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Zoos and Aquariums

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2008

    Dance, Monkey, Dance

    With the skies painted a dismal gray, and my mood darkening to match what loomed overhead, I headed to Santa Ana for the Santa Ana Zoo’s weekend birthday celebration. What’s that, you say? Santa Ana has a zoo? Yessiree. That it does and this weekend, the zoo turns 56. Fifty-six years of caged m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2008

    Toll Road Warriors

    With the skies painted a dismal gray, and my mood darkening to match what loomed overhead, I headed to Santa Ana for the Santa Ana Zoo’s weekend birthday celebration. What’s that, you say? Santa Ana has a zoo? Yessiree. That it does and this weekend, the zoo turns 56. Fifty-six years of caged m ... More >>

  • Unknown

    November 21, 2002

    See the Wingless Bird!

    See it and weep

  • Calendar

    December 18, 2008

    Night Owls

    Santa Ana Zoo in Lights

  • Calendar

    June 5, 2008

    Funky Monkey

    Sunsets at the Zoo

  • Music

    September 27, 2007

    A Week in the Nightlife

    Nerdy garage rock, wiseguy jazz, Binges that purge, Goodfoot turns 9 and Holy Fuck!

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Dumbo and Dumber

    Handlers give circus Elephants the bullhook

  • Features

    February 5, 2004

    Cue Banjos

    I was in love with my cousin

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2009

    OC Children's Book Festival

    Orange Coast College

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Four Places For U-Pick Pumpkins... From A Farm!

    ​ This time of year, commercial pumpkin "patches" sprout up overnight in asphalt parking lots, lighted with enough incandescent bulbs to power a cut-rate casino. Which got me thinking-- surely there must be real pumpkin patches in our paved-over county where living things grow in the earth? Where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    [CORRECTION:] Santa Ana Zoo Defends Elephant Rides as County and Animal Rights Groups Seethe

    ​CORRECTION: Residents cannot get into Santa Ana Zoo free this weekend, that promotion was last weekend. We regret the error. If you happen to pass by the elephants at Santa Ana Zoo, you might want to think twice before going on a ride.That's because the County of Orange has a rule: Don't touch th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Online Petition Drive Targets Santa Ana Zoo Elephant Rides

    Laura Goldman, who lives in Los Angeles, read an LA Times article last November about the Santa Ana Zoo's elephant rides, which have been blasted by animal-rights activists and defended by city officials."I thought it was bizarre that a zoo would offer elephant rides," Goldman tells me of her reacti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Santa Ana Zoo Ends Elephant Ride

    ​Today's city of Santa Ana announcement that it is ending elephant rides at Santa Ana Zoo was cheered by animal rights activists. "Following more than a year of pressure from PETA, the Animal Protection and Rescue League, Animal Defenders International (ADI), and celebrities including Charo and ... More >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2011

    'We Bought a Zoo' Is an Animal House

    Oh, don't be such a cynic. Matt Damon needs your love

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