Espresso Your Love

Photo by Lara MontagneHey,recentuniversitygrads:Rememberyour backpack adventures across Europe? Those squeaky hostel bunk beds? That swarthy Italian boy? The rumpled journal that housed extensive reflections on the best bars, cafés and places you shared petitmortswith said swarthy Italian boy? Miss it? Of course you do. Gypsy Den notwithstanding, Orange County just isn't conducive to reliving Italy's …

Letters

Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@oc******.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. HOLY HELL Editor's note: Gustavo Arellano received more than 100 e-mails regarding his coverage of the Catholic sex-abuse …

Letters

Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@oc******.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. OH, BOY! I think I have read all of Gustavo Arellano's articles on the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse …

The Game Is Up

Courtesy pool photographer Michael Goulding/ The Orange County RegisterAfter a nine-hour courtroom fight this week, red-faced millionaire businessman and former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl appeared on the verge of a breakdown. Haidl removed his glasses, dropped his face into the palm of his right hand and appeared tearful as Superior Court Judge Francisco …

Letters

Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@oc******.com , or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. ONE NATION UNDER GREG We're divided about a lot of things in this country: Bush vs. Kerry. Open borders …

Letters

Letters may be edited for clarity and length. E-mail to le*****@oc******.com , or send to Letters to the Editor, c/oOC Weekly, 1666 N. Main St., Ste. 500, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Or fax to (714) 550-5908. SWEET SUCCESS I live in the unit almost on top of the poop pole. We've only lived here for …

Death Row Defender

William Thompson is thinking about the troubles of a man he's never met, and it won't be the first time. Curtis McCarty sits on death row in Oklahoma, convicted of the 1982 murder of Pamela Willis, the 18-year-old daughter of a police officer. Thompson doesn't know McCarty but is intimately acquainted with his DNA profile. …

Back To School

Photo by Matt OttoNumerous human beings contributed to this fine project, including Nadia Afghani, Nathan Callahan, Sarah Callender, Judy Jou, Rich Kane, Steve Lowery, Jami Makan, Maridel Reyes, Rosheila Robles, Jamie Rodriguez, Daniel Ross, Scott Wennerberg, Katie Wintermute and Chris Ziegler. It happens every fall: the leaves turn, the weather dips below 78 degrees to …

Cartoon geekboys are go!

These are dark days for hand-drawn animation, that grand old medium that entertained America for decades and brought us everything from the gracefully dancing hippos of the original Fantasia to the furiously humping felines of Fritz the Cat. Disney has virtually abandoned hand-drawn animation in the wake of one massive, humiliating box-office flop after another, …

Summer Guide

NAKED Nude Bathing at San Onofre There's a tendency to think of nude beaches—or, for that matter, nude campgrounds and nude lumber yards—in terms of naked Brad Pitts and Jennifer Garners dangling about. In actuality, we all look much more like, well, disgusting meat sacks. So, remember the sunscreen and that people come in all …

Snap, Crackle, Pop

As they age, are copied and are overhyped, inventions and innovations succumb to planned obsolescence. Stainless-steel refrigerators have been replaced by bright-hued retro-'50s models. People don't wash their “new” Volkswagen Beetles every weekend anymore. Last summer's hyperexpensive Siemens slider cell phone went on sale before Christmas at Best Buy. Virtually nothing extends that shelf life, …