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March 19, 2009
Cry, The Beloved Country
Bowers Museum
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March 14, 2006
Tapping the Source... and maybe your phone
Perhaps because it's in the Drinking Issue, Cornel Bonca's review of Paula L. Woods' new novel Strange Bedfellows (featured in Selected Reviews from the Weekly on the sidebar) reminded me both of my own experiences with bad novels and my favorite quote from one very good novel, Waguih Ghali's Beer i ... More >>
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June 15, 2006
MEChA Redux
Longtime OC Weekly readers will remember my 2003 cover story on how conservatives use the Chicano students group MEChA to smear politicians. Read the latest update in in today's Times, where I argue MEChA isn't racist. Have at it, boyos!
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February 7, 2008
Third Party results from Tuesday
Just in case there are any others out there... As expected, Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney were the overwhelming #1 and #2 choices. Both candidates also appeared on ballots for the Peace & Freedom Party, and came out #1 and #2 there as well. West Virginia actor Jesse Johnson got my vote...and exa ... More >>
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March 26, 2008
Laguna Greeter Earns National Nod
Details is a so-so magazine, an Esquire for guys whose idea of manliness is Aaron Carter. Much better is the writing chops of editor-at-large Jeff Gordinier in his new book, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but can Still Keep Everything from Sucking. And we love that, in his intro, ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Kat Von D
Barnes and Noble
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June 9, 2008
To Do Tonight 6/9
Karaoke Madness, 9 p.m. Oh the madness! Hogue Barmichael's 3950 Campus Dr. Newport Beach, CA 92660 949-261-6270 Joyride Mondays, 8 p.m. I can ride the joy with no handlebars. The Pike Bar & Grill 1836 E. Fourth St. Long Beach, CA 90802 562-437-4453 To The 5th Dimension!, all day New gallery. New d ... More >>
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March 22, 2001
The Ineluctable Modality of the Marginal
When hes hot, Rick Moody gives us a woody
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November 5, 2008
RIP Rockie Gardiner
The Weekly has learned that our resident astronomer passed on to the land of the stars. Rochelle "Rockie" Gardiner died at age 70 on October 31. Rockie was the author of the Rockie Horoscope that has graced the pages of our paper since 1995. Read the full obit here. She will be greatly missed.
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November 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times is Talkin' Shit!
Call it more progressive (read: adult) editorial stance, a copyeditor's error, or a raised middle-finger to the paper's days of branding itself a "family newspaper," I have to admit being tickled at the sight of the word "shit" popping up in today's print edition of the LA Times. It's right there o ... More >>
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June 4, 2009
Margaret Hyde Signing
Barnes and Noble
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February 17, 2009
The Real Iranian Housewife of Orange County Gets a TV Pilot
Ho-hum, another TV show based on the "Orange County" experience. At least this one holds the promise of being something other than the usual rich & bitchen exploits of the Botoxed coastal-living set. Firoozeh Dumas, whose debut book Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian i ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
Derrick Brown Loves You at Midnight
Arte Theater Long Beach
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January 15, 2009
Passare I Popcorn
Cinema Italiano: Le Chiavi de Casa
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January 1, 2009
Paperback Writer
Jan Burke Signing
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December 18, 2008
Anne of Green Gables: The Musical
The Heritage Forum
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November 20, 2008
Good Works
Mike Farrell
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June 12, 2008
Dragging On
Oscar De La Hoya Signing
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March 27, 2008
Raw Salman
Sir Salman Rushdie
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April 23, 2009
Andean Express
Libreria Martinez
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December 14, 2006
People We Know
The characters in two graphic novels remind us of ourselves
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August 31, 2006
Selling Out
Talented new novelist Maile Meloy needs to burn her bridges
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June 10, 2004
Burning Bush
The presidents conservative critics
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July 3, 2003
Wood vs. God
God wins!
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December 19, 2002
The Great Uncorking
The comix and drawings of Robt. Williams
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November 28, 2002
Dyke Dicks
Maddison expands lesbian sleuth canon
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November 23, 2000
One Angry Cowboy
Maddison expands lesbian sleuth canon
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December 23, 1999
My So-Called Political Life
Diary of a mad Libertarian
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April 30, 2009
La Casa Garcia Releases New Book
Last month, I wrote about the surprisingly good flautas offered by La Casa Garcia in Anaheim. It's not the county's best Mexican-American joint (though does belongs among the top 10), but owner Frank Garcia is a true Mexi-mensch; his annual We Give Thanks Thanksgiving dinners is the stuff of legend, ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Sunday Salon: A Woman Changed, Georgia O'Keeffe in the 1930s
Orange County Museum of Art
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January 29, 2009
Pajamarama
Orange County Museum of Art
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September 3, 2009
Poet Richard Beban Reading
Barnes and Noble
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September 10, 2009
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles: The Wyrm King
Barnes and Noble
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October 1, 2009
Amber Tamblyn's Book Release
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November 12, 2009
ESPN.com's Bill Simmons
ESPN Zone
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November 19, 2009
The Principles of Empowerment
Orange Coast College
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March 11, 2010
Bourgeois Rhetoric: "Interest and Meaning in the Age of the Industrial Revolution"
Chapman University, Wilkinson Hall
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May 5, 2010
Gettin' Made: Waking Up in the Land of Glitter
Have you heard of The Crafty Chica? She's pretty hard to escape if you're into crafting of any type. Kathy Cano-Murillo, a.k.a. The Crafty Chica, is an all-encompassing craft force to be reckoned with. From her yearly Crafty Chica cruises, seven crafting how-to books, television features, an ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Mario Lopez Signing
Barnes and Noble
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September 17, 2010
Two Gifted Vietnamese American Writers Coming to OC
TruongAuthors Monique Truong and Andrew Lam are scheduled to visit Orange County's Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) on Tuesday, September 21 to celebrate the publishing of their new books.Truong, a Saigon native who lives in New York City, will discuss Bitter in the Mout ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Balladeer
Fullerton Main Library
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March 9, 2010
Athenian Burgers #3, Eddie Lin Gets the Good Food Treatment
I originally reviewed Athenian Burgers #3 in Buena Park nearly two-and-a-half years ago, and its reputation for wrapping the best breakfast burritos in Orange County remains, even continues to grow. May the following conversation I had about it with Evan Kleiman of KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food bring it ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
There's a Pubic Hair in My Press Release
We wish we could show you the rest, but we can't. Click after the jump to see the full image! It's a rarity that I ever receive anything other than the most mundane of press releases from local galleries and museums.Not because the work being exhibited is mundane. Far from it.Press releases ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
Huckabee Pimps Book About Putting Christ Back in Christmas (Like That'll Ever Happen)
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who presumably did not have his way with Monica Lewinsky, signs books at the Borders book store in Tustin Saturday.The onetime and possibly future presidential contender is scheduled to appear at 4:30 p.m. to sign his new book A Simple Christmas.
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March 24, 2011
Pub(lishing) Crawl
Argyros Forum, Room 209, Chapman University
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September 26, 2011
Sandra Cisneros Wows More than 200 at Libreria Martinez Reading
Written by new OC Weekly intern Mary Carreon. Hola, Mary!Beloved Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros graced Libreria Martinez this past Saturday afternoon, with the legendary bookstore filled with over 250 Cisneros fans. Store owner Rueben Martinez stated that he had seen his store so full be ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Martha Stewart To Sign New Book at South Coast Plaza on Thursday
Queen hostess with the mostest, yes, Martha Stewart itself will be making a stop in OC tomorrow, Nov. 3, to promote her new book, Martha's Entertaining: A Year of Celebrations. The 70-year-old homemakerpreneur will do a cooking demo and signing at Macy's South Coast Plaza Home St ... More >>
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November 8, 2011
Maria Armoudian, KPFK Radio Host, to Lecture THIS FRIDAY at Anaheim's Unitarian Universalist Church
For the last year of my KPFK-FM 90.7 radio show, I always had the pleasure of personally meeting longtime host Maria Armoudian--if only for about a minute. See, Armoudian's show, The Insighters, followed mine, and our compliments were done as I was getting out of the recording studio and she was ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Victoria Patterson, OC's Best Author, to Speak at Fullerton Library THIS Thursday
Screw Dean Koontz, T. Jefferson Parker, yours truly, and all the other "authors" who couldn't write a kindergarten tract if you gave them the "see" and the "spot": Victoria Patterson is our best writer, both in fiction and in writing about Orange County, and an awesome, awesome mind.She'll be spe ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Taco USA Gets Praise from Kirkus Reviews!
Believe it or not, I've actually been lagging in my plans to promote my much-promised book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (out April 10) because of my responsibilities with being the editor of your favorite infernal rag and shit. Why, I still have a box of galleys to give out.Thank ... More >>
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