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So I've heard some talk around the water cooler that Coachella has become too big. Too commercial. Too KROQ-ey. Really? No Gerard Way.Two Weeknds? That $h!# cray. Nevertheless, the Chelly will welcome its usual cast of characters: the Bro Montegnas, the Hairy Potters, the Cloney Deschanels, and all the new Cherry Poppin Babies, welcome all. …
The bead necklace Alli Swanson wears has a story behind it, one that begins all the way in the Gulu District of northern Uganda. In 2007, her best friend Kallie Dovel, then a student at Vanguard University, traveled to the war-torn region, where she encountered displaced women making jewelry from old posters, fliers and textbooks. …
A sealed box of mementoes that brings up a host of troubling thoughts when opened—that's the darkness lurking behind the white walls and considered the through-line of curator David Michael Lee's “Photo + Plus” at Coastline Community College Art Gallery. At face value, the exhibition focuses on artists “working outside of conventional photography,” but don't …
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UPDATE, FEB. 24, 9:21 A.M.: A memorial for Sgt. Manuel “Manny” Levi Loggins Jr., the Marine shot to death by a sheriff's deputy, is scheduled this afternoon at Camp Pendleton. However, the public and media are not invited to the service in the camp's chapel, at the request of the Loggins family, the Marines announced. …
In Part One of our Q&A with Lisa Fontanesi, we learned about the mission of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution, in particular how the Santa Ana community differs from the other places the mobile teaching kitchen has stopped. Today, we learn more about how our subject got started on her path in the first place. …
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UPDATE, FEB. 21, 11:40 A.M.: To give you the proper visual for this post, picture Itzcoatl “Izzy” Ocampo at right with an al Qaeda beard. That's how he appeared in a Santa Ana courtroom this morning when he pleaded not guilty to the stabbing-murders of a mother, her son and four homeless men since Oct. …
Doctor-patient confidentiality? Not so much at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton and Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach. The two hospitals accidentally made the medical records of more than 21,000 patients publicly searchable on the web. Names, lab results, medications, allergies, body mass indexes and demographics could be found by any weirdo with an internet …
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A disabled man has been fighting the city of Newport Beach for more than a year over a ticket he received for parking in a handicapped spot without displaying the proper placard. Christopher Torri, a 44-year-old file clerk from Orange who has multiple sclerosis, said he was hit with the $427 ticket on Nov. 3, …
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We celebrate the dorkiest of dorky music fans by dubbing today as Rush Day, All Day: It is, after all, 2-1-12. Both the album and the song, released in 1976, is actually about the year 2112. For many, the fact that 2112 is considered the definitive Rush album is reason enough to celebrate it. After …
Gentle Readers: in our never-ending quest to document this infernal county county of ours, behold our sex survey, in which we'll try to determine at which end of the spectrum OC falls: the chaste promise rings of the Saddleback Church crowd, or the cock rings of legendary porno actor (and Newport Coast resident) Peter North? …
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Artists are generally strange, solitary creatures whiling away their time in studios, building intimate relationships with paper, clay, canvas and paint, instead of spending their waking moments with other human beings. That comfort with ideas and grand themes (as opposed to human beings)—whether from personal insecurity or some primordial sense of self-protection—leads many artists to …
This is Navel Gazing but we also stare at heads, particularly the ones enveloping the brains of NFL players examined by Dr. Daniel G. Amen, the Newport Beach psychiatrist and brain-imaging researcher who strongly advocates better rules and helmets to protect noggins. But Amen's latest research also looks at the brutes' waistlines, which reveals something …
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