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[Hole in the Wall] Gnarly Nayaritan at Mariscos Los Corales in Santa Ana

Gnarly Nayaritan Across Orange County, you’ll see restaurants claiming to specialize in mariscos estilo Nayarit—seafood prepared in the culinary style of the Mexican Pacific coastal state, a place as renowned as Baja and Sinaloa for preparing treasures from the sea. Almost all of them, however, are frauds, content to serve shrimp cocktails heavy on the …

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Is There ANYTHING Salvageable from Chowhound's Ultimate OC Restaurants of 2009?

Well, we've mocked the Register's reader poll; we've mocked our own readers, but now the fine folks at Chowhound have released the results of 2009's “Ultimate OC Restaurants” poll. Sample size was, frankly, a little thin, but the results were better than either of the print papers' responses, perhaps because the Chowhound community tends to …

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Young People With Multiple Tattoos and Piercings More Likely to Become Deviants: New Research

Evidence shows that college students with several tattoos or piercings are more likely to engage in deviant behaviors than those who have just one “innocent” tattoo/piercing, according to a new article in the research magazine Miller-McCune, which also finds one tattoo has no correlation with bad behavior. ] “My college-student daughter arrived home for Christmas …

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Recipe of The Week: The Best Sandwich You've Ever Had

The Alice Walker school of California cooking–the immaculate, jewel-like vegetables, the artisan oils and vinegars, the painstakingly sourced meats–has at times been leveled with the criticism that it is not, in fact, cooking, but assembling. How much talent or skill does it take to make the best ingredients taste good? Should the compliments go to …

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Obama, Economy, War, Swine Flu, Iran Election Crack Alamanac's Top 10 News Topics of 2009

Here are The World Almanac and Book of Facts Top Ten News Topics of 2009: 1. Obama Presidency Begins. With the U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Barack Obama swearing in as the nation's 44th president Jan. 20 in Washington, DC.heralded a major political …

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Christmas Trees Made Of Beer

Why go out and spend $40 this year on some live tree that got cut out of its arboreal paradise only to be kicked to the curb three weeks later?Here are some Christmas trees we can REALLY get behind. Whether you've spent hours carefully arranging cases and cases of bottles…

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Shirley Grindle Runs Out of Patience With TINCUP Reform Committee

TINCUP More Than Half-Empty?Grizzled watchdog Shirley Grindle runneth out of patience with the committee responsible for reforming the countyNs campaign-finance lawFor a few hours nearly every month this past year, you could go to the Orange County Hall of Administration in Santa Ana, take the elevator to the third floor…

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Republicans Spoof Loretta Sanchez's Holiday Card

–This week the National Republican Congressional Campaign committee in Washington, D.C. spoofed Democrat Loretta Sanchez's latest, famous holiday greeting card. To view, Sanchez's card go here. Sanchez says she's “delivering real results” for Orange County. But the NRCC pegs OC's lone Democrat representative as a “puppet” of Nancy Pelosi and…