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LED lights have been marketed as environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional light bulbs, but many contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, according to new research out of UC Irvine. “LEDs are touted as the next generation of lighting,” says Oladele Ogunseitan, chairman of UCI's Department of Population Health & Disease …
Luckily for OC, James Fletcher is not too sexy for Detroit Bar–or just about anywhere else, he insists. The jet-setting drummer last fall self-released his first solo CD, The Booze & Clocks, after 10 years of constant touring and gigging in support of others' lyrical prowess. Fletcher has banged sticks for local bands including The …
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UPDATE, FEB. 9, 1:10 P.M.: Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was denied the chance to attend his son's funeral on Monday, according to the LA Times. His son, John Taylor (J.T.) Skilling, was found dead last week in his Santa Ana apartment. The elder Skilling's attorney had been in discussion with the U.S. Bureau of …
Speaking of dead Orange County Jail inmates . . . The same day the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) announced the death of an immigration detainee inside Theo Lacy Jail in Orange, the Orange County district attorney's (OCDA) office announced it had wrapped up its probe into another death inside the county jail system. The …
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In the 1990s, Hypercolor made the T-shirt a lesson in science. Crazy Shirts got colorful and dyed clothing with chili and chocolate. Nowadays, there's even a way to make your wardrobe work for you. Better than Spanx, these are undergarments spiked with special ingredients to fight those muffin tops, chicken skin and orange peel! ] …
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On Tuesday afternoon, about 50 protesters gathered in front of the Orange County district attorney's office in Santa Ana to express their opposition to continued investigations of the Irvine 11, the group of students that made national headlines last year. Students, lawyers and community leaders held signs on the corner of Birch Street and Civic …
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John Wayne Airport–which already has a reputation for being one of the world's scariest because of its steep, vertical takeoffs and throttle-cutting procedures–will have pilots essentially threading a tighter needle beginning next month. A new flight path called STREL will push aircraft into the skies directly over the middle of Newport Beach's Back Bay. …
Wódka–Polish for vodka–is a new line of vodka that claims to rank higher than Ciroc in taste tests, but sells for only $8.99 for a 750-mililiter glass bottle. According to its website, Wódka earned a 90-point rating from the Beverage Testing Institute, while Ciroc earned 88 points, Belvedere 92 points, Absolut 90 points, Smirnoff 90 …
The five characters in Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation are anything but dramatic. The set-up of her 2009 play isn't very dramatic, either: a six-week acting class taught in the rec room of a community center in a small Vermont town. But the way Baker manages to mine gold from these apparently prosaic characters and …
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We're going to start being all introspective. What is the meaning of life? What does it mean to be human? What separates us from the beasts? What is up with wearing two different shoes to Golden Globes? We can't answer all of those questions, but we did find some interesting hypotheses surrounding how making music …
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The Sundance Film Festival, which began Jan. 20 and ends Jan. 30, self-identifies as a “discovery festival,” meaning it embraces its own legend of being a place where, over the course of a single screening, an unknown can transform into an industry-re-defining star—even as that fantasy seems increasingly out of date in a world in …
Flickr user quevedoports This week's recipe goes out to disgraced ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who began serving a five-and-half-year prison sentence yesterday in the minimum-security federal pen in Littleton, Colorado. Since prison will present Carona so much time and so few outlets for cooking, here's something to try once he unpacks the bags …