Email AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Barbara Coe Calls U.S. Federal Court Judge Vaughn Walker a 'Homo'
February 08, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?California Coalition for Immigration Reform head witch Barbara Coe sends so many damn e-mails to her minions that some inevitably fall behind the radiator--like the one I just found that's...
Ask a Mexican! Responds to Top Gear Anti-Mexican Jokes!
February 08, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Katy Perry Reiterates Her Love for In-N-Out in Rolling Stone
Celebrity In-n-Out Endorsements
February 08, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Pop chanteuse Katy Perry has never hidden her love for In-N-Out--she's tweeted about it, told reporters about it, and more. We get it--she loves the burgers.But she can't say it...
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New York Times Names the Best Bnh Ms in America--and Not One is From Little Saigon
February 07, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr user svensk?The New York Times' coverage of Vietnamese food has always been laughable--who can ever forget its decade-late feature on Sriracha or it declaring 2009 the "year of the...
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Can You Tell Whether a Country Is Lying About Inflation by the Price of its Big Mac?
February 07, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?The Economist always publishes great analyses of worldwide trends, even if it famously never puts bylines to its stories. It published a fascinating one recently--the McFlation Index, a process by...
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'Ask a Chola' Compares Grilling of Top Gear Hosts for Anti-Mexican Statements to Her Public Outing for Brownfacing
February 07, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?You'll remember late last year that a group of Chicano activists unmasked the person behind the mildly amusing "Ask a Chola" web persona as Chloe Michalopoulos, a SanTana loft dweller...
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Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Impatient Customer Crashes His Way Up to Drive-Thru Window!
February 06, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Iowa: the land of corn-fed common sense and Thomas C. Dailey, who should make the Smoking Gun for his boneheaded idiocy. From Cedar Rapids:Police say a man got frustrated in...
Photo Emerges of Confirmed Pedo-Priest Gus Krumm and Accused Pedo-Priest Alexander Manville Saying Mass Together
February 05, 2011 in Navel Gazing
This Week In Food: Pothead Fantasies, Jerk-Ass Burger Hostesses and Wacky Cranberries!
February 04, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Ask a Comida Critic! Costa Mesa Chicken?
February 03, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Artist Renditions of the 'New' Fourth Street for Santa Ana: Bye-Bye, Virgin of Guadalupe!
Notes from the Banana Republic
February 03, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Good Food with Evan Kleiman to Host First Happy Hour in Orange County! At the Crosby! Alongside OC Weekly!
February 03, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?For years, I have had Orange County-based fans of KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food with Evan Kleiman bug me about asking the host to have an event in la naranja--you know,...
Taco Asylum Is Tasty--But Not the Taco Part
February 02, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
UCI Student Protest Against OC District Attorney's Office Not the First Time Anteaters Have Hated DA
February 01, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Mike Schroeder, GOP Dark Lord, Beats Santa Ana on a Parking Ticket!
Notes from the Banana Republic
January 31, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Drive Away From Drive-Thru Hold-Up!
January 31, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Little Arabia Facebook Status Update of the Day On the Middle East Protests
January 28, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Packed House Saw Reading of The Mexican OC at the Hunt Fullerton Library
January 28, 2011 in Navel Gazing
This Week In Food: New Forker, Taco Bell Fake-Beef Allegations and Hungry Monkeys Go Wild!
January 28, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Ask a Comida Critic! Favorite Food-Themed Song?
January 27, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Sorry, folks: I answer what people ask. And while I have in the queue preguntas about sausage, chocolate, Aliso Viejo restaurants (or, rather, the lack of) and other more pressing...
RIP Santa Ana's Calle Cuatro (a.k.a. Fourth Street), 1916 (?)-2011
Notes from the Banana Republic
January 26, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Reading of Award-Winning Play The Mexican O.C. TOMORROW at Hunt Fullerton Library
January 26, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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El Modena Residents Claim Sheriff's Deputies Conducting Random Pull-Overs to Crack Down on Unlicensed Drivers
January 25, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?"We can't even drive at night anymore," says Omar, who declined to give his last name. He's a resident of El Modena, the historic barrio in unincorporated Orange that has...
More on Blood, Hurst & O'Reardon, One of the Law Firms Behind the Taco Bell Fake-Beef Lawsuit
January 25, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Ron Artest: Only Reason He Plays for the Lakers Is In-N-Out
Celebrity In-n-Out Endorsements
January 24, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr user bridgetds?I like the Lakers, but despise Kobe Bryant. Ron Artest? Total weirdo, which makes him a class act in my book. And now another reason to like him:...
