University of California-Irvine

Tatsuya Suda, Famous Computer Engineer, Accused of Criminal Conflicts from Japanese Telcom Firm's Secret Cash for UCI Research

An internationally renowned computer engineer has reportedly been criminally charged for conflicts of interest involving secret payments from a major Japanese telecommunications firm funding his UC Irvine research. Tatsuya Suda, a 59-year-old native of Japan who was a UCI faculty member for more tha ... More >>

This Weekend Is Final Chance To Attend Orange County's Vietnamese International Film Festival

If you're interested in seeing a series of films from up and coming moviemaking talent, this weekend is your last chance to attend the sixth biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (VIFF).Today's presentations are set for the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, but Saturday and Sunday's films will s ... More >>

Seminar Explores International Law Strategies to Stop Local Criminalization of the Homeless

The way the City of Costa Mesa has demonized homeless people, you'd think that would be the place for this seminar: "Opposing the Criminalization of Homelessness: Building a Human Rights Framework Event."Actually, the talk runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in Irvine, in UC Irvine's EDU - 1111 Sem ... More >>

Bill Clinton to Stress "Patients" in OC

Bill Clinton is reportedly returning to Orange County Monday, when he won't be stumping for a candidate but organizers of a nonprofit summit aimed at seeking ways to increase patient safety and decrease costs. Bubba last darkened our collective doorstep in October, when he appeared at a packed UC I ... More >>

[UPDATED with ASUCI Supporting Divestment:] UCI Student Panel Calls for Divesting from Firms Aiding Israeli "Apartheid"

See Update No. 3 at the end of page 3 of this post on leaders of UCI's Associated Students signing the resolution urging the university to divest from named companies for human rights abuses in Palestine. See Update Nos. 1-2 on ASUCI's legislative council unanimously passing the resolution urging di ... More >>

[Updated With Comments From UCI Police Chief] Poster Promising Someone Will Set Themselves on Fire Sept. 29 Found At UC Irvine

*See end of post for comments from UC Irvine Police Chief Paul Henisey. ORIGINAL POST, Sept. 17, 1:32 p.m.A person from UC Irvine's parking and transportation department alerted campus police to an eerie poster hung up in one of the parking structures around 1 p.m. last Friday. It's an image of an I ... More >>

[UPDATED with Vote Delayed Again:] Students Call for UCI Board Member Hazem H. Chehabi's Ouster over Syria Ties

​UPDATE, MARCH 8, 3:21 P.M.: A proposal to call for Dr. Hazem H. Chehabi's removal from the UC Irvine Board of Trustees over his ties to the brutal Syrian regime will not be presented tonight to the Legislative Council of the Associated Students (ASUCI) as originally planned.The matter is now s ... More >>

10 Weeks of Drinking: Quarter Club at the Anthill Pub

​ Hung inconspicuously on the wall leading to the bathroom, it's easy to miss the series of plaques honoring the members of the Quarter Club amongst the rust-colored lamps and chaotic din that defines the Anthill Pub on the UC Irvine campus. But often, someone will stand there, blocking the path ... More >>

Berkeley Dogs Hot-Dogs It

[Hole In the Wall] The East Bay transplant brings its luscious wieners as part of our wave of outside regional chains

It's College Radio Day! KUCI And Titan Radio Join The Fight To Save Campus Stations

WRPI​College radio stations have long given a microphone to local musicians and DJs looking for an audience (and people who wanna talk about stuff), but like many awesome campus institutions, they're endangered by the swinging budget ax. Over the past few years, more than a dozen student-run stati ... More >>

Who's Gagging Whom In the Irvine 11 Case?

The First Amendment, academic freedom and Islamophobia collide in an OC courtroom

'Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids'

UC Irvine, Humanities Instructional Building

[UPDATED with Delay:] "Irvine 11" (-1) Case Heads for Trial

​UPDATE, AUG. 15, 2:33 P.M.: The "Irvine 11" trial (now with one fewer defendant) was scheduled to begin today in Santa Ana.That didn't happen.Trial has been rescheduled to Aug. 29, which is when jury selection is scheduled to begin.

Berkeley Dog To Soft Open Across From UC Irvine This Saturday. Grand Opening May 12.

Berkeley Dog​Berkeley Dog's third and newest outlet soft opens tomorrow at the University Center, across from UC Irvine. Finally, the hot dog stand that emulates (and is supplied by) Top Dog in Berkeley fulfills its purpose: to feed a collegiate body in need of sausage sandwich sustenance. It's ot ... More >>

Nice Time Deli in Irvine Closing. Serving Its Last Lunch Saturday April 30.

Edwin GoeiOpen for now, but not for long.​The news came as a surprise: Nice Time Deli in Irvine will be serving its last meal tomorrow at lunch, Saturday, and then closing for good. Fellow Weekling Michelle Woo told me about it this morning, and my reaction was immediate sadness. For many like m ... More >>

Vietnamese Film Festival Hits Final Three Days

Heightened US-Vietnamese relations​This weekend is you last chance to witness firsthand the emerging, impressive Vietnamese film industry at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County.Tonight's films air at the Bower's Museum in Santa Ana and include a 56-minute movie about the Ha ... More >>

Another Sushi Restaurant to Open Where Another One Failed in Irvine. What's So Special About This One?

Edwin Goei​In the space left behind by Aomatsu, once the closest sushi bar to UC Irvine, yet another sushi restaurant called Gatten is poised to enter. It's about now that you might wonder: Are these restaurateurs suffering from amnesia? Don't they remember the last restaurant that tanked also d ... More >>

Asian Pear Grilled Cheese Sandwich

ProfessorSalt.comAsian pears at UC Irvine farmer's market​ If you've been to our local farmer's markets in the past three weeks, you'll have noticed that Asian pears have arrived. As with the apples they closely resemble, the new crop is packed with lightly sweet nectar. Their firm crunch adds a ... More >>

Groups Step Up Opposition to Punishment for UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union

​Meant to get this up yesterday, but a group that protects the legal rights of Asians and Pacific Islanders sent word that it has joined 14 other civil rights organizations and professional bar associations from across the nation in condemning the recommended suspension of UC Irvine's Muslim Stude ... More >>

Don't Fulminate, UCI Anteaters, Meditate!

​Rejoice, Anteaters, because UC Irvine's leader has your back.Yes, yes, we all know that you are dealing with rising tuition and fees. And reduced services.And closed classes.And dirtier surroundings.And offices emptied due to furloughed professors, graduate assistants and staff members. But fret ... More >>

Last Night: Talibam! at University of California, Irvine

The Hype: New York noise-jazz band Talibam! first played a show at UC Irvine in April 2009 and returned Tuesday during the band's "California Jaunt of the USA" tour, following shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Orange County was the last stop for Talibam! before they embark on their tenth E ... More >>

Here's a Switch: University Gives Out Baggies

​Time was, you hid your baggies from university officials. Or at least the RA's. But over at UC Irvine, campus officials have reportedly distributed 1,000 Ziploc bags to 225 mail stations used by students, faculty and staff. No, the top brass isn't warming up to those who are holding. Not on purpo ... More >>

UCI Anteaters Bound for Bruinsville to Protest Tuition Hikes

​All eyes from the University of California system, and some from outside it, will be on UCLA today and tomorrow. No, not to observe the Bruins licking their wounds from Monday night's embarrassing loss to Cal State Fullerton on the Pauley Pavilion hardwood. It's at UCLA where the UC Board of ... More >>

UCI Muslim Student Union Event Draws Ire of Local Jews

As this promotional video shows, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union is at it again, presenting 18 days of events this month under the banner "Israel: the Politics of Genocide." Among those coming to the campus through May 21 are: George Galloway, the British member of Parliament who speaks against th ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Q Film Festival, 'Fight Club,' 'Princess Mononoke,' More

[Newport Beach Film Fest] Orange County Connections Abound Among This Year's Entries

To Do Tonight 11/18

Tight Wad Tuesdays, 8 p.m. We're in a recession people! Spend wisely. $3 drinks all night. 195 Grill and Sports Bar 195 W. Center Street Promenade Anaheim, CA 714-999-8699 Masters of Adornment: The Miao People of China, 8 p.m. Featuring approximately 80 objects, mostly drawn from the Bowers Museum' ... More >>

To Do Tonight 10/15

Trick or Treat Ticket Give-Away, 9 p.m. Win free tickets to "Shipwrecked" at The Queen Mary in Long Beach. First dibs on tickets go to those in costume. Chronic Cantina 1870 Harbor Blvd. Costa Mesa, CA Women and the Men Who Love Them, 1 p.m. A lecture in the Winifred Smith Hall. UC Irvine, Claire T ... More >>

A Thin Slice of Heaven

Jon Lovitz

Special Screenings

Movie of the week: The Sophisticated Misfit

Special Screenings

Movie of the week: Sahara

Monday's Headlines

Spotlight on Little Saigon: Some experts from Washington will be coming to town to study the area's "economic viability and its potential for future development." It's gonna be a long, hot summer: For bus riders, if OCTA can't appease disgruntled workers soon. Sign of the times: UC Irvine adds thr ... More >>

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Superstar in a Housedress

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: The Dirty Dozen

Hits!

KUCI-FM 88.9

Jumping Down the Memory Hole

'The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America'

And the Nominees Are ...

Presenting the 2006 Orange County Weekly Theater Award nominees

Aural Reports

Beauty and Biology
DJ Ziba Z.

Student Dance Takes a Stand

UCI’s “New Slate” protests life’s inequities

The Revolution Starts Now

Mad Forest is merely more UCI brilliance

Best Politics, Art, and Outdoor Sports

Perchance to Dream

Waking Life wont fit in your head

Blow Job

UC Irvines The Day Maggie Blew Off Her Head

Human Rights and Wrongs

UC Irvine fest exposes worldwide injustice

Found It!

Long Beachs Found Theatre produces touchy-feely shrouded in camp

The Needle and the Damage Done

Tiffany Billings: friendly, neighborhood renaissance girl

Here Come the New Barbarians!

Officials celebrate 'youth-crime epidemic'

New Electronic Frontier

Christopher Dobrian of UCI's Gassmann Studio lets the microchips do the jamming

Welcome to Virtual U

Why is cyberspace sucking the college experience into a black hole? 'It all comes down to money'