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Orange County may be famous for ska and punk-hey, why not call it “skunk”?-but taking place right here and now is an authentic roots renaissance. Like all pop genres, the scene is fractured, but not so fractured that we can't identify a few similarities: classic forms and styles; emphasis on craft and musicianship over flavor-of-the-week …
On a recent Saturday morning, Huntington Beach Assemblyman Scott Baugh sat down with a handful of people, most of them from an organization called Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS). The fact that he was there-he's a self-described conservative Republican-and that he had invited them to his office and greeted them at the door …
Once again, experian corp. studied housing prices around the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. Once again, the Anaheim-based “information-services firm” concluded the impending airport wasn't crushing property values. And once again–for the third time in a year–the Times OC publicized the study.The Jan. 28 Times story ran on the front page under a headline …
You didn’t read it in our local daily newspapers, but a Santa Ana police officer called the bomb squad to Hermandad Mexicana Nacional’s office on a Saturday morning in late January. Someone had secretly placed a plainly wrapped, suspicious-looking package on a newspaper stand in the immigrant group’s office lobby. The package, which had two …
Days after Loretta Sanchez's Election Day victory over Bob Dornan in Orange County's 46th Congressional District, the Times O.C. featured staff writer Nancy Cleeland's “O.C. Latinos' turnout falls short of hopes.” The front-page story, written when Sanchez trailed Dornan by a mere 233 votes, dismissed the impact of the Latino vote. But a month later, …
At 4 a.m. on Jan. 26, 1976, Robert Kenneth Owen Dornan, 42, sat working in the den of his rented Los Angeles home. Outside, the temperature dipped into the low 40s and a dense fog rolled in, eventually closing LAX to morning air traffic. Unable to sleep, Dornan–college dropout, unemployed actor, unsuccessful political candidate, originator …