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Laguna Niguel Imposes 1-Year Moratorium on New Medical Marijuana Clinics

Here's a question for Laguna Niguel's city fathers and mamas: Since you have just approved a moratorium preventing medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in town for another year, can you also give local patients 12 months off from insomnia, debilitating pain and lack of appetite—the symptoms that they have found cannabis relieves the best? Unfortunately, …

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Touch My Junket: OCMA's 2010 California Biennial Artist Announcement

Few people know that being an Art Whore is a glamorous profession. You see lots of Art for free.  Curators tell you gossip off the record. You hob-nob with young, vibrant artists.  You get invited to press junkets and offered free food.In recession-era America, free food is important. The down side? Can't think of one. ] …

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The Solution to Online Media's Advertising Revenue Conundrum

So, I'm a couple paragraphs into this Dan Walters' column on a coalition of education groups filing suit in Alameda County to declare California's public school system unconstitutional when my laptop screen goes dark. I thought I accidentally pulled the plug out of the outlet. Again. Nope, for a split second later, a video screen …

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OCMS Healing Leaves and Homes Tied to the Fountain Valley Medical Pot Clinic Are Raided

OCMS Healing Leaves and two Garden Grove homes connected to Fountain Valley medical marijuana dispensary were reportedly raided last week. ] The Orange County Register has the scoop, reporting that Fountain Valley Police just announced the raids today. No arrests were made, but police say they seized from the homes and the business in the …

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5 Songs So Stupid, Natasha Leggero Can't Believe It's Considered Music

Natasha Leggero has been hitting the stand-up scene for years while maintaining ample face time on such favorites as Chelsea Lately, Reno 911, and voicing Callie Maggotbone on Ugly Americans. It's no wonder Natasha was tapped to be a judge on the upcoming season of Last Comic Standing–this woman really knows how to speak her …

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LA Times Hints DeVore Misdirected Over Military & Reagan Background

​Perhaps inspired by the New York Times' recent detrailment of a Connecticut senatorial candidate's campaign by pointing out that he had repeatedly “misspoken” about fighting in the Vietnam War, a Los Angeles Times article today takes a close look at Irvine Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore's claims about his own military service and political …

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Drake Doremus' Douchebag Wins U.S. Distribution, to be in Theaters This September

The Weekly in January followed Douchebag, the indie dramedy about estranged brothers on an unlikely pre-wedding road trip, to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the buzz was deafening for former Santa Ana resident Drake Doremus' touching and amusing picture. Despite no budget, no big-name stars and a, well, douchy title, Douchebag was …

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