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Five Mexican Dishes With a Crazy-Ass Use of Cheese that Aren't Nachos

This past Saturday was National Nachos Day, that legendary borderlands dish of tortilla chips, jalapeño and goops of cheese. The above picture are the nachos at El Cholo Cafe, Southern California's oldest Mexican restaurant and credited with introducing nachos to the region. They're actually good, because the melted cheese is actually, you know, cheese, instead …

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A Night to Dismember the Democrats

Tuesday’s nationwide tidal wave of Republican victories inspired a tidal wave of metaphors about tidal waves. From their various perches around Orange County, the Weekly’s election-night bloggers ended up with a pretty good view of the races where the Dems’ dinghies didn’t get swamped—most notably Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s hard-fought win over Van Tran. Here are …

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The Rainbow Disconnection

It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, in December 1974, to Atlanta’s Tyler Perry Studios, where the impresario filmed much of this calamitous adaptation. Though striving for artistic legitimacy in bringing …

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[UPDATED:] Election 2010: Coker is Spun, Polled, Teabagged

1:28 p.m.: Orange County agreed with state voters on most ballot initiatives, although more of us did want to keep choking on polluted air until the unemployment rate drops and most like the state budget approval process to remain fucked-up, thank you very much (probably because many are philosophically opposed to state budgets in the …

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[UPDATED:] Election 2010: 4:20 Alert! Where's the Prop. 19 Party?

UPDATED: With most current updates at the top. 10:30 p.m.: Okay, it's official. The Register is smoking some serious chronic. First they report that 60 percent of OC's conservative electorate wants to legalize weed. Now, the Reg is reporting that Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina is pulling ahead of Barbara Boxer, who's already been crowned …

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Election 2010: Gustavo Drinks Through the Election, Or: Trashing the Dems and Bashing Whitman

Updated throughout the day, with the freshest post on top. Click after the jump for vignettes on Barbara Coe, Loretta Sanchez, Meg Whitman, and Borat! Midnight. Drink of choice: Alka-Seltzer…my pockets hurt. Loretta Sanchez has pulled away by thousands of votes, but we'll wait until the official results to pontificate on whatever result may happen. …

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Election Aftermath: Songs for Stoners, the Tea Party and Losers Everywhere (Plus a Duet by Will Ferrell and Manny Pacquiao!)

If you're as bleary eyed (and dismayed) as I am from watching last night's election results, you're probably not doing a victory dance right now. So long, Prop. 19! (See you in 2012?) So long, Prop. 23! Well hey, at least we're still a blue state, unlike Illinois and Wisconsin–even though the leads were skinny …

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Carly Fiorina Goes From a Hospital Bed to a Retirement Village

Fresh from a hospital bed, where she was being treated for an infection tied to her reconstructive breast surgery after cancer, Carly Fiorina brings her U.S. Senate campaign to Laguna Woods this afternoon. The Republican nominee for the seat held by Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is scheduled to appear in Laguna Woods Village's Clubhouse 3 …

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Marijuana Legalization Debated at CSUF, Local Christian College and Newport Beach Hotel

Recent polls show marijuana legalization will go down in flames in California on Nov. 2, while some interpreting those surveys claim many voters saying no to pollsters will punch yes to Prop 19 once inside the voting booth, paving the way to victory. The votes of undecideds will be critical. Fortunately, they can feed their …

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