Orange Coast College

Why Gustavo Ditched His East Los Angeles College Commencement Speech (Hint: Because He's a Big Ol' Pendejo)

To quoth GOB Bluth: I've made a huge mistake. Back in February,East Los Angeles College announced that they invited me to be their commencement speaker. I was thrilled because it's always an honor to give a commencement speech--and it was a juco, to boot, California's perpetually unloved higher ed ... More >>

Nick Contopoulos, OCC Professor, Had Ali Syed Point Shotgun at Him and Lived to Tell About It

If Nick Contopoulos could find out one thing from the late Ali Syed, it would be why the 20-year-old did not kill him.Syed is the Ladera Ranch man accused of killing three people and terrorizing Orange County freeway drivers last Tuesday, Feb. 19, before using his shotgun to take his own life. Conto ... More >>

[UPDATED with I.D., Media Racism Charge:] Joshua Aguirre, OC Homicide No. 38: Fatal Stabbing Begins Day of Violence in Anacrime

See the update at the end of this post with the dead young man's name and a college staff member's accusation of local media racism.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 1, 9 A.M.: Two men walking along West Ball Road near South Roberts Street in Anaheim early Saturday discovered a man who had been stabbed and was cl ... More >>

Orange Coast Community College Student From Jordan Busted For Alleged Stockpile of Child Pornography

A California grand jury has indicted a 26-year-old Jordanian student at Orange Coast Community College in Costa Mesa for suspected possession of 2,029 images of child pornography on his computer.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested Ohanes Hamparsoum Haladjian after an undercover operat ... More >>

The Text of Gustavo's Long Beach City College Commencement Speech!

As this gets published, I'll most likely be reading my commencement speech to the graduates of Long Beach City College. So I'm speaking to you right now from the future--WEIRD...Anyhoo, the entirety of the speech follows. I reserve the right to change words on the drive to campus in the next hour, b ... More >>

[UPDATED with Possible OC Connection] Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Have Separated

​UPDATE, MAY 17, 4:00 P.M. As Matt just blogged, Gawker is reporting there just might be a son of Arnold Schwarzenegger attending class within shouting distance of Weekly World HQ. The (still-unconfirmed) tale of this Orange Coast College student doesn't quite jibe with the confirmed tale of the a ... More >>

Teen Girl's Report of Being Bound with Shoelaces and Assaulted by Latino Gang Bangers is False: Police

​A teen girl's report about being bound with her shoelaces, threatened with a knife and choked by two Latinos with gang tattoos at a Costa Mesa city park Saturday night is false, police announced this morning.   "Detectives will be requesting a petition filed through the juvenile court system ... More >>

Cypress College's Culinary School Lunch Lab Continues Until May

Cypress College​​A few weeks ago, I posted about Orange Coast College's Spring Semester lunch lab. I hadn't noticed till now that a commenter on that post rightly pointed out that Cypress College has its own Thursday lunch lab that is also worthy of mention. We're already into its third week, b ... More >>

Orange Coast College's Captain's Table Lunch Lab Begins Again Next Week

Edwin Goei​Captain's Table, Orange Coast College's lunch lab in which culinary students test their mettle in a real-life setting serving real customers, starts again next week with its first lunch of the spring session, on Thursday, Feb. 24. This lunch of 12 will feature the cuisine of Mexic ... More >>

Reporter on Newport Beach Trash-Scavenger-Law Beat Gets Punked on Live Television

​A TV reporter just got punked on live television from Newport Beach.At 8:05 a.m., Dave Mecham stood in front of homes on Balboa, where it is trash day, for his story on the city's new scavenger law that can send poachers to jail. After video depicting Santa Ana's use of locks on residential trash ... More >>

Juri "Julie" Kibuishi Would Do Anything for a Friend, Say Murder Victim's Parents, Brother

​Julie Kibuishi loved music, fashion and her family, but nothing gave the 23-year-old Orange County High School of the Arts graduate more pleasure than hanging out with friends, her parents and one brother related in a tearful and impromptu meeting with local media this morning.Indeed, Julie, who ... More >>

Gustavo Arellano Helps One Alma Mater, Gets Snubbed by Facebook Group at Another

​Gustavo Arellano will be one of two investigative journalists talking about the future of newspapers at Orange Coast College tonight. Meanwhile, a Facebook group has started in the campaign to prevent the Weekly's very own Mexican from taking part in a different higher-education gig: a scheduled ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

To Do Tonight - 6/23

Groundbreaking of new Westminster Police Department Building, 5:30 p.m.Groundbreaking is one way to describe something revolutionary, something iconic. It's also a way to describe literally breaking the ground before building a structure, like say, the new Westminster Police Department Building. Wi ... More >>

[Special Screenings] 'Rushmore,' 'Carrie,' 'Metropolis,' More

[Newport Beach Film Fest] Orange County Connections Abound Among This Year's Entries

See First 10 Years of Newport Beach Film Festival on TV

The First Ten, which chronicles the first decade of the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF), airs at noon Sunday on KOCE/Channel 50. The video was created free of charge by the nonprofit Media Alliance of Orange County, whose member (and The First Ten producer) Jack Gallagher put out a call in F ... More >>

Fullerton College Loves Gustavo for Some Bizarre Reason

I have a tortured relationship with most of my alma maters. I speak at high schools across Southern California before assemblies and classes, yet have spoken at Anaheim High but once since I graduated in 1997--and when I did, my former biology teacher ridiculed my decision to work for the Weekly. Ea ... More >>

Citizen of the Week!

Attending college isn't always easy or cheap. Far too many schools are little more than glorified profit centers. But is it too much to ask professors to refrain from bilking students, too? I ask this question to Patrick C. Coaty, a political science associate professor at Orange Coast College in ... More >>

Orange Coast College's Student-Run Restaurant is Open

A week late in posting, but better late than never: Orange Coast College's Captain's Table, the restaurant that functions as a lab and training class for the school's culinary students, is now open for the Fall Semester. Actually, their inaugural lunch was last week. I've been to a few of these in ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Carona Blame Game!

Your Tax Dollars Wasted: The Daily Pilot says that Costa Mesa officials admit they’ve spent at least $127,000 in public funds to prosecute Benito Acosta, an Orange Coast College student who had the audacity last year to demand the right to address the city council for the same three-minute period ... More >>

Former OC Weekly art reviewer dies

Doree Dunlap, former art reviewer for the OC Weekly and Orange Coast College art professor, died Oct. 4 after battling cancer for several years. She was 58 years old. Dunlap, a longtime Irvine resident, loved art and worked closely with it her entire life. She is survived by her parents, David and ... More >>

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Grand Hotel

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Movie of the Week: Tron

OCC Goes Greek

This campus production of Amphitryon 38 is an ambitious diversion, but hardly an instant classic

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: The Graduate

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Movie of the Week: The Adventures of Don Juan

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Movie of the Week: The Bishop's Wife

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Movie of the Week: Blade Runner

Special Screenings

It's up to you to put the 'special' in Special Screenings

Special Screenings

movie event of the week: The (Unofficial) Zombie Film Festival

The Lovable Loser

Ryan Gene Williams has no chance this Novemberand thats why we like him

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Sorry, Wrong Number

Get Laid Now, Ask a Vagina How

Attention men of Earth: Vagina Monologues will get you in good with the dames

Rohrabacher Gets a Taste of the Lash

OC Republican booed in his own district

The Death of Vivian Bearing

OCCs Wit

Robot-Sex Fun

Last Picture Show

Its curtains for Arthur Taussigs 15-year movie show

Where America Shops

Our guide to big-box fashion

Diary of a Mad County

Letters

Mmmmm, Red Meat!

And the horrors of mortality

Trapped

Deck Hand on a Fishing Boat, Balboa

Midsummer Nights

And how come nobody ever calls us impishly cute?

Los Lobos Come Home!

Will the Wolves survive?

Barry White?!

Do not step on my funk, please

Back to Cool

Our firstand probably last, but certainly incompletecollege club guide

Great Bands of the County, Unite!

Give It the Old College Guide*

The finer (and lesser) points of local institutions