Gabriel San RomanJan 303 minSlingshot: Get That Pick Away From My Brain!(Speaking to OC high school students about Klan history? Always FREE!) Three years ago, I sat down at the late, great Olive Tree...
Gabriel San RomanDec 12, 20213 minSlingshot: The Greatest Christmas Song of All Time! Back in November, I did something I otherwise don't do all year: I turned the dial to KOST 103.5 F.M. With some fanfare and a countdown,...
Gabriel San RomanAug 22, 20214 minSlingshot: Truths James Loewen Taught Me in Brea and BeyondEarth, receive an honored guest. James W. Loewen is laid to rest. On Thursday, the famed sociologist and historian who authored the...
Gabriel San RomanAug 1, 20214 minSlingshot: Finding My Next Act With TimesOC!I never intended on a life in journalism. Sixteen years ago, I visited KPFK-LA's red-brick building in North Hollywood and headed...
Gabriel San RomanJul 25, 20216 minSlingshot: Living Wage Lawsuit Against Disneyland Gets Class-Action StatusA lawsuit alleging that the Disneyland Resort is illegally side-stepping Anaheim's living wage law took a big step forward after an...
Gabriel San RomanJul 18, 20214 minSlingshot: Santa Ana Police Union Solicits Vote of No Confidence Against Chief Embattled Santa Ana police chief David Valentin is now facing a potential vote of no confidence from his rank-and-file officers. It's the...
Gabriel San RomanJul 4, 20215 minSlingshot: A Deeper Dig Into Santa Ana's Contaminated Soil It's not just lead that's dangerously deposited in the soil of Santa Ana. A study recently published in the Environmental Science:...
Gabriel San RomanJun 27, 20215 minSlingshot: Poor Clippers, So Far From God, So Close to the Lakers Late one night in 1992, I watched a glowing television as a bespectacled Larry Brown coached the Los Angeles Clippers all the way to a...
Gabriel San RomanJun 20, 20215 minSlingshot: Dana Rohrabacher Sure is a Riot! On Election Night 2016, former Huntington Beach congressman Dana Rohrabacher gave a thumbs up for photographers at a Skosh Monahan's...
Gabriel San RomanJun 6, 20218 minSlingshot: A Free Speech Battle in HB Highlights Hypocrisies For Shayna Lathus, being "antifa adjacent" during a counter-protest in Huntington Beach two years ago cost her a seat on the city's...
Gabriel San RomanMay 30, 202110 minSlingshot: Genevieve Huizar, Mother Turned Anti-Police Brutality Activist, DiesGenevieve Huizar invited me into her Santa Ana home one day in the aftermath of the Anaheim Riots, a days-long conflagration that erupted...
Gabriel San RomanMay 16, 20219 minSlingshot: Lessons From Los Alamitos on Ethnic Studies Los Alamitos, historically a sugar town, hasn't been all that sweet to people of color. It's the kind of city where Dean Grose can resign...
Gabriel San RomanMay 9, 20219 minSlingshot: Deeming Masks at School 'Child Abuse,' OC Parents Tee Up ProtestDeborah Pauly, a former Villa Park city councilwoman, power walked past Newport Elementary School one recent day in Newport Beach. She...
Gabriel San RomanMay 2, 20215 minSlingshot: Is OC Becoming More Critical of Cops? I made my way towards Orange County Superior Court one early morning in 2016 to do some trial reporting. A trio of Anaheim cholos stood...
Gabriel San RomanApr 25, 20216 minSlingshot: Whites Vaxxed at Twice the Rate of Latinos in OCAfter a year of pandemic purgatory, I finally awaited my turn at a local pharmacy. A Latina sat across from me and did her 15 minutes of...
Gabriel San RomanApr 11, 20217 minSlingshot: White Pride and Prejudice in Huntington Beach Hatred looms on the horizon in Huntington Beach. Ku Klux Klan propaganda sealed in plastic bags first arrived on the doorsteps of homes...
Gabriel San RomanApr 4, 20216 minSlingshot: Breans Sue Raising Cane's, City Over Location Planned by SchoolBrea residents are raising hell over Raising Cane's. The Baton Rouge chain known for chicken fingers and long lines at the drive-thru has...
Gabriel San RomanMar 28, 20217 minSlingshot: How OC Rolled Out the Red Carpet for 'The Birth of a Nation'Never before in American cinematic history did a silent film speak so loudly--and Orange County joined the chorus. Directed by D.W....
Gabriel San RomanMar 21, 20216 minSlingshot: The Atlanta Massacre and the Danger of Deracialized DeathThe massacre in metro Atlanta last week felt all too inevitable. Before a 21-year-old white gunman slayed six Asian American women at a...
Gabriel San RomanMar 14, 20219 minSlingshot: Anaheim Police Shooting Eluded Transparency--Until Now Two years ago, I wasted little time in requesting files entitled to me under SB 1421, a new California law allowing for greater access to...