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Culture
May 23, 2013
'Arrested Development' Is Not Just One of the Funniest Television Shows Ever
It's also a metaphor for the OC-ification of America
Culture
May 16, 2013
G. Ray Kerciu: Mississippi Goddamn
A Cal State Fullerton exhibit does justice to the artist's early radicalism—but leaves you wanting more
Blogs
May 14, 2013
Republican Senator: Make Border Security More Like Disneyland!
Currently on Capitol Hill, there's a raging debate over what kind of amnesty will America get shoved down its throat (or, conversely, up its tucchus). But you know you're starting to enter the silly season when a U.S. senator starts hailing Disney's entry system for its theme parks as a model on whi ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2013
Clock is Ticking on $156k Mega Millions Lottery Ticket Bought in Dana Point 3 Months Ago
It's out there somewhere.A California state lottery ticket worth $156,712 was purchased at Super Stop Liquor, 34469 Golden Lantern, Dana Point, and has not been claimed three months later.Better check those coat pockets.
Blogs
May 10, 2013
Orange County Register Wildfire Coverage Has a Huge Hole in It: Media Watchdog
Orange County fire officials recently held a press conference to go over their strategies and, more importantly, warn the public about an ever-earlier fire season. The Orange County Register covered this, as it did Southern California's recent wildfires, but a media watchdog saw a huge hole in the c ... More >>
Columns
May 9, 2013
Don't Piss Where You Work
[Hey, You!] A bush is not a toilet . . .
Blogs
April 26, 2013
Two OC Pot Smugglers Busted in Illinois With 16 Pounds of Weed
Interstate 80 is a convenient highway to take if you're traveling from Northern California to the East Coast and are in a relative hurry. Because it begins in San Francisco, the nearest off-loading point to the storied Emerald Triangle, America's marijuana breadbasket comprising of Humboldt, Trinity ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
California's Last Call For Alcohol Will Not Be Extended To 4 a.m.
Closing time. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. A bill that would have allowed California bars, clubs and restaurants to serve alcohol until 4 a.m., two hours past the current last call, was voted down Tuesday in the Senate Committee. Go ahead and drink away your sorrows. We unde ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2013
5 Reasons You Missed Navel Gazing, Starring Chris Dorner, Mike Carona and Meth Lovers
As Gustavo revealed, it was impossible for us Navel Gazers to gaze at our navels since Thursday afternoon . . .Gremlins Attack OC Weekly Website!But that did not stop the more hopeful among us from writing blog posts all day Friday in case we were suddenly online again. History shows we were not, s ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2013
Paperback Edition of Taco USA Out TODAY!
This is really cool: The paperback edition of my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America is out TODAY!Do I need to write anything more? Okay, I will!
Blogs
April 15, 2013
Disney Closes Space Mountain, Soarin' Over Cali and Now-Reopened Matterhorn Over Fall Fears
M-I-C . . .. . . See you at the bottom!Following citations by the state Friday over concerns about workers falling from tall attractions, Disney closed the Matterhorn and Space Mountain at Disneyland and Soarin' Over California at California Adventure on Saturday.
Calendar
April 11, 2013
33rd Annual Wine Extraordinaire
Anaheim Hilton
Columns
April 4, 2013
Why do Mexicans Hate Mexicans?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexican girls ditch school so much?
Calendar
April 4, 2013
Healthy Mind, Body, and Soul: A Community Health and Wellness Fair
Saddleback College
Columns
March 28, 2013
How Can Gabacho Parents Raise a Mexican Child Well?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do Mexican driver's licenses work in the United States?
Blogs
March 28, 2013
[Exene Says . . .] What Happens On the Day Old Faithful Doesn't Explode?
[Editor's Note: Exene Cervenka is a writer, visual artist and punk rock pioneer. The OC transplant is the lead singer for X, the Knitters and Original Sinners. Her new column, Exene Says..., is her space to basically just write what's on her mind, everything from crazy life stories to political theo ... More >>
News
March 21, 2013
Doc al-Qaeda
Judge to punish Cypress resident and former CVS pharmacist tied to terrorism plot against U.S. soldiers
Blogs
March 18, 2013
California ABC to Allow Generic Growler Fills at Breweries
Look in the kitchens and closets and home bars of California beernoscenti, and you'll see rows of brown or green glass bottles emblazoned with the names of California's many craft breweries. I myself have a growler from nearly every brewery in Orange County, and they sit on a shelf in my kitchen, wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2013
Human Trafficking of Filipinos to Louisiana Results in $4.5 Million Award
A federal judge in Southern California has awarded $4.48 million to 347 Filipinos because a Los Angeles company violated the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) by tricking them into slave labor as teachers in Louisiana public schools.This week, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Kronst ... More >>
Columns
March 14, 2013
Is Lindsay Lohan Mexican?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans always vote for Mexicans?
Blogs
March 14, 2013
Virginia's Anti-Sodomy Law Ruled Invalid--with an Assist from UC Irvine's Erwin Chemerinsky
Virginia's anti-sodomy law has been struck down, due in part to an assist from the dean of UC Irvine's School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky.The decision came in a case involving sex between an adult male and a 17-year-old girl, which the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed shoul ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2013
Paperback Edition of Taco USA Out April 16!
This is really cool: the paperback edition of my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America is coming out April 16!Do I need to write anything more? Okay, I will!
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Meet The Chronically Deported Mexican Determined To Live In The USA
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has an annual budget of nearly $12 billion, nine divisions, planes, helicopters, night-vision and audio spy equipment, fences, dogs, boats, guns, checkpoints and more than 45,600 agents, but it can't stop one dirt poor but determine Mexican, Sergio Alcal ... More >>
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March 1, 2013
This Week, Mexican Human Smuggler Gets Nine Months More In Prison Than Caucasian Guilty of Same Crime
While on routine patrol just after 4 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2011, the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Petrel spotted an open-bow, panga boat operating without lights in rough waters near San Diego.The boat weaved through commercial freightliners in an attempt to avoid detection, but the Coast ... More >>
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February 21, 2013
2013 Winter Documentary Series: Ocean Awareness
Forum Theatre
Columns
February 14, 2013
Just Found Out I'm Half-Mexican. What Do I Do?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans like to play in the street?
Columns
February 7, 2013
Do Mexicans Hate Cubans?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And are all gabachos Mexican-haters?
Columns
February 7, 2013
Ain't That America?
[Hey, You!] That's right, it's the kids' fault . . .
Blogs
February 7, 2013
Azul Café, Valle de Guadalupe: Southern Mexico's Coffee Without Leaving Baja
In the center of the wine and olive oil laboratory known as La Escuelita (but officially as la Estación de Oficios de El Porvenir) stands a wooden building with mattress springs for walls. Inside is a brown clutter of detritus: a Christmas tree made of upturned wine bottles stands anachronistically ... More >>
Blogs
February 5, 2013
Gerard Frank Cellette, Minnesota Printer, Accused of Pulling Largest Ponzi Scam in OC History; at Least 55 Stung for $21 mil Here
A man serving an eight-year prison sentence in Minnesota is scheduled to be arraigned in Santa Ana Wednesday for pulling the largest known Ponzi scheme in Orange County history--without stepping foot in California. Gerard Frank Cellette, who is accused of masterminding a $200 million, multi-state i ... More >>
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January 31, 2013
Hot Water Music
The Observatory
Blogs
January 29, 2013
Orange County CVS Pharmacist Admits Aiding Middle East Terrorists, Faces Feb. 15 Sentencing
Despite initially claiming post-2011 arrest innocence and implying that the FBI had manufactured a false case that she aided Middle East terrorists, an Orange County pharmacist has pleaded guilty and faces sentencing next month.Turkey native and legal U.S. resident Oytun Ayse Mihalik of La Palma wor ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2013
McDonald's Introduces Fish McBites
Along with its report of its quarterly results yesterday, McDonald's revealed that it will introduce a whole new product come February, in time for Lent. Fish McBites are just what you think: nuggets of fish made from the same species (Alaskan Pollack) that's used for the Filet-O-Fish.
Blogs
January 16, 2013
OC-based Tea Party: Impeach Obama Over Gun Control Executive Orders ... or Benghazi
Before President Barack Obama just announced 23 executive orders he will issue and a $500 million package and changes in law he will seek from Congress in the wake of the mass shooting in Connecticut that killed 20 elementary schoolchildren, the Laguna Woods-based California Tea Party called for hi ... More >>
Columns
January 10, 2013
Why Do Mexican Men Like Classic Cars?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans still bother with the United States?
Blogs
January 9, 2013
Why a South Carolina Restaurant's T-Shirts Showing Tacos As Illegal-Immigrant Bait is Further Proof of the Mexican Conquest of America
I once lectured in South Carolina--at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg in 2008, to be exact. Overflow crowd of over 300--mostly gabachos, with a handful of Latinos clustered in the front. It was a great event, everyone very respectful--and then on the drive back, at 4 a.m. in ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2013
Emeril Lagasse Takes on Florida but We'd Like Him to Come to Orange County.
Emeril Lagasse has done it all in his long career in the culinary world. He's an accomplished chef and regional James Beard Award winner, he's a successful restaurateur with eateries all over the US, he's written plenty of amazing cookbooks enabling us to channel our inner chef, and most notably, he ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2012
Happiness is a Warm Book About Guns: Intellectual Self-Defense
I began writing this on Friday, hours after NRA loon-in-chief Wayne LaPierre offered his predictably over-the-top defense of gun nuts, pimps and apologists for the weapons industry. Hard to imagine the cognitive dissonance required of somebody who can stick to his, yes, guns in the face of ... More >>
Columns
December 20, 2012
Why do Mexicans Return to Mexico for Christmas?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Mexicans try to get their sons to marry Mexican villagers?
Blogs
December 9, 2012
Dana Rohrabacher Fans Claim "Conniving, Wily Latinos" Who Stole 2012 Election For Barack Obama Were Too Smart To Get Caught
On Dec. 8, I reported that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher claimed Democratic operatives paid poor people and "illegals" to steal the 2012 presidential election for Barack Obama.Rohrabacher offered no proof of his claim and so I challenged him to name just one crony who paid one identified "illega ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2012
Getting High For the Heck of it Now Legal in Washington State, California Stuck in Medical Pot Fog
Today, Washington State made history by becoming the first state in the union where you can smoke marijuana just to get high. A bunch of folks celebrated that fact by gathering at Seattle's Space Needle for a stroke-of-midnight smoke-out. "I feel like a kid in a candy store," one of the midnight rav ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2012
Oakland Pot Dispensary Ruling Could Curtail Federal Crackdown
Anybody notice that ever since Obama was re-elected, all's been quiet on the federal marijuana crackdown front?Maybe all those conspiracy theorists who claimed that Obama would move to legalize marijuana during his second term, or at least back away from the crackdown his administration launched in ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2012
The 10 Most Over-Played Songs at a Mexican Wedding, California Edition
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Houston to do a book signing for my book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Afterward, I went with friends and fans to enjoy some awesome Tex-Mex at El Real Tex-Mex, and among those who attended were two colleagues/pals from our sister paper, the Houston P ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2012
Irvine, 'America's Safest City' That Wouldn't Raise Cops' Pay, Has $9.3 Million Surplus
News item: At its meeting starting at 4 p.m. today, the Irvine City Council will discuss what to do with a $9.3 million surplus.It's a "problem" other city councils wish they were facing, and it's nothing new for Irvine, which the previous fiscal year "wrestled" with a $14.4 million surplus.Which wa ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2012
The Five Next Big Trends in Mexican Food in the United States
This Thursday, I fly to the University of Houston in what will be the official end of my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America tour. It's been a great ride that has taken me from the Bay Area to Texas about a million times, the South and virtually all other points, but while the tour en ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
Collier and McKeel Tennessee Whiskey, Our Drink of the Week!
Kids: let me tell you about the most magical food festival of them all--not some overplayed clustertruck, but the Southern Foodways Alliance's annual symposium in Oxford, Mississippi. The SFA, of course, is an awesome organization devoted to celebrating and documenting Southern food, and their sympo ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2012
Prop 37, Food-Labeling Measure, Fails
Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would have made California the first in the nation to require the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on processed foods, has failed, receiving 46 percent of the vote with 82 percent of precincts reporting.The news is seen as a blow to many in ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2012
Who Supported Prop 37 And Who Fought Against It May Surprise You
As we reported this morning, California voters rejected Proposition 37, the ballot measure that would have required the labeling of genetically engineered food. Supporters believed the initiative would prevent a misleading use of the word "natural" on foods that have been modified in a lab. What may ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2012
Texans Invent a Taco Cannon, a Cannon That Shoots--Yep--Tacos
For all our obsession with Mexican food in Southern California, I gotta hand it to Texans--they're even more obsessed. They're the people, after all, who historically have contributed more to the combo plate of Mexican food in this country than any other region--including the combo plate. In San Ant ... More >>
Music
November 1, 2012
Jerome LOL Is From California, But His Beats Are All Over the Map
From lo-fi electro to southern rap, this LA producer attacks each track from multiple states of mind
More >>

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