Give me a T for Texas, give me an L for Tennessee.
That's L as in lawsuit, which is what Entrepreneur Media Inc. has brought in federal court against a Nashville nonprofit in the Irvine-based magazine company's never-ending legal war to protect its trademark rights.
By describing the two boys who died along with three girls in a Newport Beach Memorial Day crash as "obsessed," "Middle Eastern immigrants" who "spoke Arabic together when they hung out, which was constantly," is the Associated Press displaying cultural insensitivity?
Driver Abdulrahman Alyahyan, R.I.P.
If not, asks a media watchdog, why did the AP not report on the ethnicity, languages and country of origin of the female victims? The international news service reveals driver Abdulrahman Alyahyan, 17, was from Saudi Arabia and passenger Nozad Al Hamawendi, 17, was from Iraq. One assumes from the surnames, but not AP, that Cecilia Zamora, 17, and sisters Robin Cabrera, 17, and Aurora Cabrera, 16, are Latinas.
A former foreclosure specialist at mortgage giant Fannie Mae's Irvine office was caught dead to rights accepting an $11,200 kickback from an Arizona real estate broker while a second employee of that office claims she was fired for trying to expose the illegal payments, according to a published report.
As editor of this infernal rag, I have a hard policy about awards: screw' em. I'm convinced that most national judges will always pass us over and not even bother with our stories because they assume we suck because of our OC pedigree. So I tell my colleagues to only truly concentrate on three contests: those run by the LA Press Club, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, and the OC Press Club.
And I'm proud to announce we've done great in the first two.
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Who did better work identifying Kwang Choi "K.C." Joy as the suspected murderer of Maribel Manriquez Ramos? Police investigators or a Yelper?
There's no doubt police quickly had 54-year-old Joy in their sights, as the suspect himself admits in a bit.
But someone on Yelp got clued in before Joy's arrest was announced.
It's a good thing Lindsay Lohan blew off Morningside Recovery for the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage because the Newport Beach rehab may have closed with her in it!
Following an Orange County Superior Court judge's preliminary ruling that the Lido Village location violates city law, Newport Beach is now going back to court to force the closure of Morningside and six other rehabs.
You have a day left to bid on a piece of Dita Von Teese, the burlesque superstar who went by Heather Renée Sweet when she knocked around University High School in Irvine. It's not a smooth, milky white body part up for auction on eBay but the stunning beauty's French blue, 1939 Packard 120 sedan. 
Orange County fire officials recently held a press conference to go over their strategies and, more importantly, warn the public about an ever-earlier fire season. The Orange County Register covered this, as it did Southern California's recent wildfires, but a media watchdog saw a huge hole in the coverage.
Who knew you could use old issues of OC Weekly for something other than birdcage liner! Jenny Porrett, a fashion design student at Fullerton College found a way to preserve them forever instead--50 copies, to be exact. Recently, she was asked to participate in a design completion called OC Fashion Showcase. The designers had to create a piece using recycled materials and show them on the runway at the OC Mix. 
You never know how these film festivals are going to play out. There have been years when it seems as if I've seen documentaries and action-sports films at the expense of feature-length dramas, comedies and other genres. This year, the opposite is true.
Based on past Newport Beach festivals, I can rest assured there has been a solid slate of docs for 2013. But I can only say with certainty that ... with only hours to go on this final day to change my mind ... Terms and Conditions May Apply is the best I have seen.
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