Irvine Valley College

Miyabi, A New "Japanese Grill and Shabu Shabu", To Take Over Sushilicious Space in Irvine

When Sushilicious took over the space that Gen Kai left behind at the shopping center across from Irvine Valley College three years ago, it seemed to have a lot of promise. Here was another revolving sushi restaurant that would be cheap enough to be accessible not just to students from that communi ... More >>

To Kill a Mockingbird and Save Mr. Lincoln: Gayle Brandeis and the Political Young Adult

Our little lit family's sojourns find us back from a week in Baja California Norte, Mexico by way of, yes, Chicago, Illinois and Maycomb, Alabama. Audio books are the absolute best travel companions (can pause, never need to go pee), and listening together to the first four cassettes (yes, old-schoo ... More >>

[UPDATED with Case Dropped:] Jason Richard Buchea, Irvine Valley College Worker, Allegedly Endangered His Baby on Campus

See Update No. 2 at the end of this post about the district attorney declining to file charges.See Update No. 1 clarifying the suspect's job at Irvine Valley College.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 16: Went to Detroit, and the Irvine Valley College parking lot broke out.Yesterday, it was a report about an alleg ... More >>

Alireza Hashemi, IVC Student, Held in Sexual Assault of 18 y.o. Woman

A student was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman at Irvine Valley College, where the 21-year-old had previously been the subject of complaints about touching females inappropriately.Alireza Hashemi was not held or cited in those previous instances, but Irvine Police booked h ... More >>

Campuses Remember Mikel Anthony Williams and Carlos Salas, Victims of Violent Deaths

Each of the South Orange County Community College District's two main campuses is dealing with the recent tragic death of a beloved student.Irvine Valley College adult learner Mikel Anthony Williams, 55, became the 10th murder victim in Anaheim on Aug. 30. Newly enrolled Saddleback College student C ... More >>

UC Irvine MFA Writers: Your Clip-and-Save Review

The end of the academic year approaches, which finids Mr. Bib looking forward to the arrival of annual literary journals sponsored by local colleges and universities. Alas, The Ear, Irvine Valley College's magazine is long gone as, it appears, is Orange Coast Review, out of OCC. Still UC Riverside p ... More >>

'Material Matters' by Edith Abeyta at Irvine Valley College Art Gallery

​"Material Matters" by Edith AbeytaFeb. 2 to Mar. 9Irvine Valley College Art GalleryYou walk through darkened glass doors into a dimly lit room that smells like old clothes. There are no racks, just metal wire strung across the room. Instead of the sound of hangers screeching, there's a peaceful s ... More >>

OCCCA Presents 'Gothic': Bleak Days, Black Nights

The Santa Ana gallery invites you to drown your demons in angst-y art

Web Extra: Summer Guide Infographic--The Last Orange Groves in Orange County

​Orange County residents have bemoaned the encroachment of suburbia and loss of our orange groves for decades. In 1963's Historical Volume and Reference Works: Including Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens, a three-volume compendium of Orange County history, author Mildred Yorba MacArthur--s ... More >>

Nice Time Deli in Irvine Closing. Serving Its Last Lunch Saturday April 30.

Edwin GoeiOpen for now, but not for long.​The news came as a surprise: Nice Time Deli in Irvine will be serving its last meal tomorrow at lunch, Saturday, and then closing for good. Fellow Weekling Michelle Woo told me about it this morning, and my reaction was immediate sadness. For many like m ... More >>

South Orange County Community College District Settles Prayer Lawsuit

The South Orange County Community College District has settled a suit brought by some of its teachers and one former student over the practice of opening prayers at various official district events.The plaintiffs in Westphal v. Wagner--which references Karla Westphal, a Saddleback professor who ... More >>

Anyone Missing a Red-Tailed Hawk?

Red-tailed hawk ... but not THE red-tailed hawk.​With all the media tales chronicling the disconnect between the public sector, the private sector and regular old folks, it's refreshing to see the three came together beautifully when it came to rescuing a red-tailed hawk stuck atop a utility pole ... More >>

Irvine Valley College Celebrates Black History Month with Gandhi, Graffiti Wall, Double Obamas!

​Oh, the racialist merriment of the South Orange County Community College District never end! We've previously written about Saddleback College's gaucho-masquerading-as-bandito, and now Irvine Valley College has gotten into the simplistic-approach-to-race game so endemic in Orange County. IVC spok ... More >>

Raghu Mathur Out as SOCCCD Chancellor?

Mathur​Irvine Valley College professor Roy Bauer's Dissent the Blog is reporting that after about a decade, Raghu Mather is out as chancellor of the South Orange County Community College District. It's official. During tonight's board meeting, Board Clerk Marcia Milchiker read out board actions t ... More >>

UPDATED: College Board Sued Over Prayers Weighs Prayer Policy Tonight

​UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM THE ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT . . . Ever go to a school board meeting and have a tent revival break out?Trustees who lord over the South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) and are being sued over their frequent and apparently mandatory use of official pray ... More >>

"Back on Track" Walk-a-Thon

Saddleback College

[UPDATED] Federal Lawsuit Targets Orange County College District Prayers

​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LAWYER FOR THE DISTRICT . . . A lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the South Orange County Community College District over official prayers during public ceremonies, Americans United for Separation of Church and ... More >>

Tangled Web of Hate Weaved By Carto, Von Brunn & Co.

Willis Carto speaks at a David Duke event about five years ago. It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry and it takes Irvine Valley College philosophy professor Ray Roy Bauer to connect the dots between National Holocaust Museum shooter James Wenneker von Brunn, some of our most notori ... More >>

Fighting Lupus and Cancer Starts With Your Feet in Irvine

Exercising and eating right can help prevent any number of diseases. You're on your own when it comes to consumption but for exercise you can walk all this next weekend in different parts of Irvine to help keep not only yourself healthy but millions of others as well. That's because the city just ha ... More >>

Sound Salvation

1940's Radio Hour

The Best Taqueria in Orange County: Taqueria Tapatia

Apologies for the light posting this week, but am trying to stave off carpal tunnel syndrome. Also: image has nothing to do with the restaurant--it's just funny! I've been on the local lecture circuit recently, talking to students at Irvine Valley College, UC Irvine, and Saddleback High School. At ... More >>

War and Peace

Veteran's Day Celebration

[Summer Guide] Lisa Alvarez's Summer Reading List

To Do Tonight - 11/09

DANCING QUEEN, 7:30pm For cabaret lovers. Tibbies, Located at the Queen Mary, 1126 Queen's Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 499-1757 www.tibbiescabaret.com A TUNA CHRISTMAS, 8pm Holiday college production. Check it out. Performing Arts Center, Irvine Valley College www.ivcperformingarts.org/default.html AN ... More >>

Alan Cohen

At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall writes about his father, biologist Alan Cohen, who taught at Irvine Valley College. Cohen died following a heart attack two weeks ago.

What Do Barry Bonds and Saddleback Ballplayers Have in Common?

The answer -- alleged steroid abuse -- is apparently in the May 11 issue of the Lariat, the student newspaper of the goosesteppin' South Orange County Community College District's Saddleback College in Mission Viejo and Irvine Valley College (IVC) in Irvine. This free Backward S.I. Sportswatch crude ... More >>

I Have a King Day

Our pal Rebel Girl at Dissent the Blog has a dream: it is a dream for a week worth of activities at Irvine Valley College dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr., and kicking off on his birthday today. Those activities include: a new on-campus Peace and Justice Center; an institutional adoption of Amne ... More >>

Needs More Stabbing

Irvine Valley Colleges PG-13 should have aimed for the R

I Am a Terrorist: I Teach

A radicals journey from thin mints to the classroom

2002: Diary of a Mad Year

Diary of a Mad County

Laugh-In

LA? No Way?

College district blocks student trips to Los Angeles

LA? No Way?

College district blocks student trips to Los Angeles

Cirque du Socccd

Goofiness is back at South Orange County Community College District

Revenge of the Greeks

Letters

Letters

CITRUS GROOVE

Re-creating Old Orange County

Not-So-Secret Service

An open letter to Irvine Valley College president Raghu Mathur

Read All About It

Letters

Pretty Girls

Ellen Rose and Nora Novak rock. Plus, the long-awaited final word on the whole stupid uproar at the Brooklyn Museum

Guilty Pleasures

1567-1600

Another Fine Mess

The Unabauer Manifesto

Roy Bauer is South County colleges' professor of dissent

Lightning Rod

October-December

Teach Your Children Hell

Hate Central

OC's bad reputation grows