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Former Orange County Republican politician Chuck DeVore–who mounted an energetic if unsuccessful, 2010 bid to topple U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer in California–said today from his out-of-state home that he will not return and run for her seat following the Democrat’s recent decision not to seek re-election in 2016. “I’m a Texan now,” DeVore, 52, told …
Mr. Obi-Wan Kenobi himself–Ewan McGregor–narrates Humpback Whales, the next 3D, large-format film from Greg MacGillivray and his 50-year-old Laguna Beach-based company, McGillivray Freeman Films. ] MacGillivray Freeman Films' Big 5-0: The Laguna Beach-based large-format movie company celebrates a half century The results of the collaboration between two-time Golden Globe nominee McGregor and two-time Academy Award-nominated …
Controversial Buena Park Pastor Wiley Drake delivered the opening prayer at a pro-police rally outside the Los Angeles Police Department Sunday afternoon. ] The rally by about 35 people–some toting signs that read “We Support The Rule of Law” and “Reason Must Prevail Not Emotion”–was held in the wake of recent anti-police brutality demonstrations across …
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For a gentleman that prefers to be called by his surname, Chef Ritter is informal and hospitable. From the moment we shook hands at an event, to our last exchange at ARTIC's grand opening, Ritter has been nothing but cooperative with meeting our holiday deadlines. And for that (and some tasty pan roast) I thank …
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One more reason no one gets raises: Increasing the minimum wage causes long-term job losses, according to UCI Irvine research. And a hearty bah humbug to ya'll! ] David Neumark, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor of Economics; J.M. Ian Salas, research fellow at the Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies (and a 2013 UCI Ph.D. …
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Skinny Puppy pride themselves on being the soundtrack to your nightmares. Since forming in Vancouver in 1982, the legendary band have gained and lost members (one of which was Bill Leeb, whose band Front Line Assembly have joined Skinny Puppy as a main supporting act on their current tour), as well as collaborated with renowned …
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UPDATE, DEC. 16, 9:31 A.M.: Costa Mesa's CEO and acting police chief issued a joint statement reacting to the Orange County District Attorney's case against two private investigators–who worked for a law firm retained by the city's cop union in the weeks before the November 2012 election–accused of illegally spying on two City Council members. …
What kind of circle is time again? A year after blowing the doors off our annual critics' poll, golden boy Matthew McConaughey won just a single vote for his turn in the loudest movie of the year, Christopher Nolan's tears-in-space effort Interstellar, which has tied with the unprescient Transcendence as 2014's Worst Film. (Transcendence dreamed …
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A 21-year analysis of Antarctica's fastest-melting region shows the melt rate of glaciers there tripled during the past decade, according to new research by UC Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. ] (Some data came from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment or GRACE satellites that played a starring role in the …
The thing about hating your job and not giving a shit is it can happen to anyone, any time—it might even explain the longueurs late in most two-term presidencies. In Talya Lavie's bored, biting comedy Zero Motivation, aggrieved ennui hits right in the heart of the Intifada. Not that war ever touches the go-nowhere days …
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Göran Hugo Olsson's profound essay doc aspires to upset in the truest sense. As its vintage footage of the cruelties of colonial life shocks and disgusts, its narration—excerpts from Frantz Fanon's thundering 1961 text The Wretched of the Earth—demands that Western viewers fundamentally upset their conceptions of everything. A commanding indictment of the exploitative nature …
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