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Today marks the beginning of the closing arguments in the trial brought in San Francisco federal court against California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8. A few developments from recent weeks in the Prop. 8-watching world if you haven't been following along: ] U.S. District Court judge Vaughn Walker released a list of questions that he would …
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One of the primary joys of Netflix is being able to see films that you wouldn't get a chance to see in local movie theaters. One of those is director Megumi Sasaki's extraordinary 2009 documentary Herb & Dorothy, now available on DVD, iTunes and Netflix's streaming video. I saw it a few days ago and …
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Again, this week's ticket giveaways are all to awesome shows. Heard Mentality is giving away a bunch of tickets to Athlete, Future Islands, Rooney, U.S. Bombs, The Cool Kids and Venus Infers this week. Find out how after the jump. ] All you have to do is post a comment below telling us a funny …
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Every summer has its Big Story This year, it's the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an ecological and financial disaster that is quickly reaching such staggering proportions that the human mind can't comprehend it. It's like trying to count grains of sand on a beach — or in this case grains of …
The horrific deaths of Orange County residents Samuel Herr and Julie Kibuishi three weeks ago made nationwide news in no small part to the grotesque fact that Herr's decapitated head was found in Long Beach's El Dorado Regional Park. ] Grisly news indeed, and the media's obsession with trumpeting the most ghastly and perverse corners …
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There was a time when leveling the word “sellout” at a band was the equivalent of pinning a scarlet letter to a musician's leather jacket. For some of those bands who made it big in the '90s, fame was ostensibly a lamentable state of being, the equivalent of living with an incurable STD–wretched, but inescapable. …
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For many arts professionals, the administrative aspect of things is a creative death sentence, as time spent on personal projects drops by the wayside and artists get ground up in the gears of keeping an organization afloat. A quick look at ARTS Orange County Executive Director Rick Stein's oeuvre–unflagging arts advocacy and patronage, the three blogs …
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A few weeks ago, we found out the Watson Twins were playing in Downtown Santa Ana … but couldn't find out details such as venue, ticket info and time. Now we know why! The duo is performing for free! at Posse on Broadway: A Downtown Santa Ana Block Party. ] Every third Saturday of the …
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Huntington Beach, you should be ashamed. You are being… OUT-BROED. There is a thing happening out in the world, and it involves bros, perpetuating bro-tastic acts on other bros. It's called, Bros Icing Bros. The point is to ambush your bro with a Smirnoff Ice, at which point, he must drink it without protest. That's …
I've never met the Indie Peddler before, but I've been asked numerous times to find out who the hell she is. With her long red hair and a wide, radiant smile, she welcomed me with a large hug during our interview. “I'm Kim. Thank you for coming.” She had an inspiring kind of voice, velvety, …
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Jay Chen, a member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education, informs on his Facebook page that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on a district school's controversial Confucius Classroom airs tonight. “My Daily Show interview with Aasif re: our Chinese Class is scheduled to air tonight, at 11 p.m.,” …
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A Garden Grove man who choked his elderly mother to death because she wanted him to study medicine instead of pharmacy was sentenced today to six years in prison. You read that right: choke out your 71-year-old mom, get six measly years behind bars. When Son Richard Lam Nguyen's trial began in early March, the …
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