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The Reverend Jesse Jackson, once a young apprentice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and who later ran “Rainbow Coalition” campaigns for president in the 1980s, showed up before the Brea City Council on Oct. 1 at the invitation of Dwight Manley, a businessman who owns much of the city’s downtown. In the area to …
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By now we’re all familiar with those clickbaity WalletHub rankings that come out every 17 minutes or so–best city for singles, best state for retirement, best town to get run out of on a rail and so on. Usually when I get a press release announcing one of these I just quickly glance over it …
Continue reading “WalletHub Deems Huntington Beach ‘Most Sinful’ OC City”
Though it’s something I rarely wonder about when I’m dining somewhere, this time, I couldn’t shake it: How many investment bankers, lawyers and executives are in the room? Maybe it was because at the garage for the mandatory (but complimentary) valet, I saw more Audis than Toyotas. Or maybe it’s because now, more than when …
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Conor Denman started a vaping company called Traditional Juice in 2011 but, while he was supportive of the tobacco industry, he was never fond of marijuana. That assessment changed when he saw the way CBD helped his mother, who suffers from fibromyalgia, and father, who had prostate cancer while dealing with frequent back pain and …
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Today is Veteran’s Day, and that means I’m thinking more than usual about my old friend Chris Atencio. I met him in 2000, and we became friends after he moved next door to me. He had traveled the world, lived and surfed everywhere it seemed, but he’d grown up in Newport Beach, which he considered …
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It must be special election time in SanTana. Campaign signs are all around town and mailers are stuffing boxes in an otherwise off-year. Candidates have all but hoped for some profile piece exposure in the Weekly leading up to tomorrow’s ballot. Funny enough, despite all the flattery of that last part, it just shows who …
Continue reading “An Anti-Endorsement Voting Guide to Santa Ana’s Special Election!”
They say government agencies always wait until late Friday to release bad news, so when I got an email at 4:36 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1 from the Orange County Health Care Agency announcing that it had just released its new report on suicide deaths in the county from 2014 to 2018, I knew the …
Continue reading “New Report Shows OC Suicide Rate Highest in Last 20 Years”
A compulsion to venture beyond the realms in which members usually operate is the impulse behind the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA). The group’s innovation-focused academics and independent scholars, researchers, and artists will hold their 33rd-annual meeting at UC Irvine, where their interdisciplinary inquiries will unfold in multitudinous panels and presentations under …
It’s about 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, and it’s hot, bone-dry and windy outside the operations center. The day before this was just another conference room on the Irvine Ranch Conservancy campus, but today it’s a nerve center for the non-profit’s Fire Watch program. The half-dozen or so volunteers in the room are relaxed, …
Continue reading “Wildfires, Climate Change, and Irvine Ranch Open Space”
Today the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) charged five members of UC Irvine’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity in connection with the alcohol-poisoning death earlier this year of student Noah Domingo, 18, who was also a member of the frat. “Zavier Larenz Brown, now 21, Jonathan Anephi Vu, now 22, Mohamed Ibragim Kharaev, now …
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The Santa Ana Police Department would like the public’s help in identifying the person pictured here, who was found nearly two months ago. The individual is 20-30 years old, of medium height and 150 to 190 pounds with a circular scar on the upper left arm. When found, the person was wearing a blue/gray tank …
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Best of 2019 – Winners Food & Drink Editorial Choice Readers’ Choice Best Acai Bowls Banzai Bowls With a wide variety of toppings and clean ingredients, Banzai Bowls serves up acai meals that taste too good to be healthy. banzaibowls.com Multiple Locations Best Bagels Shirley’s Bagels This local institution has been churning out traditional boil-and-bake …