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January 10, 2012
First Taste: Ramen Yamadaya Costa Mesa
ProfessorSalt.comYamadaya's Kotteri ramenThey're finally open! Back in November we reported that Yamadaya's first Orange County restaurant was opening by the end of that month. They put up hand-written signs in their papered-over windows counting down the days. "8 Days," the sign promised, and ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Ramen Yamadaya Coming to Costa Mesa!
ProfessorSalt.comKotteri ramen at YamadayaWhen I heard the news, it was like Christmas in October. Yamadaya, the renowned LA ramen shop, will open store No. 3 in Orange County in late November. There are plans afoot to open a fourth location in Westwood in December, maybe in time for actual Chris ... More >>
News
September 29, 2011
Pyramid Scheme
Men boasting CIA and FBI ties met in Newport Beach to convince a mysterious billionaire to buy into a secret economy, and nothing was what it seemed
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
January 10, 2011
It Isn't What You Think It Is: Egg Cream
Dave LiebermanThe pride of New York's soda fountains, the egg cream, contains neither egg nor cream (despite what a woefully uninformed cook at Jerry's Famous Deli in Westwood tried to tell me 10 years ago).It is a chocolate-milk soda, and it is one of the most addicting drinks in the world.You t ... More >>
Food
August 12, 2010
The Feast Days of Summer
And Winter and Fall and Spring! Where to eat, drink and be merry during the most important holidays
Blogs
June 12, 2010
(UPDATED) The Text of Gustavo's UCLA Commencement Speech
This is Gustavo, writing from the past. I've scheduled this post to go live at 6:30 p.m, probably just a couple of minutes after I gave this speech at UCLA commencement ceremony. These are my prepared remarks--I'm not planning to stray from them unless some people not happy with me say something. ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Jonathan Bibriesca, OC Dream Act Activist, Among 9 Arrested in Westwood
Photo by Melanie.The CHP apparently has a problem with nine students holding a sit-in on Wilshire.An Orange Countian was among the nine Dream Act student-activists who tied up traffic for hours in Westwood Thursday--and were rewarded with arrest citations from the California Highway Patrol.
Blogs
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 >>
Music
April 1, 2010
Relative Strangers Things Have Happened
[Locals Only] The Santa Ana twin-fronted psych-rock quintet takes up residency at Detroit Bar
Blogs
January 13, 2010
"Most Egregious of Any Investment Fraudster or Ponzi Schemer This Court Will Ever See"
John Anthony Miller made promises to clients of his Newport Beach-based investment companies, JAM Jr. Enterprises and Forte Financial Partners, of "guaranteed" annual returns of as much as 18 percent per year, telling investors that their money would be invested in foreign currency trading, oil w ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Film
April 2, 2009
[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Aliens,' 'Casablanca,' 'Happy Go Lucky,' More
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 >>
Columns
January 1, 2009
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
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 >>
Film
May 29, 2008
Despite the Labels and Levity, the Big-Screen 'Sex and the City' Is a Poor-Man's Knockoff
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 >>
Blogs
June 30, 2007
LAFF 2007: Westside Ain't the Best Side
Friday at the fest was a little bit different -- all the interesting-looking films were playing at the Landmark Westside, that new fancy art-house 12-plex at the Westside Pavilion. Parking there is free, unlike in Westwood, where everything else is happening. The trade-off you make is that beer is n ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2007
LAFF 2007: Robots ‘N’ Dese Guys
After the claustrophobic overcrowding of Broxton avenue for the LAFF opening night party, I wasn’t expecting the Transformers premiere bash to be as well-run as it was. Adjacent parking lots were opened up, and food and drink were so prevalent that, if you actually ventured all the way in, it was ... More >>
Film
June 28, 2007
Mad World
Highlights from the 2007 film festival spotlight outspoken DJs, prisons, environmental damage, and . . . Pac-Man?
Blogs
June 23, 2007
LAFF 2007: Lost Girls and Mighty Black Men
One of the ideas the festival is heavily pushing this year is that for every movie you attend that you planned on seeing, you should go to another one you don’t know anything about, or might not be inclined to go to normally. I tend to do this sometimes when I attend something simply because it� ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2007
LAFF 2007: And So It Begins
[Part one of an ongoing series of reports from the Los Angeles Film Festival] Parking spaces in Westwood are like special offers in spam emails -- if you think you’ve got a good one, it’s almost certainly too good to be true. So naturally, the super-sweet street space I pulled into at around 5: ... More >>
News
November 10, 2005
No Nude Naked Adult Lindsay Lohan
An early night at the Playboy Mansion
Features
December 30, 2004
The Year In Letting Go, Go, Angels!
Los Angeles Ashes
Features
October 21, 2004
Best of OC 2004: Part 5
Los Angeles Ashes
Culture
November 20, 2003
Meditative Like That
Alan Rifkins Signal Hill
Film
October 16, 2003
Nigh Intolerable
The cruelty of the Coen brothers
Culture
January 16, 2003
Meta Musil
Joseph J. Musil's theater comes from someplace beyond
Columns
September 26, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Joseph J. Musil's theater comes from someplace beyond
Columns
May 9, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Joseph J. Musil's theater comes from someplace beyond
Features
February 15, 2001
Breakup Sex
Joseph J. Musil's theater comes from someplace beyond
Features
December 28, 2000
In the Name of the Father
Growing up Wiley Drake Jr.
Columns
November 4, 1999
This weeks featured NFL game: Chicago Bears (3-4) vs. Washington Redskins (4-2)
Growing up Wiley Drake Jr.
Features
January 7, 1999
October-December
Growing up Wiley Drake Jr.
Columns
November 19, 1998
The Weekly's Week in Review
Growing up Wiley Drake Jr.
Columns
October 1, 1998
Out of Sight
Growing up Wiley Drake Jr.

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