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OC Democrats are planning to do a lot of “building” this year, as evidenced by what transpired at the Democratic Party of Orange County's 19th Annual Truman Awards Dinner, held last night at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. The event, traditionally the OC Dem's largest fundraiser of the year, saw multiple references to keynote speaker …
I rant a lot about how kids these days have it easy, what with their Spark Notes, Wikipedia, smart phones, and easy access to porn, but one of things I will never envy about '00s kids is their food. Sure, they were born into a sort-of food renaissance and have their pick of menus from …
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Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges, which has previously been stung by a whistleblower, an investment manager and the Securities and Exchange Commission, now finds itself in the cross-hairs of the California Attorney General. ] OC Weekly's Corinthian Colleges archives AG Kamala Harris sued the for-profit educators Thursday for allegedly engaging in false and predatory advertising and …
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Everyone loves Alex's Bar for the amazing music, for its cameo as Fangtasia on True Blood, for its griminess and sheer beauty, but within these walls lies a bona fide cocktail program. Owner Alex Hernandez oversaw a slight revision of the place to get his bartenders in line with the mixology craze, and the results …
Sometimes you just feel like taking a garrote to your favorite cut of meat but don't have any piano wire handy. Luckily for you, dental floss can substitute in a pinch, as the kids over at Foodbeast demonstrated in their latest video. ] Sick of being unable to keep things symmetric, they took a length …
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Located in a section of Irvine that's more Lake Forest, Smart Levels Media's premise is simple: If you need something printed in mass quantities, it'll do it in stunning colors—and super-quick! Cards, posters, banners? Yes, yes and yes. It doesn't matter whether you're a Fortune 500 company or an Etsy shop looking to pass out …
Whenever I lecture about the history of Mexican food in the United States, I always bring up the point that Americans love the cuisine so much that they have long subjected themselves to devouring its worst manifestations. I ain't talking Tex-Mex or Javier's, but rather the disturbing trend of dishes that demand freshness…yet were put …
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Nearly one in 10 young people has been a perpetrator of sexual violence, according to national research out of San Clemente. The non-profit Center for Innovative Public Health Research collected the data that was published online Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. ] The results are based on answers the center collected in 2010-11 from …
Space isn't really known for its great restaurants, but it'll have the roots of a great brewing tradition pretty soon thanks to Michal Bodzianowski, an 11-year-old genius from Colorado. The whiz kid, who attends a science- and technology-focused public school, recently won a national competition to send an experiment up to the International Space Station …
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Still don't know what all this Obamacare holler is all about? Perhaps you need paneling. With open enrollment looming and a Field Poll showing 24 percent of Californians still know little or nothing about the Affordable Care Act, a panel of experts will answer questions about it from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at …
Jelly of the Month Club is the gift that keeps on giving. It was Eddie, cousin-in-law to Clark Griswold, who tried to put that fact in perspective in the famous wingding Christmas-bonus scene in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. After all, it's an exclusive membership, one that just got way cooler thanks to members of Sublime, …
Robert Rizzo, the rotund ex-city administrator for Bell, pleaded no contest today to 69 charges brought against him for masterminding the corruption scheme that paid exorbitant salaries to city officials. After the jump, find out how much time in prison the former Huntington Beach resident will get from the judge. Los Angeles County Superior Court …