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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 …
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Although everyone simply adores all of us at the Weekly, you do get the notion while opening a package addressed only to “the newsroom” that there could be anthrax inside. This fear seemed realized when I looked inside the envelope I'd just slit open to find a little tube with yellowish crystals inside. But it …
See the update at the end of this post on police not suspecting found play but suicide. ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 13, 12:43 P.M.: Investigators from the Irvine Police Department are literally off the beaten path right now, collecting evidence along San Diego Creek from a burned vehicle with a dead person inside. “Although near a …
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In 1997, 87-year-old Richard Lusk flew from California to Florida to claim an $11 million prize he believed he'd won in a sweepstakes. The day after he returned home empty-handed, he had a stroke. Four months later, he bought a second plane ticket to Florida and stubbornly knocked on their doors again. After all, the …
A lurching crawl through the moldering, candlelit passages of a pre-hygiene medieval meta-Europe, this new version of the Germanic legend from Russian cine-volcano Alexander Sokurov may be the freakiest gloss this deal-with-the-devil story has ever gotten, down to the ghost-zombies and Icelandic geysers. Mostly shot in the oldest, filthiest castle alleys of the Czech Republic …
Cold War Kids The Observatory 11/8/13 Cold War Kids have always been a collection of contradictions. The band sprang fully formed from Orange County's vanilla confines with a loose, grimy blues sound; singer Nathan Willett sings about doubts and fears backed by music that always seems to know where it's going; the band's most accessible …
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There will be checkpoints running tonight in San Clemente and Saturday night in Garden Grove aimed at removing drunken drivers from the road and putting them before judges. But for a couple thousand souls who were either arrested of, convicted of or pleaded guilty to drunken driving in Orange County, Christmas has arrived in the …
This is how progress works in Orange County: find a strip mall that houses two legendary Mexican restaurants, places that have fed generations of eaters, that remain wildly popular—and unceremoniously boot them to the proverbial dustbins. That's what happened late last month, when Santa Ana officials forced out Grande Bakery and El Pollo Norteño from …
Mexico is abuzz this week with news from the Department of Engineering at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla that tacos are not only good for you, but they're also downright healthy. In a paper with the awesome title “Tacos al Pastor y Flautas de Cochinita Pibil ¿Sabes qué es lo que comes?” (“Do You …
Another of Rancho Santa Margarita lawyer/dentist/real-estate saleslady Orly Taitz's legal challenges to Barack Obama's presidency has been struck down, this time closer to home by the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana. Taitz had sued Barry, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Elizabeth Emken, who finished ahead of Taitz in the primary for a …
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The sin in Wendy MacLeod's 1994 play Sin isn't the varying degrees of cardinal ones (gluttony, lust, vanity, etc.) committed by her eight characters. It's an unfortunate, dreadful second act that, in playwriting terms, approaches mortal-sin status. It's a shame because the first act, graced by fine performances and sparkling direction from Amy Louise Sebelius …
The Embassy Suites in Irvine boasts plenty of accommodations for its guests, including luxurious bedding and spacious quarters. They don't make a sales pitch to travelers looking for a place to stay with ice machines that have an oozing, moldy yellow pus encrusted around the chute or glasses that may make a person think twice …