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From the time he was 10 years old, Karl Rove, Bush's closest and most important political adviser, has made a specialty of dirty tricks. If Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame turn out to be anything but just another weird turn in Rove's career, that would be real news. Here is the barest of chronologies of …
Courtesy pool photographerThe son of a millionaire assistant sheriff when he and two buddies filmed themselves raping an unconscious minor during a 2002 Newport Beach party, Greg Haidl has blamed cops, prosecutors, reporters, and the victim and her parents for his subsequent legal troubles. Haidl's defense team argued it was impossible to rape a 16-year-old …
Photo by Tenaya HillsTry to remember the name of a fabulously troubled, deceased rock N roller, and I doubt Johnny Thunders will be the first that comes to mind. There are scads more famous musicians who've slowly killed themselves with a steady drugs-and-drink diet—and certainly ones whose music made a larger artistic and commercial impact. …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. STACY'SMOMS My daughter and I just read Greg Stacy's “This Shit Is Bananas” [May 6]. I had to write to …
Photo by Heather SwaimA friend in London found an ingenious solution to the problem of lousy English food: he spends his weekends in Brussels. He didn't have to explain why he would travel 200 miles for dinner. I grew up in an English home here in Orange County. My grandfather was the Englishman. I once …
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BETTERLATETHANNEVER,PART1 While he was still alive, the mainstream media savaged investigative reporter Gary Webb, whose 1996 SanJoseMercuryNewsseries “Dark Alliance” revealed CIA ties to inner-city cocaine sales. The Los Angeles Times, New York Timesand WashingtonPostpublished massive front-page stories purporting to debunk Webb's reporting, and his own newspaper cowardly backed off his stories. It wasn't until after …
KARTING Dromo One isn't the only place to go fast, but since it's strategically located for easy access from OCWeeklyworld headquarters—and since also you can go fast here with your butt just centimeters off the concrete and a gallon of gasoline between your legs—we'll start with it: Dromo One, 1431 N. Main St., Orange, (714) …
Photo by Dave OgleThere hasn't been a library this good since Henry Huntington's or J. Paul Getty's, or maybe Egypt's King Ptolemy I's, who came up with the idea of storing all of man's literature under one roof—in the second century B.C.: books on math, medicine, astronomy, navigation, history, philosophy, maps of heaven, schemes of …
Illustration by Bob AulFor two millennia, Christians worldwide have believed the Holy Trinity consists of God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost. But last Saturday, at UC Irvine's Beckman Auditorium, former Spanish Prime Minister Jos Mara Aznar offered listeners an alternate cosmology, one more adept in this modern world at delivering mankind from evil. Heaven and …
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Photo by Tenaya HillsLike everybody else at the convention, I am the opposite of a hypochondriac: when I swallow something that's supposed to be good for me, I can absolutely feelrejuvenation flood through each of my body's 70 trillion cells. So when the man holds out a spoonful of sweet agave nectar and tells me …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, 1666N.MainSt.,Ste.500,SantaAna,CA92701.Orfaxto(714)550-5908. HAIDL Instead of spending millions trying to buy his son's freedom, Don Haidl should buy a book about abortion. His son is a good example of why it should be legal. Better luck next …
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@******ly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, 1666N.MainSt.,Ste.500,SantaAna,CA92701.Orfaxto(714)550-5908. PRETTYVACANT Gee, I wish I could take exception to your comment about girls at the University of the Pacific in Stockton being unattractive [Gustavo Arellano's “Girls Gone Not So Wild,” Feb. 4]. But I …