San Jose

Rohrabacher Comes Out Against Meetings

The Los Angeles Daily News reported yesterday that the "newly empowered California House Democrats are extending an olive branch to a group that has shunned them for years: California Republicans." A meeting is scheduled for this afternoon when, in the basement of the U.S. Capitol, members of the tw ... More >>

I Grew Up in Huntington

All the great cities in America have great songs to go along with them; classic personifications that truly capture the city’s personality. New York City has "New York, New York" by Sinatra of course, Tony Bennett, with his brand of eternal class offered up "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Ther ... More >>

E&P thinks we're popular

Village Voice Media (of which OC Weekly is a part) placed 15 in Editor & Publisher's list of top 30 top newspaper sites for October, beating out the San Diego Union-Tribune, Arizona Republic, San Jose Mercury News and more. Read it here.

He Knows the Way to San Jose

Newport councilman Gary Proctor lives in $820,000 home up north

Pussy Galore

Newport councilman Gary Proctor lives in $820,000 home up north

OC Filmmaker's Larry Norman Doc to Screen in Town Where Father of Christian Rock's Music Career Took Off

Our cover story "Rock Angel: Garden Grove filmmaker David Di Sabatino is drawn to charismatic but damaged Christians. But nothing prepared him for Larry Norman" tells the story of the torture the director of Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher experienced making his follow-up documentar ... More >>

Travel Blogger Predicts Air Fares Between OC and SF Will Drop

BNET (Business Net) travel blogger Brett Snyder predicts Virgin America's new presence at John Wayne Airport, coupled with Southwest Airlines' expansion of flights to and from San Francisco, will result in lower air fares between SFO and SNA, whose bustling terminal is shown here.That's crazy talk f ... More >>

Videos come back to MTV

Well, kinda...For those who can stay up late, MTV has announced a novel concept called AMTV. The show, which airs from 3-9 a.m. Monday through Thursday, does nothing but air music videos for six hours. Call me crazy, but this might be the start of something new. I mean, I could even see this expandi ... More >>

[¡Ask a Mexican!] The Never-Ending Navidad

Well, kinda...For those who can stay up late, MTV has announced a novel concept called AMTV. The show, which airs from 3-9 a.m. Monday through Thursday, does nothing but air music videos for six hours. Call me crazy, but this might be the start of something new. I mean, I could even see this expandi ... More >>

Writers on the Storm

Flying around with the Bill Simon press corps

Extreme Projectiles

Sounds of the Underground Summer 2007 Tour

LNG? WTF?

Long Beach LNG-terminal developers ad campaign gets a chilly response

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

Pricey (Get Over It) Sandwiches at Zon Baguettes

All Hands On Deck

Sea Wolfs piratical wear is having the best year ever

'I've Had So Much Fun With Cops'

NOT showing at NBFF:

Pray for Me: The Jason Jessee Movie

A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

NOT showing at NBFF:

Pray for Me: The Jason Jessee Movie

Banh Mi, Dont Be a Hero

Trawling for the countys best Vietnamese sandwiches

Would you please bite my ear?

Why I hate strip clubs

Best Dining

Why I hate strip clubs

Everyones a Friggin Critic!

Why I hate strip clubs

We Love to See You Wretch!

Why I hate strip clubs

Letters

Why I hate strip clubs

Group Therapy

Airport foes share their pain online

Wanted: First-Time Buyers of New Logan Homes

Who says no one is buying or selling new houses? Arkbuild--a collaboration between Santa Ana's Taller San Jose community organization and the Orange County Community Housing Corporation's Stepping Up program--is looking for low-income residents interested in becoming first-time homebuyers of three n ... More >>

A History Making Dick and Irvine's Pioneering Pigeons

On Saturday, Dick Cheney assured himself a place in history by becoming only the second sitting vice president ever to gun down a man. While hunting quail at a ranch in Texas, Cheney shot Harry Whittington, another member of the hunting party, apparently mistaking the 78 year old attorney and big-mo ... More >>

Miley Cyrus in Anaheim Tomorrow, Next Stop...Hell?

Miley Cyrus is really popular. Hit songs, hit movie, hit TV shows, she even "wrote" a "book." But not everyone is quite so enthralled with the teen pop star/country singer/actress/author/maker of somewhat questionable career decisions. Like these folks, who protested outside her show in San Jose on ... More >>

Pastor Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Underage Parishoners--and He Ain't Catholic!

​Shane Garrett Horning, the 29-year-old former Santa Margarita Methodist Church youth pastor, was convicted today of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female parishioner and sending sexual text messages to her 15-year-old female relative. The San Jose resident pleaded guilty to four felony counts ... More >>

Shane Garrett Horning, Pervy Youth Pastor, and Luis Antonio Mejia, School Janitor Sicko, Meet Their Fates

​Shane Garrett Horning, the 29-year-old former youth pastor at Santa Margarita Methodist Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, was sentenced today to a year in jail--essentially time served--for having an unlawful sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female parishioner and sending sexual text messag ... More >>

NarcoTunes

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this is your Mexican regional music on drugs

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

​This one is worthy of The Smoking Gun. Simply put: if you're driving a stolen vehicle, DO NOT GO THROUGH DRIVE-THRU.

The New Limb Tour Diaries: Days 3 & 4

​(Alt-pop four-piece the New Limb went on tour for the first time EVER, so they're sending Heard Mentality missives from the road. They're going to take turns guest blogging; on their third and fourth days on the road, Dan Perez and Lauren Salamone give us the scoop. Read their first entry here.-- ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Prop 8 Overturned

​UPDATE: More details on tonight's celebratory rally (see end of post) . . .In a landmark case, Proposition 8, the 2008 California voter initiative that outlawed gay marriage, was overturned. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco ruled that the voter initiative is unconstitution ... More >>

Possibly Pregnant Perpetrator Not Present in Prolific Mission Viejo Pot-Pad

​When a Mission Viejo resident returns to her single-story house on Via San Jose, she'll be missing much more than her monthly period.On Friday, Santa Ana police were called to a Rite Aid on South Bristol Street in Santa Ana to investigate the petty theft of a home pregnancy test by an unident ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

​News highlights include:Meg Whitman's cash is buying her second placeCathleen Decker of the LA Times reports that new polling shows Jerry Brown gaining a "slight edge" over Meg Whitman and that Barbara Boxer has "opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate. ... More >>

Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79

Flickr user evang​The San Jose Mercury News reported that Le Van Ba, a sugar baron from Vietnam and the founder of the omnipresent chain of Vietnamese sandwich bakeries, Lee's Sandwiches, died Tuesday from cancer at the age of 79.

[UPDATE:] DREAM Act Passes in the House, Stalls in the Senate

​Update, December 9, 6:11 p.m.: The esteemed Surf City GOP Congressdude, Dana Rohrabacher, said on the House floor that the DREAM Act is unfair to "non-minorities."Oh no he diiiiiiiin't?!?Oh, yes. Yes he did. See the video and a passage from his debate after the jump . . .

Bruxie Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches Already Planning a Second Location

Professor SaltClick here to see our slideshow of Bruxie Gourmet Waffles.​Damn, that was fast: barely a month into its existence, not even a month after Shuji reviewed it and before Edwin could make his way down there, Bruxie Gourmet Waffle Sandwiches in Old Towne Orange is already looking to open ... More >>

Washington Post Thinks Higher-End Pho Is a Revelation--HAHAHAHA!

Photo by Das Ubergeek​What is it about the national media that gets Vietnamese-food trends laughably late and wrong? If it's not The New York Times "discovering" Sriracha and bánh mì, it's the Washington Post devoting way too many words to some D.C.-area chefs who, as the headline puts it, "put ... More >>

New York Times Names the Best Bánh Mìs in America--and Not One is From Little Saigon

Flickr user svensk​The New York Times' coverage of Vietnamese food has always been laughable--who can ever forget its decade-late feature on Sriracha or it declaring 2009 the "year of the bánh mì" (while neglecting to mention Little Saigon among the nation's Vietnamese enclaves) about seven year ... More >>

The Eyesores

The Doll Hut

Eat Here, Not There: High-End Bánh Mì

ProfessorSalt.comVegetarian banh mi​Little Saigon has the best bánh mì shops in the nation, despite the absurd New York Times story we ridiculed here on this blog a couple months ago. Sure, the San Gabriel Valley has a few great shops, as do San Jose and a number of other Vietnamese enclaves acr ... More >>

IDEA Act, The DREAM Act's Recently-Introduced Cousin, Would Boost Number of Green Cards

Not this green card...If a California congresswoman has her way, a lot more people will get their green cards soon. ​Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amp the number of green cards for foreign students and entrepreneurs. The students have to meet a lot of c ... More >>

The Mumlers

Commonwealth Lounge

The Mumlers at the Commonwealth Lounge Last Night

​The Mumlers June 20, 2011 Commonwealth Lounge, FullertonSan Jose's The Mumlers, whose vintage-rock stylings were the point of focus in Fullerton last night, represent an interesting bit of musical irony in the post modern indie scene: they sound incredibly soulful--for a bunch of disaffected pro ... More >>

Kanye West and Jay-Z Confirm New North American Dates for Watch the Throne Tour

​As we reported earlier, Jay-Z and Kanye West have new dates for the Watch The Throne Tour due to the "overwhelming response to presale tickets." The North American tour will now begin on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Philips Arena. All fans who purchase their tickets online will r ... More >>

Seal Beach Massacre Tied to Grief Over Issues Like Global Warming

​A Global Warming is Real contributor has drawn a connection between the grief people feel over environmental issues and the Seal Beach hair salon massacre. Carlyle Carsh puts that head-scratching theory forward in her weekly Musings of a Malcontent column titled "Put Down the Gun and Breathe."

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Irvine's Mitsuwa Marketplace Food Court To Host Santouka Ramen

Edwin Goei​It would've seemed a safe bet to assume that the new Irvine Mitsuwa Marketplace going into the 13,800 square feet space at Heritage Plaza that was formerly Ace Hardware would contain a Santouka Ramen. At every single Mitsuwa Marketplace in the US (Costa Mesa; Torrance; Los Angeles; Sant ... More >>

Van Halen Announce Tour Dates: Staples Center on June 1, Honda Center June 12

​Van Halen finally announced their tour dates today, and it is massive. The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame inductees announced the dates at an intimate performance in New York's Café Wha?. The tour will begin on Feb. 18., with Kool & The Gang joining Van Halen for select tour dates. And as the ... More >>

Madonna Announces World Tour While the Register Picks Apart Her Plastic Surgery Work

​The last time I saw Madonna, it was 2006 and I paid $352 for a floor ticket. Madonna, fresh off the success of her Super Bowl halftime show, is going on a  World Tour beginning May 29 in Tel Aviv, Israel. While we have no idea how much tickets will be going for, we do know she'll stop at&nbs ... More >>