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UPDATE: A Sims-style video based on the police account of the two murders Daniel Wozniak has been accused of carrying out has been posted on YouTube. More details throughout . . . The video was created for NMA World Edition, the YouTube page for Taiwan-based Next Media Animation, “the largest full-service 3D animation studio in …
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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This weekend is Memorial Day, and if you live in Orange County that means it's Garden Grove Strawberry Festival time. While it's fun to walk around the booths and play a couple of games, the real reason to go is for a strawberry shortcake from the Garden Grove Bethel (chapter) of Job's Daughters. ] You'll …
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There's more to Matt Aveiro than meets the ear. Besides drumming for Long Beach band Cold War Kids, he's also an auteur. He debuted his independent short film Jen In The Painting last year, and is now trying his hand at music video direction. Fellow LBC rockers, We Barbarians asked him to helm the video …
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On Tuesday, Zack de la Rocha gathered up a few of his friends to protest the Arizona state law (SB 1070) that legalizes and sanctions racial profiling on the site Soundstrike.net. Artists who joined forces to boycott Arizona (by “not allow(ing) our collective economic power to be used to aid and abet civil and human …
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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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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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More free music! Electro-dancehall duo Major Lazer (aka Diplo and Switch, who made the weirdest video of 2009 in my book) got together with British synthpoppers La Roux and created Lazerproof, a mixtape to be released for free tomorrow on Mad Decent. After the jump, how to get it. ] La Roux's new wave and …
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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 …
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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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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Don't know where to go this weekend? Heard Mentality makes it easy–here's the rundown of great music coming to town. ] Friday, May 21 Sweethead takes a turn at helping lay Alex's Bar in Long Beach to waste (or at least sonic waste), with the help of Normandy, Los Mysteriosos and the Velvet Matadors as …
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