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Don't forget to check out our constantly updated OC Concert Calendar Monday, September 15 Let's Drive to Alaska Residency The Continental Room Not since 2001: A Space Odyssey have we been handed such an out-of-this-world impression of sci-fi in pop culture. The music of Let's Drive to Alaska is a majestic journey through electronic beats, …
In 2009, Larry Houser, the co-owner of Bourbon Street and one of the most popular bartenders in a downtown flush with them, didn't know squat about autism. He learned a lot in a hurry. His 6-year-old son, Boyd, was diagnosed with autism and Houser started a crash-course on learning as much as he could about …
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Lift your right hand, stretch your index finger as far as you can from your thumb and know that is about how close an accused, international “bath salts” drug kingpin from Newport Coast came to winning pre-trial release from custody. Facing a 16-count federal indictment and a potential mandatory life in prison sentence, Sean Libbert, …
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By: David Garcia Seedless/ Solution OC International Street Fair 8/30/14 Located in the historic downtown district of Orange, the city's 3-day Orange County International Street Fair still hosts its annual bash in the hot summer sun with arts, crafts, live music, multiple vending booths, tons of new food and tasty beverages for all ages to …
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This year's Vendimias, Provino's annual wine harvest festival in the Valle de Guadalupe saw another season of sold out events and special tasting dinners featuring some of the best chefs in the world. It was a challenge due to the fact that the government of Ensenada never fixed the collapsed highway and then made things …
OK Go does not take music videos lightly. The band is known for their colorful productions involving elaborate sets, stop motion, kaleidoscopic camera angles, strategic choreography, extreme nerdery, and–of course–treadmills. The band turns every production into a viral video and they've really outdone themselves with their new video, “The Writing's On the Wall.” The mind-bending …
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Dan Guerrero wanted to tell the story of his father, legendary Chicano singer-songwriter Lalo Guerrero, for years before eventually taking the initiative to tell it himself. A television producer for musical specials, the younger Guerrero had footage of his father on camera telling his story, shot over a decade ago in anticipation for when some …
You could be forgiven, after watching the opening minutes of Ira Sachs's fine-grained and flinty Love Is Strange, for thinking it's going to be a movie about Gay Marriage, with all the import those initial caps imply. We see two older men, clearly a couple, roll out of bed in what is immediately identifiable as …
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As we explained earlier, Sessions is a sandwich restaurant. But in fact, they've expanded their menu to include some morning offerings like The Notorious P-I-G (Virginia ham, smoked bacon, sausage, baked eggs and Vermont cheddar on an everything bagel. What?). At dinner, try their flatbread concept of Flavor Town (meatballs, creole mustard cream, mozzarella, arugula …
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Let's be clear about this week's interview: Sessions is a sandwich RESTAURANT. Sure, sandwich is in the name. But between flatbreads, breakfast selections and salads, they are so much more. That's why it took two of the masterminds behind the coolest concept by the water to explain it all. Local boys who have their flavor …
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Nicki Minaj is throwing in the towel, errr, wig. She has decided the most shocking thing to do is: stop trying to be so shocking. Minaj debuted the much-anticipated single “Anaconda” from her forthcoming album The Pink Print this week. One person who's not a fan: Lil Kim. The veteran rapper posted a photo on …
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Either Santa Ana has improved mucho over the past five years or the cultural bean counters at Forbes magazine are under some bipolar spell. That's because the city that Forbes dubbed one of the top 10 most boring cities in America in 2009 has just been named the 20th Coolest City in the land. How …