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Perhaps because it's in the Drinking Issue, Cornel Bonca's review of Paula L. Woods' new novel Strange Bedfellows (featured in Selected Reviews from the Weekly on the sidebar) reminded me both of my own experiences with bad novels and my favorite quote from one very good novel, Waguih Ghali's Beer in the Snooker Club: What …
Below is R. Scott Moxley's reporting on the verdict in the Haidl 3 rape case, as it appeared on The Blotter, with the most recent posts on top. For complete coverage of all aspects of the case, see the Weekly's Haidl Gang Rape Archive. March 19, 2006 LA Times v the Weekly on Haidl Rape …
Down the Hatch Drinking games By Ellen Griley “His Stomach Got Bigger, He Got Uglier …” Rebel Fever: How to be a good drunk By Chris Ziegler Drunken Sex Our readers have stories … Everything I Know I Learned Working in a Bar By Joel Beers Taxing Daze Life, the universe and everything By Cornel …
The faithful of Orange County have traditionally been willing to pretend to believe in miracles, even when they know better. Consider the swallows of San Juan Capistrano. Anyone in San Juan Cap with eyes to see, or a freshly washed car to be shat on, knows the birds return March-ishly each year, and not bang …
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On March 7, the OC Board of Supervisors officially acknowledged the Juaneno band of Mission Indians as Orange County's aboriginal tribe. Aboriginal comes from the Latin 'ab', meaning from, and 'originis', meaning before Don Bren or even Junipero Serra showed up. We last covered the Juaneno in December [me, Strangers in a Strange Land, Dec. …
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THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Demonstrating on some levels of machination that no one is getting, Electric Six sounds like Culture Club or Men Without Hats on grim purpose, further proof that band discoverer Jack White has insanity and perception hundreds of orders beyond normal humans. “If money talks, then I'm a mime”? “The future is in …
The budgetarily challenged independent feature Quality of Life was shot in San Francisco with nary a cable car, crooked street or Golden Gate Bridge in frame. It focuses on a pair of Mission District graffiti artists who, confronted with hard time, choose widely divergent life paths. A street brawl that's captured in the opening credits …
WE RECOMMEND: ASK THE DUST See Film feature. (Edwards South Coast Village, Santa Ana) THE HILLS HAVE EYES From the early image of an American flag flapping from an RV traveling through the badlands of the American Southwest to the climactic moment in which a self-proclaimed pacifist employs Old Glory as an eye-gouging spear before …
A public opinion survey released this fine Wednesday morning shows that 73% of Californians are opposed to extending a toll road through San Onofre State Beach. Last September, the Transportation Corridor Agencies commissioned their annual public opinion poll on how much we all love toll roads. Their plan to extend the 241 toll road through …
Bad news for our favorite unintentional radio comedian, Hugh Hewitt. According to the latest Arbitrends, the audience for the lawyer/pundit/Nixon fetishist/blogger/moralizer/George W. Bush worshiper/professional Vermont boycotter is shrinking right along with Bush and Cheney's approval ratings. Predictable really. This far into Bush's faith-based presidency, with its failures and mounting body counts from Baghdad to New …
Grim news from beyond our shores. The bombing of the Askariyah shrine in Samarra has pushed Iraq closer to a full blown civil war. Grim news from our shores. Not the Bush administration's secret deal with Dubai Ports, but the public disgust with the Schwarzenegger administration's handling of coastal issues. Only 28% of respondents in …