Yorba Linda

L.A. Film Festival 2013: Documentaries About the City, From Rappers to the LACMA Rock

L.A. County Hospital, casting directors and Richard Nixon also feature in a fest brimming with nonfiction SoCal films

4.4 Near Yorba Linda: Earthquake Weather?

UPDATE: Shaky days here in L.A. Another 4.5 quake hit at 9:33 a.m., centered near the same place as last night's quake. See more at the bottom. First posted at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday See also: *8.6 Quake Possible in Southern California? A little baby earthquake jolted parts of Southern California toni ... More >>

Nixon Was Gay?!

Richard Nixon might have been the LAest of American presidents, with a political career launched by late Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler, a Western White House in San Clemente, and a presidential library in Yorba Linda. So this news comes with particular interest to us tabloid hounds in ... More >>

Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Feeding People On Their Debut LP And A Particularly Memorable Encounter with the Devil

See also: Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus Plans To Direct A Feature Film On the cover of Feeding People's debut LP, a lifeless pink lady with blue nipples is sprawled out over a three-eyed rainbow-colored lion and a blue devil with blood spilling out of its mouth over a row of tiny jagg ... More >>

Will Wright, Wannabe Hollywood Drug Kingpin in 'Six Degrees of Paris Hilton,' Gets His Wish: Cops Hunt Him for L.A.-to-NY Cocaine Ring

33-year-old Will Wright​Will Wright, one of the most outlandish characters in "Six Degrees of Paris Hilton" -- long-form journalist Mark Ebner's 2009 expose on the nasty, druggy innards of young Hollywood -- is finally seeing the spotlight he craved. "He's always wanted to be a drug kingpin, ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Visits SoCal, Says We Get All the 'Illegals' Because 'Nobody Enforces the Law Around Here'

Joe.​"America's Sheriff" Joe Arpaio was in the area this week to speak at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, and he didn't waste too much time insulting Southern Californians. The Maricopa County, Ariz. lawman known for his support of Arizona's controversial immigration law and for hous ... More >>

Ex-Cop Arrested After Allegedly Posing as Inspector, Getting Free Nude Massage in Orange County

Massage inspector? I don't think so.​Another case of a Bad Lieutenant? Orange County Sheriff's officials say an ex-cop from suburban Chicago allegedly posed as an officer in an effort to get a nude massage. Unfortunately for him, it seems, not only did this particular massage parlor not do th ... More >>

O.C.'s Dana Ray Reynolds Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Following His Own How-To-Tax-Dodge Videos

​Well, you can't blame him for walking the walk (but the feds did): Orange County tax adviser Dana Ray Reynolds sold books and videos about how to avoid paying taxes. Apparently he also took his own advice, which led to prosecution on failure to pay Uncle Sam, according to the U.S. Attorney's ... More >>

Ice Pick Attack In Yorba Linda Ends Harmlessly

​Only funny because no one was seriously injured: A Yorba Linda woman was arrested on suspicion of stabbing her ex-boyfriend and roommate with an ice pick in a church parking lot, Brea police reported today. The victim was leaving a meeting at a Lutheran Church in Yorba Linda Monday night whe ... More >>

Make a Run for the Altar

With immigration reform stalled, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants are entering sham marriages with a little help from their friends

Ex-Ram Tony Zendejas Beats Rape Charge

According to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and other sources, former Los Angeles Rams place kicker Antonio "Tony" Zendejas was acquitted today of rape by a Pomona Superior Court jury. Zendejas, 48, had been accused of two felonies: rape by use of drugs and sodomy by use of drugs. The prosecution al ... More >>

Yorba Linda's Ring of Fires: Still No Reservoir

Years ago Kevin Starr, in the first of his great California history chronicles, wrote of an early 20th-century tendency to view Los Angeles as a modern Rome. "Dependent, like Rome, upon aqueducts," wrote Starr, mimicking this opinion, "Los Angeles should glory in water as an essential symbol of the ... More >>

Statutory Tape: Nixon Library Unspools More Recordings

Marx had Bismark in mind when described the "shallowness characteristic of all successful statesmen," but he may as well have been looking ahead to Richard Nixon. Today the Nixon Library has released a new batch of White House tapes and for my money the thrill is not in listening to the obvious mome ... More >>

Update on Sayre Fire in Sylmar: Biggest Arson Investigation in Los Angeles history?

Updated at 4:53 pm and revised number of homes burned Los Angeles police and fire officials are now floating the chilling possibility that they may find bodies inside the Oakridge Park mobile home neighborhood once they get a handle on the Sayre Fire, still only 10 percent contained. By their calcul ... More >>

Drive, Baby, Drive: Obama Voter's Car Gets a "Drill, Baby, Drill" Paint Job

Practical joke forces liberal to explain to female Prius driver, "It's not my fault!"

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

The Billy Pulpit

The Taming of the Burn

Two Against One

Teenage love and murder in Redlands, California

10 Cents a Life

In the Land of the SUV

In the Land of the SUV Josh Connole meets the FBI

Dream States: The War of All Mothers

Letters

Where the Man Began

The Nixon birthplace at resignation-plus-25

Crash and Burn

Tobacconists report rise in heists to match price hikes

Day of a Locust

Dick Nixon takes on the Pink Lady

Power Player

Ed Roski Jr. owns a piece of the Kings and the Lakers. But his favorite game is hardball