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“So what would you guys like to do?” The question hung over the table for a few moments. Break into more safes? Explore another mineshaft? Head deeper underground in hopes of finding more treasure? Or just haul ass back to the surface? One person at the table worried aloud about running into “rock people.” “You …
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Us. In Jordan Peele’s follow-up to his 2017 Oscar-winning Get Out, the writer/director/co-producer keeps it creepy as a family’s serenity turns chaotic when doppelgängers drop by. Various theaters; www.fandango.com. Daily through Thurs., April 4; visit website for show times and ticket prices; also at Art Theatre, 2025 E. Fourth St., Long Beach, (562) 438-5435; arttheatrelongbeach.org. …
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While wildflowers line our freeways, the hills are emerald green and turning yellow with mustard, the desert’s exploding with poppies, and billions of painted ladies are flying north, the world’s children walk out of schools in coordinated protests over threats to their future. As I sat outside in the sun after the protests on March …
There’s a lot of ways to reach cult status within the cannabis industry but the most straightforward approach has to be letting your product speak for itself. Mr. Sherbinski, along with his selection of premium flowers and concentrates have been skipping the small talk for loud results. Rooted in San Francisco and coveted by some …
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UPDATE: MAR. 18, 11:45 A.M.: Irvine mayor Don Wagner, a Republican, declared victory last week in the Mar. 12 Orange County Board of Supervisors special election. His closest opponent, former Democratic congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, made no concession on account of wanting all the ballots to be counted. But after Friday afternoon’s tally, Wagner maintained a firm …
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Hidden among the arteries of our local freeways and often buried within boxy industrial complexes is a counterculture of flavors rooted in one of the world’s oldest beverages: beer. According to the Brewers Association, Orange County alone has the same number of breweries as the entire state of Nevada, with an estimated economic impact of …
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All USC applicants connected to the alleged admissions cheating scheme of a Newport Beach fraud defendant will be denied admission, according to campus sources. “Regarding the students associated with the alleged scheme, each case will be reviewed individually, and we will make informed, appropriate decisions based on that review,” states an email from the USC …
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An 18-year-old UC Irvine freshman, whose death in January led to an interim suspension for a campus fraternity, died of alcohol intoxication, the county coroner announced today. “He just drank too much,” said a caller to 9-1-1 dispatch to report that Noah Domingo was not breathing Jan. 12 at an off-campus residence on Sycamore Drive …
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My parents never took me anywhere as a kid, especially to restaurants. Eating out was reserved for funerals, graduations, and the occasional get together, so long as my rich uncle footed the bill. Anytime we did get exposed to how the upper echelons of society lived my siblings and I were the worst kind of …
Along a four-mile corridor of Bristol Street in Santa Ana, fenced in vacant lots are a common sight. There’s enough dormant dirt to total more than 400,000 square feet of land combined. For the past two years, activists have campaigned to keep “community lands in community hands,” seeing potential in transforming the 88 city-owned parcels …
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Dan Savage, the Savage Love columnist and editorial director of the Seattle alternative newsweekly The Stranger, invariably singles out the same film when asked what’s new at his 14th annual Hump! Film Festival. It’s a five-minute musical comedy set in the bathroom of a gay leather bar. “I promise you, you’ve never seen anything like …
Ahhhh Argentina. The country that gave us the tango, Lionel Messi’s right foot, and yerba mate. For every silly fact or pop culture reference I do get about their culture I’m sure there’s a million things I’ll never understand despite my lifelong fascination with their culture, cuisine, and most importantly their women. When I find …