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  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Jerry DePizzo of O.A.R. on 'King,' Their 15th Anniversary and California

    ​It may be hard to believe, but O.A.R. is about to celebrate their 15th anniversary. Their latest album, King, has been one of their highest charting albums to date. As the band prepared to head out to the West Coast for the first time in over a year, we caught up with saxophonist Jerry DePizzo to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    OC Sheriff's Officials Undergoing 40-Hour Training on How to Interact With the Mentally Ill

    ​After Kelly Thomas, a schizophrenic man who lived on the streets of Fullerton, died at the hands of Fullerton policemen in July, there was one thing just about everyone--the victim's family, protesters, the city council and law enforcement officials--agreed on: Law enforcement could use more trai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Ayn Rand Institute Fellow: Ayn Rand Bigger, Better than Jesus

    ​About a decade ago, while a student at Chapman University, I organized a debate on the legacy of Columbus and set out to find the craziest people on the Left and Right to argue. On the Left was the fanatical Mexica Movement, who think everything European is inherently evil, and on the right was O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Oscar Mayer Unveils Wienermobile Food Truck

    Oscar Meyer​Here's a luxe-lonchera we can wholeheartedly endorse: to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its iconic Wienermobile, the country's first gourmet food truck (Gustavo note: not really, but let's play along, shall we?), the hot dog giant has trotted out a mini-version from which its frank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Last Comic Standing Contestant Sues Tustin, Lennar Homes For Anti-Asian Discrimination

    Nick Dao​Nick Dao--a former, losing contestant on NBC's Last Comic Standing--isn't laughing.One of the last kids to escape Saigon via U.S. military airlift in the hours before the collapse of South Vietnam in April 1975, Dao--now 44 years old--is suing the City of Tustin and Lennar Homes for alleg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2010

    Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez

    ​Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republican; U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a Republican; and Whitman, yep, a Republican. "From our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Fifteenth Century Dining at La Huasteca

    Dave Lieberman​Five months or so ago, I attended a tasting dinner for chef Rocio Camacho's new menu at La Huasteca, the alta cocina restaurant in Lynwood's Plaza México. As we chatted after dinner, she explained that her true passion was pre-Hispanic cuisine; the native cuisine of Mexico before t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    To Do This Weekend 10/10-10/12

    BlizzCon 2008, October 10, 10:00 a.m. Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment has enjoyed great success with its World of Warcraft series, dominating the online, multiplayer, role-playing game industry and thoroughly permeating pop culture. This weekend, Blizzard is hosting its annual BlizzCon at the An ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 5, 2008

    [Pucker Up] Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy for So Many?

    BlizzCon 2008, October 10, 10:00 a.m. Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment has enjoyed great success with its World of Warcraft series, dominating the online, multiplayer, role-playing game industry and thoroughly permeating pop culture. This weekend, Blizzard is hosting its annual BlizzCon at the An ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 1, 2008

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

    BlizzCon 2008, October 10, 10:00 a.m. Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment has enjoyed great success with its World of Warcraft series, dominating the online, multiplayer, role-playing game industry and thoroughly permeating pop culture. This weekend, Blizzard is hosting its annual BlizzCon at the An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2007

    Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

    John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still in ... More >>

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz

    Belmont Shore Chili Cook-Off

  • Columns

    October 5, 2006

    !Ask a Mexican!

    'If you fight one bean, you fight the whole burrito!'

  • Features

    June 22, 2006

    Cruel Summer Reading

    Where summer's concerned, misery is what's icumen in

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Tustin

    Where summer's concerned, misery is what's icumen in

  • Columns

    September 15, 2005

    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

    Where summer's concerned, misery is what's icumen in

  • Culture

    August 25, 2005

    Waxing Roth

    The Library of America takes a shine to the author of Portnoys Complaint

  • Unknown

    April 7, 2005

    A Moral, Abject Failure When It Mattered

    Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Letter From Mexico

    Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005

  • Music

    March 13, 2003

    Yeah, Yeah, Old Man!

    Tuning in to 20 years of Channel 3

  • Features

    March 6, 2003

    War College

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Ayn Rand Institute Looks Back in Anger

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Music

    October 31, 2002

    You Cant Pull the Plug on Revolution!

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Features

    October 24, 2002

    T

    67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

  • Columns

    March 14, 2002

    The Moral of the Story

    Its a tough road to ho

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Tustin

    Not full of hot air

  • Music

    December 14, 2000

    Sis Bomm Bah

    Selby Tigers are grrrrreat!

  • Culture

    July 20, 2000

    Big Old Jews

    Once upon a time, literary giants bestrode the Earth

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    45 rides. 16 hours. One man. Disneyland in a day!

    Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.
    ---Dante

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