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Kanye WestSeptember 3, 2011The Stages At Playa Vista, Los AngelesTo love a Kanye West performance, the audience has to buy into the spectacle of it all– to abandon the notion that there is any performer, even mentor and recent album collaborator Jay-Z, who can rival Kanye's flow, swagger, production and all-around musical artistry; to become …
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The Costa Mesa Police Department conducts a specialized “Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation” today that will have extra officers patrolling areas frequented by motorcyclists and motorcycle crashes. They'll be on the lookout for riders (and drivers for that matter) who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But they'll also be specifically cracking down on …
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“This thing that's been here all along doesn't make sense.” Alien to the street yet embedded within it, easy to read but impossible to decipher, the Toynbee Tiles are an internationally enigmatic, handcrafted phenomenon. First discovered in the early 1980s, these crudely tiled signs have appeared in pavements all over the world, each uniquely made …
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*This story was altered on Sept. 2, and Sept. 6, 2011. A light breeze blows across the dark skies outside the Costa Mesa council chambers. Inside, a storm is brewing. After hours and days and weeks and months of speculation and discussion, the time for talk is over. Decisions are being made about the …
UPDATE, AUGUST 31, 3:59 P.M.: Last week the state Senate appropriations committee pulled the second half of California's DREAM Act out of suspense. Today, the Senate passed AB 131, the bill that would give undocumented students access to Cal Grants and some other state money, with a 22-11 vote. So, where's the bill headed next? The state Assembly. …
The 2011 season of surfing started out exactly how Brett Simpson had hoped it would. A couple solid results at the first two events on the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour in Australia had the Huntington Beach local pumped. In just his sophomore season on the “Dream Tour,” Simpson was proving that he …
Welcome to the Weekly's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011! Tune in every day until we get to número uno! Now, on to the latest entry. . Back in March, we stumbled upon a custom pizza joint that defied how a typical pie should be created. I'm still a deep dish fan at …
Rock The BellsAugust 20, 2011San Manuel Amphitheatre Click here to see a slideshow of the performersClick here to see a slideshow of the fans Rock the Bells is somewhat developmentally arrested–though not necessarily in a negative way. Since its inception in 2004, Rock the Bells has gathered prolific acts that've earned a place among the …
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You might do better to eat an Indian curry today than you would those chicken nuggets…and not for the obvious reasons. Researchers at Penn State have reported in the Journal of Nutrition that including turmeric, cinnamon, rosemary, oregano, garlic powder, and paprika to meals may reduce postprandial insulin and triglyceride levels. ] In an experiment, …
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A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character's creator, Robert E. Howard, and more satisfyingly pulpy than John Milius' 1982 movie incarnation. Director Marcus Nispel, along with no fewer than three screenwriters, eschews the lugubrious mythmaking of that version in favor …
Looking back, Leo Machado says only words remained to shape memories of his past relationships. Fortunately for the Managua-born musician, he was able to translate them into the songs that define his full-length debut. Aptly titled Solo Quedan Palabras, the indie effort released in February is acoustically anchored with proper rock riffs, melodies, and solos …
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SO…I've been sitting on this announcement for months, partly because I fully expected it to fall through, but here we are: next week is the world debut of ¡Ask a Mexican! in play form, in New York. Rejoice, racialists! But it's a much-bigger deal than me just doing my usual rant for alt-weekly rags like …
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