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May 18, 2006
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 s ... More >>
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May 23, 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 tha ... More >>
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December 2, 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 Coa ... More >>
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February 21, 2007
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 lang ... More >>
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March 22, 2008
The Reg-O-Meter©: Week Ending March 22
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 lang ... More >>
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April 4, 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 eno ... More >>
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April 6, 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- ... More >>
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May 8, 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. Tra ... More >>
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September 12, 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. perf ... More >>
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October 16, 2008
Bang the Drum
Francisco Aguabella
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January 8, 2009
Meditation Workshop
Bowers Museum
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April 6, 2000
Poet Oracle
LAs Laurel Ann Bogen
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August 23, 2007
Locals Only
O.G. OC Funk-soul Brother: DJ Danny Love Has Brought the Party for 20 Years
Columns
September 28, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'Something happens when we cross the borderwe forget our sense of humor and become too literal'
Culture
March 9, 2006
Irvinian-Hosted Academia
Pacific Modernities: Museum Culture and Civic Engagement
Film
January 12, 2006
Under the Skin of the Country
2 Los Angeles film showcases lift the veil on Iranian society at the dawn of a new cultural conservatism
Columns
January 12, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Jan. 4 to Jan. 10. And tired.
Unknown
September 22, 2005
Whos a Black Sheep?
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Sept. 22 - Sept. 29
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August 28, 2003
Letters
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Sept. 22 - Sept. 29
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May 9, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
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Sept. 22 - Sept. 29
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December 20, 2001
Dating Lessons for Dorks
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Sept. 22 - Sept. 29
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April 26, 2001
Designer Stories: Roxy
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Sept. 22 - Sept. 29
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September 9, 1999
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September 12, 2009
Local Muslim Woman Featured on "Speaking of Faith"
Proud Bruin and MuslimSpeaking 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 ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
The Archaeology of Possession, Inheritance, and Value
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November 18, 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 ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Gustavo Invited to Give Commencement Speech at UCLA!
To Make the Cosmos Right, USC Now has to Invite One of their Local GOP Joke Alumni...For some bizarre reason, UCLA--where I received a master's degree in Latin American Studies in 2003--has decided to invite me to give the school's undergrad commencement speech this year. Yeah, I'm wondering what ... More >>
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May 3, 2010
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 >>
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May 10, 2010
Parent Vows Petition to Remove Gustavo as UCLA Commencement Speaker
Listen to the message above. It's one Sandy Roberts, outraged that my alma mater, UCLA, chose me to give their commencement speech this month. I was confused at first, though, because I couldn't figure out what exactly upset her so much about me. Was she a Know Nothing? A pedophile apologist? An ... More >>
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May 16, 2010
Tam Tran, Garden Grove Native and Tireless DREAM Act Advocate, Killed in Maine Car Accident
Tran and FelixTam Ngoc Tran was everything an illegal immigrant isn't supposed to be: non-Mexican. College-educated--scratch that, a college graduate. Fully assimilated. A contributor to this country rather than a leech. American.She was among the country's more prominent undocumented college stu ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
An OC DREAMer Remembers His Friends and Mentors, Tam Tran and Cinthya Felix
From left: Felix, Tran, and RamosThe Weekly was unable to attend the memorial service held yesterday at UCLA in honor of Garden Grove resident Tam Tran and Los Angeles resident Cinthya Felix, two graduates of the school who long advocated on behalf of their fellow undocumented college students an ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Gustavo Arellano Helps One Alma Mater, Gets Snubbed by Facebook Group at Another
Gustavo Arellano will be one of two investigative journalists talking about the future of newspapers at Orange Coast College tonight. Meanwhile, a Facebook group has started in the campaign to prevent the Weekly's very own Mexican from taking part in a different higher-education gig: a scheduled ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
A DREAM Act Undeterred
Local undocumented college students mark the passing of one of their own, Tam Tran, by continuing her fight
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June 2, 2010
More People Opposed to Gustavo as UCLA Commencement Speaker--Hooray!
Listen to the phone call above, which makes it the second irate UCLA parent to call my office line, and the second parent who didn't bother leaving a number so I could call them back and engage in polite discourse. Then read this opinion piece in the Daily Bruin from last week against the selection ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
#87. Beef Teriyaki Bowl, Teriyami
Because ustedes gentle readers love lists, and we lazy scribes love easy hits, behold the latest entry in our Top 100 dishes list that continues until Best Of--at which point, we'll give you MORE lists! Now, on with the show...Teriyaki bowls stopped being Japanese decades ago in Southern Californ ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
Soccer? I Don't Even Know Her! World Cup Futbol Starts Today
From the 2010 World Cup Facebook pageThe FIFA World Cup--you know, that massive sporting event that only comes around every four years, the one that the United States practically makes a sport out of ignoring--starts today in South Africa.Lots of Americans think soccer is boring. Well . . . it is ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Watch: Irvine DREAM Activist Charms at UCLA Commencement
We've all read Gustavo's speech for UCLA's class of 2010 for commencement. Some of us may have even watched it. But he keeps raving about the opening act that came before him from Flavia de la Fuente, a UCLA undergrad, DREAM-Act advocate and Irvine native.So you're curious about what sh ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Stephanie Dinh of S Fine Dining, Part One
Todd BarnesThis week, we meet the chef-owner of S Fine Dining, one of the few upscale-yet-authentic Vietnamese restaurants in Orange County. Vietnamese cuisine was informed the French occupation of that country, and many of those culinary influences thrive at this fine dining restaurant thanks to ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Chapman University Dorms in Pricey Company
James Doti has worked his Lilliputian arse off over the years trying to get Chapman University included in conversations about the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the land.The private Orange university finds itself ranked today with many of those prestigious institutions, but ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
The Five Most Played-Out Food Trends of 2010
It's the end of the year; time for retrospectives both heartwarming and heartburning. This year's trip down memory lane starts with trends that have reached the ends of their useful lives and need to be sent down the knacker's yard to die an ignominious death.
News
December 16, 2010
DREAM Act Supporters Keep Fighting
From Santa Ana to Texas to Capitol Hill, OC residents prove among the most prominent advocates of the DREAM Act
Blogs
December 20, 2010
Flavia de la Fuente, Irvine DREAM Act Advocate, on NPR's Talk of the Nation
My news story this week highlighted how Orange Countians have helped push the DREAM Act--which would create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented college students--to national prominence. One of them was Flavia de la Fuente, an Irvine native, UCLA's most-recent valedictorian, and currently in ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
The EMP Pop Conference Lands in LA: Jason Bentley Moderates Free Panel with Moby and TV on the Radio
KCRW.comJason BentleyAccording to our Beat Blvd. columnist Ned Raggett, this is the first time Experience Music Project's Pop Conference is being held in LA. "Very handy," he notes in his blog. If you're in the area tomorrow, you might want to check out KCRW's music director Jason Bentley moderat ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
UCLA Girl's Racist Rant, Remixed--a Bunch of Times
You knew it was going to happen: wannabe model Alexandra Wallace, now infamous as the UCLA girl who posted a racist rant against Asian students on YouTube, is not only all over the news, she's also gotten her rant remixed. More than once. And her video just got posted over the WEEKEND. (Watch the ... More >>
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May 30, 2011
[UPDATED with Medical Office Protest Set:] Hazem Chehabi, Physician and Syria Consul General, Urged to Cut Ties With "Brutal" Regime or Quit UCI Board
ChehabiUPDATE, MAY 30, 10:37 A.M.: The Syrian Emergency Task Force-Greater LA has rallied outside the Syria Consulate office in Newport Beach and asked Dr. Hazem H. Chehabi to step down as honorary consul general (or for the UC Irvine Foundation to drop him from its board if he doesn't) over hum ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
This Week in Food: Lime Truck Good and Bad, Racist Register Readers, and Fake Poop Meat!
Rally 'round our Lime Truck boyos!Another great week in Forker land--highlights after the jump!
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September 15, 2011
[UPDATED with Songs for Shifra] Shifra Goldman, Latino/Chicano Art Historian, Dead at 85
Courtesy of the FamilyShifra Goldman in her officeUPDATE: Sept. 15 10:31 A.M.: As a reader let me know, Eric Garcia, the son of the late Shifra Goldman, released an album in tribute to his mother a month prior to her passing. The guitarist, who in the course of his musical life has lent his talen ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Jeanie Newman "Jeanie" Bernstein, Longtime Progressive Activist, Dies
After suffering from the effects of congestive heart failure for several months, longtime progressive and environmental activist Jean Newman "Jeanie" Bernstein died at her Laguna Beach home surrounded by her children and caregiver Angie on Oct. 22.She was 88.
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November 16, 2011
Alex Bernal, Fullerton Civil Rights Hero, to Get His Day in the Academic Symposium Sun at UCLA Nov. 21
Bernal and his family, in a 1943 TimephotoThere is a lot of great movement going on right now with the story of Alex Bernal, the American citizen of Mexican ancestry whose 1943 fight against housing covenants in Fullerton paved the way for many of the civil-rights achievements for African-America ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Over 70 Attend UCLA Symposium on Alex Bernal Case
Despite it happening on a Monday morning, despite it happening during Thanksgiving week, despite it happening far from the scene of the incident, more than 70 people filled into the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center yesterday to attend a symposium on Doss vs. Bernal, the 1943 civil right ... More >>
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