Subject: Hanoi

• Steal this Hoffman

  August 24, 2000

• Have you impugned your local librarian today?

  Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on his own sterling research, a "bunch of liberal busybodies." The set up: During that portion of the meeting where Bored Members sleepwalk through consent-worthy items like adding more disinfectant biscu

  February 6, 2006

• Irvine's Saigon Grille Becomes Pho Ha Noi

  Throw a stick anywhere in Westminster and it'll hit a pho joint. Not so in Irvine, where Vietnamese restaurants are as rare as the slices of steak in the soup they serve. At my last count, there are exactly five eateries that serve this foul-weather food. The stalwarts are the two Pho Bac Ky's and the Pho 99 on Jeffrey. But the rest changes hands more often than a basketball. The latest to get passed is Saigon Grille, which enters the open court as Pho Ha Noi, managed by the same people w

  February 24, 2008

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XI

  Dave Segal moved into Detroit Bar on both Friday and Saturday nights: "Free the Robots' thrilling [Friday] live show blew away Afrika Bambaataa's moldy DJ set. Local upstarts overshadowed a legend!" And on Sat, "DJs Josh One, Hyder, James Pants and Peanut Butter Wolf spun loads of great hip-hop cuts and freaky dance tracks that didn't fit neatly into any categories." Saturday took our interns Patrick Chavis and Nate Jackson to Cal State Long Beach for the Ludacris concert/protest and the Costa

  February 25, 2008

• Tony Rackauckas Hunting Commies in Little Saigon?

  The Weekly never passes up on an opportunity to make fun of our favorite local lawman—favorite, now that Sheriff Mike Carona's out of the picture, that is—Tony Rackauckas. So when we saw this item on the fiesty and irreverent Bolsavik blog by ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor Hao-Nhien Vu, we couldn't resist posting it here. (Actually Bolsavik got the item from both Red County and Reg staffer Martin Wisckol's blog). Apparently, Rackauckas held a meeting with the beseiged editors of

  April 17, 2008

• Yearlong Viet Weekly Boycott Ends

  Our good friend Hao-Nhien Vu, a.k.a. the Bolsavik, the ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor who lost his job thanks to anti-commie protests, has another big scoop on his blog today. Apparently, protesters who have been demonstrating outside the Historic Main Street offices of Viet Weekly for the past year have taken their miniature South Vietnamese flags, blaring martial music and desecrated Ho Chi Minh doll and gone home. I wrote about the protests last month and sort of predicted this mi

  June 18, 2008

• The Year in Oval Office Bootie Calls

  January 7, 1999

• The Ho Story

  February 25, 1999

• Why I Hate Ho Chi Minh

  February 25, 1999

• Guerrilla in the Midst

  March 18, 1999

• Red Menace

  April 8, 1999

• Ho Chi Minute Rice

  July 1, 1999

• Hanoi (Art) Rocks!

  July 15, 1999

• Quiet Riot

  March 16, 2000

• Show of Farce

  June 8, 2000

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 28, 2002

• Broken rice at Com Tam Tran Quy Cap in Fountain Valley

  February 14, 2008

• Act of Faith

  Doubt asks deep, painful questions

  November 1, 2007

• Beyond Politics

  April 1, 1999

• Waiting With Red-baited Breath

  Little Saigon’s latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly

  August 23, 2007

• Red Scare in Little Saigon

  Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt
  

  August 16, 2007

• I Scream, You Scream

  July 7, 2005

• Losers Again

  June 30, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 7, 2004

• 59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

  Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  October 7, 2004

• My Eight Marriages for the Mob

  April 22, 2004

• Eat the Press 1

  February 26, 2004

• Fresh Division Appears in Little Saigon

  June 5, 2003

• Down in the Dump

  April 10, 2003

• Schedule of Events

  April 3, 2003

• A Mid-Summer Nightmare

  April 3, 2003

• Keep Your Trap Shut

  January 24, 2002

• No Queers Here

  December 20, 2001

• Patriot Games

  November 1, 2001

• Damn Dirty Remakes

  May 31, 2001

• Crouching Festival, Hidden Films

  March 29, 2001

• Just Declare Victory

  December 7, 2000

• Eat Cheap

  March 16, 2000

• The Phantom Menace

  July 15, 1999

• Hearts and Blinders

  May 6, 1999

• Invisible Enemies

  March 11, 1999

• A Dissenter Emerges

  March 4, 1999

• Diver Down

  August 13, 1998

• Register Marketing Ploy: Insert Head in Sand

  Michael Volpe's Media & Marketing column in the current Orange County Business Journal--which I'd link you to but it's a pay site and I'm not that kind of girl--reports that the Orange County Register is launching promotions aimed at countering all the bad news about newspapers, which includes Warren Buffet writing off the entire industry, the Boston Globe's potential demise, predictions of more defaults among dailies, the White House rejection of an industry bailout and, of course, the Regg

  May 5, 2009

• Jury to Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  Do you remember the exciting drama unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Barack Obama, and the world economic cataclysm distract you from this important controversy? If so, you could be forgiven for forgetting the mortal sins committed by the two media outlets accused o

  May 27, 2009

• Jury to Little Saigon Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  Do you remember the exciting drama that unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Barack Obama, and the world economic cataclysm distract you from this important controversy? If so, you could be forgiven for forgetting the mortal sins committed by the two media outlets accu

  May 27, 2009

• Nguoi Viet Strengthens Itself With Editor Pick

  ​In March 2008, Nguoi Viet--the Orange County-based largest Vietnamese newspaper in the United States--pushed out its longtime editor Hao-Nhien Vu at a time when rapid right-winger immigrants were calling the very-much-non-communist paper a tool of Hanoi.After his ouster, Hao-Nhien Vu launched his successful Bolsavik.com blog and began teaching at Santa Ana College.But today his exile from Nguoi Viet ended. The paper's management officially brought him back as editor."I think I'm good for

  August 3, 2009

• Go Around the World In 50 States (or Cities, or Regions, or Styles, or Whatever)

  August 6, 2009

• Vietnamese Singer Forced To Defend Himself As Anti-Communist

  Get this thru your thick skulls: This Ho ain't related to the other one​One of the amusing aspects of covering Little Saigon politics is watching the world class mental gymnastics performed by the mostly elderly folks determined to spend their lives fighting the Vietnam War into perpetuity. It's no exaggeration to note that they see Ho Chi Minh's spirit, dead 40 years, nefariously conspiring against them in present day news stories, art works, clothing articles and in music concerts. Last year

  August 25, 2009