Dwight Manley: The Brea King? Illustration by Paul Nagel. Photo by Federico Medina. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, once a young apprentice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and who later ran “Rainbow ...

The logo for Newport Beach’s Helmsman Ale House is a sea captain with a beard of tentacles gripping a ship’s wheel. I don’t know what his official name is, but I can’t think of a better mascot for ...

This is the second of two parts. Click here for part one. Loveline was a hit show from the moment I created, hosted and first aired it in 1982. For nine years, it was on late on Sunday nights and was ...

Frederal Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents escort a birth-tourism suspect. (All photos courtesy of HSI) Federal authorities were busy Thursday, arresting three alleged birth tourism ...

Hitler is heiled. Then chaos ensues. (credit: Slim Shoots Bands) One great thing about the recently revamped Garden Grove Amphitheater is that they know how to throw an awesome punk show. This past ...

As an 11-year-old kid in the summer of 1981, life was, by all discernible metrics, pretty cool. Even in the nascent months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, very little seemed of consequence—or even ...

Standing on what was a quiet orange grove more than half a century ago is a small faux grass hut. A diverse crowd gathers outside: tourists wearing mouse ears, children savoring the sweet tang of a ...

Van Der Mark and pals in Santa Monica (YouTube Screenshot) Gracey Van Der Mark somehow remains on the Huntington Beach finance commission even after a controversy erupted around her online bigotry ...

Van Der Mark yells at a woman in Santa Monica (YouTube screenshot) The ranks of Orange County’s alt-right are fractured and in decline a year after the infamous Battle of Berkeley where figures made a ...

The buildings that have stood at what’s now 16278 Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach or Surfside (call it what you want, just don’t DARE call it Huntington Beach around a local) have weathered ...

The small, circular island at the center of the iconic traffic circle at the heart of Old Towne Orange is one of the town’s most prominent celebrities (step aside, Amber Lynn). The Plaza or the Circle ...

As he walked briskly along a downtown Santa Ana sidewalk for our first meeting on a toasty, cloudless February 2014 afternoon, criminal defense attorney Scott Sanders’ brain generated waves of ...