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This is a story about a famous LA porn star, a suspicious detective and a frustrated Orange County sheriff. It's also a story about ex-Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo, who is—by his own reckoning—a devoted family man, a hard-working immigrant, and a Mormon who doesn't drink alcohol or smoke. He is, he says, a “genuinely nice …
MARISCOSLICENCIADO#2 This place sells Sinaloan seafood but lies landlocked in the same decaying commercial pocket JC Fandango calls paradise. Their best seller is aguachile, ceviche writ amazing: scores of chilled shrimp, cucumbers, red onions and tomatoes crammed onto a large molcajete—the mortar-and-pestle contraption used by Mexicans since before Jesus. Aguachile is an incredible contradiction: light …
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It's Cinco de Mayo weekend, and what better way to celebrate this pseudo-Mexican holiday than by eating at Latino restaurants devoid of Mexicans? Yes, there are some purportedly Mexican eateries on this list, but we guarantee you their crowds for the next couple of days will consist primarily of gabachos sporting “Drinko por Cinco” sombreros …
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The modus operandi of Orange County vatospunkosManic Hispanic is to transform punk classics into pochopoems such as “The INS Took My Novia Away” and “Brand New Impala.” But don't think this shtick is original—ripping off American songs is a proud Mexican music tradition that dates to the time mariachi groups turned “Beer Barrel Polka” into …
20Fingers(BeestAnghosht). (Iran) Mania Akbari directs and co-stars (with Bijan Daneshmand) in this dramatic exploration of the relationship between an Iranian man and woman. We see them through a series of seven conversations, chronicling the ups and downs of their relationship as they struggle to define their roles as individuals and a couple within the traditions …
Five feet, nine inches tall, in armpit hair, a Panama-style hat advertising Corona beer, and a vest made to resemble a serape, the often-shirtless Jose Teo Ochoa would not be your first choice for spokesman. But if you stand in the back yard outside 1103 N. Broadway and holler long enough, he's usually the guy …
Photo by Aubrey EdwardsSouth By Southwest, the yearly Austin, Texas, music-industry extravaganza-cum-smorgasbord, takes 1,300 bands from around the globe; stirs in a generous helping of record-label cretins, glassy-eyed music critics and eerily robotic publicists; adds copious amounts of barbecue, Tex-Mex and Shiner Bock beer, sprinkled with a dozen squirts of whatever that stuff was oozing …
Wednesday, March 9 This just in: final election results show Ted Crisellhas come from way behind to defeat a field of 11 and lose the LA mayoral election. Crisell, well-known to Orange County poll watchers—and you know who you are—as a man who can lose with the worst of them, edges out rival BruceHarryDarianto take …
I Need This Now by Ali SmithSometimestwopeople—likeSonnyandCher or Donny and Marie—are greater together than they could ever be apart. But sometimes, like Nick and Jessica or you and your last boyfriend, a partnership means only atrophy, crabbiness and a bitter ennui. Sometimes two people are less than the sum of their parts. Such is the …
Photo by John GilhooleyForthepastfewSaturdayevenings,upto 150 people have gathered outside the Madrid Apartments in Mission Viejo for a candlelight vigil. Their goal: obtain justice for 20-year-old Bassim Chmait, an aspiring rap artist and Saddleback College business major who was fatally shot in the head on Feb. 5. They're angry because the man who pulled the trigger, …
Remember When Peter KozlowskiThere's something so satisfyingly ephemeral about a one-night art show. Even when they're not perpetrated by illegal squatters rolling about in the scent of urine, they're still so DIY underground that you, by virtue of knowing where to find them, are pretty much guaranteed to wind up hipster-by-association. They're flash mob. They …
Photo by Theo DouglasGeneric Youth is maybe the kind of store your coolest friend would have had in high school, if you'd had money. You could have done a lot of things if you'd had some money or a dad who saw the value in old Paint by Number paintings, Polo rugby shirts, Pierre Cardin …