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Tanya Petrovna is the chef and owner of Native Foods. Her ever-expanding vegan eatery started out in Palm Springs in 1994, but we in OC know her best from her restaurant at The Camp, which is housed inside a yurt. She has two other restaurants in OC, not all of them in yurts, but serving …
By snubbing his current constituents as he runs for a U.S. Senate seat, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) is being held up as the poster boy for the need for a part-time state Legislature. ] So writes Amy Senk on her Corona del Mar Today site. It all started when Senk, who blogs under Amy the …
UPDATE: More information on the “Southern California Healing & Compassion Expo” (or lack thereof) below . . . “Beginning Monday March 1, our office hours will be from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, instead of 10 a.m. daily,” declares an online listing for Nutritional Concepts, a medical marijuana dispensary inside a Bristol Avenue medical building in …
Continue reading “[UPDATED:] Medical Marijuana Providers Fight Back After Costa Mesa Busts”
Roots album How I Got Over featuring Booker T. due out June 8. “Rumors of my sobriety are greatly exaggerated,” Keith Richards tells Rolling Stone magazine. And that's why we love you Keef! LCD Soundsystem, which kick off spring tour at Coachella, to release new album May 18. “It's no secret that I have had …
Dr. Orly Taitz is under investigation by the California state bar, has been fined by a federal judge, has been accused of asking witnesses to lie, and continues to espouse a discredited legal theories using discredited “evidence.” She has also been invited to speak to the Orange County Federation of Republican Women. ] Tomorrow, she'll …
Continue reading “Orly Taitz, Bill Hunt to Speak to OC Federation of Republican Women Tomorrow”
I'm not usually the type to complain about aesthetics when it comes to food… Things tend to look a hell of a lot worse going out than they do going in, so as long as the food is tasty, reasonably presented and doesn't send me running for the toilet in half an hour, I'm generally …
Pavement fans: the reunion that hits Coachella has begun (in New Zealand). Stereogum has the set list. Coachella co-headliners Gorillaz debut video for “Stylo”–first single off Plastic Beach album out March 9–starring everybody's favorite action hero Bruce Willis in bad guy role. Click to watch. Lil Wayne is to begin prison sentence today–unless he can come …
“We've established a safe access facility for all patients and their medical needs,” stated the WeedMaps.com write-up for Salubrious Rx. “We always attempt to add compassion for this industry, and give it a more professional touch.” And that the medical marijuana dispensary at 22607 La Palma Ave., Ste. 405, Yorba Linda, did . . . . . …
Continue reading “Remembering Yorba Linda's 1st Medical Marijuana Collective, Jan. 2010-Feb. 2010”
The Foodiegeddon 2010: Look Out, Yelper Skelter News Desk–which earlier whipped out hard-hitting posts on allegations in a Long Beach animal hospital's federal class action complaint against online-review site Yelp being eerily similar to accusations out of Oakland, and damning declarations from Team Doggie Doctor's Miami attorney–unleashes its third explosive revelation of the day: The …
Thom Yorke debuted three new songs–“The Daily Mail,” “Give Up the Ghost” (featured above*) and “Mouse Dog Bird”–last night at Green Party fundraiser gig in Cambridge. Will we get to hear these performed at Coachella? Steven Tyler and Aerosmith make peace, which means, yes, we'll have to endure another tour. Reissue of Rolling Stones masterpiece Exile …
Before he saw combat in Iraq, John Wylie Needham was a tall, mellow surfer and house painter from San Clemente. He came home with shrapnel wounds, depression and major symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and on Sept. 1 2008, he allegedly beat his young girlfriend to death during an argument. When Sheriff's deputies …
Continue reading “Iraq Vet Accused of Murdering Girlfriend in Drunken Fit Dies in Arizona”
A U.S. Army National Guard recruiter who previously served a dozen years in the Marines spends his spare time running a recreational basketball league that is holding its championship tournament this week on the far west side of Santa Ana, almost in Fountain Valley. Last summer, the Sarge was close to a deal that would …