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Hero Carlisle's Dogs Of War Gives Reservoir Dogs the Shakespearean Treatment

We all know Reservoir Dogs, the 1992 profanity-laden blood-and-guts bath that was Quentin Tarantino's first big splash in the Hollywood pool. But while most people see the small-time thugs, gasoline immolation of cops and a fustercluck of shooting as a fitting example of the over-the-top, testosterone-fueled machismo of the early 1990s, Hero Carlisle sees something …

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Beach Goth Heads to Oak Canyon Ranch [OC Weekly Editorial Cartoon]

For this week’s “Orange Feathers,” calendar editor Aimee Murillo (who’s heading this weekend’s OC Zine Fest in SanTana) decided to take on the upcoming Beach Goth festival at Oak Canyon Ranch. Take it away, Aimee! Here’s my little dig at Beach Goth, an annual music festival at the Observatory that usually results in being some kind …

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Beach Goth Heads to Oak Canyon Ranch [OC Weekly Editorial Cartoon]

For this week’s “Orange Feathers,” calendar editor Aimee Murillo (who’s heading this weekend’s OC Zine Fest in SanTana) decided to take on the upcoming Beach Goth festival at Oak Canyon Ranch. Take it away, Aimee! Here’s my little dig at Beach Goth, an annual music festival at the Observatory that usually results in being some kind …

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You Can Now Watch Donald Trump Video 24-7. You’re Welcome

Having watched CNN daily from the time Donald Trump was considered a stunt candidate through this week’s GOP convention in Cleveland, I thought the network Ted Turner founded was the unofficial Donald Trump channel. Seriously, some enterprising journalist should some day count the minutes of coverage CNN has given Trump versus other presidential candidates once …

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You Can Now Watch Donald Trump Video 24-7. You’re Welcome

Having watched CNN daily from the time Donald Trump was considered a stunt candidate through this week’s GOP convention in Cleveland, I thought the network Ted Turner founded was the unofficial Donald Trump channel. Seriously, some enterprising journalist should some day count the minutes of coverage CNN has given Trump versus other presidential candidates once …

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Ranchera Legend Pepe Aguilar Is the Mexican Man We Need Right Now

Mexican malehood has been in crisis mode for decades now. Time was when the country urged its young hombres to live by the moral code of the charro, the virile archetype of honor, courage, a sombrero and a fabulous mustache. Like Zapata, he’s the brown knight on horseback, defender of Mexicans from invaders and all …

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How a Prison Guard and Former OC Journalist Exposed Shocking Abuses Inside Guantanamo

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood by OC Weekly managing editor Nick Schou. (Part of a series of investigative works edited by Hot Books creator and Salon co-founder David Talbot, the book will be released by Skyhorse Publications on Tuesday.) Historians of OC …

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Smoke DZA Makes Sure That Kushmas Comes Early on the Smoker’s Club Tour

Lo and behold, marijuanos. The baked and benevolent Kushed God aka Smoke DZA, will be making his rounds through the greenest parts of the U.S. -including your city- sooner than you can finish that private-stock half-ounce you just bought from your local dispensary. And he’s looking for tithes. The Weekly was lucky enough to hop …

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New York Times Calls For Massive Federal Probe Of Cheating Prosecutors

Public misconception that the criminal justice system assures cases end righteously took another blow this morning with the country’s leading daily newspaper lambasting widespread prosecutorial cheating  by hiding evidence unhelpful to the government and a status quo that, until now, has tolerated the corruption. The New York Times‘ editorial board wrote, “So why is it so …

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Smoke DZA Makes Sure That Kushmas Comes Early on the Smoker’s Club Tour

Lo and behold, marijuanos. The baked and benevolent Kushed God aka Smoke DZA, will be making his rounds through the greenest parts of the U.S. -including your city- sooner than you can finish that private-stock half-ounce you just bought from your local dispensary. And he’s looking for tithes. The Weekly was lucky enough to hop …

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Who Wants to Free a Southern California Serial Killer? Orange County DA Tony Rackauckas

The second most surprising fact about Oscar Moriel is his charisma, a trait you might not normally attribute to a scary psychopath. Supplemented by quick-study skills, an ability to manage high-pressure, competitive environments and innate cutthroat instincts, Moriel could have easily earned six-figure annual incomes as a professional salesman at, say, a swank Newport Beach …

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