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As OC Weekly‘s Viva Los Tacos event draws closer, I wanted to take this opportunity to get to know a few of the people participating. This week, I go vegan with Loreta Ruiz and her creative tamales. Best culinary tip for the home cook:I think that cooking at home when vegan can be a difficult …
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If you add the numbers in the year 2018, you get 11, which means, as all the savvy kids know, that 11 is the magic number of this new year. Bet it all on 11! Buy 11 Hot Pockets for the price of 10! Vote Nov. 6 against your local Republican congressman 11 times! And …
I married my high-school sweetheart at 17, had a baby, stayed together a few years, then mental illness and subsequent infidelity led to things ending. My ex-husband remarried, divorced again and is now in another LTR. I’m in a LTR for a decade with my current partner (CP), we have a few kids, and I’m …
JANUARY On Jan. 5, the first day of the 2017-18 Legislative Session in Sacramento, Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra introduces Assembly Bill 39, which would establish the California Hate Crimes Registry. Listing every hate crime and criminal who perpetrates one for public inspection is necessary, the San Fernando Valley Democrat explains, because “we have witnessed an alarming …
The Huntington Beach Police Officers’ Association released the results of a poll in August that revealed 92 percent of the membership had no confidence in Police Chief Rob Handy. Now, the Huntington Beach Police Management Association (HBPMA), in an “unprecedented move,” is saying pretty much the same thing. “We represent the captains and lieutenants of …
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CHAPTER ONE Except for a disturbing fact—the presence of Nicholas, a bloody, bound, diaper-soiled, crying 2-year-old sitting on the kitchen floor without supervision—Catherine Tameny’s modest one-bedroom apartment situated between the Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm amusement parks looked deceptively neat upon opening the front door. Tameny’s worried mother, Carolyn, and her stepfather, John, entered the …
The Cambodian Advocacy Collaborative held a forum in Long Beach on Saturday to reveal the results of a new “needs assessment” survey while drawing attention to recent immigration detentions impacting the community. The city is home to the largest Cambodian population in the nation, many of whom first arrived in the early 80’s as refugees …
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Rarely has there been a band so aptly-named. When The Hurricanes step up on stage and pick up their instruments one manic audience after another baying crowd has been blown away. The band was formed in 2012 when drummer Alex “Little Man” Marcial, then still a high school senior in Santa Ana, persuaded his recently-graduated …
Medical Board of California discipline could be coming for a Newport Beach psychiatrist accused of over-prescribing medications and laboratory testing for a 30-year-old man and an Irvine anesthesiologist who allegedly sent an 84-year-old woman home without outpatient surgery due to heart irregularities—but did not consult a cardiologist. She died of heart failure that same day. Kimberly Kirchmeyer, the …
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Anyone familiar with the dreamy electro-prog-shoegaze of Long Beach band Flying Hand is also wonderfully familiar with the spacious playing of singer and guitarist Temo Molina, a still-largely undiscovered and certainly under-appreciated local artist who has spent the 15 years of his career thus-far baring his soul through music. He puts out his second solo …
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[Editor’s Note: On August 21, the movie “Dirty Dancing” celebrated its 30th anniversary. We took this opportunity to introduce our 2nd Great Cover Song Challenge, wherein musicians were dared to agree to cover a song without knowing advance what it would be or even who it would be by. They had about six weeks to …
My best friend, who knows enough about makeup to fill a book and from whom I often steal makeup ideas, applies color to her eyebrows as part of her full makeup routine. Using eyeshadow, she transforms her brows into two brightly colored arches above her eyes, complementing her eye makeup and establishing another means to …