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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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Sol Del Sur’s Dave Emery is a juggernaut. The owner and chef of this tiny San Juan Capistrano bistro has a menu of Herculean proportions. It’s a Jenga-tower of entrées, salads, appetizers and desserts, taking on Spanish, Swiss, French, Cajun, Japanese and more cuisines than space permits to list here. His ingredient mise en place …
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It happens just about every holiday season. You go to Christmas parties with friends, family and co-workers, and you overindulge in all sorts of festive food. Which is fine because we all do it. When the holiday season is finally over, however, the bathroom scale tells you you've gained a ton of weight. Again. So …
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Hilbert Pineil Thomas, a 39-year-old Garden Grove resident accused of killing a mobile-home salesman and his secretary in Stanton in 2009, will face the death penalty, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced today. Thomas is being held without bail on two felony counts of special-circumstances murder for multiple murders, murder during the commission of …
I got a message via Facebook over Christmas asking for crafty advice, and I thought I'd share my thoughts! Anne Kuo Lukito of Crafty Diversions writes: “I'm looking for a good paper cutter, but I can't afford a $300 commercial one. I've tried one of the fancier Fiskars rotary ones and am not impressed by the combo …
When a radio-station personality has an appearance to plug, they generally try to be as accurate as possible–you know, to let people know where they're going to show up and such. That's the scenario facing Bill Handel, the morning-show host on KFI-AM 640. He has an appearance at the Bowers Museum in SanTana next weekend …
I keep my recipes in a black moleskin notebook, usually two entries to a page in my small, crabbed handwriting. The recipes are in no particular order, necessitating a sheet of paper to serve as an index in the back of the notebook, and they're a hodgepodge of units–cups and tablespoons vie with weights in …
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It's curtains for Tustin's Curtain Call Dinner Theater. The 30-year-old institution took its final bow last month, and is now closed for good. On its marquee is a “For Lease” sign. I'm a bit late in posting this, only hearing about its shuttering a few weeks ago, never having the chance to try it. Yesterday …
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Since this is the holiday season, better a story of warmth than one of mankind's many misgivings. In Michigan, a woman happened upon a cat in a Taco Bell parking lot with a broken leg and rescued it. Poor kitty had to have one of his legs and part of his tail amputated, and the …
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UPDATE, 3:35 P.M., DEC. 27: Check out Teena Marie's last interview before she passed away with her daughter Alia Rose after the jump. The cause of her death is still to be determined. R&B singer Teena Marie, known as the “Ivory Queen of Soul,” died this evening at the age 54 in her Los Angeles home. …
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Since a recent trip to the Takara tasting room in Berkeley, my days have consisted of finding another high-quality sake to complement my sushi addiction. I found success after stumbling upon a bottle of TY KU sake at one of OC Weekly's own parties. TY KU sake is made by traditional Japanese methods, but is …
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Gropers. Kiddie rapers. Sex blackmailers. Public masturbators. Kiddie porn possessors. And a dude who wanted women to fuck his dog. Yep, Orange County's got some winners all right. What follows is a list of the top 10 accused perverts of 2010. Keep in mind that these folks are innocent until proven guilty. Hell, hope …