Lawsuit Settlement Breaks Santa Ana's Citizenship-Application Logjam
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The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas.
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The agreement also covers cases in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino areas.
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| Dave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival. |
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| Pretty! |
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| Rachel Leeson |
| Bulldog in space. |
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Unfortunately, they are also banned in several U.S. communities.
Just try installing a clothes line in Irvine or any Orange County gated community and see what happens. Torture is allowed and encouraged for even thinking such a thing.
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"Futuristic concept cars, eye-popping exotics, pre-production models, interactive ride and drives and the latest alternative fuel options" are promised at the OC Auto Show, which opens for a four-day run at Anaheim Convention Center this afternoon.
Swell.
When will our flying Jetsons cars roll off the line?
| Don't forget Bowser. |
Grillo is founder and president of D.E.L.T.A. Rescue animal sanctuary and Horse Rescue of America. He's offered his services up and down the state to be included in the disaster drill. His medical and administrative staff will "Drop, Cover and Hold On" at 10:15 a.m. like other humans participating in the exercise.
But Grillo also wants folks to think about the critters.
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| John Woo |
​Chinese master action film director John Woo, who achieved cult status with Dip huet seung hung (The Killer) before taking on Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II and other American projects, makes a special appearance at the West Coast premiere of his new film Chi bi (Red Cliff) Thursday night at Regency South Coast Village Theatre.
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​Shitty economy? Schmitty schmeconomy.
Halloween sales are forecast to reach a record-breaking $6 billion in 2009, up 4.2 percent from the $5.77 billion retailers generated last year.
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Hi, it's Vince. No, I'm not going to try to dump 389 ShamWows on you for $19.95. Today I have something far more absorbent--or is that pronounced exorbitant? Whatever. It's the Orange County Fairgrounds, which the state of California has officially put up for sale.
Are you getting this, camera guy? We're talking 150 acres of prime Costa Mesa property, which you must bid on by January 8. What's that? You don't believe me? You don't believe the state would be so short-sighted and cash-poor that it would unload this cultural jewel? Well, feast your eyes on this Request For Proposals (RFP), my friends.
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| Kirby Dick is coming to Irvine to screen "Outrage," his documentary on closeted gay politicians. |
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| On the move. |
The whimsical-but-functional fountain was unveiled in the Irvine Regional Hospital lobby upon the facility's 1990 opening to great fanfare. After all, Bartels' sculptures grace parks, museums and the inside of rich people's homes around Southern California and the world. "Marlo is clearly one of the most important contemporary public sculpture artists to be working on the West Coast," Laguna Art Museum director Bolton Colburn stated in a letter urging the saving of the fountain.
The hospital's previous owner abandoned the sprawling complex along Sand Canyon Avenue near the 405 freeway in December 2008. Shortly after leasing the space in February, Newport Beach-based Hoag Hospital decided the large art piece didn't fit with a redesign aimed at upgrading the medical facility to today's standards.
Not only that, the fountain simply did not work--and when it did, overspill created a slip hazard in a heavily trafficked area, a Hoag spokesperson told the Weekly in May.
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| Made in OC. Why? |
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| County Supervisor Bill Campbell, whose district includes the Irvine Co. land in question, is amused by a speaker at Tuesday's board meeting in Santa Ana. |
| By Kathryn Hyatt |
| Don Bren: giver |
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| Dr. Peter Karpawhich, a Detroit area physician, plays a Bolshevik lieutenant firing a pistol at American soldiers as another re-enactor takes aim in waist-deep snow in "Voices of a Never Ending Dawn." |
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| Remember John Wayne in this get-up as you look for his ghost in the following photos. |
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| Hyatt Regency hotels Huntington Beach (top left), Irvine (top right), Newport Beach (bottom left) and Orange County in Garden Grove. |
It is good enough reason to stay somewhere other than a Hyatt if you are traveling to Boston on business or to watch the Angels, though.
No, the reason you should withhold your Hyatt dollars locally and anywhere else is because before the housekeepers were canned, they had to train their replacements. Many maids tearfully claim they were told they were instructing vacation fill-in help.
Hyatt denies it here and reacts to high-profile calls for a boycott here.
Toilet paper only accounts for 5 percent of the U.S. forest-products industry. Paper and cardboard packaging makes up 26 percent of the industry, although more than half is made from recycled products. Newspapers account for 3 percent.

Still, environmentalists say 5 percent is too much, and they are pushing tissuers to switch from the ultra-soft wipers to their recycled counterparts.
Or what you may know as sandpaper.
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| I am iron man! |
It was previously reported here that Capitalism: A Love Story, the latest Michael Moore documentary, would open Friday at Irvine's Edwards University.
However, officials at the theater that has presented the Orange County premiere of each of the polemic filmmaker's movies dating back to 1989's Roger & Me now say Capitalism won't screen there until Oct. 2.
As noted previously, what SFist lovingly refers to as Moore's "latest love letter to communism" was financially backed by cable magnate and unabashed capitalist John Malone.
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| Are certain fair board elements taking Orange Countians and state taxpayers for a ride? |
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| Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. |
| Boo! It's the Wild Goose. |
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