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Andrew Tonkovich

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2012

    OC Bookly in Little Armenia and West Covina: Not Orange County. Elsewhere. (But Close!)

    This modest blog's ostensible focus is OC reading, writing, literary people and generally what the highly-opinionated Mr. Bib deems bookly about our benighted, beatific and beloved county but, of course, no county is an island entire of itself, every county is a piece of the continent, a part of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2012

    UC Irvine MFA Writers: Your Clip-and-Save Review

    The end of the academic year approaches, which finids Mr. Bib looking forward to the arrival of annual literary journals sponsored by local colleges and universities. Alas, The Ear, Irvine Valley College's magazine is long gone as, it appears, is Orange Coast Review, out of OCC. Still UC Riverside p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2012

    Reading, Writing and Registering: Mr. Bib Goes All Civic on You!

    With springtime arrive the starter tomato plants at Home Depot, the County worker with frisky young mosquito fish for the bathtub pond, the cheerful UPS man with delivering new books, and the democratic parade that is the renewed political season, with signature gathering and voter registration and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2012

    Best of the LA Times Book Fest: New California and Old, and Bruce, too!

    Mr. Bib caught up with friends, and met new ones, at last weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC. I'd like nothing better than to do that every weekend. Imagine: a world where the value of literacy, poetry, science, the arts, civic participation is assume, despite or in opposition to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    OC Bookly at the LA Times Festival of Books

    I've attended nearly all of the previous 16 years of the annual Los Angeles Times books festivals, this one again on the campus of USC. There was that one year I missed, when the bibliochild was born and some friends, fellow writers and Santa Monica Review volunteers staffed the SMR booth, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Mi Taco es su Taco: How Mexican Food Conquered America

    I finally visited the snazzy corporate offices of the OC Weekly last week, to interview my editor, Gustavo "¡Ask a Mexican!" Arellano. Despite writing for years for the county's favorite alt-weekly, I'd conducted only an email relationship with the staff and editors. I arrived in person to tape my ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2012

    What's Good for the Michigander: UCI Librarian Catherine Palmer on Bender, Trollope & Egan Not-so-Much

    Praise the spells and bless the charms, I find April in my arms. It's official National Poetry Month and this, week National Library Week. Good times! I'm reading my OC Weekly editor's new book, an unlikely and yet terrific tribute to tacos by the Studs Terkel of food, Mr. Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2012

    OC Bookly: Spring Forward. Fall Behind. Ask a Librarian!

    ​The canyons and meadows are greening up. The sun lingers in the afternoon sky. Literary Orange and the LA Times Festival of Books are right around the corner.  Springtime, when a middle-aged man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and the books arrive.  Lots of 'em.No problem! Br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2012

    Poems to an Imaginary Friend: On Collier Nogues and David Hernandez

    Stood in line with all variety of art lovers for the Richard Diebenkorn show at OC Museum of Art last Sunday, a long line, eager fans, and admission free that morning. We are meant to understand that RD's work is elaborate construction, puzzling out of forms, and that living in Ocean Park, CA has le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2012

    OC Bookly Interview: Victoria Patterson

    This week, class-conscious literary star and local girl makes good Victoria Patterson makes bad, very bad, or at least naughty in this, OC Bookly's first author interview. Patterson, whose take on alienation, greed and South County luxury-life mores comes with plenty of winning characterization, sty ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2012

    OC Bookly: OC Bookstores, Part I--You Should See What It's Like in There

    The Bibliofella (see photo, right) never passes up even the least opportunity to invoke his earliest literary heroes, writers whose work helped transform the goofy adolescent I once was into, well, the adult goof I am today, a person for whom the truth-telling of novels, short stories, essays and po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2012

    OC Bookly: Literary Orange, and the Jim Brown (Not the Football One) Diaries

    ​This week the Bibliofella previews, anticipates and otherwise promotes Orange County's upcoming annual spirng literary wingding, the weirdly named Literary Orange. Not Orange Julius or A Clockwork Orange or Orange Sunshine, which might be other great one-day conferences about, respectively, a fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2012

    Waiting for Righty: Hey, Kids, Three Fun Books on Conservatives!

    Young Noam with Mom and Dad​ I considered titling this week's review "Conservatism for Dummies" but that seemed unnecessarily cruel. As someone raised with your basic anti-social, self-hating, ahistorical so-called "conservative" values, I enjoy reminding myself and others of both my shame as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2012

    OC Bookly: Polish (No) Joke: Starring Madame Modjeska (and Me)

    ​Fourth grade. Early 1970s. Encouraged by his Polish-German mother, the young Bibliofella made the serious mistake of announcing his proud heritage at elementary school, just as so-called "Polack jokes" arrived to poison the zeitgeist, no doubt some sick temporary psycho-social transference move b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2012

    Introducing Our New Weekly Books Column with the Bibliofella!

    ​Gentle readers: It gives me great pleasure to introduce our new weekly column on books, written by longtime Weekly contributor, UC Irvine egghead, and host of KPFK-FM 90.7's Bibliocracy Radio, Andrew Tonkovich! Every Sunday morning, Andrew will write about books written by Orange County authors o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2012

    Sunday OC News Notes: Was DA Tony Rackauckas "Pathetic" in Pursuit of an Accused Serial Killer?

    Recent highlights in Orange County news from various media outlets or blogs:​TheLiberalOC discusses the long reach of its bombshell story on state Assembly candidate Michele Martinez's controversial train conversation related to a California Indian tribe and campaign support.OCPoliticsBlog calls D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps Brings Hate Crusade to OC The Laramie Project Staging

    ​Fred Phelps' "God Hates Fags" crusade comes to Santa Ana Saturday night for another demonstration of a play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, whose funeral was infamously picketed by the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas.The threat has prompted a downtown Santa Ana business ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2008

    First OC Book Signing for Orange County: A Personal History Mucho Success

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 17, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>

  • About Us

    March 29, 2007

    About OC Weekly

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 13, 2003

    Letters

    With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    No Justice, No Teach

    UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

  • Culture

    August 15, 2002

    Organ Music

    UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

  • Features

    January 31, 2002

    Nice Dish!

    100 things you should put in your mouth

  • News

    March 29, 2001

    LA? No Way?

    College district blocks student trips to Los Angeles

  • Columns

    February 22, 2001

    Letters

    College district blocks student trips to Los Angeles

  • Columns

    February 15, 2001

    LA? No Way?

    College district blocks student trips to Los Angeles

  • Columns

    November 9, 2000

    Letters

    College district blocks student trips to Los Angeles

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Cirque du Socccd

    Goofiness is back at South Orange County Community College District

  • Columns

    January 13, 2000

    Letters

    Goofiness is back at South Orange County Community College District

  • Columns

    July 29, 1999

    Letters

    Goofiness is back at South Orange County Community College District

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