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May 3, 2012
Latin American Famiy Festival
Bowers Museum
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April 19, 2012
International Food Festival
Strata Tustin Center
Blogs
April 12, 2012
Xodó Grill Opens in Orange
Back in January, we noticed a new Brazilian barbecue restaurant hiding next to Target on Tustin Street in Orange. The workers building out the restaurant said the owners hoped to open in February; we snarkily suggested April, and we were right.
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April 4, 2012
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 >>
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March 2, 2012
Felguk at the Yost Theater, March 1, 2012
FelgukYost TheaterMarch 1, 2012Last night, the Yost Theater hosted the dynamic electro duo from Rio de Janeiro, Felguk. Felguk didn't just come to say hello, they started the weekend off with with big house sounds and arena anthems for all to dance to.
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February 9, 2012
The Assads
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
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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 >>
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January 4, 2012
Ana Tijoux Spotlights Chile's Student Protests in 'Shock' Music Video
Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux debuted her video "Shock" yesterday to audiences across the globe. The song is the lead single off of Tijoux's forthcoming sophomore album La Bala, which features collaborations with Jorge Drexler and Cuban rappers Los Aldeanos and is due for release on January 31. The ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
John Doe of X on Being Influenced by the Rolling Stones and Writing Brand New Material with Exene
XBeing at the forefront of the southern California punk movement as well as having a critically acclaimed solo career has kept John Doe of X busy for the past three decades. Fresh off a South American tour with Pearl Jam and right before X's show Wednesday night at Coach House in San Juan Cap ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
International Indigenous Film and Video Festival
Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union
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September 7, 2011
Austria: 'When the Weather's Hot, the Music Sounds Better'
Austria, a Latin Alternative outfit from Argentina, is a week into its current Southern California tour that will keep the six-piece band busy around town until the 18th. Bringing their latest album Nada along for the ride, the band's sound was described to me as Coldplay en Español. With acoust ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Pilar Díaz Checks in from Chile (and Talks About the Los Abandoned Reunion Show)!
On site in Santiago filming a new music video for 'La Vitrola' While Southern California has been slugging through an often humid summer full of music events and festivals, singer-songwriter Pilar Díaz has been chillin' in Chile as inverted seasons make the country a winter wonderland. Hard at ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
On the Line: Renzo Macchiavello of Renzo's A Taste of Peru, Part Two
Photo by Kevin LaraFamily 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 >>
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July 12, 2011
Festival Colombiano O.C. Gets Its Empanada On
¡Co-lom-BIA!Celebration of Colombia's Independence Day officially kicked off ten days early on Sunday at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim with the Festival Colombiano O.C. The day-long event featured food & drink stands, gift booths, musical stylings, and more sombreros volteados than you could s ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Report: Pasta the Most Popular Dish in the World
Grand, overarching summations derived from research papers must always be viewed skeptically, but the global organization Oxfam is well-regarded for its research, and its only real agenda is feeding folks, something they've been working on since the 1940s. They know a bit about global food trends ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
At Renzo's, Life Is a Ceviche
Surfer Renzo Macchiavello creates Incan favorites in Irvine
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April 21, 2011
Krochet Kids' Third Annual Gala
Lido Theatre
Music
April 14, 2011
CSS Are Recharged and Ready to Rock
The Brazilian new rave combo is back in SoCal looking for 'something crazy'—and Double-Doubles
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April 14, 2011
CSS
The Glass House
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February 14, 2011
Five Words That Signify a Foodstuff in One Latin American Country, But a Crude Term for 'Vagina' in Another
Flickr user neoliminalStarbucks' original logo: Perhaps the most-graphic American corporate example of vagina-as-sweet-food EVERYa gotta love Latinos. Even though we share the same language (except for those retrograde Brazilians and pinche indios), regional variations lead to more than a few sni ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Ana Tijoux: Chile's Grammy Nominated Rapera
Courtesy of Nacional Records Chile, the longest and thinnest country in our hemisphere, has culturally gifted the world in literature, poetry and music. After all, it is the land of Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and Violeta Parra. For the past couple of decades in Chile, the legacy of artful lan ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
Can You Tell Whether a Country is Lying about Inflation by the Price of its Big Mac?
The Economist always publishes great analysis of worldwide trends, even if it famously never puts bylines to its stories. They published a fascinating one recently--the McFlation Index, a process by which they take the increase in price of a Big Mac in a country and match it by said country's "of ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Win Tickets to Tango Buenos Aires Dance Performance on Saturday
The tango is one of Latin America's most sensual and enduring contributions to the world of art. Tango Buenos Aires will bring their dramatic-yet-sophisticated brand of Argentinean dance to the Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa this Saturday. "The Fire and Passion of Tango" features intri ... More >>
Food
January 6, 2011
Colombian Cuisine Back In OC!
[Hole In the Wall] Colombian Cuisine at Mitzi's Kountry Kitchen in Laguna Hills reintroduces the hearty South American cuisine to OC stomachs
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December 17, 2010
Meat Me in Buenos Aires: A Parrilla Report in Photos
Michelle Woo There's one major tragedy in traveling to Argentina. You'll probably never be able to fully enjoy American steak again. I just returned from my two-week honeymoon and despite the country's stunning scenery, insane nightlife and raging political culture, when anyone asks me abou ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Piaggio on Wheels Continuing to Class Up the Luxe-Lonchera Experience
Take a look at the photo and try to figure out exactly what it has to do with the headline. A clue, then the answer, after the jump!
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November 19, 2010
Lollapalooza Goes to Chile
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyPerry FarrellSay you were going to be in Santiago, Chile on April 2 and 3 next year. That would mean you'd be able to go to the first ever Lollapalooza held abroad!Throughout its history Lollapalooza has toured the country many times, but this is a first. Mastermind Perr ... More >>
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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 >>
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July 8, 2010
True Food Kitchen in Fashion Island Sets Opening Date
foxrc.comRemember True Food Kitchen at Fashion Island? I wrote about it back in January. Well, the projected Spring 2010 opening date has come and gone, but this week, there was a press release that the restaurant--which touts itself as "celebrating high quality, locally-sourced ingredients ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
World Cup Soccer
Nadine's Irish Mist
Food
June 10, 2010
In Your Cups
[Summer Guide] At our local United Nations of bars and restaurants, every World Cup game can be a home game
Blogs
June 2, 2010
David Kesler of the Cellar, Part Two
Courtesy of the CellarExecutive Chef David Kesler of Fullerton's The Cellar Restaurant is on the line this week. Here's a random fact for the readership: people who excel at both cuisine and pastry are rare in the extreme. Every culinary arts student studies pastry, but it's like being both an ou ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Bird Mad Girl
Clancy's
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April 8, 2010
Destination: Venezuela
Museum of Latin American Art
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March 18, 2010
International Food Festival
Strata Tustin Center
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Cherimoyas
Dave LiebermanThree 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 >>
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March 11, 2010
En La Noche
Museum of Latin American Art
Blogs
September 30, 2009
Eight Questions with Katon W. De Pena of Hirax
Hirax with Katon De Pena, third from right.Interviewing Hirax singer Katon W. De Pena is sort of a waste of time. You see, journalists (me) are supposed to find news and then announce said news to readers (you). But I shit you not when I say that everyone knows De Pena and De Pena knows everyone. ... More >>
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July 16, 2009
Charter Film Series: MADEINUSA
MOLAA
News
March 19, 2009
[Versión En Español] ¿Dónde en el Mundo Está Edgardo Jiménez
MOLAA
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August 21, 2008
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Brazil
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January 10, 2008
En Fuego
Tango Fire
Culture
June 30, 2005
Hey! Its You!
Selling your childhood back to you
Food
September 25, 2003
Clashingly Yummy
Travel through Peru with Norys
Food
January 16, 2003
Meat, Meat, Meat, Meat, Meat
Amazon Churrascaria is a place for meat
Food
June 27, 2002
Vamos, Vamos a Reginas
Food, soccer and more of each
Food
August 10, 2000
History and Tomato Sauce
Little Joe negotiates deal between Chileans, Italians
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