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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, …
Serial killer Rodney Alcala has been behind bars since his arrest in 1979 for the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe of Huntington Beach. Through his original convictions, overturned convictions and re-affirmed convictions, the 68-year-old has remained incarcerated in California. Against character, Alcala now says he wants to stay on Death Row. But it's not because …
Do you love Japanese curry but long for more heat in the otherwise-mild-mannered dish? The Japanese chain restaurant CoCo Ichibanya offers spice levels you can customize to your taste, all the way to a brow-sweating, nose-running level 10. “Coming Soon” signs at the Diamond Jamboree Plaza in Irvine have trumpeted its arrival for months. Permitting …
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UPDATE, NOV. 10, 10:43 A.M.: The Cuckoo's Nest documentary We Were Feared rolled on a screen at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood Wednesday night, and contributing photographer John Gilhooley was there, just as he had been for the world premiere at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival. Click here to see Gilhooley's shots from last night's …
A Santa Ana man accused of forcibly raping three prostitutes is scheduled to go on trial this morning–with a possible life sentence handing over his head. Oscar David Duenas, 29, is charged with three felony counts of forcible rape, two felony counts of forcible oral copulation, and one felony count each of criminal threats, false …
ProfessorSalt.com What real bagels should look like You know what bugs me about chain restaurants? It's the way they co-opt the names of distant regional foods and market their shitty versions as the real thing to people in a different part of the world who don't know any different and grow up thinking they're …
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About 100 Fullertonians — a rather homogenous crew of sexagenarians and older — gathered at a pricey fundraiser tonight to support three beleaguered city leaders. Mayor F. Richard Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Don Bankhead and Councilman Pat McKinley have faced sharp criticism recently, following what many in the town call a lack of leadership after …
If there is not a tsunami of underage prostitutes in America, that is not to say that there are no children trapped in this world. Of course there are. Yet, as we have pointed out in numerous stories, few resources have been devoted to sheltering the victims. If you want to help children trapped in …
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Halloween has come and gone. Our costumes are once again being put away, packed in boxes or hung in closets, pushed to the corners of our minds until next year. But one culinary theme remains throughout the rest of autumn: pumpkins. While your squash-based sculptures won't keep through November, pumpkin flavors are practically a constant …
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Now there's data to back up what our bank accounts have been telling us all along: This place ain't cheap. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) has released its third-quarter cost of living index, which outlines the most and least expensive cities in the country. And …
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Remember that new Guided By Voices album we were talking about? The one that will be out in January, made up of 21 new songs, made like the 1990s seminal albums Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes? Well, Let's Go Eat the Factory (the title of the new album) is real. And there are songs for …
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Thanks to the massive response from his first food intervention, producers of Anderson are milking host Anderson Cooper's distaste for all things he'd rather not eat and spun it around for the episode that aired Thursday. In an intervention that eaters of all ages could relate to, viewers cheered as Cooper tried many foods for …
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