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Tonight's Glee to Feature 10-Year-Old Son of Housewife Beau Slade Smiley

Tonight's episode of Glee will feature patients of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, including 10-year-old cutie Grayson Arroyo-Smiley.   He's the son of Slade Smiley, boyfriend of Real Housewives of Orange County's Gretchen Rossi and man of child-support-owing, serial-housewife-dating fame. According to The Orange County Register, cast members will visit a children's-hospital playroom and perform a …

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Drunk After Work: House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer

The Place: House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer, 540 S. Coast Hwy., Ste. 200, Laguna Beach, (949) 715-4500; www.houseofbigfish.com. The Hours: Mon.-Fri., 2:30-6:30 p.m. The Deal: 25-cent shrimp-and-wings extravaganza; $1 oysters; $5 margaritas; $1 off all beers. $5 well drinks, plus a handful of other appetizers at “progressive” pricing. ] The Scene: The …

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[UPDATED: Further Details About Murder Investigation From KCBS] Notorious B.I.G. Murder Case Reopened

UPDATE, FEB. 14, 4 A.M.: On CBS 2 News at 11 after the Grammy broadcast last night, KCBS featured a report on the newly hot Wallace murder. Former LAPD robbery/homicide detective Russell Poole claims he has a jailhouse source implicating David Mack (who, according to court documents, possessed weapons and silencers at the time of …

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UC Irvine Professor Remixing the Song of the Egyptian Revolution

Celebrations are erupting in Cairo's Tahrir Square as well as other areas today as the Egyptian Revolution has finally ended the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. After 19 days and, according to Human Rights Watch, more than 300 deaths, the power of the people is on full display. The deafening cheers of the crowd celebrate …

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Can You Tell Whether a Country Is Lying About Inflation by the Price of its Big Mac?

The Economist always publishes great analyses of worldwide trends, even if it famously never puts bylines to its stories. It published a fascinating one recently–the McFlation Index, a process by which it takes the increase in price of a Big Mac in a country and matches it by said country's “official” inflation rate to see …

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'Before He Became a Doer, He Was a Reader': Professor Alan Houston on Benjamin Franklin.

​As you've probably gathered if you've read my rave review of the current Bowers Museum exhibition on the life of Benjamin Franklin, I've become a bit of a Franklin enthusiast overnight. So profound is my admiration for the show–and for Franklin himself–I rented documentaries from Netflix and spent the weekend on the Internet reading just …

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[UPDATED] 24 Civic and Faith Leaders Urge DA Tony Rackauckas to Drop Criminal Probe of Irvine 11

​ UPDATE, FEB. 3, 10 A.M.: The Los Angeles Times this morning jumped on the “Free the Irvine 11” bandwagon by publishing an editorial under that headline. Criminal charges against the students “are not appropriate” and “would be overkill” and could result in “a punishment out of proportion to the offense,” opines the Times Editorial …

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Good Food with Evan Kleiman to Host First Happy Hour in Orange County! At the Crosby! Alongside OC Weekly!

For years, I have had Orange County-based fans of KCRW-FM 89.9's Good Food with Evan Kleiman bug me about asking the host to have an event in la naranja–you know, like all the events she has up in Los Angeles, best of which is the show's Happy Hour, where Kleiman does nothing more than kick …

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