Subject: Coca-Cola Classic

• Glum Old Party?

  With the Democrats taking the House and threatening to take the Senate at this hour, you might expect the Orange County GOP election night party at the Hyatt Regency Irvine to be a mopey affair. After all, a huge banner in the room proclaims this is "America's Most Republican County." But, other than being about the tenth of the size of previous gloat-a-thons, the well-dressed crowd here is mostly laughing, chatting and paying little attention to the results streaming in on the giant screen CNN

  November 7, 2006

• All Coked Up

  Vanilla Coke is back! You might not have realized that it went away, of course, especially if you eat regularly at Rubio's, the only major food chain to keep it on its soda fountains. But yeah, they replaced it with Black Cherry Vanilla a while back, which was decent but not as tasty. Now plain Vanilla has returned, along with Vanilla Coke Zero (which is basically Diet Vanilla Coke with one additional additive that I can't spell off the top of my head). But as awesome as it is to have VC back

  May 29, 2007

• Lights! Cola! Action!

  We don't know whether to be proud, repulsed, jealous--all three? Chapman University grad stud Rosemary Lambert's short film The Reel Monkey won the Grand Prize in a film competition. So far, so good--until you discover it's the 2006 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Competition. You see, student filmmakers--from the likes of USC, NYU and Farber College, we're told--have their Coke-enhanced scripts approved by the good folks at Coca-Cola, who then pick their faves, give the young 'uns $7,500 cash an

  March 3, 2006

• All's Fair in Love and OC

  When it's the opening day of the Orange County Fair, you have plenty of time in traffic — an hour, in fact, just to get from Santa Ana to the fairgrounds — to realize just how poorly the 55 is designed. Immediately after some major road feeds into it, forcing a mass slowing as a new torrent of cars merges inward, yet another major road feeds into it, and just as soon as that's integrated, another still. Even when the freeway's just about to end, there are still major roads feeding in, and if

  July 16, 2007

• The OC Fair: One last look

  August 5, 2007

• LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 10-5-07

  It's hard to get all that enthused about some of the releases this week, but there's one that I'm definitely all fired up NOT to see. THE SEEKER: THE DARK IS RISING Remember back when Harry Potter was first going to be a movie, and it was suggested that Steven Spielberg would direct, with Haley Joel Osment in the lead, re-setting the action in America? Aren't you glad that didn't happen? Or maybe you're one of those who complained that the Harry Potter movies were somehow too faithful, whateve

  October 5, 2007

• Chris Tsagakis on his solo act: Technology

  The last place you would expect to find members of an OC band that managed to claw its way out of the depths of obscurity and into some money is underneath the dim lights of a cramped stage at a neighborhood sports bar and family restaurant. Yet that's where we ran into Chris Tsagakis, drummer for the SoCal progressive ska powerhouse Rx Bandits last Thursday. The man performed his solo electro/drum side project Technology at Haskell's Prospector in Long Beach in front of a crowded bar packed wi

  January 25, 2008

• Thanks Coca-Cola... I Guess.

  Sending over a giant box filled with Coke bottles, the Coca-Cola giants' latest little project includes bringing together Eastern graphic designers from China (I can only assume Coke is going to be a huge sponsor for the ‘08 Olympics), and West-side-of-the hemisphere musicians— mostly DJs like Kaskade and Benny Benassi. The point? “To interpret the ideas and passions that connect us— by sharing and expressing one of eight themes: Happiness, Active Optimism, Human Collaboration, Peace

  June 4, 2008

• Santa Ana Popeyes' Tuesday $1.29 Two-Piece Deal

  Call it a reverse knee-jerk response, but when I saw this story about L.A.'s City Council's ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles to combat obesity and the highest incidence of diabetes in the county, it made this blogger realize that he hasn't sunk his teeth into some Popeyes Chicken in a while. And when one has such an epiphany, there's no better day of the week to have it than Tuesday. Tuesdays, as most people know, is when you can get the leg and thigh special for $1.29 at

  August 3, 2008

• That 80s Show

  August 5, 1999

• Goodbye, Old Friends

  January 25, 2001

• The OC Weekly Book Of Food Lists!

  July 24, 2003

• Shittygiftophobia

  December 14, 2000

• Green Girl Of Your Dreams

  February 3, 2005

• FDA Wags Finger at Diet Coke's Vitamin Claims

  The FDA has issues with Coca Cola's new Diet Coke Plus.  It sent the company a letter earlier this month about the drink, which Coke purports to have a "refreshing taste...AND several essential nutrients" with "each 8 fl. oz. serving of Diet Coke Plus provid(ing) 15% of your RDI for niacin and vitamins B6 and B12, and 10% for zinc and magnesium". So what do the feds have a problem with?  It's the word "plus", believe it or not.  The FDA says that the drink fails

  December 24, 2008

• They Said it Couldn't Be Done

  Tickets are on sale now for a show April 11 at the House of Blues. Headlining the bill is a group called Tragedy. What's interesting about this is the venue says the show is a heavy metal tribute to the Bee Gees. I don't know where to begin. For once in my life, I am at a loss for words. Never before have I thought that the disco-friendly Bee Gees would ever get a heavy metal makeover, but maybe Obama's right: change is on the way.Please click their MySpace page for what is definitely the most u

  March 5, 2009

• Miscellaneous Great Gifts!

  December 14, 2000

• Gooey and Greasy

  The J. Flynn Gallery’s delicious, nutritious ‘Strangest Life’ show

  November 22, 2007

• Clubbed!

  September 11, 2003

• 2007: a Comic-Con Odyssey

  Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love sleep deprivation, huge crowds and wonderful toys

  August 9, 2007

• Letters

  Allow me to write a similar column to !Ask a Mexican! called Ask an American, and lets see which column people like more

  July 5, 2007

• Hey, You!

  Coke Jacker

  June 28, 2007

• Father, I Want to Kill You

  Jim Morrisons Birthday

  December 7, 2006

• Soul

  OCDCs vibrant county art survey outperforms the big-pants museum shows

  December 7, 2006

• 'Indians Scattered On Dawn's Highway Bleeding'

  Naw, just a bunch of white kids watching the Doors

  November 16, 2006

• Raise Those Glasses, Boyos!

  Election night with the biggest losers

  November 9, 2006

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  October 5, 2006

• Trendzilla

  March 16, 2006

• Evenings of Wine and Coke

  July 7, 2005

• Gone Lenten

  March 31, 2005

• Mild In the Streets

  December 2, 2004

• These are the Riches of the Rich

  Hush your poor gut at Laguna Beachs buzz spot

  July 29, 2004

• What Happens in Vegas . . .

  July 8, 2004

• Juke Making Me Crazy!

  February 5, 2004

• Sweet Dreams

  October 2, 2003

• Out of the Chord Closet

  July 10, 2003

• Diarmuid and Fergals Place

  July 3, 2003

• Its a Wonderful Week

  May 15, 2003

• Trout Season

  January 11, 2001

• The People Behind the Food...

  February 1, 2001

• Crime Dog McGruff, the Early Years

  September 28, 2000

• Somewhere Off Highway 60 in Arizona

  May 11, 2000

• Going Mobile

  March 30, 2000

• Eat Cheap

  March 16, 2000

• Crash Landing

  December 9, 1999

• Selling Out

  August 12, 1999

• Fantasy Candidates

  August 5, 1999

• [Special Screenings] 'Under the Bombs,' 'Border Café,' 'The Big Lebowski,' More

  May 14, 2009

• Drink of the Week: The Lindsay Lohan

  It's a Red-Headed Slut with some Coke in it. Ha! The recipe is as follows: 1 oz peach schnapps, 1 oz Jagermeister, cranberry juice and a splash of Coca-Cola. This shot is a real gem for party girls and people wanting a good laugh. You can order them anywhere fine drinks are made. Have a great weekend!

  June 12, 2009

• The Alley Cats: Friday Night's Barbershop Quartet

  ​In another edition of what this writer's going to call "Free Things to Do This Weekend" (it's unofficial!), So-Cal's own barbershop quartet, The Alley Cats, comes home Friday night with a free concert at Chapman University.  Formed in 1987 at Fullerton College, the group is considered as "America's Premiere Doo-Wop Group" --you may have even seen them perform at Disneyland or in Las Vegas with Jay Leno. There's just something about a bunch of guys in matching suits and top hats, sing

  August 20, 2009