Subject: Ted Kissell

• Take My Food-Eating Job, Por Favor

  The OC Weekly is looking for a freelancer who will do food reviews for nosotros--and not just every couple of weeks. We're talking once a week, every week, to complement This Hole-in-the-Wall Life and to give this Mexican a break as his pinche book release approaches. Qualified candidates must accept reimbursements for all meals, a small-but-muy bueno stipend on top of that, and visit Orange County's best new and higher-end restaurants. So, why haven't you applied? Send all résumé

  April 9, 2007

• Bad Car-ma

  July 17, 2007

• More Fallout from Anti-OC Weekly Article in The Nation

  On newstands now is what we wrote about last month: A Nation piece by UC Irvine professor Jon Wiener criticizing the Weekly's new ownership and the tumultuous turnover here earlier this year. Rumor has it the Nation will print a response by Weekly jefe Ted Kissell, which means our own must be out of the running. But Village Voice Media acolytes aren't the only critics of Wiener's piece. We turn the floor over to Richard Karpel, executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (t

  July 25, 2007

• OC Register Reporters not Too Fond of Publisher for Obvious Reasons

  Yesterday, the Orange County Press Club hosted a panel featuring the newest kids on the Orange County media block: Orange County Register publisher Terry Horne, KDOC-TV Channel 56 news director (and former Register reporter) Jeff Rowe, and our own editor Ted Kissell. Each gave their impressions of the Orange County market to an audience of about 50 at Memphis' Santa Ana location. But the real revelations came during the question-and-answer session, and it was courtesy of current and former Regis

  November 8, 2007

• Register "Didn't Have The Goods" On Carona

  This past Wednesday, the stage was set for an ultimate face-off: Our own R. Scott Moxley, the finest reporter in these here parts, and Register reporter Tony Saavedra, both staring down Mike Schroeder, local GOP king-maker (former Sheriff-maker, soon-to-be felon-maker), in front of the assembled members of the Orange County Press Club. Some of you may have seen signs advertising the event - "There Will Be Blood." Sadly, 'twas a far, far better thing Moxley had to do, but of course a gentleman W

  February 15, 2008

• OC Register Laying off Five Percent of Workforce

  It's never fun being right about this kind of thing, but apparently the OC Register is laying off 80 to 90 employees, according to a post today on the newspaper's website. Here's about half of the post (it's really short): "... [Publisher Terry] Horne cited Orange County’s sluggish economy, especially in real estate, as affecting the company’s revenues from local retail, automotive and classified advertising for jobs. The company provided no financial details about the decline in adverti

  April 28, 2008

• Cafe Contigo--Closed :-(

  Spent the weekend hawking books at the Anaheim Historical Society's biannual home tour. There, many folks told me the bad news: Cafe Contigo, located just down the street from Anaheim City Hall, is no more. I reviewed it late last year, just a couple of weeks after it opened, and made it my place to meet Anaheim sources. They drank coffee, Cuban-approved by Weekly editor Ted Kissell (who spent years in south Florida and therefore knows his media noches from ropa viejas), while I munched on deli

  October 13, 2008

• This Week in The OC Weekly

  October 24, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  October 31, 2008

• OC Weekly Not Alone; Village Voice Media Cuts Widespread

  As editor Ted B. Kissell's "A Bad Week at the Weekly" post about layoffs at OC Weekly continued (and is continuing) to generate comments, newsroom staffers received a memo about the matter this week from our Village Voice Media overlords. Now, before I reveal what was in the memo, let me iterate and now reiterate that I was directed it was okay to divulge this information, that other VVM papers have already posted the memo without fear of repercussions and that, man, I really need this job

  January 6, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  December 11, 2008

• Welcome to the Poorhouse: a New Blog Series

  Seeing news daily about folks stung by drastic wage cuts, fending off foreclosure, paying more for everything, drowning in credit-card debt and hanging dwindling hope on Uncle Obama, a thought comes to mind: Hey, that's me! Then comes a question: Why not blog about it? Then an answer: Um . . .  okay. I'll lay out my situation in this first post. I'll return with new posts from time to time. Please chime in with advice, complaints, sympathy, ridicule or your own mucked-up circumstances so we

  March 5, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  January 8, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  December 18, 2008

• [Election 2008] Obama, McCain (Who Sucks, By the Way) and the Gayest Election Ever

  October 23, 2008

• Letters from OC Weekly Readers

  July 17, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 10, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  July 3, 2008

• [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

  June 12, 2008

• This Hole-In-the-Wall Life

  December 27, 2007

• The Prodigal Editor

  2007: A year to remember

  December 27, 2007

• OC's Scariest People

  Our Congressional delegation tops this year’s list of 33 villains (31 for October, plus two more to get to the Dia de los Muertos, ese)

  October 25, 2007

• Recall Madness!

  August 23, 2007

• Letters

  'Stupid-ass crackers talk about gangs like they know something'

  June 21, 2007

• Letters

  'I hold an ASS'

  June 14, 2007

• Letters

  'WHO or WHAT raised you?'

  May 31, 2007

• Letters

  'PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME ANY MORE EDITIONS OF THE OC POST'

  May 24, 2007

• Letters

  'There is no life left in the paper. No humor, no edge, no spank. You are plain and boring. I dont know what you did to all these good people to run away, but I can guess. I wont pick up OC Weekly

  Letters

  'THAT WAS BULLSHIT! YOU SHOULD SEE THE LADY DOWN THE STREET FROM ME! SHE USED TO BE HOT! NOW SHE LOOKS LIKE A MEXICAN COW!'

  May 10, 2007

• Letters

  'You reduce yourselves to the blogs of housewives with a useless degree in art or literature when you write such cleverly worded nothingness. Fuck you'

  May 3, 2007

• Letters

  'And when I say "you," I am referring to white America. I purposely left that "white" uncapitalized'

  April 26, 2007

• Letters

  'This article is CRAP. This interview never happened, and falsifying information in that way is wrong for so many reasons. Mickey Mouse is a household name. Its like slandering Jesus; you just dont do it'

  April 12, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Office Space

  April 5, 2007

• About OC Weekly

  March 29, 2007

• Letters

  'If you dont like him, dont listen to him, you fuckin moron'

  March 29, 2007

• Letters

  'Kate Carraway... You obviously wouldn't know good music if it slapped you in the face. Idiot.'
  

  March 22, 2007

• Cell Phone Towers Make Waves, Angry OC Residents Cry Cancer

  May 7, 2009

• Is That a Cell Tower Near Your Playground or Are You Happy to See Me?

  What are you doing here?UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM THE CITY...Weekly editor Ted Kissell encountered more than the usual wet heads, skinned knees and freckled faces scooting into his neighborhood Harbour View Elementary School in Huntington Beach this morning. He also ran into parents pissed off not about grades, ineffective teachers or stale bake sale items (this time), but a cell-phone tower.Indeed, folks are so hung up over T-Mobile USA's faux-tree tower--which is not the one shown here but is

  April 23, 2009

• Bee Busters Head Won't Buzz Off

  Few OC Weekly news subjects--not disgraced, felonious, adulterous ex-sheriff Mike Carona, not pedophile-protector Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown, not even the decrepit Know Nothing Barbara Coe--have publicly acted more petulantly over negative news coverage than David Marder. You might remember him from our February profile on the BackyardBKeepers, ladies who rescue feral bees rather than exterminate them like Marder, head of Bee Busters. We let Marder have his say on people like the BKee

  June 10, 2009

• The Unhappy Marriage (Opposite Marriage?) of Art and Politics In the Proposition 8 Debate

  June 11, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 6, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 13, 2009

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  ​ Our fearless leader Ted Kissell worked for many years in the Miami-Broward-Palm Beach area, one of the great places in the country to work as a reporter. If it's not angry Cubans, it's cocaine cowboys or sexy nalgas or God knows how many other depredations. Of course, the crimes. And when there's crime, there's Taco Bell. From our sister paper in Broward-Palm Beach:After 20-year-old Karari Ritchie was arrested Tuesday in the homicide case of a Taco Bell manager, Broward Sheriff's detectives

  August 16, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 27, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 3, 2009

• I've Revealed A Secret; Now It's Your Turn

  Edwin Goei​If you've picked up the latest edition of The Weekly -- which is, by the way, our annual, and might I say, awesome Best of OC Issue (okay, I'm done with the shameless plug) -- you might have noticed my review of May Garden's secret menu in the usual Food section. During a chat with head honcho Ted Kissell, he asked me, "Don't many/most Chinese restaurants have two menus, the Americanized one and the Chinese one?" I told him that, actually, I'm not sure. But for the most part,

  October 9, 2009

• Judge Allows Scary-To-Parents HB Cell Tower Suit To Continue

  ​Back in April, we brought you a heartwarming tale of civic involvement, governmental responsiveness and corporate accountability that's just the kind of thing we all thought we'd see more of in Barack Obama's America 2.0.We're talking about the case of Huntington Beach's Harbour View Elementary School, where T-Mobile sought to build a cell-phone tower disguised as a tree. The city council had given T-Mobile the OK without alerting most of the school's parents -- including, full disclosure, We

  October 12, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  November 5, 2009