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Photo by OCW staffLet me begin this review with a disclaimer: home-made hot sauces kick mass-produced hot sauce's ass any day. Please seek out home-made Mexican and Asian hot sauces. Call my aunt or my friend's mother, each of whom harvest chiles directly from Satan's secret stash. Now, back to the review. I'm a hot-sauce …
By the look on his face on primary election night in March, Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut was high. The source of his bonhomie was not the Heineken in his hand, but the poll results: Bill Simon, darling of the right-wing, had just upset moderate Republican Richard Riordan for the chance to challenge …
Photo by Kassi ShepardFour years ago, the powerful California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) quashed a state investigation into abuses at Corcoran State Prison. Among other things, guards allegedly staged gladiator fights between rival gangmembers and forced particularly bothersome inmates to spend the night with the infamous “Booty Bandit”—a prisoner who had a special penchant …
Last week, President George W. Bush “got tough” with alleged corporate crooks—with some of them, anyway. The papers carried photos of John Rigas and his son Timothy being carted off on charges of looting their company, Adelphia. There were also pics of WorldCom bigs Scott Sullivan and David F. Myers in custody. Sullivan was released …
Photo by Jack GouldAt a recent opening, someone asked me what I thought of the art. “It's fun,” I said and tried to end the conversation there because I really didn't like the questioner. “Fun,” he repeated, his lips curling at my philistine self. “But is it . . . important?“ Yes, he was a …
“There was an awful smell of decay and rot.” That's a Los Angeles Times staffer recalling his first visit back into the Times OC newsroom following an April 21 flood, when a ruptured pipe rendered the building uninhabitable, as it has been for the past three months. Such scant staff as remains of the once …
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Martinis are here and now. They're also yesterday and the day before. They just won't seem to go away but keep getting new life beat into 'em like they're Madonna discovering cowboy hats. Some astute observers say that the only reason people drink martinis is for the packaging: that slender, sexy stemware magically turning whomever …
A film in which a giant space worm named Jeff slithers through the bowels of the New York subway system while an extraterrestrial lingerie model named Serleena toilet-snakes her tongue through the dirtier bits of Rip Torn's brain, Men in Black II(MIIB) may not be the most sophisticated specimen of pop culture's propensity for absorbing …
Stereotype Mexican men for a minute. Go ahead—I won't be offended. Here, I'll even help: a charro on horseback serenading a señorita. Or a valiente blazing away with a gun in each hand, oozing machismo like blood from a wounded fighting cock. And the mustache—can't forget the mustache! This is how Mexican men have been …
Photo by Yoshitaka OkadaDespite citizen complaints and a federal bankruptcy judge's ruling last year that Edgar Dale “Eddie” Allen stole millions of dollars in a scam that relied on fake business, war and espionage credentials, the Orange County district attorney's office has refused to investigate the Newport Beach businessman. We may now be able to …
Ever hear of the Culinary Olympics? Probably not, but they do exist, and they're a big deal among the high-stakes sauce-and-cleaver crowd. Think Iron Chef without the medieval-castle sets, snappy overlord, rockin' music and cheesy English voice-overs. The concept of these games is simple: give a team of chefs a set amount of raw ingredients …
Photo by Daniel C. TsangOrange County's first annual gay and lesbian pride festival began in spectacular fashion 14 years ago at Santa Ana's Centennial Park. Angry Christian conservatives showed up carrying urine-filled balloons, taunted attendees with chants of “Go back to your closet,” and hired an airplane to fly over the event carrying a banner …