A Trabuco Canyon resident who last week allegedly threatened “this place will burn” is scheduled to appear in court today on charges of igniting the Holy Fire that started there Monday and has so far destroyed 14 structures, forced evacuations of schools and neighborhoods and burned 6,200 acres of land in Orange and Riverside counties. […]
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OC Weekly’s Exclusive 2018 U.S. Open Recap Coverage!
With 5 minutes left in the men’s final of the U.S. Open of Surf, Kanoa Igarashi needed a 7.41 to take the lead from Griffin Colapinto. The waves were had been relatively flat that afternoon in Huntington Beach, and the likelihood of a good three to five foot set was fading as the clock ticked […]
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 […]
Accused Killer at Maryland Newspaper Engaged OC Weekly
The man police arrested on June 28 for the lethal mass shooting at a Maryland daily newspaper repeatedly engaged OC Weekly as he stalked a daily reporter who’d left the Capital Gazette and landed at the Orange County Register. Twitter records show Jarrod Ramos, the accused killer of five people in Annapolis, reached out to […]
OC Weekly Wins 25 Orange County Press Club Awards, Including 14 First-Place Nods
OC Weekly left Newport Beach with a ton of hardware Thursday night, but this time it was not the result of our sticky fingers being attached to an unattended tool box. It was the result of having won a staggering 25 awards from the Orange County Press Club, including 14 first-place honors, during ceremonies at […]
George Costanza vs. Dana Rohrabacher (Featuring Harley Rouda)
I don’t know if Harley Rouda will be one of the two candidates in the 48th Congressional District race to advance beyond the June 5 primary, but the Laguna Beach businessman has so far won Funniest Campaign Advertisement honors. That’s because the Democrat’s campaign just posted “Rouda vs. Rohrabacher Debate: Moderated by Jason Alexander.” Rohrabacher (R-Huntington […]
OC Education Worker’s Twitter Page Gone After Harm Wished on Barron Trump
An Orange County Department of Education employee sent tweets that expressed her hope that what happened to Texas school shooting victims Friday would also be experienced by the children of President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch. One tweet mentioned Trump and […]
In L.A. Man, Legendary Alt-Weekly Journalist Joe Donnelly Looks Back at the Driving Force of His Tumultuous Career
Joe Donnelly is worried. Not to the point of shoveling fistfuls of Xanax down his throat, but he’s worried, or perhaps somewhat perturbed, about a few things. He’s worried about the write-up he’ll receive soon from the Los Angeles Review of Books about a new anthology of profiles culled from his 20 years of writing […]
Peter Navarro of UC Irvine Business School and Trump White House Trades in Controversy
You are forgiven if, until recent days, you had forgotten that President Donald Trump’s cabinet includes the UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business professor emeritus in Economics/Public Policy. For Peter Navarro, it was not for lack of trying that prevented the 68-year-old from becoming a household name by now. We’ll get to the reasons […]
Assault of Weekly Reporters at Pro-Trump March Prompts Journalist Protection Act
Time was when editors told reporters “don’t get beat,” it meant they’d better break a story before any rival newspapers. Nowadays, the old dictum takes on a new cautionary meaning with a national database tracking physical assaults on journalists in an increasingly polarized political climate. But Bay Area congressman Eric Swalwell has seen enough of […]