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It's hard out there for a video-game villain: always being attacked, never given the benefit of the doubt, forever pigeonholed into a role no one wants to see you escape. Such is the fate of Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly), the bad guy in an old-school arcade game called Fix-It Felix Jr., in which players …
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See the update at the end of this post with the appeal judges' rationale. ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 31, 12:18 P.M.: An appeals panel has upheld the conviction of Michael Kevin Lallana, the mortgage company employee and family man who twice slipped his semen into an unknowing female co-worker's water bottle. Lallana's defense had contended in …
Halloween is upon us. Being food bloggers, we're big fans of food-themed costumes. (Though please, if you go as Sriracha, aim for cute Sriracha rather than slutty Sriracha, mmm kay?) If you've got a group of food-loving friends, the results can be even more amazing. Here are five Halloween food groups. (Har har, food groups–get …
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Divisions within the immigrant rights movement are nothing new. Mega marchas in Los Angeles became fragmented over the years with different organizations and coalitions having demonstrations at different times and places. Here too in SanTana, May Day rallies have succumbed to the same dynamic. Who's marching at what time and where to again? When President …
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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has defeated President Barack Obama by 17 votes . . . . . . in the Orange County Market Place election for scariest presidential pumpkin head. ] See also: Will Untapped Latinos Sink Mitt Romney?Jenna Jameson Spreads Her (ahem) Wings for Mitt Romney Jenna Jameson's for Mitt Romney But What …
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The California Public Utilities Commission, meeting at Irvine City Hall this morning, voted unanimously to investigate problems at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The results of that probe may effect the five-member panel's decision on whether Southern California Edison ratepayers should pick up the tab for losses suffered from the plant's nearly yearlong …
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Every year, we try to pick an artistic theme that'll make our Scariest People issue as ghastly as possible—say, Dia de los Muertos, zombies or the Lincoln Club. But this year, when we saw the gargantuan, disgusting, all-chin mugshot of accused child kidnapper Victor Joseph Espinoza, the idea came immediately: Garbage Pail Kids! Of course, …
The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David Mitchell's 2004 novel that took two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer to adapt, looks less like a preview than a whole slate of coming attractions, so many and varied are the times and places it touches down. The box-office success of Christopher Nolan's multitiered …
It takes something special to make a game of mini-golf turn frightening. Right now, that something is the image of Alex Vincent of the band Something Horrible sporting a black peacoat while standing over a hole on a kiddie putting green, screaming bloody murder next to some plastic dandelions and a fun-sized Dutch windmill. Already …
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Gabrielle Jane Nestande has been indicted on more serious felonies related to a hit-and-run that could send the daughter of a powerful Newport Beach Republican to a Texas prison for 20 years. The 25-year-old former Austin Capitol staffer and Gov. Rick Perry campaign worker, who had faced a single count of failing to stop and …
No matter the results of the Nov. 6 election, the Libertarian presidential campaign duo of Gary Johnson and Jim Gray, the retired Orange County superior court judge, plan to run again for the White House in 2016. Gray, Johnson's vice presidential running mate, told a crowd this month at Tulane University that the two men …
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From appearances, Irvine—Orange County’s third-largest city—is the epitome of middle-class tranquility. The neighborhoods, even the ones that aren’t gated, look gorgeous. The shopping malls and parks are well-kept. Street crime is rare. The schools are among the best in California, and the residents, an impressive mix of nationalities and skills, thrive in unrivaled cultural diversity. …
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