Author Archive for Charles Lam

Starbucks and Alcohol

Starbucks announced recently that they will be begin selling beer and wine in select stores in Southern California by the end of this year. Is this a little surprising? Yes. A little strange? Not really. But this move does have a lot of people turning their heads.

Salad Republic is ‘Very Solid’

Charles Lam/Photography Intern
By Charles Lam
Staff Writer
One of the vacant properties in UTC is finally filled as Salad Republic which opened last Friday, after teasing us for the last few months. The restaurant, which tries to fill the healthy, fresh and made with meat niche left open by Veggie Grill, serves bistro-style salads and sandwiches as [...]

Drew McCrary, Mr Leadership

By Carly Lanning
Staff Writer

As I hung by a harness, strapped to the ropes course, I could not believe that I had been talked into doing this. I had seen the ropes course next to the ARC, a tall, daunting structure that on occasion has people moving slowly across. They look so small and graceful [...]

Accio, Dumbledore’s Anteaters

By Sara Naor
Staff Writer

I am the Harry Potter generation. I grew up with Harry, dreamed of getting my Hogwarts letter and wished I was magic. By the time I turned 11, I was a full-blown fanatic and have had to cope with being cursed to live as a Muggle ever since. Luckily, for me and [...]

Making Homemade Beer

Marlon Castillo/New University
By Greg Yee
Staff Writer
It was the summer, long lazy days of July when sunsets of dripping honey and grenadine blended into the rippling water of Woodbridge’s North Lake. I had just moved back to Irvine after spending two years on Newport Beach’s Balboa Peninsula, and was really starting to miss the beach.
My [...]

Winter Fashion Male Week

By Natasha Aftandillians
Staff Writer
The parade of men’s fashion shows for the Fall 2012 collections kicked off with a bang in Florence with Pitti Uomo, the week-long fair devoted to those preening peacocks and dapper dandies of the boys’ fashion club.
For a girl like me, events like Pitti Uomo are the ultimate spectacle of male beauty.  [...]

Ralph Nunez

By Rachel Grussi
On May 7, 2009, Raphael Nuñez, Jr., a UC Irvine computer science major in his first year, was killed. The exact events of that night leading up to his death still remain inconclusive, and an ongoing lawsuit by Ralph’s family attempts to assign accountability to various parties, including the UCI administration, Sigma Pi, [...]

The Best.. Buffalo Wings

By Charles Lam
Staff Writer
Buffalo wings might just be my favorite thing about American food. They’re quick and easy to eat, great to socialize around and are brightly flavored, and are tangy, spicy and savory, all at the same time. Some of my favorite memories are of my friends and I eating wings and watching sports, [...]

Boiling Point Hotpot Heats Up

Anna Nguyen/New University
By Charles Lam
Staff Writer
Boiling Point, a Taiwanese-style hot pot restaurant, held their grand opening this past week, putting an end to their one-month soft opening. Located at Culver and Interstate 5, in the same plaza as Buffalo Wild Wings and Denny’s, the restaurant serves a selection of hot pots, shaved ice and [...]

Talking Turkey with Turkey

Turkey is a notoriously difficult animal to prepare. Thanksgiving turkeys tend to weigh in between 15 to 20 pounds, taking forever to cook through and the thighs and the breast need to be cooked to different temperatures and everyone is deathly afraid of undercooked fowl. This often leads to dry breast meat ruining everyone’s meal, requiring diners to pile on the gravy and the cranberry sauce.