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First, let's get this out of the way: There is no Santa Claus. Now, on to a perhaps even harsher truth: There are certain indications that Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, whose 17th-century paintings—including Girl With a Pearl Earring and The Music Lesson—show an extraordinarily delicate touch and a finely attuned understanding of light, color and …
During this holiday season, as we enumerate the things we are thankful for, let us include Laguna Art Museum's “ex•pose.” British artist Richard Kraft, based in Los Angeles, is the fifth to be represented in this intriguing series curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, and while his comic collage is forgettable, his ambitious installation “Which Is to …
It was 80 years ago this week that prohibition was repealed. If you could legally drink on that day, the youngest you could be now is 101. While our nation's command over alcoholism didn't improve following the legal sale of alcohol, a lot less people went blind after screaming “shots!!!” in crowded, poorly lit spaces. …
You hear all that buzz about China taking over the world? About it becoming the largest economy on Earth, about it taking over all our industries slowly but surely, about every corporation on Earth rushing to the Middle Kingdom to tap into its billion-plus population? It's happening to tequila, too: earlier this fall, Mexico's tequila …
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[Editor's note: Rap pioneer and Geto Boys member Willie D answers reader questions for our sister paper, Houston Press. Something on your mind? Ask Willie D!] Photo courtesy of Peter Beste I LOST MY INDEPENDENCE PUTTING HIM FIRST Dear Willie D, Your column is awesome! I love the honest, uncut, real advice you give with …
Scroll down to read the latest update… Original post 8 a.m.: No one saw this one coming: Wednesday night, just as all of Orange County settling in to overdose on turkey, accused serial killer Itzcoatl “Izzy” Ocampo was rushed to Western Medical Center after being found violently ill in his cell. Yesterday, just as OC …
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For the past year, as I've traveled across the United States promoting my Taco USA book, I've always told the audience how to become a millionaire: sell tortas. This always comes at the end of my lecture, when I tell people about the current Mexican-food trends taking over the country (regional specialties and the gentrification …
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Our cover story this week is my examination of one of Orange County's most infamous legends: the Indian massacre at Black Star Canyon that all of us know about but that most likely didn't happen, and definitely not how we've heard it. It's a story that took months of research, and made me delve into …
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which is my most-hated of all holidays. Forget the whole Indian slaughter thing–Thanksgiving messes with our production schedule. Turkey as served by gabachos is vile. Thanksgiving is a manufactured holiday that forces families together usually torn apart by the machinations of capitalism. But does anyone listen to me? HELL NO. Hell, my …
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The Orange County Sheriff's Department is running special DUI “saturation patrols” in four South County cities it patrols tonight. Meanwhile, the department Thursday afternoon followed up on an announcement from earlier this month concerning Orange County Crime Lab clerical errors with blood-alcohol tests on thousands suspected of driving under the influence. ] Deputies will blanket …
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People I know from the fire zone still talk about the Freeway Complex Fire that five years ago ravaged parts of Brea, Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills and, ultimately, four counties, damaging or destroying nearly 300 homes and charring 95 percent of Chino Hills State Park. Who wouldn't want to relive that? ] Slideshow: Yorba Linda …
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Usually, when a movie takes place over an extended period of time, the dumb logic of economical screenwriting results in scenes where everything that happens to the characters in a period of years has to be suggested in one compressed moment: As a child is born and gets named for someone who died a couple …
Continue reading “Everyday's Five Years Are a Triumphant Grind”