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Come Aug. 1, Long Beach shoppers have to bring their own bags to the store or shell out money for paper ones. Remember back in December when Vickie Chang wondered out loud on Navel Gazing whether Long Beach would be the next in a slew of cities, like San Francisco and Washington D.C., to ban single-use …
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This is scary shit: Gringo Bandito, the bueno hot sauce of Offspring head hombre Dexter Holland is set to host a taco-eating contest at Fred’s in Huntington Beach August 3, with legendary competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi set to compete. The initial meat in the tacos was supposed to be mahi-mahi, the fish used by many …
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UPDATE, JULY 21, 3:25 P.M.: The Irvine 11 may soon become the Irvine 10. If Hakim Nasreddine Kebir completes 40 hours of community service at the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen in Costa Mesa by Sept. 23, the 20-year-old will be removed from the controversial case pending in Orange County Superior Court, the prosecution and Kebir's …
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Monrovia-based sculptor Don Wakefield recently saw his large-scale, granite sculpture Untitled outside Seven Corporate Plaza in Newport Beach. But on closer inspection, he discovered it was a fake of the 6-x-4-foot work he and artist friend Joseph “Chick” Glickman designed and created together in 1992. The art world is buzzing over the copy having apparently …
By now, any true Southern Californian eats Thai food as part of their regular diet, whether at Thai Nakorn, Bangkok Taste, Siam Taste of Asia, or any of the dozens of Thai restaurants in OC and the hundreds in Southern California. But ever wonder how we became the beneficiary of so much great food, or …
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Green goodness was plentiful at the second annual Kush Expo at the Anahiem Convention Center this past weekend–the second within just eight months. Though no weed was sold on the premises, there were plenty of local dispensaries, doctors and glass peddlers abound. Kush Expo even featured a smoking section open to rec-carrying patients. But perhaps one of the most interesting …
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The world's Internet's most famous couple is visiting LA this weekend (cue the trumpets!) and in honor of the lovebirds' arrival, Pink's Hot Dogs is offering the “Royal Dog” at both its La Brea and Knott's Berry Farm locations. What does a royal wiener consist of? Two hot dogs in one bun (aww) topped …
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Newport Beach police arrested Charlotte Engle on suspicion of a DUI-related offense July 1 and took the 54-year-old Huntington Beach resident to Orange County Jail. During booking, jail officials determined Engle suffered from high-blood pressure and took her to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana. That's where she died Sunday. ] The Orange County Sheriff's …
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Our conversation with Christian Murcia continues as we discuss family, animal-style fries and Crepes Bonaparte's stint on The Great Food Truck Race. To read up on yesterday's installment, you can click here. For a savory cooking lesson, come back tomorrow. Hardest lesson you've learned:I'm still learning how to manage a team of people in my …
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We were lucky enough to see the marvelous Eddie Vedder at the legendary Beacon Theater in New York a couple of weeks back during his latest solo tour, this time promoting his new album Ukulele Songs. You might be wondering why the former grunge king would ever succumb to tour and highlight the minuscule instrument …
Irvine Mayor Sukhee Kang announced today he's running in 2012 for what will likely be three-term Republican John Campbell's newly redrawn congressional district seat. Kang, obviously un-chilled by City Council colleague, former mayor and fellow Democrat Beth Krom's handy loss to Campbell in her 2010 bid for the 48th Congressional District office, must first lock …
So when Tom Petty sent Tea Party candidate Michele Bachmann a cease-and-desist letter asking her to refrain from playing his song “American Girl” (after which Katrina and the Waves asked her to stop playing “Walking on Sunshine”) on Monday, Bachmann may not have gotten the memo. The Washington Post reports she used the song again …
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