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Success is simple and you can have it. In this workshop, you will learn the simple principles of empowered living, and how to apply them for success and satisfaction in your education and life. Come prepared with pen and paper, having already given some thought to three key questions: “What…
Helping HandsA Costa Mesa High School security guard offers a lesson in safer schooling through handballDavid Rodriguez isnNt used to losing. One of the best young handball players in Orange County, heNs an expert at manipulating that impossibly small, impossibly fast ball. But on Nov. 14, heNs up against Charlie…
All Together NowProposition 8 is keeping same-sex couples from marrying, but it has succeeded in uniting at least one family: OCNs gay community At the base of a bumpy green slide, Felicity Figueroa sat and grinned. A cell phone pressed to her ear, her legs folded crisscross-applesauce (like those of…
Bested!In which two food writers decide to check out our readersN assertion that JavierNs is OCNs best restaurantWe may never know how JavierNs got enough votes to win Best Restaurant on our annual Best of OC ReadersN Poll this year. But Gustavo Arellano couldnNt just sit by and do nothing…
A great fish taco is a thing of beauty: fried fish (yes, it must be fried!) topped with raw, shredded cabbage, crema (thin Mexican sour cream), chunky salsa and a squeeze of lime on corn tortillas. The first time I had them (“Fish tacos? Seriously?”) was when I was working…
Some people suck at driving. If you do not suck at driving, you probably dislike these people. But now you're not allowed to, according to UC Irvine scientists: After all, you can't hate someone for what they're born with.Science Daily reports that UCI's Dr. Steven Cramer recently published a study…
Yuh oh. A Washington Post poll published last week said that 57% of American support a public option as part of health insurance reform. This has appeared to unnerve U.S. Representative Ed Royce — or at least pique his curiosity. “The Washington Post claims that 57% of all Americans support…
As you rabid RX Bandits fans may have noticed, the Seal Beach band has migrated to Brazil for the month of October. And while that may be good news for those who live there, those of us to stuck in the country to the north can only hope that their…
Energy ConversionRodney Gardiner finds soul asylum in Stedapol C.C. WattThe band hadnNt counted on this much of a turnout for a Tuesday-night gig. The motorized hum of the Continental RoomNs retracting velvet curtain revealed swarms of bar-hoppers spilling onto the checkered dance floor.“Good morninN!” Rodney Gardiner, vocalist and guitarist of…
There are going to be about 100,000 fans, from all around Southern California, this Sunday at the U2 show at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. 100,000 people driving in from across SoCal, converging at one public place–can't imagine any problems with traffic, right?The fine people at the Rose Bowl and…
The Adventures of a Costa Mesa BigfootWith a camera in his hand and a song in his heart, photojournalist Keith May chronicles the OC sightings of the suddenly not-very-reclusive Sasquatch“Does it take everyone this long to get into a Bigfoot costume before robbing a bank?” my friend Jeff Beals joked…
Tracy Owens Chasteen is a wife, music lover, thrifter, and a city girl who lives in beautiful downtown Austin, Texas–the Live Music Capital of the World. She's also the prolific crafter behind the successful Etsy shop Polished Two, a veritable smorgasbord of great earrings, bracelets and one of a kind necklaces…