Ever try doing your job after getting socked again and again? Welcome to my week. As many of you know—and if you haven't heard: surprise!—the Weekly has weathered muchos defections in this young year. First came the resignation of founding editor Will Swaim, quickly followed by Commie Girl Rebecca Schoenkopf and music editor Chris Ziegler. […]
Dave Wielenga
See You, Suckers!
I don't know if you knew this about the OC Weekly, but in the 11 years since we started it, it's been basically Smurf Village—all hand-holding and hair-braiding and candy fights. Our small staff—about a dozen of us in editorial—functions as a living organism: if the pancreas needs to take a couple weeks off to […]
Letters
“NOT ME,” SAID THE LBC I was a little shocked to read Steve Lowery's eulogy of Long Beach's East Village Arts District! [“Looking Back At the Year Ahead,” Jan. 5] Dead? I didn't even know I was sick. Oh wait, I did, but when a brother is on the floor, twitching in pain, shouldn't you […]
Letters
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to letters@ocweekly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. DON'T MESSTLES WITH TRESTLES [Re: Dave Wielenga's “It's Good to Be Natural,” Oct. 20]: I applaud your selection of […]
Letters
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to letters@ocweekly.com, or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. REXY, YOU PERPLEX ME The Hudler bit was brilliant; I laughed out loud no less than seven times [Dave […]
Diary of a Mad County
Wednesday, Jan. 18 Former teen idol Leif Garrett, 44, is charged in a Los Angeles courtroom with possession of heroin, proving smack is almost as heavy a yoke to bear as “former teen idol.” This is very sad, since Garrett, who pleaded guilty to a previous drug offense in March, was sure he was going […]
Now Giving You Less!
Hey, Los Angeles! How've you been? Yeah, that's great. Listen, I know you don't pay much attention to what we say down here in “the OC,” unless it has to do with our boy-diddling priests or that Haidl schmuck, and I don't really blame you! What have we given you lately besides Rodman, Kobe and […]
Letters
Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to letters@ocweekly.com, fax to (714) 708-8410 or send to Letters to the Editor, c/o OCWeekly, P.O. Box 10788, Costa Mesa, CA 92627-0247. FRICKIN' DAVE Dave Wielenga's article “Bored Competition” [July 25] turned out pretty cynical. What could have been an opportunity to encourage the growing contributions […]
Letters
SNIPPIES Here at Nippies, we do not “promote surgically enhanced, over-exercised, consistently binged and purged exoskeletons” like Stacy Davies' “review” insinuates [“Nippies: Patch of Freedom,” May 23], nor do any of us have those things. We are all average sized B-cup women trying to create independence, pride and self-reliance by creating a company that expresses […]
Hoochie Who?
Photo by James BunoanWhen Costa Mesa artist Maria Schowengerdt moved to Berlin to marry, she had a hard time adjusting. People weren't friendly—surprise!—and her German-born groom tried as best as he could to help her fit in. “Your face is very loud,” he explained, at the beginning of what would turn into a really long, […]
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Fear the smoking police!
Illustration by Bob AulMaybe it's true what they say about former smokers being the most militantly intolerant of those still sucking away on paper tubes packed with nicotine-soaked tobacco. That would be the most obvious explanation for how pissed off I get at the unfettered cigarette smoking that goes on at the Gypsy Lounge in […]
Stone Temple Doll Hut?
Photo by Jeanne RiceSo what's with the rumor that Scott Weiland is negotiating a deal with Linda Jemison that would give the Stone Temple Pilots front man a financial interest in Linda's Doll Hut? We were embarrassed to ask, but we did it anyway. “I've never even met Scott Weiland,” said Linda, not making us […]
Excerpts: Part 2
Photo by Jack GouldNov. 21, 1997 There's a program in Santa Ana for gang members to have their tattoos removed for free, but they don't have any such program for single moms in their late 30s; she's 38 and just trying to get by. Maybe the book will provide that extra bump in income to […]
A Truly Sacred Place
Photo by Patricia InsheiwatOur wedding march was George Clinton and Parliament. My wife's flowers were pilfered from the receptionist's desk. The toast was made with root beer (the only fizzy thing in the office fridge). Yet when Weekly features editor Dave Wielenga began to speak about the solemnity of marriage and the importance of love, […]
Arling N Cameron and Guy Clark
ARLING N CAMERON MUSIC FOR IMAGINARY FILMS EMPEROR NORTON Arling N Cameron have discovered the Ghost of Disco Past on this cheeky ode to film scores, which they say is not a true follow-up to their delicious, pie-in-the-face-of-dance-music debut, All-In. That album rolled with samples of children singing and computers that proclaimed their love for […]
Squeak!
Perhaps you have long since grown up and stopped having marathon sex with United States Marinesin the barracks at Camp Pendletonwhile your friend tries vainly to sleep in a bunk five feet away. Well, us, too! Luckily, we got to relive our pre-our-friends-having-their-own-places teen years and be the friend in the next bunk Saturday night, […]
