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Mickey Mouse

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2007

    Mickey Mouse: Member of Hamas?

    Disney is a notoriously litigious corporation that defends what it feels belongs to them, whether intellectual property rights or the city of Anaheim. So it'll be interesting to see what, if any, reaction, they'll do after this children's television show aired on Hamas' Palestinian television networ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2007

    Disneyland Loves the Dodgers (Ingrates Edition)

    Remember when Disney owned your Anaheim Angels? Yeah, we've erased that from our memory as well (though not that sweet, sweet 2002 World Series win, por supuesto). But the fact remains that Disney is still very much an Orange County institution, especially Disneyland. That's why it shocked us last n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2008

    There's no Tex in Teixeira

    Others on this blog will undoubtedly dissect your Anaheim Angels' embarrassing flameout against the Boston Red Sox, so I'll just focus on the linguistic disaster that is the Halos' radio announcers (excluding the always-classy Jose Mota). One of them--Rory Markas? Terry Smith? Steve Physioc? Maybe e ... More >>

  • Music

    July 15, 1999

    High Ahhht

    Others on this blog will undoubtedly dissect your Anaheim Angels' embarrassing flameout against the Boston Red Sox, so I'll just focus on the linguistic disaster that is the Halos' radio announcers (excluding the always-classy Jose Mota). One of them--Rory Markas? Terry Smith? Steve Physioc? Maybe e ... More >>

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    HERE ALREADY

    Re-creating Southern California in Southern California

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    The World According to Walt

    Re-creating Southern California in Southern California

  • Features

    April 24, 2003

    Where America Shops

    Our guide to big-box fashion

  • Columns

    August 11, 2005

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Our guide to big-box fashion

  • Food

    October 6, 2005

    This Week in Great Restaurant Logos

    Our guide to big-box fashion

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    It's a Quick Read 29

    Orange County Register: Anaheim police want to question two men shown in an Angel Stadium surveillance video in the opening day assault death of Brian Powers, 27, of Buena Park. That's right, sports fans, they're even watching you in the cheap seats. . . . A man who was arrested at Disneyland l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 11, 2008
  • Music

    August 24, 2006

    Just Like Us!

    Anyone can be an American Idolbut a star? Not so much

  • Columns

    April 12, 2007

    Letters

    'This article is CRAP. This interview never happened, and falsifying information in that way is wrong for so many reasons. Mickey Mouse is a household name. Its like slandering Jesus; you just dont do it'

  • Culture

    June 8, 2006

    The Alchemist

    Rick Frausto recycles everything into art

  • Unknown

    May 5, 2005

    This Week in Non-Mexican Latino Restaurants

    Rick Frausto recycles everything into art

  • Columns

    August 5, 2004

    Letters

    Rick Frausto recycles everything into art

  • Features

    January 1, 2004

    Cruelty to an Animal

    The Year in Mickey Mouses 75th birthday

  • Columns

    April 3, 2003

    RAT!

    The Year in Mickey Mouses 75th birthday

  • Columns

    December 12, 2002

    Letters

    The Year in Mickey Mouses 75th birthday

  • Features

    December 5, 2002

    We Smell a Rat

    Mickey Mouse's origins questioned

  • Features

    October 24, 2002

    M

    Mickey Mouse's origins questioned

  • Film

    February 7, 2002

    The Tycoon of Toon

    LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

  • Columns

    June 21, 2001

    Mickey Mite Club

    LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

  • Columns

    November 18, 1999

    Lifes a Beach, Then You Sue

    LACMA celebrates Walt Disney at 100

  • News

    June 17, 1999

    Hes Big in Germany

    Game musician Tommy Tallarico hopes a Grammy will make him big in the U.S.

  • News

    September 24, 2009

    The Unsolved Murder of Joe Avila Is Only One of Many Loose Ends From OC's Coked-Out '80s

    Game musician Tommy Tallarico hopes a Grammy will make him big in the U.S.

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Dishney: Mickey Mouse Makeover!

    Courtesy DisneyMICKEY SMASH!: Don't worry, this is just a figurine from the cartoon short "Runaway Brain."​So first Dora the Explorer, then My Little Ponies and then Strawberry Shortcake were given brand new, "grown up," hipper looks for the too cool, tech-obsessed, short attention span of Gen-Y. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Disneyland's Corn Dog Truck Out of Commission Next Year From January to May

    Edwin GoeiFirst they purportedly change the formula and girth of the dogs in the corndog, arguably one of the only edible things at Disneyland; but now they're taking the whole truck out of commission for a while. News has come that the Little Red Wagon (that's the official title) will be u ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 3, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] A Güey With Words

    Edwin GoeiFirst they purportedly change the formula and girth of the dogs in the corndog, arguably one of the only edible things at Disneyland; but now they're taking the whole truck out of commission for a while. News has come that the Little Red Wagon (that's the official title) will be u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Dishney: Grandson of Walt Disney Arrested for Illegal Weapons Possession

    We here at the Weekly try to avoid re-using the same images--like the one here below, originally seen with last Friday's "Tweets From the Park"--but it's oddly appropriate this time.Flickr user FLOW TWE graffiti art"Mickey Mouse" by Flow TWE Bayonne​ The OC Register is reporting that the grandson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Tweets From the Park!

    Flickr User Hassan & MarikoMickey Mouse dim sum buns say: Happy Chinese New Year!​Time for Tweets From the Park, where we gather the funniest, weirdest, grossest and most interesting tweets from Disneyland Resort for your reading pleasure. Follow us on Twitter @OCWeekly!mmmmm___Rickman: It's J ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Mickey Mouse Goes Animatronic (Read: Creepy)

    Vickie Chang/OC Weekly​Perhaps as an answer to our November 2009 post on the Walt Disney Company wanting to re-animate Mickey Mouse to keep up with younger, technology-obsessed generations who might just view the famous rodent more as a famous corporate icon than a beloved cartoon character, Disne ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 19, 2010

    'Art Shack'-ing Up

    The Laguna Art Museum brings skeezy slums and screwball shanties to beach-babe-ville

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Four Ways to Make Mickey Mouse More Mexican

    The title says it all...​Mickey Mouse was at SanTana's Mexican Independence Day Festival yesterday, wearing a costume of imperceptible ethnicity and a sarape. That's the best you can do, Disney, to Mexicanize the Mouse? Even Minnie wore a baile folkórico dress, for chrissakes.Disney should've con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Mickey Mouse's Union Doppelgänger Running for Anaheim City Council?

    ​This week's cover story (slooooowly winding its way around Orange County) will deal with the long battle between Unite Here Local 11 (which represents workers at the Disneyland, Paradise Pier and Grand Californian hotels) and Disney. The former has run a genius guerrilla campaign appropriating Di ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2010

    Disney's Hotel-Workers' Union Is Still Trying to Bring Down the Mouse

    After some two-and-a-half years of stalled negotiations and street theater, a new labor deal still seems like Fantasyland

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Disney Trots Out Costumed Characters Before Their Thanksgiving Debut on Movie Screens

    ​More than a month before Tangled hits cineplexes across the land, two characters from the Disney movie are already being trotted out today as the newest costumed characters roving Disneyland.Princess Rapunzel and the handsome bandit Flynn Rider are available for meet-and-greets in the spot where ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 28, 2010

    Sanrio Trucks Its Kawaii to Tustin

    [Trendzilla] The Small Gift Mobile Pop-Up Shop Tour brings the awesomely cute to OC

  • Culture

    December 9, 2010

    'Minnie Muse' Is a Mickey Mouse Job for Forever 21

    [Trendzilla] The classic rodent gal, now taller and skinnier-and tackier

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Walt Disney Company: Insurance Claims, Murder and Suicide, Oh My!

    Where happiness sometimes happens.Let us be clear about this very early: there wasn't some weapon-wielding costumed Mickey Mouse running down Main Street popping people, nor was some disgruntled Toy Story 3 producer slipping cyanide capsules in movie-goers jugs of soda. That said, the Walt Disn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Big Brother Mickey: Disney Exec Has Creepy Hopes For Future Park Characters Capabilities

    Someday, Mickey Mouse's answer may be "yes."​Just in time for the New Year, here's aother half-frightening, half-inspiring bit of Disney magic coming out of the creative braintrust. This bit of technology foresight from Bruce E. Vaughn, chief creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering:"Pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    [UPDATED, With Mouse Response] Lawsuit: Disney Encodes Its Workers' Social Security Numbers on ID Cards, Exposes Them to Identity Theft

    ​UPDATED, 1:59 p.m.: About 20 Disneyland workers stood outside the driveway that leads into the Grand Californian for a press conference announcing a class-action lawsuit against Disneyland. Although the suit portends to represent more than 20,000 Mouse minions, it was strictly a Unite HERE/progre ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 31, 2011

    Tom Tancredo: This Year's Abril Fool!

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Will he live up to the title of Know Nothing?

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    The Subhumans

    The Glass House

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2011

    [UPDATED: Subcomadante SquarePants?] SpongeBob SquarePants Utters "¡Viva La Raza!" On Radio

    ​[UPDATE] Reader Steve Reyes has found proof that SpongeBob is actually a Mexican revolutionary--photographic proof after the jump. And faithful reader Culichi1967 finds even more Mexican attributes in who we Mexicans call Bob Esponja (Bob the Sponge): I just knew t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Bats Day in the Fun Park Founder Noah Korda on Getting Official Disney Recognition, Who'd Win in a Fight Between Tim Burton and Walt Disney and his Confection of Choice from the Park

    Bats Day 2010​This weekend, goths from around the globe will converge on one of the most unlikely of spots: The Happiest Place on Earth. Officially known as "Bats Day in the Fun Park," this annual event celebrates its 13th year in 2011, and Bats Day's organizer, Noah Korda, couldn't be happier... ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Disney Reporter Set To Go To Disneyland With Child For First Time

    ​ A little over three decades ago, I had my very first Disney theme park experience. Throughout our childhood, my parents would treat my sister and me to trips to Disney theme parks many more times.Unfortunately, childhood ends. I became an adult (sort of) and moved off to college in Ohio. Almost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    PHOTOS: A Four-Year-Old's First Time at Disneyland

    ​If you remember this post from last week, you'll recall that I was set to go on a full-day Disneyland adventure with a four-year-old boy named Anthony (and his family), who would be experiencing the park for his very first time.I'm proud to report that Anthony went, and Anthony conquered. Boy, di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Disney Anarchists Dump Crass-Themed Mickey Shirts in Boutiques

    ​That Joy Division/Mickey Mouse debacle just won't die.Someone's been reproducing the (punk band) Crass-themed Mickey T-shirt that was posted on Dave Noise's site (designed by Aron Sizle) and have been leaving them like easter eggs at various Disney stores. (See the photo that Dangerous Minds snap ... More >>

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