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Meet Wicked Baby Doll: OC's Newest Hip-Hop Outlaw

Wicked Babydoll is coming into her own as a Chicana on the mic. The 23-year-old rapper originally from Los Angeles has three mixtapes to her name with the latest, Words of the Wicked (download here), showcasing her impassioned delivery and hard time rhymes. The collection, laced with dope beats, fea ... More >>

Matthew Warren's Suicide Turns into Self-Serving Referendum on His Father by His Haters and Their Haters

First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones of Matthew David Warren, the youngest son of Rick and Kay Warren of Purpose-Driven Life Fame, who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound this past Friday. There's been an outpouring of support, thoughts, and prayers from ... More >>

Do Mexicans Hate Cubans?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And are all gabachos Mexican-haters?

Calvary Chapel Gets Smackdown From The Daily Beast

It starts to look like more and more mainstream media outlets are starting to cast a skeptical eye on Calvary Chapel, not just on the mothership or founder Chuck Smith, but its bizarre, convenient structure that simultaneously allows Chuckie to claim no responsibility for problem outposts and full a ... More >>

Daniel Edward McDermott, Albuquerque Man, Arraigned for 24-Year-Old Cold Case Rape and Murder

A 44-year-old man charged with the 1988 rape and murder of Buena Park resident Gehimne Chandler is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow at the Central Jail in Santa Ana. Daniel Edward McDermott, faces one felony count of murder with special circumstances. The 44-year-old McDermott, was ... More >>

Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies

Just for the sake of watching all of the Wachowskis' movies

Reeling In the Oughts With '10 Years'

Channing Tatum and co. stake out adulthood

Garden Grove Crime Spree ... ala Breaking Bad?

Far be it for you to suggest we're watching waaay too much Breaking Bad, but a string of recent residential burglaries in Garden Grove has us thinking about the last two episodes of AMC's methtacular drama.Caught-up viewers can probably guess why only certain OC homes are being targeted. For the un- ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Paint Murals on Lowriders?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do they love scratch-off Lotto tickets?

[UPDATED, FULLERTON SIGNING TOMORROW!] First Round of Book Signings Announced for Taco USA!

​UPDATE: Tomorrow, I have my first book signing for the book at the Fullerton Library's main branch on Commonwealth. 7 p.m.--see you there!ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 2: Gentle readers: it gives me great pleasure to announce the first leg of my book tour for Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. ... More >>

[UPDATED, WITH SANTE FE CONFIRMED!] First Round of Book Signings Announced for Taco USA!

​Gentle readers: it gives me great pleasure to announce the first leg of my book tour for Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. I'm burning the midnight coal with both ends of the candle's oil (or however that pinche metaphor goes) putting even more street corners on the agenda, but below ... More >>

Why Are Tucson School Officials Banning Mexican-American Studies?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And how can I help fight those pendejos?

Why Do Mexican Women Sew Their Own Dresses?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And is it true they're uninhibited?

Hatch Chiles to Be Scarcer, More Expensive This Year Because of Drought

I'm currently in New Mexico for...something...and the statewide tradition of roasting just-harvested chiles is beginning anew. Last evening, as I drove down the old Route 66 in downtown Albuquerque (now Central Avenue), the sweet-smoky, full-bodied scent of those enchanting pepper pods getting roast ... More >>

Weird Al's 10 Darkest Moments

​You may know "Weird Al" Yankovic" as the "Eat It" guy (check out his bio on Twitter). After all, until 2006 his parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was his highest charting single. And although he's made a name out of using other artists' songs to write funny stuff, he's gotten a lot of critica ... More >>

What's So Wrong With Calling Santa Ana a Latino City?

​Man, SanTana cracks me up sometimes--okay, ALL THE TIME. The Orange County Register's Andrew Galvin wrote a good piece yesterday ostensibly about efforts by Latino activists to try and persuade the SanTana City Council at this past Monday's meeting to ask its police department to stop impounding ... More >>

Pee-Wee's Is Beach Burger Bingo

[Hole In the Wall] This Huntington Beach fave offers great burgers and hot dogs, and its regional specialties are even better

Are All Mexicans Short and Brown?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, why do Mexican Catholics keep ashes on their foreheads after Ash Wednesday?

Did Newport Beach Sperm Attack Inspire New Mexico Case?

Unacceptable sperm usage​You may recall Michael Kevin Lallana, the 31-year-old Newport Beach financial-services employee who was arrested last year for secretly spiking a female co-worker's water bottle with his sperm.Orange County prosecutors charged Lallana with six misdemeanor counts including ... More >>

Brokencyde: Got Hate?

They may be the most hated band in the world, next to Insane Clown Posse

Five Mexican Christmas Food Traditions That Should Happen Year-Round

​Although I've never liked Thanksgiving, I absolutely love the Christmas holidays--not just because of the whole Nazarene bit, but also because my mom and her sisters prepare foodstuffs we don't have at any other point of the year. Sure, they pat out tamales in numbers big enough to feed an army ( ... More >>

The Mexican Hamburger of Denver: America's Greatest Mexican Meal

​I was in Denver recently, partly to research my coming book, partly to debate former congressman Tom Tancredo on immigration, but really to finally taste the Holy Grail of Mexican-American cookery: the Mexican hamburger. Behold its cheesy, mixed-up glory above, and click after the jump to discove ... More >>

Forget Five Guys Burgers: Why Can't We Get a Blake's Lotaburger?

In retrospect, I should've taken a better picture...​Finally got around to trying the much-hyped Five Guys Burgers and Fries, and the verdict is...eh. Not meh: they make a good burger, better than the chains for the most part, but not as good as In-N-Out by any sense of the imagination. And defini ... More >>

Joseph Polisar, Garden Grove PD Chief, to Resign

​After 34 years in law enforcement Garden Grove Police Chief Joseph Polisar plans to resign his position at the end of the year. According to a press release issued today, Polisar is credited with reducing crime rates in the city to levels "not seen since the 1960's" and for maintaining "high stan ... More >>

The Worst Little Whorehouse Movie

'Love Ranch' not fit for a queen

Bike Boxes Open in Long Beach

Courtesy of City of Long BeachBicyclists feel boxed in--and safer--at this Long Beach intersection.​Long Beach is inviting two-wheelers to check the city's first bike boxes along Second Street at Bayshore and Marina Drive.

[!Ask a Mexican!] Special Cinco-Preguntas Edition

7 Newport Beach Film Festival Bottom Feeders

To gear up local filmgoers for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30, the Weekly compiled "10 for the Tenth," brief reviews of some of the best festival features, documentaries and shorts we pre-screened for your consumption. We a ... More >>

Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-is ... More >>

Babies, Greeks and More at Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's New Works Festival

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Tortilla Contest Edition

[Sprawl of Sound] Swoon to 'Love Story' and the Uncategorizable Hecuba

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Dia de los Impuestos Edition

¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzu

To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was "effective the feast day o ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!(r)

"The same women who complain about ‘sleazy’ Mexican men go to France and giggle about ‘how flirtatious’ French men are"

!Ask a Mexican!(r)

'Rude to sing along? Never'

Devil's Music

Sin Serenade

Ask a Lawsuit

Oregon Man suspended for showing !Ask a Mexican!to coworker

!Ask a Mexican!

'If you fight one bean, you fight the whole burrito!'

!Ask a Mexican!

Special New Mexico Edition

'No, This Is Not Gregs Mom.'

Eight Days

Less Than Zero

E. Elias Merhige Makes a Wrong Turn

Checklist, Please!

Food at the Orange County Fairpart yum!

When the 50s Werent Evil

In which the Eyeliners travel back to the Eisenhower era with the Ramones as their soundtrack

A Guide to our Advertisers

Tight Like That

Discovering Americas filthy little (recorded) secret

Going Ballistic

Headlines from around America

Eat Cheap

Part Two

Locals Only