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Photo by Mark SavageConsidering the fortunes of most cartoon characters, Julius the Monkey has had it pretty easy. His media exposure thus far has been limited to Paul Frank...
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Aug. 17. While executing a college prank, an anonymous friend of ours used to break into our dorm room each week and clean it up, leaving us standing cheerfully perplexed amid...
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DA investigators offered a first glimpse into evidence they say supports felony corruption charges against Huntington Beach City Councilman Dave Garofalo. Much of the 86-page...
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photo by Jack GouldEnvironmentalists behind a proposal to "sink" the Long Beach breakwater acknowledge their plan to bring waves back to the city's shoreline might also flush...
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Forget Dennis Rodman. George Argyros, the conservative Newport Beach billionaire and U.S.-ambassador-to-Spain designee, is fast becoming Orange County's real bad boy. Argyros...
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Photo by Joy BastThey may not win a contract for their teachers any time soon, but teachers union officials in Orange are closing in on a related goal—the total...
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Eyewitnesses to the 1980 murder of a 19-year-old Burger King employee were pretty certain of a few things: the gunman was a clean-shaven, 6-foot-3-inch black man who did not...
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Photo by Jack GouldWhen he was still a wide-eyed high school student growing up in Lake Forest, Steve Hatch was like most kids. His main concerns were mundane: music, friends,...
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"Once you have it," confides the woman in the back seat of the brand-new Cadillac I am driving through seaside hills dotted with stands of pine and expensive homes, "you feel...
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Everyone knows about the wildly popular Sunday gospel brunches that the House of Blues chain has put on for years. It's all good, but the folks over at the Galaxy Concert...
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Patient: Summer Catch
Profile: Latest Freddie Prinze Jr. vehicle (Brake! Brake!!) ostensibly about baseball on Cape Cod but actually about closeups of Prinze supplemented with...
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Photo by Johan VogelFor at least four years, a small group of county residents has pushed for the construction of an urban park at the now-shuttered El Toro Marine Corps Air...
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A year or two ago, Bridget Jones' Diary was soothing the hearts of fat girls like a delicious Twinkie, and every sitcom season finale centered on the hero getting hitched...
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Illustration by Bob AulSend anonymous thanks, confessions or accusations—changing or deleting the names of the guilty and innocent—to "Hey, You!" c/oOC Weekly, P.O....
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You know, lots of unenlightened folks could have saved themselves a lot of time and trouble by picking up the OC Weekly as long as you have. Like you, they'd remember way back...
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Photo courtesy www.tomwall.orgFor years, retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Tom Wall has been the county's official voice—and face—of the proposed El Toro...
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Philadelphia update: The city is understandably proud of its performance during the Republican National Convention (RNC). And why not? The police hardly kicked anybody in the...
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Illustration by Bob AulHa'iku resident Abby Grochowski doesn't recall seeing a "For Sale" sign out on Maui's county building. But, Grochowski wrote in an Aug. 16 letter to the...
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Illustration by Bob AulSend anonymous thanks, confessions or accusations—changing or deleting the names of the guilty and innocent—to "Hey, You!" c/oOC Weekly, P.O....
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Dear friends: My boss is enthralled by the letters you people send. I always forward them to him so he knows how many people write to me, and that way I won't ever get fired....