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Baghdad

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    San Francisco Health Officials Ban Restaurant from Selling Grasshopper Tacos

    Flickr user christine zenino​San Francisco is going to play quite a role in my coming book on the history of Mexican food in the United States--and that's all I'm going to say about that right now. But Baghdad by the Bay is in the Mexi-food news right now, because pendejo health inspectors have as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    War! What's It Good For? Five Comics for People Who Don't Like War Comics

    Dynamite/Gary Leach; Vertigo/Dave Johnson​War comics can be an acquired taste, mostly because the traditional model plays around with some formula of tortured soldier, brutal combat, victimized civilians, heavy pathos. Rinse. Repeat. If these elements don't appeal to you, odds are high the comic-- ... More >>

  • Music

    May 28, 2009

    [CD Review] Eminem, 'Relapse' (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

    Dynamite/Gary Leach; Vertigo/Dave Johnson​War comics can be an acquired taste, mostly because the traditional model plays around with some formula of tortured soldier, brutal combat, victimized civilians, heavy pathos. Rinse. Repeat. If these elements don't appeal to you, odds are high the comic-- ... More >>

  • Film

    April 9, 2009

    [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Dr. No,' 'Dr. Strangelove,' 'Suzuka,' More

    Dynamite/Gary Leach; Vertigo/Dave Johnson​War comics can be an acquired taste, mostly because the traditional model plays around with some formula of tortured soldier, brutal combat, victimized civilians, heavy pathos. Rinse. Repeat. If these elements don't appeal to you, odds are high the comic-- ... More >>

  • Features

    April 24, 2008

    Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

    Dynamite/Gary Leach; Vertigo/Dave Johnson​War comics can be an acquired taste, mostly because the traditional model plays around with some formula of tortured soldier, brutal combat, victimized civilians, heavy pathos. Rinse. Repeat. If these elements don't appeal to you, odds are high the comic-- ... More >>

  • Film

    November 1, 2007

    DVDish

    A Bitter End

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2007

    Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: MTV films Newport Harbor High!

    A patriot act: To celebrate a trip home from Bagdad to Laguna Niguel, Army Cpl. Jon Warren sipped a Corona beer, smiled and bit into a tuna sandwich. Greg Hardesty of the Reg tells us that Warren spent “a frightening eventful first nine months in combat.” He's been injured in three bomb blasts ... More >>

  • Film

    February 1, 2007

    Style Offensive

    Poetic construction makes Iraq in Fragments not just another Iraq war doc

  • Music

    November 23, 2006

    All Do Crazy Things

    Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 23 - Nov. 30

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2006

    Staying the Course

    At his press conference this morning, President Bush promised yet again that when it comes to Iraq, we'll continue to push on even though we're waist deep in the Big Muddy. Elsewhere in this morning's news we find some milestones of the course on which we are staying. From the Washington Post: A te ... More >>

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Dodging Mortar Attacks

    Eileen Padberg

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2006

    Adapting in Iraq

    The last time I checked, the latest Bush administration slogan for its Iraq adventure is "Adapting to Win". This replaced "Stay the Course", which had fallen out of favor with the White House presumably since it might remind people just what "course" events are taking in Iraq. So, is Adapting to W ... More >>

  • Music

    July 27, 2006

    Live Review

    Effin' Brutal! Slayer at the Long Beach Arena, Saturday, July 22

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2006

    Spreading Democracy... or something

    Regardless of whether or not the Bush administration will succeed in its plan to introduce democracy into Iraq through an armed invasion and years of chaotic violence, it now appears that the administration has succeeded in bringing to Iraq something the country has had very little of since the Brit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2006

    Sister (Up) in Arms

    Seal Beach activist Doug Korthof (see him in the upcoming documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?) sent this along about Iraq's girl blogger "Riverbend": "She offers a ground-level female perspective on Iraq and your Tax dollars at work. Against incredible odds, this literate and intense young Ira ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2006

    Coming Attraction

    Jim Gilliam, who we just wrote about, has the trailer up on his site for the next film he produced, Robert Greenwald's Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, which opens in mid-September. Clockwork's insta-review of the trailer: One of the best things going for Greenwald's Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Lo ... More >>

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Baghdad Diaries

    One womans two-year adventure in Iraqs Green Zone

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2006

    A Third Anniversary Gift for Iraq

    Who knew that our political and military leaders were such a bunch of ol' sentimental softies? As a gift for the Iraqi people to mark the third invasion of their country, our leaders got them a miniature version of the invasion, Operation Swarmer. The mini-invasion has all feature that made that ful ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 16, 2006

    For What, George?

    Among the more than 2,300 Americans killed in Iraq, we want to recall our friends and neighbors. We honor their memory best by doing what we can to bring U.S. troops home.

  • Features

    March 9, 2006

    Our Annual Salute to Drinking

    Among the more than 2,300 Americans killed in Iraq, we want to recall our friends and neighbors. We honor their memory best by doing what we can to bring U.S. troops home.

  • Features

    March 9, 2006

    Baghdad Boozin'

    Or: Vodka and Vicodin in Iraq

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2005

    Let's Send King George to Baghdad

    The Los Angeles Times reported, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune obviously picked up (it's a long story why we're using their link instead of the Times'; just got with it), the story of the U.S. government having so much trouble filling diplomat posts in Iraq (gee, wonder why?) that it may make such ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 8, 2005

    Thank God for That Tax Cut!

    Its hard to celebrate 10 years of the Weekly when youre busy hating the president

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Memorial Day 2005

    We remember everything

  • Features

    May 19, 2005

    Killer Fish

    We remember everything

  • Film

    March 10, 2005

    Life Before Wartime

    Underexposure was shot around mortars and U.S. troops, but it depicts pre-invasion Iraq

  • Film

    March 10, 2005

    Heroes and Victims

    The view from Gunner Palace

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Going to Bed With a $300,000 Price on Your Head

    Laguna Niguels Eileen Padberg is wanted in Iraq

  • Columns

    November 4, 2004

    Letters

    Laguna Niguels Eileen Padberg is wanted in Iraq

  • Culture

    October 7, 2004

    Homage to Babylonia

    Fall of Baghdad offers Orwellian view of Operation Iraqi Freedom

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Jailhouse Iraq

    Brutalizing inmates is a proud American tradition

  • Features

    November 20, 2003

    Where Have All the Blowhards Gone?

    An Iraq invasion retrospective!

  • News

    November 20, 2003

    Patriots Travel Package

    An Iraq invasion retrospective!

  • Features

    July 10, 2003

    Burying the Dead

    Famous war correspondent Gordon Dillow struggles with his truth

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    Peace in Iraq

    Death in the military

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Facts and Shivers

    Death in the military

  • Film

    May 1, 2003

    Absurdity Began with Duck Soup

    Death in the military

  • Culture

    May 1, 2003

    Gale Force

    If poetry cant stop the war, can it at least save Americas soul?

  • News

    April 24, 2003

    Our Man In Baghdad

    If poetry cant stop the war, can it at least save Americas soul?

  • Columns

    April 3, 2003

    All Crust, No Pie

    Why Shock and Awe should stick in our craw

  • Columns

    April 3, 2003

    Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw

    Why Shock and Awe should stick in our craw

  • Columns

    April 3, 2003

    What Are We Doing There?

    How to fight the war from home

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Straight Talk From the White House

    How to fight the war from home

  • Food

    March 13, 2003

    For the 52nd State

    A quartet of classic American dishes

  • Features

    March 6, 2003

    War College

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Columns

    February 20, 2003

    Belated thanks for the Xmas candy, Luther of Orange

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Conspiracy Theories

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    Bushies Order Takeout

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Music

    July 1, 1999

    We Glimpse Krishna!

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

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