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Normally our On the Line feature runs on Tuesdays and features a professional chef whose cooking has captivated the hearts of Orange Countians. We ask a series of not-very-serious questions and publish the results. Well, for this extra edition of On the Line, which we're publishing on Thursday to avoid confusion with our usual rotation …
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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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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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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 …
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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As I was scarfing down empanadas today at El Gaucho #2 in Anaheim, my eyes were drawn to cases and cases of wine below the all-fútbol-all-the-tiempo big-screen TVs. Cases of wine are not exactly out of place in an Argentine market with a fantastic sandwich counter, but somehow this stuck out: the boxes read, “Arcoiris …
According to the Suburban Chicago News, a woman arrives at her home one afternoon to discover a burglar playing her Nintendo DS. The 22-year old Chicago resident reported to the police that she was only away from her house for about a half hour before she witnessed the crime. When she returned and opened the …
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Taco Bell, it seems, has a new spokesperson named Christine — their own Jared Fogel, if you will — who claims that she lost 54 pounds after two years of eating fast food in controlled portions from the chain. The company has her face, and not to mention, figure, featured front and center on their …
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 …
Rent a WreckFor a former video-store giant, not such a blockbuster decadeIn a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated by maybe a handful of customers—high schoolers grabbing a game, a…
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…
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…