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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…
We all know that lead is bad stuff. Kills babies. Makes bullets. So there's plenty of reason to be glad that Orange-based Continuous Coating Corp. is shedding 70,000 pounds of lead from its production process. The firm, which makes continuous coil electro-zinc line (probably very essential!) already has a nice…
Wherever white-collar crimes happen, Irvine's aisles of nameless, indistinguishable boxy office buildings will somehow be involved. Exhibit #3945: the case of “The Analyst,” a.k.a. Israeli hacker Ehud Tenebaum.Tenebaum hacked the Pentagon as a teenager, and then went to work as a good-guy cybergenius for the Israeli government when he was…
While fast food chains, on the whole, seem to be weathering the recessionary storm, some upscale eateries are having to bite the bullet and cut back their hours. Sage on the Coast is one recent casualty, shelving its lunchtime service on Mondays and Tuesdays. It's a shame, but thankfully…
The Garden Grove Strawberry Festival starts today and continues through the weekend. There will be a parade, strawberry-related food, carnival rides, entertainment, and Cloris Leachman. But c'mon, you wanna know about that giant thing I have pictured above right? Yes, it is the world's biggest strawberry shortcake, weighing more than a…
I know a lot of you foodies out there like to concentrate on grub, like to pretend that the food on your table appears deux ex machina with no political back story behind it, and prefer not to wade into the real world. I'm one of those: that's why I…
Whenever I have to describe the publication I work for to anyone only vaguely familiar with OC media, I usually start innocuous: “It's that free paper you pick up at the car wash or coffee shop.” But that often gets a blank stare. So…”You know, the one with the sex…
An observation: Lake Forest seems like it's becoming prime proving grounds for out-of-state chains. Don't quote me on that. I really only have one other data point to support my argument: Boneheads, which is based in Georgia.Now, there's Cafe Rio, which reports that it has just signed a ten-year lease…
There's still more than a month before Wilco's seventh studio album, bearing the cleverly minimalist title of Wilco (The Album), is “properly” released. That date's June 30.But you can listen to the latest from the Chicago band right now on their official Web site, in an attempt to curtail those…
For those Dan Brown fans who can't wait till Friday to see Angels N Demons, which surely has to be an improvement on The DaVinci Code, fear not: an advance screening is being held on Thursday night in conjunction with Fleming's Steakhouse in Newport Beach. Okay, it's $45 per person, but for that you get…
This Wednesday, as KFI-AM 640 hosts John Kobyalt and Ken Chiampou plugged their next mega-rally–it'll be at the Knott's Berry Farm of the Inland Empire, Tom's Farm in Corona next Saturday–one of them made the observation that a conservative talk-show host had previously mocked them and their listeners as doing…
Cal State Long Beach's Daily 49er student newspaper has a wicked piece about a little-known area within the art department that feeds the souls of young Picassos–if the fumes don't kill them first. It's a room of lockers that students do not stuff freshmen in but instead rent out for…