If you want ultra-fresh olive oil, bypass the grocery shelves. Instead, visit the Orange Home Grown Farmers and Artisans Market. Every other Saturday, Old Towne residents and olive growers Frank and Shannon Tucker sell their delicious Terrace Hill olive oils.
While there have been reports...
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Chris Brigandi recalls how he found his brother Phil engrossed in the encyclopedia when they were kids.
“I asked what he was researching, and Phil told me he was just learning,” says Chris of his older sibling, who passed away on December 12, 2019 at...
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Chris Brigandi recalls how he found his brother...
High above the brick-lined streets, trolleys and through the echoing caverns of the Matterhorn, Nicholasa Nevarez found his passion for all things Disney as a child. The days of the Skyway ride at Disneyland in Anaheim are long gone, but that passion for Walt Disney’s...
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High above the brick-lined streets, trolleys and through...
All magicians know that without an audience that actually wishes to be mystified and entranced, a magic trick will fall flat. In the art of illusion—as well as in the art of any stagecraft—it’s called the “willing suspension of disbelief.” This results in a series...
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All magicians know that without an audience that...
Between the dust-covered equipment, scattered garbage and abandoned clothes, Mike Naber knew he had his work cut out for him when he walked into an abandoned cleaning business at the peak of the recession in 2009. Naber, who thrives on bringing businesses back to life,...
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Between the dust-covered equipment, scattered garbage and abandoned...
College students interested in history, writing, research and more will soon have an opportunity to apply their skills to paid internships through a new partnership between the City of Orange and the Old Towne Preservation Association.
The association will fund as many as two interns...
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College students interested in history, writing, research and...
Every summer, Chapman University’s A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research releases its midyear forecast update. The event, presented by the University’s President Emeritus, Jim Doti, offers a chance for those who attended the December Forecast to see how the predictions are faring.
The Chapman...
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Every summer, Chapman University’s A. Gary Anderson Center...
When the weekends rolled around, Jay Bauman put on his Chuck Taylor shoes, a cut-up band T-shirt and headed to the Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa.
It was 1980, a time when disco still dominated the world. Bauman, a high school skater from Orange, found...
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When the weekends rolled around, Jay Bauman put...
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University will present two very different public events this November, each focusing on the experience of terror and violence, but also the meaning found in such memories and the importance of never forgetting.
For the twelfth consecutive...
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The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman...
If you think of Orange County as the proverbial concrete jungle, Joel Robinson would like to change your opinion. The Founder and Director of Naturalist For You (NFY) welcomes the opportunity to share the natural wonders surrounding us here in our corner of the Golden...
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