You may recall the story of Miguel Ruiz Fabian, the 24-year-old former intern at the Santa Ana Public Works Department who had a habit of taking cell phone videos of other men in the toilets while in the employ of City Hall. He's now been sentenced to six months in jail for his crimes. more ›

This is a little out of our jurisdiction, but we love a good techie-perv-news item: A 24-year-old intern at the Santa Ana Public Works Department has been charged with using his cellphone camera to videotape other guys peeing and stuff in adjacent bathroom stalls. Miguel Ruiz Fabian has been charged with 23 misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and "unlawful viewing" — he actually had 64 separate videos stored on his phone, and somebody caught him. more ›

God, sometimes we love Orange County. It's such a parody of itself at times, which we admire. Especially when it comes to brilliance like the following found over at Laughing Squid. You see, the city of Santa Ana (oy) wants to help parents determine, via the graphic above, whether or not their child is a rat bastard tagger. The city of Santa Ana's site explains their accusatory and unfair image, along with the final word as to what is and is not art, thusly: more ›

Reporting from spa-side in Santa Ana, it's your American Football Spectacular preview of the next rung of pain on the agony ladder that is the 49ers' '07 season. more ›

Whether you like it or not, SoCal is a part of us. So, this one is going out to our lower half: stay safe, San Diego and SoCal. more ›

We are titled Gastronomique, and have to once in a while live up to the quiet sophistication of haute cuisine. So we went to the Fancy Food Show with great expectations. These were quickly dashed as we realized the Fancy Food emporium happened to be the convention floor of the Moscone center: it is as refined as plucking hair out of your nose. To make things worse, our plan to use a baby stroller as a wheelbarrow to haul out as much free samples as possible, was smashed up in a million little pieces as well: taking samples outside is verboten, and kids are not allowed, please move on to the day care and hand them the toddler and $10/hour. more ›

Did you feel that? At 10:15 this morning, the Paso Robles/Parkfield area, about 150 miles south of San Jose, was at the epicenter of a 5.8 quake on the San Andreas, and 4.0-5.0 aftershocks a few minutes later. more ›