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Peru

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    New Hirax Record Coming Soon

    ​Local thrash heroes Hirax announced last week that they are hitting the studio in June to record the band's fourth full-length album. Joining the five-piece will be producer/engineer Bill Metoyer, whose resume includes working with Slayer, Morbid Angel and Armored Saint.

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Is Tortillaz Aspiring to be Chipotle?

    ​ I'm not saying that every Mexican chain like Cafe Rio is trying to copy Chipotle. Even though it says it's not, Taco Bell is doing it. And why wouldn't they? It makes business sense to aspire to the same kind of success that Steve Ells Mexi-chain has achieved. There's nothing wrong with that. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Ding Dong: Burger King Tests Out Food Delivery Service

    ​The food-obsessed stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan had a great line once about food delivery. He said, "Delivery is really a combination of two of my favorite activities: eating, and not moving."People of the same mindset might soon have not just pizza and Chinese food but Whoppers they don't have ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2011

    International Indigenous Film and Video Festival

    Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    On the Line: Renzo Macchiavello of Renzo's A Taste of Peru, Part Two

    Photo by Kevin Lara​Family is a recurring theme in our interview with Renzo Macchiavello: influencing his past, supporting his present and inspiring him to excel at what he does best. His expertise earns him gold medals, and here, he offers a few good anecdotes in part two of his On the Line inter ... More >>

  • Music

    May 19, 2011

    RIP, Lloyd Knibb of the Skatalites

    [Mental Notes] Also, the Vandals make a movie and ask you to do the same!

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    UPDATED with Cause of Death: R.I.P., Lloyd Knibb, Skatalites Drummer

    ​UPDATED, May 13, 9:51 a.m.: Lloyd Knibb's wife Enid said her husband died from liver cancer late Thursday. According to the Associated Press, "Knibb had been receiving treatment in the U.S. but returned to Jamaica this week. Knibb's manager, Ken Stewart, wrote on Facebook on Wednesday that he wa ... More >>

  • Food

    April 28, 2011

    At Renzo's, Life Is a Ceviche

    Surfer Renzo Macchiavello creates Incan favorites in Irvine

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    Krochet Kids' Third Annual Gala

    Lido Theatre

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2010

    Five Great Pickles for National Pickle Day

    Flickr user ehfisher​In honor of National Pickle Day, The Counter Custom Burgers slashed prices on their Fried Dill Pickle Chips to a dollar this Sunday, November 14 (go while you can!). There are two OC locations: Irvine and Newport Beach. You can also get fried pickle chips at Beachwood BBQ, Luc ... More >>

  • Food

    October 21, 2010

    Aji Limon Is the Chifa Champ

    This Buena Park eatery just might be the county's first restaurant to specialize in Peruvian-Chinese food

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Wacky Snacks: D'Onofrio Pezi Duri Lucuma Ice Cream

    Edwin GoeiName: D'Onofrio Pezi Duri Lucuma Ice Cream Origin: Peru Found at: Aji Limon, Buena Park Cost: $10 Ingredients: Water, Sugar, Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat, Milk Whey, Lucuma Flour, Milk Protein, Skimmed Milk, Glucose, Emulsifiers (Mono and diglycerides, Guar Gum, Garrofin Gum, Carragee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Around the World in Seven Venues, at Filter's Culture Collide Festival

    ​Cloning won't be necessary to see every band participating in the Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles. Through some organizational tic-tac-toe, a number of the acts play multiple shows over the next four days scattered around the east side. Despite the abundance of gigs, those who don't stra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2010

    3 of Top 10 Most Wanted International Fugitives Hail From Orange County

    ​Long before the Interwebs were awash with lists like "Top 10 Squeaky Cat Toys" and "Top 25 Geeky Video Game Comic Book D&D Tie-Ins," the FBI was issuing its top 10 lists of most-wanted criminals.Perhaps you've even seen them at the post office.The long arm of the bureau extends beyond the 50 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Self-Caffeination As It Was Meant To Be Done

    Our coffee culture, sadly, tends to run toward Starbucks and drive-through at It's A Grind. Largely missing from la naranja is the local, artisanal small-batch roaster whose singular focus on the product raises the coffee bar. Sure, we have Martin Diedrich, and the lines out the door at his two coff ... More >>

  • Film

    June 10, 2010

    (100) Days of Summer Movies

    [Summer Guide] Flicks to help you enjoy the great indoors

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Cherimoyas

    Dave Lieberman​Three years ago, if you saw a cherimoya, it had almost certainly been flown in from Chile or Peru and had been languishing in the "exotic" produce bin at the supermarket, waiting for someone to recognize it and pay $5 for a tiny, withered fruit.Commercial production of cherimoyas ha ... More >>

  • Music

    December 3, 2009

    [Locals Only] DJ Frankie Alvaro Is in the Vanguard of Vintage

    Dave Lieberman​Three years ago, if you saw a cherimoya, it had almost certainly been flown in from Chile or Peru and had been languishing in the "exotic" produce bin at the supermarket, waiting for someone to recognize it and pay $5 for a tiny, withered fruit.Commercial production of cherimoyas ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    Full Film Slate: "Imagine This," "Crude," (the Return of) "The Cove," "Coco Before Chanel" and Michael Moore's Latest Polemic

    Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead. "Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains. First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Top 5 Frozen Yogurt Flavors I'd Like To See

    Since new yogurt stores seem to keep popping up like an unstoppable, virulent disease (See my earlier post here on the phenomenon), there's really one thing left to do: request more flavors.  Not that there's a lack of creativity out there.  Some, like Yogurtland, seem to have a hard-working f ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2009

    Charter Film Series: MADEINUSA

    MOLAA

  • Food

    June 4, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] An Acid Trip Through the Ocean of OC Ceviche

    MOLAA

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2009

    Nory's Great Chicken Milanesa

    Spent most of last week in Dallas, where I only had to eat once to match my needed calories for the week by gorging on a chicken-fried steak (my Facebook status update after the momentous event: "Gustavo Arellano ate chicken-fried steak in Dallas yesterday. Mmm...breaded-beef-smothered-in-gravy-on-t ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    [Versión En Español] ¿Dónde en el Mundo Está Edgardo Jiménez

    Spent most of last week in Dallas, where I only had to eat once to match my needed calories for the week by gorging on a chicken-fried steak (my Facebook status update after the momentous event: "Gustavo Arellano ate chicken-fried steak in Dallas yesterday. Mmm...breaded-beef-smothered-in-gravy-on-t ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    A Priest the Diocese of Orange Admits Faced an Abuse Accusation Is Still in Ministry In Spain

    Spent most of last week in Dallas, where I only had to eat once to match my needed calories for the week by gorging on a chicken-fried steak (my Facebook status update after the momentous event: "Gustavo Arellano ate chicken-fried steak in Dallas yesterday. Mmm...breaded-beef-smothered-in-gravy-on-t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Italy's Ban on Ethnic Food Called "Gastronomic Racism"

    I wished what this Times Online story had to say was a hoax -- that Italy didn't really start banning kebabs and other foreign food from its cities -- but it's too outrageous not to be true.The article states:The drive to make Italians eat Italian, which was described by the Left and leading chefs ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 4, 2008

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    I wished what this Times Online story had to say was a hoax -- that Italy didn't really start banning kebabs and other foreign food from its cities -- but it's too outrageous not to be true.The article states:The drive to make Italians eat Italian, which was described by the Left and leading chefs ... More >>

  • Food

    November 6, 2008

    [This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Chicken Like Soup at Pollo de Oro

    I wished what this Times Online story had to say was a hoax -- that Italy didn't really start banning kebabs and other foreign food from its cities -- but it's too outrageous not to be true.The article states:The drive to make Italians eat Italian, which was described by the Left and leading chefs ... More >>

  • Film

    October 23, 2008

    [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Carrie,' 'Dracula,' More

    I wished what this Times Online story had to say was a hoax -- that Italy didn't really start banning kebabs and other foreign food from its cities -- but it's too outrageous not to be true.The article states:The drive to make Italians eat Italian, which was described by the Left and leading chefs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    To Do This Weekend 9/26 - 9/28

    Chippendales, Friday 8 p.m. Fuck yes. Coach House 33157 Camino Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, CA 949-496-8930 Swing Dance Lessons, Friday 5 p.m. Jump jive and sigh. The Neighborhood Cup 1 Journey Aliso Viejo, CA 949-716-5100 Bastard Winos with Gasoline Addicts, Saturday 9 p.m. Two of the greatest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2008

    Fountain Valley's Peruvian Kitchen Moves to Irvine

    So here's what happened since we last checked in: Lima City (a Peruvian food stall in an Irvine food court I previously reviewed) is gone, replaced by Peruvian Kitchen, who moved out from its Fountain Valley digs, which is now occupied by another Peruvian restaurant called Casa Inka. I won't att ... More >>

  • Music

    December 28, 2006

    Furious 15-Year-Olds

    NOFX

  • Film

    September 21, 2006

    Special Screenings

    Movie of the week: Peel: The Peru Project

  • Film

    July 20, 2006

    Here's Your Insight, Pal

    James Redfield's Prophecy is one divine mess

  • Web

    July 13, 2006

    Remote Hog

    Chappelle Show (Lost Episodes)

  • Features

    June 22, 2006

    June Gloom Boom

    Its getting hot in here . . . wait, no it isnt

  • Music

    March 9, 2006

    Extreme Extremeness

    Napalm Death brutalize the very concept of brutality with crushing, brutal crushingness

  • Culture

    December 15, 2005

    Fast and Furious

    Richard Pryor: done fucked enough

  • Food

    October 6, 2005

    Caraz Dulzura

    Richard Pryor: done fucked enough

  • Food

    July 28, 2005

    This Week in Roughage

    Richard Pryor: done fucked enough

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Special on Sambo, Aisle Dos!

    Picking apart racist caricatures at Orange County Latino grocery stores

  • Unknown

    June 23, 2005

    This Week in Cephalopods

    Picking apart racist caricatures at Orange County Latino grocery stores

  • Unknown

    May 5, 2005

    This Week in Non-Mexican Latino Restaurants

    Picking apart racist caricatures at Orange County Latino grocery stores

  • Food

    September 25, 2003

    Clashingly Yummy

    Travel through Peru with Norys

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    My Laguna

    Feeling most at home at a place that's not

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Back to Business

    OCs Tom Umberg leaves the White House for the Big Bucks

  • Culture

    March 9, 2000

    No Magic Act

    Szyszlo mixes up Stonehenge, Area 51 and the Incas

  • News

    September 23, 1999

    Chillin With Uncle Sam

    Feds to teens: Just say no, dude

  • Culture

    August 20, 1998

    Hope I Die Before They Get Old

    Drugs, sex and rock & roll get the Boomers treatment

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