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Whale of a Tale of a Journal of a Story on the Radio: Children's Bookstore & New Faultline & No Nukes, Too!

I am a little weary of bad news, cautionary tales and object lessons by way of instruction and warning. Another mass shooting? Thank the NRA. Mass spying on US citizens? Color me surprised, not. So, a little silver lining by way of the otherwise dark cloudy move by Whale of a Tale, whose terrific ow ... More >>

UC Irvine Scholars Make a Mega-Discovery About Mega-Galaxies

UC Irvine-led research reveals two young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way.The revelation, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is being likened to discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and ea ... More >>

UC Irvine Says "Go Back 2 Africa Slave" Note Was Left in Student's Backpack in Lab: Update

See the update at the end of this post with an image of the note stating "Go Back 2 Africa Slave" and the university disclosing it was left in the freshman student's backpack in a lab.ORIGINAL POST, MAY 9, 2:59 P.M.: A UC Irvine freshman received a note slipped under her dorm-room door* Tuesday nigh ... More >>

Lambda Theta Delta, Asian-American Fraternity At UC Irvine, Suspends Itself Over Blackface Video

Lambda Theta Delta, the Asian-American fraternity under fire for a music video featuring a member in blackface, has announced it will suspend its status as a UC Irvine organization for one year, until fall 2014. The suspension is self-imposed, and the group may face additional consequences from the ... More >>

Watching The News Can Make You (Physically) Sick, UC Irvine Study Finds

Planes crashing into the Twin Towers. Bodies washing up on the shore after the Japan tsunami. Bloodied victims being rolled out of the Aurora movie theater.    We watch on our TVs and computers in horror and heartache. And it may be making us sick.  Researchers at UC Irvine studied ne ... More >>

Two New Restaurants Planned for Irvine's Campus Plaza

The vacant spots next to Gina's Pizza in the Albertsons-anchored shopping mall near UC Irvine are getting new tenants. It was in January that Saigon Basil, the Vietnamese restaurant that replaced the long-lived Oriental Kitchen, folded. 

UCI, Long Beach St., Santa Ana College, and Cal Poly Pomona Go to Town at the CCMAs

The kids over at UC Irvine's paper, the New University (where I was one of those kids until like a couple of weeks ago haha) took first place in the Special Issue category at the California College Media Association awards over the weekend. It's nice to see journalism's new guard putting in work and ... More >>

Mountains Help Kick Off Another Year of Acrobatics Everyday at UC Irvine

Mountains, hi!​Okay, so to be fair, this isn't quite the first show that the fine souls at Acrobatics Everyday have put on this academic year: They hosted a free-to-all-new-freshmen gig last Thursday headlined by French Quarter. But with tomorrow's appearance by Mountains at UC Irvine, along with ... More >>

Waffles de Liege Truck Sells, Well, Waffles De Liege

​Gentle readers: por favor welcome Charisma Madarang, a recent graduate of UC Irvine's acclaimed literary journalism department, and the author of the great mini-essay on Newport's Dory fleet that appeared in our summer issue. She'll contribute occasional pieces for SaFII--that is, until she leave ... More >>

Study: Eating Fatty Foods Triggers Natural Marijuana-Like High in Body

Dos Chinos fries INSANITY...​You eat one French fry, you need another. And another. Soon, the basket of fried sticks is gone--then, you start picking away at your friend's fries. Same thing happens with chips and any fatty foods: the munchies.It's not because you're fat, tubby. It's all a part of ... More >>

Does Islamophobia Color Some Support of Criminal Charges Against the "Irvine 11"?

​Critics of Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas's decision to seek criminal charges against the 11 students arrested for interrupting the speech of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren last February at UC Irvine include national and statewide organizations, community leaders, esteemed UC I ... More >>

UCI Student Protest Against OC District Attorney's Office Not the First Time Anteaters Have Hated DA

​Right now, if all is going according to plan, a group of UC Irvine students and associates are protesting outside the offices of the Orange County district attorney because the DA has subpoenaed six Anteaters to testify before a grand jury. The students aren't just your typical coeds, but rather ... More >>

Sir Richard Branson

UCI Student Center Pacific Ballroom

Teal Wicks, UC Irvine Alum To Star As Elphaba In Broadway's Wicked

​Teal Wicks is going green for the role of Elphaba in the Broadway company of Wicked. The UC Irvine alum previously played the emerald-skinned witch in the Los Angeles and San Francisco productions. Video of a Wicked Wicks after the jump.  

[UPDATE:] 19 UC Irvine Students and Supporters Face Criminal Charges for Protesting

​​Update, December 10, 12:41 p.m.: Occupy UCI!--"an autonomous body in Orange County attempting to subvert hegemonic, state-supporting/ed protest by promoting radical discourse and militant action"--is accusing campus administrations of conspiring with prosecutors when it came to the timing of ... More >>

UC Irvine Cosmologist to Co-Host National Geographic TV Special

UC Irvine Communications​In the vast mix of travel guides, the Milky Way always gets the shaft. What's new in the cosmos? What's the latest on those supermassive black holes? (Still dark, we presume.)

Pensive, Yet Airborne

[Best of OC 2010] Yuri Tag's 10 OC Survival Tips

Jewish Conspiracy Unveiled: UC Irvine Bans Muslim Student Union From Campus

​Any hopes of hearing Helen Thomas crack Jewish jokes live and in person at the UC Irvine Laugh Factory are now out the window, according to a story that just went up on the OC Register website this morning. Actually the story has nothing to do with Helen Thomas but it does involve.....Jews!!!!

Thank God It's Monday: This Week's Shows

​Today we're recommending something slightly different: bowling. That truly American pastime- just ask Homer Simpson-remains straightforward at its core, but the trappings have changed with the years; some will still remember the legendary and now sadly long gone Kona Lanes in Costa Mesa and its s ... More >>

Acrobatics Everyday's No Junk Rummage Sale/Picnic/Show

www.myspace.com/tandollarTan Dollar at a previous Acrobatics Everyday​At last year's Best Of, we said, "Not only does Acrobatics Everyday, a concert series at various locations on the campus of UC Irvine, bring unconventional entertainment choices to the university's students, but it also bring ... More >>

UC Workers Union Ask Commencement Speakers to Boycott Their Own Speeches--Time to Call Gustavo a Scab!

​A couple of weeks ago, I was at a backyard party in SanTana (no, not that type of party) when a gentleman sat down with me and talked for about 20 minutes. I had met him before but found out then that he was a representative for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (A ... More >>

Facebook Free Speech Page Denies Free Speech

​A Facebook page has been created "in light of the recent event at UC Irvine in which 11 members of the Muslim Student Union @ UCI were arrested for attempts to silence and censor a speaker whose views they disagreed with. Free speech is NOT negotiable!"Too bad the page does not practice what it p ... More >>

UC Irvine Seeks to Cut Through Healthcare Reform Bullshit

The AFL-CIO convention in Pittrburgh voted last night to endorse single-payer, universal healthcare for all Americans, and rU.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) just trotted out to reporters his bill to provide non-single-payer, non-universal healthcare for not-quite-all Americans. Coincidence? ... More >>

Irvine Spared in Professor's Plan to Close UC Campuses

UCI.orgAll's quiet in the center of campus at "second-tier" UC Irvine.​Capitol Weekly reports about a radical proposal to spare the UC system major financial pain amid massive budget cuts: close three campuses.Don't worry: UC Irvine makes the cut. Barely.

Ward Connerly: Protector of High Asian Admissions at UC Irvine

Connerly: Asian fetishWard Connerly, the African American crusader who has never met a government set-aside based on race that he's liked, believes the University of California is hellbent on reducing Asian-American admissions--and Asian-American rights groups are not doing enough to stop them.Writi ... More >>

UC Irvine Issues Alert About a Rifleman on Campus

UC Irvine officials issued a telephone text message to students this afternoon warning about "a suspicious man carrying a possible rifle" on campus on Mesa Drive near the Bren Events Center.According to the message, obtained by the Weekly, the subject is a white male, 6-feet, 180 pounds, blond hair, ... More >>

Today's UC Irvine Rifle Incident Resolved Officially

Great news at UCIUsing it's emergency text messaging system, UC Irvine officials alerted its students tonight just after 9 p.m. that today's scare over a potential rifleman on campus has been "resolved safely" after a suspect was located with an imitation gun.According to a team of six OC Register r ... More >>

TONIGHT: 'KUCI Nights' Get Started at the Yost in Santa Ana

Here at the OC Weekly, we're rather big fans of KUCI, UC Irvine's community radio station. So it's a no-brainer to suggest checking out their first ever "KUCI Nights," tonight at the Yost Theatre in Santa Ana. It's five bands, all from southern California: LA's Castledoor and Death to Anders, and OC ... More >>

To Do Tonight 2/5

Dance Visions, 8 p.m.This year's annual concert featuring faculty choreographers is dedicated to Claire Trevor Professor of Dance Donald McKayle, celebrating his 20 years in the UCI dance department.UC Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, 300 Arts, Irvine, CA; 949-824-2787Happier Hour, 7 p.m.M ... More >>

Albert on KUCI at Noon Today!

I'll be returning to my college radio roots today and appearing on UC Irvine's station, KUCI, at noon. I'll be on their all-local music show Press Pass, presumably talking about--and listening to--local music. You can listen online, so what better way to spend your midday than hearing my dulcet tone ... More >>

OC Shows Respectable Level of Support for Prop. 8 Challenge

According to the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda Legal and the ACLU, among the Orange County contingent filing "friend of the court" briefs in support of Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal challenge of same-sex marriage barring Proposition 8:Irvine United Congregational ChurchOrange Cou ... More >>

International Polar Year Speaker

Bill Cooper

Acrobatics Everyday In Trouble?

Acrobatics Everyday has brought lots of cool shows to the UC Irvine campus in the just under a year they've existed: Japanther, The Mae Shi, The Shaky Hands, a Q&A with Ian McKaye, bunches more. Now the students behind the group--we profiled Sam Farzin last month--are looking for your words of s ... More >>

UC Irvine Students Don't Give a Damn about Voting--Mostly

"Who wants stickers for No on Prop. 8?" yelled out Jon, a young Vietnamese student at UC Irvine before the start of a Orange County history course in which I was to lecture. His enthusiasm was heartening--up until then, Anteaters where the epitome of the ever-elusive youth vote. As I walked to the ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Carrie,' 'Dracula,' More

Spacing Out

UCI Observatory Tour

Weird, Fun Gig at UC Irvine Tonight

Bird Names: Straight-up winging it... Acrobatics Everyday has another big show tonight for the cognoscenti and curious over at the UC Irvine campus' Phoenix Grille, 8 p.m., $5. Here's your lineup, darlings: BIRD NAMES Ramshackle, eerie Fall-like indie rock from Chicago. WUMMIN Psychedelic ava ... More >>

Blunt Truth

Reefer Madness

Book ’Em, Dan-o

Literary Orange 2008

To Air Is Divine (Most of the Time)

FEEDBACK: The Best and Worst Things About Being a College-Radio DJ

To Do Tonight - 11/08

Dave Serranos 7 Favorite Things

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Muslim Bashers of Orange County Unite!

Want to start a jihad against jihadis? You'll get your chance this October, when the David Horowitz Freedom Center plans to organize "the biggest conservative campus protest ever" with something called Islamo-Facism Awareness Week in college campuses across America. It didn't surprise us that UC Irv ... More >>

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Hits!

KUCI-FM 88.9

It's a Living

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Eight Days

Sing Sing!

Those Picket Signs?

At UCI, they're likely to return