Cinco de Mayo

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, May 3 Basscon The Yost Theater Friday night's alright for partying down, so make your way over to Santa Ana's historic Yost Theater for Basscon tonight. The Yost has been putting out great EDM and trance music nights for a while now, but Basscon looks like its going to be an intense night o ... More >>

NBFF Latino Showcase: Newport Goes Tropical with Tropicalia

WHERE MY LATINOS AT?! Wednesday night, they were being celebrated for their recent achievements in cinema at Newport Beach Film Festival's Latino Showcase through three spotlight films from Mexico, Chile, and Brazil at the Lido, Triangle, and Big Newport theaters, respectively. While I wish I coul ... More >>

'Cinco de Mayo: The Battle' Channels the Spirit of Mexican Cinema's Rise

Rafa Lara delivers a gripping war epic

Manic Hispanic: ¡Pinche Punks!

Two decades of the greatest cult band (and Mexicans) in Orange County history

Basscon

The Yost Theater

Manic Hispanic

The Observatory

The Ultimate Wish List: Tequila Tasting & Chef Dinner For $250,000

In the hierarchy of department stores, Neiman Marcus ranks right up there with places we're not comfortable visiting under-dressed (sporting a Ulysse Nardin watch with torn jeans doesn't count). So to kick off the holiday season, the elitist brand announces their most inconceivable over-the-top pick ... More >>

In Which Dave Hires Soho Taco To Cater His Baby Daughter's Birthday Party

We've only written a hundred times or so about the Zambrano family's taco carts, Soho Taco. They show up pretty regularly at events around the county, they have giveaways to drum up business, and they launched a truck to get even more people hooked on them.You could be forgiven for thinking they're ... More >>

DJ Scotty Boy - Yost Theater - 5/5/12

See also: DJ Scotty Boy Takes Us on a Tour of His Favorite OC Spots On Cinco de Mayo, party people pound Mexican beer and tequila shots, and sport around town in sombreros. For those that survived the BBQs and pub crawls, a night out at the club was the best way to keep the party going. We headed t ... More >>

Manic de Mayo Celebration

House of Blues

Latin American Famiy Festival

Bowers Museum

OC Police: St. Patrick's Day DUI Checkpoints a Success

​During the St. Patrick's Day weekend when folks were gulping loads of green beer, Orange County thankfully endured zero related traffic fatalities and, in response, the sheriff's department is hailing the effectiveness of law enforcement sobriety checkpoints.From 6 p.m. March 16 to 6 p.m. yesterd ... More >>

Manic Hispanic at The House of Blues Last Night

​Manic HispanicMay 5, 2011House of Blues AnaheimCan anyone think of a better way to celebrate Cinco De Mayo than listening to latino-fied punk-rock in Orange County? It's a phenomena that has to be experienced at least once in life. Full-fledged bro's shrilling grito's as loud as Chente himself, s ... More >>

This Week in Food: Smoked Turkey Legs, Cinco de Drinko, and

Flickr user madmarv00​This was Cinco de Mayo week, so we understandably went more Mexican than usual. But after the jump are non-Mexi delights and more!

Meet Roosterhead's Technicolor Astro Van

​Some bands just ride vans; Huntington Beach psych rock duo Roosterhead recently painted their Astro van all sorts of fluorescent colors (to match their instruments). Then they gave it its own webpage, www.roosterheadmusic.com/van.It's in keeping with their odd aesthetic; as we said in a story las ... More >>

DUI Patrols Intensify for Cinco de Drinko

​I mean, it's not like your favorite outpost of alternative newsiness is bastardizing the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, with "Cinco de Drinko" listings. Er, check that.Anyways, in other Cinco de Drunk Tank news, the countywide "Avoid the 38 ... More >>

Six Presidential Encounters with Mexican Food, Ranked from Best to Worst

The only president that matters today...​So today is Cinco de Mayo blah blah blah blah. But instead of offering you places to drinko, your humble scribe likes learnin' people stuff, you know, the more arcane the better. So what more-random topic than a quick overview of American presidents and the ... More >>

Manic de Mayo Celebration

House of Blues

Cinco de Mayo Festival

Downtown Santa Ana

Leo Carrillo, Gonzalo Mendez, Frank Palomino, Carey McWilliams, and Lame-O Westminster/Garden Grove Unified School Districts

​The recent push by activists to have a school in the Orange Unified School District named after local civil rights pioneer Lorenzo Ramirez reminded me that the Westminster Unified School District still hasn't named a school after its famous civil rights pioneer: Gonzalo Mendez, who along with Ram ... More >>

Five Tips for Salsa-Making Contest Entries Gleaned from the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival

​A couple of weekends ago, I went Austin way to help judge  the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, one of the largest in the country. I went at the invitation of Robb Walsh, the dean of Texas food journalists and one of America's great advocates and historians of Tex-Mex cuisine (ask him wh ... More >>

Gustavo on Last Call with Carson Daly!

​Originally posted June 30, but NBC re-aired it this week, so might as well repost...enjoy, and please excuse the ugly mug to the right...The clip was filmed in March, originally aired around Cinco de Mayo, and was rebroadcast this week--and I finally found a clip online that I could legally share ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo 2: Electric Boogaloo

plasticpeople, under Creative Commons license​There were fans running through the streets of downtown Long Beach this afternoon, blowing vuvuzelas like they were in Polokwane, South Africa. They wore Dos Santos, Marquez, Fernandez and Blanco El Tri jerseys because, yes, Mexico just beat France in ... More >>

John and Ken-Style Mexi-Bashing Spreading to Little Saigon Airwaves?

​The airwaves of Little Saigon's radio stations are legendary outposts of slander, lies, innuendo, political water-carrying, intimidation, Red-baiting--in short, no-holds-barred banter, the kind State Assemblymember and Congressional hopeful Van Tran loves unless the criticism is against him. Most ... More >>

This Week in Food

Flickr user goopymartThis week Stick a Fork In It covered food trucks, Tila Tequila, the new McDonald's geolocation app and more. Catch up on what you missed after the jump!

This Week in Food

Flickr user Hello_QuynhFrom jelly rats to racist PR debacles, see what you missed this week in Stick a Fork in It after the jump!

Tila Tequila, Queen of Copy-and-Paste

sublimelyhappy @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 See, Tila, I know how to credit other people's work...​I've started a lot of conversations in my lifetime, and I've noticed that certain opening lines leave the other party dumbfounded, at a loss for how to continue. "I think I'm pregnant." "Th ... More >>

Police/French Army to be Out in Force to Stop Cinco de Drinko Imbibers/Mexican Army

​If you celebrate Cinco de Mayo today in Cinco de Drinko style (see the current print edition for places to get sauced--or salsaed), you may want to pretend that you are a member of the Mexican army and the police are invading French soldiers.That's because cops will be out in force today not to c ... More >>

Flier of the Week: Cinco De Mayo at Sharkeez

​What kind of foul-mouthed, beer drinking, fun-loving pack of music bloggers would we be if we didn't find you a decent place to party on Cinco De Mayo? Rustle up your best bandito/sexy senorita costume and get over to Sharkeez in Huntington Beach. 

Five Real Mexican Drinks for Cinco de Mayo

Let's just get this straight right away, OK?Yes, Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday. It's a Mexican holiday the way Patriots' Day is an American holiday. Patriots' Day is only observed in two out of the 50 American states (Massachusetts and Maine, in case you were wondering); Cinco de Mayo is only o ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Funk Night

Tropics Lounge

NarcoTunes

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this is your Mexican regional music on drugs

Scots Fest

OC Fairgrounds

OC Weekly's Cinco de Mayo Party

Big's

Whipped Whiteys and Other Delights: Seven Gabacho-Hating Mexican Songs

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Drinko Por Cinco Mariachi Cheat Sheet Edition

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Sucio Harry

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] A Gabacho In Front of a Mexican Tourist Trap Deserves the Reconquista His Wallet Gets

Gringo Holidays

Irish I Were Mexican with the Gobshites

Drinko de Mayo

Gabbi’s Mexican Kitchen

Manic Hispanic Covers: Americans Recording Mexican Songs, The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Mexicans. Assimilation. Believe It

[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Dia de los Impuestos Edition

Mexican Evolution

A tale of two El Matadors

Cholo-Punk Karaoke, Cabron!

A Manic Hispanic cheat sheet

!Ask a Mexican!

Special Food Edicion

Barrio Love

I Steel Them From You!

10 Mexican-bashing songs from the rock & roll canon

Gringo de Mayo

Cinco de Yummo

Five Mexican Mexican restaurants to fiesta at during Cinco de Mayo