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Sunkist Growers Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2012

    The OCeeker: Christ Reformed Church and a Riddlebarger With Extra Cheesus

    There's something to be said for churches that tell you what they're all about in their name. In recent years, the hipper churches have gone for cool-sounding names that one could read any meaning into. Indeed, there are no shortages of "Journeys", "Wells" and fellowships with numbers in their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Downtown Santa Ana Dining Rumors: Raw Restaurant? Diner? High-End Mexi? And Another High-End Mexi?

    ​Forgive the bad picture--it must've been taken during a weekend brunch at Memphis in downtown SanTana, while I was on my fourth Manhattan. But that's the current storefront for Au Naturaw, a planned raw-foods restaurant directly across from Memphis. Can a downtown support this, the veggie-leaning ... More >>

  • News

    December 8, 2011

    Meet Shaheen Sadeghi, the LAB Man

    In his his quest to hipsterize OC retail, Shaheen Sadeghi has built quirkily beautiful properties and gained more than a few critics

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Will the OC Fair Erect a Statue Commemorating the County's Immigrant Agricultural Workers?

    ​Boy, hasn't it been fun having Orange County Employees Association (OCEA) head Nick Berardino on the OC Fair board of directors? The fiery Berardino--with whom we always don't agree , but always do appreciate his bringing a paisan attitude to WASP heaven Orange County--has already stirred up the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    [UPDATED with Suspect Dead and I.D.'d:] Anaheim Police Shooting Injures One

    ​UPDATE, NOV. 9, 1:12 P.M.: The man shot by an Anaheim police officer near Casa Madrid Apartments on East Ball Road Friday later died.He has been identified as Marcel Luis Ceja, 22, of Anaheim.Ceja was among three pedestrians stopped by the unidentified officer just before noon. The cop later radi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Victor Villaseñor, Legendary Chicano Author, to Speak at Fullerton Public Library Sept. 18

    ​Victor Villaseñor is no stranger to these parts, having made many appearances in Orange County over the past 20 years, since the publication of his 1991 classic, Rain of Gold. Everyone hails it for Villaseñor's wonderful telling of his parents' migration from Mexico to the United States, but I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    KROQ's Curious Five: Rise Against, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars

    ​It's not KROQ's fault copious amount of sonic garbage spew from their massive antenna on Tonga Peak in Glendale. No matter how cutting edge they purport to be, they're a mainstream radio station with salaried programming directors who strictly adhere to a business model. As such, they are going t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Anaheim Brewery Opens

    Dave Lieberman​Orange County's latest craft brewery, Anaheim Brewery, has had their soft opening at the Anaheim Packing House, the retail center being developed by the company behind the Lab and the Camp in Costa Mesa. The brewery continues the 130-year-old tradition of brewing in OC's original Ge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Lunchables Making a Comeback

    Flickr user Like_the_Grand_Canyon​Were you a Lunchables kid? I think some of my Sunkist Elementary classmates shared some with me one, and I didn't particularly care for it. In fact, I thought that the class prepackaged lunch for kiddies had gone the way of coonskin caps, replaced by federally fun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Orange Unified School District Finally Honoring Lorenzo Ramirez, Local Desegregation Icon

    ​Tonight, the Orange Unified School District is taking an extraordinary step, one anathema to the Orange County mind: admitting that our discriminatory present past was wrong and honoring those brave souls who fought those wrongs only to get disappeared by local historians. The person in question ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Using Coupons Smartly for Super Bowl Sunday

    Anne Marie Panoringan​ >I used to consider just shopping at Costco and Target saving money. I was wrong. So very wrong. Thanks to The Krazy Coupon Lady for showing me the light.Anyway, if you're trying not to dash to the grocery store at the last minute, here's a deal for you. Pull the Sund ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2011

    Sal Duenas Is a Handball Wizard

    The Santa Ana native is king of Orange County's handball courts—but can he go further and bring the sport some much-needed respect?

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Activists to Ask Orange Unified School District Tonight to Name School after Local Civil Rights Icon Lorenzo Ramirez

    ​Nearly a year after the Weekly wrote a story on Lorenzo Ramirez--the El Modena resident who sued on behalf of his children in the legendary Mendez, et al v. Westminster, et al school desegregation case but whose family felt received the short shrift by the case's most-zealous advocates--education ... More >>

  • Food

    August 12, 2010

    The Feast Days of Summer

    And Winter and Fall and Spring! Where to eat, drink and be merry during the most important holidays

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs: Cortina's vs. Niberino's

    Flickr user maggiejane​The meatball sandwich: a great American invention born of great Italian ingredients. Big, thick, juicy meatballs bathed in rich tomato sauce, piled into a crusty roll and topped with "moozadell" or provolone cheese, then slid into an oven to crisp and melt.

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    When Anaheim Trustees Made Linus Pauling Sign a Loyalty Oath--Then Barred Him From Visiting

    Pauling: Not the right crazy for OC in the 1960s...​Over the weekend, I spoke at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Laguna Beach regarding our Sunkist memories. I mentioned the sad story of Joel Dvorman, Orange County's original conservative scapegoat, a man that more than a few people in the au ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    OC Mexican Dodgers Fans Invade Dodgers Stadium with Their Loud-Ass Music!

    The day is this past Tuesday; the occasion, Opening Day for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The music is tamborazo, the brass-band racket native to Zacatecas; the group, from Jerez, where my parents and thousands of Orange County residents are from (most of them coming LEGALLY, because their parents we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    The Curious Case of Anaheim's Founding, Probably Mythological Goat

    Maybe Ontiveros' goat was made into birria?​It's always a blast speaking before the Anaheim Historical Society, not just because it's my hometown crowd but also because the fine folks who belong are receptive to my diagnosis of our collective Sunkist memories. So, when I brought up the story of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    How Did the Doll Hut End Up Hosting a White-Power Show?

    Henry W. Head: Godfather of OC, OC racists. Has nothing to do with post other than we love posting his photo to screw with our Sunkist memories...​The Doll Hut in Anaheim, of course, needs no introduction (but if you need one, read this and this) and is one of the last music venues in Orange Count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Santa Ana "Resurrected"? When Did it Ever Die?

    Fourth Street, SanTana: mid 1950s. What was so great about these segregated days?​ Orange County is a place where booster myths have masqueraded as fact and history since the days of Serra, but an article in this month's Orange Coast by former Los Angeles Times writer Agustín Gurza on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Beloved OC Historians, Mexicans, and Half-Breeds Tomorrow!

    Woman or half-breed?As mentioned in my ¡Ask a Mexican! column this week, I'll be speaking tomorrow to the Anaheim Historical Society at what's now called the Woelke-Stoffel House but which generations of Anaheimers know as the Red Cross House. Address is 418 N. West St., Anaheim, (714) 292-0042, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    OC Faux Pas of the Millennium!!!

    Setting: West Hollywood Book Fair, 'round noon, Librería Martínez booth. Protagonists: Me, Librería Martinez volunteer Jess Baudillo, and a gaggle of gals from the Mission VIejo Public Library. Scene: They had just invited me to speak at some author's festival they're proposing for next year. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    The Untold Story of Santa Ana's Fiestas Patrias

    While the Orange County Register and others published fawning dispatches on SanTana's annual Fiestas Patrias Mexican Independence Day festival and parade this past weekend, no one bothered to look into how it came to be that festival organizers moved the Fiestas from its traditional Fourth Street lo ... More >>

  • News

    April 5, 2007

    Grove of Dreams

    The life and times of orange picker-turned-big leaguer Jesse Flores

  • Features

    April 5, 2007

    Grove of Dreams

    The life and times of orange picker-turned-big leaguer Jesse Flores

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    Gunkist Oranges

    Wonder why Orange County trembles whenever its Mexicans protest? Welcome to the Citrus War of 1936, the most important event in Orange County history youve never heard of

  • Music

    January 19, 2006

    Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

    Dale Crover and the unstoppable killing machine

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Anaheim

    Dale Crover and the unstoppable killing machine

  • Culture

    July 22, 2004

    Spy in the House of Fashion

    Carilyn Vailes line of brightly colored, relaxed separates makes not ironing chic

  • Music

    May 13, 2004

    Smoking in the Boys Room

    Can a girl get a hook-up?

  • Columns

    March 11, 2004

    Sweet and Loh Down

    Can a girl get a hook-up?

  • Columns

    September 26, 2002

    Diary of a Mad County

    Can a girl get a hook-up?

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    ANTI-RED BUTTONS

    Everybody Knows that Richard

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