Subject: Fresno

• The Los Angeles Times is Stupid (Canto MCXVI)

  It's painful picking up the Los Angeles Times every morning and notice it's getting lighter every week. While they're doing this, however, their Chicago pendejo overseers are spending mucho millions on how to attract more readers. Their supposed salvation: Mexicans. If so, why in God's green earth would they axe La Cucaracha, the pinche funny comic strip drawn by legendary pocho Lalo Alcaraz??? It's one of the precious few comic strips in Latino USA drawn by Latinos and that deal with Latino is

  March 5, 2007

• Got stamina?

  In front of the AMC multiplex at The Block, they've erected a security gate, with warnings of guard dogs. It looks forbidding, until you read the name on the columns that border it: "Fort Fridge." Beyond the chainlink fencing lies a plexiglass box, inside of which is another plexiglass box, and inside of that is a big frosted glass. The idea, apparently, is that this fortress guards the last glass of milk on Earth. The way to defend this glass is to put one hand on the box and keep it there lon

  May 18, 2007

• Got Winners? Yes

  Didn't mean to leave everyone in suspense about the Fort Fridge contest, if indeed you were. It was over by Tuesday; here, courtesy of the official press release, is how it ended: Twenty-five-year-old law clerk Geovannie De La Torre toughed it out against 28 other determined Californians. The third and final GET THE GLASS for Cash competition lasted four days. It started Friday, May 18 at 1:15 p.m at the Block at Orange. With 54 hours under his belt, De La Torre broke the GET THE GLASS for CASH

  May 23, 2007

• Diocese of Fresno Lies to OC Weekly, Spins for Brown

  September 14, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Anaheim Subsidizes Private Tennis Club

  Slow Road to China: Officials at the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) are puzzled as to why a private construction company is repeatedly missing deadlines to finish the $550-million road-widening project, according to a story by Ellyn Pak at the Register. The delays aren't just costing commuters time. They are also losing money. Taxpayers have already shelled out $1 million in delay-related expenses. So why the delays? Well, the construction company apparently isn't required to ex

  September 18, 2007

• Register Fails to Reveal Relationship Between Loftus and Catholic Church

  Yesterday, Orange County Register crime reporter Rachanee Srisavasdi interviewed the man who claims Orange diocese Bishop Tod D. Brown abused him decades ago. Scott Hicks of Fresno claims that he suppressed the thoughts of abuse for years and recalled them only after therapy recovered those memories. Recovered memories are always a minefield of allegations, as anyone who remembers the McMartin preschool trials remember, so Srisavasdi quoted UC Irvine's Elizabeth Loftus on the validity of recover

  October 1, 2007

• Register, Times Slam Santa Ana Good--And a Challenge

  If there's one thing that Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut hates more than Sheriff Mike Carona, it's city-controlled urban planning, and he ripped SanTana officials a new one and then some yesterday in a piece blasting the city's much-ballyhooed Renaissance Specific Plan. Proponents say the Renaissance Plan will transform the city's downtown; opponents say the same, except use the word "gentrification." Greenhut, in one of his increasing moves to the Left, sides with the o

  December 24, 2007

• Lock Up Your Daughters: Today All Three Are Free

  June 18, 2008

• Heat And Activism In Fresno: A Prop. 8 Protest Journal

  Dave Barton Thousands rallied on 5/30 in Fresno for Meet in the Middle 4 Marriage Equality event, which included a 14-mile march. Protest organizers chose the city of Fresno--instead of marching to the capitol or in so-called "gay ghettos"--because they city had voted 65%-70% for the passing of Prop 8. Weekly contributor Dave Barton was on hand, and sends us this travelogue:When I step out of the air-conditioned comfort of our rented Mercury Grand Marquis and walk into the dry heat, Martin Shee

  June 1, 2009

• Sallys!

  October 7, 1999

• Letters

  December 11, 2003

• Pussy Galore

  January 15, 2004

• Orange County Bishops and Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card: A History

  I'm getting disappointed with Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. As of recently, I've been reporting more on the kooky actions of former Orange bishops, whether it was homo-hating or homo-hypocrisy, than the current head of the county's Catholics. So it hurts me to report that the latest in Orange County Catholic idiocies again emanates from alumni--in this case Fresno Bishop John Steinbock and his $10,000 donation to the St. Luke's Institute. St. Luke's is notorious as the place where the

  November 20, 2008

• Zots from the UCI Baseball 'Eaters' Defeat of Fresno State Last Night

  *Written by Weekly intern and UCI New University student paper managing editor David Nicolas...The UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team put down the Fresno Bulldogs in the first game of the Irvine NCAA regional playoff series, edging the 'Dogs 4-2. UCI's starting pitcher Daniel Bibona quieted Fresno's pingy metal bats and put in seven and two-thirds innings of work, giving up just five hits and striking out 14 batters. It was Bibona-mination!  This is UCI's third-straight appearance in the Col

  May 30, 2009

• Hey, Federales: Don't Forget the Pedo-Priest Protectors from the Diocese of Orange!

  When I heard late that the United States Attorney's office is investigating Archdiocese of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony for his role in covering up the rapes committed by his priest, I attributed it to a hallucination brought on by last night's episode of Lost. But here's the Los Angeles Times story that proves it, and all I can say is: what about the Diocese of Orange?According to Times reporters Scott Glover and Jack Leonard, the feds are accusing Mahony and perhaps other L.A. Archdiocese

  January 29, 2009

• Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

  Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-ish tour will close out with two dates at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine--where they had a mini-reunion during the encore of one of Gwen Stefani's solo shows back in June 2007--on July 31 a

  February 25, 2009

• Former O.C. Bishop Lies Like a Devil in Fresno Pedophile Case

  Yesterday, a Fresno jury acquitted the Catholic Diocese of Fresno of culpability in the priestly rapes of innocents, and does this news really surprise you given Fresno is Fresno? We really can't expect much intellectually and morally of this town, given its head padre is Bishop John Steinbock, former auxiliary bishop of the Orange diocese. On the witness stand, news accounts quote Steinbock as saying, "I never have returned anyone to ministry that I believe was guilty of sex abuse."HAHAHAHAHA!

  April 4, 2009

• TONIGHT: The Valley Arena at Detroit Bar

  Detroit Bar's weekly "Busy Work" night is known for its DJs (like resident "spinner," ugh, hate that term, Dan Sena), and getting folks from bands--like Efrem Schulz from Death by Stereo, to name a recent one--to man the 1s and 2s. But tonight, there's an actual live band performing there, as well? What in the world?Yes, it's Long Beach's The Valley Arena, who are readying the release of their third album this May. They're busy this week--last night they were over at the Prospector in their neck

  April 8, 2009

• Ain't Dead Yet

  October 2, 2008

• Sisterly Concern

  UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers

  December 20, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 1, 2002

• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

  May 29, 2003

• Old World Charm

  Ken Davitian makes laughter for benefit grateful moviegoers of America

  February 8, 2007

• Pole Cat

  OC portable-pole mogul Keith Scheinberg has turned brass into gold

  July 5, 2007

• TOMORROW: Local Natives and The Union Line at The Gypsy Lounge

  Okay, I guess we all saw this coming. Local Natives have officially changed their origin to Silver Lake on their Myspace page....sigh, okay guys. Well, hopefully you and the OC can still be friends. For those of you who have followed the harmaonizing echoes, rumbling rhythms and spangly guitar chords of this band since their Mission Viejo days, tomorrow may be one of the slim chances you get to rock out to these guys in South County for a month or so, maybe more. They will be playing The Gypsy L

  April 16, 2009

• Nailed?

  April 26, 2007

• The Effects of a Fresno Boy

  Gary Soto

  January 4, 2007

• All Do Crazy Things

  Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 23 - Nov. 30

  November 23, 2006

• The New Crips

  October 12, 2006

• Commie Girl

  California Coming Home: How I deducted my summer vacation

  July 20, 2006

• Aug. 4 - Aug. 11

  August 4, 2005

• Capitol Punishment

  How Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped worrying and learned to love selling out to special interests

  June 2, 2005

• Beverly Center? Weve Got Two of Those!

  March 31, 2005

• Hello, San Diego!

  March 10, 2005

• Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

  September 2, 2004

• All This Useless Boozy

  June 24, 2004

• Best Shopping and Porn

  October 30, 2003

• Dancing With Myself

  July 17, 2003

• Rally Round Jah School

  April 3, 2003

• Daahk, Veddy, Veddy Daahk

  July 26, 2001

• Get soft on Crime

  June 29, 2000

• Holy (Rock &) Rollers

  December 16, 1999

• The Iceworker Cometh

  November 11, 1999

• GLAAD Claims KDOC-TV Aired Anti-Gay Infomercial

  OCProgressive.com gets the credit for catching this first, but the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation says it received complaints about the re-emergence of an anti-gay infomercial titled Speechless: Silencing the Christians--and among the stations around the country that just showed it apparently was Santa Ana-based KDOC-TV/Channel 56.According to glaadBLOG, a West Hollywood resident contacted the alliance after seeing Speechless on KDOC from 7 to 8 p.m. on Sunday. Other viewers

  June 23, 2009

• Can "PETA Girls Gone Wild" DVDs Be Far Behind?

  Courtesy of Vegan Mel's MySpace pagePETA's Melissa Sehgal (right), who also goes by "Vegan Mel," demonstrates against McDonalds.Melissa Sehgal, who vows to strip down to a nude body painted like a tiger and confine herself to a cage with a banner above reading, "Wild Animals Don't Belong Behind Bars" in Anaheim this morning, is actually on something of a tour, having already pulled the stunt in Fresno on Tuesday.A member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)--she goes by Vegan Me

  June 25, 2009

• Vegan Mel Carries Out Her Nude Protest

  Photo by Keith MayHear Vegan Mel roar!You were told this morning about the vow made by Melissa Sehgal, who also goes by Vegan Mel, to sit in a cage in Anaheim while her nude body was painted like a tiger. If you point your eyes in that direction, you can still make out the smoke trail produced when photographer Keith May high-tailed it over there for the voluntary assignment. The fruits of his hard labor are revealed in this quite-possibly-not-totally-safe-for-work slideshow.Sehgal is a member o

  June 25, 2009

• Big Week for the ADA and the Disabled

  Eddie Rea, 21, an emerging disability rights leader from Fresno, is the youth speaker at the Sacramento forum's luncheon.​It's a big week for the disabled in Sacramento--and, no, that was not a timely dig at the governor and legislature.Well, not this time.The 18th annual Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities, which is "designed to help young people with disabilities reach their full personal and professional potential," hits its stride this morning under the Capitol dome. Ther

  July 29, 2009

• 2009 Postseason Throwdown: 26 Reasons to Hate Boston, Bostonians and Other Massholes

  Those rubes in Boston probably find this pretty.​UPDATED WITH CORRECTIONS . . . Before Angel fans can truly hate the Boston Red Sox--actually, if 1986 playoffs didn't do it, nothing will--they must first hate the team's fans, the residents of the town surrounding Fenway Park and the town itself. ​(Along those lines, a Halos cap tip to Village Voice Media Vice President of Blog Stirring Bill Jensen for this apt name for annoying Bostonians: Massholes.

  October 8, 2009

• Healthcare Workers to Protest Job Cuts at Kaiser Orange County

  Coming to Anaheim Thursday.​Kaiser Permanente employees will picket outside the Kaiser Orange County facility Thursday to protest the health behemoth's plans to slash 1,350 jobs in coming months.Kaiser workers in purple shirts are scheduled to chant, carry signs and speak with patients about the effects of job cuts on patient care from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 411 North Lakeview Ave., Anaheim. The picketing is part of five weeks of events held by SEIU-UHW members, who have scheduled simultan

  September 30, 2009

• [UPDATED] UC Budget Protest at UCLA is Rowdy. Cal State Protest in Long Beach? Not So Much

  ​UPDATE: University of California Regents voted for a 32 percent tuition increase today, with a dissenting vote coming from the student-regent. The vote was taken and debated over loud protests outside from hundreds of demonstrators. Our big sis' LA Weekly reports one arrest today. See also the Los Angeles Times LA Live blog post and their photos here.

  November 19, 2009