Our former colleague Vickie Chang highlights the Long Beach Craft Mafia in this week’s OC Weekly with a great piece about the crafting revolution.
Featured along with ladies like Family Tree’s Lexi Lee and OCW cover model Liz Abbott is Steph Calvert, whose robot art you may remember from our year end issue last year.

“The idea [...]

Capitalism is failing, Republicans are proposing a $700 billion bailout that sounds remarkably socialist, and John McCain blames Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, once a Republican congressman from Newport Beach, California.
President Bush appointed Cox to the SEC job in 2005, when I was editor of OC Weekly, the Village Voice paper in Orange [...]

Outercourse meets accounting
“Orally,” said the governor’s attorney, and the memories came flooding back.
Long ago and far away– actually, during the recall election in 2003 and at OC Weekly– I wrote about a BBC documentary, Arnold Schwarzenegger– Made in Britain, featuring Gigi Goyette, a former mistress of Arnold’s, though Gigi preferred the term “avenue of [...]

Update: The guilty pleas are in
OC Weekly’s Scott Moxley has updated his story on Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, Orange County conservative activist, associate of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and now, convicted child molester.
In open court, a somber Nielsen, who has extensive personal ties to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Orange County Republican Party boss Scott Baugh, gave Superior [...]

Report: Associate of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to plead guilty to sex crimes
Will Swaim and Rachel Powers are doing a fine job of covering the latest local developments in the Catholic Church’s pedophilia scandal. But in the interest of fairness, I’d like to point out that it’s not just priests who act on these illegal [...]

I will never stop loving the Orange County Sheriff

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
I have loved Orange County’s sheriff, Mike Carona, since the first time we never met. He had come into the OC Weekly’s office in Costa Mesa, where your District staff once toiled and imbibed, to meet with our editorial riffraff. “Where’s Commie Girl?” he [...]

The zombie initiative finds a sugar daddy
The ballot initiative to divide up California’s Electoral College votes to help the GOP nominee, once believed dead, is looking a little more lively, now that it’s found a new sugar daddy. And just as a writer’s strike is poised to turn the fall TV season into reruns, the [...]

Our Scott Moxley shot the sheriff
Back when your District Weekly staff was part of the OC Weekly, our colleague R. Scott Moxley wrote countless stories about corruption in the Orange County Sheriff’s office. Now, news that Moxley had it right from the start: federal authorities have indicted Sheriff Mike Carona–Larry King once called him America’s [...]

Village Voice Media top guns arrested in Arizona
Between them, the founding fathers had a single set of wooden teeth, slaves, sex with slaves, a bunch of illegitimate kids–and ideas that created (fuck yes!) the greatest country in history. One of those ideas was press freedom–it’s in the First Amendment; check it out. But between them, [...]

Back in OC, journalists wonder who gets to be anonymous?
While at OC Weekly, I wrote this piece about a hardcore Republican activist who played a kind of high-end sock puppetry with himself–wrote on the right-wing OCblog under the name “Jubal” and congratulated himself on the same site and elsewhere on the net under his real [...]