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May 3, 2012
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.
Blogs
April 23, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
July 5, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
UCI Law Student-Run Conference Looks at Climate Justice
UC Irvine law students are holding a first-ever, all-day conference today on climate justice. "A3 [Assemble. Advocate.Act]: A Conference on Climate Justice" examines "the social injustices faced by vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change," according to organ ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
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 >>
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January 20, 2011
Sir Richard Branson
UCI Student Center Pacific Ballroom
Blogs
December 28, 2010
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.
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December 10, 2010
[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 >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
UC Irvine Soccer Wuz Robbed
The UC Irvine men's soccer team finished 14-3-3, won the Big West Conference regular-season title, were ranked No. 1 in the West Regional rankings most of the season and were in the national top 10 for the final six weeks of the regular season.So, how were the Anteaters rewarded? With another ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
UC Irvine Cosmologist to Co-Host National Geographic TV Special
UC Irvine CommunicationsIn 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.)
Music
October 14, 2010
Pensive, Yet Airborne
[Best of OC 2010] Yuri Tag's 10 OC Survival Tips
Blogs
July 6, 2010
As Everyone Looks Down at What Gulf Oil Spill Has Wrought, UC Irvine Researchers Look Up
Tar balls created by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico reached the Texas shore today.But researchers from UC Irvine are not looking at the sands, shorelines and waters impacted by the muck, they are checking out the air hovering over the spill zone. The initial findings: all is not well.
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June 14, 2010
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!!!!
Blogs
June 14, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
Acrobatics Everyday's No Junk Rummage Sale/Picnic/Show
www.myspace.com/tandollarTan Dollar at a previous Acrobatics EverydayAt 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 >>
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January 21, 2010
UC Irvine Celebrates 40 Years Computing
UCI.eduComputing at UC Irvine is bearing down on middle age!Friday's "Celebrating 40 Years of Computing @ UCIrvine: Innovating for a Better World: yesterday's vision... today's research... tomorrow's technology" features events and panel discussions about the digital revolution's reach to the Irv ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
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.
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June 12, 2009
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 >>
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May 20, 2009
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 >>
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May 20, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
April 23, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
April 2, 2009
UCI Research May Ease Cocaine Cravings
UC Irvine pharmacological researchers may have hit on a new way to battle cocaine addiction. Material they shared with Science Daily suggests that blocking a hormone related to hunger regulation can limit coke cravings. A study led by Shinjae Chung and Olivier Civelli zeroed in on how the melanin-co ... More >>
Blogs
February 5, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
January 29, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
January 22, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
January 21, 2009
Happy First Birthday, Acrobatics Everyday!
Acrobatics Everyday, a student-run organization bringing all sorts of unique shows to the UC Irvine campus and generally making your college experience seem a lot less cool, is celebrating its one-year anniversary in existence this week(-ish).Their first show was Jan. 16, with Dan Deacon, Ultimate R ... More >>
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December 25, 2008
International Polar Year Speaker
Bill Cooper
Blogs
December 9, 2008
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 >>
Blogs
November 4, 2008
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 >>
Film
October 23, 2008
[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Carrie,' 'Dracula,' More
"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 >>
Calendar
October 23, 2008
Spacing Out
UCI Observatory Tour
Blogs
June 25, 2008
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 >>
Calendar
June 5, 2008
Blunt Truth
Reefer Madness
Calendar
April 3, 2008
Book ’Em, Dan-o
Literary Orange 2008
Features
November 15, 2007
To Air Is Divine (Most of the Time)
FEEDBACK: The Best and Worst Things About Being a College-Radio DJ
Features
September 20, 2007
Dave Serranos 7 Favorite Things
Cal State Fullerton baseball coach
Blogs
September 13, 2007
Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Hiii Chemerinsky!
The Government has gone Plasma TV crazy: Even though they have an entire cable television channel to carry their lame communications, Santa Ana city officials are spending at least $242,000 more to install 10, 42-inch flat screen TVs at 10 public locations. These TVs will have no sound, and will br ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2007
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 >>
Film
April 26, 2007
Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: Camille
Film
January 11, 2007
Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Music
September 21, 2006
Hits!
KUCI-FM 88.9
News
July 27, 2006
It's a Living
Dwayne Hartzell works at Total Exterminating in Anaheim
Features
October 20, 2005
Irvine
Dwayne Hartzell works at Total Exterminating in Anaheim
Columns
October 7, 2004
Eight Days
Dwayne Hartzell works at Total Exterminating in Anaheim
Film
January 16, 2003
The Savage Breast
UC Irvines latest film series is music to your eyes
Features
January 3, 2002
Diary of a mad county
Orange County, California: 2001
News
March 25, 1999
Apple Bonging
OC's 'War on Drugs': Joke or tragedy?
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