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PROLOGUE A friend who recently moved back to Portland after a few years in OC explained before she left, “You know those shoppers at the Korean department store that collapsed, where the water pipes had been cracking, the floor was buckling, and they just ignored it and kept shopping till they were crushed? That's the …
You know your publication is doing right when you become the talk of the local press club awards ceremony not just for all the awards you won, but also all the awards you didn't win–and also for the people in your paper who couldn't be in attendance, and for getting the keynote speaker to fuck …
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Charles Keating Jr., who parlayed running Irvine-based Lincoln Savings & Loan into a starring role as poster boy of the savings and loan crisis of the late-1980s, has died, his family announced. He was 90. Keating died late Monday at a Phoenix hospital; the cause of death was not released. Keating was famously played by …
Gentlemen, I was hoping you could take a minute away from your morning break of drinking the blood of unclaimed babies to read this tip I believe you will find most helpful. I am a staff writer at OC Weekly, an Orange County newspaper that was the recipient of letters from you dating back to …
Counting Crows Pacific Amphitheatre 7/21/13 The meds are apparently working. After years of being absolutely frank about the mental disorder that he says has tortured him for 30 years, Adam Duritz, the perennial Howard Stern guest and poster child for introspective, seriously troubled (some would say whiny and self-indulgent) rock stars was downright playful at …
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Summer in Orange County is never just about the here and now. Once the weather starts heating up, we start migrating to our communal gathering grounds—the beach, Disneyland, Angels Stadium, Theo Lacy Jail—and all the memories of summers past start flooding in until you can't experience the present without longing for (or loathing) the past. …
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WRITTEN BY JIM WASHBURN ILLUSTRATED BY JON GOTHOLD [Editor's Note: Summer in OC is never just about the here and now. Once the weather starts heating up, we start migrating to our communal gathering grounds–the beach, Disneyland, Theo Lacy Jail–and all the memories of summers past start flooding in until you can't experience the present …
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We won't have Lee Mallory to kick around anymore. To be fair, Mallory—a veteran professor of English as a second language at Santa Ana College and a mainstay on the Orange County poetry scene since the '80s—never made a very plausible villain. Sure, he came up for some good-natured ribbing in the pages of OC …
You might say the special honorees at this year's OC Music Awards come from very different worlds. On one had, you've got a band who has been hitting us over the head with FM alt-rock for almost two decades. On the other, a guy who has made a career in classical music handling the largest …
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OC Weekly started publishing in September 1995, something I remember because I'd been hired on the editorial side four months before that. It's also my memory that our cover story package dissecting the 1994 County of Orange bankruptcy, fallout and lessons learned/ignored was among the first to win us notice as practitioners of “real” journalism …
Back in 2002, former Weekly contributor (and eternal Weekling) Jim Washburn wrote an obituary on the Los Angeles Times' Orange County edition, a once-mighty beast that numbered over 200 editors and writers housed in a massive Costa Mesa complex during its heyday in the 1980s but by then was reduced to a sad shell of …
If you're not an art geek (like I am, admittedly), nine days of experimental music, theater and dance may not sound like your thing. But Segerstrom's Off Center Festival, which kicks off this Friday and ends on Jan. 21, sounds like the kind of off-kilter entertainment that turns the hoity-toity art world on its head …
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