The restaurant group behind the recently shuttered Tortilla Jo’s Mexican-style cantina is working on several opportunities at Downtown Disney as the company fights off competition from one of its fiercest rivals. “We are working with Disney on many opportunities throughout Downtown Disney and through their new vision,” Patina Restaurant Group President John “JK” Kolaski said.…
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A historic, weeklong protest at UCLA in solidarity with war-battered Gaza was over Thursday morning, May 2, just hours after waves of police in riot gear dismantled demonstrators’ massive encampment outside Royce Hall and detained dozens from a crowd estimated in the low thousands. By daybreak, some students, a few draped in and carrying Palestinian…
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The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed this week to its highest level in more than five months, pushing up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers in what’s typically the housing market’s busiest stretch of the year. The rate rose to 7.22% from 7.17% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago,…
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Battling against 400 students from 48 states, four students from the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana won top honors at this year’s National ProStart Invitational, the country’s largest high school culinary and restaurant management contest. Emily Leo, Max Madsen, Tira Smith and Cynthia Zhou of Orange County School of the Arts…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been imprisoned in London for five years, while Texas journalist Priscilla Villarreal was only briefly detained at the Webb County Jail. But both were arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal. Assange and Villarreal argue that criminalizing such conduct violates the First Amendment. In both cases, the…
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Sacramento politicians need to get real. Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-Glendale, has once again brought back for consideration legislation that would pay out unemployment benefits for striking workers. In addition to being a terrible idea, as a piece of legislation it is an absolute waste of time and effort. This time introduced as Senate Bill 1116,…
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Housing prices in California have plagued residents for years. The state houses four out of the top five counties in the United States with the most expensive median home prices, and if more supply isn’t built to meet the demand, these rates will be here to stay. Adults aren’t the only ones impacted by the…
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PHOENIX — Yoshinobu Yamamoto would probably like to forget his one-inning MLB debut. If he could get MLB to agree, his ERA would be 1.64 and his WHIP 0.97 over six Seoul-less starts. The Dodgers scored five times in the second inning and coasted to an 8-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks with Yamamoto turning…
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Dallas Mavericks star Kyrie Irving, right, grabs a rebound in front of Clippers guard Terance Mann during the second half of Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Wednesday night at Crypto.com Arena. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Clippers guard James Harden, right, looks to pass the ball as Dallas Mavericks…
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ANAHEIM — Two of the four sets in the CIF-SS Division 2 boys volleyball quarterfinal between San Marcos of Santa Barbara and Servite on Wednesday had to be decided in overtime. Another set came right down to the wire. The Friars came out on top in all three, defeating the No. 2 seed Royals 33-31,18-25,…
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