MMA Flyweight Ashlee Evans-Smith Is an Underdog No More
For Ashlee Evans-Smith, being an underdog in fights is a way of life. Growing up in a small town in Northern California in the ’90s, the current UFC flyweight often found herself fighting her...
View ArticleViet Film Fest Returns With an Incredible Lineup of Global Works
After a year of internal restructuring and planning, the Viet Film Fest (VFF) returns to Orange County this weekend. This fest is close to my heart because of its warm and passionate organizers, who...
View ArticleAnaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Parade Began As a Way to Curb...
Damn kids! The annual Anaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Parade began in 1924 as a response to the midnight mayhem brewed up by kids on what was known as mischief night almost a century ago in...
View ArticlePizza Port Fish IPA, Our Beer of the Week!
Sure, Belgium has Trappist-monastic breweries that sell beer to pay for their goofy robed-monkish pleasures. The closest thing to that in California are the five Pizza Port locations that dot the SoCal...
View ArticleWhat the Ale! Two Holiday Beer Festivals to Plan For
The typical beer festival can be a scary endeavor if not run properly. The thought of an overcrowded, drunken bro fest in a sweaty parking lot, where the beers are the same suds you can get at the...
View ArticleGunwhale Ales Mission Statement, Our Beer of the Week!
If you recall the scene in Oceans 11 where Don Cheadle’s character sets off an electromagnetic pulse in the back of a Vegas van to make the power go out, this is exactly what I thought seeing how...
View ArticleGarden Grove Greyhound “Rescue” Allegedly Profits Off of Racing Dog Blood
Animal rights activists say they will descend on a Garden Grove clinic at high noon today to protest former racing dogs being held “captive” there so their blood can be sold. People for the Ethical...
View ArticleFeds Want $97 Million in Cash Forfeited By Ex-Backpage.com Owners
Mugged: Lacey and Larkin Six months after obtaining a 93-count federal indictment against two Arizona businessmen who once owned a national media empire that included OC Weekly and the Village Voice,...
View ArticleWho Is OC District Attorney Tony Rackauckas Really Shagging?
This month—16 years after three high-school boys filmed themselves raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl in a multimillionaire’s oceanview Newport Beach home—television personality Dr. Oz helped...
View ArticleA Clockwork Orange: Thousand Oaks Mass Shooter Remembered as “Coward” and...
Ian David Long, the suspected mass shooter at a Thousand Oaks bar Wednesday night, was born in Orange and, according to an elementary school classmate, he was “a coward,” “a spoiled piece of shit” and...
View ArticleDid Actress Rachel Buffett Confess Mastermind Role in OC Double Murder?
While her malleable, ex-fiancé awaited trial for murdering two Costa Mesa college students and cops pondered if she’d choreographed the crimes, Rachel Buffett—a onetime Disneyland princess obsessed...
View ArticlePizza Port Fish IPA, Our Beer of the Week!
Sure, Belgium has Trappist-monastic breweries that sell beer to pay for their goofy robed-monkish pleasures. The closest thing to that in California are the five Pizza Port locations that dot the SoCal...
View ArticleIn The Other Place, an Uncertain Narrator Turns the Storytelling Trope On Its...
Outdone only by the overuse of a character speaking on a phone in order to easily dump a load of exposition on the audience’s ears, the literary device of using a narrator as the entry point, as well...
View ArticleMMA Flyweight Ashlee Evans-Smith Is an Underdog No More
For Ashlee Evans-Smith, being an underdog in fights is a way of life. Growing up in a small town in Northern California in the ’90s, the current UFC flyweight often found herself fighting her...
View ArticleViet Film Fest Returns With an Incredible Lineup of Global Works
After a year of internal restructuring and planning, the Viet Film Fest (VFF) returns to Orange County this weekend. This fest is close to my heart because of its warm and passionate organizers, who...
View ArticlePizza Port Fish IPA, Our Beer of the Week!
Sure, Belgium has Trappist-monastic breweries that sell beer to pay for their goofy robed-monkish pleasures. The closest thing to that in California are the five Pizza Port locations that dot the SoCal...
View ArticleIn The Other Place, an Uncertain Narrator Turns the Storytelling Trope On Its...
Outdone only by the overuse of a character speaking on a phone in order to easily dump a load of exposition on the audience’s ears, the literary device of using a narrator as the entry point, as well...
View ArticleMMA Flyweight Ashlee Evans-Smith Is an Underdog No More
For Ashlee Evans-Smith, being an underdog in fights is a way of life. Growing up in a small town in Northern California in the ’90s, the current UFC flyweight often found herself fighting her...
View ArticleViet Film Fest Returns With an Incredible Lineup of Global Works
After a year of internal restructuring and planning, the Viet Film Fest (VFF) returns to Orange County this weekend. This fest is close to my heart because of its warm and passionate organizers, who...
View ArticleDid Actress Rachel Buffett Confess Mastermind Role in OC Double Murder?
While her malleable, ex-fiancé awaited trial for murdering two Costa Mesa college students and cops pondered if she’d choreographed the crimes, Rachel Buffett—a onetime Disneyland princess obsessed...
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