the-wall in Garden Grove. By early noon, all the tables were taken with the weekend lunch rush. By meal’s end, I felt full with food, but also […]
SoCal Cop Tied To Organized Crime Faces “Short” Prison Stint
The oddest recent part of the already bizarre story of a Southern California cop accused of conducting a secret alliance with organized crime characters isn’t that a judge ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove contents of last week’s guilty plea from an already published article. John Saro Balian admitted to charges of obstruction of […]
Little Saigon Identity Thief Craves High-End Stolen Products, Ignores Surveillance Cam
If you’re an identity thief, make sure you abuse your victims inside surveillance-camera loaded shopping areas, which is exactly what federal officials claim Orange County’s Khanhloc Pham did this year in Las Vegas and at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. According to a United States Postal Inspection Service report, Pham—a Garden Grove resident already […]
OCDA: No Charges for Fountain Valley Cops Who Shot Drunk Driver Charging Them
The scene of a fatal traffic collision in Fountain Valley last year could’ve ended up much more grisly. On Oct. 13, 2017, police officers responded to the intersection of Magnolia and Mint Avenue around 11:35 p.m. They closed off sections of the main street into the morning hours when a black Dodge Dakota barreled at them […]
Orange County Buddhist Church Honors Ancestors With Annual Obon Festival
When the Orange County Buddhist Church plays host to the Obon festival this weekend, it’s a time to reflect on the impermanence of life. The centuries-old Japanese custom remembers ancestors that came before us through bon odori, an immersive dance celebrating the teachings of the Buddha. The parking lot of the Shin Buddhist temple in […]
Saturday Checklist: Clean Huntington Beach, Write Letters, Protest Desalination Plant
Orange County Coastkeeper and other clean-water lovers gather for a Huntington State Beach cleanup Saturday morning, but they will be doing more than filling trash bags with cigarette butts, plastic water bottles and Styrofoam bits that fish confuse for lunch. “The event begins with a beach cleanup,” a Coastkeeper tells the Weekly, “and then it […]
Hospital Workers Picket for Better Pay at West Anaheim Medical Center
As temperatures neared 90 degrees on Wednesday, dozens of hospital workers at the West Anaheim Medical Center on the corner of Beach Boulevard and Orange Avenue held an informational picket over unfair wages. For three hours, nurses, hospital technicians and other medical staff clad in red National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) shirts marched in […]
DUI Checkpoints in Anaheim and Irvine Tonight, But First from Santa Ana …
Driving south on the 5 freeway from Anaheim to Irvine–where police in each city run separate DUI checkpoints tonight–you will pass through Santa Ana, which is where this story actually begins. Garret James McKinnon was involved in a car chase with police in pursuit on July 25, 2013, when he crashed into three other vehicles, […]
Irvine Company Denies Claims It Provides Shopper License Plates to ICE
If you drive to the Irvine Spectrum shopping center, Fashion Island or The Marketplace, it’s a sure bet that the Irvine, Newport Beach and/or Tustin Police Departments know about it. That’s because in 2016, The Irvine Company installed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) at these three shopping centers (click here to read The Irvine Company’s […]
Chinese Communist Spy Stealing U.S. Military Technology Pleads Guilty in OC
A 33-year-old Chino Hills resident—who provided accounting services for American aerospace companies, including U.S. defense contractors—pleaded guilty this week in Orange County to illegally transferring sensitive military technology to the People’s Republic of China. Si Chen (a.k.a. Cathy Chen) sent advanced radar, military-grade communications jammers, low-noise amplifiers and Ka-band space communications to Hong Kong in […]