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What We Learned, April 14-20

It's our weekly look back at the Weekly's week that was, with taglines indicating what this taught us.APRIL 14: Ron Thomas, the father of Kelly Thomas, the young man beaten to death by Fullerton cops in July 2011, participates in the Social Justice Summit at Cal State Fullerton. His topic is not ven ... More >>

BREAKING: Chris McAmis Pleads Guilt, Officially a Murderer

At what was expected to be a preliminary hearing, the accused murderer of Fullerton College student Lynsie Ekelund pled guilty today. Christopher Michael McAmis, 31, will serve a sentence of 15 years to life for murdering 20-year-old Ekelund in 2001 at his Whittier apartment.Ekelund disappeared ... More >>

[UPDATE: TOMORROW] Panel on Legendary OC Chicano Artists Emigdio Vasquez and Sergio O'Cadiz to Happen Feb. 29 at Fullerton Public Library

​Last year, as part of my "Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!" at the Fullerton Public Library, I was supposed to do a one-on-one with legendary Chicano muralist Emigdio Vasquez, whose murals are slowly fading away in the barrios of Orange County and from the county's memory. Unfortunately, Vasquez ... More >>

Parker Macy, Danny Maika, Tully James Wilkinson and More at the OC Music Awards Showcase at the Continental Room Last Night

​Mandie and Ruby, Foxxhound, Danny Maika, Parker Macy, Tully James Wilkinson  Continental Room, FullertonFeb. 7, 2012The biggest criticism this curmudgeon will heap upon night six of the OC Music Awards has to do with the venue. Of all the beer bars and juke joint hosting this season's showca ... More >>

Fullerton College Student Says Cops Wrongfully Arrested Him And Beat Him Up in 2008

​At a council meeting in Fullerton last week, a man said he thought the "flood gates" of complaints against the police department had only just started. Well, it looks like he might be right.A 23-year-old Fullerton College student was allegedly arrested on false charges of public drunkenness ... More >>

Five Ways to Celebrate Leo Fender's Birthday!

​It's sort of mind bending to think that the county responsible for nurturing the careers of such establishment-defending squares as Richard Nixon, Mike Carona and Deborah Pauley also produced a prolific harbinger of rock & roll. We speak of course of Leo Fender, instrumental creator of the St ... More >>

No. 88: Chicago Dog at Chicago Harv's

​Welcome to the 2011 edition of Stick A Fork In It's 100 Favorite Dishes. We've just kicked off our countdown to #1 (which will appear the same week as our compendium on all that's good and right about Orange County).

Squaring Off Against My Childhood Hot Dog Preferences At Chicago Harv's

​I am from New Jersey. Central New Jersey, to be more exact. I grew up in a place where there was exactly one way to eat hot dogs: with brown mustard and sauerkraut. Sure, if you went a little bit north there'd be those onions in red sauce, which are pretty good, but the proper hot dog is a ko ... More >>

[UPDATED] Chris McAmis Enters Not Guilty Plea in Lynsie Ekelund Killing

​UPDATE, MARCH 22, 12:44 P.M.: Today, after months of delays, 32-year-old Christopher McAmis entered a plea of not guilty to allegedly murdering and attempting to rape Placentia woman Lynsie Ekelund a decade ago. This was McAmis' fourth appearance at the Superior Court in uptown Whittier since his ... More >>

Sal Duenas Is a Handball Wizard

The Santa Ana native is king of Orange County's handball courts—but can he go further and bring the sport some much-needed respect?

Chris McAmis' Arraignment on Murder Charge Delayed

​Accused murderer Chris McAmis requested a new arraignment date today via his public defender, Leslie Gordon, at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Whittier. Commissioner Armando Moreno granted the request and set a new date for March 22, though he warned there would be no further continuances.

The Naughty Teddy vs. Fullerton Prudes

TheNaughtyTeddy.com​Most of Dan Miller's story on a 7-month-old store in Fullerton is rather blasé. The Naughty Teddy at 129 W. Commonwealth Ave. hawks lingerie mostly, fulfilling a desire Anaheim native Dawn Aquino had to start a new career after leaving her tax-filing business.But about three-q ... More >>

Lynsie Ekelund Remembered at Moving Service

​Almost two months after  Los Angeles County Coroner's officials removed the bones of missing Fullerton College student Lynsie Ekelund from a shallow grave in Santa Clarita, a memorial service was held today for the 20-year-old Placentia woman. Ekelund left her mother's Placentia home on ... More >>

Mychael Darwin Is the Genie of Jeans

[Trendzilla] Find some of America's finest pair of denims at his La Habra store

Chris McAmis, Accused of Murdering Lynsie Ekelund, Has New Arraignment Date

Courtesy Orange County Sheriff's Department​Chris McAmis, accused of murdering Fullerton College student Lynsie Ekelund in 2001, this morning waived his right to a speedy arraignment at the Whittier Superior Courthouse. His arraignment was rescheduled for Jan. 20. Police say McAmis, now 31, str ... More >>

A Family Affair at Les Amis in Fullerton

From grandma to grandchild, the Montecristos keep this bistro humming with their Lebanese meals

A Shadowy Month in Fullerton

The city of Fullerton, long known as the Paris of North Orange County, is also the most artistically dense city in the OC. Want proof? Try Fullerton Shadows, a month-long theater--and other artsy stuff--festival involving 120 events on display at eight venues scattered across town. Since this is Oc ... More >>

Local Storefront Goes Batty!

​The Hunger Artists, one of the longest established storefront theaters in Orange County, is currently staging Bat Boy: the Musical. One of the weirdest subjects to ever crawl out of a creatively deranged mind and into the light of musical theater, it's based on a 1992 "story" in th ... More >>

'The Producers' Uber Alles!

Maverick Theater masters the irreverent Mel Brooks musical

Thomas Kinkade Haters Unite! A Q&A With Hibbleton Curator Jesse LaTour

Courtesy Hibbleton Gallery​ It's no secret that I tend to get a case of the fanboy drools every time I think (or write) about Fullerton's Hibbleton Gallery. I'm certainly not alone in that regard: The OC Weekly awarded it Best Art Gallery-2009 in our yearly Best Of issue, saying "You'd be hard-pre ... More >>

Introducing: Joel Beers' Local Theater Blog

Today marks the beginning of Joel Beers' theater blog, which will feature news and notes about everything theater-related in Orange County. - Lilledeshan Bose It's hard to find a bigger name in American stage directing than Warner Shook. He led Seattle's Intiman Theatre to national prominence ... More >>

Gustavo Arellano Related to Jessica Alba!

Taken from Wikipedia lest we pay the papparazzi...​I get the strangest, most beautiful letters regarding my book, Orange County: A Personal History, and I probably got the best one yet last week from a middle-aged lady who lives in the San Gabriel Valley. She had long heard me on the Orange County ... More >>

Mendez vs. Westminster, OC Latino History, and the Ever-Revealing-Itself Genius of Carey McWilliams

McWilliams: The Original Gunkist Historian...​This week's cover story on the controversy in the retelling of the historic Mendez vs. Westminster decision has a brief mention of the case's best chronicler: the great progressive historian Carey McWilliams. The Fullerton College professor quoted in t ... More >>

OC's Famous Desegregation Case Finally Gets Its Historical Due, But One Family Feels Left Out

McWilliams: The Original Gunkist Historian...​This week's cover story on the controversy in the retelling of the historic Mendez vs. Westminster decision has a brief mention of the case's best chronicler: the great progressive historian Carey McWilliams. The Fullerton College professor quoted in t ... More >>

Museum of Teaching and Learning Seeks Home in OC

The nation's first interactive Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL) is in desperate need of space, and operators are looking to Orange County to provide it.Conceived in 2002 by former teacher and principal Greta Nagel, who is the nonprofit museum's curator and professor emeriti with the Departmen ... More >>

Cal State Long Beach's Graduate Theater Program Tackles the Seldom-Produced 'Kentucky Cycle'

The nation's first interactive Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL) is in desperate need of space, and operators are looking to Orange County to provide it.Conceived in 2002 by former teacher and principal Greta Nagel, who is the nonprofit museum's curator and professor emeriti with the Departmen ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

Don't assume that because Deep Arora won a top prize at a math competition that women wouldn't find him irresistible. On February 16, 2006, Emily, whom he'd met online that evening, invited Arora to drive from Placentia (where he lived with his parents) to her Laguna Beach apartment. The 19-year-ol ... More >>

Breath of Fire, Breath of Life

Guilt and Revelations in Santa Ana

Coming Out

Take Me Out

Aural Reports

The Success to His Keys: Pianist Ron Kobayashi Brings Excellence to OC’s Sparse Jazz Scene

Soil to Soul

Orange County’s freshest farmers, farmers markets, food purveyors—and the chefs who love them

Scary Battered Girlfriend Syndrome

Nam H. Nguyen is a little stumpy guy with a bad attitude, no expression and a violent streak from here to Ho Chi Minh City. Among his notable accomplishments: murder and mayhem. Nonetheless, beautiful women inexplicably love the nut. In December 2002, Nguyen (wrongly) suspected that his ex-girlfrie ... More >>

Where the Boys Are

The yummy sandwiches and free coffee of Monkey Business Cafe

The Rise of Nathan Baesel

Fullerton actor hopes underground horror sensation is his grisly meal ticket

Film

MOJADOS: THROUGH THE NIGHT

Picks 'n' Pans

Don't miss Freedom From Despair and Mojados: Through the Night at Fullerton Film Fest. Don't bother: A Dios Momo See It Now

The Mexican OC is perhaps the story for our times

Restless Maverick

Brian Newell just wants to open a theater in Fullerton. But will the city let him?

A Versatile Theft

The OC Theater Festival, in all its ill-planned glory

The Seventh Annual OC Weekly Theater Awards!

The OC Theater Festival, in all its ill-planned glory

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The OC Theater Festival, in all its ill-planned glory

The OCies Yeeeee-ha!

Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

Diary of a Mad County

Its the 2001 OC Weekly Theater Awards!

Meat Knowlwood!

In this carnivores paradise, the veggie burger is best

The Jefferies Fan Club Fan

Leader singer/guitarist Mike Dziurgot remembers his favorite band

And the Winners Be

The OC Weekly Theater Awards

One County Under a Groove

The OC Weekly Theater Awards

The 1999 Okies

A new century, an old art form, a cheap trophysincerest regards

The Year in Floodlights and Grease Paint

A new century, an old art form, a cheap trophysincerest regards

Who the Hell is Terence Love

A new century, an old art form, a cheap trophysincerest regards