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Ask a Managing Editor!

{There’s a new sheriff in town – and it ain’t Arpayaso} Aight, the news is officially out. As I’ve known for a couple of days, Gustavo Arellano, long time staff writer with the OC Weekly, has moved on up to managing editor of the paper! First, I send my congratulations personally and on behalf of the [...]

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Answer the Question Claire!

{Arpaio: I’m a tough guy! Look at my pistol lapel!} Notorious racial profiler and human rights abuser Sheriff Joe Arpaio was confronted yesterday evening in Santa Ana as soon as he was in the parking lot of Original Mike’s for a law enforcement ‘oink and greet.’ My OC Weekly/KPFK colleague Gustavo Arellano got his attention from [...]

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Report Back from Michael’s Memorial

I’m just back from my experience of a lifetime at the memorial service for Michael Jackson. An estimated one billion people saw the event on television, but I was there in person. I’ve been busy doing interviews on Uprising Radio on the spot and the Four O’Clock Report with Gustavo Arellano afterwards. In between those [...]

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Anti-Immigrant Food For Thought

{What did these tacos ever do to you???} What does Orange County’s notorious immigrant hater Barbara Coe have in common with cold blooded minutewoman killer Shawna Forde? A new article about the tragic, hate-filled murders of Raul Flores and his 10 year old daughter Brisenia Flores in Arivaca, Arizona by members of the anti-immigrant Minutemen American Defense [...]

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Cucarachas at Calacas!

Ok, ok, maybe there will be just one cucaracha hanging around at the  premier Chicano clothing and culture store Calacas this Saturday…That being said, Lalo Alcaraz, the cartoonist of the syndicated strip “La Cucaracha,” will be appearing in OC for the first time in years since someone turned on the kitchen lights en la cocina [...]

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