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After a slew of substandard procedures and allegedly offering one patient hush money, the state medical board let a Newport Beach plastic surgeon keep his license, but gave him a three-year probation term. Dr. H. George Brennan's probation was slated to end last year, but didn't, because he hadn't yet completed the clinical training course …
Poor Justin Bieber–the 17-year-old isn't even legal to bone yet, and already there's a lady claiming that he's the father of her baby. Meet 20-year-old (uh, statutory rape, or at least a misdemeanor in California, anyone?) Mariah Yeater, the classy broad whose claiming to have taken the heartthrob's virginity backstage at his show via unprotected …
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Life is life, and you gotta do what you gotta do. It's like everybody can't be a doctor, a teacher or have rich parents take care of us. And it's gonna teach us, like—when we get older, we're gonna be stronger 'cause we know life experience and stuff like that. And we're goin' to know …
Social scientists and business students needn't look further than the Filipino fast-food giant Jollibee to see what our culture has wrought on the other side of the world. The menu at the branch that just opened in Anaheim, OC's unofficial Little Manila, is a hyper-realized collection of our own fast-food diet recited in a Tagalog-accented …
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UPDATE, NOV. 3, 11:13 A.M.: The Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) has identified the men killed by Huntington Beach police gang unit officers after a traffic stop in Westminster Tuesday afternoon as John Andrew Torres, 26, of Fullerton, and Erick Catalan, 20, of Long Beach. The officers and a woman who got out of the …
A Newport Beach doctor, who was facing 10 allegations by the state's medical board, surrendered his license yesterday at 5 p.m. The state board launched its investigation of Dr. Jonathan Sadai after he allegedly charged for services he didn't render in 2008. A female patient, referred to only as KS in official documents, went to Sadai …
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie—an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp. The movie adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early '60s and published, under Depp's auspices, more than three decades later. …
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UPDATED Oct. 25, 11:30 A.M: Two weeks after lifting the report from its website, Rand Corporation, the research organization that helped crunch body count numbers during the Vietnam War has officially retracted its study from last month that claimed crime increased near medical marijuana dispensaries after Los Angeles city officials forced them to shut down. …
The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on Oct. 7 by the four California U.S. Attorneys sent chills throughout the industry. It was a stunning reversal by the Obama administration. Only two years ago, Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden wrote his infamous “Ogden Memo,” announcing the feds wouldn't bother businesses in compliance with …
It's Best Of time . . . you have your dead-tree copies, right? No? Go get one . . . we'll be here when you get back. Unfortunately, whoever was supposed to tabulate the Reader's Choice poll this year into one easy-to-read guide must have had a huge hangover because it's nowhere to be found …
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Yes, pho is the current “it” dish when it comes to Asian cuisines. And some foodies might argue Mongolian barbecue is pedestrian. Who cares? It's fucking delicious. At Great Wall Mongolian BBQ in La Habra, the waitstaff are super-attentive, greeting incoming patrons with loud hellos, followed by garrulous goodbyes upon departure. But the food is …
The culty goodness of the Coen Brothers' 1998 film, The Big Lebowski, escapes me. A comic ode to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, with its femme fatales, wheelchair-bound rich guys and convoluted plot twists that are never completely resolved, the cast is uniformly good (especially John Goodman's loose-cannon Vietnam vet), the dialogue laugh-out-loud witty, and …
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