Irvine’s new Republican majority has been taking the world’s longest victory lap. The Register’s Frank Mickadeit has written several flattering columns and OC Weekly’s Scott Moxley continues to triple down on the notion he alerted the public to a possible theft of…
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Big Orange Book Festival at Chapman, September 21-22; Go Heckle Conservative Blowhard Mark Levin
by Dan Chmielewski • • 19 Comments
A postcard from our friends at Chapman University came in for the Big Orange Book Festival on the Chapman campus September 21-22. While the event looks like its a knock off of the LA Times Festival of Books, the promoted…
What Made Michele Martinez Team Up with Van Tran?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
Santa Ana City Council member and AD-69 candidate Michele Martinez made waves this weekend with a taped TV appearance on a Little Saigon TV program hosted by staunch Vietnamese conservative Van Tran. Sporting a new black dye job, Martinez, sat across…
Are Prostitutes Being “Sold” in OC on Backpage.com
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
Sunday’s New York Times opinion section carried this column by Nicholas Kristof about Backpage.com, an online classified ad site run by Village Voice Media which owns the OC Weekly. It’s a powerful column where the writer captures the story of…
Catholic League Hates Gustavo
by Dan Chmielewski • • 18 Comments
Bill Donohue heads up the Catholic League and you’ve probably seen him on CNN and Fox News usually arguing against Gay Marriage and complaining about coverage of priests who sexually abuse kids and the higher ups who cover for them. …
Pressure Mounts on Alvarez to Resign from Santa Ana City Council
by Dan Chmielewski • • 18 Comments
The OC Weekly is reporting that the ADL has stepped up its pressure on Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez and has called for her to resign her seat (OC Weekly gets testy when we don’t credit them for…
Santa Ana Artists Village Activists Still Getting the Run Around From City
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano reported yesterday in his Notes from the Bananna Republic about the ongoing conflict between artists and business owners in the Santa Ana Downtown Artists Village and the City over the short lived Valet parking fiasco.
