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Blogs
February 20, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Albert O. Nelson, Placentia Constable
Placentia usually gets the short shrift in the county's history, even though there was no city that had more of a plantation mentality at the height of King Citrus than this town. Most of the city was orange groves back in the day, with most of the Mexicans working as pickers and most of the gaba ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Gustavo to Give Mini-Lecture on History of Mexican Food in OC ~~NEXT FRIDAY~~ TOMORROW at the Samueli Theater!
As you've known for years, 2012 is the year that my much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America finally gets published. The debut lecture here in OC is April 12 at the Fullerton Public Library--but you can get a brief, brief preview next Friday TOMORROW at the Segerstrom Center for ... More >>
News
January 12, 2012
Alexander P. Nelson Was the Klanbuster
Ninety years ago, the KKK tried to take over Orange County—only to encounter the district attorney
Blogs
October 17, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Morris W. Martenet, Jr., Anaheim Councilmember, Owner of Martenet Hardware
Last year, Martenet Hardware in Anaheim closed after a century of serving the city. We went there as far back as I could remember for our construction needs, never completely forsaking it for Home Depot or even when a Lowe's opened up nearby. By then, the Martenet family no longer owned it, havin ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: George Annin, Fullerton Police Officer, Councilmember
Given that the Fullerton Police Department's murderous ways are getting mucho coverage this week due to the Kelly Thomas killing, let's turn our attention anew to the department's old days, when it featured many Kluckers among its ranks, Kluckers who were hell-bent on turning Fullerton into a ref ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Francis Allen Kidder, Santa Ana Father and Son
The mascot for this legendary column, at right, isn't taken from the archives of the Orange County Ku Klux Klan but rather dates to the 1930s, to San Diego's vibrant Klucker scene. His most famous cameo is in the intro to the HBO series, True Blood, used as visible proof of the Klan's depravity ( ... More >>
Columns
July 21, 2011
Is the Term 'Mexican' Becoming Extinct?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And is 'Make Sick O' the best Mexi slur ever?
Culture
July 14, 2011
'Jerry Springer: The Opera' Is Very Merry!
The Chance Theater's staging overcomes a lame second half to satisfy your inner freak
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William E. Fanning, Brea Schools Pioneer, Namesake of Fanning Elementary
The legacy of school segregation in Orange County really needs no introduction 'round these parts. But what still needs to get examined is the political allegiances of the architects of such policies--beyond the mere racism that existed in Orange County before the 1950s, and toward the Coast to C ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
Top Five Worst Black Rappers Ever
I bet seeing Chuck D's photo below the headline "Top Five Worst Black Rappers Ever" almost made you shit your shorts, huh? Believe me, I love Chuck D. I just put him up there to grab your attention.Remember when I wrote this post about the top five worst white rappers ever? And then remember how ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Samuel F. Hilgenfeld, Buena Park Minister, Founder of Anaheim's Hilgenfeld Mortuary
Look for any hints of Anaheim's Klu Klux Klan past in the city, and they'll be next-to-impossible to find. After voters booted the Klucker-majority council and police force from power in 1925, city fathers did their darndest to eradicate any vestiges of the Invisible Empire, so you'll rarely see ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Clyde Fairbairn, Longtime Olive Resident/Nice Guy
The secrets people keep. A couple of years ago, a couple of amateur historians wrote up reminisces of Clyde Fairbairn, for whom Fairbairn Street in Orange is named. Fairbairn was a longtime resident of Olive, a community now mostly gone, gobbled up by Orange in the past half-century, but once cen ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Hoyt Corbit, Yorba Linda Pioneer, Fan of Richard Nixon
When Richard Nixon became president in 1968, the national media rushed to the Podunk city of Yorba Linda, the Dickster's birthplace and a town that had just incorporated a year earlier and was still largely citrus groves and rolling hills instead of the exclusive estates and gated communities tha ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Henry W. Head, OC Founding Father
If it weren't for Google, this series wouldn't exist. And if it weren't for bad historians, there'd be no reason for my write-ups. But there is, and there are--thus, ars gratia artis, or some high-falutin' Latin phrase to justify its existence. Actually, blame the biographers of Henry W. Head for ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Dr. Roy S. Horton and Marshall Keeler, Santa Ana Unified Trustees
This kid'll be our mascot until we get an official logo for this series...Are you like me and laugh when historical conservationists give names to buildings based on people who once lived there or commissioned said structure? Probably not. Anyhoo, the Dr. Horton Building stands on Third Street in ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2011
Announcing the 'Which OC Pioneers Were KKK Members?' Series!
Last week, Luis F. Fernandez--the historian who rediscovered the long-forgotten desegregation story of Alex Bernal--went to the Anaheim Heritage Room and got a copy of a list that had long eluded him: the membership roll of the Orange County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, when the ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Celebrants Kick Off Kwanzaa Week Comment by SAVEUS2: WOW!!! What a beautiful Community celebration, the food, entertainment, decorations and the very educational and informational program was very well done....It was a pleasure to see the community come together and support such a cultu ... More >>
Culture
August 19, 2010
'Art Shack'-ing Up
The Laguna Art Museum brings skeezy slums and screwball shanties to beach-babe-ville
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Teen Fatally Stabbed at Anaheim PartyComment by SOUNDOFF2: Cant' we all just stab along?Comment by LIVINREALITY: Hey SOUNDOFF2,! I love it it !!!! That's actually really funny. To answer the question. No they can't. not enough intelligence between them to get the timing right . another ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: ACLU Request FBI Documents Related to 'Ethnic Mapping'Comment by GETRIDOFEINGPC: the aclu when first founded had good intentions but now they are far from what they used to be. Personally they should be disbanded as they are no better than the NAACP, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2010
Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day
Headline: Obama to send 1,200 troops to border Comment from Molly: We need to get rid of the Monkey in the White House before he ruins this Country any more. We need an AMERICAN for a president
News
December 31, 2009
[Year In Review] OC Weekly's News Blog, Navel Gazing, Gazes Back at 2009
Headline: Obama to send 1,200 troops to border Comment from Molly: We need to get rid of the Monkey in the White House before he ruins this Country any more. We need an AMERICAN for a president
Blogs
December 8, 2009
Most Racist City in Orange County--Is it Fullerton??? Our Top Five
Henry W. Head, founding father of OC, longtime Santa Ana doctor...I was speaking with a local GOP operative recently when he said something that shocked me. The topic was my recent cover story on the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos and one pendeja who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Be ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
More Proof Santa Ana is Racist at its Core: Jefferson Davis Pie!
Davis: Culinary godfather of SanTana?My one vice in life is buying books related to Orange County, and our fair land's numerous social organizations have gathered and published their recipes over the years. The oldest cookbook in my collection is one compiled by the Ebell Society of the Santa Ana ... More >>
Blogs
May 15, 2009
In Defense of Klanaheim
The Los Angeles Times story published this Monday telling the world Anaheim is now majority-Latino has drawn nothing but derision from the Latino Anaheimers I know (read this musical takedown by Weekly contributor and KPFK-FM 90.7 Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman). "Oh no, they didn't put in a ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2009
OC's Rich Vein of Klanniness Tapped Out?
Call it racist gentrification (redundant, right?): The Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group that virtually created Orange County, can now barely be found among our county's pale-colored treasure trove of bigots. Californian politician and proud clucker Dr. Henry William Head helped engineer Ora ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2008
Turkey People the New Holocausted Jews?*
What is it about Orange County that creates fools who make ridiculous comparisons of their causes to the suffering Jews experienced during the Holocaust? A couple of years ago, it was the Minuteman mexicana, Lupe Moreno, rambling about how Mexican immigrants were the new Nazis, while American whites ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2008
The Curious Case of the Bowers Museum KKK Tree
Outside the Bowers Museum (the original part, not the multimillion-dollar addition) stands a beautiful, still growing crape myrtle tree. It blooms every spring, adding a bit of genteel, colorful charm to the already-purty facility. You've seen this tree if you ever drive or walk past the Bowers on M ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2008
On Thin-Skinned SanTana Historians
Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat ... More >>
Columns
May 1, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat ... More >>
Film
April 24, 2008
'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay' Is a Forced Act Two
Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat ... More >>
News
April 17, 2008
The KKK Took My County Away: Meet the Klansman Who Helped to Found Orange County
Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2008
Orange County Founded by KKK?
In preparing for a--shameless self-promotion alert!--coming Navel Gazing profile of Orange County hate groups, I came across a stunning--though not surprising--revelation: Orange County was officially founded by the Ku Klux Klan. This insight comes courtesy of Dr. Henry William Head, a Civil War ve ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2008
The Acting-Loving Jack Anderson
The county is still abuzz about the failed jewelry heist at the Shops at Mission Viejo that left an idiot in a bad wig dead and the Orange County Sheriff Department investigating its own since two deputies shot the guy. Given that Kirk Christian Knight (just one letter removed from KKK!) fired at th ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2006
OCC Excommunicates the Pledge
In a meeting on Wednesday night, Orange Coast College student trustees voted to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from their meetings, citing an incompatibility between nationwide submission to God and justice for all. Student trustee Jason Bell explained his position to Reuters: "That [under God] part ... More >>
Columns
July 20, 2006
Diary of Mad County
July 12 - July 18
Features
October 20, 2005
Anaheim
July 12 - July 18
Columns
October 6, 2005
Hes Too Sexy
A night of misery, hot lunches, and neither rockin nor tacos in Fullerton
Columns
September 18, 2003
Letters
A night of misery, hot lunches, and neither rockin nor tacos in Fullerton
Columns
May 1, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
A night of misery, hot lunches, and neither rockin nor tacos in Fullerton
Columns
April 3, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
A night of misery, hot lunches, and neither rockin nor tacos in Fullerton
News
June 27, 2002
Court Jousters
A night of misery, hot lunches, and neither rockin nor tacos in Fullerton
Columns
May 30, 2002
Letters
A night of misery, hot lunches, and neither rockin nor tacos in Fullerton
News
February 28, 2002
The Good Old Days
Pro-airport activists invoke anti-Semitism in their campaign to build El Toro International
Features
September 13, 2001
Springboard for Hitler
Anaheims the Shack has become Nuremberg-rally central for OC racists
Columns
May 3, 2001
Letters
Anaheims the Shack has become Nuremberg-rally central for OC racists
Film
December 28, 2000
Oh, Brother
Anaheims the Shack has become Nuremberg-rally central for OC racists
Features
September 14, 2000
Fanmail 1995-1996
Anaheims the Shack has become Nuremberg-rally central for OC racists
Columns
February 3, 2000
This Weeks Featured Super Bowl Game: Tennessee Titans vs. St. Louis Rams
Anaheims the Shack has become Nuremberg-rally central for OC racists
News
August 5, 1999
Fantasy Candidates
Anaheims the Shack has become Nuremberg-rally central for OC racists
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