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December 26, 2013

Kids, Suicide Isn't Awesome: The Dreary 47 Ronin Falls On Its Sword

Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves' let's-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves samurai drama has exactly three things going for it. First, the cockeyed sensuality of Rinko Kikuchi as a spider-puking evil witch who can transform herself into a fox, a swathe of magic-carpet silk or …

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December 23, 2013

Merchwide Does a Lot More Than Make Your Band's T-Shirts

Merchwide in Orange creates merchandise for some of the biggest names in the industry. They're a one-stop juggernaut in the making that hired a group of music lovers to build brands for national and local acts. Suffice it to say this is not your average merch company. Merchwide takes pride in the fact that their …

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December 23, 2013

Orly Taitz Tries to Stop Cremation of Hawaiian Official Who Verified Obama's Birth Certificate

As close readers know, South County attorney/dentist/real estate saleslady Orly Taitz has proven to be pretty flippin' nuts when it comes to her quixotic legal quest to remove Barack Obama as president on grounds he was not born in the United States. But she has now managed to top (lower?) herself, suing a funeral home …

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December 20, 2013

Gustavo's Five Favorite Restaurants of 2013!

2013 ends as another great year for OC cooking, with our chefs continuing to push themselves to bigger and better heights. You can find most of the young guns represents in the lists of Edwin, Dave, Shuji, Anne Marie, Niyaz, and Charles. I, as always, mostly eat at the holes-in-the-wall, but agree with the general …

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December 20, 2013

Robert Douglas Fischer, OC Divorce Lawyer, Guilty of Murdering Former Irvine Publisher

An Orange divorce lawyer who needed a criminal attorney for a murder trial in Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona may now be shopping for an expert in appeals, as he was convicted Thursday of killing his stepdaughter's husband and making it appear as a suicide. Robert Douglas Fischer was convicted of the second-degree murder …

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December 19, 2013

The Spectacular Next: 10 Movies to See in 2014

As awards season draws nearer and best-of-the-year lists keep rolling in, there's only one thing left to do: get excited about what comes next. Here're 10 films you won't want to miss in 2014. ADIEU AU LANGUAGEJean-Luc Godard, former master of the French nouvelle vague, proved with 2010's extraordinary Film Socialisme that he …

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December 19, 2013

The 13 Most Overcooked Food Trends of 2013

Except the cronut. We love the cronut. (Photo: Tejal Rao) Here are thirteen food trends that have become ubiquitous and shed the sheen of novelty — now they're just dull and sometimes annoying, in spite of an exciting debut. (To keep things interesting, we've included a few food trends we hope continue into 2014 and …

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December 18, 2013

Ricky Yarnall, Bartender-Turned-Chef, At “Christmas Eve Eve Dinner” at 320 Main

“'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice, 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I've ever seen in my life!'” -Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland That's the quote that keeps running through my head. I've been to dozens of dinners with cocktails paired to the menu, but …

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December 16, 2013

June Mountain Reopening is a Family Affair

It was fitting that the first two chairlift riders of the 2013-14 ski season at June Mountain Friday morning were children. After being closed for 364 days to reassess where the ski area in the Eastern Sierras belongs in the multi-billion-dollar snow sports industry, Mammoth powers that be decided the focus needs to be on …

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December 16, 2013

Iftekhar Murtaza Pleas for Lie Detector Test After Jury Recommends Death Penalty: Update

ORIGINAL POST, DEC. 16, 11:45 A.M.: A jury in Santa Ana this morning recommended the death penalty for Iftekhar Murtaza, the sick fuck who wiped out a young woman and her father because he did not want the Van Nuys 29-year-old dating his other daughter. Murtaza had hatched a plan that would have his ex-girlfriend …

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December 13, 2013

Dead Meadow Ushers in a New Sound With Their Old Drummer

Usually when a band reintroduces a former member into the equation, the results aren't as good as it seemed on paper. But fortunately that isn't the case for Dead Meadow, which brought original drummer Mark Laughlin back into the fold. Though it took two and a half years to complete, which included dry spells due …

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December 12, 2013

The 20 Worst People of 2013

Featuring threesome seekers, cokehead judges, hockey dads from hell and, quite naturally, Wells Fargo. ] All illustrations by Kevin Cannon 20. Ron Nielson Ron Nielson wanted to do something extra scary for the kids on Halloween. He decided it would be totally spooky – not to mention hilarious – to burn a cross at his …

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