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The 20 Greatest Ranchera Singers of All Time: The Complete List

See also:*The 20 Greatest Songs of Vicente Fernández: The Complete List*Antonio Aguilar, Ranchera Legend, Gets Giant Statue of Him Unveiled in Los Angeles; His 10 Greatest Songs!*The 10 Best Songs of Ramon Ayala, Conjunto Norteño Legend and Accordion HeroTrying to explain what música ranchera is ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Ranchera Singers of All Time, No. 20-11

See also:*The 20 Greatest Songs of Vicente Fernández: The Complete List*Antonio Aguilar, Ranchera Legend, Gets Giant Statue of Him Unveiled in Los Angeles; His 10 Greatest Songs!*The 10 Best Songs of Ramon Ayala, Conjunto Norteño Legend and Accordion HeroTrying to explain what música ranchera is ... More >>

Lincoln Movie Not as Honest as Abe, Says UCI Professor and Expert on South Jon Wiener

Disney opened Lincoln in 11 theaters on Nov. 9, expanded Steven Spielberg's historical saga to more North American theaters the next two weekends and now plans to go even wider thanks to more demand than there are movie seats.A UC Irvine history professor who caught the flick believes past and futur ... More >>

OC Register To Debut Sunday Magazine--And We're Not Talking Parade or The Mini Page

Either the Orange County Register is reinventing itself as a magnificent daily, or they're taking one final, glorious charge toward doom in the name of great journalism.We've previously talked about new owner Aaron Kushner's ambitious plans to redefine OC's sole daily by rehiring a bunch of position ... More >>

The Master of 'The Master'

Paul Thomas Anderson talks 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix, and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film

'Bernie' Features Murder In a Small Town

Deep in the heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's latest

'I Don't Know How She Does It' Sacrifices Nothing

In the fantasy adaptation, working moms can have it all

'Higher Ground' Is About Saving Herself

Vera Farmiga tries to create a better role

A History of Violence

'The Interrupters' gets between the bodies and the guns

Preview The National's New Album, High Violet

www.myspace.com/thenational ​ I haven't been this excited about upcoming releases in a while, but it seems that 2010 is the year that all my favorite bands are putting out new music. There's Interpol's upcoming album, the New Pornographers' Together, out tomorrow, and the National's new set, due ... More >>

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

Zombies Protest UCI Budget Cuts

Jason Davis / ucibudget.blogspot.com​"Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening" -- Mark Yudof, UC President, to the New York Times Magazine. Clever quote, but perhaps not so amusing for the people ... More >>

Sanchez for Governor: I'm In, I'm Out, Maybe I'm Back In, Perhaps Not

Several thousand words into Mark Leibovich's 8,000-word New York Times Magazine piece titled "Who Can Possibly Govern California?" our own superstar Latina of Congress pops up briefly.Recently I called Loretta Sanchez, the outspoken and increasingly visible Democratic congresswoman from Orange Count ... More >>

Nixon Apologist Remembers Bill Hicks' Ultimate Letterman Snub

Following Friday night's airing, 15 years after the fact, of Bill Hicks' 12th appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman, which was originally censored by the host himself that October 1993 night, a touching remembrance of the late, great, politically charged comedian comes from an unlikely so ... More >>

Rick Rubin: Music Biz Savior?

The New York Times Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg ponders this crucial matter and concludes that Rubin, the Def Jam impresario/producer (Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash and 17,000 others) who's now employed by Columbia Records, just may be the mensch to prevent this Titanic from ... More >>

The Stall of Fame

In his gonzo media memoir, Glasgow Phillips watches himself turn into an asshole

Dry Rot, Fraud and Elections

In today's New York Times, Bob Herbert surveys the state of democracy and the quality of elections in the US, and concludes, These are not scenes from a flourishing democracy. If you're looking to put a positive spin on the current state of politics and government in the U.S., you've got your work c ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

Special three-pregunta edition

Bullshit Detected

Stephen Glass, Chuck Lane and the big dust-up at TNR

Burying the Dead

Famous war correspondent Gordon Dillow struggles with his truth

Sold On Selling Out

Or: How I learned to stop bitching and love a TV commercial

Mondo Washington

Fossil Fools

Dogs, Bodies

Amores Perros owes more to Quentin Tarantino than to Diego Rivera

Mother Ocean

A little dippiness, much fun in san clemente

Bigger Than the Beatles

UC Irvine professor Jon Wieners fight for John Lennons FBI file reveals something ugly about democracy in America