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A bill approved by the California Assembly Monday would allow judges to extend parental rights to a child's third parent. Senate Bill 1476, which was co-authored by state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), would allow–for instance–a gay father raising a child with a lesbian couple to also have parental rights. ] Votes in the Senate …
Sports Illustrated has turned its illustrated sporty to Bruce Rollinson, the longtime Mater Dei High School's football coach who is poised to become the first field general to accomplish quite a feat. Here's a hint: it involves two former Monarchs named Matt. ] No, not Matt Taylor and Matt Grootegoed. It's quarterbacks Matt Leinart, who …
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You know Queen's Brian May is a rock-guitar god, and you might know he's a wildlife preservationist. But who knew he's a 3D nut? The National Stereoscopic Association knows, and they're bringing May to their upcoming 3D Conference in Costa Mesa. ] The conference opens Wednesday and continues through July 30. May is scheduled to …
Our Amber Stephens is on the scene and tweeting like…well, if not a mother fucker, then certainly the great cub reporter that she is. Alas, my electronic journalism skills are still stuck in the Stone Age (aka 2007), so I urge all of you to visit her Twitter feed for the blow-by-blow as it happens. …
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archives As more than a thousand protestors clashed in Anaheim with police in the streets below, several helicopters hovered above the night's sky while Disneyland's fireworks exploded in air, oblivious to it all. The juxtaposition between the virtual and real versions of the city has now been deemed …
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You can't really blame the Huntington Beach Police Department for being pissed off. Lately, all the news about officer-involved shootings and police brutality has been coming out of Fullerton (the world-famous Kelly Thomas beating) and Anaheim (two officer involved shootings over the weekend). But the Surf City cops can rest easy now, thanks to a …
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The surprising thing is not that Long Beach Airport wound up No. 2 on Cheapflights' 2012 Airport Affordability Index. Besides being easy to get in and out of, having plenty of parking and being the regional hub for JetBlue and its individual passenger teevees, LGB often proves to be a departure point for screaming low …
Lists are fun. I read a couple great ones this week, including The Progressive magazine's nine worst lobbyists. I've assembled some great ones this past week at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, where I've taken notes and share them with you here. The conference's unsavory and racist name, by the way, is cleverly …
Continue reading “Literary Olympiad: Lists, Language, and Avoiding the Barbarous”
Perhaps you caught the news story on the teevee recently about nylon ropes disappearing from hardware store shelves thanks to the popularity of mommy-porn bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey. That isn't the only business crediting E.L. James' book with brisk product sales, according to a Huntington Beach-based company that has been proudly catering to the …
Remember the good ol' days of journalism–say, 2007, when all newspapers were fat, the cable TV in our office worked, and all alt-weeklies carried comic strips? Those were the days! In our infernal rag, we carried This Modern World (which was hilarious in its left-wing politics) and Troubletown (which wasn't, although I do like artist …
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Mr. Bib is still happily, hauntedly, hung up on memoir, having reviewed two books of autobiography a couple of weeks ago. One was by a comics artist, the other by a woman who struggles with the lies of both family and government by way of the biggest lie of all, nuclear power and nuclear weapons. …
Continue reading “Noir and Then: The Shyster's Daughter, Memory and Storytelling”