Subject: University of California-Santa Barbara

• To the Anonymous, Mater Dei-Loving Faxing Coward

  **UPDATE: This is now the most-commented post in Navel Gazing history. Keep up the wackiness, readers! Over the years I've covered the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal, I've found few people braver than Joelle Casteix. She's one of Orange County's most prominent sex-abuse survivors (a choir director repeatedly raped Casteix while she was a student at Mater Dei High during the 1980s) and frequently stands outside churches to demand clueless Catholics hear the voices of the Orange dio

  February 18, 2008

• La Malandrina

  November 27, 2003

• Prepare for the OC Invasion of the LA Art Show

  Organizers claim the LA Art Show -- a massive, mixed-media event that showcases everything from cutting-edge contemporary installations to works by Renoir and Monet -- is the main reason the Los Angeles City Council declared January "Los Angeles Art Month." What their resolution doesn't mention is how Orange County is cutting into the action.Among the 175 galleries exhibiting are two from Laguna Beach, Redfern Gallery and Sue Greenwood Fine Art, which has shown the artwork depicted here. Redfern

  January 7, 2009

• [Pucker Up] Ladies Love Gay Male Porn

  May 15, 2008

• To Do This Weekend 1/23-1/25

  Angels in America, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.One of the most important pieces in American theatre comes to Orange County. An epic yet intimate look at relationships, religion, politics and AIDS. Produced by Theatre Out and the Maverick Theater.Maverick Theater, 110 E. Walnut, Anaheim, CA; 714-526-7070 Lecture: Masks Renew the World, Saturday at 1:30 p.m.Dr. Herbert M. Cole, Professor Emeritus, UCSB, discusses how the diverse human, animal, and composite masks of Africa both

  January 23, 2009

• Lecture: Masks Renew the World

  January 22, 2009

• Babies, Greeks and More at Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble's New Works Festival

  August 28, 2008

• Joelle Casteix Fights for Catholic Church Sex-Abuse Victims While Pursuing Her Own Abuser

  July 10, 2008

• [Aural Reports] Broke Rock-Rappers Enfamus Seek Big Break

  July 3, 2008

• 10 Crucial Music Websites

  November 15, 2007

• Aural Reports

  From Her Van to Your Mind: Reina Boone strums local, thinks global

  May 31, 2007

• Back To School

  August 26, 2004

• Snowballed Again

  December 21, 2006

• The Gospel According to R.C.

  June 3, 2004

• Letters

  September 18, 2003

• Fear of a Brown Planet

  September 11, 2003

• Fear and Loathing on Death Row

  March 13, 2003

• Answer the Question, Rummy!

  October 17, 2002

• Clear-Cutting Sherwood Forest

  April 5, 2001

• Congressional Candidate Krom's Son Dies in Fall

  Beth Krom Congress 2010 Facebook pageThe Kroms in 2007 (from left): Hershel, Abby, Noah, Solly and Beth.The Weekly, which has taken jabs over the years at a certain Irvine city councilwoman and announced congressional candidate, expresses its deepest condolences to Beth and Solly Krom, who are mourning the death of their 22-year-old son."It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of our son Noah Krom in Santa Barbara on Friday night," the couple wrote on Beth's congressional campai

  June 8, 2009

• Attention Turns to Hours Before Noah Krom's Death

  Noah KromWe told you yesterday about the tragic death of 22-year-old Noah Krom, the eldest son of Irvine's Solly Krom and City Councilwoman and announced congressional candidate Beth Krom. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's investigators are now trying to piece together the events that took the UC Santa Barbara senior to the steep cliff he eventually fell off of before plunging to his death on the Isla Vista beach below Friday night or early Saturday morning. The

  June 9, 2009

• OC's Famous Desegregation Case Finally Gets Its Historical Due, But One Family Feels Left Out

  November 5, 2009

• Separated at Birth? Ask a Mexican's Logo, Saddleback College's Gaucho

  ​Sorry to say I don't know much about Saddleback College in Mission Viejo. I went there once with a cute Vietnamese girl in 2001 to hear Nobel Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu speak, and I once asked South Orange County Community College District trustee and longtime GOP head Tom Fuentes about his feelings regarding the Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal (the very first Ex Cathedra story) after a board meeting at the hilly campus. And my chica once presented there, so I had to drop her off.My

  November 10, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: Surf Photographer Carl Steindler

  Photos by Carl SteindlerMike Dunphy, Zihuatanejo​Orange County resident and 26-year-old surf photographer Carl Steindler's work has mostly appeared in Transworld, where he has worked for the past two years as a photographer and editor. He landed the job after interning at the magazine for a year while he was still in college. Carl recently moved from Laguna Hills, the town of his upbringing, to San Clemente after getting married in September. Besides Transworld, his work has appeared in a numb

  November 13, 2009

• 3OH!3 and Lacrosse, Together Finally in Santa Ana

  ​When you think about lacrosse, you probably think about in-your-face Top 40 hip-pop.  "What an of-these-times sport, really the symbol of my plugged-in, brand-conscious and fiercely/collectively independent generation of consumers," you likely say to yourself.

  November 18, 2009