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• Larry Wilson: Opening a window to more Pasadena al fresco dining

  01-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Hooray, hooray, it’s the first of May, outdoor …
  Well, never mind. But here in the springiest of the spring months, the time has also come for al fresco dining to get a boost, and thanks to a decision in late April by the Pasadena Planning Commission, it looks like it’s going to be happily easier going forward to nosh out of doors in the Crown City.
  The commission “voted unanimously to propose that the City Council codify three emergency measures that streamlined the rev
  
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• California Supreme Court seems poised to leave Prop. 22 unchanged

  22-05-2024 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters
  Proposition 22, the gig industry-backed initiative that 58% of state voters passed in 2020, has been mired in a legal back-and-forth since it became law — including being ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge before being upheld by a state appeals court.
  Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and other companies have used the law to treat their drivers and delivery workers in California as independent contractors, not employees.
  The specific question bef
  
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• 2 Riverside County barbecue restaurants make top 20 in Yelp list

  22-05-2024 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Riverside County is a long way from Texas, but two restaurants in Riverside County serving Texas-style barbecue made it into Yelp’s top 20.
  In the website’s “Top 100 BBQ Spots 2024,” Calhoun Family Texas Barbeque in Murrieta landed at No. 17. This quick service mom-and-pop eatery specializes in brisket and sweet potato pie, according to its website. It’s at 24710 Washington Ave. calhounfamilytexasbarbeque.com
  Badlands BBQ in Norco followed at No. 18. The menu includ
  
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• Lavender plants are a fresh, fragrant addition to your garden

  22-05-2024 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lee Somerville
  “Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly, lavender’s green,
  When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.”
  — old nursery rhyme, Anonymous
  Of all the flowers in the garden, lavender is probably one of the most popular and easily recognized for its beautiful purple spiked blossoms and aromatic fragrance. Native to the dry slopes that surround the Mediterranean Sea, Lavandula was prized by Egyptians, Romans and Greeks for its medicinal and cleansing qual
  
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• Hunter Biden to ask LA judge to postpone tax trial

  22-05-2024 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Hunter Biden is expected to ask a federal judge in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday to postpone his trial on tax charges until September.
  President Joe Biden’s son is currently scheduled to go on trial in Los Angeles federal court before U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi on June 20 on nine federal tax charges for allegedly refusing to pay his taxes.
  His attorneys are expected to argue that the tax trial should be postponed until Sept. 5, based on scheduling conflicts with an unrelated felony g
  
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• Outloud Fest: What you need to know before heading to WeHo’s Pride festival

  22-05-2024 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Whether you’re voguing in the front row or having a kiki with friends in the disco shade lounges, it’s time to slay at this year’s Outloud Music Festival at WeHo Pride. The extravaganza will celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with a lineup of fierce performances, all coming together for a weekend of unapologetic self-expression, music, and non-stop dancing.
  The Outloud Music Festival, set to take over West Hollywood Park on June 1-2, features two days of live performances. The line
  
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• Cal State Fullerton’s new president will come from University of Southern Indiana

  22-05-2024 18:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton’s next president will be Ronald Rochon, coming from University of Southern Indiana, the university system announced Wednesday.
  The California State University Board of Trustees appointed Rochon Wednesday morning.
  “I am honored to join the Titan community and excited to work alongside the university’s talented faculty and staff to further support the success of its dynamic and diverse student body,” Rochon said in a statement. “I look forward to c
  
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• Disneyland’s Club 33 to get its own Hollywood movie

  22-05-2024 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The secret, private and mysterious Club 33 at Disneyland is getting the theme park-to-silver screen treatment with a murder-mystery tale set in the magical dining club and a host of suspects that reads like a who’s who of history’s greatest figures.
  “Goosebumps” and “Shazam” screenwriter Darren Lemke has been tapped to write the script for a “Club 33” film set in a fantastical world of the members-only New Orleans Square restaurant, according to th
  
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• OC Board of Supervisors discuss new CEO search as Frank Kim’s retirement looms

  22-05-2024 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The hunt for the County of Orange’s next CEO continues; the OC Board of Supervisors discussed the position at Tuesday’s board meeting.
  The agenda item “public employee appointment” was scheduled to be discussed during closed session, but no decision was reported after the meeting.
  Frank Kim, who has been Orange County’s CEO since 2015, announced his plans to retire by July 11 in a letter to the Board of Supervisors last November. He’s served the county in vari
  
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• UCLA takes on Stanford for NCAA women’s golf title

  22-05-2024 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The Pac-12’s parting shot was a bunch of really good ones on a golf course in Carlsbad.
  The conference in its final days of existence secured all four spots in the semifinals of the NCAA women’s golf team championships at Omni’s La Costa Resort & Spa on Tuesday morning, the first time any conference has done that in the men’s or women’s events.
  Top-ranked Stanford beat USC and UCLA beat Oregon in the afternoon semis to set up an all-California final this afterno
  
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• Fullerton students built a tiny home for unhoused peers

  22-05-2024 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  At only 192 square feet, the small white house will serve as a “new start” for a Fullerton School District student and their family — and it was built by their peers.
  At Nicolas Junior High in Fullerton, 22 eighth-graders spent the year designing and building a tiny house in a woodshop class. The house, unveiled on Tuesday, May 21, is fully furnished, complete with a kitchen, bathroom and living space.
  The students’ creation will be placed on a small strip of land located
  
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• Gov. Newsom’s latest stunt on abortion is just another distraction

  22-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  With a massive structural budget deficit to deal with, Gov. Gavin Newsom is still taking the time to keep his name in national headlines. Last month, the governor introduced legislation to allow abortion doctors in Arizona to provide abortions in California to women from Arizona through November 30th of this year. It has since raced through the Legislature and has now been approved by the state Assembly and Senate.
  The proposal, Senate Bill 233, was ostensibly introduced in response to an Arizon
  
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• The Libertarian Party’s peculiar invitation to Donald Trump

  22-05-2024 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump is set to speak at the Libertarian Party’s National Convention on Saturday in Washington, D.C.
  It’s in some sense both a big win and loss for the party. For a former president to address the party is a symbolic victory. But, on the other hand, it is a bizarre thing for the party to do given that Trump is neither the Libertarian Party presidential candidate nor is he in any meaningful sense a libertarian. The only beneficiary of this, at the margins, is T
  
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• Santiago Canyon College’s digital warriors are leaders in esports growth

  22-05-2024 16:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By Larry Urish, contributing writer
  If you were to picture a college athlete in action, might you envision a bookish, headphone-wearing teen sitting in a darkened room, leaning toward a computer monitor, frantically hammering a keyboard and barking out instructions to nearby teammates?
  Didn’t think so. Yet, in the not-too-distant future, that image may become more widely associated with collegiate sports.
  That’s because the growth of esports, which encompasses the world of competitiv
  
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• Are San Diego or Inland Empire the riskiest housing markets in Southern California?

  22-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California home prices may seem insanely high, but two yardsticks of their underlying values suggest they’re not as crazy as elsewhere in the nation.
  Let’s be clear. These measurements don’t say local homes are affordable. Nor does this math conclude what buyers are paying is normal. Rather, these studies show the overvaluation of Southern California homes compared with historical patterns is not massive on a national scale.
  The first study is from Fitch Ratings, a Wal
  
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• Who will lead the O.C. Department of Education next? These candidates applied for the superintendent job

  22-05-2024 16:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Six people are interviewing for the Orange County superintendent position that will be open once Superintendent Al Mijares retires at the end of June.
  The Orange County Board of Education will hear from the six on Wednesday, May 22, at the Department of Education’s offices in Costa Mesa. Candidates are expected to share their past educational experiences and hopes for the department.
  The candidate selected will complete the remainder of Mijares’ term, which ends in early January 2027
  
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• Frumpy Mom: My complicated relationship with jacaranda trees

  22-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The jacaranda tree in my front yard started dropping purple blossoms this week, and that means it’s time for my annual column about our love-hate relationship.
  The blossom-fest is late this year, maybe because we’ve had so much rain. Usually by late May I’m already sick of trying to sweep the periwinkle detritus off the sidewalk.
  This year, I began chuckling to myself, watching the new neighbors who are rude and full of themselves park their extra car with the “I love New
  
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• Bill to let cities help state with rogue rehabs dies despite wide support and making sense

  22-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Democrat Tom Umberg (Photo courtesy of Tom Umberg’s campaign)
  Why do anything right, when you can do it yourself?
  This cruelly accurate DIY home-repair observation seems to animate California’s elected officials as well — dooming an eminently logical bill by Sen. Tom Umberg that had stunningly bipartisan support.
  The death of Senate Bill 913 is tragic, but not at all surprising. It would have simply empowered local governments to help overburdened state regulators handle compla
  
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• A ’90s pop star with Lush, Miki Berenyi tells her own story ahead of LA show

  22-05-2024 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Miki Berenyi says that she’s not a writer. But the former singer and guitarist of Lush, whose memoir “Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success” is out now, did keep diaries.
  “I was a bit obsessive about writing in them,” the British musician says on a recent video call. Berenyi doesn’t recommend re-reading one’s teenage diaries and laughs as she recalls her own. “Slightly short on actual, factual content, a lot of it,” she says. &ldqu
  
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• Alexander: Dodgers’ young pitchers learn some lessons

  22-05-2024 09:33 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — They might be good, maybe eventually very good, but young pitchers still have things to learn. And while those bumps in the road can be learning experiences and eventually beneficial, that can be scant comfort when the result is grisly.
  Gavin Stone and Michael Grove, two of the Dodgers’ early-season surprises, both dealt with the harsh parts of a rookie’s education on Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
  Stone, who has been a solid part of the rotation
  
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• LAFC shuts out Loudon United FC to reach U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals

  22-05-2024 07:05 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Creating their own energy inside a limited-capacity BMO Stadium, the Los Angeles Football Club cruised past Loudoun United FC to reach the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal round for the third time.
  Goals from Timothy Tillman, Cristian Olivera and the first in Black & Gold for 21-year-old Tomas Angel pushed LAFC past the USL Championship side, 3-0.
  Fans occupied the lower bowl on the east side of the stadium as well as half the supporters’ section in the north end on Tuesd
  
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• Do you know her? Authorities seek to identify Jane Doe found in Orange County on Ortega Highway in 2006

  22-05-2024 07:05 via ocregister.com
  
  With the help of a forensic artist from the Miami-Dade Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday released an updated forensic rendering of a woman whose body was found on the side of Ortega Highway in 2006; and is seeking help from the public in identifying the woman.
  On Jan. 31, 2006, a pair of sightseers discovered the woman roughly 10 feet below a cliff, barefoot, dressed in blue jeans and a black Lycra top. Authorities described the Jane Doe as a 105-pound La
  
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• Authorities seek to identify Jane Doe found in Orange County on Ortega Highway in 2006

  22-05-2024 07:05 via ocregister.com
  
  With the help of a forensic artist from the Miami-Dade Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday released an updated forensic rendering of a woman whose body was found on the side of Ortega Highway in 2006; and is seeking help from the public in identifying the woman.
  On Jan. 31, 2006, a pair of sightseers discovered the woman roughly 10 feet below a cliff, barefoot, dressed in blue jeans and a black Lycra top. Authorities described the Jane Doe as a 105-pound La
  
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• Dodgers’ pitching lets them down in loss to Diamondbacks

  22-05-2024 06:53 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — For 27 games – 21 of them victories – the Dodgers’ pitching was the staple ingredient in a winning formula.
  The cupboard was bare Tuesday night.
  The Arizona Diamondbacks piled up 12 hits, including a three-run home run by former Dodger Joc Pederson and the Dodgers’ offense couldn’t keep up, losing 7-3 to snap a four-game winning streak.
  The seven runs allowed by Dodgers pitchers matched the most runs they had allowed in a game since April 19. The
  
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• Dearica Hamby, Sparks rally to beat Mystics for their 1st win

  22-05-2024 06:41 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — Lexie Brown had a game-high 20 points and Dearica Hamby had her second double-double of the season with 17 points and 18 rebounds as the Sparks used a strong second-half surge to pull off a 70-68 comeback win against the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night at Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid.
  The Sparks (1-2) trailed 47-40 with 4:32 left in the third quarter but turned the tide with a 15-5 run and took a 55-52 lead on Hamby’s layup with 46 seconds left in the thir
  
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• Angels fall to Astros in 10 innings

  22-05-2024 05:20 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON —The Houston Astros showed how easy it can be to drive in an automatic runner, just after the Angels failed to even put a ball in play when they had a chance.
  Alex Bregman moved the runner over with a fly ball and then Jeremy Peña singled, sending the Angels to a 6-5, 10-inning loss on Tuesday night.
  In the top of the 10th, Kevin Pillar, Logan O’Hoppe and Jo Adell all struck out against Astros closer Josh Hader when they had their chance to get the automatic runner hom
  
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• Pro-Palestine protesters rally at CSU headquarters to demand university system divests from Israel

  22-05-2024 04:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied in front of the Cal State University Chancellor’s Office in Long Beach on Tuesday, May 21, urging the system to, among other demands, divest from Israel — and celebrating the announcement this week that the CSU’s Sacramento campus would do just that.
  Tuesday’s protesters also demanded that the 23-campus CSU to boycott Israel, disclose its investments and call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and a free Palestine. Though
  
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• Bobby Miller progressing toward return – creating a dilemma for Dodgers

  22-05-2024 03:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Planning for the future is part of the job. But Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes breaks out in a wide smile and laughs at the question of how the Dodgers will integrate Bobby Miller back into their starting rotation when the young right-hander is ready to return from the injured list.
  The Dodgers’ five-man rotation of Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, James Paxton, Gavin Stone and Walker Buehler are all currently healthy and pitching well lately. Right-hander Land
  
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• Garden Grove selects Matt LemMon of Tamalpais as football coach

  22-05-2024 03:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowGarden Grove has hired Matt LemMon of Tamalpais in Northern California as its football coach, the Argonauts and Garden Grove Unified announced Tuesday.
  LemMon, 32, led Tamalpais, located in Mill Valley, the past seven seasons. He guided the school to an 8-4 record last season and a trip to the second round of North Coast Section Division 3 playoffs.
  Tamalpais finished third in the challenging Marin County
  
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• Pride 2024: 8 Los Angeles hotels offering discounts and perks for June’s celebration

  22-05-2024 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re looking for a place to stay after partying at Pride this June, LA’s hotels are offering a range of perks.
  Pride is a celebration and commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan and the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally. Long Beach got a head start with its Pride parties in Marina Green Park on Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19. West Hollywood also already launched festivitie
  
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