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It was the late 80s, and a young girl battling anorexia had her face plastered on TV screens around the country. That girl was Tracey Gold, the child star who played Carol Seaver on The Growing Pains. Growing up in show business, the concept of anorexia was never too far off, and by age 11 …
Dr. Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who had medical license suspended over his treatment of Octomom Nadya Suleman, La Habra's unemployed single mother of 14, and an older woman who was also a multiple birth mother, has gone to court in a bid to get his license back. Kamrava's attorney filed court documents …
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There are just as many Black Friday addicts as there are naysayers who roll their eyes at the commercialization of Christmas, if not more so. For those of us who don't exactly give a damn about finding “the perfect gift”, we say: how about those rectangles of hope we call the gift card? Restauranteurs want …
This is a taste test. Only a test. Not a formal review, but a quick, dirty trial of two dishes from Koko's Cafe in Irvine, which as I noted in an annoucement post last week, opened recently in Irvine. It took the place of Dickey's BBQ at the corner of Irvine Center Drive and Jeffrey, …
A 43-year-old man is being held in lieu of $1 million bail for allegedly victimizing females who live in the 1000 block of Minnie Street in Santa Ana, including a 12-year-old girl who was fondled through a window. Leonel Santana Cervantes, who resides a quarter-mile away from the victims, could spend 30 years in state …
Thanksgiving has a few connotations in our society: family, togetherness, getting together, being grateful; oppression and decimation of a native people; and, of course, the stupid crap we do to food in order to get it on the table. Ask anyone who has worked in an emergency room for longer than 12 seconds, and they'll …
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UPDATE, Nov. 18, 4:21 P.M.: The two meetings about controversial T-Mobile cell-phone towers that took place in Huntington Beach this week–Wednesday's at the city's Central Library, about a tower that was originally supposed to go in Bolsa View Park, and Thursday's at Harbour View Elementary, about the tower that was to have been installed in …
Kristine Flaherty (better known by musical moniker K. Flay) isn't your average rapper-singer-songwriter. After graduating from Stanford with degrees in psychology and sociology, she decided to take her then-hobby of writing and performing music more seriously. Besides the occasional songs about Elle Fanning and partying, her lyrics can drive discrepancies between shoulds and musts or …
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Kendrick Lamar is a man after our own heart. After penning the honest, yet tragic “Keisha's Song (Her Pain)” song about women caught up in the cycle of prostitution, the Compton rapper follows up with a concert to benefit L.A.'s Downtown Women's Center and Project RISHI. ] In the track, off his latest project Section …
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UPDATE, NOV. 18, 10:57 A.M.: “The Court must impose monetary sanctions to deter the Government from deceiving the Court again,” Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana writes in his Islamic Shura Council v. FBI ruling. He gave the council 14 days to come up with an affidavit detailing its costs. …
HARLEQUIN DINNER PLAYHOUSE, 1974-1989Orange County was the epicenter of dinner theater in the 1980s, and the Harlequin Dinner Playhouse in Santa Ana was one of its main players. The 450-seater hosted Broadway plays such as Annie Get Your Gun. HAMPTONS, 1989-1990When dinner theater went out of vogue, the venue's owners relaunched the space as a …
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Dan Savage found himself in a sticky sparkly situation last week while filming his new late-night MTV series, “Savage U,” at UC Irvine. In the show, set on college campuses across the country, the celebrated sex writer (whose column runs in OC Weekly) helps students navigate romance and life under the sheets with raw, …