Two cities. Two very different vibes. And on any given Friday night, the debate between Downtown Santa Ana and Long Beach gets surprisingly heated among Orange County regulars. Both cities punch well ...

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 ...

A towering figure in the United Methodist Church for decades, Fullerton pastor John McFarland’s stature came crashing down. A conservative preacher who favored a split in the United Methodist Church ...

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 ...

Koo’s Café is one of those places that has enough history to fill a few books. If you ask 10 different people about their experiences with the place, chances are that you’ll end up with 10 completely ...

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 ...

For plenty of punk bands, reinvention is the mother of necessity. Reliving the glory days by trading on the band name that brought them popularity is a way to come out of retirement with guns blazing.

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 ...

When Anthony Armer—better known as the formerly anonymous thrill-seeker 8booth—flew through the cold night air after leaping off the top of Laguna Beach’s Pacific Edge Hotel late last December, he had ...

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 ...

A husky, bearded Jonathan Larson walked into Judge Thomas M. Goethals’ Santa Ana courtroom on June 29 wearing an expressionless face and a black suit with a bulge from the firearm holstered at his ...

In tomorrow’s ¡Ask a Mexican!, I tackle the origins of the anti-Mexican slurs “spic,” “wetback,” and “beaner.” The first two are well-known among etymologists, with long, sordid histories documented ...