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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but sometimes those beholders are fucking weird. Case in point: Bagel heads. These are people who get saline injections to make it look like there are bagels inside their foreheads. Bagels, as in the breakfast food. Inside their foreheads. Yeah. It's fashion. Just go with it. …
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See the update at the end of this post on the defense and prosecution arguing over whether battery occurred. ORIGINAL POST, SEPT. 25, 2 P.M.: Michael Kevin Lallana, a Fullerton dad and OC Weekly's third scariest person of 2010, is reportedly appealing his conviction last year of jizzing into an unsuspecting female co-worker's water bottle …
It was gay rights icon Harvey Milk who described Orange County best, in response to California State Senator John Briggs describing San Francisco as “the moral garbage dump of homosexuality in this country.” “Nobody likes garbage 'cause it smells,” Milk told reporters. “Yet eight million tourists visited San Francisco last year. I wonder how many …
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By now, most Southern Californians, if not the entire world where there is an internet connection, should know, in one way or the other, Psy, a South-Korean rapper, and his infectious K-Pop smash, “Gangnam Style.” It's rare that a South Korean musician breaks through the American-cultural divide and finds his way into the MTV Video …
After months of rallies, public discourse and meetings where enraged community members voiced their love for Berth 55, the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners set aside the 180-day notice that would have displaced the businesses on Oct. 16. Since the community forum at Queens Warf Restaurant on Aug. 29, where supporters of Berth …
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“Cooking is about shopping.” He had us at shopping. How Sid Fanarof, founder of zcafe (and zpizza) is able to relate the two took a while to answer, but he tied together two of our favorite pastimes. It's normal for Sid to be out and about early Saturday morning searching for deals at both garage …
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Well…hello again! Last time we did this tournament, Dave had a showdown between G Burger and Umami Burger in the Burger Baron category, with the La Habra upstart beating the Los Angeles chain in a controversial upset. That was on August 9. I was supposed to follow by matching up TK Burger versus In-n-Out in …
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A rerelease whose cash-grab intentions are as transparent as the crystal-clear Sydney ocean, Finding Nemo 3-D exists only to relieve parents of money for a movie they undoubtedly already own. Disney's double-dip of Andrew Stanton's beloved 2003 adventure features absolutely no new content—save for the boisterous prefacing short “Partysaurus Rex,” with Toy Story's characters—so those …
Brinda Sue McCoy, the wife of Oceanside's police chief, was sentenced today to 15 years in state prison for shooting at responding police officers after calling 9-1-1 and initiating an armed stand-off. The 49-year-old had been found guilty by a jury on June 18 of five counts of assaulting a police officer for waving, pointing …
The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of the Lost Ark by holing up in his hotel room with a suitcase full of SpaghettiOs. Like most studio-approved behind-the-scenes errata, that anecdote's edges have been …
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Rich Mead, the self-described “IRS paper pusher” turned chef/restaurateur, is now in a public struggle with his landlord, The Irvine Company, to renew the lease on his Newport Beach restaurant. Sage, which has been in business at Eastbluff Village Center in Newport Beach for the last 15 years, will be forced to close at the end …
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It''s amazing what science can teach us. According to the Associated Press, researchers in New Zealand have released the results of a study showing that teenagers who regularly smoke pot before their 18th birthday grow up to have lower IQs than those waited until after they turned 18 to start smoking. Specifically, the study gave …
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