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One Last Lee Mallory Alert!

The 'Love Poet' retires, and OC will never be the same

Panel on History of Mexican-American Baseball in OC at Fullerton Library THIS THURSDAY!

And the hit parade just keeps on coming for my "Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!" After packed rooms for author Hector Tobar and USC sociology professor Jody Agius Vallejo in January and February, respectively, I predict next Thursday might be the biggest one of the season because of the topic: a p ... More >>

Danny Godinez, Food Genius

[Best Of 2012] The culinary genius at Anepalco’s shares his favorite things about Orange County

Santa Ana College Bike Thieves Camera Ready

On one hand, it's great that a former Santa Ana College student and her 16-year-old son have found an activity to bond over.But, according to campus security, that activity led to the arrest of both and a 17-year-old accomplice.

Summer Sensation Concert Rallys Young, Santa Ana Community Organizers

See Also:*UCI's Artistic Beats Takes Islamic Culture to the Club*OC-Centric Puts the Spotlight on Local Palywrights*World EDM Vixen Hayla to Headline OC Pride FestivalA fiesta is brewing in Santa Ana. Only this party is more about waking up to help a community versus passing out on your neighbor's g ... More >>

No. 53, Chivito at Puerto Madero

I struggled with which of my two favorite dishes at Puerto Madero to feature on this list first, though both undoubtedly deserve a place on this year's 100 Favorite Dishes. You'll have to wait a little longer to see what bested the remarkable Chivito, but for now, let's talk sandwiches. Of the ... More >>

Anonymous Donor Ponies Up Cash for Santa Ana Youth to Fight in Oxnard--In the Boxing Ring, of Course

The Santa Ana Boxing Club is one of those miracle workers that take kids leaning like a cholo and turn them into upstanding men (and women) via the sweet science. But, like with most nonprofits (or anything associated with boxing, for that matter, it's in trouble right now (I won't use the cliché " ... More >>

Ten Great Mexican-American Combo Plates In Orange County

Sometimes we want regional Mexican food--corundas and pozole from Las Brisas de Apatzingán or thick, rich moles from El Moctezuma--and sometimes we just want the familiar old combination plate with its orangey rice and its goopy beans and its two enchiladas where the sauce runs into the other parts ... More >>

Long-Lost Sketch of Historic Santa Ana College MEChA Mural by Sergio O'Cadiz Discovered

The Southern California arts community lost a legend last year when former Santa Ana College professor Shifra Goldman passed away. The historian championed Chicano murals long before others, and served as a ceaseless promoter of the OC Chicano arts scene as best exemplified by Emigdio Vasquez and Se ... More >>

Top 10 OC Comics...So Far!

Ahhh Orange County. We might be known for our beautiful weather, pristine coastlines, and gorgeous people but we are soooo much more than that! Orange County is also the stomping grounds of some of the funniest comedic talent. With that said, we thought we'd do a little bragging on some of O.C.'s fi ... More >>

Eat This Now: Chivito at Puerto Madero

Balance defines a great sandwich. In the ratio of meat to bread, of cheese to meat and condiments to everything else, if you're heavy-handed in any one way, it's going to ruin the final product. Balance is where the Chivito at Puerto Madero Market excels. The sandwich, popular in Uruguay, Argentina ... More >>

Jesse Ruiz, American-Born Former Santa Ana College Wrestler, Qualifies for the 2012 Olympics...for Mexico

​This story's going to get the Know Nothings happy: Jesse Ruiz, an American-born wrestler from SanTana who attended school at Valley High School and Santa Ana College, a former collegiate champion who's currently a volunteer assistant at The Citadel, made the 2012 Olympics...for MexicoRuiz qualifi ... More >>

Illoheem: From the Cypher to Barrio Rhymer

[Locals Only] Using hip-hop as a medium for the undocumented and unheard

[UPDATED with Songs for Shifra] Shifra Goldman, Latino/Chicano Art Historian, Dead at 85

Courtesy of the FamilyShifra Goldman in her office​UPDATE: Sept. 15 10:31 A.M.: As a reader let me know, Eric Garcia, the son of the late Shifra Goldman, released an album in tribute to his mother a month prior to her passing. The guitarist, who in the course of his musical life has lent his talen ... More >>

Mysterious Objects: Portriats of Joan Quinn

Santa Ana College Main Gallery

Kesha Hondo, Santa Ana College Professor, Killed in Apparent Murder-Suicide Blamed on Her Husband

SAC​A woman killed in apparent murder-suicide in Riverside that was blamed on her husband has been identified as a Santa Ana College faculty member.Kesha Hondo, 39, was a speech communication professor at SAC, which she joined in 2005 after teaching stints at Goldenwest, Orange Coast and Long Beac ... More >>

Petition Asks Baseball Players to Wear White Ribbons During Next Week's All-Star Game in Protest of SB 1070

​Next week, Major League Baseball will hold its annual All Star game in Phoenix, where Sheriff Joe Arpayaso roams and perhaps the only major metropolitan area in the United States that has more Know Nothings per ratio than Orange County. For the past year, activists have been calling on Commission ... More >>

Orange County Register Reporter Pleads With Readers to Try Santa Ana Restaurants, Racist Hilarity Ensues

​The only time I met Orange County Register reporter Jeff Overley, one of the people with the fine--if sporadic--Food Frenzy blog, was a couple of years back, when we were both judges at a dog show at the Back Bay Bistro. He struck me as a good, earnest person, which is the attitude he's carried i ... More >>

Steve Martin Puts on His Mouse Ears

Photo by David Shankbone/Wikipedia Commons​Steve Martin was born in Waco, Texas, moved with his family first to Inglewood, California, and then Garden Grove. He attended Garden Grove High School, took drama and poetry classes at Santa Ana College and applied to Cal State Long Beach hoping to major ... More >>

DREAM Act Supporters Keep Fighting

From Santa Ana to Texas to Capitol Hill, OC residents prove among the most prominent advocates of the DREAM Act

John Dow, Maine Driver Involved in Car Crash That Killed DREAM Act Activist Tam Tran, Indicted for Her Death

​As supporters of the DREAM Act furiously work the phones to try and get the bill passed in the Senate this week, nearly all keep the memory of Tam Ngoc Tran near to them. The Santiago High and Santa Ana College graduate was perhaps the nation's most prominent Dreamer--but she was tragically kille ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Santa Ana College Quad Less Crowded

​UPDATE: Little did I know while posting this morning that Rancho Santiago College District, which oversees Santa Ana College, would be announcing sharp enrollment declines, although they are fewer than indicated in the student newspaper (see end of post) . . . With the tuition fee hikes, dwindlin ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

A DREAM Act Undeterred

Local undocumented college students mark the passing of one of their own, Tam Tran, by continuing her fight

How to Save a Class at Santa Ana College: A Taste of Santa Ana? 

​Alex Flores, student body President, speaks to the Summer Session Rescue Fund Committee. ​If the members of Santa Ana College's Associated Student Government don't resurrect a class for the school's currently canceled summer session this year, it won't be for lack of trying.So far, a fruit cup ... More >>

How to Save a Class at Santa Ana College: Parking Raffle!

Student body president, Alex Flores, working to raise funds for summer classes. ​As the price of education continues to rise and class availability continues to decrease, Santa Ana College's Associated Student Government has devised a new plan to help their fellow students keep the classes they ne ... More >>

Nguoi Viet Strengthens Itself With Editor Pick

​In March 2008, Nguoi Viet--the Orange County-based largest Vietnamese newspaper in the United States--pushed out its longtime editor Hao-Nhien Vu at a time when rapid right-winger immigrants were calling the very-much-non-communist paper a tool of Hanoi.After his ouster, Hao-Nhien Vu launche ... More >>

Factory Readings

Gypsy Den

The Real Teachers Of Orange County?

*Update: It appears young Aaron Westbrook (a teacher arrested Monday for allegedly sleeping with one of his students at Capo Valley High; see below) graduated from Vanguard University, the Christian higher learning post in Costa Mesa where his dad, Ed Westbrook, is a professor of business, is head o ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'El Brindis,' More

To Do Tonight - 02/13

MARS BARS PROTEST, 7 p.m. Harold Schmitz, chief science officer of Mars candy bars, is set to speak on the future of chocolate. But this isn't cool with PETA, whose members plan to wear body paint in M&M colors and hold banners protesting Mars-funded lab testing. Beckman Center, 100 Academy, Irvine ... More >>

Friday's Headlines & Surprises: All Big Money Issue!

Yet Another USC Criminal: Laguna Beach billionaire Igor Olenicoff has pleaded guilty in a massive tax fraud scheme involving $346 million and Bahama bank accounts. A product of USC after fleeing the Soviet Union and Iran, Olenicoff lied to the IRS about the existence of the off shore accounts. He†... More >>

Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Laguna prefers goats on grass

Mexicans are safe on this one: A report issued recently to the Laguna Beach City Council found that goats will clear vegetation from fire-sensitive slopes for a cost of $198,000 per year, while juveniles working off a crime in the county’s Probation Department would require $385,000. A consultant ... More >>

Muslim Bashers of Orange County Unite!

Want to start a jihad against jihadis? You'll get your chance this October, when the David Horowitz Freedom Center plans to organize "the biggest conservative campus protest ever" with something called Islamo-Facism Awareness Week in college campuses across America. It didn't surprise us that UC Irv ... More >>

Hail Maria, Full of Grease

Orange County Housecleaners tells the stories of your maids

Grub Guide

This week in supporting Costa Mesa restaurants

Tea and a Bit of Joe

Eight Days

Cup of Her Blood

Laurie Hassold sends the Jesus kids fleeing

Robot-Sex Fun

Workingmans Dead

Working works despite stupid changes

You Ain't Inventing Jack

Fullerton College looks back at sex, sex and the Old West

The Nominees Are . . .

Introducing the seventh annual OC Weekly Theater Awards

Get Your Freak On

The Marquis mark at Santa Ana College

Sucker Punched

Good art from a very bad day

The T Word

Rigoberta Menchu Tum gives OC a new definition of terrorism

Hell on Wheels

Driving in OC, in your own words

Hideous Gifts, Ugly Talents

Fender Blender