Subject: Hurricane Katrina

• One Year Later

  Usually when a regular columnist for one of the major news magazines begins to chew through the restraints of received ideas and government press releases, it is, to borrow a phrase from Samuel Johnson, "like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all." Jonathan Alter's latest column in Newsweek illustrates the point. A year ago, in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, NEWSWEEK published a cover story called "Poverty, Race and Katrina: Les

  August 29, 2006

• Look Out Below!

  Mark Taggatz, who identifies himself as the president of a company called Aquentium, Inc., has invited the Weekly to Palm Springs at the end of this month for Media Day-Housing Invention for Disaster Relief. "We will be unveiling our newly developed housing solution for disasters," Taggatz writes. "Our patented technology is a re-deployable house utilizing a 20-foot shipping container. The unit offers over 450 square feet of space, complete with a living room, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, and

  January 17, 2006

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Dirty Cop Sting

  Catch a crooked cop: Nope. Sorry. Not here in the USA. No way. But in Mexico, authorities want a no corruption zone for the the five-mile road from the Tijuana border south to the beach. Officials are “installing cameras to catch extortion attempts, publicizing that people can pay tickets with credit cards and transferring corrupt cops,” writes Richard Marosi of the LA Times. “They've deployed a squad of female traffic officers to offer courteous help to tourists. They've even declared th

  July 26, 2007

• Heckuva job, FEMA

  Most reports are characterizing the federal response to the California fires as respectable --- or at least not a Katrina-style fuck up. So it's too bad FEMA had to go and embarrass itself by having fake reporters lob softball questions at a press conference earlier this week. The agency apologized for the gaffe Friday, and on the bright side, none of the fake reporters are believed to be former gay male escorts.

  October 26, 2007

• INDIEFEST/FAIF -- DAY 3

  November 1, 2007

• Tuesday's Headlines. No Surprises: More Street dirt

  More Street dirt: In his pre-treasurer-tax collector days, Chriss Street allegedly billed (and double-billed!) a bankrupt trust "for thousands of dollars in expenses, including a $3,584 laptop computer and $1,200 in office supplies," reports Ronald Campbell at the Register. The records collected by The End of the Road Trust show that Street charged thousands more for trips, gourmet meals and a personal trainer. The trust is suing Street for $7 million. Eagle eye Amormino: Orange County sheriff'

  November 13, 2007

• The City That Bush Forgot

  September 15, 2005

• Orange County's Wonderlove Is Back, With the Same Sound But Different Priorities

  November 13, 2008

• Janet Napolitano's Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

  WEB EXCLUSIVE!

  November 27, 2008

• Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Brings Chord Changes We Can Believe In

  December 11, 2008

• [CD Review] Lil Wayne, 'Tha Carter III' (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal)

  June 19, 2008

• It’s the Humidity

  June 19, 2008

• Metaphor Saves Katrina-Based 'Rising Water' From Drowning at the Maverick

  May 8, 2008

• Tuesday - 11/20

  When the Levees Broke: Part II at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey at the Barclay

  November 22, 2007

• You Gotta Have FAIF

  Two film fests hit Downtown Disney last week—but where were you?

  November 8, 2007

• By Any Other Name

  Two independent festivals join forcest in Mickey's backyard

  October 25, 2007

• Song As History and News Commentary

  People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938 Resonates With Today's Zeitgeist

  September 20, 2007

• Gris Gris

  Long Beach Bayou Fest

  June 21, 2007

• Mos Def

  April 16, 2009

• One More Thing

  This Week in Dining to Save Starving Artists

  February 15, 2007

• You Are Like a Hurricane

  Local nature filmmaker fixed his lens on Louisiana wetlands. Then along came Katrina...
  

  February 8, 2007

• Just in Time

  September 15, 2005

• Hey, You!

  Rosy Outlook

  January 11, 2007

• Weird and Wonderful

  Eraserhead, A History of Violence, Star Wars Episode IV and more

  January 4, 2007

• A True Horror Classic

  When the Levees Broke

  December 21, 2006

• Scrubbing Away the Whitewash

  November 23, 2006

• Carrying the Torch

  The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

  November 16, 2006

• Radicy'all

  Vince Gill

  November 9, 2006

• Shake and Break

  'State of Emergency: Disaster Response in California'

  October 26, 2006

• Scattered Lives

  Ridiculous Fraud goes off on a tangent

  October 26, 2006

• Three Steps to Nowhere

  October 12, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Aug. 16 - Aug. 22

  August 24, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 8, 2006

• Dem Bones

  May 4, 2006

• Our MVP

  March 30, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  December 29, 2005

• Don't Gloat Yet

  December 29, 2005

• This Week in the Boy Band Afterlife: a Saga in Three Parts

  December 15, 2005

• Limp Who?

  November 3, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  October 13, 2005

• See MirrorMask, Help the Hungry

  October 6, 2005

• Fema Food

  October 6, 2005

• Our Vagetarian in Washington

  October 6, 2005

• Silver and Black Like Me

  Rams? Lambs! Orange County is Raider Nation. Dont believe it? Ask a Raider fan

  September 22, 2005

• Letter From Mazatlan

  New Orleans shows were about a single disaster from the Third World

  September 15, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  September 15, 2005

• A Clockwork Orange

  September 8, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK NARANJA

  September 1, 2005

• Google Dolls

  The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertisement inside a rectangular box, but upon opening El Mex the copy inside changed. Gone were the previous product-hawking sites, which we can't recall at this moment due to a weekend spent swimming with a

  January 23, 2006

• Dave Eggers to be Honored in Anaheim for Sensitivity to Muslims

  By David Shankbone/Wikipedia CommonsDave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival.​A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author Dave Eggers will be presented the 2009 "Courage in Media" award at the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' 13th annual banquet Saturday at the Anaheim Hilton.Anaheim-based CAIR-LA is honoring the Pulitzer Prize nominee for his latest novel Zeitoun, which is about a Muslim American man who volunteers to help rescue victims

  November 4, 2009