One of Southern California’s best restaurants is about to get bigger. Heritage Barbecue, Daniel and Brenda Castillo’s lauded Texas-style barbecue joint in downtown San Juan Capistrano, is in the working stages of an expansion. In addition to six new covered smokers and an upcoming prix-fixe menu option, a 144-year-old barn from the nearby Casa Manuel…
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Jim Harbaugh and Joe Hortiz took a good look around once they got settled into their new jobs last winter as coach and general manager of the Chargers. They liked what they saw on defense, but believed they could do better with a few key additions to a few significant positions on the roster. After…
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Which LED candles are the best? With their soft, cozy glow, candles are beautiful decor pieces. Unfortunately, they can leave puddles of melted wax on your furniture and pose a fire hazard, particularly if you have children or pets at home. LED candles are a smokeless, flameless alternative, so you can safely enjoy the ambiance…
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Which LED candles are the best? With their soft, cozy glow, candles are beautiful decor pieces. Unfortunately, they can leave puddles of melted wax on your furniture and pose a fire hazard, particularly if you have children or pets at home. LED candles are a smokeless, flameless alternative, so you can safely enjoy the ambiance…
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Each summer when school let out, Matt Biolos would make the pilgrimage from his inland home in Chino to Dana Point, where his dad had a boat in the harbor. As a teen, he would spend the summer season working in the shipyard next to Doheny State Beach doing boat maintenance, but it wasn’t long…
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Which mop and bucket set is best? If you have hard floors, you need a mop to keep them clean from debris, dirt, spills and other grime. But cleaning the floors is much easier with a mop and bucket set since these tools are convenient, portable and highly effective. The best set is the O-Cedar…
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The California Legislature is broken and there doesn’t seem to be anyone with any power willing to fix it. After years of being strung along by California Democratic leadership, reparations activists came away from last week’s end of the legislative session empty handed. It’s not so much that the meat of the reparations package —…
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Democracy depends on everyone having their chance to speak. This is especially true in the state legislature when we are debating important public policy issues. Over the past two years, I have been proud to represent the residents of the 47th District. I have always worked in a bipartisan manner to deliver real solutions for…
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Kamala Harris has been a trailblazer in politics for most of the last two decades, giving more and more young women a sense of unlimited possibility. But on the night she accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, only one national convention speaker stressed the fact she is but the second woman so nominated and just the…
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Q. Caltrans is working on the northbound 5 Freeway on-ramp from Alicia Parkway and has been doing so for months. The sign says it could be closed from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., yet workers sometimes close down the on-ramp much earlier. Just Wednesday, it was closed well before 9 p.m. and, needless to say,…
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