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Usually when you click on the “O.C.” tab on the online version of the Los Angeles Times' California/Local page, you'll come to another page with a fairly meaty Orange County-related headline and story link across the top. But as of 2 p.m. today, that prime position for readers seeking Orange…
*Updated by Gustavo: Salon.com weights in…Dan Froomkin, the onetime Orange County Register reporter who is best known as the author of the Washington Post's widely-read White House Watch blog, is out of work. According to a story today by Politico blogger Michael Calderone, the Post apparently decided to let Froomkin…
It was a misty day in December when I ducked into the Swallow's Inn in San Juan Capistrano to talk with general manager Cheryl Krupp about one of the entertainers she frequently booked there, the late Chris Gaffney.”I knew him very well,” Krupp said while glancing in the direction of…
Irvine's favorite sons (other than Will Ferrell, maybe, but post-Land of the Lost that's questionable at best) Thrice have announced that their sixth album, the follow-up to 2007 (and 2008's!) four-disc, dual release The Alchemy Index will be out in October of this year, and it's called Beggars. Why is…
The ACLU says the California Court of Appeals decision today to uphold the Los Angeles Police Department's use of Special Order 40–a decades old policy prohibiting officers from using immigration status to initiate investigations–“strikes a balance between immigrants' rights to equal protection and officers' duty to protect communities.”That makes former…
Garden Grove's Scott Huckabey is this really nice guy with a pretty cool band who can't seem to catch a break.Just look at the press page for his band, The Caroline Movement. You've got the New York Times saying his performance was a “standout” at a festival in 2001. And…
The way Scott Harper begins his story proves that he had correctly identified the speaker he was covering.”U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was in a froth . . .” Anyone who has witnessed the Mouth That Rohrabachered whip up the party faithful at GOP election night shindigs over the years knows…
Nine bands, two DJs, 31 artists and YOU. For over 10 years Long Beach has celebrated their Tour de Artistes event hoping to drag some well-deserved spotlight on the arts and music scene thriving in the various parts of the city. Harvested together in several locations downtown on Long Beach…
Last night was the second installment of the Monday night residency with The New Limb and Stacy Clark over at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. Here are some notable things that happened:…
Got word that a new Mexican restaurant called SOL Cucina is slated to open in Newport Beach at the end of the month in the space vacated by Ristorante Mama Gina (251 Pacific Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92660). Here are snippets from the website: “An open 'proscenium' kitchen with…
The weekend may be a (sadly) distant memory at this point, but you can remember things that happened and things that you may have not even come close to experiencing through the magic of our slideshows! Like School of Seven Bells (pictured) and Black Moth Super Rainbow Saturday night at…
The latest “Soapbox” page in the Dana Point News provides a nice little study in contrasts. The bulk of the page goes to a column from Joel Bishop, Dana Point's jolly, Twittering councilman. He's all about “the power of collaboration”: “I get weary of people in power blaming one another…