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On Wednesday, we posted The Best Places to Drink in Orange County Right Now — a list of our favorite dives, bars, beer-testing rooms, and cocktail lounges. To help you get drunk at not one place but two (or three or four), we created an interactive map so you can bookmark future barhops and buzzed …
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National Frozen Yogurt Day creeps up on us each year. After one holiday weekend, but before the next, multiple chains want to share the love for a few hours today. Our preferred brand is based in Orange County, featuring a former On the Line subject. The limited-edition spoons pictured are to promote their newest flavors: …
Most of us can't imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ourselves: If I lose my sight, I'll still have music. If I lose my hearing, I'll still …
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Most of us can't imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ourselves: If I lose my sight, I'll still have music. If I lose my hearing, I'll still …
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Believe it or not, but most of your favorite bands do not make a living off their music. If you do the math it seems surprising, because any band with thousands of people buying their records at anywhere from 99 cents to 10 bucks a piece must be earning a living wage, right? Hardly. ] …
We find it a disturbing that male musicians constantly compare women (or their body parts) to foods, specifically fruits and candies. While it's flattering to be compared to edible products with a high glycemic index, it's also becoming unoriginal and while these songs are entertaining, they are mildly sexist and/or misogynistic. Perhaps the popular 19th …
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which are most and least LGBT-friendly Orange County cities of them all? Well, the Human Rights Campaign–or HRC, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization–did not rank all 34 of OC's incorporated cities, just seven, and based on that Huntington Beach is the most LGBT-friendly and …
I'm still researching new-ish Orange County Register publisher Rich Mirman–the former casino executive who came in to clean up Reg owner's Aaron Kushner's mess–before writing anything extensive about him, but Mirman has already offended his newsroom in one big way: He's asking them to step up and become customer service reps for an hour a …
UPDATE, NOV. 4, 9:37 A.M.:Lt. Jeff Hallock, the sheriff's spokesman, just emailed over the following that indicates the case is being probed as a murder-suicide: “Investigators believe the collision with the wall was intentional as the driver accelerated and failed to brake immediately prior to impact. The Coroner Division has yet to confirm the identity …
A male Knott's Scary Farm employee standing in water injured a female visitor's hand and finger, splashed water on her and berated her verbally before another wearing a diaper pushed up against her, fondled her, intertwined his fingers with her's and asked, “Do you want to play?” according to her lawsuit against the Buena Park …
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The neon lights surrounding the marquee of Newport Beach's Lido Theater will draw attention to more than movie titles in the upcoming months–they'll also illuminate the names of live music acts. Countless films have ran in the historic theater over the last 75 years, but the shift to include live music comes from new operators, …
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Four days after registered nurses made the same case at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, leaders of the California Nurses Association (CNA) and National Nurses United are this morning meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown in Sacramento to review ways to make California the national leader in protecting nurses, other frontline health care workers, patients and …