Subject: Big West Conference

• UCI Anteaters Can't Eat Selves Out of Four-Run Hole

  OC Weekly intern David Nicolas reporting . . . UC Irvine's baseball team was enjoying a dream season. They even got to host the NCAA regional tournament leading up to the College World Series in Omaha. What could possibly go wrong?Three words: this past weekend. And three more: University of Virginia. For the first time this season, the Anteaters were shut out, sustaining a 5-0 loss Saturday at the hands and able gloves of Virginia's Cavaliers. That forced a win-or-die, Sunday double-header for

  June 1, 2009

• Journey to an OC Tourney

  As of today, it’s only 85 days until college basketball starts…not that anyone is counting, ahem. But in case you are, rejoice! The inaugural Anaheim Classic college basketball tournament is set for November 22, 23, and 25 of this year. Twelve games of bracketed, idiosyncratic collegiate ball will be hosted by the Anaheim Convention Center, with eight teams from all over the country. University of California, Irvine will be the sole Big West representative; CSU Fullerton is set for next yea

  August 17, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 2/23

  REGGAE CRUISE, 7 p.m. For all the Reggae-loving bredren. Star Party Cruises, 140 Marine Dr. Alamitos Bay Long Beach CLUB RUBBER, 8 p.m. Celebrating their 12-year anniversary. Galaxy Concert Theater, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd. Santa Ana LUDACRIS, 8 p.m. And for extra entertainment: a protest outside. Cal State Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach MORRIS DAY & THE TIME, 8 p.m. Time to get your groove on. Cerritos Center, 12700 Center Court Dr. Cerritos SINGLES VALENTINES PARTY FOR COUPLES,

  February 23, 2008

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XI

  Dave Segal moved into Detroit Bar on both Friday and Saturday nights: "Free the Robots' thrilling [Friday] live show blew away Afrika Bambaataa's moldy DJ set. Local upstarts overshadowed a legend!" And on Sat, "DJs Josh One, Hyder, James Pants and Peanut Butter Wolf spun loads of great hip-hop cuts and freaky dance tracks that didn't fit neatly into any categories." Saturday took our interns Patrick Chavis and Nate Jackson to Cal State Long Beach for the Ludacris concert/protest and the Costa

  February 25, 2008

• The OC Weekly Book Of Food Lists!

  July 24, 2003

• Freddie Hubbard, R.I.P.

  Freddie Hubbard died today at Sherman Oaks Hospital. He was 70. I've always been a freak for the jazz trumpeter and still remember the first time I caught him live, in the early '80s at, of all places, Carnation Gardens at Disneyland--about as far as one can get from a smoke-filled gin joint. Back in those days, the Anaheim theme park drew some pretty righteous performers for jazz and blues festivals that had acts sprinkled all over the Magic Kingdom. I also recall seeing Leon Russell

  December 29, 2008

• All Gaza, All the Time for One Muslim Student Union Watcher

  ***UPDATED*** As former Weekly reporter Derek Olson mentions in this piece, recent UC Irvine graduate Reut R. Cohen keeps tabs on the campus' controversial Muslim Student Union on her blog. But, understandably, it's been all Gaza, all the time in recent days. Cohen (left) provides video "inside a Hamas meeting" and of Benjamin Netanyaho delivering a Gaza statement in English. She also provides links to the latest news reports out of Israel.  It's the same story over at Litt

  December 30, 2008

• Zots from the UCI Baseball 'Eaters' Defeat of Fresno State Last Night

  *Written by Weekly intern and UCI New University student paper managing editor David Nicolas...The UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team put down the Fresno Bulldogs in the first game of the Irvine NCAA regional playoff series, edging the 'Dogs 4-2. UCI's starting pitcher Daniel Bibona quieted Fresno's pingy metal bats and put in seven and two-thirds innings of work, giving up just five hits and striking out 14 batters. It was Bibona-mination!  This is UCI's third-straight appearance in the Col

  May 30, 2009

• X [Prize] Marks the Spot for UC Irvine Students

    "The Capacitor Challenge" video above by UC Irvine students Kyle Good and Bryan Le was this morning crowned the winner of the X Prize Foundation's "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" competition, which comes with a $25,000 check. "We're so excited to be the winners of the Crazy Green Idea contest," Good, a film and media studies major, says in a X Prize-supplied statement. "It's an honor that seems too good to be true. We'll never forget this experience." "I've always admired

  February 5, 2009

• [Sound Guy] Of Anteaters and Acrobats

  February 19, 2009

• Cherry Poppin' Play Festival this weekend at the Queen Mary

  Leave it to Long Beach's Alive Theater group to take two very different types of weekend diversions and crash them together in a single phrase that leaves you totally confused. Now smack-dab in the middle of their second annual Cherry Poppin' Play Festival, this troupe of avant guard thespians from Cal State Long Beach is looking to stimulate every topographical region of your creative pallet. The festival continues this Saturday, Feb. 28 and runs until next Saturday, March 8. There is a total o

  February 26, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 12

  Orange County Register: It's all cars, all the time! The driver killed in the early morning Newport Beach crash that severed and mangled a $140,000 '04 Ferrari is identified as "Mask," Huntington Beach's 45-year-old mixed-martial arts promoter and TapouT clothing company founder Charles Lewis Jr. Police arrested the driver of a '77 Porsche, 51-year-old Jeff David Kirby of Costa Mesa, on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. . . . Another crash, this time in Anaheim and involving

  March 12, 2009

• [Locals Only] Crystal Antlers

  April 10, 2008

• Zot Wot?

  March 27, 2008

• Help Titan Jon Wilhite, Honor Titan Courtney Stewart

  It's been highly publicized that Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, 22, was killed in a collision just after midnight Friday. Some reporters have even added that Courtney Frances Stewart, the 20-year-old Diamond Bar resident who was driving the Mitsubishi Eclipse Adenhart rode in, and another passenger, Henry Nigel Pearson, 25, of Manhattan Beach, were also killed.There has been less mentioned about the fourth person in the car, lone survivor Jon Wilhite, who at press time had his condition up

  April 14, 2009

• Against the Wall

  Praying, eating and bowling with the most hated student group at UC Irvine

  October 18, 2007

• The OCies Yeeeee-ha!

  March 7, 2002

• The Dead Shall Rise

  September 4, 2003

• Back To School

  August 26, 2004

• How the West Was Pumped

  September 14, 2006

• Special Screenings

  July 27, 2006

• The Year in Letters

  December 29, 2005

• Long Beach

  October 20, 2005

• Wheres the Crazy

  September 1, 2005

• 5 Other Summer Music Festivals To See Before You Die ...

  May 19, 2005

• METAL MACHINE MUSIC

  April 28, 2005

• Perfect Sound forever

  Everything in the world is Aaron Ximms pop song

  April 21, 2005

• Is That a Charcoal Stick In Your Pocket?

  March 3, 2005

• Driving a Ford, Lately

  December 30, 2004

• Postmodernity Means Never Having to Make Sense

  November 28, 2002

• Downloaded

  October 17, 2002

• Shake That Ass!

  Theres a club for every taste

  September 26, 2002

• What a Riot!

  March 14, 2002

• Diary of a mad county

  January 3, 2002

• At the Mercy of Percy!

  September 6, 2001

• 35 Great Things About Summer in Orange County

  May 31, 2001

• Letters

  October 12, 2000

• Letters

  September 9, 1999

• The seventh annual Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

  August 19, 1999

• Where to Get Hammered

  September 10, 1998

• Hey CSULB Students, Don't Bother With the Surgi Masks, They're Useless!

  After essentially quarantining a CSULB student who has received a "probable positive test" (um, is it or isn't it?) for piggy flu, health officials on the Long Beach campus handed out surgical face masks to students on campus who have "been paranoid," according to a Press Telegram report. Only problem with that approach is that those masks are basically useless, at least according to this report by health nut Mark Adams, and another report today by the BBC. Even the CDC doesn't know if they're o

  April 29, 2009

• Amir Abdel Malik Ali, a UCI Muslim Student Union Fave, an Anti-Semitic, Homophobic Coward

  Ali, with a UCI goon trying to intimidate Levin by snapping a shot of himEvery year for the past couple of years, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union has invited a hilarious hater named Abdel Malik Ali, one so noxious that the Southern Poverty Law Center profiled the pendejo. I'm not sure why the MSU kids bring in Ali--ostensibly to rail against the treatment of Palestinians by Israel, but he always brings up anti-Jewish canards that have nothing to do with the current problems in the Holy Land. In

  May 16, 2009

• Game, Fans Gives Back to Former Titan Catcher Jon Wilhite [UPDATED]

  UPDATE: ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER VIDEO FROM THE GAME. Jon WilhiteThe Orange County Flyers are going to try to win one for Jon Wilhite on Monday night. The independent Golden Baseball League team is hosting a night for former Cal State Fullerton Titans catcher who suffered what doctors described as an internal decapitation from the April 9 car accident that took the lives of Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, Titans cheerleader Courtney Stewart and Wilhite's former high school teammate Henry P

  July 8, 2009

• UC Irvine Discontinues Sugar Daddy Henry T. Nicholas' Rowing Teams, 3 Other Sports . . . Unless

  The Los Angeles Times' Fabulous Forum blog reports today that UC Irvine as of Saturday is "discontinuing" five sports--men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's rowing, and sailing--to cut costs amid reduced state funding. University brass expects to save $1 million by shuttering the programs. Funny, but indicted billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III gave $280,000 more than that just to the UCI crew team, according to Dave Wielenga's July 2004 Weekly cover story,&n

  July 30, 2009

• Irvine Spared in Professor's Plan to Close UC Campuses

  UCI.orgAll's quiet in the center of campus at "second-tier" UC Irvine.​Capitol Weekly reports about a radical proposal to spare the UC system major financial pain amid massive budget cuts: close three campuses.Don't worry: UC Irvine makes the cut. Barely.

  August 5, 2009

• 30th Annual Long Beach Blues Festival

  September 3, 2009

• Off Gerrie Schipske Goes Into the Wild Blue LBC Yonder

  Gerrie SchipskeGerrie Schipske vaulted from the delivery room at Long Beach Naval Hospital in 1950 to a degree in history from UC Irvine in 1973 to successful careers as a registered nurse, attorney and teacher of women's studies, political science and public administration at Cal State Long Beach to her election to the Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees in 1992 to razor-thin losses as the Democratic nominee to Republican Assemblyman Steve Kuykend

  September 16, 2009

• Go Vegan with Animal Acres in Long Beach Tomorrow

  I didn't know that International Vegetarian Day falls on Oct. 9--I didn't even know there was an International Vegetarian Day (is there an International Carnivore Day?). To celebrate this day, Animal Acres--the Los Angeles-area farm that saved a piggy I bought from the cleaver--will hold a fundraiser at Cal State Long Beach tomorrow. Tickets are $35 presale, $45 at the door, but catering comes from a lot of local vegan eateries in the Long Beach area and you get to support a cool organization. S

  October 8, 2009

• Eight Questions with Rick Berry

  ​Rick Berry's a lot of things. Some of these things include jazz trumpeter (currently in the Hollywood Canteen Swing Band), political candidate (he ran for Long Beach city council) and gardener (he's got a killer backyard garden). But to the rest of the world, he's got a new title that is pretty darn spiffy--marketing manager for the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. If you're like me, you're wondering why a jazzman is getting in bed with classical music. I just had to ask.1. Tell the people a li

  October 13, 2009

• Theater Review: 'Festen' at the Queen Mary

  California Repertory Company​The rest of America's loss is Long Beach's gain when it comes to Festen, currently playing onboard the Queen Mary in the new home of California Repertory Company. Cal Rep, the graduate theater arm of Cal State Long Beach's theater program, has bounced around at several venues over the past five years, but has apparently found a new roost in the Royal Theater, a very cool 99-seat theater tucked at the back end of the venerable ocean liner that's called Long Beach ho

  October 12, 2009