AltWeeklies Wire
A Trip to Where Taco Bell Begannew
A visit to the exact location where Bell's Hamburgers and Hot Dogs opened in 1952. It's here that Glen Bell decided to try and sell tacos -- although tellingly, his largely Latino clientele forsook his Mexican offerings in favor of the hamburger and hot dogs.
OC Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
12-21-2010 |
Food+Drink
Game Onnew
From its state-of-the-art research center to its new computer-games major, UC Irvine is banking big on computer games as an emerging discipline -- and is becoming gamer central in the process.
The Real Squatters of OCnew
Can you really just show up at a multimillion-dollar beach home and move in without buying it or paying rent? Apparently, yes.
Cutting Through Smoke Surrounding California's Prop. 19new
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.
Tags: California, Proposition 19
5 Authentic Mexican Dishes That Would Make Rick Bayless Screamnew
Mexican food in all its manifestations is just a tasty extension of "Greater Mexico" and the idea that Mexico and its culture doesn't stop at the border.
OC Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
10-04-2010 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Rick Bayless, Mexican Food
Five Things Not To Buy In A Supermarketnew
Try buying the following five things from specialists just once, and you'll be astonished by the increase in quality you see.
OC Weekly |
Dave Lieberman |
07-27-2010 |
Food+Drink
Make a Run for the Altarnew
What's a little marriage fraud between amigos? It's a felony, sure, but in the absence of real immigration reform, some young, assimilated illegal immigrants see it as their best path to citizenship.
OC Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
07-11-2010 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
The Crucifixion of Juareznew
On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death.
OC Weekly |
Susana Hayward |
04-30-2010 |
Immigration
Tags: El Paso, Ciudad Juarez
"Green" Company to Pay $15 Million for Pollutingnew
Safety-Kleen System Inc., a national distributor of cleaning solvents, has agreed to a $15 million settlement for violations of air quality regulations.
OC Weekly |
Megan Brescini |
04-20-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Safety-Kleen, Tony Rackauckas
Real Housewives of OC Trend Goes Global. But Why?new
Starting on Thursday, Danish Hollywood Wives (or Danske Hollywoodfruar) will air in Denmark, in Danish. And that will be one more country that real OC residents can't visit without having to explain that, no, we aren't all rich, and no, we don't all hang out with movie stars.
Tags: Real Housewives, N/A
Milo the Witch Finds Toil and Trouble at Ralphsnew
He told them from the start they were hiring a witch. Milo Shiff had to tell them. He had to make sure they wouldn’t require him to cut his curly, gray-white hair. He had to tell them he couldn’t mutilate the flesh of mammals or birds—which didn’t turn out to be a problem, since they weren’t hiring him for the deli counter.
Haitian Charity From Suzie Graf, a Convicted Cheatnew
Suzie Graf explains how she single-handedly orchestrated the collection and delivery of 6 tons of emergency supplies for the people of Haiti less than a week after that country’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake: “I just decided that we just needed to do a community effort."
Birther Icon Orly Taitz Faces Some Uncomfortable Questionsnew
Unwittingly, Florida criminal-defense attorney Bradford Cohen had entered a world known to some as “The Birtherverse,” where Barack Obama isn’t considered an American citizen and the planets revolve around Orange County dentist-turned-lawyer Orly Taitz.
Stage Prodigy-Turned-Filmmaker Drake Doremus Brings 'Douchebag' to Sundancenew
Shoestring productions of personal stories such as that of Douchebag are exactly what Sundance co-founder Robert Redford was talking about at the previous day’s opening press conference, where he vowed the festival had returned to its roots of presenting groundbreaking new voices.
Professor Helps Mainstream a New White Supremacist Political Partynew
At that summer IHR meeting, professor Kevin MacDonald began shedding his regular-guy façade. And with his introductions to Freedom 14 and other local neo-Nazis at that conference, he began the first steps toward emerging as a full-fledged bigot.
