The O.C.

By Cheril Vernon Mischa Barton’s co-star Shantel VanSanten, who plays Janie in the upcoming film "You and I," dished recently about her first movie role as well as what it’s like working with Mischa. "You and I," scheduled for release in March 2008 in the United States, is about two teenage girls, Janie who...

I've been expounding on the genius of Rotten.com in the Weekly's pages for years--not so much the gore but rather their fabulous library and Daily Rotten (think of it as Wikipedia and the Drudge Report written by libertarian conspiracy- and porno-obsessed geeks--but isn't this charact...

By Andrew Davey Should the national Democrats (like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) get involved in 2010? Should Bill Hedrick agree to a rematch? Should local Democrats do more organizing on the ground to make Calvert sweat for these next two years?

By Cheril Vernon The O.C. character who people will most remember is Cam Gigandet (James in Twilight), who played jerk Kevin Volchok who had a thing for Marissa (Mischa Barton) but ended up running her off the road in a fit of rage, leading to her death in Season 3.

By Dan Chmielewski Who is Orange County’s most hackish partisan blogger? Liberal OC blogger Dan Chmielewski (30%, 45 Votes) Red County blogger Matt “Jubal” Cunningham (26%, 38 Votes) Red County blogger Chuck DeVore (24%, 36 Votes) Liberal OC blogger Chris Prevatt (12%, 18 Votes)

By Cheril Vernon This video is a little old but I thought it was worth sharing … if you have a sense of  humor. It’s a short sketch from the Starveillance claymation television series on E! which aired in 2007 showing several celebrity skits. This one features Mischa Barton right after she was killed off The O.C....

Vickie Chang educates us about OC musician Pat Visel and his music that no one has heard. Ryan Ritchie tells us why Long Beach's Mike Monster isn't just pretending to be spooky In News: Plus... • Film reviews of 'Milk', 'Australia' and local special screenings.

By Chris Prevatt Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh From the Orange County Register Jail Audit report lands with a thud November 25th, 2008, 6:37 pm by NORBERTO SANTANA JR. When Sheriff Sandra Hutchens told county supervisors this summer that she was going to set up a comprehensive jail audit, many star...

In March 2004, what caused then-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona to finally reveal his secret, three-year-old personal financial interest in a company tied to one of his wealthy Newport Beach contributors?  R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly)

By Andrew Davey Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh I just spotted this at the always great DFA-OC Weekly Progressive Calendar, and I wanted to share it with all of you. We have a great opportunity now to keep up the momentum of the last two weeks in peacefully protesting the “legal?” discrimination that i...

By Jon Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour PC, OC, KCSG, OC. “Black and three other former Hollinger executives — John Boultbee, Peter Atkinson and Mark Kipnis — were found guilty of fraud in 2007 for funnelling $6.1 million US from the media company.

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By Deidre Woollard Southern California's Orange County is one of the state's wealthiest areas and it is home to many luxury brands but the OC Register reports that the world's largest Lamborghini dealer, Lamborghini Orange County recently closed. The dealership usually sold a full 10 percent of all the La...

By theTVaddict When it comes to pandering, McCain and Obama have nothing on the Big 5 Television Networks. Which is why theTVaddict.com will be spending the next few days highlighting some of the most blatant sweeps casting stunts since Britney appeared on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. First up the CW, complete wi...

Witness cries during ex-OC sheriff's trial   USA - Oct 31, 2008 AP SANTA ANA, Calif.—A defense attorney demanded a mistrial after a witness at former Orange County sheriff Michael Carona's corruption trial broke down on ... OC Sheriff Michael Carona on Trial, Day 2 LAist

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Orange County Register Communications is reducing our workforce by approximately 110 associates, across the organization. Many associates are being notified today, and this process of notification is expected to be complete by Friday, October 31.

By Shawn Price One of them is that Orange County is loaded with good surfers. I mean really fine, world class surfers. Another is that they don’t get enough recognition for simply being athletes. They might sell a lot of boardshorts or look great in the magazines or might even be called artists. But virtually...

What was up with no intro? Hopefully this is not a regualr thing. The one-hour episode? Well, we could certainly put up with that. The Office" experimented with multiple "supersized" episodes last season. Maybe we missed the Dunder-Mifflin gang or maybe this episode was just super-funny,...

By Vance(noreply@blogger.com) The show is based on the book How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls by Zoey Dean and had the original (and better) show title of Surviving The Filthy Rich and while I haven't read these books or any of the original Gossip Girl series (not exactly my demographics), I like that Privileged seems to be he...

By rkburris.nospam@nospam.ocsd.org (John) It is the second largest Sheriff’s Department in California. It is the fifth largest Sheriff’s Department in the United States. “ It’s about programs. We keep the children off the streets. We have  a lower crime rate.” There were some questions from the audience and those included:

By Chris Prevatt Only in Orange County!  On June 19th I wrote about the response from the Orange County CEO’s PR person regarding Carlos Bustamantes’ now notorious comment to Red County Blogger Matt Cunningham/Jubal and LATimes reporter Christian Berthelsen regarding the appointment of Sandra Hutc...

By rkburris.nospam@nospam.ocsd.org (Ryan) That kind of leadership will be much different than Carona's style. Hutchens has yet to announce her command structure, instead meeting last week with, as she says, "captains and above" in an effort to find who she will surround herself with. Carona, in contrast, won special conditions fr...

By Dan Chmielewski Irvine Tattler publisher Stephen Smith has a lengthly diatribe about how Council member Christina Shea’s request for all email lists is legit under the California Public Records act. June 10, 2008 Re:      California Public Records Act Requests, Your Employment as a Lobbyist

By Dan Chmielewski Virginia Senator Jim Webb, who wore his son’s combat books while running against George Allen in 2006, came up with a great idea to support the troops.  Its passed the House and the Senate and now awaits the president’s signature.  Read about it here and there’s more detail after the jump.

By Andrew Davey State Races: 35th Senate- Ginny Mayer 68th Assembly- Ken Arnold 69th Assembly- Jose Solorio He’s proven to us in his first term that he’ll go the distance to support Central OC working families… So for me, Solorio has definitely earned himself a second term.

By Sean H. Mill Dan Chmielewski contributed to this post. Last week I wrote a post here on the Liberal OC concerning the events surrounding the tragic suicide of a 16 year old young man whose parents are both lieutenants with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. The basis of that post was an April 25th Lo...

By Andrew Davey … [A]long Garden Grove’s Main Street—one of the last relics of small-town America in the suburban sprawl that has engulfed Orange County—Sheldon the younger is rapidly becoming a celebrity. Just not in a good way. Last October, the longtime consultant to the City of Garden Grove convince...

By Jubal Instead of engaging in what could easily become a destructive and futile public debate with Ron Campbell over his inflammatory and inaccurate article in today’s Orange County Register, I have chosen to respond directly to each of you and provide you, as I have done in the past, with facts...

By Chris Prevatt The Orange County Register reports this morning: A column prepared especially for the FlashReport by Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach. Public Safety employees in Orange County are paid well, they have good pensions and benefits. and that is the way it should be.

By BuzzSugar Right now, Josh Schwartz is one of the busiest guys in television. The creator of "The OC" has two must-watch shows on the air this fall, "Gossip Girl" on the CW and "Chuck" on NBC. At the TCA press tour this summer, he took some time to talk with me about teen shows, James Bond and the wonders of Ra...

By Jonathan Constantine Jubal and I attended a tour at the OC Jail today, special thanks to OCSD Communications Director Ryan Burris and Deputies Darren Guy and Roberto Chacon who showed us around the facility. Overall, I believe the people of Orange County can be proud of the competence of our law enforcement, an...

By Jubal Marti Buscaglia, who was hired to be the new publisher of the Orange County Register, is "backing out after misrepresenting her educational qualifications." And so the primary was one by a little-known Reagan speechwriter named Dana Rohrabacher. Marti Buscaglia, who was hired to be the...

By Jubal The other appointment is of Susan Caskey (president of the OC chapter of the California Women's Leadership Association) to the OC Harbors, Beaches and Parks Commission. Caskey lives in Laguna Hills in the 5th Supervisor District and will replace Westminster resident Larry Luera, who h...

We were busy enjoying the vocal stylings of Paul Rudd fronting Of Montreal last night, but reader Nathan wrote us about this perfectly absurd OC-styled clip from Saturday Night Live, saying:Nothing makes a death scene like Imogen Heap and slow motion.Sorta like when Marissa offed Ryan'...

The End's Not Near, It's Here (TV) As the Cohen family leaves our TV sets, we look at what happened on the final episode of a pop culture phenomenon.

By Jonathan Toomey S04E14) It's the end of the world as we know it. Well... not really, but it might be the end of Newport Beach. I have to say, I kind of like the idea that the finale Josh Schwartz "always planned to do" for The OC involves an earthquake. It's the ultimate closure for a show that takes place in California...

By Jonathan Toomey The season picks up five months after Marissa's death and all the characters are in different phases from when we last left them. To make up for the loss of Barton's character, Taylor Townsend (Autumn Reeser) and Kaitlin Cooper (Willa Holland) have both been added as full cast members.

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By Lacy Hall Not quite. At the end of the episode, Volchok kidnaps Marissa (is Marissa a total idiot? Who gets in a strange van with sketchy dudes?) and takes her to the pier. Ryan shows up with Johnny and threatens Volchok with a busted bottle of booze (going for that whole, crazy deranged white boy thing a...

By Karina Longworth Meanwhile, Marissa - always one to do the opposite of the right thing - has chosen to repress, repress, repress the fact that Ryan's brother tried to rape her. OF COURSE she has. Because Ryan and Marissa can never be happy together. This is the most star-crossed love story in television histor...

By Kat Parr After a short blip with Nana and her gold-digging boyfriend (read: transparent plot to lure Seth and Ryan away from Newport and into the arms of shuffleboard babes) we are back in familiar territory: Kirsten and Sandy, Seth and Summer, Cal and Julie, Ryan and Summer—all on the rocks, just...

By Kat Parr We won't know if it's a fatal shot until next season, of course, and with Kirsten in rehab and Jimmy back The O.C. writers have given themselves a tabula rasa and a nice dramatic season premiere, that is, the fate of Marissa, post-shooting. Will Sandy step up as her lawyer, or will those crazy ki...

By Karina Longworth Seth and Ryan are watching Teenwolf, and Seth wonders, "How does being a warewolf make you a better basketball player?" Sandy comes in and reports that Trey told the police that Ryan shot him. Sandy asks Ryan if there's anything he hasn't been telling him, and Ryan huffs, "What does it matte...

By Lacy Hall Both of these new characters have the same goal -- to destroy the dynasty that is Ryan Atwood and Marissa Cooper. Or as Dean calls them, "Harbor's most-notorious couple." Apparently, in light of Marissa shooting Ryan's brother last season, some of the parents at Harbor have a problem wi...

By Lacy Hall The reading of Caleb's will was in this episode too. Turns out the richest man in Newport was broke and Julie and Kirsten get nothing. I hate that Caleb was broke. I didn't like it when Rocky lost all his money in Rocky 5 and I don't like Caleb being broke post-mortem. I like my rich people to be rich. C...

By Karina Longworth Filed under: Drama, Games, FOX, The O.C.How many times have you found yourself watching The O.C. and thought, "Gosh, I wish I could play along at home"? Well, now you can. Gameloft is putting out a Sims-style game based on the FOX series, which will "allow players either to assume the role of one o...

By Lacy Hall I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger, but she ain't messing with no broke...(I can't sing the rest cause I'm white). But, it turns out that Charlotte (Jeri Ryan) is not a lesbian after Kirsten's sweet blonde locks, but actually a gold digger. Her entire stint in that rehab center was an evil plo...

By Joel Keller Filed under: Industry, News, Gilmore Girls, The O.C.According to a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, there are twice as many depictions of sex on TV than there was in 1998, when the study was first completed. The Kaiser study counted 3800 scenes where sexual topics were eithe...

By Lacy Hall Filed under: Drama, Talent, The O.C. Apparently, Nicole is itching to get back on television since her bitch fight with Paris put The Simple Life series in the dumpster and since Nicole is good friends with The OC's Mischa Barton....why the hell not?  

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