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Consoling yourself with all the horror stories about trying to get a first novel published? (Such as 30 agents and 15 publishers nixing something called A Time to Kill by a small-town Mississippi attorney?) That’s all well and good, but you’ve been hawking your manuscript for, uh, how long now? Go listen to OC-boy-done-real-good T. …
Illustration by Trevor Keen/OC Weekly Emboldened by results showing 93 percent of those polled by NewsMax.com question Barack Obama's legitimacy to be U.S. President, Orly Taitz has announced she will seek re-election as Queen of the Birthers. Okay, so Dr. T, the Laguna Niguel lawyer/dentist/real-estate hawker, need not issue such an announcement because royalty …
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It's beginning to look a lot like a DUI enforcement weekend, as roving patrols and at least two sobriety checkpoints are scheduled. Meanwhile, Irvine police are warning drivers to be extra cautious around the weekend Persian New Year celebrations at Mason Park. But, before we get to the mean streets, your completely sober reporter …
Alan Sun-Long Lin, 22 UPDATE: APRIL 1, 4:20 P.M.: According to The OC Register, Alan Lin has tested for a blood-alcohol level between 0.16 and 0.19 the night he went missing after last being seen at a Newport Beach pub. As a result, Lin might have been disoriented. UPDATE: FEB. 18, 11:23 A.M.: A …
You haven't really lived until you've sucked on raw crab. At the newest Koba Tofu Grill in Irvine, the spicy blue-crab dish called gae jang starts when the critter is hacked into pieces after it has been freshly killed. Cooks brush off the innards before burying the rest of the uncooked meat under a lava-red …
Last week, Queen guitarist Brian May interrupted a performance of his musical We Will Rock You to denounce the Welsh government's plan to reduce its badger population. Audience members were equally puzzled by May's lousy timing and his passionate support of the badger, a sort of white trash wolverine without the awesome superhero namesake. May …
Constructivist that I am—in love with a story or message—I'm inherently suspicious of abstract art. I admire the rebellious individuality behind the concept, but I'm suspicious of work that refuses to meet the viewer halfway. If there's no attempt to provide some entrance into the work, that arrogance doesn't lend itself to the takeaway, i.e., …
Attorneys representing Craigslist told Congress last Sept. 15 that the ubiquitous web classifieds site was closing its adult section. Under intense scrutiny from the government and crusading advocacy groups, as well as state attorneys general, owner Craig Newmark memorably applied the label “Censored” in his classifieds where adult advertising once appeared. During the same September …
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If you don't want to be exposed to radiation, don't drink the water in Japan. Or . . . gulp . . . breathe the air in Anaheim. The Japanese government today says elevated levels of radioactive iodine from a crippled nuclear plant were detected at a water treatment plant that serves Tokyo and …
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Last December, 35-year-old LBC resident Douglas Zerby was shot and killed by police while holding a “weapon” that turned out to be a garden-hose nozzle. Because there's been so much interest in the case, with rallies held in demand of more information, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell offered some new details this week, though …
Photos courtesy of Mariposa Center for Change UPDATE, MARCH 17, 11:41 A.M.: The “Justice for Laya Coalition” held a press conference closer to home in Beverly Hills Wednesday afternoon, but the campaign formed to oust UC Irvine senior Jesse Cheng as the UC student regent over “unwanted touching” allegations made an even bigger splash …
UPDATE, MARCH 16, 5:32 P.M.: To the people of Japan and even (to a lesser extent) the seafaring folk in Santa Cruz, the Weekly sends its best regards for a full recovery. The devastation that has rocked and continues to rock Japan is unlike anything we ever hope to see again in a lifetime. They …