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Either the coffee at Nadine’s Irish Mist in Sunset Beach is too bitter, or Chell Johnson needs to do something with her hands. Sitting at a table in the center of the bar on a Monday night in July, the Long Beach secretary’s coffee comes in a diner mug on a white saucer. She asks …
Yeah, yeah, bad economy, food cost, hey entitled moron let's see you run a restaurant, blah, blah, blah. Restaurants are for-profit businesses, sure, and it's tempting to cut costs in creative ways, but here's the kicker, restaurants of America: they ought to be as invisible as possible to the customers. Here are five ways restaurants …
Please bear with us. We’re still getting used to these heels as we sashay to Urge Overkill’s version of “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon.” Hey, call us traditionalists, but that first dance is a big deal! As this paper (yes, now metaphorically crowned as a 15-year-old Latina, at least for a week) twirls into …
Herman Atkins Sr. keeps every receipt. About this, he is meticulous. For every bottle of water, every pack of gum, he will ask the cashier for a sales slip. Each day, he brings the slips home to his wife, Machara, who files them in chronological order, a separate folder for each month. When Atkins is …
As evening falls on southern Mexico, Sarah (not her real name) is shopping at a fruit market a block from her house. It is Friday, and her father, an investigator for the State Judicial Police, is home relaxing on his night off. Wearing blue jeans and an unbuttoned shirt, he is sweeping his front porch, …
You know you're doing it right when Gustavo approves of your tacos (and you're not El Chavito and the two-for-a-buck-plus-pineapple-juice in Huntington Beach). Gabe Zambrano is the head of the kitchen at Soho Taco, a gourmet taco cart that has been eating up Twitter, and this is his week on the line. ] OC Weekly: …
Inspired by a recent post by favorite fashion site Refinery29.com (check it!), this week is dedicated to something mostly everyone I know—male and female—loves: Masks! Hair masks, facemasks, foot masks, hand masks. . . . Most of the time, we use them not because we think they make us look any better, but just because …
“This is the story of my four years in office, from the beginning of 2002 through to godforsaken 2005. It may look like a comic, but it's really a tragedy.” –Mitchell Hundred, Ex Machina #1 Ex Machina should never have survived 50 issues. It's high concept–West Wing political drama meets superheroics–and should never have …
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The Maverick Theater has long sported a big ol' raging boner for staging plays that have some kind of cinematic angle, be it the Fullerton's company's annual Christmas show, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, or recent productions of The Manchurian Candidate and The Producers. So it's not surprising that its big summer show is a …
Despite the unseasonably cool weather we've been having, tomatoes are hitting their stride as August moves on and the temperatures finally hit some higher marks. With a huge variety of shapes, sizes and colors available at local farmers markets, there seems to be a variety for every possible recipe–'maters for slicing and eating raw, for …
There is a time and a place for everything, folks, including bathroom humor. Some would say the best place for it is the bathroom – and they might be right. Let's take a look at some indie crafters on Etsy that have created strange and funny decor items for your porcelain throne room! Just in …
Traffic accidents are rarely funny. But if no one is hurt and it involves 39,000 pounds of cheese and a truck fire, you bet it is. Add to that mix a newspaper reporter with a penchant for puns and what results is comedy gold! In his report, Sean Dugas, writer for News Herald in Panama …
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