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What is the Tour of OC?
Today, June 30, 2010, Long Boards Ice cream is launching a social location challenge called the Tour of OC using location sharing service Gowalla and 20 spots around Orange County. To participate in the tour, all you need is a mobile phone (preferably a smartphone such as an iPhone, Blackberry, Android, or webOS) and the will to go out and check out those spots. Some of the spots you can check into on this trip are the Orange County Register, Angels Stadium, Huntington …
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Watching the 2010 Winter Olympics definitely got me interested in the niche sport of Curling. I got hooked on it and wanted to try it out myself. Only problem is that I don’t have the brooms, shoes, or rocks, not to mention a curling sheet.
But guess what! Many other people got the curling bug just like I did and started calling ice rinks about the sport and now we can play it in Orange County!
For the newbies to curling, which I would expect it to be most of us, Anaheim …
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I owe Orange County an apology. I made a mistake in my last post and put OC on the spot for not holding their own gay pride event. However, I was wrong, but this is a mistake that I am definitely happy to be wrong about.
Image courtesy of: http://sites.google.com/site/oclgbtpride/
OC LGBT Pride: Picnic in the Park
Saturday, August 15, 2009
12:00pm – 4:00pm
William R. Mason Regional Park
18712 University Drive
Irvine, CA
Sure, this is probably going to start small, but every great event has to start somewhere. Orange County needed this — and I, for …
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Do you like free music? Classic cars? Motorcycles? Good food? If so, you can’t miss Downtown Anaheim’s Rumble & Rock Block Party series! Every 3rd Friday of each month in the center of Lemon & Center Street Promenade, you can enjoy all of the above! Kick off your weekend from 5pm-10pm with some live music and classic cars and bikes.
This year’s Rumble & Rock dates are:
May 15 June 19 July 17 Aug. …
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On May 14th at the Anaheim Garden Walk, over 50+ restaurants from all over Anaheim and Orange County including the Rain Forest Cafe, Alcatraz Brewing Company, Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine, and McCormick & Schmick’s will have samples for you to try and taste. You can think of it as a 50 course meal if you’d like.
Entertainment during the night includes Eli James Mattson, from the third season of America’s Got Talent, the “Oreo Divas,” and LIGHTS, a Journey tribute band. I’m most excited to hear LIGHTS since I like listening …
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April has flown by so fast that we forgot to tell you….it’s HAPPY HOUR WEEK! All day, all night…all week long, from April 12 – 18, 2009 and it couldn’t come at a more appropriate time…time to unwind after taxes, midterms, projects, and etc. are due!
65 of the best bars and restaurants in Orange County will offer their best drinks and appetizers at Happy Hour prices! Happy Hour Week, put on by the Orange County Restaurant Association hopes to spotlight OC’s diverse food and beverage offerings. Pamela Waitt, President of …
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Springtime is here! That means to get out, go outdoors and enjoy nature. This is the perfect season for you to enjoy gorgeous just blossomed flowers. What better way to celebrate spring than by heading outdoors to take advantage of the warmer weather, the increased sunshine and the longer days? Why not attend the 20th Annual Southern California Spring Garden Show at South Coast Plaza. Not only can you attend this once-a-year event, but you can also do some shopping!
This event offers an entertaining floral funfest for the WHOLE family, …
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Interested in having a day full of FUN? Fullerton College is hosting the 37th annual Fullerton Jazz Festival this weekend! The festival will host many local high school jazz bands and professionals from the LA & OC vicinity. This is the perfect venue for them to showcase themselves with the mentality of continuing their music profession to STARDOM!
Each jazz group will be judged according to:
Their selection of music
Their interpretation of different styles of jazz
Harmony
And SOLOS!
There are four divisions: Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Heavy and will be competing to become the …
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2009 is the International Year of Astronomy and in celebration, the University of California, Irvine Observatory is holding three consecutive visitor’s nights open to the public. On April 3-5, from 7-9 PM, the UCI Observatory is free to explore.
You can look through their 24″ telescope to view the beautiful celestial bodies of the night sky, by that I mean look at some of the planets, constellations, and star clusters. In addition to looking through telescopes, there will also be a different lecture about astronomy every night:
Friday, April 3: “Planets: Near …
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The world’s first blog proposal? Sweeet!
Marcy at The Glamorous Life Association has asked the entire blogosphere to write a post about Marriage/Love/Wedding and link them up HERE for a historic event. In honor of this event, I’ll share the few helpful hints I learned so far into my engagement.
I just got engaged about two months ago. For those of you who know me personally and are totally pissed I didn’t tell you, well, don’t be. I told five people the day it happened. Why, you ask?
