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  'Strip Strip Hooray!' It's Dita Von Teese

  By MICHELLE WOO

  It's customary for beautiful women in Hollywood to feel the need to prove how little they have done to become beautiful. They deny... More >>

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  BarCraft: The Video-Game Version of Ultimate Fighting

  By CHARLES LAM

  It's Sunday night, and the Lake Forest Buffalo Wild Wings is packed with people who are barely old enough to drink. Their eyes, many of them... More >>

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  Todd Marinovich Goes Deep

  By JOSH DULANEY

  Deep in an industrial complex on Costa Mesa's west side, small-business owners open warehouse doors, deliverymen hustle and workers bang away on... More >>

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  Ex-Football Phenom Todd Marinovich's Other Life Passion

  By JOSH DULANEY

  Todd Marinovich's first work of art was inspired by a movie his mother took him to when he was 6 years old: Jaws. When his kindergarten teacher... More >>

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  'Cloud Tectonics' and More!

  By JOEL BEERS

  It's not uncommon to see the name Shakespeare pop up on the schedules of many a theater during the summer. The epic scope and huge casts involved... More >>

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  Piloxing and Other Summer Workouts

  By MICHELLE WOO

  I know, I know. Exercising is hard. Especially when it's not fun. And how can it be when you've been stuck on that elliptical machine for the... More >>

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  Todd Marinovich's Tips to Enjoying Summer In OC

  As told to JOSH DULANEY

  APPROACHING CELEBRITIES"I think it's totally cool when somebody comes up and expresses that you have affected them in any way. I get 'I lost... More >>

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  'Frost/Nixon' Depicts Two Tricky Dicks

  By JOEL BEERS

  This may be the first time in recorded history that the movie The Avengers and the play Frost/Nixon get double-billing in a sentence, but just as... More >>

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  RIP, Betsey Johnson at Fashion Island

  By MICHELLE WOO

  I remember the first time I wore a Betsey Johnson ensemble. I was looking for a dress for a college formal, and when I walked into the designer's... More >>

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  'Girls, Girls, Girls' Is Hot, Hot, Hot!

  By STACY DAVIES

  Now that I'm wading into my 40s, one of my favorite pastimes is to drone on and on about how much better everything was when I was a kid. It's... More >>

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  'Fifty Shades of Grey' for Mother's Day?

  By MICHELLE WOO

  I first heard about Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling trilogy by British author E.L. James, while having lunch with my parents. "I just... More >>

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  'Great Western Wanderlust' Takes the Last Train to Nowheresville

  By JOEL BEERS

  There's something distinctly American about the road trip. Be it on a river (Huckleberry Finn), in a car (On the Road) or on foot (Into the... More >>

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  Irvine: America's Most Fashionable City?

  By MICHELLE WOO

  I nearly spit out my morning carrot juice when I read the news: Irvine is the most fashionable city in America. Not Manhattan, not LA, but... More >>

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  'Unrelenting Relaxation' Is Just a Little Bit of History Repeating

  By STACY DAVIES

  Amanda DeMaio debuted Unrelenting Relaxation three years after our nation declared 1992 "The Year of the Woman," which was a response to the... More >>

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  Nicole Longstreath Wants You to Stop Being Closeted

  By MICHELLE WOO

  "Organize the closet" has been on my New Year's resolution list since, oh, 1998, usually falling somewhere below "Stop saying 'seriously'" and... More >>