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David Lynch: director, actor, musician, now…coffee maker? Yep, the visionary multimedia artist and filmmaker behind mega-iconic art house films such as Eraserhead, Inland Empire and Blue Velvet is teaming up with Whole Foods Market to release his own blend of signature roasts–only to be available in select Whole Foods stores in SoCal. Titled “The David …
See Update No. 3 on Page 2 with results from the first weekend of the “Avoid the 38” campaign against drunken driving through Labor Day, plus Costa Mesa's checkpoint plans. Update Nos. 1 and 2 were on past sobriety stops in Irvine and Seal Beach. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 16, 8 A.M.: There was a brief …
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Sometimes it's a real trip to see our favorite hip-hop stars on the big screen committing the kinds of illicit activities they normally just rap about. (Was it satisfying to see to DMX actually shut 'em down and open up shop in Belly?) And even though we've got emcees claiming to be natural born killers, …
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Cooking With Dog, the best Japanese food cooking show on YouTube, has finally ventured to exploring Mexican food. Well, kinda. Their latest recipe is takoraisu, or taco rice, the popular Okinawan dish that combines ground beef cooked with taco seasoning and cheese served over Japanese sticky rice. ] If you've had this dish before you'd …
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This weekend saw the first-ever Wilmore 9 Film and Music Festival, a two-day affair that featured over fifty bands and over twenty films scattered around various venues and theaters around Downtown Long Beach. And as anyone who's been present for the developmental years of a festival knows, the earliest years are the the ones with …
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I'm a sucker for dishes and drinks named after the place the restaurant or bar happens to be located in. If I'm at a sushi joint, and there's a roll titled in honor of the city, street or neighborhood it's in, I'm ordering it. This has not always been the wisest of decisions. I was …
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For the second straight year, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Chapman University's film school one of the 10 best in the country. Finishing high on this year's list of “The Top 25 Film Schools in America” is extra special for the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts because, for the first time, voting was done …
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Could a husband-and-wife team of math department eggheads at UC Irvine have picked a more controversial issue to explain through formulas? Professors Dominik Wodarz and Natalia Komarova are using numbers and graphs and whizzamabangs to chart whether gun owners are more likely to die via homicide and whether data leans more favorably toward banning firearms …
By: Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman Last week, the Weekly published our unscientific list of the 10 Greatest OC Metal Bands of All Time. Some of you may have noticed the absence of Atreyu on that list–one of the pioneering metalcore bands to blow up in OC with the advent of their 2002 Victory Records …
Don't forget to check out our constantly updated OC Concert Calendar Friday, July 26th Weezer Pacific Amphitheater Although Weezer's image and reputation has faded over the years with albums Raditude, Hurley, and Death to False Metal seriously lacking in what Weezer is known for, most Weezer fans are die hard enough to stick with them …
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The Sierra Club today announced the launch of an online advertising campaign designed to extoll the benefits of rooftop solar in California–and to counter negative campaigns against the energy source foisted by Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas and Electric. But Matt, you may be saying, don't those same utility …
Over the past week or so, the foodie world's been abuzz over a report from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas showing that there are high levels of lead in Mexican hot sauces. Researchers bought 25 brands of hot sauces in Latino grocery stores around Las Vegas and put them under the microscope to see …