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January 30, 2012
McDonald's To Stop Using "Pink Slime" in Beef
Jamie Oliver scored a victory last week. McDonald's has announced that they will stop using ammonium hydroxide in their beef, a substance that the crusading chef once labeled as "pink slime". The chemical is added to beef scraps to kill off bacteria such as E. Coli and is approved by the USDA. Bu ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Publisher's Weekly Names Taco USA One of Spring's Top 10 Cookbooks--Um, Yay?
Far from me to reject any praise from Publisher's Weekly, which has always loved my books--praised ¡Ask a Mexican!, gave Orange County: A Personal History a starred review, and just called my forthcoming Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America one of spring's Top 10 Cookbooks for 2012, alon ... More >>
Calendar
September 29, 2011
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Alex's Bar
Food
June 23, 2011
Nuoc Mia Mania: Catch It This Summer!
[Hole In the Wall] Where to find the best Vietnamese sugarcane juice in Little Saigon
Blogs
June 16, 2011
IDEA Act, The DREAM Act's Recently-Introduced Cousin, Would Boost Number of Green Cards
Not this green card...If a California congresswoman has her way, a lot more people will get their green cards soon. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) introduced a bill on Tuesday that would amp the number of green cards for foreign students and entrepreneurs. The students have to meet a lot of c ... More >>
Film
June 16, 2011
'The Real World': Midtown
Or 'Survivor'. Or '(Head for) The Hills.' As the industry panics, the NYT gets its own reality show
Blogs
February 11, 2011
This Week in Food: Bánh Mì Rants, Awesome Catfish and Kittens in Pots (But Not Cooked)!
Flickr user namillionaireeBetween infographics on Flamin' Hot Cheetos and much more, it's been quite a week on your favorite infernal blog. Best of the week after the jump!
Blogs
February 7, 2011
[UPDATED] Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only Food Company With Anti-Gay Claims. Here Are Five More!
UPDATED, FEB. 7, 11:02 A.M.: We heard from a representative of Brown-Forman, who confirmed that the company does offer same-sex domestic partner coverage and has long supported the LGBT community. We regret the inaccuracy. ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 3, 9:30, Chick-fil-A, trusty maker ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
New York Times Names the Best Bánh Mìs in America--and Not One is From Little Saigon
Flickr user svenskThe New York Times' coverage of Vietnamese food has always been laughable--who can ever forget its decade-late feature on Sriracha or it declaring 2009 the "year of the bánh mì" (while neglecting to mention Little Saigon among the nation's Vietnamese enclaves) about seven year ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2011
Washington Post Thinks Higher-End Pho Is a Revelation--HAHAHAHA!
Photo by Das UbergeekWhat is it about the national media that gets Vietnamese-food trends laughably late and wrong? If it's not The New York Times "discovering" Sriracha and bánh mì, it's the Washington Post devoting way too many words to some D.C.-area chefs who, as the headline puts it, "put ... More >>
Culture
January 6, 2011
Preview Review Revue
A look at what STAGES, Theater Out, Monkey Wrench Collective and other great OC theater companies will stage in 2011
Blogs
December 20, 2010
WikiLeaks Expose Questionable Details From Dana Rohrabacher's Visit to Honduras
R. Scott Moxley told you in October about Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) having inserted himself in the violent 2009 coup that toppled the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya. Was Dana Rohrabacher Playing Kingmaker in Central America?To refresh your memory, th ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2010
Ten Most WTF Music Stories of 2010
We twittered, shared and reposted all these stories ad nauseum in 2010--for a good reason. This year, trashy viral videos made more of an impact than the Grammys, and Antoine Dodson was more memorable than Beatles songs finally getting on iTunes. So the line blurring of talent and fame is m ... More >>
News
December 2, 2010
Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?
Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population. But they're accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes
Blogs
October 26, 2010
New York Times Data: OC Elections Aren't Really Contests
Ed Royce: Shoo-in elections are fun.Do we have real congressional election contests in the Orange County/Long Beach area or, despite all the hullabaloo, is the whole affair preordained?Data from The New York Times, based on FiveThirtyEight Forecasts, shows the answer isn't necessarily uplifting. ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2010
Five Rock Stars Who Should Be 'American Idol' Judges
Now that both Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell are leaving American Idol, rumors abound over who's going to be the next arbiter of taste on the Fox show. J Lo's supposedly signed a deal. Allegedly, Steven Tyler's been asked to join the show. P Diddy's thrown his hat into the ring. Elton John, Jessic ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
No Cowbell Required For This Fever
Nothing of critical import opens this weekend in the OC area, but a lot of shows are approaching the end of their runs, including critically acclaimed productions of Measure for Pleasure at the Garage Theatre in Long Beach (closes Saturday), Pool (No Water) at the Monkey Wrench Collective i ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2010
Local Theater News and Notes: Bee There
Normally, this uber-cool publication wouldn't touch anything as apparently middle-of-the-road as the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Any musical that the New York Times would call "lovably inconsequential and entirely loveable," is obviously not close enough to hip to dirty our paws upon. ... More >>
News
April 15, 2010
The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights
Normally, this uber-cool publication wouldn't touch anything as apparently middle-of-the-road as the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Any musical that the New York Times would call "lovably inconsequential and entirely loveable," is obviously not close enough to hip to dirty our paws upon. ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2010
Show of the Day: Girls at Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa
Few acts have created as much buzz in recent months as San Francisco's Girls. Their debut disc, simply titled Album, has garnered rave reviews in publications ranging from Pitchfork (a whopping 9.1) to New York Times ("Album is one of the year's most bracing pop releases, and one of the best..") to ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Today in Music News: Unreleased Michael Jackson Track, Cold War Kids, Soundgarden Reunion, Drake with Jay-Z
Michael Jackson to be next 2Pac? "Unreleased Michael Jackson song hits the web."Vampire Weekend, Spoon and OC's Cold War Kids on Pitchfork's guide to upcoming releases for winter 2010. Chris Cornell tweets Soundgarden reunion. More details courtesy of Spin. And New York Times. And even though I ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
Five Easily-Fixed Service Failures
dieselbug2007 @ flickr.com CC BY-NC 2.0Some weeks ago, there was a two-part list of service sins published (here and here) by Bruce Buschel in a blog for the New York Times. To call the list picky doesn't do it justice; don't play brass music? Seriously?The post inspired a lot of snarky comments ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2009
New York Times Accused of "Journalistic Sleight-of-Hand" in Citing Local Fallen Navy Hero
U.S. NavyThe late Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael Mansoor of Long Beach.Conservatives accuse a New York Times reporter of employing "a journalistic sleight-of-hand" when it came to including a dead Catholic Navy hero who grew up in Garden Grove in a piece about complications facing Musl ... More >>
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October 16, 2009
Kim Chi From Garden Grove Makes It To The New York Times
Photo by Edwin GoeiIt's a long, long way from Garden Grove to New York's Lower East Side, but Young Ja Chun's kim chi had made the trip and was featured by The New York Times in a short but sweet article.
Blogs
August 14, 2009
CAIR, Speaker, Student Say Muslim Screenwriting Seminar "a Success"
Despite Clockwork's attempt to jest while previewing the Council on American-Islamic Relations' "Writing for Hollywood" seminar and pat its own back for getting inserted into the New York Times' coverage of the event for aspiring Muslim screenwriters (as well as some unkind reader comments to our ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2009
Reg Reporter Heads To New York Times. Sort Of.
twenty_questions / Flickr / Creative CommonsAlright! Orange County journalist can move up in the newspaper world! Check it out: Veteran Register reporter Greg Hardesty is in the pages of the New York Times.I mean, ok, he's not writing for the Gray Lady. He's just a source in one of those horrible tr ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2009
This Week In Food
This week in SAFII:There was plenty of good news, in terms of appointments (Craig Strong as Executive Chef of Studio, at the Montage Laguna Beach), openings (a froyo shop--natch--a gelato shop attached to a Thai restaurant (of course!!) and a sparkly Vietnamese) and resurrections (Carl's Jr's Portob ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2009
Latest Hits, Misses and Curveballs From Odd Man Out
UPDATED WITH FORBES' CORRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE BOOK. As I've blogged here incessantly, Matt McCarthy wrote Odd Man Out, a Viking Press tell-all I adored about his lone year as a lefty pitcher in the Angels minor league baseball system. Articles doubting the veracity of many salaci ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2008
Because You're Ugly: Orange County Puts Vanity on Hold
Orange County? Postponing implants and Botox? The New York Times is reporting that in Orange County, "where plastic surgery is a part of [our] culture" (sigh), business is down 30 to 40 percent. The story chalks it up to both financial constraints and, surprisingly, even a "Botox backlash"--men ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2008
Read All About It!
This morning I went to my local LA Times news stand to put in a couple of quarters and obtain a 'lil slice of history for my scrap book. To my surprise, I discovered that I wasn't the only person in Long Beach with this brilliant plan. There were no papers left! So I went to a stand up the street on ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2008
Barbara Coe's Thoughts on the Obama New Yorker Cover
Seemingly everybody and their political consultant has opined on this week's New Yorker cover that mockingly shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim imam giving a fist rap to wife Michelle, who's dressed a Hezbollah warrior princess. Even old, wretched Barbara Coe, h ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2008
¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzu
To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was "effective the feast day o ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2008
What you missed over the weekend: Part VI
NAMM 2008 came and went, with fans and music celebs flooding the Anaheim Convention Center. Weekly web photographer Christopher Victorio dropped by the madhouse on Saturday and ran into folks from Slipknot, Megadeth, Queensryche, Motley Crue and even Playmate of the Year Sara Jean Underwood. Photos ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2008
Representing OC at the LAFCA awards
(photo credit: Leonard Klady) Saturday night, the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association (of which I'm pretty sure I'm the only member writing for an OC publication), held their annual awards ceremony, the first such event I've attended. I had heard horror stories about prior sartorial disasters, bu ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2007
Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Can The Borg Show Compassion?
Car Booting Violence: The folks over at Universal Guaridan Holdings, Inc. in Newport Beach are smiling today because their Cobra StunLight (pictured) “was successfully used to help disable an armed assailant” recently in downtown Atlanta. They say Jeremiah Day was booting illegally parked cars ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2007
The Times and Me
Pick up the Los Angeles Times today and read my essay on the boneheaded Huntington Beach Fourth of July parade committee that decided to dick with Sylvia Mendez of Mendez vs. Westminster fame. Then browse through the Times' archives and find their June 17 best-seller list, in which my ¡Ask a Mexica ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2006
Good News from Iraq (Fake news edition)
Somehow it's fitting that the only good news to come out of Iraq recently is the fake news. The New York Times reports on a satirical news show that debuted on the Iraqi sattelite station Al Sharqiya at the beginning of Ramadan. This being Iraq, the show's title is somewhat darker than "The Daily ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2006
A Postmortem on the Heat Wave
A story in this morning's New York Times on last month's heat wave makes for grim reading. According to the paper's examination of records, approximately 140 Californians died from the heat during the month of July, "a death toll unlike any the state had seen from high temperatures since 1955, state ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2006
Hold the Pickle, Load the Hummer
The online environmental Grist Magazine points to a New York Times story with this: Words Fail Us Hummer propaganda aimed at kids through McDonald's Happy Meals Sometimes a story comes along that so perfectly captures a culture's pathologies that it should be put in a time capsule, so future genera ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2006
Standard Operating Procedures
There are those who say that the Department of Homeland Security, which the Bush administration frankensteined into existence in 2002, is a dysfunctional government agency, but this morning's New York Times brings evidence that DHS is clearly following in the steps of such well established and widel ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2006
Requiescat in Pace, IVth Amendment
FOURTH AMENDMENT: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to b ... More >>
Music
April 27, 2006
Art On the Street
Sali Heraldez of SolArt Gallery Cafe
Culture
March 30, 2006
Once Is Enough
Ginia Bellafante
News
October 20, 2005
Punchin' Judy
NY Times First Amendment 'martyr' Miller comes to town
Features
September 8, 2005
Dropkicks!
What the hell are you looking at?! since 1995
Unknown
March 3, 2005
This Week in The Old Guard
What the hell are you looking at?! since 1995
Columns
December 2, 2004
Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering
Terminator Genes
Columns
April 3, 2003
Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw
Terminator Genes
News
July 4, 2002
The Partially Informed Alarmist
NEW COLUMN!
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June 1, 2000
If You Believe They Put Mine on the Moon
NEW COLUMN!
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