Starting in 1923, Sam’s Seafood was a staple of Southern California beachfront dining. What began as a bait shop opened by Greek-immigrant brothers Sam and George Arvanitis in Seal Beach evolved ...

The El Torito Grill in Anaheim is nearly empty. It’s around 3 in the afternoon—the late-December rains ended just hours earlier, and dinnertime’s first brave diners trickle in. Most hit the ...

After eating dinner and watching television at his girlfriend’s Santa Ana apartment on Spurgeon Street, 17-year-old Charles Honea went to sleep outside on the second-floor balcony, his makeshift ...

The guy is drunk. Obviously drunk. Shitfaced. Instead of joining the 10-person line politely waiting to use the men's room at Disney California Adventure, the twentysomething in an oversized T ...

A Brea physician, who is being prosecuted in a baby’s death and for being part of an alleged $100 million workers compensation fraud scam, recently had his medical license restricted pending the ...

There's lots of bizarre lore surrounding the legend of Walt Disney. Just off the top of our heads, we've heard he's a Communist (despite him being a founding member of the anti-communist Motion ...

Last week, NPR inspired a lot of foodie hand-wringing with a post about an interview that superstar chef Rick Bayless did with a public-radio outfit regarding whether it was okay for a gabacho ...

Jeff Hakman and Bob McKnight were worried—they couldn’t get the trunks quite right. For weeks during the latter half of 1976, the twentysomethings had fumbled with sewing machines in a Spartan ...

The son of ranchera icon Vicente Fernández (who'll be in part dosof this list), Alejandro represents a dying breed: the ranchera singer. Because while the genre is still beloved in Mexico, few ...

To properly orient infamous talk-show host Wally George within the history of Orange County, it's best to paraphrase the introduction of a fellow pop-culture icon with a cult following. So, with ...

Nick’s on 2nd’s El Jefe breakfast burrito. Photo by Morgan Edwards Whereas last year, our Brunch Guide paid tribute to our favorite old-school greasy spoon eateries, we wanted to get even more ...

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 ...