50 Reasons Why Orange County is The Worst Effing Place in America

It was gay rights icon Harvey Milk who described Orange County best, in response to California State Senator John Briggs describing San Francisco as “the moral garbage dump of homosexuality in this country.” “Nobody likes garbage 'cause it smells,” Milk told reporters. “Yet eight million tourists visited San Francisco last year. I wonder how many …

Berth 55 Still Alive? Beloved Long Beach Landmark to Stay, Temporarily

After months of rallies, public discourse and meetings where enraged community members voiced their love for Berth 55, the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners set aside the 180-day notice that would have displaced the businesses on Oct. 16.   Since the community forum at Queens Warf Restaurant on Aug. 29, where supporters of Berth …

Game of Burgers: Fast Food Fiefdom, Final Round: TK Burger Versus In-n-Out!

Well…hello again! Last time we did this tournament, Dave had a showdown between G Burger and Umami Burger in the Burger Baron category, with the La Habra upstart beating the Los Angeles chain in a controversial upset. That was on August 9. I was supposed to follow by matching up TK Burger versus In-n-Out in …

Flogging Nemo

A rerelease whose cash-grab intentions are as transparent as the crystal-clear Sydney ocean, Finding Nemo 3-D exists only to relieve parents of money for a movie they undoubtedly already own. Disney's double-dip of Andrew Stanton's beloved 2003 adventure features absolutely no new content—save for the boisterous prefacing short “Partysaurus Rex,” with Toy Story's characters—so those …

Brinda Sue McCoy, Wife of Oceanside Police Chief, Gets 15 Years for Stand-off with Cops

Brinda Sue McCoy, the wife of Oceanside's police chief, was sentenced today to 15 years in state prison for shooting at responding police officers after calling 9-1-1 and initiating an armed stand-off. The 49-year-old had been found guilty by a jury on June 18 of five counts of assaulting a police officer for waving, pointing …

Rich Mead's Sage Restaurant Takes Fight With Landlord Public

Rich Mead, the self-described “IRS paper pusher” turned chef/restaurateur, is now in a public struggle with his landlord, The Irvine Company, to renew the lease on his Newport Beach restaurant.  Sage, which has been in business at Eastbluff Village Center in Newport Beach for the last 15 years, will be forced to close at the end …

[UPDATE on Telling Kids of Pornin':] Nadya Suleman Celebrates Her First Octorgasm, But “Sexy Party” Listeners Aren't Getting Off

See the update at the end of this post on our Mother of the Year telling her children she made a porn video. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 22, 11:11 A.M.: So Octomom Nadya Suleman now says that while making her self-pleasure porn video, she achieved her first-ever orgasm. The TMI and truth factors not withstanding, La …