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If you have a roof over your head and a bed to sleep in, you are fortunate. We discuss fundraisers and charities on Grub Guide to promote all the worthy causes raising money so others can live a better life. If giving a straight donation isn’t your jam, attend one of these events; your mind …
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The big rigs zooming down the 91 freeway are hardly visible over the lush early-spring crop at Organic Harvest Gardens. Leafy purple kale, fluorescent rainbow chard, tall stalks of fava beans and pockets of herbs and colorful flowers spring from dozens of grow beds spread across the half-acre urban farm. This North Long Beach lot …
Continue reading “Long Beach Chefs Are Working Towards a True Farm-to-Table Cuisine”
CHAPTER ONE Having waited nearly four years to see punishment for the unhinged, heavily armed man who in 2011 murdered his wife and seven other people in Orange County’s worst mass shooting, Paul Wilson stood before Superior Court Judge Thomas M. Goethals on March 20, 2015, incredulous that People v. Scott Dekraai would take more …
Continue reading “SoCal Murder Victim’s Husband and Killer’s Attorney Form Unlikely Bond”
It was the wee hours of Wednesday morning, April 18, and the sun had yet to rise. I was adrift in my subconscious, scrolling through the feelings and disjointed thoughts that never make it to the surface. I hardly remember anything I dreamt about, except that I was in Jamaica and watching a young, short-haired …
A jam-packed house is what’s typically needed for the energy of a show to be palpable, but that wasn’t the case on Friday night at Union for Mad Clown and San E, who brought the house down at half capacity. On the second stop of their We Want You tour on the west coast, the …
Continue reading “Korean Rappers San E & Mad Clown Battle For Hip-Hop Supremacy in LA”
A jam-packed house is what’s typically needed for the energy of a show to be palpable, but that wasn’t the case on Friday night at Union for Mad Clown and San E, who brought the house down at half capacity. On the second stop of their We Want You tour on the west coast, the …
Continue reading “Korean Rappers San E & Mad Clown Battle For Hip-Hop Supremacy in LA”
What separates the cannabis industry from the rest is the number of women executives. According to a 2017 Marijuana Business Daily reader survey, women hold 27 percent of executive-level roles in the cannabis industry. That’s a healthy edge over U.S. businesses as a whole, where women comprise 23 percent of executive positions. Orange County isn’t …
Continue reading “The Reserve is Back With A Product Line Designed for Healthy Living & Wellness”
So much to eat and drink; so little time. We spend some quality time across county lines this week, indulging in some fro-yo, beer and culinary education in Long Beach. Then back to Orange County for some special events. Spontaneous and well-planned activities are equally represented this week. Be sure to factor in naps. …
Continue reading “OC (and Long Beach!) Grub Guide 4/5-4/11: Burgers, Beer and Buchanan”
Admirers and critics alike consider Michael Harrah, the Newport Beach real-estate developer who owns Original Mike’s Restaurant, one of Southern California’s most daring, colorful entrepreneurs. Harrah bought The Orange County Register headquarters in 2014 and this year attempted to lure Jeff Bezos’ $5 billion Amazon plant to Santa Ana. The 6-foot-6, thrill-seeking, white-bearded, Whittier native …
A coalition of activist groups gathered on the steps of Santa Ana city hall to kick off a campaign to bring rent control to the city. Frustrated by a lack of support from council members, Tenants United Santa Ana (Tú Santa Ana) filed an ordinance with the city clerk yesterday afternoon following a rally. If …
Continue reading “Santa Ana Activists Begin Push to Put Rent Control on November Ballot”
Having come under fire for his Orange County Crime Lab rendering conflicting, pro-prosecution forensic-science testimony that separate murder trial juries unwittingly accepted, director Bruce Houlihan launched a two-prong strategy: deny any wrongdoing to a news reporter, then dodge questions from the attorney who discovered the scandal. But Houlihan’s unforced errors aren’t sitting well with Superior …
Orange County’s brewing history goes back as far as the 1850s, when Anaheim was founded as a German colony and its residents quickly turned the city into one of Southern California’s main beer hubs. Brewing thrived in this vast agricultural region despite homegrown temperance movements until the national ban on alcohol wiped out whatever was …
Continue reading “Our Inaugural Guide to Orange County’s World-Class Breweries”