Orange County Register: Living
- Newport Beach couple lets their families negotiate marriage on the reality TV show 'Arranged'
Tuesday - 05/10/2016 - 03:00 AMThe first time Maneka Shewa married she married for love, but the love didn’t last and the marriage ended in divorce.
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“And then I had gotten engaged again for love and that didn’t really work out, either,” says the 34-year-old real estate... - Big wins at World Beer Cup: TAPS, Beachwood, Noble nab coveted awards
Monday - 05/09/2016 - 11:16 AMBreweries from Orange County and Long Beach took home a handful of top awards at the prestigious World Beer Cup in Philadelphia. The Friday ceremony, held every two years to celebrate the art and science of brewing, had a record-setting 63 countries...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Focus: Celebrating all things Mom for her big day
Saturday - 05/07/2016 - 02:03 AMSunday will mark the nation’s 102nd observance of Mother’s Day, which has been officially celebrated on the second Sunday of the month since 1914. Its creator was Anna Jarvis, who would later speak against the commercialization of the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A full house at St. Joseph Hospital for Mother's Day
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 09:30 PMORANGE – The journey to Mother’s Day was a tough one for Natalie Lakey and Kristen Skinner, but the gift of twins on Thursday makes for double the joy. The Lakewood married couple went through several in vitro fertilization treatments, and after...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kanoa Igarashi's Willy Wonka-style golden ticket? Surfing Kelly Slater's 'perfect' man-made waves
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 07:30 PMHuntington Beach professional surfer Kanoa Igarashi scored a surfer’s version of the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory.
Except, in this case, Willy Wonka is 11-time world surf champion Kelly Slater.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Food Events for May 8
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 02:57 PMSunday Mother’s Day Ballroom Brunch: Celebrate your family’s leading lady and enjoy brunch with spectacular ocean views in Mar Vista’s Grand Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fun activities for the kids, mothers will receive a special gift....
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Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 03:24 PMNashville songwriter Chris Waters Dunn penned nine No. 1 hits – a couple recorded by superstars Tim McGraw and Tanya Tucker – before quitting the scene to move back to his hometown of San Antonio.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Marla Jo Fisher: Die? Me? Not on your life
Tuesday - 05/03/2016 - 07:37 PMThere’s nothing more rewarding than going out to my mailbox in the morning and finding it full of lovely letters and cards from my many friends. Well, it would be rewarding, if that ever happened.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A soldier, an entrepreneur, a midwife, a story maker, a CEO: These 5 O.C. moms are following their dreams
Tuesday - 05/03/2016 - 01:09 AMAddie Zinone, soulful soldier
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Addie Zinone, 40, bursts into a coffee shop near Fashion Island with 5-year-old daughter Hartley in tow. “I don’t know how I keep it together,” Zinone, also mother of Hudson, 7, says as she digs through her large... - Telling Amy Biehl's story nearly 23 years after her death, thanks to Tyler Perry
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 10:23 AMEver since Amy Biehl died more than two decades ago, her parents have fielded requests from writers, moviemakers and producers wanting to tell the story of the Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach murdered by an angry mob in Cape Town, South Africa....
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- Born with cerebral palsy, Villa Park alum swimming toward qualifying for Paralympic Games in Brazil
Monday - 05/09/2016 - 04:08 PMThe swimmers huddled around the pool begin to chant:
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WE BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL WIN!
WE BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL WIN!
WE BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL WIN!
Filmed two years ago at a 2016 Paralympic Games qualifying event, a video uploaded to YouTube shows... - Calvary Christian students get new appreciation for shoes in Soles4Souls drive
Sunday - 05/08/2016 - 10:00 AMSANTA ANA – In early 2015, Mackenzie Webster and hundreds of her fellow classmates and staff at Calvary Christian School and Calvary Church followed a trail of shoes to a pile of them arranged in the shape of a cross.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- This week's best deals
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 06:57 PMHi, it’s me, Marla Jo, your columnist and deals maven. Check out my Cheapo Travel column in the Sunday Travel section. If you know a great deal, let me know at mfisher@ocregister.com.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- O.C. 'new guy' shows you how to brew the world's best beer
Friday - 05/06/2016 - 02:11 PMHis beer baptism came at age 9.
His father Russ and his uncle Shawn would cook up a batch of hops and malted barley in the garage, and little Trevor Walls would take the first sip.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Subway Cafe goes after Starbucks: Sandwich chain's hybrid eatery seeks coffee lovers in Orange
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 07:31 PMSubway is breaking into the billion dollar coffee market with the alternative brand Subway Café in Orange – a hybrid shop hoping to hook millennials with foot-long subs and fake Frappuccinos.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Best Thing I Ate This Week: A chocolate cake to get fired up about
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 02:58 PMAlthough I have repeatedly called Noah Blöm one of the most innovative and ambitious chefs in Orange County, I have also repeatedly criticized him for refusing to serve desserts at Arc, his flagship restaurant where everything is cooked in the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cinco de Mayo: Here are the best places to eat and drink in O.C.
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 03:00 AMLet’s be clear: Cinco de Mayo is not a major holiday south of the border.
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Years ago, margarita-thirsty Americans took Mexico’s military victory over the French – the Battle of Puebla in 1862 – and turned it into an excuse for celebrating with... - Marla Jo Fisher: Die? Me? Not on your life
Tuesday - 05/03/2016 - 08:47 PMThere’s nothing more rewarding than going out to my mailbox in the morning and finding it full of lovely letters and cards from my many friends. Well, it would be rewarding, if that ever happened.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Lifeguard lessons pay off far from the coast for Huntington Beach teen
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 03:24 PMMaddie Camargo and her mother, Stephanie Dufour, thought the screams for help were just a few Boy Scouts messing around. But then they saw the scene: scouts surrounding a hiker who had taken a gnarly, 20-foot drop in an area near Hoover Dam, a spill...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Five restaurant closures: Pancake House, Original Tommy's, another Coco's
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 03:00 AMThe latest round of Orange County restaurant closures includes two popular chains reluctantly leaving long-time locations due to expired leases. Last week, The Original Tommy’s in La Habra closed after a 30-year run.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 50 free places to go in a wheelchair
Tuesday - 05/10/2016 - 03:00 AMSometimes, you’ve just got to get out of the house. But that can be a little more complicated when you use a wheelchair, or generally have trouble getting around.
We’d like to help with that.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Four moms wanting for their children inspire efforts
Saturday - 05/07/2016 - 11:42 PMSome mothers lead by example.
Others ... because they say so.
But however they do it, mothers often tap into an energy that’s unique between parent and child. Sometimes, that energy can lead to big changes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Focus: Celebrating all things Mom for her big day
Saturday - 05/07/2016 - 04:47 AMSunday will mark the nation’s 102nd observance of Mother’s Day, which has been officially celebrated on the second Sunday of the month since 1914. Its creator was Anna Jarvis, who would later speak against the commercialization of the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MOD, Blaze adding more O.C. restaurants: free pizza on Friday
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 07:17 PMBlaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza, one of the leading fast-casual pizza players, opened Thursday in San Clemente.
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The chain is celebrating the grand opening with a pizza giveaway on Friday. To get a free pizza, diners must follow the chain on Instagram,... - They missed prom the first time, now O.C. charter school gives these students a second chance
Thursday - 05/05/2016 - 07:37 PMProm.
More than just a high school dance in senior year, the word is a dividing line. You went. Or you didn’t.
Alex Russell didn’t. Same for Maria Medina, Sean Hill, Jackie Gaspar and Josie Guzman.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Review: A slice of barbecue country at the beach
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 02:59 PMOld Crow Smokehouse at Pacific City in Huntington Beach is a sports bar by day and a honky-tonk by night. Throughout the afternoon, nearly a dozen televisions are tuned to every sport imaginable, from professional baseball to college wrestling and...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Santa Ana’s Tom’s Truck Center and Valley High combine for a winning partnership
Wednesday - 05/04/2016 - 01:41 PMTanya Garcia took an interest in automotive repair as a young girl watching her dad and other men in her Santa Ana neighborhood work on their cars.
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It’s what drove her to transfer from Godinez High after her freshman year to Valley High, where she... - OC Human Relations to honor leaders in promoting diversity and justice
Tuesday - 05/03/2016 - 03:37 PMThree moms from a troubled Anaheim neighborhood. The head of the local building industry’s charity group. A transgender educator and advocate. The couple behind a Sikh arts and film festival.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How a hippie chick made the parachuting hall of fame and found a higher plane
Monday - 05/02/2016 - 06:49 PMTangled is not a verb you want to use when you’re a skydiver telling the story – just one of the stories – about the time you nearly died.
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But there is 71-year-old Luena Garrison Sharma sitting at her dining room table at her stylish home in... - More than 22,000 runners expected for 12th annual O.C. Marathon
Saturday - 04/30/2016 - 03:29 PMRandy Kam, 58, is confident that he won’t finish Sunday’s O.C. Marathon – his 131st endurance race – dead last again.
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The Fullerton dentist logged a time of 7 hours, 32 minutes last year, three days after undergoing chemotherapy for...