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It was just two years ago that I wrote an article about the 4th wave of ska. There wasn’t an exact date, but we knew it was coming. The locals believed that once a new Ska tune got back on the radio, the ska world would be in vogue all over again. On July 26, …
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Let’s face it, the Mouse is acting a little strange lately. After decades of dolling out pittance in pay, the Disneyland Resort agreed in late July to bring thousands of workers belonging to its biggest unions up to $15 an hour next year. Then, they followed that contract by raising starting salaries for non-union “cast …
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Hints of Sheriff Sandra Hutchens’ latest ugly scandal—the law-enforcement recording and studying of phone calls between defense attorneys and their pretrial, in-custody clients—surfaced without fanfare inside Fullerton courtroom N-11 in June 2016. That’s when Superior Court Judge Michael A. Leversen presided over the trial of Hugo Jovanny Jimenez. Prosecutors accused the 23-year-old Stanton resident of …
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As she prepared for bed on the final night of her life, 28-year-old Orange County resident Joan Virginia Anderson donned a blue nightgown and put her two kids—an infant girl and a 3-year-old boy—to bed. In the wee hours of that morning—March 8, 1979—Anderson found herself awakened in bed by an intruder while her husband …
In front of a sold-out Staples Center, California’s top mixed martial artists brought their best as they took on fighters from all over the world for UFC 227. On a night headlined by former Cal State Fullerton wrestler TJ Dillashaw defending his bantamweight title, a host of other OC-based fighters were given the opportunity to …
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Access California Services, an acclaimed nonprofit, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Anaheim with an uncertain future. Two years ago, the city drew up a lease agreement for the organization focused on health-and-human services to develop an ambitious family resource center on about an acre’s worth of land at Brookhurst Park on the west side. …
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Throughout the day, workers stuffed a big ballot box at the Lincoln Theater inside Disneyland where an animatronic Honest Abe has entertained park goers for decades. By nighttime, voters belonging to a council of four unions approved a new three-year Master Services contract on Thursday that includes significant increases for thousands of minimum wage earners. Workers …
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Disneyland workers readied for a week-long “Shantyland” fast slated to begin this morning near the theme park’s entrance in an ongoing fight for fair wages. But in a sudden turn of events, four labor unions will be voting to ratify a contract on Thursday instead. Not to be confused with the Coalition of Resort Labor …
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As a child, I had always accepted whatever someone said as truth. Santa Clause, God, and Warwick Davis as a Leprechaun were all very real (and scary) to me. One way or another I started to grow up and believe in each of those things less, even though I still walk a bit quicker while …
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Anyone who has ever cringed their way through adolescence can tell you that eighth grade—that in-between age when you’re not a child anymore and not yet a full teenager—is hell. It’s hard to recall any movie that has tapped into that agony as astutely as Bo Burnham’s comedy Eighth Grade. Starring Elsie Fisher as a …
Continue reading “Eighth Grade Is a Top-Notch Look at Teen Angst in the Social-Media Age”