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It's been 15 years since we've had a new Dr. Dre album, and 12 years since it was originally announced, but thankfully today we FINALLY have Dr. Dre's Detox on store shelves. While there's been some pretty lofty expectations for the record, due to both Dr. Dre's consistent reputation as well as how delayed it's …
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Nahla Kayali, founder and executive director of the Anaheim nonprofit Access California Services, is being honored by the White House today as a Cesar E. Chavez “Champion of Change.” To be clear, that's Barack Obama's White House, not Bruno Serato's (speaking of champions for change). Kayali is one of 10 community leaders nationwide to be …
Cathy Pavlos, chef/owner of LUCCA Cafe in Irvine, opened her second concept yesterday in the Eastbluff neighborhood of Newport Beach. There's much to say about Provenance, but I got Pavlos to discuss her sophomore effort, answering all those questions you're thinking. Take it away, Cathy! What is the inspiration for Provenance? Our culinary inspiration comes …
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For Social Distortion guitarist and longtime SoCal punk stalwart Jonny 2 Bags, finding a review of his debut solo LP, Salvation Town (set for release this week on Isotone Records), printed in Rolling Stone magazine came as a surprise. The fact that it was a favorable write-up, albeit backhanded–reviewer John D. Luerssen dubs it an …
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In times of economic hardship, it is a given that school arts programs are the first to get the shaft. Naturally, the three R's are paramount, and, typically, sporting events are shown greater respect due to the social customs that accompany their practice; however, it is tragic that the arts, which offer the greatest contributions …
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In many ways, Orange County is still the rube-filled paradise it's always been. This is the place, after all, that gets mesmerized every night when the Disneyland fireworks go boom, never mind the inconvenient smoke that drifts around Anaheim's barrios afterward. Orange County is where The Orange County Register's fast-food coverage gets more accolades than …
As Bob Zmuda tells it, screenwriter Norman Wexler used to tote a briefcase full of thousands of dollars to pay off the many people that he pissed off each day. Zmuda—the comedian, writer, tall-tale dispenser, and longtime wrangler of Andy Kaufman—dished his best Wexler story on Marc Maron's WTF podcast in 2012. Annoyed at the …
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Lime prices got your love for tequila on the low? Well, maybe this will encourage you to imbibe a little bit more of American's first agave liquor: According to researchers in Mexico, agavins, a sweetener that can be derived from the stem of the agave plant, helps reduce weight and control blood sugar. ] That's …
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Was it Frank Zappa who said, “Necessity is the mother of invention”? Well, actually, no. This old proverb traces its roots back to Plato. But attributing SoCal's greatest rock & roll pioneer sounds best when it comes to the story of a young Yorba Linda music equipment startup called Gruv Gear. Let's start with the …
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A wise man—or, more precisely, a wiseass trucker named Jack Burton—once opined that “it’s all in the reflexes.” Few actors have had better ones than Kurt Russell, who makes a welcome return to theaters this weekend in The Art of the Steal. Having been largely MIA since starring in Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 Death Proof, Russell …
Last month, The Orange County Register published a piece on the decline of luxe loncheras, those “gourmet” food trucks that caused such a ruckus among foodies for the past five years. While spending a thousand-plus words on the genre, it only devoted two to the scene from whence those luxe loncheras came and continues to …
We're used to seeing, reading and hearing about how the nation's K-12 education system is broken, so it's refreshing to find out one form of education is working: the early, pre-K-12 kind, according to UC Irvine researchers. Specifically, the conclusions published in the current issue of the journal Child Development show that pre-school children who …
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