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“Hooray for free shit!” While everyone loves a freebie, know this: We're giving away some pretty esoteric prizes today. Fans of Welsh metal and/or smutty trash-untz-untz-untz dance-pop music will have a field day though: Bullet for My Valentine are performing at the Grove in Anaheim, while Jeffree Star will be at the Galaxy. Find out …
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The Handmade Brigade of Orange County is cooking up their first ever Block Party indie event in downtown Santa Ana, and they're looking for your vendor applications! After the jump, details on the event and how to submit your application. ] So what kind of hot summer fun do the ladies of the Handmade Brigade have …
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Sunday's Long Beach Bicycle Film Festival serves two purposes, helping to close out the three-day Long Beach Bicycle Festival that begins today and reviving the Long Beach International Film Festival, whose return is TBD. Actually, there is a third and fourth purpose: showcasing local documentary filmmaker Michael Wolfgang Bauch's Riding Bikes With the Dutch and …
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Cuong Viet Nguyen, 29 and formerly of Garden Grove, was sentenced to life in prison today after spending some time on the run from the law. In 2005, he shot a man in Stanton after whipping him with his belt. And then he fled. ] From the Orange County District Attorney's Office: On June 26, …
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A couple weeks ago we mentioned that Ikey Owen's trip-hoppy Long Beach jam band Free Moral Agents had released a live tune called “Systole” recorded at the Prospector for your listening pleasure. We also said that we'd let you know if it would be part of any upcoming FMA releases. Well, turns out we were prescient. …
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Don't ask about Heard Mentality's current obsession with Lady Gaga; just know that we spend sleepless nights watching her videos and trying to figure out where she gets outfit ideas that seem regurgitated but fresh at the same time. Hey — at least we're not the only ones with a Gaga obsession. There are over …
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(But first, a gratuitous link to photos of Lady Gaga Cookies.) For the first installment of Free Ticket Tuesdays, we are giving away a bonanza of tickets to E-40's show at the Grove, TSOL at the Galaxy and Los Campesinos! at the Glass House. Find out how to get them after the jump. ] Don't …
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San Clemente High School sophomore Daniel Mendez's apparent suicide on May 1 of last year led to a few things: a community in mourning, a lawsuit from his family against Capistrano Unified School District, and a club formed at his high school dedicated to making sure that something like this wouldn't happen again. Many say …
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] While Gustavo wondered whether the assault was connected to the gay/jew/everyone-hating group La Voz de Atzlan, other community members wondered why the university appeared to have delayed in publicizing news of the attack. The victim, though, has released a statement telling those critics to chill. LBPost.com has the full statement from Colle Carpenter, the graduate student who …
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According to this recent CNN article, the world's best restaurant is in Denmark. Noma, as it is called, finally dethroned Ferran Adria's El Bulli, which held the top spot for the past four years. If you're wondering how such a list is made, here's how: the “illustrious list is compiled by The World's 50 Best Restaurants …
A North Carolina woman received the death penalty today for murdering a Westminster fortune teller and her college-student daughter, whose heads and hands were covered in white paint. ] Tanya Jaime Nelson, 46, of Roanoke Rapids, NC, had been found guilty by a jury Feb. 16 of two felony counts of special circumstances murder, the …
Here are 15 things I'm looking forward to at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which kicks off tonight and continues through April 29. These are based on preview screenings, festival descriptions and even less-informed nonsense. 1) Bai Ling on the red carpet tonight. Years ago, a colleague showed me an illustration he had whipped up …