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I still maintain that Bambú Lounge at the Fairmont Newport Beach is the most underrated hotel bar in the county, a place where the food is good and affordable considering the surroundings, and the cocktails spectacular. The bar is smart–they even know how to make a great Man o' War, a Kentucky cocktail that I …
Alain Resnais's last completed film, Life of Riley (2014), presents a group of aging friends who plan, hope, wish, dream, and scheme after they learn that one of their own is dying. The doomed man, George Riley, never shown onscreen, is enlisted to join an amateur theater production in the role of a dashing lover, …
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Conventional wisdom is that Michelle Steel is the presumptive front runner in this year’s campaign to replace outgoing Supervisor John Moorlach. Steel announced first, plucked down $100,000 of her own cash and has raised an additional $530,000. Plus her supporters include heavyweight political insiders including divorcing Orange County power couple Mike and Susan Schroeder, lobbyists …
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It doesn’t feature iPhones, Twitter or an Internet, and yet Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop remains perhaps the most prescient sci-fi effort of the past 30 years—a work from 1987 whose continuing relevance is matched by the fact that no one would dare make it today. Or, at least, remake it properly, since, minor virtues aside, José …
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It's nearly impossible to do some things the “natural” way. And dying your hair seems like one of those things because when you get down to it, changing your hair color to something other than what Jeebus intended is as quintessentially unnatural as it gets. A handful of retailers have begun making earth-friendly dyes, but …
A Fullerton police officer has been charged with stealing around $24,000 from a financial lender and a wholesale automobile buyer after failing to repay a loan and fraudulently selling his truck, which was collateral for the unpaid loan. On the bright side, no homeless person was beaten to death in the making of this alleged …
You know Stuff White People Like, the popular (and hilarious) blog that was spun into a New York Times bestseller? Using the same criteria Stuff White People Like used to discover what stuff white people like, a wacally real estate site has compiled the top 10 American cities white people like most, and our own …
Hey folks. Here's another nicely condensed dining digest for you reading pleasure. Let's see what happened this week… ] Edwin went to Solita, a smaller version of SOL Cocina, in Huntington Beach. Then he gave us the restaurant roll call for January. He also told us that Farm Direct Market, basically a Wholesome Choice, will …
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Jeremy Spencer was the co-founder of Fleetwood Mac who could make his guitar do just about anything. But in 1971 after growing tensions, he left the Mac prior to an LA show and began his decades-long involvement with the religious sect the Children of God, a.k.a. the Family, a.k.a. a pathway to troubling Google search …
They may not have played football in ancient Rome, but there's an unintentional similarity between the beginning of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum and that curb-stomping NFL Super Bowl on Feb. 2. Just as that snap that sailed over a befuddled Peyton Manning's head on the first play from scrimmage …
When most people are looking to seriously launch a new project of any kind–a business, a team, a band–they aim to snag the best, most experienced, most reliable talent around. But guitarist/vocalist Erik “Ripley” Johnson took an entirely different tack when putting together Wooden Shjips in the early 2000s. Inspired by the Velvet Underground's use …
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There's been many a bizarre crime at Taco Bells over the course of this column's history, but this one may be a first: victims of a robbery claim they had gone to a Taco Bell parking lot to practice their medieval swordplay. Then, it turns out these errant knights were actually there to sell pot …
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