Subject: Guadalajara

• A Reality Shrine for a Wired World

  January 3, 2002

• Food Fight!

  August 15, 2002

• Ricas Tortas Ahogadas

  August 18, 2005

• Taqueria Guadalajara Offers 89-Cent Tacos, Wants You to Laugh at Economy

  Stylistic note: photo is not of Taquerias Guadalajara, nor is Calvin pissing on a location. He's pissing on the logo of the Chivas, the Guadalajara-based soccer team whose colors and goat mascot Taquerias Guadalajaras uses for promotions. Chivas pelan. For years, Taquerias Guadalajara was the pale runner-up to Taquería de Anda, the homegrown OC taco empire. But, as I noted earlier, Taquería de Anda's quality has fallen as precipitously as its prices have increased, leaving Taquerias Guadalaja

  November 24, 2008

• Question: What Does a Crosby Owner Have Against Downtown Santa Ana Mexican Restaurants?

  Answer: It gives him the runs.At least that's what can be surmised from the latest issue of Giant Robot, the excellent magazine of all things Asian and Asian-American co-created by OC native Martin Wong. In it, he interviews Chris Alfaro, one of the three guys behind The Crosby, the downtown SanTana hipster hangout whose food is hit-and-miss but whose drunk gals are legion. They talk about Alfaro's love of Del Taco, itself a sin but one that I have no right casting stones at because I think Jack

  January 28, 2009

• [Best of OC 2008 Post Cards] Shops & Wares: Greetings From Sam Romero

  October 9, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] The King Reigns South of the Frontera

  July 10, 2008

• Eat, Drink and Be Gay Married! After 27 Years, One Couple Finally Has Its Big, Fat, Mexican Wedding

  June 19, 2008

• At the Miss Hermosa y Protegida Pageant, the Curves Can Be Fake, But the Messages Are Very Real

  March 27, 2008

• Letters

  "There is a huge difference between the FBI and the media."

  November 1, 2007

• Rudy and Jackie Cordovas 7 Favorite Things

  September 20, 2007

• Grove of Dreams

  April 5, 2007

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  March 15, 2007

• Grub Guide

  November 30, 2006

• Grub Guide

  September 7, 2006

• Grub Guide

  August 31, 2006

• Grub Guide

  June 1, 2006

• Grub Guide

  May 4, 2006

• Anything Could Happen

  March 23, 2006

• Grub Guide

  March 2, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 26, 2006

• Giant Queer Movies!

  December 22, 2005

• Grub Guide

  December 8, 2005

• Grub Guide

  December 1, 2005

• This Week in Picking Restaurants by Pointing Blindly at My Computer Screen

  November 10, 2005

• Great Food Moments in Weekly History

  September 22, 2005

• Gooooooaaaalll!

  March 31, 2005

• This week in the letter T

  January 20, 2005

• This week in international sodas

  December 9, 2004

• What Goes On

  November 18, 2004

• My City Kicks Your Citys Dining Ass

  July 1, 2004

• In Any Language

  May 20, 2004

• Taco & Meat

  January 15, 2004

• Give the Satyr a Brew

  April 17, 2003

• Ask Flossbrite

  February 20, 2003

• Cram It In

  Where to eat after an all-nighter

  September 26, 2002

• One Gigante Mess

  September 5, 2002

• Let Them Eat Pastel

  August 29, 2002

• What Is It About the Gay Heroin Addicts?

  November 22, 2001

• Active Eats

  August 9, 2001

• Living la Vida Coca

  May 31, 2001

• Cleaning House

  September 21, 2000

• Summer Eats

  July 1, 1999

• Guadalajara, Guadalajara

  June 24, 1999

• Battlestar Abstractica

  May 14, 2009

• To Do This Weekend 5/22 - 5/24

  Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, Fri., May 22 thru Sun., May 31, 8 p.m.The new production titled, Upton Sinclair's Singing Jailbirds: The Musical, will feature a large cast of performers. The story is set in 1920's San Pedro, the Port Town of Los Angeles amid the demonstrations of union activists during the worker's movement.Warner Grand Theatre, 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro, CA; 310-433-8774Battlestar Abstractica, Daily 1 p.m. thru June 30Fantastical visions of what the future might possibly be li

  May 22, 2009

• The Mariachi Divas Continue the Genre's Evolution

  June 18, 2009

• Five Great Salsas in Orange County

  Corporate wants us to write arbitrary Top 5 lists--traditionally left for year-end reviews or Best ofs--for SAFII. Instead, we'll do lists of five: no particular order, but all fine representative of their genus. Let's start--surprise, surprise!--with my favorite salsas:*Habanero salsa at Conde Cakes. They only hand out the salsa in small thimbles, and only if you order the Yucatan snacks like cochinita pibil and kebbe at this Yucatecan bakery. But oh, how it burns: so orange it's almost yellow,

  July 8, 2009

• Heavy Symbolism Steamrollers Comedy in "Casi Divas"

  Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt, left) and Francisca (Maya Zapata) get down.Suppose someone made a comedy based on American Idol (I know, been there, done that with American Dreamz; just work with me, people). Now let's say the parts spoofing Idol were clever, at times hilarious. But then the filmmaker moved beyond the evils of fame to take on even heavier social ills. Suddenly your bouncy little comedy about the road to fame has been steamrollered. That's precisely the problem w

  August 21, 2009

• Five Great International Sodas

  Obvious observation of the year: it's hot. Go to these place we haven't discussed in years, all fine eateries, and cool down with their native sodas:​PUPUSERIA SAN SIVAR: The hole-in-the-strip-mall takes special care with their pupusas, which have a crispy yet malleable crust encasing thick, sticky cheese. Meanwhile, an oily, impossibly sugary plantain laying alongside refried beans is like a battle between the lush tropics and the Spartan plains of El Salvador on the tongue; a side of sweet s

  August 31, 2009