Orange County's Leading Source Of News, Culture And Entertainment
Orange County's Leading Source Of News, Culture And Entertainment
In what shouldn’t surprise anyone, the cost of a day at Disneyland is way more expensive than a day at Knott’s Berry Farm, according to a new survey. More eye-opening in the report from vacation-planning website Home-ToGo (hometogo.com) is that the Buena Park theme park is the most affordable theme park in California. Home-ToGo’s California …
The 2000s were a strange time, but perhaps we say this about every decade. It’s wild to me that in this decade, I aged from kindergarten to college, yet I was barely conscious of all the advancements or political drama or entertainment that occurred. Thankfully, The 2000s helps put things in perspective for me by …
Continue reading “Sweet Streams: A Decade Under the Influence in ‘The 2000s’”
Mayor Harry Sidhu’s pledge to Anaheim residents during a State of the City speech last month looked good in headlines. It boldly proposed $250 million in neighborhood investment over ten years with the help of a civically engaged but supposedly “nonpolitical” Anaheim First advisory committee. The mayor even bragged to the president of Trader Joe’s …
Continue reading “Mayor Seeks $250,000 for ‘Anaheim First’ to Assess Neighborhood Needs”
Brea’s past and future collided on Jan. 14 outside the office of the Brea Olinda Unified School District in a fight over a dead white man. Representing the yonder days was a large group of baby boomers, people who grew up in an era when minorities made up less than 5 percent of the city’s …
Continue reading “The Fight Over a School Named for a Brea Pioneer Who Happened to Be a Klansman”
Seriously, this is one of those I-can’t-believe-it’s-2019-and-we’re-still-dealing-with-this-shit issues. Saturday’s death of 18-year-old UC Irvine student Noah Domingo is like the thousandth wake-up call on the horrors of fraternity hazing. Though Irvine Police are still investigating and details of Domingo’s death haven’t been released, UCI Vice Chancellor Edgar Dormitorio announced on Jan. 14 that the frat …
We still can’t believe Christmas is next week, so we’re chugging along with this extended edition of Grub Guide. Read ahead for our round-up of tasty, cheap and holiday-themed tastes to get you through these last days of 2018. In the meantime, we’ll be researching New Year’s Eve options for you. Why Yes, There …
Continue reading “OC Grub Guide – 12/20-12/26: Pickled, Pretzels, Pop-Up”
One of the perks about living in Southern California is that you’re pretty much never more than a block away from a purveyor of tacos. They might not necessarily be great tacos, or even edible tacos, but they’re still tacos. Del Taco is one of those purveyors. On Dec. 13, the company began field-testing tacos …
Continue reading “We tried Del Taco’s new Beyond Meat tacos so you don’t have to”
UPDATE, DEC. 13, 12:23 P.M.: While the Weekly awaited word from ICE on the status of Sixtos-Gomez, he called OC activists from Tijuana shortly ago. The Santa Ana resident has been deported and is now separated from his family. ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 13, 11:29 A.M.: Immigrant rights activists gathered around 8 a.m. this morning outside …
Continue reading “ICE Deports Santa Ana Man After OC Sheriff’s Dept. Violated Trust Act”
The ballot is a lonely place for third party candidates in California come November. Of all the formerly partisan races in Orange County this year, only the Libertarian Party’s Autumn Browne made it to a voter-nominated “top-two” contest against incumbent Democrat Tom Daly for the 69th Assembly District. Even that counted as an achievement in …
Continue reading “Third Parties Shafted Again in OC on Nov. Ballot Thanks to Jungle Primary”
The California Democratic Party is currently dealing with sexual misconduct allegations against its chairman, but 13 months earlier it was leaders within the Orange County Democratic Party and its affiliated Orange County Labor Federation who found themselves #MeToo’d. In the wake of what’s happening with state party leader Eric Bauman, Orange County Young Democrats (OCYD) announced …
Continue reading “Orange County Young Democrats to Honor Women Who MeToo’d Ex-Leaders”
[slide-anything id=”272857″] Freelance photographer Matthew Foresta was at the Tijuana Border on Sunday when U.S. Border Patrol agents fired teargas on Central American migrants. Here is what he saw.
Editor’s Note: This post will be constantly updated. Check back early and often for election coverage from our intrepid reporters who are following local races from Lake Forest to Anaheim, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa. And if you haven’t voted, fuck you. –Nick Schou Dispatches from the frontlines of Orange County’s local races… And here …
Continue reading “OC Weekly’s 2018 Election Coverage is a Mid-Term Abhortion!”