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January 1 In a dramatic moment of historic significance, Robert H. Schuller announces he is stepping down as senior pastor of Garden Grove’s Crystal Cathedral and handing the mantle over to his son, Robert A. Schuller. If you think calling this a historic moment is overstating things, just know that’s what the Crystal Cathedral called …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. THE WORD ITSELF MAKES SOME MEN UNCOMFORTABLE Great article [Kate Carraway's “Yes, Vagina, There Is a Santa Claus,” Dec. …
Last night on The Simpsons there was a Harold Stassen joke. This morning in the Oakland Tribune there's a story titled “Angelides eyes another gubernatorial bid“. Phil Angelides, the Democrat who lost to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in last month's election, announced Friday he plans to launch an investment firm, advocate for education causes and lay …
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Mark Giselson, former City Pages blogger and all-around angry Norwegian, reminds us that 34 years ago today saw the beginning of the special contribution to Christmas history made by local boy turned felonious president, Richard M. Nixon (now Yorba Linda's leading roadside attraction). Up until 1972, Christmas and war had generally been linked by phrases …
If you missed Listen Now! last night at eVOCAL, SHAME ON YOU. The benefit show for the homeless—the first of hopefully many that will be thrown by VAVAK and the folks at Listen Skateboards—was a full-on 10 on the friendship-and-love-and-happiness scale. Everyone was so, so, so nice: eVOCAL co-owner Damet; cute-as-a-button jewelry designer Sheva; silkscreen …
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While it can't be called a sign of progress, it is a sign that at least one familiar aspect of American life is taking hold in Iraq. According to Paul Kiel at TPMmucker.com, Not long after Republicans harrassed tens of thousands of Americans with automated phone messages in November's election, news comes that the robo …
Last year, the heads of the Literary Journalism Program at UCI sent out an email regarding an internship opportunity with Rolling Stone. That tempted me for about two seconds. Then I realized that it was Rolling Stone and that MTV Networks was slated to turn the whole thing into some awful reality program. That's how …
In porno parlance, to snowball someone is to swallow a guy's semen, then kiss him and deposit the gunk in his mouth. Why do we bring this vile practice up? Only 'cause Michael Scott Kerr insists. Kerr, you'll remember, is the man behind Snowball Express, an organization that will fly into Orange County this weekend …
When JoAnne Artman made the mistake of asking her painter if anyone else had ever had him do the interior walls of their house—and art gallery—in bright, colliding, tropical shades, he said no. Just the Colombians. Then, one imagines, he shifted the unlit cigar he was champing on from one side of his mouth to …
In this week's edition of the Weekly, I profiled Michael Scott Kerr, founder of the Snowball Express, an organization set up to help out the children and widows of soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan. Great cause, sure, but we found out that Kerr doesn't seem to care too much about his own children, …
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A couple of weeks ago, I walked into the office and caught Steve belting out the chorus of “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” As surreal and surprisingly awesome as it was, you astute readers out there will know that it was simply practice for his piece “Emotional Rescue,” in which he explains why when we're …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. TRICKLE-DOWN PUNKONOMICS Your attempt to rewrite music history is way off-base [Matt Coker's “You've Been Punk'd,” Sept. 29]. Giving …