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May 21, 2012
[UPDATED with Blood Spilled:] Chapman and Fullerton Undies Runs are Sights for Sore Eyes (and Fingers)
UPDATE, MAY 21, 3:35 P.M.: It's been pointed out that since this blog mentioned the hospitalization of two young women in their 20s--one for "alcohol-related" complications and the other for an arm injury suffered after falling down--following Chapman University's 2012 Spring Undies Run, we should a ... More >>
News
March 22, 2012
Hazem Chehabi Is Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's Man in OC
The Newport Beach doctor is a UC Irvine philanthropist, Syria's honorary consul general—and the target of activists who call him an apologist for a brutal regime
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Local Record Review: 'Spare Parts for Broken Hearts' by Spare Parts for Broken Hearts
Spare Parts for Broken HeartsSpare Parts for Broken Heartshttps://www.facebook.com/sparepartsforbrokenheartsA little late with this review, perhaps -- the EP's been out for nearly a year, for a start. But Long Beach's Spare Parts for Broken Hearts have been revving up a bit for the journey to ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Mike Gillespie, UC Irvine Baseball Coach, Must Settle for Wins on Field, Not at Oscars
Ian Massey has a funny piece in UC Irvine's New University student newspaper about the ultimate Oscar "snub": the nomination denied a certain Moneyball supporting actor.He would be Mike Gillespie, the head coach of the Anteaters baseball team.
Blogs
September 12, 2011
Dengue Fever in Cambodia Town, Then Fingerprints Records, Last Friday
Sarah BennettDengue FeverSept. 9, 2011Fingerprints Record Store, Long Beach Friday should have been designated Dengue Fever Day by the City of Long Beach because the Cambodian psych-pop band's double dose of public appearances is the most the band has been seen in these parts since their latest a ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2011
UC Irvine Attempts to Reclaim Record for World's Largest Dodgeball Game
Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly Click here to see more images from UC Irvine's world record game.Get ready for some more flying balls. Last year, UC Irvine broke the Guinness World Record for largest dodgeball game, enlisting 1,745 participants for a day of utter mayhem. (See our slideshow o ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Long Beach Finally Gets A Lee's Sandwiches
Flickr user evangYou might be thinking to yourself, how could Long Beach, the seventh largest city in California encompassing 50 square miles and home to about a half-million residents, not have a Lee's Sandwiches already. That's what I thought too. But as seemingly ubiquitous as the banh mi chai ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Poet Gerald Locklin Talks About How Lady Gaga is in his Reading Routine, the Bukowski Connection and OC as 'Sand Beach'
Henry DenanderPoetry readings are boring. And I'm not just saying that as a guy whose sole exposure to the genre was a force-feeding of Maya Angelou in community college. Nope, I actually read -- and try to write -- the stuff and even I think most of these gatherings are really great if you aresu ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2011
UC Irvine Shout Out On Top Chef Masters!
On this week's episode of Top Chef Masters, the masters went back to school and were blinded with science--edible science! For the elimination challenge, they were paired with scientists from UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and our Anteaters. The task: create a dish that uses a scientific concept, and prese ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2011
Sublime's Former Drummer and DJ Marshall Goodman, Remembers Bradley Nowell
Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, who died 15 years ago today, left behind a legacy that is intrinsically tied to Long Beach and the rest of Orange County. This week's cover story pays tribute to the man who put Garden Grove on the map, who sang about the perils of date rape and invented the surf p ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Berkeley Dog To Soft Open Across From UC Irvine This Saturday. Grand Opening May 12.
Berkeley DogBerkeley Dog's third and newest outlet soft opens tomorrow at the University Center, across from UC Irvine. Finally, the hot dog stand that emulates (and is supplied by) Top Dog in Berkeley fulfills its purpose: to feed a collegiate body in need of sausage sandwich sustenance. It's ot ... More >>
Music
April 21, 2011
Thy Squid Play Squid Rock City!
[Locals Only] The LBC trio talk influences and working with Ikey Owens of the Mars Volta
Blogs
February 1, 2011
UCI Student Protest Against OC District Attorney's Office Not the First Time Anteaters Have Hated DA
Right now, if all is going according to plan, a group of UC Irvine students and associates are protesting outside the offices of the Orange County district attorney because the DA has subpoenaed six Anteaters to testify before a grand jury. The students aren't just your typical coeds, but rather ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
New Korean Soft Tofu Restaurant Opens Near UC Irvine
Koba Tofu Grill--Irvine's tenth or eleventh (I've lost count) Korean restaurant to serve sundubu jjigae, gurgling cauldrons of soft tofu soup--opens this week in Campus Plaza near UC Irvine in what used to be Blockbuster Video. If it seems serendipitous that their debut coincides with the coldes ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2010
Paging Samuel L. Jackson! Flying Snakes Invade Long Beach Convention Center!
The heart of the matter on the Long Beach Convention Center Grand Ballroom B stage was Chrysopelea paradisi. And what are Chrysopelea paradisi, you ask? They're freakin' flying snakes, that's what they are.With visions of flying snakes launching themselves from the stage and onto the academics w ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2010
The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show Reviews Are In
This week's collection of things on the Interwebs from or about Orange County includes netizen reviews of a car shop, a sandwich shop, UC Irvine dorms, hotspots for meet-ups, Fullerton City Council candidates, San Clemente's immigration checkpoint and Huntington Beach white boys who refer to them ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2010
UPDATED: Horny CSULB Paper Earns Rebuke for Telling Guys to be "Aggressive" During Sexytime
summum.us / Creative CommonsHeh. Long Beach pyramid. Heh.Originally posted September 28 at 2:35 p.m. Updated September 29 at 2:13 p.m. with comment from the Union Weekly's editor.It looks like it's the season for local college papers to ingnite politically correct controversies. Yesterd ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Jonathan Huynh Quickly Found Guilty of Murdering His 20-year-old Girlfriend
It took jurors less than two hours to agree that Jonathan Huynh strangled and stabbed his 20-year-old girlfriend to death.Huynh, 22, of Mission Viejo, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in last year's slaying of Cal State Long Beach student Kate Su Yi.
Blogs
September 14, 2010
Andrew Thomas Gallo, Accused of Killing Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart and 2 Others, is Not Only Alleged Drunken Driver Up on Murder Today
Andrew Thomas GalloSeparate murder trials for two alleged drunken drivers begin this morning in Orange County.One you've heard a lot about, the other not so much.Guess that's to be expected when a rookie phenom Angels pitcher is a murder victim in the more talked-about case.
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Gettin' Made: KJazz Blues Bash Call for Vendors
Artists and crafters, are you looking for one last hurrah to share your wares at before the summer craft fair season is over? The KJazz Blues Bash is coming up in Long Beach next weekend, and there's still some vendor spots available.Image from KJazz Blues Bash websiteAfter the jump, details on h ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2010
Long Beach Blues Festival Going On Hiatus
B.B. King at the 12th annual Doheny Blues Fesitval in 2009The Long Beach Blues Festival, a 30-year-old tradition delivered by local jazz and blues station KKJZ-FM (88.1), is going on hiatus this year. The two-day fest, which has featured legends such as B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddle ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2010
Transgender Student Assaulted at Cal State Long Beach Defends School
CalState Long Beach Police DepartmentCSULB Police Department sketch of the attacker.So, some person resembling the above picture believed to have attacked and carved the word "IT" into the chest of a transgender student at CalState Long Beach on April 15.
Blogs
January 22, 2010
New UCI Research Will Have You Looking at Earthquakes and Lawns Differently
UC Irvine researchers have discovered new ways to look at earthquakes and your front lawn. No, not how shakers rip up your green playground. We're talking one study that dispels notions about how experts estimate the potential for the next so-called "Big One," and a second that disproves the idea th ... More >>
Columns
December 24, 2009
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
UC Irvine researchers have discovered new ways to look at earthquakes and your front lawn. No, not how shakers rip up your green playground. We're talking one study that dispels notions about how experts estimate the potential for the next so-called "Big One," and a second that disproves the idea th ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2009
Theater Review: 'Festen' at the Queen Mary
California Repertory CompanyThe 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 ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 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 fundraise ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 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.
Blogs
July 8, 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 ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 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 k ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2009
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 probl ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 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 Cha ... More >>
Blogs
February 5, 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 G ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2008
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 jo ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2008
UC Irvine Students Don't Give a Damn about Voting--Mostly
"Who wants stickers for No on Prop. 8?" yelled out Jon, a young Vietnamese student at UC Irvine before the start of a Orange County history course in which I was to lecture. His enthusiasm was heartening--up until then, Anteaters where the epitome of the ever-elusive youth vote. As I walked to the ... More >>
Columns
May 15, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
"Who wants stickers for No on Prop. 8?" yelled out Jon, a young Vietnamese student at UC Irvine before the start of a Orange County history course in which I was to lecture. His enthusiasm was heartening--up until then, Anteaters where the epitome of the ever-elusive youth vote. As I walked to the ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2008
Cal State Fullerton To Bring Football Back?
Late last week, Cal State Fullerton issued a survey to gauge student interest in the school reinstating its laughable football squad, which disbanded in 1992 to a massive yawn from Orange County. Even more hilarious is the website, Bring Back Titan Football, which really believes interest in the spo ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 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 ... More >>
Culture
September 1, 2005
Wheres the Crazy
Its college: Greater LA MFA should be more insane
Unknown
April 28, 2005
METAL MACHINE MUSIC
Its college: Greater LA MFA should be more insane
Music
April 21, 2005
Perfect Sound forever
Everything in the world is Aaron Ximms pop song
Culture
March 3, 2005
Is That a Charcoal Stick In Your Pocket?
Or are you just happy to see the Koos life-drawing workshop?
Culture
December 30, 2004
Driving a Ford, Lately
Overheating In Rush-Hour Traffic Isnt What It Used To Be
Columns
August 5, 2004
Diary of a Mad County
Overheating In Rush-Hour Traffic Isnt What It Used To Be
Culture
November 28, 2002
Postmodernity Means Never Having to Make Sense
University Players Playing With the Pieces
Unknown
October 17, 2002
Downloaded
University Players Playing With the Pieces
Features
September 26, 2002
Shake That Ass!
Theres a club for every taste
Culture
March 14, 2002
What a Riot!
University Players Twilight
Culture
March 7, 2002
The OCies Yeeeee-ha!
Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!
Columns
October 12, 2000
Letters
Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!
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September 9, 1999
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