Dr. Damion Valletta’s professional path reflects a seamless blend of passion, precision, and purpose. From an early age, he knew his calling would involve helping others and being of service, and this ...

Gurhan Kiziloz, known as G, the founder of Lanistar, used to go out constantly, hitting the clubs, hosting parties, attending movie premieres and HBO-televised prizefights. He was a presence on the ...

Recent breakthroughs in quantum physics have unlocked extraordinary possibilities, reshaping not only the future of technology but also the potential for human evolution. One such milestone occurred ...

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 ...

Cookie created by Amanda Bonzagni of Third Moon Bakery for OC Weekly. Photo by Federico Medina For those unfamiliar with cottage food, the California Homemade Food Act passed a bill allowing the sale ...

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 ...

Orange County prosecutors have called Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders crazy, paranoid, unhinged and a conspiracy theorist, leading the local daily newspaper several years ago to label him ...

There’s an old newsroom aphorism from which all Americans living in this Bronze Age of the Internet might profit: “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.” Translation: if you’re a ...

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 ...

With a design of a mountain range, tent, and an axe, a shirt for sale on The Right Brand’s online store seems as innocuous as the clothing company’s name. There’s no affront fascist imagery but the ...

If you want to see how rising sea levels will change Orange County over the course of this century, you have to go to Balboa Island. For much of the 19th century, what we now call Balboa Island was ...