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When the wiseacre, little black rain cloud tells you “it's who you know” that gets you somewhere in the arts—as opposed to talent or skill—they're right, but for those struggling artists . . . struggling and starving . . . there is, hidden away on ARTS Orange County's website, a little-known index of grants, jobs …
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ABC News has issued a “statement” regarding a 20/20 segment on a Real Housewives of Orange County cast member that sure reads like a retraction or, at the very least, a strong correction. The June 29 broadcast of the news magazine included an explosive interview with Nicolette Catanzarite, the ex-girlfriend of Brooks Ayers, who is …
The line-up for Stagecoach 2013 was announced this morning. The annual cowboy extravaganza returns to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, April 26-28. Heavyweight headliners include Toby Keith, Lady Antebellum and Zac Brown. The festival, now in it's seventh year goes on sale Saturday, October 20 at 10 a.m. Other top-billed acts include Jeff Bridges …
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We've been openly speculating/ridiculing who might become the new full-time food critic for the Orange County Register, their first in years and one hired under an audacious experiment to elevate the paper from its troglodytic readership and into the realm of the literary. We figured that the new folks there would blow it, because they …
Ember Cafe & Music Club was set to play host to the next candidates forum in the race for Anaheim City Council on Wednesday, but the event has been promptly canceled. Deeming the whole affair as ridden with conflict of interests and unethically structured, Duane Roberts had planned on boycotting it while calling for a picket …
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Seven of nine candidates vying for two open seats on the Anaheim city council gathered last night for the first–and hopefully not the last–forum in the lead up to the November elections. Hosted by the West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council (WAND), the event, which took place at the Magnolia School District Boardroom near Maxwell Elementary …
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Even back in 1932, it was cool to snap photos of people eating lunch. The New York Times Lens blog has a wonderful tribute to the iconic photo “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper,” which turned 80 yesterday. While it remains a defining image of New York City's history, not much is known about the image, except …
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Friday, September 21 Lila Downs City National Grove of Anaheim Since she emerged in 1999, Lila Downs has developed into one of the world's quintessential world music artists. Combining powerful, multilingual vocals and culturally diverse musical arrangements, songs like “Ojo de Culebra” help her continue to hold on to her Oxacan roots while pulling in the fiery …
Though we probably don't notice it because we're too busy giving hella directions to The 405, Californians have an accent. Like, for reals. A team of linguistics researchers from Stanford University has been studying the elusive dialects of the Golden State, which have never been given the same attention as dialects of the East Coast …
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The only thing tougher than realizing that yet another summer concert season has come and gone is taking the time to sort all the best moments together an relive them in numerical order. For us, the difficulty of the latter usually means that we got to experience enough slam-dancing, chorus-shouting, encore-playing, glow stick-twirling, clothes-shedding, ear …
Who knew this luxe lonchera would be so successful it made their Top 5 last year? This gal. Andrew Gruel and Jethro Naude did good with their goal of branding into a brick-and-mortar establishment back in April. They've already gotten two shout outs on our countdown so far, but this is my go-to comfort dish …
Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archives Boy, did I just laugh like as if I heard a Jeffrey Ross roast–just this morning, Whittier attorney Jaime Segall-Gutierrez held a press conference in front of Anaheim City Hall announcing he was going to sue on behalf of Victor Gonzalez and Jesus Reyna, two men who …