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The 20 Greatest Ranchera Singers of All Time: The Complete List

See also:*The 20 Greatest Songs of Vicente Fernández: The Complete List*Antonio Aguilar, Ranchera Legend, Gets Giant Statue of Him Unveiled in Los Angeles; His 10 Greatest Songs!*The 10 Best Songs of Ramon Ayala, Conjunto Norteño Legend and Accordion HeroTrying to explain what música ranchera is ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Ranchera Singers of All Time, No. 10-1

See also:*The 20 Greatest Ranchera Singers of All Time, No. 20-11*The 20 Greatest Songs of Vicente Fernández: The Complete List*Antonio Aguilar, Ranchera Legend, Gets Giant Statue of Him Unveiled in Los Angeles; His 10 Greatest Songs!*The 10 Best Songs of Ramon Ayala, Conjunto Norteño Legend and A ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Vicente Fernandez Songs of All Time: The Complete List

See also:Antonio Aguilar, Ranchera Legend, Gets Giant Statue of Him Unveiled in Los Angeles; His 10 Greatest Songs!The 10 Best Songs of Ramon Ayala, Conjunto Norteño Legend and Accordion Hero10 Rock en Español Albums to Listen to Before You DieOver the past two days, we've been counting down the l ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Vicente Fernandez Songs of All Time, Nos. 20-11

Don't pay attention to the prophecies of St. Malachy: the world isn't ending because the next pope's name will be Petrus Romanus; it's ending because Vicente Fernández is retiring. The most Mexican Mexican of all time is ending his public performances this year, and his farewell tour is swinging th ... More >>

Leyva's Liquors: Always, Always Your Last Stop Before Heading for the Border

Three weeks ago, Bill gave what may be the world's first quasi-comprehensive guide to the vendors swirling around the mass fustercluck known as the northbound border crossing at San Ysidro; it's only quasi-comprehensive because the vendors change occasionally.Today, Tijuana Sí! covers what should a ... More >>

The 10 Most Over-Played Songs at a Mexican Wedding, California Edition

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Houston to do a book signing for my book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Afterward, I went with friends and fans to enjoy some awesome Tex-Mex at El Real Tex-Mex, and among those who attended were two colleagues/pals from our sister paper, the Houston P ... More >>

George P. Bush Credits Dad, Uncle, and Grandpa With "Thoughtless Public Service" at Newport Beach Gala

This past Friday, the Hispanic 100--that group of lovable OC vendidos--held their annual gala at the Balboa Bay Club. I was supposed to go, but had a prior commitment, and it sucks because I was really looking forward to getting drunk with wabs who, unlike my progressive wab friends, have no qualms ... More >>

Sunrise in Jalisco at Chapter One: The Modern Local, Our Drink of the Week!

What do you say to someone who tells you they only like vodka drinks, besides, "eeeeeeeegh!"? How do you rescue them from the precipice of artificially-flavored "martinis" and vodka-cranberry pretending to be a Cosmopolitan?Well, if you're at Chapter One in Santa Ana, you can nudge them, ever so slo ... More >>

Birria de Res, Estilo Baja California: It's What's For Breakfast

Birria is something you'll find in every part of Mexico, and the most famous versions come from Jalisco and Zacatecas (where our jefe comes from). In those states they roast the goat in a natural or conventional oven, using the drippings to make a rich cumin-laced stock and serve every part of the g ... More >>

A Very Brief Review of Starbucks' Cool Lime Refresher

I ended up at the Starbucks on Bristol and Memory Lane today because my favorite Mexican bakery, Las 3 Princesas, didn't make any champurrado today and I needed something to dip their excellent pan de anís in. While I placed my order for a latte, the barista offered me a sample of the new Refresher ... More >>

No. 62, Sonoran Dog at Rubalcava's

Roland Rubalcava has been doing great meals over at his family's market in Placentia, playing around with Mexican favorites while ensuring they do what Mexican food does best: comfort you like an abuelita while enticing you for more like a mujer from Los Altos de Jalisco. It's all great, but what re ... More >>

Students at La Purisima Catholic School Dance to the Tune of Mexican Folklore

It might only be in the United States, or possibly Southern California, where one finds Caucasian, Vietnamese and Latino students dancing together to traditional, folkloric Mexican songs. The Eighth Annual "La Purisima Ballet Folklorico" at La Purisima Catholic School in Orange featured just that. I ... More >>

Battle of the Mariachis

Mission San Juan Capistrano

Taqueria La Poblanita Embraces the Nuevo

[Hole In the Wall] This Anaheim eatery sells quesadillas more deity than tortilla

Don Amado Mezcal, Our Drink of the Week!

​In Los Angeles, New York and other hipster enclaves, the Mexican drink of the moment is mezcal, tequila's country cousin (tequila? SO Chapman U sorority party). Oaxacan-food princess Bricia Lopez (of Guelaguetza fame) just opened a mezcal bar at her family's restaurant, and a mezcal bar is being ... More >>

El Borrego Sagrado Heralds Santa Ana's Hidalgo Wave

[Hole In the Wall] Mixiote, tlacoyos and tender barbacoa are the highlights at this regional gem

When a White Dad Disapproves of His Daughter Dating a Mexican

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Plus, are Spaniards white?

Can a Gabacho Be More Mexican Than a Mexican?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why would an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe cause so much controversy?

What Are the Origins of Mariachi?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And should the United States deny birthright citizenship?

Five Silly-Looking Tequila Bottles

​A couple of years ago, a friend gave me the above tequila bottle. I've kept it over the years because it's decorative, but the image has about as much to do with tequila as the Finns. It's an Aztec warrior--but tequila wasn't created until long after the fall of Tenochtitlán, and then by Spaniar ... More >>

More Mormon Mexicans?!?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, why do the people of Jalisco look down on other Mexicans?

No Amor for Landon Donovan

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, how not to get your pregunta answered

Thank God It's Thursday: Our Weekend Picks

Sweethead perform at Alex's Bar on Friday​Don't know where to go this weekend? Heard Mentality makes it easy--here's the rundown of great music coming to town.

The Goat That Stares at Men

[Hole in the Wall] The La Cascada truck in Santa Ana offers birria at its best

El Cabrito, Urban Foraging in Santa Ana Get the Good Food Treatment

Orange County got represented twice this week on KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food program. First up was Fullerton native and beloved Deep End Dining blogger Eddie Lin following Orange resident Joel Robinson as the two walked around SanTana, found food to forage, and then ate their pickings in an awesome sal ... More >>

¡Ask a Comida Critic! Part Two: Acceptable Mexican Hot Sauces

​Missed the first edition of this column? You'll have to scour the Wayback Machine for it because it's...gone (I did answer your question, though, JB!). Since no one else has asked me a food question, I hereby steal an exchange between Orange County Register foodie Niyaz Pirani and I over Facebook ... More >>

Three Perspectives on the Closing of Pupusódromo in Santa Ana

BAD: There aren't enough Salvadoran restaurants in Orange County, and that one of the few and longest-standing has closed down means Salvis are probably leaving their traditional OC homeland of SanTana for greener, more assimilated pastures. Pupusódromo didn't serve the best pupusas, but did serve ... More >>

Gustavo's Top Five Dishes of 2009

Taco acorazado picture lovingly ripped off from Edwin's personal blog, Monster Munching...​Edwin and Dave will chime in later with their lists; here's mine, in a particular order:1. Tacos acorazados at Alebrije's: Out of all the regional Mexican specialties la naranja offers, this is the best: a h ... More >>

[Hole in the Wall] Goat Love, Zacatecas-Style, at Birriería Nochistlán

Ballet Folklorico

La Mirada Theatre

[¡Ask a Mexican!] Reconquista for Dummies

Murals Under the Stars

MOLAA

Chile de Arbol Salsa at El Camino Real

El Camino Real in Fullerton needs no real introduction to Weekly readers; we've given it much love over the years for its weekend menudo that draws in Mexican mamis too tired to cook and the fact that Kobe Bryant is known to haunt the place. It's probably the best, for lack of a better term, "normal ... More >>

Northgate Gonzalez Markets Ripping Off Eco-Minded Mexicans

I can never hate Northgate Gonzalez Markets. Its story is one of the great Orange County immigrant success tales, its aisles the first one I remember walking, the hometown of its founders--Jalostotitlán, Jalisco--always fighting for Mexican supremacy in Anaheim against Arandas, Jalisco and my El Ca ... More >>

Manic Hispanic Covers: Americans Recording Mexican Songs, The Bueno, the Bad and the Muy Ugly

Tom Dumonts 7 Favorite Things

No Doubt guitarist, producer

!Ask a Mexican!

Muy Caliente Summer Edicion

!Ask a Mexican!

'Modern-day walk buttons are like nipples on men'

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Sumptuous Syncretism

!Ay, Mi Estomago!

Orange Countys 61 best Latino restaurantes

!Ask a Mexican!

Cazadores Straight Up

Mexicos best tequila woos American hearts, livers from Seal Beach

The Cinto Pitiado

Let us now praise famous Mexican belts

Best of OC 2004: Part 2

Taco & Meat

A Match Ordained in Heaven

Brown and Down

Swap Meet Eats

A flea-market cuisine guide

El Mas Macho Macho

Vicente Fernandez gives me penis envy

Taco Towns

Community through comestibles

Active Eats

And its one, two, threewhat are we dining for?