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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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A 50-year-old Mission Viejo man charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with insider trading has agreed to pay more than $150,000 in penalties and surrendered profits to resolve the matter, the SEC announced. According to the complaint filed Friday in federal court, the SEC alleges sales director Farzin Bazshushtari of Santa Ana data storage …
Over the weekend, I gave my short history of Mexican food in Orange County at the Segerstrom Center's Samueli Stage as part of its hosting of the awesome, ribald Chautauqua! show. Since I doubt I'll ever grace any stage at the Segerstrom again, I decided to focus my 10-minute lecture on OC's two greatest contributions …
UPDATE, JAN. 11, 6:23 P.M.: An autopsy determined that 49-year-old homeless man Antonio Ruiz Martinez, whose body was found Monday morning in Santa Ana, next to an auto shop's pickup truck with a large amount of blood inside, died as a result of “gastrointestinal issues,” according to police. Foul play has therefore been ruled out. …
Fred Karger's goal heading into the New Hampshire presidential primary was to better a major candidate who campaigned against gay marriage, something the GOP insider accomplished by beating Michelle Bachmann by 137 votes. Of course, Bachmann had dropped out of the race before the N.H. primary, but when you are a gay presidential candidate in …
Having been referred to as human waste, I can sympathize with the former 44-year-old man from Artesia found in Rainbow Disposal's green waste transfer site in Huntington Beach Tuesday afternoon. How he got there–beyond, hopefully, being first placed in the proper-colored bin dedicated to organic matter–is what's most on the mind of Huntington Beach Police …
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Bobby Martinez warned them. He had won his first heat in the Quiksilver Pro New York 2011 on Long Island’s Long Beach when Todd Kline, Quiksilver’s global-sports-marketing manager, pulled him over for an interview for the company’s webcast. “The ASP and you guys aren’t going to want this interview,” he told Kline, referring to the …
Top 10 lists, film-poll winners—the critics have had their say, leveled their opinions. But what about the facts? Which movies did you actually see this year? What were the trends, and who were the stars? We did the math. Several hundred man-minutes later, CLICK HERE for the results.  The chart linked here ran in …
For the layman who has never picked up an instrument, technically complex, guitar-based music can be a daunting subject. It involves jargon such as “time signatures” and “math rock” (not to be confused with “progressive rock”) and considers involved, digit-killing playing as being part and parcel of good songwriting. It's a kind of music that …