Email AuthorGustavo Arellano
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When Tommy Lasorda Kicked a Teenager's Ass Outside His Fullerton Home
November 26, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?With the Turkey Day semi-holiday upon us (news never sleeps, cabrones), I'm finally able to whittle through months of back issues--finished the Esquire with Justin Timberlake on it, Reason with...
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Ginger Margarita at True Food Kitchen, Our Drink of the Week!
November 25, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Photo by Charisma Madarang?Guest post by Charisma Madarang!The ber-modern building that houses True Food Kitchen blends seamlessly into Fashion Island's hoity toity restaurants, a trs chic mess hall, wide and...
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Gustavo on PBS, Arguing Why Mexicans Will Never Vote Republican!
November 25, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Gingrich: Deluded about Mexis?Ain't it hilarious how the lamestream media is all surprised how that serial adulterer Newt Gingrich is all Aztlanista now? Anyone who follows politics knows Newt has...
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Unsurprising Report of the Day: Americans 20 Lbs. Fatter on Average Since 1990
November 25, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr User FoxTongue?Let's forgo the clichd turkey-and-stuffing beginning to any obesity story that comes out around Thanksgiving, shall we? And now, on to the sobering news: a Gallup poll published...
Joseph Fletcher, Disgraced Former Santa Ana City Attorney, Racking Up Fees and Perks as Interim Menifee City Attorney
Notes from the Banana Republic
November 25, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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The OC Couple Who Gave More than $1.3 Million to the Church of Scientology--Only to Leave
November 25, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?Over the past couple of weeks, the St. Petersburg Times has been publishing their latest blockbuster series on the Church of Scientology, that ever-mockable collection of has-been movie stars and...
Lauryn Chun, Mother-In-Law Kimchi Head, to Demo Kimchi Making THIS SUNDAY at Whole Foods
November 24, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Will the OC Fair Erect a Statue Commemorating the County's Immigrant Agricultural Workers?
November 23, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Does the Vatican Think the Crystal Cathedral is Fugly?
November 22, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Pepper-Spraying UC Davis Cop Gets Mashed Up with Tapato Man in Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon!!
November 22, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Over 70 Attend UCLA Symposium on Alex Bernal Case
November 22, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Super King Market Fined Over Half-a-Million Dollars for Selling Fake Halal Meat
November 22, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?I've long shopped at Super King Market in that part of Anaheim that bleeds into Stanton, not just for their super-cheap produce but also to see my Orange County: the...
Awesome, Angry Phone Call About Ask a Mexican! Left in San Antonio!
November 21, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Frequent Customer Robs Taco Bell!
November 21, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Alebrije's, Home of the Legendary Battleship Taco, Gets New Look, Items
November 18, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Dave, Edwin, Shuji and I have written so much about Alebrije's that we could publish a book about it (or--cue Oscar Bluth--am I?). It's all about the food: Mexico City-style...
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Local Catholics Already Gloating About Crystal Cathedral Purchase, Despite Coming Closure of Diocese of Orange Parishes
November 18, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Brownie: Begin the deluge!?So the big news today, as Clockwork Coker posted earlier, is that the Diocese of Orange bought the Crystal Cathedral, a development we correctly predicted months ago,...
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Evan Kleiman Releases "Easy As Pie" App for iPhone, iPad
November 18, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Photo by Christopher VictorioEvan with some random weirdo...?At last week's KCRW-SaFII Happy Hour at Memphis, Good Food host Evan Kleiman gave everyone an exclusive announcement: she was about to release...
[UPDATED: Now, With Contestants!] SoCo Certified Farmers' Market to Host Second 'Farm to Food Truck Challenge' THIS Saturday!
November 18, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Don Amado Mezcal, Our Drink of the Week!
November 18, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?In Los Angeles, New York and other hipster enclaves, the Mexican drink of the moment is mezcal, tequila's country cousin (tequila? SO Chapman U sorority party). Oaxacan-food princess Bricia Lopez...
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Man Attacks Mom With Ham
November 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Thanksgiving time is upon us, which means we'll soon get stories of exploding turkeys, burning mashed potatoes, and all sorts of other food mayhem. And given our nation's economic troubles,...
LA Galaxy to Host MLS Cup Viewing Party at Olde Ship in Santa Ana THIS Sunday
November 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Alex Bernal, Fullerton Civil Rights Hero, to Get His Day in the Academic Symposium Sun at UCLA Nov. 21
November 16, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Victoria Patterson, OC's Best Author, to Speak at Fullerton Library THIS Thursday
November 15, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour Expects Thousands to Show Up for Its "Cast Member" Hiring Fair in Brea Starting Tomorrow
November 15, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
John Gilhooley/OC Weekly?I do not subscribe to the cult of Farrell's--I'm a Hans' man all the way. But I'm all for local businesses hiring people during this damn Great Recession,...
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Walter S. Gregg, County Statistician/Aid Commissioner
November 14, 2011 in Navel Gazing
