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Those 20 artfully painted pianos that have been donated and spread across our county for the past couple of weeks as part of Pacific Symphony's “OC Can You Play?” project are still around, but not for much longer. Having started on Jan. 16, the series comes to a close this Sunday. The charitable among us …
This week's collection of stuff posted from or about Orange County on the Interwebs includes a Duck call for Paul Kariya, an amazing Surf City aerial shot, the great Palm Springs vs. San Clemente debate, a slice of the 714 transformed into the 909, and what to expect from the rich white girl from …
My internal GPS works best in Orange County. Tell me what mall an establishment is next to, and chances are I'll find it. I also prefer surface streets over freeways (if the distance is short enough) because there's always opportunity for a discovery. Located along MacArthur Boulevard in Santa Ana, Pat' a Chou is closest …
If Dulce de Leche, Thank U Berry Much or All Abouts are some of your favorite cookie flavors, better accept the reality now: The Girl Scouts are no longer offering these in their lineup. But wait, there's more! ] The Girl Scouts announced earlier this week that both the size and quantity of some remaining …
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I really don't waste much thought energy on the Food Network, but this one is just too good to pass up. Thanks again for being such easy targets. More after the jump! ] From now on, I'm putting up recipes for things like onion- soup dip. It's seasonal eats, you know, since Superbowl is right …
Hearts will be everywhere in February, but Hoag Hospital (whose cafeteria we reviewed) and the Newport Beach Restaurant Association want to bring to focus to the beating, blood-pumping variety. In honor of American Heart Month, the health-care provider has partnered with OC restaurants to develop special heart-healthy menus. Throughout Hoag Heart Month, each restaurant will …
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This week, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of Griswold v. Driscoll, a Massachusetts-based case in which a group of plaintiffs sued the State Board of Education because it didn't include references to Armenian-genocide deniers in school curricula covering the Armenian genocide. Among one of the plaintiffs listed in the case …
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Bradley Stewart Wagner, a former Anaheim police officer who was sentenced last month to four years in prison for forcing immigrant women to blow him lest he have them deported, has more legal entanglements ahead. The 63-year-old Perris resident is due in federal court in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, when his trial for …
If you're thinking of snaking through Garden Grove to avoid Anaheim's DUI checkpoint Saturday night (or vice versa) think again: Police from both towns will be stopping cars in search of unlicensed drivers and drunks behind the wheel. First up is Anaheim, at 100 E. Lincoln Ave. between the hours of 8 p.m. Saturday …
This week's horrific show–which is composed to things said about and/or from Orange County on the Interwebs–takes a road trip. After the jump, you'll be treated to a freeway trickster, an Ultimate Fighter outta gas, a family that lives out of an RV (on purpose) and a surfing skier (and the readers who hate …
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A federal judge expects the first sudden-acceleration lawsuit against Toyota will go to trial . . . in 2013. U.S. District Judge James Selna, who is overseeing the class-action and personal-injury suits that have been consolidated into one federal case in his courtroom, laid out a trial time frame for attorneys on both sides …
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A friend of mine gave me a jar of a product called “J&D's Bacon Salt.” Initially, I had trouble figuring out what I was going to use it on. Eggs, certainly, and in gumbo or coq au vin. ] Then I started reading the ingredients: sea salt, garlic, paprika, onion, corn syrup (sigh), wheat flour, …
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