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Shell GameSanta Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido voted several times to aid a controversial vending-truck business in which his father was involved Minutes before six on a late...
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Lame ChangeSo Long Beach just recently changed a former driving lane into a bike lane, and I admit that I was mistakenly driving my Volvo station wagon in this brand-new (and...
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Reintroducing Rhett MillerThe Old 97’s front man on the making of his superb, self-titled solo album As introductions go, Rhett Miller shouldn’t need one. Fronting...
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Back From the Edge?Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge with a semi-successful vigilante flick“Did you shoot my daughtah?” is the question posed, in flat-voweled...
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The Art of Cut-And-Paste‘Video Dada’ at UCI is quirky and a bit unwieldy, but ultimately does convey the potential of video as a fine-art mediumSince the arrival...
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A Special CasingValhalla Table’s sausage house concept largely comes from LA, but the most-inspired items hail from IndonesiaJust in case you’re wondering,...
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Getting older—it’s the one thing in life that no matter what we try, it’s inevitable. Worse yet, as we age, our minds become less and less reminiscent of the...
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Last September, Irvine resident Todd Larson went to the emergency room with a swollen leg. Doctors ran blood tests, which eventually lead to the diagnosis of Acute...
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Sure, George Clooney and all his famous pals may have raised something like $60 million from his Hope for Haiti Now telethon, but that doesn't mean the devastated country is...
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Long Beach local boy “Farmer” Dave Scher—he was at Poly a few years behind Snoop Dogg, did a stint at Fingerprints many years back and carries contemporaneous...
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So you know that the man in the iconic stovepipe hat took a lead ball to the back of his skull. But what do you really know about Lincoln? Your chance to answer that question...
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Express your creativity and expand your understanding of California Impressionism (Plein Air painting). Margie Tabor Zuliani, professional artist, author and teacher, will...
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Everyone knows Annie, the story of a poor girl that finally finds a home of her own, and despite the odds and a few greedy ne’er-do-wells, finds love and acceptance....
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Paul Verhoeven was once a pretty respected director at the helm of sci-fi classics Total Recall and RoboCop . Then he re-teamed with Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe...
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Not as much uncommon as it promises to be uncommonly good (cute girls doing cheeky strip-teases is pretty standard burlesque fare), the Commonwealth Lounge’s monthly...
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Rothick Art Haus, the latest gallery/institution/anti-art school to pop up and inspire madness in all its crazy forms, celebrates its opening with “Subtle Nudges,” a...
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There’s something about a gory, blood-and-guts plot paired with a catchy tune that never seems to get old. Originally introduced in a penny dreadful serial called The...
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The story behind Avenue Q is a familiar one: Youthful dreams of making it big in New York City with a tiny bank account. In the opening act, we’re immediately introduced...
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Professor Irini Vallera-Rickerson, art historian and expert on ancient Greece, takes you on a fascinating exploration of the art and architecture of the Acropolis of Athens and...
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Sure, he can rock, bite the heads off of both rodent and foul, and he can chuck a log through his neighbor’s window to shut them up—but did you know he could write?...
