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It must be special election time in SanTana. Campaign signs are all around town and mailers are stuffing boxes in an otherwise off-year. Candidates have all but hoped for some profile piece exposure in the Weekly leading up to tomorrow’s ballot. Funny enough, despite all the flattery of that last part, it just shows who …
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They say government agencies always wait until late Friday to release bad news, so when I got an email at 4:36 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1 from the Orange County Health Care Agency announcing that it had just released its new report on suicide deaths in the county from 2014 to 2018, I knew the …
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A compulsion to venture beyond the realms in which members usually operate is the impulse behind the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA). The group’s innovation-focused academics and independent scholars, researchers, and artists will hold their 33rd-annual meeting at UC Irvine, where their interdisciplinary inquiries will unfold in multitudinous panels and presentations under …
It’s about 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, and it’s hot, bone-dry and windy outside the operations center. The day before this was just another conference room on the Irvine Ranch Conservancy campus, but today it’s a nerve center for the non-profit’s Fire Watch program. The half-dozen or so volunteers in the room are relaxed, …
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Today the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) charged five members of UC Irvine’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity in connection with the alcohol-poisoning death earlier this year of student Noah Domingo, 18, who was also a member of the frat. “Zavier Larenz Brown, now 21, Jonathan Anephi Vu, now 22, Mohamed Ibragim Kharaev, now …
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The Santa Ana Police Department would like the public’s help in identifying the person pictured here, who was found nearly two months ago. The individual is 20-30 years old, of medium height and 150 to 190 pounds with a circular scar on the upper left arm. When found, the person was wearing a blue/gray tank …
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Best of 2019 – Winners Food & Drink Editorial Choice Readers’ Choice Best Acai Bowls Banzai Bowls With a wide variety of toppings and clean ingredients, Banzai Bowls serves up acai meals that taste too good to be healthy. banzaibowls.com Multiple Locations Best Bagels Shirley’s Bagels This local institution has been churning out traditional boil-and-bake …
Add “forever chemicals” to the list of things you need to worry about. Their official names are Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and are considered part of a larger family of per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS for short. Though no longer manufactured in the United States, PFOA and PFOS were once used …
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Best of 2019 – Winners Cannabis Editorial Choice Readers’ Choice Best Budtenders Kannabis Works What makes a good budtender? For some, the answer may be as simple as someone being personable. For others, it may be whether you feel as if you can trust their insights and recommendations while selecting which products to spend your …
Whether by living in the age of Youtubers, holistic influencers or the Internet in general, education on good skincare has never been more within our reach. This is a good thing— in fact I applaud it. If young teenagers today could learn to stay up to date on using their SPF everyday and washing their …
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It could be argued that other than AnQi—which lies beyond Little Saigon’s boundaries and thus doesn’t survive on what the community thinks of it—few upscale Vietnamese restaurants get very far in the enclave. Until, that is, the Vox Kitchen came to town and bucked the trend. On the menu, there’s a $78 steak that gives …
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We brought Savage Love Live to the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, the Barrymore Theatre in Madison, and the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis over three nights. As is always the case at live shows, the crowd had more questions than I could possibly answer in a single night. So in this week’s column, I’m going …