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Costa Mesa is OC's ramen country. We know this for a fact. But ramen isn't the only noodle game in town. There's also soba and udon, to name just a few other slurpable options. But so far, if I recall correctly, there's only one notable from-scratch udon maker in town: Sanukiseimen at the Mitsuwa Marketplace. …
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How big a deal is the inaugural Orange County Improv Festival, which began last night at Stages Theatre in Fullerton and runs the next two nights? “It's a huge deal,” says ringleader Joshua Nicols. “It's the first festival of its kind in Orange County, we've got 26 teams coming in, some as far as Detroit, …
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A Newport Beach-based company that provided legal advice to consumers and small businesses facing crushing debt filed a civil suit against four former “employees” accused of stealing client data, but the case was dismissed a year after it was filed–in November 2011. We'd Naval Gazed the complaint back when it was originally filed, but only …
Remember the days when nerds clad in black hoodies were forced to conduct elaborate nighttime panty raids in order to get a little action? How times have changed. These days, poindexters from Rivers Cuomo to Zooey Deschanel are getting the kind of play guys like Lewis Skolnick could only dream about. Demonstrating how things have …
Update April 9, 2013: Bruxie released a revised opening date of Tuesday, April 23 at 8 a.m. The Bruxie Streetside window will open at 7 a.m. starting in early May. Ritter's Steam Kettle Cooking will now open their Huntington Beach location at The Strand (180 5th Street, Suite 130) before Costa Mesa (Gateway Plaza – …
The far and wide of readerly reach is often rewarded with time to linger, camp out, even put down roots in that place where resides, writes, exists a favorite writer, a discovery, a prize, a locale in which things happen which further complicate, define, explain and challenge. Devotion to artists, writers in good times and …
This weekend's Downtown Artwalk in SanTana looks more promising than ever. Local art collective Konsept will host it for the first time and will include an impressive output of art and music together, among the usual array of vendors and art shows at the adjacent galleries in the area. Originally a two-member rap group, Konsept …
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Andrew Bird is a singer-songwriter known for a multi-instrument looping technique when performing on stage, and Andrew Bird: Fever Year is a documentary that catches him undertaking his most, uh, feverish year of touring. Feverishly. Actually, Xan Aranda's film won raves at SXSW and Sundance–even from reviewers who knew not who Andrew Bird was before …
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I still remember where I was when we first started bombing Baghdad in 2003–at some concert with some chilanga at the late, great Key Club in Los Angeles, still just a freelancer for this infernal rag. Everyone at the Weekly opposed the Iraq War, because we knew it was unjust, would accomplish nothing, and titanically …
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Dennis Rodman has frequently been dragged through the Orange family court, where he has been ordered and re-ordered to pay a hefty child support tab to the point of being threatened with jail. He and his ex-wife Michelle Moyer of Costa Mesa have also battled over child visitation, but talking about his kids and former …
Anthony Bourdain, the man who might not have invented the food-travel show but made it into a literate and beautifully-shot art form, is now on CNN and he's bringing his Emmy-winning crew with him. Bourdain's new program, set to debut any day now, is called Parts Unknown, and from the mostly non-informative teaser they've put …
KCET-TV Channel 28's SoCal Connected devoted a segment yesterday to the travesty that is the Archdiocese of Los Angeles sex-abuse scandal, specifically on their program of dumping pedo-priests in predominantly Latino parishes. But it also included a small aside to bring in the story of OC's worst-ever pedo-priest: Eleuterio Ramos. The hook was the experience …
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