Email AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Foie Gras Lovers, Haters, Fought for Foie Last Night at Haven Gastropub Foie Dinner
May 15, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
Photo by Matt OliverGuest post by Matt Oliver!View a picture slideshow of the food and protesters here!In a last-ditch effort to reserve the right to serve foie gras, Haven Gastropub...
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No Democrat Running Against Janet Nguyen in Supe Race, Further Showing Stupidity of OC Dem Leadership
May 15, 2012 in Navel Gazing
You know, I've been so wrapped up in promoting my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, that I lost track of who was going to face off against Janet...
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Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Drunk Woman Tries to Drive to Taco Bell, Crashes Into Home!
May 14, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
Hot off the presses comes the following heartwarming story from Illinois: drunk woman tries to drive to Taco Bell, gets stopped by a car and house that she drives into!...
Tall, Dark & Handsome at VLVT Lounge, Our Drink of the Week!
May 11, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
Tom Leykis Adds "Fullerton Police Department-Style" to His List of "Take Me Out..." Audio Clips
May 10, 2012 in Navel Gazing
Carlos Salgado and Gabriel Zambrano, One-Half of Orange County's Mexican-Food Million-Dollar Quartet, Pose for a Photo!
May 09, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
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"I Beat Kelly Thomas to Death...But I'm the Victim": The Only Manuel Ramos-Kelly Thomas Meme That Matters
May 09, 2012 in Navel Gazing
Ramos: Can't take a scraped elbowThe moment I saw the photo of Fullerton police officer Manuel Ramos--fresh from participating in the beating death of Kelly Thomas--holding up his scraped elbow...
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Weenie Breitbart Columnist: Media Not Reporting on Kelly Thomas Murder Because He's White
May 08, 2012 in Navel Gazing
Shapiro: WeenieI remember weenie Breitbart.com columnist Ben Shapiro when he was a precocious snotnose back at UCLA taking the Hugh Hewitt road to fame: whining he was a conservative in...
Chad Wanke, OC Vector Control District Trustee/Placentia Councilmember, Smacked Down for Missing Too Many Board Meetings
May 08, 2012 in Navel Gazing
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[W/VIDEO] Footage of Fullerton Police Beating Kelly Thomas to Death Finally Released
May 07, 2012 in Navel Gazing
**CLICK HERE FOR THE OC WEEKLY'S COMPLETE KELLY THOMAS ARCHIVES**Today, the world finally got to see security footage of Fullerton police officers beating Kelly Thomas to death, a case that...
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Earl L. Matthews, Santa Ana Automotive Electrician Pioneer
May 07, 2012 in Navel Gazing
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Federal Lawsuit Alleges the Bell Makes Employees Work off the Clock!
May 07, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
KCRW's Good Food Devotes Cinco de Mayo Show to History of Mexican Food in Southern California, With Gustavo as Co-Host!
May 05, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
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The Five Stupidest Things Nativo Lopez Ever Said
May 05, 2012 in Navel Gazing
All of Orange County engaged in a simultaneous shrug of indifference when longtime Aztlanista Nativo Lopez announced earlier this week he was retiring from public life and becoming a mere...
Even Simpsons Fans Are Making Fun of the Homerless Albert Pujols
Your Anaheim Angels of Anaheim
May 03, 2012 in Navel Gazing
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New York Times Calls OC Weekly a "Lively Journal"--HELL YA!!!
May 01, 2012 in Navel Gazing
Your favorite infernal rag, of course, gets called a lot of things, few of which are positive--and that's how we like it! We'd prefer people become a bit more inventive...
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harold S. Twombly, Fullerton Rancher/Black Sheep of Prominent Family
April 30, 2012 in Navel Gazing
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Taco USA Gets Big Story in New York Times!
April 30, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
I've obviously known about this for a while, but had to keep it under wraps for the obvious reason that one never knows what might happen in news. But as...
Five Sonoran Dishes All Cal-Mex Restaurants Should Incorporate Into Their Menus
April 30, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
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Newsong's Santa Ana Strategy: Save the Poor, Support the Arts, Fight the Gays and Drunks
Notes from the Banana Republic
April 28, 2012 in Navel Gazing
My first interaction with Newsong Church--which has all of the Artists Village in SanTana freaked out because they just bought the Santora Building--came years ago, in a building they currently...
David Michael Lee, Renowned OC Artist, Now Has a Sandwich Blog
April 25, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
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Let Us Now Praise Del Taco's Bean-and-Cheese Burritos
April 24, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
Del Taco burrito off the 405!!!The Weekly World Headquarters is at a culinarily fortuitous place--near the LAB and CAMP holdings, not that far away from Rick's Atomic Cafe, basically across...
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Nick Berardino Still Pushing for OC Fair Board to Erect a Monument to County's Mexican Agricultural Force
April 24, 2012 in Navel Gazing
Back in November, Orange County Employees Association head Nick Berardino keyed us in on a scoop: as one of the members of the Orange County Fair Board, he was going...
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Taco USA Gets Featured on NPR's All Things Considered!
April 23, 2012 in Stick a Fork In It
I've known about this for a while, but didn't want to say a peep until it occurred: NPR's All Things Considered did a story about my book, Taco USA: How...
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Elvin A. Ames and Osborne Garber, Fullerton and Santa Ana High School Teachers
April 23, 2012 in Navel Gazing
