Past Stories
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17
Cathedral City’s crazy horndog Republican Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia—who Governor Grab-Ass last month dubbed a “hot-blooded Latina”—lets a classroom full of La Quinta High stud...
WISH. HOPE. PRAY.
A short time before she was murdered, Kayla Lorrain Wood wrote a letter to her grandmother in Oregon.
“I don’t think I’m going to be able to get visits with any (of my) aunts,” she wrote. “I wish, ...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Rundown can be a tad tardy at times, but when a story only breaks on a handful of websites and the MSM fails to pick up on it, hey—it’s gotta be news to some IE peeps. Anyway,…
LOOKING FOR ALT-FUEL?
In the past, the phrase “alternative fuel” has conjured images of hippies raving about Henry Ford’s deal with precursors of Big Oil to abandon plans to run his Model T on flex fuels. More recently it’s e...
NO MEDICINE ALLOWED
In a somewhat paradoxical decision, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has voted to uphold law and order by defying a state law that’s been on the books for 10 years. Normally, such a stance might seem ridiculous, ...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Ex-Congressman Mark Foley (R-NAMBLA) is such a closeted, oversexed scuzzball that the only job he’ll be able to land will be on the Colton city council.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Connie Soto, at...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
“That may be brutal/May be gory/But whatever else it is/It’s my story”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
It’s the attack of the smoking Nazis! At least in Murrieta, where last night th...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
Rundown’s fave Google search this week has been “Republican sex scandals,” what with all the gratuitous cock talk going on inside the (unbuckled) Beltway. Of course, there have been buttload...
ENOUGH ALREADY!
Things are getting better for Middle-Eastern Americans in the Inland Empire, says 52-year-old activist Reza Tehrany, despite the guy screaming “God Bless America and fuck you!” from his new gas-guzzling sport utilit...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Straight from the so-obvious-why-is-this-even-news? file comes word that—get this—rich people live longer than poor people! A county-by-county study published in the online science journal PLoS...
STAY TUNED . . .
Where Would Jesus Live?
A north Fontana pastor DC Tomas was among the throng of tract home property owners who passionately petitioned the Fontana Planning Commission last week. His sermon was quick and the propaganda fi...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
The 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records is out, and there, listed among such intellectual detritus as World’s Longest Ear Hair and Most Successful Parasitic Worm (Human), are the accomp...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 29
The Daily Show in reruns. Again.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30
KB Homes (the real estate developers) and Martha Stewart (the bitchy, horse-faced homemaking queen/convicted felon) announce the opening of the 125...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Happy birthday to the whitest white guy ever, songwriter Stephen Bishop!
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
If we ever saw some assmunch on a deafening motorcycle zipping down a public street and popping wheelie...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21
The official dates for next year’s Coachella bake-fest are announced, and every hotel immediately sells out. Okay, not really, but if you want a decent bed and a hot shower (as opposed to that one yea...
IN SEARCH OF . . .
There’s a new sheriff in InlandEmpiretown—a mob squad, some might say—calling itself the Private Police Force, and it’s decided to pick up where they feel the local and federal governments have left off:...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28
As news arrives that 20-year-old Jeromy D. West has just become the 53rd Inland Empire resident to be killed in the war in Iraq—that calculates out to 1.8 percent of the 2,883 U.S. deaths since ...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23
Rep. Mary Bono and her Democratic challenger David “Not Lee” Roth spar during a meeting of the Riverside Press-Enterpr...
¡ASK A MEXICAN!
Dear Mexican:Is Lou Dobbs right when he says that close to 80 hospitals in California have been closed down because of the illegals, or is he lying?
—Cabrónes No Necesitamos
Dear CNN: Dobbs is right to a certain point,&he...
Norman Mailer
This past Saturday, author Norman Mailer died of kidney failure at 84 years old, which marks the first time in his career that failure succeeded in stopping him—at least physically. Mailer led an extraordinary life, havin...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
A long and vicious battle to become City Attorney of San Bernardino comes down to the wire as incumbent Jim Penman holds off local attorney Marianne Milligan and Mayor Pat Morris in a race that so captivated...
ENDA the Conversation
Last week, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act was pushed through the US House of Representatives en-route to the Senate (and assured veto by President Bush). The bill’s goal is to ensure that sexual orientation cannot ...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
The people of Barstow awake in a town that somehow feels a little bit freer—stranger, but freer—after last night’s meeting of the city council reaffirmed a citizen’s right to address ...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2
Standing beneath a huge American flag on the steps of the Riverside County Historic Courthouse, Rod Pacheco becomes the first new Riverside County district attorney in 24 years—and boy, is he ever ready...
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, APRIL 17
What’s the worst job in Barstow—even worse than slingin’ cholesterol at that humongous McDonald’s? Apparently, it’s being a cop. Officers quit the Barstow Police force so often th...
The Vault Fought the Law
The club was filled with young, dimly glowing faces, mulling around and chatting last Friday night. Lake Elsinore band Ready For Vegas set their gear up on stage, while attendants collected donations to ship to the troops in Ir...
¡ASK A MEXICAN!
Dear Mexican: We were in a restaurant the other day eating some refried beans and green chili, when I overheard some gringos in the next booth making fun of Mexicans. One thing they said which really made me mad was,…
THE RUNDOWN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
Judge Robert Spitzer is removed from the Riverside Superior Court bench for gross neglect of his duties, and the people on the state judicial oversight panel who made the ruling weren’t kidding. Spitzer...
