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A tip of the hat to Michael Goldstein, scribe of the Weekly's Toke of the Town newsletter, for this scrap of good news: According to a recent Field Poll, 54 percent of California voters support legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Yay! That's a hefty 11 percentage points more than the 43 percent of respondents who …
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[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places. As …
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This post has been updated at the bottom of page 3 to reflect former federal prosecutor Andrew Stolper's side of the story. Read more about him here: “Andrew Stolper, Former Federal Prosecutor, Fends Off Critics of His Litigation-Finance Firm.” “Something happened,” William J. Ruehle matter-of-factly tells UC Irvine law students, who spent Wednesday's lunch hour …
Randal Quan, the father of one of the first murder victims pinned to rampaging LAPD washout Christopher Jordan Dorner, called the Irvine Police Department watch commander right after initial media reports of two people being killed at a condo complex Feb. 3 out of fear his daughter may have been one of them. That tidbit …
See Update No. 3 at the bottom of page 2 on the deceased woman's family reacting to no jail time being given. Update No. 1 on the next page about Gabby being found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, and Update No. 2 on page 2 on the sentence including probation, a fine but no jail …
See the update at the end of this post on the service that featured Randal Quan speaking. ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 22, 4:38 P.M.: There will be a memorial service Sunday for Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence at the place where the engaged couple met, Concordia University in Irvine. But unlike the live coverage from the …
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Good short-film anthologies are lovingly culled from disparate sources, so it's no surprise the entries in this for-hire horror anthology—in which international filmmakers were tapped to provide brief, cheap chillers pegged to a letter of the alphabet—are berserkly inconsistent. What's unexpected is how thoroughly The ABCs of Death's ample duds overshadow its treasures and how …
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An Austin, Texas, jury continues deliberations today. Before, we had presented reasons things don't look good for the DUI death trial defense of driver Gabrielle Jane Nestande. So, it's only fair we present her side's counterpoints. Nestande grew up in Newport Beach as the daughter of GOP insider and former Orange County politician Bruce Nestande, …
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After five days of making its case, the prosecution rested today against Gabrielle Jane Nestande, the daughter of a veteran Orange County politician and GOP insider fighting to stay out of a Texas prison for following a night of drinking with driving into a pedestrian who died and leaving the scene. Text messages, surveillance video, …
The cult surrounding Pliny the Younger from the Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa is well-known in the beer world, and it's the kind of cult that'll have people waiting six hours just for a pint. For those who don't know: the Younger is a triple IPA, created via a fiendishly difficult process with …
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Every Monday, Clay Oven Irvine executive chef/owner Geeta Bansal shares an interview that she's done with some of the heavyweights of European cooking. Today, she regales us with a visit to the Basque country, where Elena Arzak rules the kitchen alongside her legendary family. Enjoy! ] Top Female Chef en el Mundo!By Geeta Bansal, Executive …
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See the update at the bottom of page 2 on the belief that a single gunshot killed the suspect, the San Bernardino County sheriff defending his deputies and the latest on the reward. ORIGINAL POST, FEB. 14, 10:56 A.M.: Had Christopher Jordan Dorner lived and been taken into custody, the Orange County district attorney's office …