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T-Rack Update, December 14, 11:48 a.m.: The disclosure policy has changed, but the results have not. As with just about every (if not every) police shooting case brought before it, the Orange County District Attorney's Office has officially cleared Laguna Beach cops of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Colby Koenig, whose case is …
You know, Forever 21, I know you’re trying hard to win over more fan bases with your recent collections—not that you really need to, you fucking $135 million company, you!—but this latest collaboration has only yielded unnerving results. It’s called “Minnie Muse,” and it features the iconic rodent in the red-and-white polka-dot skirt we all …
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We're mocked a great deal in Orange County for our love of chain restaurants, convenience food and cheap, Sysco-type food. It doesn't seem to matter that our tastes mirror those of the rest of the country–the point is that food is trucked in from God-only-knows where, six or ten or fifteen steps removed from its …
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Ninety-two percent of the La Habra school teachers honored the strike plan by the La Habra Education Association, and were out on the picket lines this morning. As for the nine schools affected, well, “They're open and we have credentialed substitute teachers in the classrooms and a curriculum is in place,” Superintendent Susan Belenardo said. “We're …
Went to write this week's collection of things written about and/or from Orange County on the Interwebs, and an episode of Entertainment Tonight broke out. The following batch includes celebrities and TV characters crossing our real estate before ending with La Habra's very own tabloid queen. ] My Invitation is Probably in the Mail …
Dull Razor Sad news for Orange County mixed martial arts fans. This weekend, Strikeforce star Benji “Razor” Radach of Laguna Beach lost to former University of Tennessee linebacker Ovince St. Preux in a unanimous decision by judges. Strikeforce officials and others in attendance at the St. Louis bout didn't sugarcoat the results. ] They …
If the two dueling parties can't come to some settlement in the coming days, teachers from the La Habra City School District may be on the picket lines in the very near future. So far, the La Habra Education Association, which represents the teachers, and representatives from LHCSD have yet to come close to a …
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The heart of the matter on the Long Beach Convention Center Grand Ballroom B stage was Chrysopelea paradisi. And what are Chrysopelea paradisi, you ask? They're freakin' flying snakes, that's what they are. With visions of flying snakes launching themselves from the stage and onto the academics who'd gathered to hear about them, it was …
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The wanderlust deep in the hearts of surfers–going anywhere for the “perfect” wave–and the inevitable spirtual and intellectual growth that results from that travel, was the focus of Surfer Hall of Fame inductee (twice!), philanthropist and enviromentalist Rob Machado's 2009 film The Drifter, directed by Taylor Steele. ] ; The Drifter follows Machado around Indonesia as the icon surfed …
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Sometimes in life, words just get in the way. Such is the case with Swiss theater troupe Mummenschanz. The group, who formed in 1972, use no words in their acts, instead breathing new life into everyday objects such as clay, boxes and toilet paper—and the results are humorous and entertaining. Though all the performers dress …
An Irvine technology and accounting services firm recently examined the Internet strategies employed by Orange County's 34 cities and singled out eight for such criteria as best embracing social media, offering greater transparency and increasing citizen access to their government. And the virtual envelope, please, for the great eight (listed after the jump): ] 1. …
Ron Price needs his milkshake. It’s 10 o’clock on a Monday morning, and the baldheaded, barrel-chested former bodybuilder is shuffling around the kitchen of a posh rehab clinic in Tijuana, wearing slippers and a blue Gold’s Gym T-shirt. Price was employed as a stockbroker in New Mexico until his training regimen left him with debilitating …