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Like Amir Bar-Lev's The Tillman Story (2010), Kirby Dick's The Invisible War scathingly indicts U.S.-military culture. Yet the focus of each documentary is vastly different in scale: one person as opposed to one gender. Bar-Lev examines the exploitation of the corpse of Pat Tillman, the highly principled pro-footballer-turned-Army-Ranger killed by his own platoon in Afghanistan …
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See update at the end of post where newly appointed Anaheim City Manager Bob Wigenroth makes a recommendation for the City Council. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 5, 8:00 A.M. As Fullerton residents anxiously awaited their City Council recall results on Tuesday night, a group of about a dozen protesters gathered at an Anaheim City Council meeting. The protesters were family …
The survey results of a so-called American Customer Satisfaction Index released Tuesday ranked McDonald's dead last in with a customer satisfaction rating of 73, two points behind Burger King and KFC. Number one? Papa John's. You can see the full list here. Pithy headlines like “McDonald's Customers Aren't Lovin' It” aside, is this really much …
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See update at end of post where Southern California Edison takes issue with the Weekly's original report earlier this morning. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 19, 8:58 A.M.: Design flaws resulted in San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) generators being unable to handle too high a flow of radioactive water and steam, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) representatives …
See update at end of this post about 40 more national convention delegates seeking to join the 123 who have filed suit and “hundreds more” possibly ready to do the same. ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 13, 12:39 P.M.: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is using violence, intimidation and ballot stuffing to deter 123 would-be convention delegates …
DEAR MEXICAN: I'm in this country illegally, but I have a current passport from the country I am from, and I have an international driver's license. I could not renew my California driver's license after my travel visa expired. Occasionally, I fly commercially within the U.S., and these docs are always sufficient. I wish to …
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Aside from a tragic few success stories, television talent competition shows don’t typically result in finding the “next big thing,” but they can be a step in the right direction. Take UK boy band One Direction for example. When Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson (ages 18-20—Jesus Christ, we feel …
See update at end of this post about the wife of a Utah county GOP chairman calling Fred Karger “a radical idiot” and saying “thank goodness” he “cant procreate.” ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 7, 2:39 P.M.: What does it say about Californians that only 6,641 voted for Laguna Beach's Fred Karger for president, while 115,678 chose …
What's your ice cream standard–vanilla? mint chip? We melt for cookies and cream. So it was an easy choice when we handed over the last of our tickets at OC Tastefest for dessert. Of course, our preconceived notions of how Lola's Cookie Monster would taste would be greatly exceeded by the end of our cone. …
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The talks between the city of Sacramento and the ownership of the NBA's Kings may have broken down, but league Commissioner David Stern says the franchise will not move to Anaheim or anywhere else. “If there was a vote now, there would be no support for a move,” Stern said during a press conference at …
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“One year from now, I'm going to bike ride from my house to this hospital,” thought then-20-year-old Omar Romero as he huffed and puffed after walking from one end of his hospital bedroom to the other. His muscles had atrophied after being bedridden for nearly two weeks with a fever. He needed to exercise to …
Peter Mathews is a Cypress College political science professor, so who better to break down the 47th U.S. Congressional District primary? His interest extended beyond academics. The Democrat was among eight candidates on the ballot for the redrawn district that includes Cypress, Rossmoor, Stanton, Westminster, Garden Grove, Los Alamitos and parts of Anaheim, La Palma, …