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Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development (OCCORD) filed a lawsuit on Monday in an effort to halt the sale of Willowick Golf Course being eyed for future development. The oldest 18-hole public golf course in OC rests within SanTana but is owned by Garden Grove. In April, Garden Grove, in tandem with SanTana, issued …
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In a sea of puffy fried doughnuts and red-velvet cupcakes spewed from vending machines, Raw Baby offers the Southern California palate a respite from the usual. It can get a bit overwhelming, this dizzying parade of treats trying to outdo one another in a show of saccharine bravado. The internet has proven that the number …
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Chick Corea has done more to shape the course of popular music over the past 50 years than anyone will ever truly know. He started his career in the 1960s, playing with such jazz greats as Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Roy Haynes. When he joined Miles Davis’ group later in the decade, Corea found …
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There’s the Great American Beer Festival, the World Beer Cup, and now California has its own competition. Capping an epic two days of panels, trade shows and tastings at the CA Craft Beer Summit in Long Beach was the California Craft Brewers Cup, complete with an awards ceremony and medals awarded in 61 categories. …
Get wrapped up in the specials we located, or be glad we only mentioned one pumpkin spice-related item. Either way, sit your tush down sometime today and vote! Popcornopolis Seasonal Delight – You Guessed It It’s the second most wonderful time of the year. National Pumpkin Spice Day is coming up on Tuesday, and …
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Lisa Martinez fell into a coma by the time she finished her jail sentence last summer at Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. Family members finally visited the 52-year-old Anaheim woman after being freed from custody only to make the difficult decision of ending life-support days later. She had complained of stroke-like symptoms …
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Since I first heard them as a high school student in suburban Southern California, I’ve dreamt about seeing Wu-Tang Clan live. I’ve seen individual members like RZA, GZA and Method Man before, but it always felt like it would be impossible to see the entire Clan do what they do best, especially since the untimely …
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Besides the euphoric bliss and health benefits, cannabis basically makes everything just a little bit better. And my favorite thing about our favorite plant has to be the taste. When I was a teenager getting stoned in parking lots and skateparks, we would consider ourselves lucky to get a gram of cheap ditch weed from …
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s new rockumentary looks at the career of the singer who was in her early twenties in the 1960s, when she burst onto the folk-rock music scene. Directors Cut Cinema at Regency Rancho Niguel, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-0446. Opens Thurs., …
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Paul Lefèvre doesn’t like to be called an artist, but anyone who has seen what he can do with a surfboard, car or other physical medium would have a hard time arguing that what he does isn’t art. The French surfboard shaper, glasser, designer and manufacturer—who is best known by his nickname/brand, “Son of Cobra”—may …
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The Pacific Ocean off Southern California’s coast generates opportunities for businesses to profit from selling boats, seafood and cruises. But our waters also provide chances for capitalistic mischief. Though it’s difficult to imagine, tempers have flared in a money-making endeavor you’d probably guess would inspire more joy than conflict: whale watching. Boats regularly take excited …
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Political science graduate students read very little scholarship written chiefly, or exclusively, by women. This is a pretty damning finding from a new paper published in The Journal of Politics and PS: Political Science and Politics by two professors–Heidi Hardt of UC Irvine and Amy Erica Smith of Iowa State University (two others, Philippe Meister …
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