5 Best Music Videos from Newport Beach Film Fest's Program Premiering Tonight

Categories: Film, Wacky Vids

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Tonight at 8 at The Triangle, the Newport Beach Film Festival debuts its Music Videos program, which is part of the three-year-old Music Series of features and documentaries that focus on musicians. Confession time: I had my doubts about the video program when I first heard about it. Who wants to see something shot for the small screen on the big screen, right? But after viewing a DVD screener graciously supplied by the festival's Bojana Sandic, I can honestly state my thinking was whack.

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[UPDATED with I.D.:] Camp Pendleton Marine Road Rager Sgt. Joshua Brightman was an Online Video Star Already

Categories: TV, Wacky Vids
See the update at the end of page 2 with a national TV program identifying the raging Marine and confirming he's also featured in the school assembly video.

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ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 4, 1:29 P.M.: San Diego television news stations say they know who an unhinged Marine shown in cell phone video from a Camp Pendleton road rage incident Monday afternoon is, but they are only identifying him as a Purple Heart recipient pending formal charges from military brass.

But that has not stopped others from providing a name and rank of the jarhead. What? No serial number?

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[VIDEO:] Family Dog of Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly Kills Sea Lion in Laguna Beach

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Former astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife Gabrielle Giffords have become national spokespeople for gun control since the former congresswoman out of Arizona was nearly shot to death in a January 2011 assassination attempt that took six lives and injured 11 others. Now the high-profile couple finds themselves on the other end of deadly victimization, as a bulldog mix belonging to Kelly's daughter/Giffords' stepdaughter reportedly killed a sea lion near Montage resort in Laguna Beach.

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[VIDEO:] Footage of TSA Test Flight Allowing Bats, Clubs and Small Knives Aboard Jetliner

Categories: Wacky Vids
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that as of April 25, airline passengers will be able to carry on board such previously forbidden items as small knives, golf clubs, hockey sticks, souvenir baseball bats and other sports equipment that currently must be checked. The Weekly has obtained exclusive video of the first test run with the policy change.

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10 Who Have Been or Could be Mistaken for Manhunt Subject Christopher Jordan Dorner

Thanks to Facebook, fan sites and law-enforcement alerts, it seems as if we have seen every known photo and video of Christopher Jordan Dorner created over the past decade or so.

But that hasn't stopped lookiloos, his hunters and conspiracy theorists from confusing the 33-year-old with a whole bunch of people who are NOT the triple-homicide suspect.

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[VIDEO:] Whale and Dolphins Put On Another Visual Feast for Capt. Dave and His Passengers

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Not quite a whale doing the backstroke in your soup, it was still a rare spectacle none the same Monday when a whale and dolphins were seen playing together in front of passengers and crew on a Dana Point Harbor sightseeing boat.

"It was pretty amazing," remarked eyewitness Patti Soltero of Eastvale. "Definitely a lifetime experience."

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[VIDEO:] Local Waters Overrun (Overswum?) by "Dolphin Stampede"

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You may have seen the reports on the recent giant squid invasion in Orange County waters.

We included video of this from one boat operator out of Dana Harbor.

Now a second has posted an eye-opening video of its own, but it's not of giant squid wreaking havoc but a "dolphin stampede."

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[VIDEO:] Giant Squid is the Dana Wharf Star But Its Catcher Also Gives a Strong Performance

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Videos of sea life taken from aboard Dana Wharf Sport Fishing boats often go viral, with 11 million YouTube views to date.

The star of the latest out of Dana Harbor is supposed to be one of the giant Humbolt squids plucked from the surface of Orange Coast waters in recent weeks, but we would award a best supporting role to a non-squid.

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[VIDEO:] All is Too Bright in Fountain Valley

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We're no Grinches when it comes to homes decked out with lights for the holidays but, good God, the display along Apache River in Fountain Valley's Greenbrook tract must be stopped. Neighbors are used to homeowner Jan Stewart going all out--last year's display included 54,000 LED lights--but this year's "Disco Santa" features lasers, a fog machine, arches in the driveway, 65,558 programmable RGB LED lights flashing to such Christmas-y music as the Village People's "Macho Man."

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Who are Tito Ortiz and Jenna Jameson Gonna Call?

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The Royer Mansion in Orange, Fairhaven Cemetery in Santa Ana and John Wayne's old tub the Wild Goose in Newport Harbor have company when it comes to being well-known haunted places in Orange County.

It's the Huntington Harbour home that Tito Ortiz and Jenna Jameson either share or shared depending on the current state of their relationship as evidenced by their tweets.

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