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March 30, 2006
Crashing Guns
Hosting the U.S. premiere of Crash turned out to be a coup for the 2005 Newport Beach Film Festival, whose organizers noticed a marked increase in interest from Hollywood for this year's April 20-30 run. Last year, director Paul Haggis led a small Crash contingent (sadly missing promised attendee ac ... More >>
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June 21, 2007
David Z jumps ship
Hosting the U.S. premiere of Crash turned out to be a coup for the 2005 Newport Beach Film Festival, whose organizers noticed a marked increase in interest from Hollywood for this year's April 20-30 run. Last year, director Paul Haggis led a small Crash contingent (sadly missing promised attendee ac ... More >>
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July 18, 2007
Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward
What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according t ... More >>
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November 26, 2007
Monday's Headlines. No Surprises: Shaky ground for the mayor-who-would-be-governor
Preparing for deportation: In the past fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement made almost twice as many arrests (30,396) in its fugitive operations program as it did the previous year, reports the Register. ICE also picked up more than 4,000 illegals in workplace raids - up 11 percent fro ... More >>
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December 5, 2008
The Orange County's Connection to Accused Murderer Esteban Nunez
Local girl Adriana Maestas's Latino Politics Blog is probably the best blog covering Latino national politics (we wished she covered the shenanigans of the Banana Republic a bit more, but we digress). She's witty, properly outraged, and can dig like Moxley--someone pay her to write, stat! She recent ... More >>
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March 20, 2009
Gay-Bashing, Jew-Trashing La Voz de Aztlan Rushes to Defend Anti-Semitic KPFK Show
Mere moments after the Jewish Journal published an éxposé of the anti-Semitic KPFK-FM 90.7 show "La Causa," the Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate website La Voz de Aztlán rushed to the defense of the only publicly broadcast radio show in the United States that has ever considered it any ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
Political Nepotism Alive and Well in Orange County
Patrick McGreevy writes in today's LA Times about friends and family members of office-holders getting state jobs. Among them is Marisela Villar, daughter of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who state taxpayers pay $68,000 annually to work out of a Santa Ana state office for Assembly Speaker ... More >>
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July 26, 2007
Letters
'Ordinarily, I wouldn't wipe my ass with the OC Weekly, but there I was without toilet paper'
Columns
October 5, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'If you fight one bean, you fight the whole burrito!'
News
March 30, 2006
The Gilchristification of OC
Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed
Columns
June 2, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed
Columns
June 21, 2001
Mickey Mite Club
Mondays student walkout shows the past aint dead. It isnt even passed
Columns
May 25, 2000
Union Maid
Apathy is sooo 1990s
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February 11, 1999
Those Picket Signs?
At UCI, they're likely to return
Columns
October 8, 1998
The Straight Guy at the Gay Pool Party
And other tales from the political season
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June 22, 2009
Antonio & Kate Plus 8?
You know what can happen if you switch TV channels too quickly with your remote? Your brain mooshing together separate bits of infotainment and leaving you to believe that, say, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced today he would not be running for California governor in 2010 because he ... More >>
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February 23, 2010
Ramona Ripston Retires as ACLU/SC Executive Director
Ramona RipstonRamona Ripston, who has been executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California for 38 years, announced her retirement today."This organization has not only been my work but also my life for a long time, so a decision like this one certainly comes with m ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
Today is Ozomatli Day!
In Los Angeles, anyway. According to the Ozomatli site, "The City of Los Angeles will officially declare April 23rd, 2010 as 'Ozomatli Day' to celebrate and recognize the fifteenth year of the LA-based and Grammy-award-winning band, Ozomatli." Huh. I guess you don't have to be dead to have ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Scenes from Day One of the 2010 Anime Expo
Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyAh, four glorious days in celebration of all things anime, film and more. Here's our first batch of images from the 2010 Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center by Christopher Victorio, showcasing everyone from Gloomy Bear and that creepy nurse thing from Sil ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Looming Deadline For Gov. Jerry Brown in United Farm Worker's-Backed SB 104
Alas, he can ignore it no more. Gov. Jerry Brown has to either sign or veto SB 104 by 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. The bill, which was introduced by Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), would get rid of secret-ballot elections and implement a card-check method for farm workers deciding whethe ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Veto:] Looming Deadline For Gov. Jerry Brown in United Farm Worker's-Backed SB 104
UPDATE, JUNE 29, 2:55 P.M.: The last line in Gov. Jerry Brown's letter addressed to state senators reads: "I am returning Senate Bill 104 without my signature."In the veto letter, Brown cites his past experience with farm labor legislation. He reminds the readers that in 1975 the nation's fi ... More >>

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