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11:48 a.m.: Arrive at Orange County Fair with wife Lea at invitation of OC Libertarian Party (OCLP). Present parking pass. Am informed by slacker attendant that pass is good only for Orange Coast College parking lot. Shell out five bucks. Park. Smoke. 11:53: Walk to entrance. Am handed free root beer. Momentarily forget parking-related annoyance. …
Photo by Jack GouldMichael Jantzen's “Dwelling Places” offers a startling vision as un-Orange County as any I've seen. His architectural models pull silently at longings all but buried beneath practicality and the Way Things Are. Jantzen's offerings ably fill the large gallery; apparently, he's very busy. He's also a radical who should probably be hunted …
Truong Van Tran, who was villified by angry protesters for weeks in 1999 after he hung a Ho Chi Minh poster and Vietnamese flag in his Little Saigon video store, surrendered to authorities on July 20 to serve a 90-day sentence for video piracy. Police say they came out to protect Tran, noticed an illegal …
Think back—way back to the last century—when dot-com stock was worth more than the lint in your pocket, when Eminem was spelled M&M, when Napster was an unheard-of start-up. Even in the covered-wagon days of MP3 file sharing, there were ways to circumvent the banality of MTV and mainstream (or even public/college) radio. There still …
It's night in the city as a desperate man holes up inside the works of an enormous clock. Thirty-six hours ago, George Stroud (Ray Milland) was a respected, well-to-do magazine editor with a loving wife and son. Now he's a wanted man, on the run for a murder he didn't commit. Spun from a novel …
Jeanne RiceTim was a rare bird, guided by principles of love, beauty and honor. His ultimately humanitarian motivations are sure to be more pervasively recognized and appreciated in the echo of time. Some day you—or your descendants—will enjoy the luxury of removing your Tim McVeigh tribute from its present, safely encrypted confines. Regards, David Woodard …
Illustration by Bob AulThese are weighty days for Orange County apartment landlord George Argyros. Hoping his ambassador to Spain nomination sails to confirmation in the U.S. Senate, he is being investigated by the California attorney general for fraud and faces potentially ruinous civil lawsuits. You might think Argyros would be on his best behavior. Think …
Photo by Johan VogelSo you're up for a multimillion-dollar government contract, but you've got this problem: in less than a decade, you've racked up multiple fraud and bribery convictions. Your reputation among government investigators and prosecutors is beyond damage control. Are you in trouble? Not if you own Environmental Chemical Corp. (ECC), a Burlingame, California-based …
So you're up for a multimillion-dollar government contract, but you've got this problem: in less than a decade, you've racked up multiple fraud and bribery convictions. Your reputation among government investigators and prosecutors is beyond damage control. Are you in trouble? Not if you own Environmental Chemical Corp. (ECC), a Burlingame, California-based company working since …
Johnny Light—which is not his real name but rather the name he always gives when he must give a name and his own seems all too real—has perfect teeth. So perfect, in fact, that his dentist—keeper, tender and admirer of said specimens of dental correctness—recently called to ask if he could photograph Light's perfect teeth. …
Photo by Jeanne RiceOrange County Registerpublisher Chris Anderson was in such a great mood on April 2 he just had to share it with someone. Having just learned that Local 404 of the Graphic Communications Union had withdrawn its petition to unionize about 100 of his pressroom “associates,” Anderson typed this e-mail to his staff: …
Photo by Jeanne RiceOn one recent post card-perfect Southern California day—belly agrowl, brain in desperate need of coffee, my biggest dilemma being eating breakfast or lunch—I met my friend Mr. Laguna at Anastasia. Surrounded by a sidewalk verandah, Anastasia is two places in one: a restaurant that is funky and airy (earthy citrus colors; sleek, …