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Most people probably don’t come to Coachella with plans to go crate digging for vinyl, but inevitably there’s a point when things at the festival’s annual pop-up record store get slammed. Thousands of sunburned Coachellians pop in and buy records throughout the daym storing them in the air-conditioned backroom to prevent warping from the sun. …
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Thanks to Russian Size, Orange County is now home to one of the highest quality Russian brands of vodka. Owned and operated in Irvine by OC resident Yana Gavrilov and her father, Robert Gavrilov, Russian Size is slowly conquering the American vodka market, starting regionally in the Orange County area, but with hopes of reaching …
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After launching just last year, the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Culinary Film Series is back to celebrate endeavors in the food and beverage industry. This intricate subject highlights the many achievements within the culinary community as well as the struggles and social economical hurdles that lay behind the curtain of what we consume everyday. Of …
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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 …