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    January 4, 2008

    Another Santa Ana Councilmember With Conflict - of - Influenza?

    *Updated, with new info on the bottom... Earlier, we discussed the developmental gerrymandering that seemingly allows SanTana mayor Miguel Pulido and councilmember Vince Sarmiento to vote on the city's Renaissance Specific Plan (RSP), the controversial project that seeks to "diversify" and "revital ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    Carlos Bustamante Reaps Money from Downtowners

    Cápitulo tres de cuatro... Remember how yesterday, we promised this would be our last Carlos Bustamante post in our series on the conflict-of-influenza-stricken SanTana councilmember? We lied. We're still so awestruck at Carlitos' güey with donations and votes, we decided to insert this post befo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    Why Santa Ana Natives Fear the Hipsters

    Tonight, SanTana officials hold yet another meeting for their much-vaunted, much-derided Renaissance Plan. A slew of different interests will attend, from loft dwellers who want to turn Orange County's largest city into another Aliso Viejo to activists who fear the Plan's gentrification purposes to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2008

    How Not to Sell Art

    My post earlier this week about the attempted naming of the Santiago Street Lofts area as the historically inaccurate North Logan Art District (NoLo for short) has sparked quite the mini-imbroglio through comments on Navel Gazing, private email and comments on Life at the Santiago Street Lofts, a mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2008

    Mountain-out-of-Molehills Approach Works!

    On the drive to Weekly world headquarters in SanTana today, I noticed a banner hanging on a chainlink fence near the Santiago Street Lofts. "Santiago Art District," it read, and what a relief! Faithful readers will recall my bickering with some loft residents over their attempted, lame branding of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Reminder: The Weekly Endorses...

    ...Mucho drunkenness this weekend! Ben Dayhoe over at Life at the Santiago Lofts (great blog about the positive side of SanTana) did a bit of genius guerrilla campaigning for his Santa Ana Pub Crawl, a monthly tour of downtown SanTana bars (the genteel ones--the wabs didn't want to participate) th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2009

    Santa Ana Officials Don't Care For Viet Art, Dangerous Elevators

    Too bad that the Weekly moved its world headquarters away from SanTana and back to Costa Mesa's industrial-park blackhole this week (although the offices we now occupy ain't that bad), because the best non-Carona story to emerge this weekend was the shutdown of the revolutionary FOB II art exhibit b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Proof that Organic is Better: The Curious Case of Chipotle

    Part One of a five-part series this week on tacos, burritos, and salsas...sorry, hungrymomma!Us editorial Weeklings always steal food whenever the paper's ad side order mass lunches during a special issue sales push, whether Best of, Summer Guide, or some other such blockbuster. Sometimes, the chow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    A Mexican Commentary on the Muy Bueno Kogi BBQ Burrito

    It was about 10 after midnight Sunday Morning when the mysterious Ben Dayhoe and I descended into his lair and cut a short-rib Kogi BBQ burrito for the two of us to split. We had spent two hours on the sidelines of the famed taco truck, which was dishing out its Korean-style Mexican food from the pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Artist Renditions of the 'New' Fourth Street for Santa Ana: Bye-Bye, Virgin of Guadalupe!

    Adiós, morenita...​Earlier this week, someone mailed me a package with no name on the envelope, no return address--nothing. I like those! Inside were architectural drawings and a note saying these were the plans that the developers currently ripping up Fourth Street in SanTana to de-Mexify it hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Santa Ana Gentrifiers to Rename Former Fiesta Marketplace "East End Promenade"--HA!

    ​Hipsters, gentrifiers, and their enablers are so predictable in their schemes, it would be laughable if they weren't so pathetic. And one of their most-cherished steps is trying to rename an area to suite whatever promotional needs they may need, even if such names fly in the face of logic or his ... More >>

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