Subject: America's Second Harvest

• To Do Tonight - 10/11

  23RD ANNUAL FOOD, WINE & MICRO BREW FESTIVAL, 5:30pm Enjoy a sampling of some of the finest cuisine from Orange County’s restaurants. There will also be live music and dancing. Contributions benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, Crate & Barrel/Macy's Home Store wing www.feedoc.org/FoodWineEvent/festindex.html VIBE DINNER GALA, 7pm The Vietnamese International Bridging Expo kicks off with a dinner tonight, followed by an exposition October 12-13.

  October 11, 2007

• Bruce Springsteen at Honda Center: Finger-lickin' good!

  (Warning: rambling diatribe ahead on Bruce Springsteen that may or may not make sense, but that's what blogs are for, no?) I’ve had moments of superfreak Springsteen fandom before. The bumper sticker on my car that proclaimed AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY GOD CREATED SPRINGSTEEN. The time I rented a car for one day (cost: $155.78) on my first trip to New York City in 1989 and drove down to Asbury Park to pocket a few splintered pieces of the wooden boardwalk, and to see where the “Tunnel of Loveâ€

  April 10, 2008

• Shot in the Arm

  April 1, 1999

• In Search of... Skatejam2000

  June 8, 2000

• Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. Has a Website!

  A couple of months ago, my pal, religious-right funder extraordinaire Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr., responded to my offer of blogging for Navel Gazing with the exciting news that he and his company, Fieldstead & Co., would soon launch a website complete with blog. A couple of days ago, under the headline "The Notorious Fieldstead Website," Ahmanson sent me this email:I just discovered that the Fieldstead website, fieldstead.com, has been open for business since November 1st! Anything on it is pub

  March 18, 2009

• A Look at the Orange Diocese's Previous Head Aztlanistas

  Why is this man smiling?I wish I could say it is an April Fools' joke that the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association is going through with its reception for newly ordained Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Cirilo Flores despite him never quite getting around to denouncing or disciplining pedo-priests while serving on the diocese's clergy personnel board. At least the president-elect of the OC HBA, Carlos Colorado, has the guts to denounce the cover-up of the rapes of innocents, something that n

  April 1, 2009

• Shout Wipes!

  June 12, 2008

• See MirrorMask, Help the Hungry

  October 6, 2005

• This Week in Southern Comfort

  September 15, 2005

• Lifestyles of the Rich and Pious

  A Tour of the Orange Dioceses Most Transubstantiastic Homes

  September 16, 2004

• RODMAN REELED IN

  January 13, 2000

• Yo Quiero Mocha Java

  December 3, 1998

• Stars Of Santa Barbara--And Other Upcoming South Coast Plaza Wine Events

  Charlie Palmer's monthly 50 for 50 sell-off, with bargains aplenty, has come around again. It's this Saturday, June 13, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, in the Next Vintage Wine Shop.Antonello Ristorante has started a "wine mixer" once a month, featuring eight wines for $30 per person, followed by a sale of wines at retail prices. The next one, showcasing a trio of Napa Valley wineries, takes place on Friday, June 26, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Reservations are required: call (714) 751-7153--as is business ca

  June 9, 2009

• Talk Talk: KCRW Music Director and 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' Host Jason Bentley (Part 1)

  Deadly handsome man.Jason Bentley, pictured, hosted Metropolis on noted Santa Moniac-based public radio station KCRW for 16 years, before taking over on December 1 of last year as both music director and host of the long-running and beloved Morning Becomes Eclectic.He'll be DJing at, of all places, South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa this Wednesday, June 24 as part of the "Stars of Santa Barbara" event, a wine-tasting benefiting the  Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. Tickets are $65.So

  June 22, 2009

• KCRW's Jason Bentley to Appear at...South Coast Plaza?

  Jason Bentley (seen looking very sly in that picture over there) took over as host of Morning Becomes Eclectic--and KCRW music director--on December 1 of last year, but though the taste-making Santa Monica-based public radio station's signal covers Orange County comfortably, Bentley hasn't had the chance to make it out here recently.That changes next Wednesday, June 24, with Bentley up in our area for the first time since taking over from the venerable Nic Harcourt. He'll be DJing the "STARS of

  June 18, 2009

• Edwards University Details Opening Plans for 'It Might Get Loud'

  ​It Might Get Loud is a documentary starring Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White, talking about the history of the electric guitar. It's also directed by Davis Guggenheim, who won an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth. So, yeah, it sounds pretty cool.It opens in just seven theaters nationwide tomorrow (it'll gradually roll out across the country in the next two months), but luckily, one is the Edwards University Town Center 6, across the street from UC Irvine. To mark this occasion, the theater's

  August 13, 2009

• 6th Annual Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest

  August 27, 2009

• The T-Plan Diet: Skip A Meal Today And Donate The Savings

  ​Started earlier this year by San Luis Obispo resident Tim Blair, the monthly "Twitter For Food" appeal is gaining momentum, thanks to the mega social networking site.Blair's request is simple: That we each skip a meal on the first of each month, and donate the cash we save to a worthy food-related organization (for a list of suggested ones, see the "World Hunger Links" section of the website; the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County is included.)So... who's up for the challenge? Aside fr

  October 1, 2009

• Pumpkin Giveaway at the Great Park Tomorrow

  Wikicommons​Sure, the Irvine Great Park may seem like an inexorably stalled vanity project for Irvine's longtime political don. It may be tainted by scandals, and we may be a little suspicious about how soon and how well the $65 million dollar construction its board just approved will be executed.But... pumpkins!

  October 23, 2009

• Turkey Trot

  November 19, 2009