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By David Accomazzo The world is filled with visionaries who made a difference. Steve Jobs created a digital marketplace for music. Dr. Dre launched a hip-hop empire. Al Gore created the Internet. And then, there's Okilly Dokilly, the world's first and only Ned Flanders-themed metal band, based on the Simpsons character so friendly you can't …
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Within the first few seconds of Lauren Ruth Ward’s “Dizzy,” one thing is apparent: Ward is a breath of fresh air. In today’s electronic-heavy world of mainstream music, Ward brings us emotional pop-jazz fusion songs featuring real instruments and her full, raspy voice. Like Mayer Hawthorne and Leon Bridges, Ward has both raw talent and …
A panel of Fourth District Court of Appeal justices reversed first-degree murder convictions of two men involved in a 2010 gang-related shooting at one of the Taqueria De Anda shops in Santa Ana. ] Jose Miguel Quiroz, OC Homicide No. 34: Dine and Death Ivan Derek Castaneda, 25, and Jesus Valdivia Cruz, 40, were convicted …
Sometime in October, workers whitewashed a Mexican-themed mural in Santa Ana that had adorned the two-story offices of Spanish-language weekly Excelsior for more than a decade. It was a simple—even trite—thing, really, purporting to depict a day in the life of this most Mexican of cities: a mom with a baby stroller, fruit vendors and …
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David Robert Cohn has been at the defense table for many high profile molestation cases in Orange County courts. He helped win an acquittal for Christopher John Ontiveros, a former history teacher at the respected Oxford Academy in Cypress, who was accused of molesting a female student. A former San Clemente middle school teacher, Richard …
UPDATE NO. 2, NOV. 6, 7:17 A.M.: As reported in the first update, the male half of the all new “Kent Easter N Jill Easter” blog informed the Weekly that he is not behind it. So how do we know the female half is not involved? Because she is no longer Jill Easter. ] OC …
Thanksgiving's almost here. Families are coming together–the smart ones wearing pants two sizes larger to prepare for the damage to come–and filling dining tables with a stuffed bird, cranberries, potatoes, greens, and pie. For some, this is truly a time to hold hands around the table and give thanks kumbaya-style. For others, it's when relatives …
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Newspapers are dead, except in the hearts of anyone who has ever loved them—which means there are still narrow slivers of hope. One of them now comes to us in the form of a movie: Tom McCarthy's bold, shirtsleeve-sturdy newsroom drama Spotlight, which shows how a team of Boston Globe reporters exposed the scope of …
Oh, somewhere in this teabagged land Ben Carson is shining bright; Ted Nugent is playing somewhere, and somewhere homos are light (in the loafers), and somewhere Trump is laughing, and somewhere the Clintons pout; but there is no joy in Birtherville–mighty Orly has struck out. Amazingly, even Orly Taitz herself is acknowledging the defeat of …
A female alum/longtime politician/self-described financial whiz is a natural fit for today's Connecting Women to Power conference in UC Irvine's Student Center. But critics doth protest that state Board of Equalization member Diane Harkey brings with her too much baggage. ] Or so reports the campus newspaper New University, whose reporters Megan Cole and Roy …
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Honest judges across the nation would be alarmed by the corruption that tarnishes Orange County’s criminal-justice system. Unlike fictional TV court dramas, the process isn’t being subverted by stereotypically devious defense attorneys. Though District Attorney Tony Rackauckas insists policing moves that tainted dozens of cases were accidental errors, evidence continues to mount that cheating against …
UPDATE, OCT. 30, 3:06 P.M.: More setbacks for the defense of community theater actor-turned-accused double murderer Daniel Patrick Wozniak, as Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley denied Assistant Public Defender Scott Simmons' motions to dismiss the death penalty and to continue the trial, clearing the way for jury selection to begin next month. ] …