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It's Good to be the Kings Two summers ago, Rick Reiff, editor of the invariably optimistic Orange County Business Journal, was munching wieners with Robert D. Kaplan at Bistango, a fine-food eatery for expense-account industrialists in the Irvine Business Center. Kaplan was visiting for what would become an Atlantic Monthly article on, among other places, …
The government calls Area51 “the Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada.” But as every possessor of the Truth About the Government knows, Area 51 is where the Air Force tinkers with the alien technology it gets—by dint of either rapacious force or covert friendship with the grays from beyond. Whether Area 51 is …
Pat Hare “I'm Gonna Murder My Baby”” Is this the creepiest record ever unleashed? Hare was best-known as a sideman to Muddy Waters, but the blues singer/guitarist's name will forever live in infamy because of this 1954 solo side. In this bone-chilling little ditty, Hare stands before a judge threatening to murder his baby (“I'm …
photo by Jack GouldTry as we might to get really angry!—because angry! people are so interesting, aren't they?—we'd really rather let other people get angry! for us. But in a full week of bopping here and there and all around, the only angry! people we saw were the ones at the Blue Cafe on Sunday …
photo courtesy of Orange Coast CollegeSitting outside the Gypsy Den Cafe N Reading Room, sipping a chai latte and wearing a baggy sweat shirt, Orange Coast College film major Ryan Simpkins doesn't seem any different from any other college student. But if you read the Daily Pilot on Nov. 6, you'd have the idea that …
photo by Keith MayA half-mile from the Pacific, Huntington Beach's Edison High School is caressed by an ocean breeze. It must seem an ideal location to most of the school's 2,300 students, many of whom live nearby. But a short distance upwind is something few, if any, of the students have actually seen: a volatile …
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Illustration by Bob AulAVERAGE ORANGE COUNTY APARTMENT LOCATION: Varied OCCUPANTS: Many RENT: $1,026 per month, split 10 or 20 ways Here at the Shackled Arms—just your typical big-as-an-18th-century-cargo-ship apartment complex—the news that the average rent for an Orange County apartment has reached $1,026 per month didn't rattle anybody's cage. “And thank goodness for that,” whispered …
There was hope that a journalistic renaissance at the Orange County edition of the Los Angeles Times would follow the gaffe-filled reign of editor Bill Nottingham. But in the 18 months since Nottingham was—to put it delicately—transferred to a less influential position, the Times OC has continued to collapse as a viable threat to The …
Photo by Keith MayStanding on the hot, dusty sidewalk along Talbert Avenue, staring through the chainlink fence at acres of parched-hard earth and huge cracked slabs of weed-clogged pavement and a distant huddle of low-slung bungalows with boarded-up windows and faded paint—well, out here, a man's eyes can play tricks on him. “This is going …
Photo by Myles Robinson1. RICHARD NIXON'S HEAD Walt Disney's cryonically chambered noggin was once the scariest severed head in Orange County, but that was before the Richard Nixon Library, Birthplace and Deathplace unveiled sculptor Robert Berks' terrifying Richard Nixon's head on Aug. 14. Disturbingly wide-open eyes! A shit-eatin' grin! And—scariest of all—pockmarked skin designed to …