Subject: University of California-Los Angeles

• What Lies Beneath

  Proving once again that the internet is good for something other than pornography and pirating music, one of the more useful state agencies you've never heard of, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, has created EnviroStors, an online database of contaminated sites throughout the state. The database, the San Jose Mercury News reports, "includes 8,261 industrial sites, schools, military bases, vacant lots, farms and other properties -- everything from Silicon Valley Superfund s

  May 18, 2006

• More Fun at the Beach

  Apparently, the sand at the beach can do more than simply serve as building material for little castles or find its way into the private recesses of your swimsuit-- it can also grow bacteria like a petri dish. This morning's Los Angeles Times reports on a new study of L.A. county beaches by UCLA that concludes, "The sand at some of the region's most popular beaches can be laced with bacteria even when the water is clean." "It can actually grow in the sand," said Jennifer Jay, UCLA professor of e

  May 23, 2006

• 25 years later

  It was twenty-five years ago today, June, 5, 1981, that the first cases of what would become known as HIV/AIDS were reported in the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It was by no means the beginning of the disease– a recent study has identified the earliest infections as occurring in West Africa in the 1930's, when the virus made the jump from diseased chimpanzees to humans. It was, however, the beginning of understanding the disease. Dr. Michael Gottlie

  June 5, 2006

• Suck on it, USC!

  My alma mater (at least for the MA) shocked USC, 13-9, a great joy for all of us who despise the lords of Orange County. Click over to OC Blog, where you can find a comprehensive list of these terrible Trojans (my boss and courageous Catholic lawyer John Manly excepted). Also remember that South Coast Plaza hosts a Trojans memorabilia store. Us UCLA grads? We get to revel in the upset of the millenium.

  December 2, 2006

• Cock-a-doodle-do (Los Angeles Times edition)

  It seems a new day is dawning at the Los Angeles Times. No, it's not another thinning of the staff herd-- it's new language. Well… new for the Times, at least. As is traditional, it's the appearance of a cock that heralds the new day. Kevin Roderick at L.A. Observed explains: Times language a-changing Last week a womanizing UCLA professor was described in a quote as a "cocksman." In today's Bob Pool story about Oscar preparations disrupting Hollywood Boulevard (chasing our post fr

  February 21, 2007

• Photos: Ryan Adams

  Ryan Adams performs at UCLA's Royce Hall tonight. We don't have to go north to know it'll kick ass. Weekly web photographer Christopher Victorio caught Adams and The Cardinals at San Diego's Spreckles Theater on Jan 19 and said it "was one of the best shows I'd been to, and it wasn't the box seat I had in front of the stage." Some snaps from the show:

  January 30, 2008

• Activists protest hate at Cal State Fullerton

  At noon, the ho-hum shuffle of another Tuesday afternoon was interrupted with a jarring burst of voices. They echoed from the Cal State Fullerton quad in front of the Humanities and Social Sciences building. A noose was throw over a tree branch and dropped in the dirt. Today students from across L.A. and Orange County had a lynching. A lynching of intolerance. A stuffed effigy riddled with hateful slogans was held swinging from a noose in the background of a protest at CSUF's anti-hate rally. A

  February 19, 2008

• The Reg-O-Meter©: Week Ending March 22

  March 22, 2008

• Eric J. Lawrence Interview: Director’s Cut

  The Fall: Lawrence's—and John Peel's—favorite band. In this week’s Sprawl of Sound, I feature KCRW DJ/librarian Eric J. Lawrence. As is often the case, there was not enough space in the print version of the paper to run the entire interview. However, I think that this one is interesting enough to publish in full on the generous expanses of the intraweb. So here it is, Q&A-style. What are your criteria for determining what you play on any given show? Do you strive for a balance of old

  April 4, 2008

• Real Reason Why UCLA Lost!

  Much ink and megabytes has been and will be spilled regarding UCLA's embarrassing loss in the Final Four yesterday, but no one has yet discussed the "Final Countdown" curse. Before tipoff, the UCLA band played a brass version of the 1986 glam rocker immortalized by GOB Bluth in greatest-show-about-OC Arrested Development (see below for a great SpongeBob Squarepants version). The last time couple of times I've seen a sports team play this song before the game, they've lost. Why oh why, UCLA did

  April 6, 2008

• What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XVII

  This weekend was a kick ass good time with Rich Kane doing another edition of the Reg-O-Meter that's pretty funny, I'm not gonna lie. Saturday night caught Dave Segal reviewing Autechre, Rob Hall and Massonix at Echoplex, where he was a lil' influenced because he's been into Autechre ever since he heard their tracks on the first Artificial Intelligence compilation. Meanwhile, Luke Y. Thompson attended a Hollywood party at the house Orson Welles died in. The home is currently owned by "Heath

  April 7, 2008

• Darfur Now College Tour's SoCal Stop

  A documentary film and a concert will take place on UCLA's campus May 28 and 29, respectively, in order to raise funds and awareness for Darfur Now, which is committed to helping alleviate humanitarian problems stemming from the ongoing conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Press release after the cut. Trailer for Darfur Now, featuring George Clooney and Don Cheadle.

  May 8, 2008

• Hugh Hewitt Gets Tracked by Southern Poverty Law Center

  It's one thing for Orange County blabbermouth Hugh "Baby Hewie/Hughcifer" Hewitt to get monitored by myself and Clockwork Coker, but it's quite the feat that Baby Hewie made it into the pages of the Southern Poverty Law Center's fall issue of its award-winning Intelligence Report. In its round-up of racist, fucked-up quotes by media personalities (including Barbara Coe!), Baby Hewie notches a spot with this doozy: "[I]t's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United S

  September 11, 2008

• To Do This Weekend 9/12-9/14

  Los Pinguos, Friday 5 p.m. Looks like the balloon wont be the only stupid thing at the Great Park this weekend. Orange County Great Park Off the 5 Fwy. Irvine, CA 949-724-6247 Casa De Tequila, Friday 8 p.m. This house has worms. Tia Juana's 14988 Sand Canyon Rd. Irvine, CA 949-551-2998 L.B.C. performing 100% Sublime Hits, Saturday 8 p.m. Smells like Lou Dog. OC Tavern 2369 S. El Camino Real San Clemente, CA 949-542-8877 World Festival of Sacred Music, Saturday 8 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. The month

  September 12, 2008

• !Ask a Mexican!

  August 11, 2005

• Bang the Drum

  October 16, 2008

• Meditation Workshop

  January 8, 2009

• John R. Wooden Classic

  December 11, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] 'Mexicans Are Dirty Gangbangers Who Spray Graffiti Everywhere'

  May 29, 2008

• Poet Oracle

  April 6, 2000

• Locals Only

  O.G. OC Funk-soul Brother: DJ Danny Love Has Brought the Party for 20 Years

  August 23, 2007

• Brunnhildepalooza!

  July 1, 1999

• Of Hummus and Hezbollah

  Good food trumps ugly Americanism at Meejana

  December 14, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  'Something happens when we cross the borderwe forget our sense of humor and become too literal'

  September 28, 2006

• Dead-End Presidents

  Crimes of the Oval Office

  September 7, 2006

• Art School Rejects

  May 4, 2006

• Irvinian-Hosted Academia

  March 9, 2006

• Under the Skin of the Country

  January 12, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 12, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  December 22, 2005

• Whos a Black Sheep?

  September 22, 2005

• The Year In College Football

  December 30, 2004

• This Week in Soup

  November 4, 2004

• Henry Nicholas, Superhero

  July 1, 2004

• Letters

  August 28, 2003

• Quetzal

  July 10, 2003

• Downloaded

  October 17, 2002

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 9, 2002

• Dating Lessons for Dorks

  December 20, 2001

• Designer Stories: Roxy

  April 26, 2001

• Does Masturbation Make You Smarter?

  February 17, 2000

• Letters

  September 9, 1999

• Letters

  October 1, 1998

• TONIGHT: Afroman at OC Tavern

  Damn, if you ever had a reason to truck out to San Clemente, tonight is the night (unless of course you live in San Clemente...in that case, just stay put). Touring in preparation of his new album Frobama, to be released  this week on May 5, rapper Afroman (pictured) takes a trip to OC's deep south with a pocket full of stoner rhymes bagged fresh and ready to roll.Chances are you've heard of this brilliant MC at some point in your high school/college career. Look at him, how could you forge

  May 2, 2009

• UC Irvine, A Campus of Hate, Bigotry and Intimidation?

  UC Irvine: A battlefield?In today's issue of the JewishJournal.com, Judea Pearl--an acclaimed UCLA professor and the father of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was decapitated by nuts in Pakistan in 2002--has written "The Crucible of UC Irvine," which slams the Orange County university as a breeding ground for hate. "UCI has long been a proving ground [nationally] for orchestrated Israel defamation," Pearl writes. "The combination of a large and highly motivated Muslim stu

  May 28, 2009

• Legally Blonde the Musical

  September 3, 2009

• Local Muslim Woman Featured on "Speaking of Faith"

  Proud Bruin and Muslim​Speaking of Faith is one of the country's better public radio shows, a thoughtful, hour-long examination of faith in its many manifestations that local listeners can find every Sunday at 3 p.m. on KPCC-FM 89.3. Last week, the show devoted itself to Muslim listener-submitted reflections on Ramadan, and one of the 14 selected for airing came from Costa Mesa resident Parisa Popalzai, an Afghan native and UCLA graduate (go Bruins!) who spoke eloquently about her religious aw

  September 12, 2009

• The Archaeology of Possession, Inheritance, and Value

  October 8, 2009

• Dueling Dishes: Aioli Smackdown?

  The Crow Bar's cool-as-hell logo...​Few culinary trends annoy me more than the spread of aiolis (pun intended)--just seeing the term on most any menu is a tell that the chef imagines himself to be some high-falutin', fusion-y maestro who's going to blow you away with something that's really glorified mayo. Screw that--give me Sriracha or some mustard. But last week, I had the chance to taste two exemplary version of the condiment, each superb, each unexpected. The first one was at Phans55 in

  September 17, 2009

• 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 Regents, the governing body over the 10-campus system, will vote today on whether to implement 32 percent tuition hikes in the face of massive budget shortfalls. On Thursday, the board is scheduled t

  November 18, 2009