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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…
Come and GoDan Deacon returns to UC Irvine as Sam Farzin, the man who brought him there, heads off on tourThis isnNt a tale of two cities, but it is a tale of two people rapidly traveling to various cities and other places on the globe—and an upcoming show at…
When her 8-year-old daughter asked her what “sexy” means, Collette Kakuk didnNt flinch. “I said to her, ‘What do you think it means?N” recalls the owner of OC Pole Fitness. “She said, ‘You feel good about yourself, and it feels nice.N” If anything, her daughterNs thoughtful response only validated KakukNs…
Motörhead are currently on tour (including a stop at the House of Blues in Anaheim), they also play a role in upcoming action/adventure game Brütal Legend, out next week on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (we got a chance to play it at Comic-Con this year, it's a fun, straight-forward…
UPDATED WITH A CORRECTION . . . It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls–now with more girlie knife fights, un-tartared waters, pranksters with bullhorns, real-looking fake-gun scares and dogs stolen, smashed, smelling marijuana and taking bites out of crime MONDAY, SEPT. 28 Everything But the Clothes Off His…
People who are apparently patients of Daryn Peterson have set up an online legal defense fund — www.DrDarynPetersonDefenseFund.com — for the “natural doctor” the Orange County District Attorney's office has branded a fake. The 37-year-old Las Vegas resident was arrested and charged late last week with unauthorized practice of medicine, operating a…
Consider the WriterTrying for tribute, John Krasinski makes a mess of David Foster WallaceNs Brief Interviews With Hideous Men “Everything I write ends up being about loneliness,” said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show Bookworm. In that conversation, Wallace was trying to…
One of the big draws in crafting is the ability to make something, anything, your own. There's literally zillions of ways you can create something unique through the wonders of dyeing, knitting, embroidering and more. Sewing your own clothes is great, but sometimes you yearn for a fabric design that…
The Hurley Pro, drawn out for a week due to poor conditions, finally had some decent sets filling in on saturday. HD video footage is still available on the Hurley Pro website, along with detailed heat results, photos and more from what always promises to be one of Orange County's most…
Underpants!!! Now that I've got your attention, who here has tried dying things before–show of hands please. Hmmm, not many of you out there, I see. Never fear! Long Beach Craft Mafia got the opportunity to test out some new Tulip brand dye products recently. After the jump, see how…
Time BombThe investigation into a San Francisco cop killing in the N70s leads to a Chicago law professor who helped launch Barack ObamaNs political career On the night of Feb. 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight…
No Exclamation Point NecessaryThe Informant! gets cute with massive corporate scandal and blows the storyAs evidenced by The Informant! itNs a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) biochemist-exec-turned-crooked-federal-snitch Mark Whitacre is a tragicomedy. Journalist Kurt Eichenwald spent five…