Past Stories
Want to Ask A Mexican?
Dear Readers:
Have we got a treat for you. If you’re a fan of Ask A Mexican this is one event you won’t want to miss. Gustavo Arellano, author of the Ask A Mexican column and editor at OC Weekly…
AB Miller’s Adventures with Rebar!
Today’s” Watch Dog” is brought to you by rebar. You know, those thick, rusty lengths of ribbed steel they stick in concrete to improve its structural integrity? It turns out there’s a class of Fontana masonry st...
Something to Chew On
Tyler Cowen
An Economist Gets Lunch spells out the manifesto for a new food revolution
The fridge was empty the other day.
No milk, no OJ, no breakfast fixin‘s. You were out of bread, cereal, snacky stuff and lunchmeat. Ther...
Lessons Learned
At a Victorville charter school, critics say cheating on tests, extravagant spending and questionable academics are part of the curriculum
Most of the tweets about Excelsior Public Charter School in the High Desert with the has...
The New King of Pork
Carnitas Don Juan makes perfect pieces of bite-sized meats
Juan had the perfect excuse to open a restaurant. He had been cooking for his entire life, mostly for his parents (whose mother owns the Calimex Deli in Los Angeles), a...
Originality Guaranteed
Two Alternative Films Offer Audiences a Break from Batman
This weekend, you could join the millions of people crowding into overpriced multiplexes to see the latest soulless superhero movie when The Dark Knight Rises hits the n...
Final Word
An outrage, I tell’s ya! U.S. athletes are scheduled to parade through London to open the Summer Olympics later this month, but they’ll be wearing navy blazers, white bottoms and matching berets made in—gasp—China!
Oh n...
Teleplay
MEMBERS:
John Loera (guitar, vocals); Josue Mendoza (lead guitar); Juan Carlos Virgen Jr. (drums, vocals) Daniel Garcia (bass, vocals).
CITY OF ORIGIN:
Rialto.
KINDRED SPIRITS:
The Beatles, The Smiths and Elliot Smith. “I...
Turnin‘ Up The Desert Heat
Photo by Jim Goodrich
Beachwood Sparks brings its indie roots to Pappy and Harriet’s
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Gram Parsons famously married what was then traditional, straight-forward Buck Owens-style country musi...
¡Ask A Mexican!
Dear Mexican: I was wondering about the Spanish going into Mexico and taking the gold and artifacts away from the Indians. Could the Mexican government ask for the gold back? What do you think?
—Raider of the Lost Chonis
Why&...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
Back when the City of Canyon Lake was mostly a bunch of vacant lots, my parents owned one of them. They sold the land too soon for their own good, but not for mine. In the mid-1970s,…
A Question of Trust
An “Anti-Arizona” law puts racial profiling on ice, activists say
Last month, immigrant rights advocates faced a setback, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld part of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070, which ...
Los Angeles World Guitar Show
Sat, July 21-Sun, July 22
I bet if I said you could turn your drums into a mandolin you would say I was crazy, and most of the time you would be right. But not if you go to the…
Scream It Like You Mean It
Photo by Phil Mamula
Tues, July 24
We at the Weekly love Pomona. We also admit that it can be a little scary sometimes, so if you go out there you should have a defined reason and purpose. We think…
The 7 Day Stretch
Thurs/7/19
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
“What’s Wrong with people?” Sebastian Maniscalo asks his audiences. This Italian-American comedian has a way with speech when it comes to making fun of certain people. When admi...
Fiscal Responsibility
CSUSB President Dr. Tomas D. Morales
You know what’s great? Money. You know what almost never blends well together? Money and higher education. Despite this, Cal Sate San Bernardino’s new president, Dr. Tomas D. Morales, h...
ReFresh Your Body and Mind…
Graphic Design by Jacob Eldred
Four years of beats from around the world and art from around the corner
Music, food, art and good vibes from all around; that is the feeling that embraces you at the Pomona Art Walk…
