Subject: El Paso

• Where famous people eat!

  June 29, 2000

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Pampering Predators

  To Catch--and Pamper!--a Predator: Where the hell is Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC? Why do I ask? Well, in Orange County, authority figures--particularly cops--nabbed for outrageous sexual conduct either get re-elected, promoted or pampered. The latest example is Jason David Rosewarne. The married Anaheim police officer used his job to meet and molest an underage girl, skipped bail to flee to England, lived as a felony fugitive for three years and returned to the U.S. in July 2006. Though

  August 11, 2007

• Greetings from an asshole in El Paso

  Howdy, y'all! I write to you today from El Paso, Texas, where I've been acting in my friend Zach Passero's movie WICKED LAKE, playing a character named "Half-Idiot." Considering my distinguished stature as a writer and critic, it may or may not surprise you that my character is a compulsively onanistic redneck who makes things pretty uncomfortable for our four female protagonists. I've actually been an actor longer than anything else...but then, so have most of us. Kids playing with their toys

  September 22, 2007

• Subpoenas Sought for Urell, Urell’s Attorneys

  Links to come--am boarding a plane to El Paso... While OC Weekly cover boy Monsignor John Urell is in Canada to presumably get his rocks back in order, the Jeff Andrade matter trudges on. The latest twist: Urell’s lawyer is busy fighting a subpoena filed against the two of them filed by Newport Beach attorney John Manly. In a letter dated Sept. 25, Urell personal attorney Peter Hennessey tries to plead innocence and ignorance as to why he should be deposed. “I am not aware of any legitima

  September 28, 2007

• Orange County: A Personal History: The Reviews

  September 15, 2008

• Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

  January 11, 2001

• Accidentally Legit

  March 29, 2001

• Spring Breakers: Forget Cancun, El Paso Is Where It's At!

  ZereshkEl Paso: Better than Cancun?The pages of Navel Gazing have long narrated the increasingly crumbly and futile efforts by OC's loose network of immigrant haters to work Americans up into a fit of rage over illegal immigration. But this latest effort by the usual suspects (Barbara Coe, CCIR, the Minutemen) marks a kind of milestone for just how desperate they've grown. They've now set out to attack spring breakers and middle-aged, fanny-packed, cruise-ship bound tourists with -- fliers? App

  March 23, 2009

• Blast from the Past: Another Connection Between Anti-Semitic KPFK Host and La Voz de Aztlan

  Perhaps the best exposé on the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing website La Voz de Aztlan was published in 2002 by the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles. This is where we got the information that sole writer Hector Carreon (last name has Jewish roots) worked in Buena Park. The article hasn't existed online for years, however, mysteriously scrubbed away from the grasp of Google and even the mighty Lexis-Nexis database--until now. Following the jump is the article in its entirety, written by Tony Ortega,

  March 25, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] More Shameless Self-Promotion (Buy Gustavo's New Book!)

  September 11, 2008

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

  August 28, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Stay Home and Watch 'COPS' With Your Traditional Mexican Woman

  May 8, 2008

• There and Back again with dios

  June 3, 2004

• ¡Ask a Mexican!®

  December 6, 2007

• I Steel Them From You!

  April 29, 2004

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 11, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  April 6, 2006

• Yoo Doo Right

  October 6, 2005

• Heir Guitars!

  November 20, 2003

• Where Metal Came to Die

  October 9, 2003

• A Good Thing for Us All

  May 16, 2002

• Surf City, Here We Go

  July 22, 1999

• Tomorrow: Blank Blue and Zech's Marquis at The Prospector

  Finding a place that serves mind-bending psychedelics and stiff drinks in the same  building on a Tuesday night is undoubtedly a fortunate find. That is of course unless your a regular at The Prospector. In that case, you know that anything's possible at the monthly event Wildest Dreams Come True where the free-frolicking sonic adventurists come to get their "dive bar"on. Tomorrow night's show show starts at 10 p.m.This week offers another interesting chapter in the gathering as one of Long

  April 27, 2009

• Free Moral Agents Announce Tour, No California Dates Yet

  ​Yesterday, it was announced that Long Beach psych-rock jam artists Free Moral Agents (pictured) are hitting the road with their El Paso compadres Zechs Marquise. Their tour, which starts November 7 in ZM's hometown, is set to run for about three weeks at this point, with dates to be added shortly. It's worth noting that both bands share a pretty obvious Mars Volta connection, with FMA keyboardist/brain child Ikey Owens and ZM drummer Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez sharing the stage in that band.Marce

  October 8, 2009

• TONIGHT: Free Moral Agents kick off November Tour at the Prospector

  ​Three and a half weeks ago, we mentioned that Long Beach avant rockers Free Moral Agents (featuring keyboardist Ikey Ownes of the Mars Volta) are going out on the road with El Paso band Zechs Marquise. We all found that they hadn't booked any hometown show dates yet. Excuse our tardiness, but it appears that the band has added a show at their neighborhood stomping grounds at the Prospector. And as the title of this blog suggests, you don't have much time to make up your mi

  November 3, 2009