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Besides the euphoric bliss and health benefits, cannabis basically makes everything just a little bit better. And my favorite thing about our favorite plant has to be the taste. When I was a teenager getting stoned in parking lots and skateparks, we would consider ourselves lucky to get a gram of cheap ditch weed from …
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s new rockumentary looks at the career of the singer who was in her early twenties in the 1960s, when she burst onto the folk-rock music scene. Directors Cut Cinema at Regency Rancho Niguel, 25471 Rancho Niguel Rd., Laguna Niguel, (949) 831-0446. Opens Thurs., …
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Paul Lefèvre doesn’t like to be called an artist, but anyone who has seen what he can do with a surfboard, car or other physical medium would have a hard time arguing that what he does isn’t art. The French surfboard shaper, glasser, designer and manufacturer—who is best known by his nickname/brand, “Son of Cobra”—may …
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The Pacific Ocean off Southern California’s coast generates opportunities for businesses to profit from selling boats, seafood and cruises. But our waters also provide chances for capitalistic mischief. Though it’s difficult to imagine, tempers have flared in a money-making endeavor you’d probably guess would inspire more joy than conflict: whale watching. Boats regularly take excited …
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Political science graduate students read very little scholarship written chiefly, or exclusively, by women. This is a pretty damning finding from a new paper published in The Journal of Politics and PS: Political Science and Politics by two professors–Heidi Hardt of UC Irvine and Amy Erica Smith of Iowa State University (two others, Philippe Meister …
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Most brewery collaborations come together out of the love for a certain brewing process or a fondness for a certain ingredient, or even the admiration for one another. Chef collaborations are no different, but the results are bound to be more culinary-driven. One chef who loves a collaboration as much as the average brewery does …
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Once that big light goes off and we move on to wherever, or don’t, the best most of us can hope for is a kindly remembrance or two. Rare are those who inspire others after they’re gone. Count Peggy Hesketh among the latter. A writer, journalist, educator and all-round funny, fierce and fearless person (she …
Continue reading “A Woman Inspiring Women Leads to County’s First All-Female Playwrighting Festival”
Uh oh: a 60,000-gallon sewage spill originating from a sewer main blockage in Stanton has prompted the Orange County Health Care Agency to close a huge part of the harbor area near Surfside and Sunset Beach, the county announced today. “The County of Orange Health Care Agency’s Environmental Health division has closed the harbor water area encompassing Anaheim …
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This is the second of two parts. Click here for part one. Loveline was a hit show from the moment I created, hosted and first aired it in 1982. For nine years, it was on late on Sunday nights and was consistently No. 1 in the ratings. A year after the show began, I realized …
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There’s something about restaurants and bars in Orange County that depresses me every time I find myself with a free day to go out, relax, and have a drink on a patio and bask in the summer sun. For some reason our restaurant scene seems to think that drinking is only an indoor activity unless …
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Five days before Real 92.3 FM’s first annual Real Street Festival, the grounds of the Honda Center were transformed into an outdoor arena that included two giant stages for R&B and hip hop performers, but the Anaheim venue’s staff also welcomed several artists to paint murals for an added special touch to last weekend’s event. More …
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Evolution may still be a hotly contested idea depending on the person you’re talking to, but around the world we see examples of certain species adapting and evolving as we speak. The rock-climbing goby fish, which is native to the Hawaiian Islands, uses suckers in its mouth to literally scale entire waterfalls and swim upstream …
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