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Mesamerica 2013: Dispatch by Geeta Bansal, Part 1!

Every week, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of world cooking. Today, she regales us with a dispatch from Mesamerica 2013, one of the world's premier chef conferences. Enjoy!

OC Bookly at the LA Times Festival of Books

I've attended nearly all of the previous 16 years of the annual Los Angeles Times books festivals, this one again on the campus of USC. There was that one year I missed, when the bibliochild was born and some friends, fellow writers and Santa Monica Review volunteers staffed the SMR booth, ... More >>

In Alabama, "Mexican" is Considered an Offensive Word--SERIOUSLY

​A couple of years ago at an alt-weekly conference, I was able to hang out with some reporters and editors from Birmingham Weekly, drinking and trading stories about our respective homeland's bizarre politicians. Those same guys ended up leaving the Weekly recently to start their own paper: Weld f ... More >>

Looking back at 2010 OC Theater: Love, or a Lack Thereof

Will BlakelyBrad Fraser's True Love Lies​Back in the days when water was clean, love was worth it and nothing but unlimited promise beckoned on the horizon, OC Weekly used to host an annual OC Weekly Theater Awards. Launched in 1997 in order to celebrate the best theatrical accomplishments of the ... More >>

A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County

Looking back at 2010 on our news blog, one Top 10 List at a time

[UPDATED:] Theresa and Madison Yancey, OC Homicides Nos. 55, 56: Murder-Suicide Victims

​UPDATE: Victims and killer identified (updated throughout) . . . Reports of a family fight and gunshots in the 9900 block of Dandelion Circle in Fountain Valley around 6 p.m. Friday led police to a home on a cul de sac where they found a woman dead in the driveway.BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!Three more gun ... More >>

Pants On Fire

A father's hidden past upends a family in Brad Fraser's True Love Lies

Eat A Meal At A Long Beach Restaurant, Get A Free Ticket To AKC/Eukanuba National Championship

​I'm not a pet owner, but I know many of my friends are. Actually, for some reason, now that I think about it, it's a rare thing to know someone without a pet. So it pleases me to tell you that if you are one, especially if you are a dog owner, restaurants in Long Beach will be participating i ... More >>

Diane Harkey Stink Smeared on Linda Ackerman, Who Seeks "Dripper" Duvall's Vacated Assembly Seat

Harkey's ethical challenges produced recall calls. Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R-Dana Point) has endorsed Linda Ackerman to fill the vacancy left by ex-Assemblyman Mike Duvall, who resigned in disgrace quickly after the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley and KCAL/KCBS reporter Dave Lopez exposed the Yor ... More >>

Gettin' Made: Natural Born Artists

Lookin' for an all-emcompassing fun time that covers all your creative bases? Music, traditional art, fashion, performance art and more (drinks?) can be found this Friday at the RAW: Natural Born Artists show! Sweet painting of a trumpet player by Chance Artworks

For Your Consideration: "O.C. Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown"

On film, Orange County has been subjected to bioscience (Creator), thinking simians (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes) and Jack Black (Orange County). But are we ready for clueless babes, a serial slasher and flesh-eating zombies? EEEEEENNNNKTTT!!! Time's up. They're on the way whether we're ready ... More >>

John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture

Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying h ... More >>

The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

Missed Opportunities

Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies

Grub Guide

Tasty morsels from the county's best damn dining guide

Costa Mesa Fashion Hits Haight-Ashbury

Apparel News has an interesting story on Costa Mesa-based RVCA's first retail store which will open in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in July. Deborah Belgum, senior editor at the publication, writes that "up until now, the company's line of vintage-wash T-shirts, jeans, shorts, fleece hoo ... More >>

Hits!

Fingerprints

Long Beach

The Mommy Party

Harriet Miers and me

Tastes Like Downtown LBC

Taste of Long Beach squirms under self-imposed limitations

Diary of a Mad County

Art of War

Howard Zinns Artists in Times of War

Shhhhhhh!

A Halloween how-not-to-do

Dont Spare Me

Lucky Strikes cosmic bowling utopia

Put a Monkey on Your Socks

An evening in the Paul Frank glow

Martini Space Noise

The secret language of Richard Swift

Schedule of Events

Satan vs. Lucifer!

This weeks featured NFL game: Carolina Panthers vs. Green Bay Packers

Crow Bar

The Stranger

A River Runs Beneath It

Santa Ana River toll road elevates eco-fears

Give It the Old College Guide*

The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions