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Blood FeudThe infighting among Juaneño Indian factions continues as Anthony RiveraNs tribal council says Chief David Belardes is no JuaneñoPhotographs line the walls of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation office in a former fire station on La Matanza Street in San Juan Capistrano. One series shows modern-day…
Local and statewide proponents of Proposition 8, the same-sex marriage ban approved by voters last November, have a message for local and statewide politicians: stop trying to overturn the election results and get back to work fixing your cities and/or California.State senators and Assembly members “are authoring meaningless nonbinding resolutions…
Home foreclosures continue to wrack the Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine area, increasing 0.40 percent in December 2008 compared to the previous year. The rate of foreclosures among outstanding mortgage loans rose from 0.90 percent in December '07 to 1.30 percent 12 months later, according to First American CoreLogic, “the largest provider of…
Judgment Day for Dr. KNearly eight years after the Weekly exposed his fraud, Dr. George Kooshian is scheduled to plead guilty to charging patients a fortune for injections that contained little more than salt waterHow did Dr. George Steven Kooshian pay for his lavish lifestyle, including a five-bedroom, 17,500-square-foot, ocean-view,…
Recession-Proof?Club acts like D. Ramirez flourish in economic downtimes NYU finance professor Phil Maymin recently unveiled the results of a study comparing Billboard Top 100 songs to stock-market indicators reaching back to 1958. He found that years with a preponderance of hit songs that had low “beat variance” (steady rocking,…
South Side StoryIs a popular legal weapon putting an end to a 30-year-old gang rivalry in South County, or catching innocent bystanders in its net? Alma PonceNs daughter is too young to know how her mom is different from some of the other moms in town. On a misty December…
A Burrito By Any Other NameOC is bursting with sound-alikes of the famous AlbertoNs taquerias, and though the menus are similar, the discriminating diner can spot some subtle differences Back in the early N90s, AlbertoNs restaurants were everywhere. The San Diego-based chain, started by a woman named Arselia Dominguez, built…
Even if you're still trying to figure out last night's Lost season premiere, perhaps you can take some solace in the announcement of this Latin rock show, MX Live Fest at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on March 21. The bill includes headliner Alejandra Guzman (pictured, Google image searching her…
Are We Not Entertained?Heavy-handed, allegorical moralizing about art, life and the decline of Western civilization has never been as flat-out funny as it is in You, NeroThough they donNt usually get the big bucks for their efforts, playwrights can sleep with a healthy conscience if they engage in two of…
Visions of champagne flowing at the Richard Nixon Library and New Image Birthplace in Yorba Linda fill my brain with news of a Gallup poll that finds Americans believe history will judge George W. Bush more harshly than Orange County's Favorite Disgraced Son.WOO-HOO! The long, arduous post-resignation Nixon makeover finally bore fruit! Gallup: Although Bush is about tied…
Something ThatNll Never ChangeCris Kirkwood on being back with the Meat PuppetsBetween their connection to Nirvana and N90s near-hit “Backwater,” itNs tempting to get all nostalgic when thinking about the Meat Puppets and listening to several decadesN worth of their records. The grizzled trio have even courted that somewhat by…
Remembrance of Demons PastThe Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to AuschwitzFor as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its pageant of cold-sweat set pieces. Often, this involves…