Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Greenest of Them All?
Grist online magazine's Muckraker says the California gubernatorial race may very well come down to who voters think is more environmentally minded, Ahnuld or Phil the Pill.
A Brief Respite from Evil (Colbert/Arellano edition)
Born 383 years ago today, the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal once wrote, “I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.” Well, good news: tonight a combination of TV's greatest patriot, Stephen Colbert, and the unstoppable cultural phenom that is our own Gustavo …
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Sister (Up) in Arms
Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof (see him in the upcoming documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?) sent this along about Iraq's girl blogger “Riverbend”: “She offers a ground-level female perspective on Iraq and your Tax dollars at work. Against incredible odds, this literate and intense young Iraqi brings her thoughts to the world…and may bring …
Activists Emerge From Their Foxholes
An Aaron Haley just emailed us the following: Hello, I am hoping someone from the OC Weekly would cover our local 9/11 truth event in Huntington Beach. It will be an outdoor screening of 9/11 films including discussion. This is a very local event, the first of it's kind in Huntington Beach. It will be …
Stephen Colbert vs. The Mexican
That humble, media-shy, wilting flower Gustavo Arellano said he'd Blotterize this yesterday, but he never did, so Your Favorite Comedy Central Time Zoner will have to spill it: the young buck behind the Weekly's wildly successful, written about and commentated upon !Ask a Mexican! column is scheduled to be Stephen Colbert's guest Monday on The …
Smelly
Reading this morning's LA Times, I flashed back to Sheriff Mike Carona's emphatic response on a recording that surfaced shortly before the election. Our R. Scott Moxley described the circumstances leading to that response in one of his many Carona-related exclusives: Evidence obtained by the Weekly places Carona inside a moving vehicle while, well, affectionately …
25 years later
It was twenty-five years ago today, June, 5, 1981, that the first cases of what would become known as HIV/AIDS were reported in the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It was by no means the beginning of the disease– a recent study has identified the earliest infections as occurring in West …
Yorba Linda: So Dense!
We're getting close to that June 6th election day, guys. I trust you've all calculated the shortest possible route to your nearest polling station? I slay myself. Aside from gubernatorial primaries and local elections, we've also got a coupla educatorial-type propositions: 81, which would let the state borrow money for library support; and 82, the …
Gt Yr Jb Thr NYT
Tired of your miserable, dead end job? Wish you had something a little more glamorous? Well, we at The Blotter are here to help. Have you considered a job as a foreign affairs columnist for the op-ed page of the New York Times? For longer than I care to remember, Thomas Friedman has traveled the …
New Reviews
we recommend CLEAN See Film feature. (Edwards University, Irvine) OVER THE HEDGE See Film feature. (Countywide) SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY Insider journalism several times over, this enjoyably breezy portrait of genius architect Frank Gehry is drawn doodle-style by first-time documentarian Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood player with ready access to impartial testimony from patron-saint moguls (Diller, …
The Quality of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Fuck
Two films that played in Orange County in March and April to wide critical acclaim–if by “wide critical acclaim” you mean “received positive reviews from OC Weekly“–will screen up the road in that little berg that natives call Los Angeles in the days ahead. Of Quality of Life, a drama about the lives of San …
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Bill Campbell Hates the (Surfin') USA
Today I listened to a State Senate Budget Subcommittee meeting on Transportation. Slightly more fun a C.I.A. interrogation. But as long as the TCA keeps trying to build a time/money-wasting toll road that might not even relieve traffic, when they haven't even done ANY studies on weekend traffic because they were only concerned w/ the …