Add “forever chemicals” to the list of things you need to worry about. Their official names are Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), and are considered part of a larger family of per- and poly- fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS for short. Though no longer manufactured in the United States, PFOA and PFOS were once used …
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Best of 2019 – Winners Cannabis Editorial Choice Readers’ Choice Best Budtenders Kannabis Works What makes a good budtender? For some, the answer may be as simple as someone being personable. For others, it may be whether you feel as if you can trust their insights and recommendations while selecting which products to spend your …
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Whether by living in the age of Youtubers, holistic influencers or the Internet in general, education on good skincare has never been more within our reach. This is a good thing— in fact I applaud it. If young teenagers today could learn to stay up to date on using their SPF everyday and washing their …
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It could be argued that other than AnQi—which lies beyond Little Saigon’s boundaries and thus doesn’t survive on what the community thinks of it—few upscale Vietnamese restaurants get very far in the enclave. Until, that is, the Vox Kitchen came to town and bucked the trend. On the menu, there’s a $78 steak that gives …
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We brought Savage Love Live to the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, the Barrymore Theatre in Madison, and the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis over three nights. As is always the case at live shows, the crowd had more questions than I could possibly answer in a single night. So in this week’s column, I’m going …
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Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development (OCCORD) filed a lawsuit on Monday in an effort to halt the sale of Willowick Golf Course being eyed for future development. The oldest 18-hole public golf course in OC rests within SanTana but is owned by Garden Grove. In April, Garden Grove, in tandem with SanTana, issued …
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In a sea of puffy fried doughnuts and red-velvet cupcakes spewed from vending machines, Raw Baby offers the Southern California palate a respite from the usual. It can get a bit overwhelming, this dizzying parade of treats trying to outdo one another in a show of saccharine bravado. The internet has proven that the number …
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Chick Corea has done more to shape the course of popular music over the past 50 years than anyone will ever truly know. He started his career in the 1960s, playing with such jazz greats as Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Roy Haynes. When he joined Miles Davis’ group later in the decade, Corea found …
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There’s the Great American Beer Festival, the World Beer Cup, and now California has its own competition. Capping an epic two days of panels, trade shows and tastings at the CA Craft Beer Summit in Long Beach was the California Craft Brewers Cup, complete with an awards ceremony and medals awarded in 61 categories. …
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Get wrapped up in the specials we located, or be glad we only mentioned one pumpkin spice-related item. Either way, sit your tush down sometime today and vote! Popcornopolis Seasonal Delight – You Guessed It It’s the second most wonderful time of the year. National Pumpkin Spice Day is coming up on Tuesday, and …
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Lisa Martinez fell into a coma by the time she finished her jail sentence last summer at Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. Family members finally visited the 52-year-old Anaheim woman after being freed from custody only to make the difficult decision of ending life-support days later. She had complained of stroke-like symptoms …
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Since I first heard them as a high school student in suburban Southern California, I’ve dreamt about seeing Wu-Tang Clan live. I’ve seen individual members like RZA, GZA and Method Man before, but it always felt like it would be impossible to see the entire Clan do what they do best, especially since the untimely …
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