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Yorba Linda's hidden gem is good any day of the week you want French, but better on weekends
Getting a married couple to work together on a project in perfect harmony can sometimes be easier said than done. Especially when both of them are used to the spotlight. Chances are after a while the act will wear off and you can expect them to be at each other's throats once or twice an hour. But w ... More >>
Whew, Mother's Day is over, and the rush for goodies and presents can die down until, well, whenever that paternal holiday is. Let's take a look at what the week after had to offer. . . . Edwin reviewed the South County chain Inka Mama's. Then he told us that Layer Cake Bakery is opening a second l ... More >>
A former public relations and marketing executive with porn star site Digital Underground took her own life Sunday via a gunshot wound to the head, the Orange County Coroner has confirmed. That means Orange County mom Jennifer Larsen, who once worked as a talent coordinator for Hustler founder Larry ... More >>
Now that Mother's Day is officially behind us, is it too early to start talking about Father's Day? If you're looking for a way to show pops you care (besides showering him with socks and neckties next month) you might wanna pass along rapper Nu3tron's latest video, "Like Father Like Son." The late ... More >>
Kirk Franklin is easily one of God's greatest hype men. On stage, his ball of ad-libs, inspiration and intensity breaks through the angelic roar of every choir he's ever put together. Not an easy task, considering he's surrounded himself with some of the world's greatest vocal talent since since he ... More >>
In today's fancy food world of duck fat fries and $15 casual chain burgers, a simple, cheap sandwich shop is a welcome respite. Hand-sliced meats, fresh vegetables and a baked-this-morning French roll are all that's needed to make this girl swoon, but On Broadway--located in an unassuming corner sto ... More >>
So you're finding that all the cute champagne brunch spots are already booked up for Mother's Day. What's the next best option? No, after that. No, after that one ... and that one ... and that one, too.
A wife who fatally shot her 72-year-old husband and tried to do the same to her two sons in the family's Tustin Ranch home on Mother's Day 2011 was found guilty today by a jury of charges that could send the 43-year-old to prison for life without parole.The sentencing of Annamaria Magno Gana, whose ... More >>
Paul Weitz's sort-of rom-com doesn't have the marks
A murder trial is scheduled to open today for a Tustin Ranch mom accused of fatally shooting her much-older, retired Manila International Airport general manager husband and trying to do the same to her sons, then 9 and 16, on Mother's Day 2011. Annamaria Magno Gana, 43, faces special circumstances ... More >>
"Trick or treat, bind my feet, whip and flog me in my seat."You may be hearing that this Halloween, if you also live in a neighborhood where grown adults hold out empty pillowcases for candy--and if they are wearing costumes completed by a naughty Huntington Beach company latching onto the Fifty Sha ... More >>
The disturbing images of police repression from Saturday's standoff in Anaheim following the police killing of Manuel Diaz have gone viral, making international headlines. After a weekend of fatal officer-involved shootings and days of social unrest in the city, the national Latino political organiz ... More >>
Chris warned me from the get go that he'd been reading up on our interviews. The man knew what everybody else was already saying, and he informed us that he put some thought into his answers. No pressure, man. We just want you to speak your mind. Tell us how you really feel. . . . and he did.Your ea ... More >>
See update at the end of post where newly appointed Anaheim City Manager Bob Wigenroth makes a recommendation for the City Council.ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 5, 8:00 A.M. As Fullerton residents anxiously awaited their City Council recall results on Tuesday night, a group of about a dozen pro ... More >>
If your father is the kind of guy who likes watching stuntmen in shiny armor clang swords and charge towards each other atop galloping horses with bolsa wood lances that splinter into a million pieces, then perhaps he'd like to be taken to Medieval Times for Father's Day.If you're the kind of person ... More >>
UPDATE, MAY 23, 12:31 P.M.: Irvine's Shalabh Rastogi is being held without bail pending a scheduled arraignment in Santa Ana today on charges that he strangled and murdered his wife in the apartment they shared with their three children, prosecutors announced.The 39-year-old finance worker faces one ... More >>
Leave it to Dana Rohrabacher--Orange County's senior career politician--to wreck an enjoyable Mother's Day with smelly political garbage.Late on Sunday night, Rohrabacher used his notorious, often inadvertently hilarious Twitter account to once again spew a self-serving lie about himself.This time, ... More >>
A 32-year-old Santa Ana woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy six weeks ago, which normally would not be news in this cruel, cruel world except that the father is apparently the 16-year-old boyfriend of the mother of three's daughter.This morning, Mayra Gonzalez is scheduled to be arraigned on six ... More >>
When Theresa Smith lost her son, Caesar Cruz to a fatal December 11, 2009 officer-involved shooting in Anaheim, she hoped her family would be the last to have to endure the pain of such a devastating loss. "As soon as he was killed," Smith, a resident of Fullerton, says, "I wanted awareness." Her 3 ... More >>
[Trendzilla] Best-selling trilogy just might restart your parents' love life. Ew . . .
A 29-year-old mom is accused of having been under the influence of drugs in her Mission Viejo apartment recently while her 3-year-old daughter roamed a parking lot after 10 p.m. unattended and crying for her mother.Milanya Mundell was later booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of child endang ... More >>
When you've got a resort view like that from your dining room, life should be pretty mellow, right? Yet David Man became a tad nervous when I hit the record button. He had nothing to worry about, though. Once we started exchanging Bay Area stories about our favorite ramen in Burlingame, I knew he wa ... More >>
It's Pot Day and Hitler's Birthday but definitely not Mother's Day, especially not for moms Sushama Devi Lohia, 74, of Newport Beach and 67-year-old Aida Agusti Castro of Cardiff. Lohia was sentenced today to eight years in prison for conspiring with her two daughters and a son-in-law to commit more ... More >>
A Camp Pendleton Marine and drug dealer was sentenced today to 28 years and eight months to life in state prison for murdering a fellow Marine in a secluded area of San Clemente in 2008.Lance Cpl. Christian William Carney, 25, of Manorville, New York, was found guilty by a jury in December of ... More >>
The body count is piling up in Orange County this last month of 2011, with some slayings so awful they made the following compilation of the 11 most ucked fup murder scenes of the year.Please note that this will also be my last list of 2011 that includes the Salon Meritage massacre. As much as I ... More >>
DMVAnnamaria Mango GanaUPDATE, JULY 5, 10:01 A.M.: Prosecutors filed additional charges today against Annamaria Magno Gana, the 41-year-old accused of killing her husband and trying to kill her sons on Mother's Day at their Tustin Ranch home.Besides a murder count and sentencing enhancements, Gan ... More >>
Massage only, please...For one California woman, Mother's Day 2011 will always been remembered as a horrific nightmare after her massage therapist yanked down her underwear as well as his own and tried to mount her at Massage Envy in Laguna Beach.That's the sensational accusation contained in a l ... More >>
Pau GasolUPDATE, MAY 17, 11:58 A.M.: After his exit interview today with Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and coach Phil Jackson at the team's El Segundo training facility, forward Pau Gasol denied there was any rift between his girlfriend and Vanessa Bryant, nor between himself a ... More >>
UPDATE, MAY 12, 1:20 P.M.: A Filipino newspaper reports Antonio Potenciano Gana, the 72-year-old Mother's Day murder victim, is the former general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority, which oversees the airport in the country's capital. The Philippine Star also claims the slai ... More >>
Polaris at Noon/Dirty Vegas (cancelled)May 8, 2011Detroit Bar Electronic music filled the foggy arena at Detroit Bar last night while Dirty Vegas fans sipped on chardonnay to keep it classy for Mother's Day. I admit: I was super stoked to see Steve Smith and Dirty ... More >>
Just when we thought the sicko geniuses at Epic Meal Time couldn't out-gross themselves (yeah, who are we kidding?), they went there. In honor of Mother's Day, the YouTube chefs created a live birth scene, pulling a "baby rabbit bastard," dripping with red Jack Daniel's Barbecue Sauce, out of a ... More >>
Eleanor Logan Jonathan Toubin grew up punk in Texas and learned some lasting lessons--like play hard, play fast, play loud and play with people's expectations. So when he started his own all-45s DJ night in New York City, he brought out something different than sweet Northern soul or slo-mo funk ... More >>
All right crafty kids, the arts & crafts show hiatus that always happens after the holidays rush is officially over - there's a whole mess of spring shows coming up that are perfect for showing off your creative endeavors! If you're dreaming big, apply to show your stuff at one of the biggest ar ... More >>
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Flickr user HarshLightNommy nom.Our weekly roundup of some of the best--and the worst--tweets from the park that's only sometimes the happiest place on earth. Follow us @OCWeekly!allieegatorrr: If i pregnant bitch goes to disneyland do they have to pay extra for a carry on passenger Grovah: @ ... More >>
They do call it "Heaven's waiting room"... : ( Originally posted May 5, 2010 at 3:24 p.m. Updated May 13 at 6:55 p.m.See bottom of post for new info.Let's just be glad this didn't come down on Mother's Day. Today, a 52-year-old Ethan Emanuel Rosenfeld was convicted of strangling his 82-yea ... More >>
Sunday's Long Beach Bicycle Film Festival serves two purposes, helping to close out the three-day Long Beach Bicycle Festival that begins today and reviving the Long Beach International Film Festival, whose return is TBD.Actually, there is a third and fourth purpose: showcasing local documentary ... More >>
Mother's Day is just around the corner, and it's the one time of year in which you have the opportunity to express your love and respect for the woman that raised and nurtured you. Whether you celebrate this day with breakfast in bed, family gatherings, or macaroni cards, your mother deserves to be ... More >>
Richard MeadLA Weekly's Squid Ink, our sister paper's food blog, got the scoop on Rich Mead's upcoming Canyon Restaurant in Anaheim Hills. Now, I don't know why our LA cousins would even be interested in it, seeing as how it's in our territory, embedded deep in OC (and not even Anaheim, but Anah ... More >>
Flickr user DoxieoneThis week Stick a Fork In It featured everything from more food abominations to the opening of restaurants you'll want to be first in line to try!Find out what you missed after the jump!
Flickr user Librarian AvengerNot pictured: the teeming millions and their screaming children waiting for tables.What do you get when you take millions of people, a forced and temporary sense of filial piety, and a limited number of restaurants? You get brunch on Mother's Day, and it is not a pret ... More >>
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