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Subject: Martin Luther King Jr.
And they say Mexicans can't assimilate...
Spotted for sale last night in one of those SanTana produce trucks the city's pocho City Council so hates was a Kellogg's Corn Flakes box with pictures of salsa legend Celia Cruz and Chicano labor icon Cesar Chavez. We figured it was pirateria, something as authentic as sidewalk CDs or swap meet Bart Simpson T-shirts, until we stumble across this website. Where the hell were we in September that we just found out about this? Stanton? What's even better is that the produce truck selling the Chave
December 30, 2005MLK Day and the Bush administration
One of the things that fuels the belief of some people in some sort of government conspiracy in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the fact that Army Intelligence (along with the usual suspects, the FBI, etc.) was monitoring Dr. King. And now, just in time this year's MLK day comes news that the Bush administration is taking legally dubious steps to make it easier for the Army to spy on American citizens. The New York Times reports: Deep into an updated Army manual, the deleti
January 15, 2007I 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 Amnesty International's Prisoner of Conscience; a campus-wide re-creation of the 1963 March on Washington, D.C.; school Trustee Tom Fuentes (the former Orange County Republican Party chairman) reciting Ki
January 16, 2006Man-Sore Losers
It's bad enough that Costa Mesa and its divisive Mayor Alan Mansoor are getting beat up by their own hometown Daily Pilot columnists (here and here, not to mention that paper's own readers here and, oh, by one of its more distinguished residents here). But now they are getting national unwanted exposure from the organization that Martin Luther King, Jr. helped found, the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose new Intelligence Report piece, The Tinderbox, takes on Mansoor, the City With a Heart and M
August 10, 2006LAFF 2007: And So It Begins
[Part one of an ongoing series of reports from the Los Angeles Film Festival] Parking spaces in Westwood are like special offers in spam emails -- if you think you’ve got a good one, it’s almost certainly too good to be true. So naturally, the super-sweet street space I pulled into at around 5:45 p.m. turned out to have a malfunctioning meter. Sensing a premiere night, some of the local parking lots were upping their rates to $20, but the good old reliable basement of Rite-Aid was still onl
June 22, 2007Why Does Hugh Hewitt Spin for a Liar?
Heard about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's claim that his father marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1960s? The Boston Phoenix rips apart that claim nicely, then Hugh Hewitt tries to provide cover for his book boy--but it's just not enough.
December 22, 2007Five Songs for MLK
From my web ed. brother in Minneapolis, Jeff Shaw: On the Dreamer's day, we offer up five divergent songs about Martin Luther King and the holiday that bears his name. They are upbeat and somber, they are angry and hopeful, they are old and new. 5. Ray Charles, "Abraham, Martin and John" First recorded by Dion, the soulful Ray Charles version is my favorite. Penned in response to the assassinations of King and Robert Kennedy, artists from Marvin Gaye to Bob Dylan have lent their voices to the
January 21, 2008Last Night: The Living Suns, The Entrance Band, Cavil at Rest, My Pet Saddle, The Union Line @ HOB Anaheim 7/12
By Nate Jackson After almost three years or wrestling with their debut album Self, the Living Suns finally let their finished product see the light at the House of Blues. When I read the lineup for the band’s record-release party, I had to hand it to the Suns for putting together a great OC/LA indie-rock sampler. Most of the bands on the bill like My Pet Saddle and Cavil at Rest have shared a sweaty stage with them plenty of times on the Fullerton music scene. By the time I jogged up the sta
July 13, 2008Democrat Boss (& Daybreak OC) Clueless on Cultural Reference
During Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church Obama-McCain interviews earlier this month, the pastor asked McCain to identify the “three wisest people that [sic] you know that you would rely on heavily in an administration.” McCain quickly named General David Petraeus and Lindsey Graham, a Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Here was McCain on the third of his four choices: “I think John Lewis . . . [he] was at the Edmund Pettis Bridge, had his skull fractured, continued to serve, con
August 27, 2008Orange Crushed
January 27, 2000No Shelter
September 20, 2001[CD Review] Lambchop, 'OH (ohio)' (Merge)
October 9, 2008Artwork Depicting Martyred Peace Advocates Spun Into Film
You may recall Laguna Beach's Tim Leedom from his books about the evils of organized religion. Or his TV and film production work. Or his carrers as a college-football player and NFL scouting facilitator. Or his time in Hawaii's offices of power. Or his publishing companies. Leedom's latest project brushes up against at least a couple of these areas. His Newport Beach-based American Nation Films has begun filming the documentary Satyagraha, which was Mahatma Gandhi'
February 16, 2009King for a Week
January 15, 2009[¡Ask a Mexican!] Cesar Chavez's Street Cred
January 15, 2009[Aural Reports] Activist Band Everything That Exists Strive to Right the World's Imbalances
April 24, 2008Warhol, Actually
January 10, 2008Letfreedomring
August 7, 2003Mad World
Highlights from the 2007 film festival spotlight outspoken DJs, prisons, environmental damage, and . . . Pac-Man?
June 28, 2007Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: The U.S. vs. John Lennon
January 11, 2007Letters
'How DARE you call the film phony. This is a war against the Vietnamese community. We will organize a major protest against OC Weekly'
April 5, 2007Godsmack
Orange County authors try to bring unity to people of different religious faiths. For this they will face the wrath of believers. Again.
March 1, 2007For This I Tomahawked the Enemy?
August 17, 2000Farewell 2006!
JAMES BROWN! WHOS HE?
Gary Burger, 1966December 28, 2006Letters
'Theres a joke in Puerto Rico that says the only reason Hitler ordered that the Jews be killed is because he didnt know Cubans existed'
December 14, 2006The Whole World in His Hands
In this star-studded piece of hero porn, Emilio Estevez blames the ills of the world on RFKs murder, but what about the man?
November 23, 2006Suburban Jungle Boogie
August 3, 2006Lets Go Crazy Broadway-Style
October 13, 2005Stories That Made a Difference
And some we regret
September 8, 2005Diary of a Mad County
June 2, 2005Running to Stand Still
April 7, 2005The Space is Dead! Long live the Space!
January 20, 2005Initiate This!
October 28, 2004Anti-War, Pissed Off and Read All Over
July 29, 2004Spy the Friendly Skies
October 9, 2003Con Artists and 10 Percenters
May 1, 2003Dont Fire Until You See the Whites In Their I30s
January 23, 2003Last Night on Earth
July 18, 2002Great, Satan
March 14, 2002Diary of a Mad County
January 31, 2002Nearly Non-Nazi Night!
January 31, 2002Orange
September 27, 2001Guess Whos Coming to Dinner?
February 15, 2001In the Name of the Father
December 28, 2000Satan vs. Lucifer!
November 30, 2000Letters
May 11, 2000Letters
March 2, 2000Coming Clean
February 3, 2000Letters
January 20, 2000[¡Ask a Mexican!] Special El Edition
September 10, 2009
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