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DIY Or DieThe women of the Long Beach Craft Mafia know that the handmade revolution will not be televised—it’ll be on Etsy.com “I used to crochet pasties,” explains a pigtailed Steph Calvert. The pasties resembled Hostess cupcakes—swirly white icing, chocolate frosting and all. “Cupcakes for your cupcake,” she smiles. “They were great. People would …
Time PieceThe future, now past, looks like the present in the newest Philip K. Dick anthology The problem with fiction set in the future is that the present always catches up. Take, for example, A Scanner Darkly, the best-known of the five novels in the Library of America’s latest collection from science-fiction writer Philip …
It's no secret that high heels are terrible for you and your feet—squishing your feet into a slanted position while keeping the toes up can cause your Achilles tendon to shorten, causing discomfort when wearing flatter shoes. Not to mention all sorts of lower back pressure that results from extensive heel wear. Some doctors recommend …
Southern AccentsThe Whigs remind us that great bands still come from Athens, Georgia You’d think that when a young band have the good fortune to see their self-produced first album rereleased on a big label and are then sent to a proper LA studio to record the second, the results would be something like a …
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In which the author goes looking for someone to explain to our readers how Adderall actually works, chemically speaking, and finds his own son, Dustin Coker—who not only is a research assistant in a UC Irvine study involving ADHD and psychostimulants, but who also grew up with ADHD. Please enjoy Dustin’s narrative, which has been …
Debra's Girls Present: Going Green Theme Party, Friday 7 p.m. Long Beach's favorite gay bar pitches in to help the environment. Ripples 5101 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, CA 562-433-0357 Hootie N The Blowfish, Friday 8 p.m. Hold My Hand! House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim, CA 714-778-2583 Grillin' n Chillin' Cooking Class, …
The Mouthpiece That Roared USC's Orange County-raised quarterback Mark Sanchez is proud of his Mexican heritage. Why do some people have a problem with that? Consider the sports mouthpiece. It has a single purpose: to protect one's teeth from errant elbows (or not-so-errant fists). It is, at once, a small bit of hardened plastic that'll …
Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospitals dumping homeless patients on …
New York Post Page 6 columnist Richard Johnson reports today that retired porn star Jenna Jameson is having “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz's love child. Well, at least we think it's Tito's. Pity the fool who is the father if it is not. By the by, our image of Ortiz was shot by former …
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Doctored Evidence? A lawsuit alleges an intriguing theory about how a pair of gloves and a gun ended up in a whistleblower physician's car A bizarre case of road rage involving a soft-spoken doctor who exposed shoddy conditions at his own hospital just got even stranger. According to a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by …
So you can't afford that $3,000 handbag or even a $25 bottle of limited edition nail varnish—but Urban Outfitters has made owning a liiiittle piece of Karl Lagerfeld possible. The Beautiful Ones has released a series of Tees with all our favorite fashion icons: Michael Jackson, Lagerfeld and an Aladdin Sane Bowie. But the favorite …
The Wizard of OzThis classic piece of Hollywood fantasy cinema is being screened with live orchestral accompaniment from the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. The audience is invited to come dressed as one of the “Wizard of Oz” characters. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Dr., Irvine, (714) 755-5799; www.pacificsymphony.org. Sat., 8 p.m. $22-$102. The Big LebowskiThe …