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See the update on page 2 with the Costa Mesa City Council approving privatization of the city jail and the city workers union finding the Weekly's coverage of last night's vote lacking. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 4, 1:05 P.M.: Those concerned about keeping their jobs at the Costa Mesa city jail have a full day on …
Dry-ice bombs are so hot right now! A week after two homemade explosive devices–also known as acid bombs–exploded at Disneyland, police reveal two more have blasted in recent months in the College Park East area of Seal Beach. Meaning Christian Isaiah Barnes should maybe come up with an alibi. ] Christian Isaiah Barnes Pleads Not …
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Something Happened. It's the title of one of my favorite-ever novels, by Joseph “Catch-22” Heller, and a book too often overlooked. It's a terrifically and purposefully and necessarily digressive work, not to mention a tragic mea culpa, but the two-word under-overstatement is simultaneously one of the best titles, jacket blurbs and plot summaries in one. …
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[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As …
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Just about everyone has weighed in on Christopher Jordan Dorner, the rogue ex-LAPD cop said to have taken himself out as fiery Big Bear walls collapsed around him on Feb. 12, the same day he committed his fourth alleged murder. Count Marxists among those chiming in, asking whether Dorner was a “revolutionary role model.” The …
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Karen Clark, who describes herself as a “freelance designer, writer, TV junkie,” saw the Weekly's exhaustive coverage in anticipation of the new Arrested Development season coming Sunday and offered to provide an add-on. After the jump is her detailed infographic breaking down how each Bluth family member has been breaking bad. ] OC Weekly Arrested …
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Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that—when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture—become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow. Engagements, weddings, births and deaths: This film is a more traditional kind of marriage plot than you might expect in …
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Ask Roger Faubel, and he'll tell you the answer is no. He'll tell you this despite the fact that between 2006 and April of this year, he served as both a publicly elected representative of the Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD) and as a paid consultant to Poseidon Resources Inc., the company interested in selling …
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“My dad and mom met at the Pike,” Gerrie Schipske began. For the broadly accomplished, 62-year-old, Long Beach City Councilwoman, that was the beginning—the chance interaction of a couple of teenagers on the bright, bustling midway of a classic old amusement park in 1948. Of course, even without such a personal connection, mentioning the Pike …
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It's a known fact that marijuana gives you the munchies, which is why it's a great medication for AIDS patients and people experiencing loss of appetite because of chemotherapy. In the eyes of critics, like Joel Hay, who penned an anti-marijuana editorial in yesterday's OC Register, “Pipe Dreams and quack pot medicine,” however, marijuana's munchies-inducing …
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See the update at the end of page 2 on last weekend's Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction raising $680,000 and other event details. ORIGINAL POST, MAY 9, 2 P.M.: The Surfing Heritage & Cultural Center in San Clemente is putting “some of the world's most rare and iconic surf memorabilia” up for auction on Saturday, …
Dec. 12, 2010, was a reasonably nice day in Long Beach, hitting a high of 64 degrees. On that late-Sunday afternoon, the streets of Belmont Shore were full of people returning from the beach, shopping or just enjoying the day. One of them, Doug Zerby, 35, was sitting on the porch of a friend’s home …