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 …

Last month I had the pleasure of tasting a TimTam, a chocolate covered malted biscuit originally from Australia, which is full of pure amazingness. The perfect crunch of biscuits, the way the chocolate slowly melts… I really want another pack now. Sorry to hype it up so much, I’m just such a big fan of them now!
The only place I know of now of where to find these Australian biscuits year round is the food section at Cost Plus World Market where they come in at $3.99 USD about $1.50 …

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 …

Check it out. http://www.orangecountyrestaurantweek.com
I can’t believe it has already been a year since I first wrote about the Orange County Restaurant Week, but now we are already half way into this year’s awesome celebration of FOOD!
You only have until this Saturday, March 6 to check out the many hot restaurants in Orange County participating in this restaurant week. Enjoy awesome prix fixe lunch and dinner menus served at over a hundred restaurants, and at special prices.
I shared my list of restaurants I planned to eat at last year, so here …

After exiting the 91-motorway,  you can find yourself in a quaint little courtyard at the Villa del Sol center where a most unusual shop can be found.  Specializing in goods from the land of the Beatles,  Harry Potter, and James Bond, the British Grocer in Downtown Fullerton stocks it’s shelves full of British sweets and necessities.
Upon entering the shop, you’re greeted by shelves of sweets, tea sets, and the owner of the store, an old British lady whose voice made me smile and think of the memories of when I …

RVCA, an OC-based clothing brand, is having a sample sale at CSUF this Thursday and Friday with over 50% off clothing from 9am to 7pm at the Titan Shops at CSUF! Check the Facebook event page (FB event date is incorrect, postponed due to rain) for full details. RVCA offers a little more than expected of an action sports apparel brand and a lot more than I ever perceived about the brand. (did you see that video below?! hellooo, fashion!)

Erin Wasson x RVCA • Fall 09 Collection …

Gone are the days of suffering when you get a craving for a short rib burrito or a kimchi quesadilla, debating with your friends on whether or not to wait in a 3 hour line, or give-in and drive all the way to LA on a Wednesday night.  That’s right folks, Kogi BBQ is no longer banned from Orange County and guess what?  We even get our own dang truck!  Enter: Naranja!  Orange County’s very own Kogi BBQ truck, that makes Baby Naranja the 4th humble truck in the Kogi …

If you’ve been anywhere shopping during the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed the signs of another holiday drawing near.
No, not Christmas (although, there are people getting an early start)
It’s Halloween!
For all those CSUF students who love the thrill of being frightened by zombies, ghosts, and serial killers, we know a couple of local places you can check out this season.  Of course, nothing really beats the massive attraction that is Knott’s Scary Farm.  But maybe you want more personal attention from your zombie and desire a place with less …

The feeling of air going through your hair, the rush of a turbo, and the force of taking a turn – ahh…the sensations that driving a car can give you. Don’t you just love ‘em?
Cars are such a big part of our lives, especially here in Orange County, that I’m really happy that we are a center for anything regarding the automobile – from being HQ to some car companies like Kia and Mazda, and to holding some great weekly events like Cars and Coffee.
Well, we have two more events …

[Post Update - 10.1.2009] We’re still collecting donations!  We’ll be at the B Here Art Exhibit and Concert on Monday at UC Irvine.  If you’re in South OC, drop by The Alley in Newport Beach, they’ll be collecting items for us until 11pm on Sunday!  Huge thanks to Daniela Bolzmann and The Alley for being so kind!

Fact: Gap between Hurricane Katrina & Tropical Storm Ondoy rainfall are even wider: Katrina = 350mm, Ondoy = 412mm. (via BakitWhy – for more storm related info, click here and here)

Typhoons, floods, and etc., …