Subject: Bristol

• Now Sample Free!

  March 1, 2001

• Police Put the Smackdown on Mexican Kids

  Getting calls from my various Chicano yaktivist pals, and they're saying the kids are marching out of Westminster, Garden Grove, and Anacrime. Reports of police beating up kids on Bristol and Warner in SanTana, although the kids supposedly through rocks. Pendejos. Off to take pictures. . .

  March 27, 2006

• More Quotes from Louie Perez of Los Lobos

  January 18, 2008

• SanTana Cruises into the Past

  News this afternoon that the SanTana police department will shut down most of northbound Bristol Street until tomorrow morning to stem off car cruising is about as breaking as that the city is mostly Mexican. The city has unsuccessfully battled cruisers on Bristol for almost 20 years. In 1989, the city council officially banned cruising at the behest of Police Chief Paul Walters, but enforcing that ordinance failed so spectacularly that in 1993, 12 other police agencies helped SanTana black-and-

  March 23, 2008

• What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XV

  On Friday night, Dave Segal watched London duo, Black Ghosts, put on one of the better hipster-dance live shows he's seen in a while. Saying, "It was kind of like a combination of Daft Punk and Chemical Brothers, full of aggressive beats, filthy synth textures and sing-along tunes." Saturday found our own Luke Y. Thompson at the toy store shopping for Iron Man action figures to add to his collection. He found himself a Robert Downey Jr. action figure at the Toys R Us in Irvine. Too bad it loo

  March 24, 2008

• Off to Meet the Wizard of Irvine Co.

  Apparently there were 500 of them, a swarm of janitors in purple and yellow t-shirts making their way around the sprawling headache known lovingly as South Coast Plaza. They were scheduled to gather at noon on the corner of Sunflower and Bristol and then march to some undisclosed location and hold a rally. This would be the second march this week, a big gathering of unionized janitors calling for fair wages before next week's negotiations with the notorious B-R-E-N (Don, of Irvine Co.) and to sh

  May 9, 2008

• To Do This Weekend 5/23 - 5/26

  Memorial Day Weekend Sales at the LAB, Friday-Monday Sidewalk sales by Urban Outfitters, Harlow's, Carve & Blends and Habit The Lab 2930 Bristol St. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Standing Up for Justice and Peace, Friday 5 p.m. Peacefully protest the wrongs of the world Outside South Coast Plaza Corner of Bristol and Anton Costa Mesa, CA Money Power! 101, Saturday 12:30 p.m. Train your children to be money hungry little bastards. Just like us! Shore Books and Art Gallery 3064 East Broadway Long Beach,

  May 23, 2008

• Go Help the Saints this Weekend

  Since we're all staycationing this Labor Day weekend, make yourself useful and show up to Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church in SanTana. That's where SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) members will be leafleting outside from 9 a.m. through 11 p.m. to protest the kid's-glove treatment of convicted boy molester Father Luis Eduardo Ramirez. The SNAP people know it's going to be an ugly scene, being Our Lady of the Pillar parishioners sent more than 2,000 letters of support to R

  August 29, 2008

• Flat Cat

  September 13, 2001

• New War, Old Protest

  December 20, 2001

• Ferdussi Fetish

  March 13, 2003

• To Do This Weekend 11/21 - 11/23

  Coats for Cubs, until April 22 Bring in your real fur clothing, including trims, accessories and shearling to any Buffalo Exchange and let them know it's a donation for Coats for Cubs. Condition is unimportant. Donations will be given to the Humane Society to provide bedding and comfort to orphaned and injured wildlife. Buffalo Exchange 4608 E. 2nd Street Long Beach, CA 562-433-1991 Fashion Island Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, Friday, 6 p.m. One of Southern California's best-loved tradition

  November 21, 2008

• Wahoo's Fish Tacos Turns Twenty-Years-Old

  Twenty years. That's how long Wahoo's Fish Tacos has been in business. When surfer dudes Wing Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee opened their first Wahoo's in Costa Mesa, the original Batman with Nicholson as the Joker was the big movie. The Simpsons were still on Tracey Ullman. And me? Well, I was still in middle school, without a clue what a fish taco was, let alone that there was a pioneering place called Wahoo's serving them.It wasn't until years later, when they'd already opened their other Cost

  February 4, 2009

• O.C. Restaurants With No Corkage Fees

  I got the following e-mail from a reader named Dorn: I know you are not an alcohol drinker, but I suspect many of your foodie fans love wine. I would love to see a topic covered on OC restaurants that do not charge a corkage fee. Considering that most restaurants mark-up their wines 200% - 300%, this would be a HUGE money saver for many who dine out regularly. My wife and I have discovered that Houston's, Bandera and Gulfstream never charge a corkage fee (all part of the Hillside Group I t

  February 11, 2009

• [Hole in the Wall] Say Mucho Domo Arigato to Wafu of Japan

  March 19, 2009

• Friday - 11/16

  The Rocky Horror Show at the Maverick Theater, Orange County Peace & Justice protest in Costa Mesa, “Shag: The World, the Flesh & the Devil” at Pure Color

  November 22, 2007

• Short Shorts

  Everybody Else

  May 3, 2007

• Summer Grub Guide

  June 22, 2006

• Get Out!

  June 8, 2006

• Grub Guide

  May 25, 2006

• Grub Guide

  April 6, 2006

• Politics

  January 12, 2006

• This Week in Southern Comfort

  September 15, 2005

• This Week in Pork

  September 1, 2005

• Burger Safari

  July 28, 2005

• Art for Arts Sake

  May 19, 2005

• This Week in Weekling Haunts

  April 14, 2005

• Ramen Wars!

  February 10, 2005

• This Week in Good Chains

  September 23, 2004

• Eight Days

  September 16, 2004

• FDA FUs Plan B

  June 3, 2004

• No Blood for Wesson Oil!

  March 4, 2004

• Give the Satyr a Brew

  April 17, 2003

• Anti-War Fun

  April 3, 2003

• What Are We Doing There?

  April 3, 2003

• We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll

  March 13, 2003

• Belated thanks for the Xmas candy, Luther of Orange

  February 20, 2003

• T

  October 24, 2002

• Get Involved

  September 26, 2002

• New Music

  October 4, 2001

• BellRaysGrand FuryVital Gesture/Upper Cut

  December 7, 2000

• Where Is Nozolle?

  June 1, 2000

• Cracks Back

  May 27, 1999

• Kogi Was In Costa Mesa This Weekend; For Some, Disappointment Followed

  Edwin Goei Take it easy. This isn't another Kogi story. It's more about my friend and his Kogi disappointment. Previously, he told me he'd never tried them before and was keenly interested in what the hubbub was all about, so I did him what I thought was a favor and called him up, knowing that they were going to be in Costa Mesa on Saturday at the Holiday Inn parking lot on Bristol near the 405 from noon to 3 p.m. "Hey, they're going to be in your city," I told him. "Awesome," he says

  June 15, 2009

• TK Burgers Refuses to Conform to the Numbing Sameness of a Fast-Food Chain

  July 9, 2009

• Kogi BBQ Truck Scheduled To Do Costa Mesa This Saturday Night

  Keith May​In case you haven't noticed, Kogi has been making routine weekend stops in O.C. this month.Two Saturdays ago, it was Fullerton.  This past Saturday, it was Orange.  This coming Saturday, it will be Costa Mesa, at the Holiday Inn on Bristol near the 405, from 6 p.m.-midnight.When I rendezvoused with Kogi in Orange this past weekend at around 9:30 p.m., there was no line whatsoever -- a lucky break.  I walked right up and told them what I wanted.  It still took 20 minutes for them

  August 12, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 13, 2009

• The ampm on Bristol and Red Hill Sells Expired Kit-Kats

  ​Yes, the title of this blog is a serious charge. I realize that. But it's one that I'm able to back up.Last week, I went to the ampm (that's the "official" way to spell the name of the place, I know it looks weird all lower-case, but take it up with them) on the corner of Bristol and Red Hill on Costa Mesa to get a bag of Hot 'n Spicy Chex Mix--a surprisingly hard to find thing these days, especially since the introduction of the greatly inferior "Jalapeno Cheddar" Chex Mix (seriously, it mig

  August 17, 2009

• Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier

  It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cypress discovered two girls, ages 9 and 11, who had been left alone overnight amid knee-high trash piles, toilets overflowing with human feces, frozen bugs inside a refrigerator and unfrozen bugs and m

  July 14, 2009

• Santa Ana's Yogurt Bar Offers a Taste of the Caribbean in a Cup

  ​So you didn't manage a vacation (or even a staycation) this summer? Try a taste of this froyo café's pineapple and coconut flavor. As you take your first spoonful, you're transported (mentally, at least) to a palm-fringed island--Antigua, perchance--the water lapping at your toes. You can almost hear the steel band in the background.Admittedly, you do have to close your eyes and ears and ignore the heavy traffic just outside at the intersection of Bristol and Sunflower, but for just a few wo

  September 7, 2009