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August 11, 2007
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 marr ... More >>
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September 22, 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 onani ... More >>
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September 28, 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 B ... More >>
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September 15, 2008
Orange County: A Personal History: The Reviews
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 B ... More >>
Columns
January 11, 2001
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
Travels with Roxy
Music
March 29, 2001
Accidentally Legit
Inside Americas most ostentatious, alternative music fest
Blogs
March 23, 2009
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 ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 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 ... More >>
Columns
September 11, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] More Shameless Self-Promotion (Buy Gustavo's New Book!)
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 ... More >>
Columns
August 28, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] A Gabacho In Front of a Mexican Tourist Trap Deserves the Reconquista His Wallet Gets
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 ... More >>
Columns
May 8, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Stay Home and Watch 'COPS' With Your Traditional Mexican Woman
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 ... More >>
Columns
December 6, 2007
¡Ask a Mexican!®
"The quickest road to assimilation is a six-figure salary and a blonde from Wellesley."
Columns
January 11, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!
Do you drive this way in Turd World Mexico, too?
Columns
April 6, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'Sensenbeaners'
Music
October 6, 2005
Yoo Doo Right
Dungen: One man, one band, one monument
Features
November 20, 2003
Heir Guitars!
Weekly and Sam Ash Guitar giveaway winners!
Music
October 9, 2003
Where Metal Came to Die
Weekly and Sam Ash Guitar giveaway winners!
Music
May 16, 2002
A Good Thing for Us All
John Samson sat down with a guitar, and Weakerthans came out
News
July 22, 1999
Surf City, Here We Go
Australia steals professional surfing . . . and Texas still sucks
Blogs
April 27, 2009
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 Tr ... More >>
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October 8, 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 ... More >>
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November 3, 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 ou ... More >>
News
January 7, 2010
Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!
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 ou ... More >>
Columns
March 25, 2010
Slamming the New 'Speedy'
[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Mexican revokes George Lopez's 'Latino Seal of Approval'
Music
April 29, 2010
NarcoTunes
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this is your Mexican regional music on drugs
News
April 29, 2010
The Crucifixion of Juarez
On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death
Columns
May 13, 2010
Mexican-Hatin' is Sweeping the Nation!
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And everybody has a different, not-so-endearing nickname for the Brown Menace
News
June 3, 2010
Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border
Tougher border enforcement in California and Texas has spelled disaster for southern Arizona
Culture
July 22, 2010
Rodarte's Mexican Muddle
[Trendzilla] Murder still isn't cute, even when it's art
Blogs
July 26, 2010
The New Limb Tour Diaries: Days 3 & 4
(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; on their third and fourth days on the road, Dan Perez and Lauren Salamone give us the scoop. Read their first entry here.-- ... More >>
News
August 26, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
Blogs
September 2, 2010
¡Ask a Comida Critic! How Can I Get Hatch Chiles in OC?
Got this one from an amiga on Facebook:Where can I get Hatch chiles in Orange County? Not the canned stuff, but fresh from this year's harvest?The best option is to make the 12-hour trek to Hatch this weekend, when the Hatch Chile Festival will bring thousands to the tiny town and the scent of fr ... More >>
News
September 9, 2010
Juarez's Children
Drugs, death and fear in the murder capital of the world
Blogs
September 30, 2010
Bright Eyes Releases 'Coyote Song' For Sound Strike
Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly"Coyote Song," which Bright Eyes recorded for the Sound Strike, is out today. Created to support the coalition of artists who are boycotting Arizona after it passed the controversial SB 1070 bill, the song is for sale on the Sound Strike site for $2. Proceeds go to the Flo ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2010
Five Authentic Mexican Dishes That Would Make Rick Bayless Scream, Or: For an Aztlanista Approach to the Question of "Authenticity" in Mexican Cuisine
Chico's Tacos in El Paso: The Most Mexican Restaurant in AmericaRick Bayless came to and left Orange County last week, and none of Weeklings were able to attend, busy as we are with our normal lives (Dave, Edwin, and Shuji, their 9-to-5s; me, skinheads and pedo-priests). Sucks, because the battle ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Free Moral Agents Announce Tour to Support 'Control This'
Mary Bell/OC WeeklyAs we mentioned a few months ago, Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, Long Beach-based, Grammy-award-winning keyboardist for Mars Volta, is now taking some time off Mars Volta to focus on Free Moral Agents.As Ikey expanded his 2002 solo project into a full band five years ago, he corral ... More >>
Music
November 4, 2010
Know Fearless Records
The OC label that first signed Plain White T's has a plan for keeping the next big thing from bolting to the majors
Columns
November 18, 2010
Should Mexicans Move Back to Mexico?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do Mexicans cabrones and Argentine carajos hate one another?
Blogs
November 22, 2010
The Mexican Hamburger of Denver: America's Greatest Mexican Meal
I was in Denver recently, partly to research my coming book, partly to debate former congressman Tom Tancredo on immigration, but really to finally taste the Holy Grail of Mexican-American cookery: the Mexican hamburger. Behold its cheesy, mixed-up glory above, and click after the jump to discove ... More >>
News
December 16, 2010
The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants
But what's been unearthed reveals a culture of cruelty
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Mexican Pop Singer Kalimba Jailed on Rape Charge
Twenty-eight-year-old Mexican pop singer Kalimba Ibar, former member of band OV7 and the singing voice of Simba in the Latin American film version of The Lion King, was jailed on rape charges on Jan 20. According to the Associated Press, Kalimba was deported from the U.S. to Mexico after ... More >>
Columns
March 17, 2011
Is It Crazy to Shop in Juarez?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Plus, is the chupacabra Mexican?
Blogs
March 23, 2011
Five Search Features Yelp Should Add Instead of "Hipster"
So news is going all around that Yelp added "Hipster" to its possible categories for a location's ambiance (which spelling is correct again?), and the first reaction that came to my mind is "redundant." Isn't Yelp the epitome of hipsterdom, of a sea of shallow reactions and It buzz, with the crea ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Five (Largely Inaccurate) Oxford English Dictionary Entries for Mexican Foods
Last week, I reported on how the Oxford English Dictionary had just included "banh mi" into its august publication, a wonderful, surprising development. Also in the mix was "taquito," and that entry just pissed me off. Oh, I was happy that rolled, fried tacos finally received their due--but ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
What's So Wrong With Calling Santa Ana a Latino City?
Man, SanTana cracks me up sometimes--okay, ALL THE TIME. The Orange County Register's Andrew Galvin wrote a good piece yesterday ostensibly about efforts by Latino activists to try and persuade the SanTana City Council at this past Monday's meeting to ask its police department to stop impounding ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2011
Starbucks Gets Sued by The Feds for Firing Worker with Dwarfism
Reuters reports that Starbucks has been slapped by a lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for firing a barista-in-training with dwarfism in El Paso, Texas. The barista was terminated because she asked for a stool or a small stepladder to perform her job.The feds argue that this v ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Girl In a Coma
Alex's Bar
Blogs
June 16, 2011
IDEA Act, The DREAM Act's Recently-Introduced Cousin, Would Boost Number of Green Cards
Not this green card...If a California congresswoman has her way, a lot more people will get their green cards soon. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amp the number of green cards for foreign students and entrepreneurs. The students have to meet a lot of c ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2011
Latin Alternative Explosion: Probable or Inevitable?
Sicilia WolfLatin Alternative Songstress Carla Morrison The music is great and the demographics are there for the taking, so is it only a matter of time before a Latin Alternative explosion occurs Stateside? Producer and songwriter Desmond Child weighed in with his opinion in a recent Al Borde pi ... More >>
Columns
February 2, 2012
What Do I Do to Shut Up My Mexican-Hating Mexicna Cousin?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do Mexicans have different words for dark skin?
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