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Introducing a new column I'm starting up to showcase tequila master Chuy Tovar's eclectic food wisdom he acquired while working for Patina (in Orange County!) for two years. For this week's Las Mamadas de Chuy, he bailed me out of Weekly world headquarters to show me his old dive for slimy, esoteric (for gabachos and …
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UPDATE: Astute readers and friends (Niyaz, Dan, and thatguy) have chimed in with more news. Apparently, it's not just The Lime Truck that may be representing OC. Saturday Night Foodies was in Vegas last weekend and has photos that show not only The Lime Truck, but also Stephanie Morgan's Seabirds, being filmed for the show. …
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Britney Spears just announced her SoCal dates with Nicki Minaj. Nervo and Jessie and the Toy Boys will also be opening. Spears will be at the Staples Center on June 20 and the Honda Center June 24. Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 30, at 10 a.m. ] While it's kind of hard to gauge …
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UPDATE, APRIL 22, 6:03 P.M.: Santa Ana's Courtney Conlogue continues her impressive rookie performance on the ASP World Tour, as she has qualified for the quarterfinals of the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, Australia. The women's event is expected to wrap up today, with the conditions looking quite classic. You can watch it live. Unfortunately, …
Futurist/transhumanist writer Hank Pellissier has lectured at the H+ Summit in Harvard, been dubbed “San Francisco's performance art bad boy,” and written books and columns for the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.com. In his latest piece for the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, where he is an associate scholar, he …
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After a nondescript set by the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, we ambled over to Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Ariel Pink didn't play anything from his last album that we remembered, but he did manage to blow me away with every sonic note of reverb that he played (and there were a lot of …
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UPDATE, APRIL 15, 8:45 A.M.: The colors teal, yellow and black were worn by both the young and old in honor of the 2011 National Crime Victims' Rights Week theme, “reshaping the future, and honoring the past” at Thursday morning's third annual Orange County Victims' Rights March and Rally. Hundreds of advocates for victims' rights, …
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CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS ON TODAY'S ARRAIGNMENT HEARING Defense lawyers in the so-called “Irvine 11” UCI protest case have accused the Orange County District Attorney's office of anti-Muslim bias and demanded that the office recuse itself from the prosecution of students who disrupted the February 2010 speech of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. But prosecutors say …
The Buena Park Police Department Traffic Unit conducts a DUI/driver's license checkpoint in front of City Hall at 6650 Beach Boulevard from 7 p.m. tonight until 3 a.m. Saturday. Anaheim police follow up with a checkpoint operation of their own farther up Beach, at the Ball Road intersection, from 8 p.m. Saturday to 3 …
Dang it, I missed Tuesday night's U.S. premiere of Eat St. on The Cooking Channel, where our buddy, Deep End Dining blogger, Weekly contributor and author of Extreme Cuisine, Eddie Lin was featured munching on a sandwich at The Grilled Cheese Truck. ] The show, hosted by James Cunningham, goes cross country connecting with locals …
I.D. It's all Rodney Alcala, all the time on tonight's True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, a weekly program on cable TV's I.D. (Investigation Discovery) channel. The show will attempt to get inside the mind of the serial killer who was convicted in March 2010 and returned to Death Row for the murder of Huntington …
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Headquartered in Cypress, Baja Fresh had CEO David Kim embark on an emotional journey on Sunday's Undercover Boss. The waterworks would not stop as he worked alongside four dedicated employees and learned their stories of family values. When all was said and done, Kim started up a scholarship for someone's daughter, gave relocation funds to …
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