In "Who's Your Addy?" Matt Coker looks at Adderall. It's hailed as a "miracle drug" for ADHD sufferers. But they're not the only ones using it. One South County clinic is trying to help OC kick "college crack."

In "This Is Your Brain On Adderall" Matt Coker looks for someone to explain to our readers how Adderall actually works, chemically speaking, and finds his own son, Dustin Coker—who not only is a research assistant in a UC Irvine study involving ADHD and psychostimulants, but who also grew up with ADHD.

In "Moxley Confidential" R. Scott Moxley reveals how the OC media is being asked to ignore still-emerging dirt on Carona’s PSR mess at the sheriff’s department.

In "Toeing the Line" Nick Schou interviews perennial Democratic candidate Paul Lucas, who says he’s still in trouble for playing footsie with the Republicans.

Plus...

• The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey You! and Savage Love

• Restaurant reviews of Jaqu's in Huntington Beach and Kasela Grill in Anaheim.

• Culture focuses on Bike Curious at Santa Ana's Go, Rilla! Gallery, Latina Theater Ensemble's New Works Festival, Trendzilla talks Designer Richard Chai, and Game On dissects Game-Changer

• Film reviews of Traitor' 2 and local special screenings

• Music features a review of Costa Mesa locals Japanese Motors, The Long Beach Blues Festival, Rex Reason looks at nightlife maven Sean Francis in Aural Reports; Locals Only listens to Daniel Morones, 'The Situation' and new CD reviews of Conor Oberst, 'Conor Oberst' (Merge) and The Bug, 'London Zoo' (Ninja Tune)

And more daily at OCweekly.com

The Night Shift, Friday 11 p.m.
Work it.
Paradise
1800 E. Broadway
Long Beach, CA
562-590-877

Ray Bush & the BBC Jazz Band, Friday 8 p.m.
Jazz things up.
THE OLDE SHIP PUB & RESTAURANT
1120 W. 17th St.
Santa Ana, CA
714-550-6700

Team Tough Titties Breast Cancer Fundrasier, Saturday 9 p.m.
Cocktail attire and good tunes.
The Pike Bar & Grill
1836 E. Fourth St.
Long Beach, CA
562-437-4453

Laguna Beach Peace Demonstration, Sunday 8 p.m.
Demanding nonviolent solutions to conflict
Main Beach
PCH and Ocean Ave.
Laguna Beach, CA

Shake, Rattle & Pour, Monday 7 p.m.
Get drunk and judge
MOZAMBIQUE
1740 S. Pacific Coast Hwy.
Laguna Beach, CA
949-715-7100

Since we're all staycationing this Labor Day weekend, make yourself useful and show up to Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church in SanTana. That's where SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) members will be leafleting outside from 9 a.m. through 11 p.m. to protest the kid's-glove treatment of convicted boy molester Father Luis Eduardo Ramirez. The SNAP people know it's going to be an ugly scene, being Our Lady of the Pillar parishioners sent more than 2,000 letters of support to Ramirez's presiding judge and the church is almost all-Mexican, and Mexican Catholics are the biggest sheep in the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal after Mater Dei grads. "There has been a HUGE outpouring of support for this priest from parishioners," writes recent Weekly cover girl Joelle Casteix, one of maybe 10 good grads from Mater Dei. "They will not take very kindly to our being there - which means that there are probably a ton of victims who are too scared to talk. The more bodies we can have out there, the better." This Mexican hereby declares it okay to bash Mexicans at Our Lady this weekend over their pedo-priest scandal, so get your beaner-bashing kicks near the corner of Bristol and Sixth!

The company that makes gazillions off its Adderall patent has a message to patients: stop taking Adderall.

But Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC's desire has nothing to do with health concerns chronicled in today's feature, "Who's Your Addy?" It revolves around money. The Basingstoke, England, company's patent expires in 2009, at which time the formula will become available as a less-costly generic drug and Shire's Adderall fortunes will plummet. So Shire in February 2007 paid $2.6 billion to acquire New River Pharmaceuticals and the rights to its ADHD drug, lisdexamfetamine, which now sells under the brand name Vyvanse.

Ty Pennington, the host of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, is currently touring the country promoting Vyvanse on Shire's dime. An admitted ADHD sufferer, Pennington says his focus has improved since switching to the drug in May. "I don't know about everybody else but it works for me," he told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

Shire sales reps have descended on doctor offices to minimize Adderall and push Vyvanse with free 30-day samples for distribution to ADHD patients. Physicians are told Vyvanse has been specially formulated to prevent substance abuse and provide longer lasting effects for ADHD sufferers without adverse Adderall side effects such as teeth grinding, sleeplessness and dramatic weight loss.

But Myomancy.com, a website that monitors ADHD, dyslexia and autism treatments, claims that 10 percent of users taking Vyvanse in company trials stopped due to side effects, much higher than the 2.4 percent of participants who quit during similar Adderall trials.

This morning, the California Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and death-penalty sentence for Dallas Cowboys' fanatic Gunner Jay Lindberg, who celebrated what he saw as a 1996 Super Bowl victory by "America's team" with the savage ambush murder of a Vietnamese American he called "a Jap."

In a 69-page ruling, the justices reviewed and dismissed each of Lindberg's numerous claims that the two special-circumstance findings that put him on San Quentin's State Prison's condemned row were bogus. Instead, the justices concurred with a 1997 Orange County jury's determination that Lindberg had attempted to rob Thien Minh Ly before killing him and that the crime had been racially motivated.

According to the seven-justice panel, "There is substantial evidence" the jury got both findings right.

On Jan. 29, 1996, Ly—a 24-year-old UCLA and Georgetown University scholar who dreamed of being the first Vietnamese American ambassador to his native country—was found dead on the Tustin High School tennis courts. The previous night, after watching the Super Bowl with friends, he'd decided to roller blade alone around 9 p.m. A butcher-knife-wielding Lindberg, 21, and a 17-year-old accomplice trapped Ly, tormented the devout Buddhist, and then executed him. The autopsy report showed Ly had been repeatedly punched, kicked in the face and stomped in the head, as well as stabbed 22 times, mostly in the heart. Overkill was in Lindberg's blood and so he also severed both of his victim's jugular veins. Afterward, the blood-sprayed pair returned to Lindberg's apartment, smoke marijuana, played video games, watched movies, and—no kidding—talked about serving as warriors in a coming intergalactic battle among forces of evil.

Lindberg and Domenic Christopher--both K-Mart employees--were arrested after Lindberg confessed in writing a month later to an out-of-state relative, who notified police. (Christopher received a 25-years-to-life sentence.) During his trial, Lindberg threatened to kill other Vietnamese and mocked Ly's distraught family by wearing a Dallas Cowboys T-shirt in the courtroom.

But in a letter to me last month, Lindberg—who treasured Nazi symbols, ranted against "gooks" and associated with white-supremacist groups before his final arrest—insisted he's "not a monster" and that race and robbery played no role in the killing. He explains away Ly's death as merely a result of his "reckless actions."

Baloney, said the state's highest court. "Based upon the evidence, the jury reasonably could have found that the defendant harbored an intent to steal Ly's property when he knocked Ly to the ground, demanded to know whether he had a car, and put his knife to his throat. . . . Additional evidence showed the defendant's particular racial animus against Asians."

An execution date has not been set.

My in-depth July cover story about the case can be found here.

-- R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly

Boogie Nights, 9 p.m.
Do it.
Que Sera
1923 E. Seventh St.
Long Beach, CA
562-599-6170

Killah Priest (Wu Tang) CD Relaease hosted by Shavo (System of a Down), 8 p.m.
Killa Beats
The Rhythm Lounge
245 Pine Ave.
Long Beach, CA
562-435-4288

Wine Tasting, 5:30 p.m.
Tasteful boozin'
Bayside Restaurant
900 Bayside Dr.
Newport Beach, CA
949-721-1222

Triple Threat Thursdays, 9 p.m.
Karaoke with a twist
Paradise
1800 E. Broadway
Long Beach, CA
562-590-8773

Girls Night Out, 9 p.m.
Bitches welcome
Chronic Cantina
1870 Harbor Blvd.
Costa Mesa, CA

Allen Baylis, you and your fellow nudie burgers just won the right to continue sunbathing in the buff at Trail 6 on San Onofre State Beach. What are you going to do next?

"We'll probably have a barbecue at the beach this weekend."

What, you thought they were going to Disneyland?

Baylis, a Huntington Beach attorney, naturist and city council candidate, made the skimp on the barbie remark to the Register, which got his reaction to Orange County Superior Court Judge Sheila Fell ruling for the Naturist Action Committee in its lawsuit against the state Department of Parks, which was set to enact a nudity ban at Trail 6 beginning this Labor Day weekend.

The suit accused the Parks Department of violating state procedure when they adopted the ban without seeking public feedback. I blogged about the flap here and followed up in print here. Baylis and Co. lodged their objections to that last piece here.

Fell reaffirmed a policy that extended back to the Jerry Brown administration that said nude beachgoers could only be cited if a member of the public complains.

While Parks regroups and figures out how to proceed, anyone who can find the 1,000-foot stretch nude beach is free to let it all hang out. ‘Cause if you don’t let it all hang out, the terrorists win!

Remember the sunscreen.

During Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church Obama-McCain interviews earlier this month, the pastor asked McCain to identify the “three wisest people that [sic] you know that you would rely on heavily in an administration.”

McCain quickly named General David Petraeus and Lindsey Graham, a Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Here was McCain on the third of his four choices: “I think John Lewis . . . [he] was at the Edmund Pettis Bridge, had his skull fractured, continued to serve, continues to have the most optimistic outlook about America. He can continue to teach us all about the meaning of courage and commitment to causes greater than ourselves.”

Over at KDOC’s Daybreak OC, which broadcast the Aug. 16 event live and offered commentary during breaks, the Lewis answer stumped everyone but not necessarily because they disagreed with his choice. Hosts Shally Zomorodi and Pete Weitzner looked dumbfounded. Brett Barbe, the local Republican campaign consultant and a usually on-the-ball fellow who has experience working in our nation’s capital, volunteered lamely that the only John Lewis he knew is the former OC state senator who became disgraced ex-Sheriff Mike Carona’s campaign consultant.

But here’s the really puzzling tidbit: Barbe’s commentary counterpart, Frank Barbaro--head of the OC Democratic Party, a veteran trial lawyer, a Democratic National Convention delegate and a Magna Cum Laude USC graduate—was baffled too.

Who is Lewis (pictured)? Just a monumental historical figure who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement to end segregation. Lewis spoke at the famous 1963 March on Washington when King gave his “I have a dream” speech. A participant in the Freedom Rides (popularized in Hollywood films), Lewis also organized the 1965 non-violent protest across a Selma, Alabama bridge that ended with vicious attacks by redneck state troopers. And he’s been a notable Democratic congressman from Georgia for 22 years.

Shame on you Frank.

-- R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly

Probably the stupidest blog the Orange County Register ever published was one that's not even listed on their graveyard of retired blogs: one that dealt with the new 657 area code overlay. I saw it once or twice last year, and it went like the paper's page count.

But maybe the Reg was onto something--can't tell you how many people in the 714 area code (OG OC, baby!) have complained about dialing 1 even if you're dialing another 714 number. This reminded me of the Simpsons episode where Springfield had to deal with the same issue, and eventually split into two cities, with Homer leading one of them into ruin. Somehow, the Who play a concert to unite the two municipalities again, leading them to perform "Won't Get Fooled Again," since the only songs the Who ever recorded according to Hollywood is that one and "Baba O'Reilly."

I can't seem to find any clip from this episode online, so here's the song with some anime:

White Trash Wednesdays, 9 p.m.
PBR and Coors Light
Johnny's Saloon
17428 Beach Blvd.
Huntington Beach, CA
714-848-0676

Toddler Storytime, 10:30 p.m.
Footsie jammies mandatory.
Barnes & Noble
7881 Edinger Ave.
Huntington Beach, CA
714-897-8781

DJ Josh, 9 p.m.
Down tempo and chill, no Joshin'.
Kitsch Bar
891 Baker St., Ste. A10
Costa Mesa, CA
714-546-8580

The Lubricators, 6:30 p.m.
Slide on in.
Cook's Corner
19122 Live Oak Canyon Rd.
Trabuco Canyon, CA
949-858-0266