Smart Kids, Not So Smart Adults, and DNA for Dinner

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, “School-age children from Spanish-speaking households in San Diego County and throughout California are gaining English fluency at record rates”. While this is excellent news, the news for adults is a little dimmer. Meanwhile, English fluency among adult Spanish speakers dropped …

Grub Guide

Visit the rest of Orange County's best damn dining guide at ocweekly.com/food, where it says “Where to Eat Now” on the right side of the screen. If there are any bugs with it, e-mail Gustavo at ga*******@******ly.com with your complaints! DINNER FOR TWO: ¢ . . . . . . . . . . . …

So long, suckers!

Having recently considered some of OC's dirtiest coastal waters, let's turn our attention to freshwater– specifically the Santa Ana River, where even the good news is sometimes bad news. Take this nugget of good-ish sounding news about how things have changed since the '80's found in this morning's Reg story on the United States Geological …

Grub Guide

Visit the rest of Orange County's best damn dining guide at ocweekly.com/food, where it says “Where to Eat Now” on the right side of the screen. If there are any bugs with it, e-mail Gustavo at ga*******@******ly.com with your complaints! DINNER FOR TWO: ¢ . . . . . . . . . . . …

Boombaps

KRS-One continues to help shape hip-hop music as we know it today, which, if he had his choice, would be a lot more like we knew it yesterday—more elemental in sound and more socially conscious in content. No less a street authority than Wikipedia reminds us that hip-hop is actually a four-pronged culture—rap, breakdance, deejaying …

Grub Guide

Visit the rest of Orange County's best damn dining guide at ocweekly.com/food, where it says “Where to Eat Now” on the right side of the screen. If there are any bugs with it, e-mail Gustavo at ga*******@******ly.com with your complaints! DINNER FOR TWO: ¢ . . . . . . . . . . . …

!Ask a Mexican!

Dear Mexican: The Mexican presidential elections have been a freaking mess. I voted for the conservative candidate, Felipe Calderón, who almost everyone agrees won the election. But the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador is making a mess out of this by claiming electoral fraud. Does the Mexican have an opinion of Mexican politics? Or do …

Who We Are

In “The Red Bow,” the crown in George Saunders' new collection of short fictions, In Persuasion Nation, and a contemporary fable to rival Shirley Jackson's classic story “The Lottery,” a little girl named Emily is mauled to death in a schoolyard by some dogs, one or more of which might be rabid. The father of the …

Powdered Wigs

Few directors have CVs as diverse, edgy and interesting as Michael Winterbottom, who over the years has spanned genres ranging from comedy and romance to thriller and sci-fi with effortless grace and consistently unique (and often divisive) results. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story is a surreal comedic effort from 2005 that reunited Winterbottom …

All-Day Suckers

Perhaps no one can pinpoint the exact moment vaudeville died, but there's a moment early in Strangers With Candy when you'd swear you had just witnessed the death of visual comedy. En route to her first day of high school, a tarty middle-aged jailbird—this is not a Disney Channel joint—tosses a half-eaten banana out her …