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After a Friday night of eating pizza, drinking booze, dancing and smoking hashish with friends in Laguna Beach, 20-year-old Ginger Lorraine Fleischli disappeared. Two days later, farm workers discovered Fleischli’s corpse in a sleeping bag buried in an Irvine field, just 10 miles away. Her killer used a knife to stab her five times in …
Continue reading “Recent Proof of Prosecutorial Misconduct Mirrors OCDA’s Bad Old Days”
[Editor's Note: Quick Questions is our semi-regular feature where we ask comedians a ton of random questions without giving them time to think of anything funny to say. Surprisingly, they still do.] Jodi Miller was ripping up the comedy scene on and off stage long before we put her on our “Comics to Watch Out …
Continue reading “Jodi Miller on Coque, Sugar Pouring, and Empire”
It's almost quaint to see smart and passionate politically-minded people talking in 1999 about how the new century and the end of the Cold War would re-orient America back toward issues of civil liberties and racial equality. Unfortunately, a couple of buildings soon toppled, we had a new enemy and, 16 years later, the Patriot …
Continue reading “In This Play, The Revolution Will Be Theatricalized”
Art begets music and music begets art; we're pretty sure that's in the Bible. Musical ability and visual art skills usually coincide, but rarely does someone carry enough talent in both media to be recognized for each art form–unless celebrity is involved. We'll be the bad guys and say it: some musicians' artwork could spawn …
Continue reading “Top 10 Musicians Whose Artwork Doesn't Suck”
This weekend the Orange County Buddhist Church in Anaheim will host its annual Hanamatsuri flower festival–a celebration of the birth of Buddha, with music and of course, food. And like I wrote before, the parking situation might test your patience, but the rest of the afternoon will put you at peace. ] Like every year, …
Continue reading “This Weekend: Hanamatsuri Bazaar in Anaheim”
It's been a whole month since we announced our upcoming spring event known as Artopia. What happens now? We offer a few more bites of what to expect on May 2. Before we continue, let's just recap why we'll be partying down. First and foremost, our primary reason is to celebrate the 20 winners of …
Orange County’s worst mass shooting, the so-called 2011 Seal Beach hair-salon massacre, began as a traumatizing event for all, but it has devolved into one of the most polarizing legal struggles to hit our legal system. The question isn’t about Scott Dekraai’s guilt. Dekraai admitted to police that he was the killer within minutes of …
On March 28th & 29th a two day festival will commence within Laguna Beach's iconic Sawdust Festival walls, but not without a little chaos along the way. The two-year old festival didn't gain a required city permit until late last week and by then the festival had lost support from its largest sponsor, Ivan Spiers, …
Continue reading “How Adam Lasher Became an Activist Through American Idol”
[Editor's Note: This week our sister paper Miami New Times is venturing out to Ultra Music Festival to surround themselves with next-level beats, kanji kids and PLUR vibes. Here is one of their many reports about the fest.] Watching Ultra Music Festival's idyllic official after-movies, you might get the impression that UMF is some kind …
Continue reading “10 People Who Won't Make It at Ultra Music Festival”
Kyle Marcoux feeds the internet filthy, filthy food porn. Bacon cannoli gushing canned cheese like silly string. Cookie dough taco shells stuffed with melting ice cream. Big Macs dismantled and put back together as pseudo-sushi. Operating under the title of The Vulgar Chef and nearly 60K Instagram followers deep, Marcoux popularized NSFW geotagging and captions …
Anaheim's brand-new La Palma Dog Park is all set to open this Saturday with a buncha festivities because dogs! A dedication ceremony starts at 10 a.m. and Frisbee demonstrations will entertain the four-footed and two-footed alike all day. After the celebratory events wrap up, dogs, both big and small, are free to roam the grassy …
Continue reading “Anaheim Opens New Dog Park After Clearing Out Homeless People”
Did you see our recent post on the “10 Worst Orange County Roadways?” I didn't bother including the northbound 405 freeway in Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley in that wreck/near-wreck report because, as much as I really, really, really hate that stretch of road, I can never get going fast enough in all the traffic …