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Long Beach Antique Market
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Is your apartment looking a bit too much like a page from an Ikea catalog? Times are tough, and furniture is expensive. Most of us cant throw down a paycheck or two on an armoire. Less expensive home-decorating options are available, though scarce. Said Swedish super-store usually gives... More >> |
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| Long Beach | Fashion and Style, Conventions, Arts |
Karaoke
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Have you seen that cell-phone commercial in which the guy wants to rent a hotel room, but the clerk is all, You dont want that room. Its a dead zone? Well, the restaurant at the Prospector is sort of like that. Rumor has it the menu includes steaks, chicken and... More >> |
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| Long Beach | Performing Arts, Music, Food and Drink, Cheap Thrills |
Orange County Fair and Exposition Center Farmers Market
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While most of the country is battling face-melting heatwaves, desperate for some decent weather, we're sitting pretty out here on the coast. Thanks to California's amazing Mediterranean-esque climate, we Golden Staters get to enjoy decent produce year-round. That and the frequent antics of our... More >> |
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| Costa Mesa | Food and Drink |
Centennial Farm
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Centennial Farm is a three-acre working farm at the OC Fair & Event Center created to educate youth about agriculture and its importance to daily life. The Farm is home to fruit and vegetable gardens, livestock, and the Millennium Barn. Children and adults can view pigs, chickens, cattle, goats... More >> |
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| Costa Mesa | Conventions |
Reggae Cruise
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Because you're never too old for a good ol' booze cruise on a 140-passenger boat: Secure that baby sitter and enjoy a live reggae band, plenty of food and a full bar as you view the waters of Long Beach. More >> |
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| Long Beach | Music, Club Events |
Thursday Night Cheese & Wine Tasting
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Get an informal education on wine and cheese while enjoying a flight of the evenings' tasty offerings. Three tasting "flights" of 2 wines and 3 cheeses are offered each week for $15 per flight, and are described to you at tableside by friendly and knowledgeable staff. Reservations are recommended. More >> |
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| Laguna Beach | Food and Drink |
Open Jam Night
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It's difficult, to say the least, to find those few musical souls with which to form your ultimate classic rock cover band. Or progressive, all-synthesizer math rock outfit. Whatever. Egos clash and schedules conflict—not to mention fights over the studio deposit. So screw all that and... More >> |
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| Huntington Beach | Music, Arts |
Beer Pong Tournament
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Thursday nights mark the beginning of a college student's three-day weekend, and the Derby Deli and Dueling Piano Bar acknowledges this with every twenty-something's favorite drinking game: beer pong. Each week, the Derby hosts a beer pong tournament, a beer-guzzling battle to the death, with... More >> |
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| Mission Viejo | Sports - Participatory, Libations |
Plus-sized Party
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Where the big girls and guys come to party with the people who love them! More >> |
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| Costa Mesa | Music |
Nerdy Thursdays
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Get out your Coke-bottle glasses, pocket protectors, suspenders and Star Wars memorabilia because Thursdays just got geek-ified. Nerdy Thursday, presented by Hibbleton Gallery, is not your average variety showthink Jeopardy! meets Revenge of the Nerds. Usually presented in three acts, the... More >> |
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| Fullerton | Theater, Poetry, Music, Arts |
Fun & Nobody
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If you think Fun & Nobody sounds like an intriguing title for a play, you’re dead wrong. It’s actually two titles for two separate plays that are featured together at the Stages Theatre. Written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated scribe Howard Korder, whose current work includes the HBO... More >> |
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| Fullerton | Theater |
Legally Blonde: The Musical
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She knows what it takes to be popular—Elle Woods, bubbly brainiac and pink enthusiast comes back to life in Legally Blonde: The Musical. After a satisfying three years in the UK's West End (and winning several nods, including Best Musical at the Olivier Awards), this spectacle of pizazz... More >> |
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| Fullerton | Theater |
Steel Magnolias
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“I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special,” writes Robert Harling, author of the play and film adaptation Steel Magnolias, the heartwarming story of a group of Southern ladies who frequent a beauty salon to gossip, tease, laugh, fight, and... More >> |
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| Laguna Beach | Theater |
Orange County Market Place
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Theres no better reason to wake up early on a weekend than the chance to stroll through the neighborhood swap meet/marketplace and hunt for treasures. Knock-off designer sunglasses? Check. Sparkly new cover for your iPhone? Check. Aisle after glorious aisle holds stuff you never knew you... More >> |
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| Costa Mesa | Outdoors, Fashion and Style, Conventions |
Free Fridays at the LBMA
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Bureaucracy is the killer of good ideas, but a foundation is finally paying for the little guy. Thanks to the LA County Arts Commission, the Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) offers free admission to all guests every Friday. Like many of its peers, the LBMA can be hit or miss depending on its... More >> |
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| Long Beach | Family Events, Arts |
Sunday Funday
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Nothing like getting totally sauced on a fine Sunday afternoon with a couple hundred of the hottest boys in Long Beach. Starting at 3 p.m., Ripples pours the ever-flowing beer, provides tasty little tacos on the patio and pumps up the music. You're sure to make (several) friends. More >> |
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| Long Beach | Music, LGBT Events, Club Events |
OC Great Park Farmers Market
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The perfect temperatures, the cloudless skies, the beautiful localsOC summer Sundays are the epitome of easy living, as long as you stay off the freeway. At the OC Great Park, the recreational grounds (which used to be a military baseand a lima-bean field before that) hosts an... More >> |
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| Irvine | Food and Drink, Farmers' Markets, Craft Events, Arts |
The Bald Soprano & The Chairs
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Absurd, weird, batty—it's all wonderful to us. So we're especially looking forward to this new production from the Garage Theatre: two plays from the trailblazer of absurdist theater, playwright Eugène Ionesco. First up is The Bald Soprano, a tale about a casual visit between two... More >> |
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| Long Beach | Theater |
Sunday Brunch and Drag Show
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There's nothing quite like a drag queen that looks better than you do, with better hair and perkier boobs—and if you're hungover to boot, better make that bloody mary a double. Velvet Lounge, the youngest child in the local family of gay clubs, hosts a fabulous Sunday brunch every week... More >> |
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| Santa Ana | Theater, Libations, LGBT Events, Food and Drink, Arts |
Old Towne Orange Farmers & Artisans Market
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If everything has a season, then ripe, delicious produce is best suited for the summer—so you've only got a few weeks left, locavores. One of our favorite weekly farmers and artisan markets (two words: free coffee) happens again this Saturday morning with a mouthwatering display of... More >> |
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| Orange | Food and Drink, Farmers' Markets, Arts |
Improv Shmimprov
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The roots of Improv Shmimprov trace back to the UCI Drama Department; it was there in 1998 that the comedy group’s founders first got their start. Chris "Shaggy" Wolfe, Jacob-Russell-Snyder, Lindsay Hendrickson, and Nathan Makaryk were performing with "Live Nude People (with clothes on),"... More >> |
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| Fullerton | Theater, Comedy |
Open Mic
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Open-mic events always bring out the aspiring teenage folkies, workaday closet emo crooners and ill-conceived joke bands, but OC's best open micsGypsy Den's includedcome with a cadre of older, more experienced, more awesome amateurs in addition to the twentysomethings. There's a... More >> |
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| Santa Ana | Theater, Music, Club Events, Arts |
Spirits and Headhunters
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Remove yourself for a minute from the stifling minutiae of modern American civilization. Close your eyes and reach out to a more primal humanitywhich happens to be a few hundred miles west of California. Bowers Museums newest exhibit, Spirits and Headhunters: Art of the... More >> |
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| Santa Ana | Photography, Museum Exhibits and Events, Arts |
A Bridge to the Americas: The MoLAA Permanent Collection
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Part of MoLAA's permanent collection, this brightly colored display adds a dose of much-needed culture to Southern California (sorry, but frozen yogurt is not culture). More >> |
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| Long Beach | Museum Exhibits and Events, Family Events, Arts |
Masters of Adornment: The Miao People of China
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The title of the exhibit kind of says it all. The Miao are a cultural group that come primarily from southern China, and they really put some thought and work into the way they dressed and adorned themselves. Like, way more than the girl you know who takes forever to get ready (what is she... More >> |
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| Santa Ana | Museum Exhibits and Events, Fashion and Style, Arts |
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