War Crimes

In 'Room 237,' 'The Shining' Is a Movie About Everything

Rodney Ascher's documentary allows the viewer to be seduced—or not—by credible theorists

Levon Marashlian, Noted Armenian Historian, Details TV Coverage of Karabakh Conflict

After the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in Azerbaijan voted to unify the region with Armenia on Feb. 20, 1988, inter-ethnic fighting broke out. This devolved into a war that lasted through May 1994 and likely received little coverage on the nightly news. Here to fill us in on ... More >>

Commemoration of Armenian Genocide to Happen Tomorrow in Santa Ana with Film Screening

While the Armenian community in Glendale gets all the attention in Southern California, a small but vibrant one has existed in Orange County for decades, centered around Irvine and Fountain Valley, with its focal point 40 Martyr's Armenian Apostolic Church in SanTana (quick aside: I once crashed a q ... More >>

Peter Ngugi, OC Weekly's Kenyan Intern Reviews Kony 2012 Part Deux

KONY 2012, Part Two: Beyond Famous, the second installment of San Diego-based non-profit Invisible Children (IC) about Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, has dropped. Gone are Jason Russell and his five-year-old son, who are replaced by IC's CEO Ben Keesey, a former cor ... More >>

Supporters of Ergun Kirlikovali, Idiot Armenian Genocide-Denier, Threaten to Protest Outside Weekly Offices!

​You can write all sorts of damning things against individuals, yet it's the most innocuous words that hurt. I'll never forget last year, when I got a call from none other than Mark Weber, the head of the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review, all upset that I called him a "cockroach" ... More >>

Silent Protest Against Turkey's Armenian Genocide Denial Campaign to Happen Tomorrow at UC Irvine

​Earlier this week, the French Senate passed a resolution making it a crime in France to deny the Armenian genocide, a historical reality accepted by everyone except the Republic of Turkey and many of its citizens. As a result, many Turkish-American organizations in this country are already blasti ... More >>

Ergun Kirlikovali, Coto de Caza Armenian Genocide Denier Supreme, Threatening Legal Action Against UC Davis Professor

​Earlier this year, for some bizarre (or telling?) reason, the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) allowed Ergun Kirlikovali to become its president. You remember Ergun--the whackjob Coto de Caza resident who's perhaps this country's most notorious denier of the Armenian genocide, a h ... More >>

[UPDATED with Ex-Veep's "Arrest":] Dick Cheney Greeted by Protesters at Nixon Library

​UPDATE, SEPT. 8, 9:56 A.M.: As Dick Cheney was lauding his profound role in Bush administration wars on terror, the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution before a polite Nixon Library crowd Wednesday evening, he was "arrested."Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans rose from her chair in the East ... More >>

[UPDATED with UCI Nixing Meeting:] Dr. Hazem Chehabi Urged to Cut Ties With Syria's Brutal Regime or Step Down From UC Irvine Foundation Board

​UPDATE, JULY 8, 5:25 P.M.: Syrian freedom activists say that when they protested at UC Irvine the morning of June 9, a campus official promised a future meeting with an associate chancellor to discuss what they consider a troubling relationship between Syria's brutal regime and Dr. Hazem Chehabi, ... More >>

[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 >>

Asbarez, America's Largest Armenian-American Newspaper, Angry That Turkish Cooking Classes Happening in Orange County

Photo by the Elmo MonsterAdana kabob from Anaheim's Doner G--actually Armenian?​I'm totally down with Armenians--much more so than Turks (it's that whole genocide question, alas, although I know more than a few Turks who freely call the Ottoman Empire's slaughter of Armenians in the first part of ... More >>

Armenians Beginning to Protest Kobe Bryant Over Endorsement Deal with Turkish Airlines

​A couple of weeks ago, the Los Angeles sports radio airwaves burned with anger as Southern California's massive Armenian-American community expressed their anger with a hero: Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant. Seemed that Bryant had signed an endorsement deal with Turkish Airlines, a company p ... More >>

And Now for Something Completely Different: Mexica Movement's Anti-Thanksgiving Event

​While you are shopping today for turkey, trim and giblets, Mexica Movement members are preparing for a totally different holiday celebration.From 3-6 p.m. Thursday, the union of the indigenous people of the colonial nations known as the U.S., Mexico, Canada and those in Central America, hosts a " ... More >>

White House Dribbles Out Obama's Iraq Speech Tonight, Anti-War ANSWER Coalition Answers

​The Washington Post is reporting that in his speech tonight to announce the end of major combat operations in Iraq, President Barack Obama will say it is time to "turn the page." "Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest-it is in our own. The United States has paid a huge price to put t ... More >>

Salif Keita

Terrace Theater

Local Armenian Genocide Denier Issues Lamest Legal Threat Ever!

We hadn't heard anything particularly wacky from Orange County's own obsessive Ottoman, the racist Ergun Kirlikovali of Coto de Caza, for quite some time--that is, anything other than the same tired slanders he spews of Armenians as treasonous ingrates and those who know the Ottoman Empire genocided ... More >>

Tuesday is a Big Night for Darfur in Orange County

Photo by Rev. Wilfredo Benitez for Orange County for DarfurMia Farrow may have ended her hunger strike for Darfur last week, but the spotlight remains on the lingering effects of genocide in the Sudan--at least in Orange County tomorrow night. Orange County for Darfur was formed in June 2007 to rais ... More >>

UCI Muslim Student Union Event Draws Ire of Local Jews

As this promotional video shows, UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union is at it again, presenting 18 days of events this month under the banner "Israel: the Politics of Genocide." Among those coming to the campus through May 21 are: George Galloway, the British member of Parliament who speaks against th ... More >>

In Darfur

Waltmar Theater

Local Armenian Genocide Denier Labels Armenians the Genociders!

The hilarities of Orange County's obsessive Ottoman, Ergun Kirlikovali, never cease. Last week, he urged readers of his Turkla.com column to send along to elected officials a pre-written letter authored by the U.S. Azeris Network (USAN) to commemorate March 31 as a day of rememberance for what Azeri ... More >>

Local Armenian Genocide Denier Demands Apology...From Armenians

*Updated, with new information on the bottom...In the Department of WTF comes this: local Armenian genocide denier Ergun Kirlikovali is circulating an online petition demanding an apology from, amongst other groups, the Armenians that the Ottoman Empire genocided in the early 1900s!In his most recen ... More >>

Turkey People the New Holocausted Jews?*

What is it about Orange County that creates fools who make ridiculous comparisons of their causes to the suffering Jews experienced during the Holocaust? A couple of years ago, it was the Minuteman mexicana, Lupe Moreno, rambling about how Mexican immigrants were the new Nazis, while American whites ... More >>

Local Armenian Genocide Deniers Trying to Influence Congressional Race

*Moved up, because the conversation is fun. Non-Armenians and non-Turks encouraged to comment! The Los Angeles Times had a fascinating story yesterday about how Turkish businessmen held a fundraiser last month in Orange County for the opponent of Glendale-area Congressman Adam Schiff. They don't li ... More >>

Hugh Hewitt is an Idiot (Part One Billion)

Orange County's most prominent talk-show host (take a seat, Joe Escalante) frequently proclaims himself independent of the Republican Party, but everyone knows that's a damn lie. Hugh Hewitt's latest example, however, is particularly egregious not only because he spins for the GOP, but he also skewe ... More >>

Who is David Duke's Favorite Orange Countian?

*Updated below . . . Why, none other than our favorite non-racist white supremacist, of course! Martin Millard has made a name for himself in extremist circles thanks to rants against the "Tan Everyman," drawn local ire due to his influence over Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, and even garnered at ... More >>

New Reviews

Guadalupe; The History Boys; Screamers; Unaccompanied Minors

Something to Scream About

Screamers director and System of a Down join forces to decry Armenian genocide

Other Perspectives

'Golden States of Grace'

Hatesville, USA

Welcome to Costa Mesa . . . if youre colored, please leave

A Bad Day for Bush, and maybe waterboarding

The Supreme Court today ruled the Bush administration must do one of those things it is always extremely reluctant to do: obey the law. By a vote of 5-3, the Supremes said the administration can't proceed with its plans to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay before military tribunals. Writing for the m ... More >>

Ties That Blind

Terry Georges Hotel Rwanda

Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

Terminator Genes

Genocide Reloaded

Rerelease of When the Mountains Tremble is bad news for Guatemalan generals

Look Back in Anguish

Egoyans dizzying, exhausting Ararat

Genocide Is Bad

Chances Trail of Tears

Khmer Rap

Long Beachs Prach Ly drops rhymes about the Killing Fields

New Music

Cambodia

Smiles and skulls

Letters

Local H.

Mr. Millard, white courtesy phone