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The biggest Carmageddon victors weren't the road workers (though they did a fantastic job completing their bridge-demolishing project about 17 hours ahead of schedule), or the Southern California drivers who emerged unscathed by the 405 shutdown and even experienced what people are now coining “Carmaheaven” (gag). No, the true victors this past weekend were …
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A Canadian man wishes his wife had not come to Synergy Health Concepts in Newport Beach for treatment. Make that, his late wife. Maralyn Clarke, 56, suffered a massive brain hemorrhage hours after having her neck veins opened at the clinic, where the Calgary woman had undergone an experimental vein treatment for multiple sclerosis. ] …
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It always amuses me how research groups will make millions of dollars commissioning reports that conclude with the shit you can pull from everyday life. Take for instance, a study started earlier this year by the advertising agency Barkley, in conjuction with the Boston Consulting Group and Service Management Group, called “American Millennials: Deciphering the …
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“He’s got the suit. He’s got the hair. He’s got the watch and the shoes. He’s a master in his style. . . . [He] sounds great, but there’s absolutely no substance. . . . Maybe that works in New York.” That was Matt Murphy, a senior deputy district attorney in the Orange County district …
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In the world of competition barbecue, there's a saying: “It's not the cooker, it's the cook.” That means that in a blind tasting, you can't tell if the end result was cooked in a modern commercial-grade smoker, or in an ad hoc, BBQ pit made from a stack of cinder blocks and a sheet of …
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Newport Beach police arrested Charlotte Engle on suspicion of a DUI-related offense July 1 and took the 54-year-old Huntington Beach resident to Orange County Jail. During booking, jail officials determined Engle suffered from high-blood pressure and took her to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana. That's where she died Sunday. ] The Orange County Sheriff's …
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Recently, I inherited a cast iron dutch oven from the 1950's with an impeccably seasoned interior. Decades of care built up a smooth, black, hard surface that's as non-stick as any modern surface treatment. Those cast iron and plain carbon steel pans so common in great-grandmother's day aren't as sexy in today's marketplace filled with …
UPDATE, JULY 5, 2:47 P.M.: The results are in from the first test of Newport Beach's “Loud and Unruly Gatherings Ordinance.” Over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, 15 homes were “red-tagged” and 59 arrests were made, according to Newport Beach police. Offending homeowners face $1,500 fines for first offenses and $3,000 for subsequent …
UPDATE, JULY 1, 1:18 P.M.: After his first sentencing hearing was postponed because Allan James Waters showed up to court drunk, the former Orange County sheriff's deputy finally learned his fate today: two years and eight months in state prison. The 37-year-old Laguna Niguel resident had been looking at a maximum sentence of 16 months …
UPDATE, JULY 1, 1:18 P.M.: After his first sentencing hearing was postponed because Allan James Waters showed up to court drunk, the former Orange County sheriff's deputy finally learned his fate today: two years and eight months in state prison. The 37-year-old Laguna Niguel resident had been looking at a maximum sentence of 16 months …
Dave Smith was a popular talk show host on AM 830 KLAA, the radio broadcast station of the Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim. His voice mysteriously went off the air in 2009, leaving some listeners questioning his whereabouts. Two years later, his name resurfaces, this time in court documents. Reuters reports that Smith is …
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At intermission, the musical The Wild Party was really growing on this reviewer—like a cancer. An hour and a half in, it felt twice as long, the performers weren't singing as much as shrieking, and Andrew Lippa's book and score seemed to possess all the depth and heart of a corpse. The singing didn't get …