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All hip-hop heads who frequent the Observatory more than they do classrooms and cathedrals can finally see their once-invincible dreams of a rap festival in the area realized with this weekend’s Day N Night Festival. Several times before the show was announced, I’d hit my editor asking why and how in the fuck we’ve yet …
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[CORRECTION: August 7, 2016 5:35 pm] It’s been brought to our attention in the comment section of this article that there’s an error in this post. Although pro-Poseidon group OC WISE funded the Seafloor Infiltration Gallery (SIG) study and found that a SIG would harm aquatic and benthic life, it’s actually in the best interest …
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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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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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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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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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 …
Continue reading “You Can Now Watch Donald Trump Video 24-7. You’re Welcome”
My wife and I have been married for 14 years and in a committed (I assumed) relationship for 17 years. Sex between us (often kinky) has always been great. We have a wonderful life together and two perfect children. I thought we were good; turns out things were too good to be true. I learned …
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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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 …
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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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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