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When Huntington Beach Police revealed Tuesday that Illario Niko Johnson had been eliminated as the vandal suspected of smashing a Main Street bike store window with a stop sign, officers added something curious: Just because the Chino 18-year-old was not the bearded man from witness cell phone videos spreading throughout social media, that did not …
One of those arrested for participating in Sunday's riots in Huntington Beach has been identified as a Fullerton firefighter whose job is now in jeopardy. Michael John Lytle, 30, of Anaheim, was held on suspicion of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. ] Fullerton Fire Department officials reportedly told a KCBS/Channel 2 news reporter that Lytle …
Wascally NMATV, the Taiwanese animators whose main work you know from computer-generated reenactments for news programs–but whose side hobby is skewering said news with said animation–has weighed in on the lighter side with … how'd they put it in the email? Oh, yes … “Surfers Go Ape Shit at Huntington Beach Riots.” After the jump …
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Has the name and address of one of the most notorious Huntington Beach riot vandals been handed to police through Facebook? And could another alleged vandal, who isn't even facing the most serious criminal charges from the incident, be looking at three years in state prison? ] The photo on the opener page of the …
Last weekend, I took a car, a train, a trolley and a very long, meandering walk to downtown Tijuana for the sixth installment of the Baja Beerfest. My goal: to try as much Mexican cerveza artesanal as possible and make it back home in time for a gnarly case of the post-borracha Mondays. With more …
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“You want to surf clean water,” says Steve Zeldin, a former editor of Surfing magazine, and co-publisher of magazine and website What Youth. “After it rains, you're getting grass clippings, motor oil, used condoms and diapers, all from 60 to 70 miles away, dumped in Mother Ocean. . . . A lot of surfers have …
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Cinema Orange, the intriguing collaboration between Orange County Museum of Art and the Newport Beach Film Festival, on Thursday kicks off its summer and fall lineup of documentaries that celebrate art, architecture, design and cultural icons. All five films are undoubtedly awesome, but what most excites me personally are the first two: Smiling Through the …
Members of statewide law enforcement organizations and federal agencies are currently attending training sessions on gangs at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel. The 22nd Annual Gang Conference started yesterday and will end on Friday, but not before police brutality groups plan to stage a protest outside. The conference is really a two-for-one set up with the …
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Before he was one of cinema's finest dramatists (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver, Broken Embraces), writer/director Pedro Almodóvar was a provocateur and a satirist. The 63-year-old filmmaker harks back to that past with his first comedy in nearly 25 years, I'm So Excited!, a lighthearted, ensemble-driven bit of escapism set 30,000 feet …
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Curtis Young, the son of Dr. Dre, continues to forge his latest contribution to West Coast hip-hop history in lily-white Lake Forest. We know, it'll take you a while to get used to hearing that. Maybe you never will. But to feel that way is to deny the indo-smoking inventiveness laced inside the beats that …
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Ah, pool party season. Now that the outdoor events orbiting Coachella and EDC have whetted our appetite for summer, we're finally ready to shed our clothes once more and embrace the chic, sun-drenched pockets of bacchanal offered in OC, LA and, yes, Palm Springs. Having said that, what would you say about mobbing out to …
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As all things in the Valle de Guadalupe, progress has been slow–the kind of slow that makes food taste great, that refines Port and Highland Scotch, the kind of slow that makes a ballad sung by Ron Isley flow like honey dripping from each carefully placed syllable just behind the beat–laid back. There are a …
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