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May 23, 2012
The Text of Gustavo's Long Beach City College Commencement Speech!
As this gets published, I'll most likely be reading my commencement speech to the graduates of Long Beach City College. So I'm speaking to you right now from the future--WEIRD...Anyhoo, the entirety of the speech follows. I reserve the right to change words on the drive to campus in the next hour, b ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2012
Gustavo to Give Commencement Speech TOMORROW at Long Beach City College!
Following my so-so commencement speech at UCLA two years ago, another local institute of higher learning has become gullible enough to invite me to speak to their graduating class: Long Beach City College.The speech is scheduled for tomorrow at--where else?--Long Beach City College, during their--wh ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Poets and Politicians: Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Governor Jerry Brown
Governor Jerry Brown named Juan Felipe Rivera, UC Riverside poetry professor of Chair of Creative Writing, as California Poet Laureate on Wednesday, but he's just getting to know the wordsmith. The appointment is a first ever for a Latino in the state and the poet's writings articulate the life e ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2011
[UPDATED with UCI Chief "Appalled":] UC Protesters Get Help From Above to Stop Campus Cops' Baton Jabs and Pepper Spraying
UPDATE, NOV. 23, 10:24 A.M.: UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake has issued a statement where he says that he is "appalled" by the police response to peaceful demonstrators on other campuses as witnessed in recent YouTube videos. The brutal actions violate UC policies, procedures and the sense of ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2011
OC Kids Are 3% Less Fat, But Childhood Obesity Lingers in California
Way to go, Orange County kids. You've lost a bit of chub. Have a small, whole-grain snack. A study released today by UCLA and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy found that the state's overall rate of overweight and obese children fell by 1 percent from 2005 to 2010, with the ra ... More >>
Columns
October 13, 2011
What Part of Illegal Don't Mexicans Understand?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do so many homes have wrought-iron fences?
Blogs
September 27, 2011
SoCal Film Festival Keeps Chugging in Surf City
Last October, amid much glitz, glamour but light attendance, the first ever Anaheim International Film Festival premiered, and while it's not quite one-and-done, organizers plan this year to sprinkle festival screenings in with regular UltraLuxe of GardeWalk programming throughout the fall. Meanw ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2011
Ching-Chong-Ling-Long Gourmet Takeout Opens in LA
Alexandra Wallace may have been shamed out of UCLA, but today she lives on in Mongolian beef and kung pao chicken. The infamous collegiate, whose YouTube rant "Asians in the Library" had the Internet shaking its head at the state of higher education, is the inspiration behind a n ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
[UPDATED with UCI Promising Meeting:] Dr. Hazem Chehabi Urged to Cut Ties With Syria's Brutal Regime or Step Down From UC Irvine Foundation Board
UPDATE, JUNE 9, 4:31 P.M.: This morning's rally at UC Irvine targeting Dr. Hazem H. Chehabi--the UCI Foundation's president-elect, Syria's honorary consul general in Newport Beach and a prominent Orange County philanthropist and nuclear medicine specialist--went "smooth," according to an organize ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Stop the Hate: A Catchy Response to UCLA Student Alexandra Wallace's Racist Rant
Jimmy Wong, a 24-year-old actor and musician from LA, posted a non-angry, funny response in song to UCLA student Alexandra Wallace's racist rant on YouTube. In it, he translates "ching chong, ling long, ting tong" and turns it into a message of love. It's way better than the knee-jerk remixes tha ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2010
Veteran OC Register Court Reporter Takes New Job
SrisavasdiRachanee Srisavasdi--a prolific court reporter for The Orange County Register--has accepted a new job as communications director for the Los Angeles-based Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC).For several years, Srisavasdi partnered with legendary courthouse reporter Larry Welborn ... More >>
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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December 2, 2010
Amanda Russell, Long Beach Poly Senior, Wins $20,000 from KFC for a Tweet!
Flickr user Ollie CrafoordIn the Department of Participating in Every Zany Contest Fast-Food Chains Offer comes this news: a Long Beach Poly senior won a $20,000 college scholarship from KFC for the best tweet expressing how the chain would help the student better their lives.Amanda Russell didn' ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2010
Irvine is as Boring as You Make It
If you think Irvine is a boring city, take a look at the article by UCI's Aaron Elias in the student newspaper New University, and think twice!With "Waging War Against Irvine Boredom," Elias makes clear what most of us already know: UCI is a nerd school.
Blogs
September 21, 2010
DREAM Act Voted Down, Though Not Because Lack of Effort by OC Dreamers
Courtesy of Julio SalgadoWhile the Know Nothings of both the ethnic and sexual types gloat over today's death of a defense bill in the Senate that included provisions to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" ban of LGBT service members and to pass the DREAM Act, OC's local Dreamers burnt ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Faded Paper Figures
The Glass House
Blogs
June 10, 2010
OC to Rule UCLA Commencement Speakers Slot Tomorrow
Tomorrow, I will drive to my alma mater, UCLA, to give the school's commencement speech, a subject I've written about way too much already. Really, the person you should pay attention to is the student commencement speaker, as she's one of our own: Flavia de la Fuente of Irvine.
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Q&A: Quadron
Beth Stirnaman/OC WeeklyQuadron at the Commonwealth Lounge last nightHours before their gig at Commonwealth Lounge in Fullerton, we found Coco O. and Robin Hannibal of Quadron hanging out by the stage. So we figured we'd help them kill some time with a probing interview about a wide range of topi ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
TONIGHT: Quadron at Commonwealth Lounge
So what's the reward for taking a horribly underrepresented musical genre in your native country and playing the hell out of it? In the case of Danish R&B duo Quadron, it's been well worth the risk.
Blogs
April 8, 2010
Steve Lopez Connects Viewers to War's Effect on One Camp Pendleton Family
Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez tonight gives a video profile of a Camp Pendleton family soon to be separated by an overseas military deployment.
Blogs
September 17, 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 glorif ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
Legally Blonde the Musical
Orange County Performing Arts Center
Blogs
May 28, 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 univer ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2009
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 s ... More >>
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December 25, 2008
All Inclusive
Kwanzaa Celebration
Blogs
September 11, 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 ... More >>
Columns
May 29, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] 'Mexicans Are Dirty Gangbangers Who Spray Graffiti Everywhere'
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 ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 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 h ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 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 ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2008
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 ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2007
Monday's Headlines & Surprises: 200 million pixel TV!!!
Is that a freckle? Reporter David Haldane finds that UC Irvine used a $300,000 federal grant to build a screen 100 times more detailed than the current best high-definition television. Its 23-by-9-foot display has 200 million pixels and is called the HIPerWall, according to the Times story. Student ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2007
Schou Mug Shot Hits LA Times
Yes, OC Weekly investigative reporter Nick Schou got his mug shot in today's Los Angeles Times. No, he wasn't participating again in a riot, peeking inside an undercover DEA 18-wheeler or even driving solo in the HOV lane. A year or so ago, Schou thought it'd be fun to perform his normal work duti ... More >>
Food
December 14, 2006
Of Hummus and Hezbollah
Good food trumps ugly Americanism at Meejana
News
September 7, 2006
Dead-End Presidents
Crimes of the Oval Office
Culture
August 10, 2006
Brilliant Moments
Mike the Poet takes Polaroids
Blogs
June 5, 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 i ... More >>
Film
May 4, 2006
Art School Rejects
Breakfast with Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes
Columns
December 22, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
Special three-question edition!
Columns
August 11, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
Special three-question edition!
Music
October 14, 2004
Stop Acting Scary
Visionaries are not just a living, breathing Benetton ad
Features
July 1, 2004
Henry Nicholas, Superhero
He made billions with Broadcom and then quit at 44. Now Nicks life gets really exciting
Unknown
October 17, 2002
Downloaded
He made billions with Broadcom and then quit at 44. Now Nicks life gets really exciting
Food
February 7, 2002
Soul Food Man
DJ Danny Love loves the gumbo
Columns
December 20, 2001
Dating Lessons for Dorks
DJ Danny Love loves the gumbo
Columns
May 25, 2000
Union Maid
Apathy is sooo 1990s
Culture
April 6, 2000
Poet Oracle
LAs Laurel Ann Bogen
Features
February 17, 2000
Does Masturbation Make You Smarter?
LAs Laurel Ann Bogen
Food
September 2, 1999
Chapman Bites!
Panther power fueled by great eats
Music
July 1, 1999
Brunnhildepalooza!
The art of the art song at UCI
Columns
October 1, 1998
Letters
The art of the art song at UCI
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