Komodo will be at the OC Foodie Fest.
Some of the country's much sought-after food isn't in restaurants but in the streets. Gourmet food trucks are a delicious craze, and Anaheim and Boston will celebrate wheels that serve meals with festivals devoted to the roving restaurants.
Orange County will get its first food truck party, the OC Foodie Fest, on August 28. It will be a big event—the one-day festival will take place at the Honda Center in Anaheim with more than 50 trucks. ]]>
And then it came to pass that the region known as "The O.C." lost its last shred of hipness and glamour. That was the day the mother of fourteen, popularly known as the Octo-Mom, moved to the medium-sized city of La Habra, to a home purchased not by taxpayers but by her own dad to house her ever-expanding brood.
After it was widely publicized that her mother's house, where she was living with her six children, was headed for foreclosure, Nadya Suleman is moving to the city previously best known for being the birthplace of President Richard Nixon's law career. ]]>
Lucky Snoop Dogg won't be following in the footsteps of Paris Hilton or even O.J. by heading to jail in 2007. The man also known as Calvin Broadus Jr. has run into trouble at airports before, but for his latest offense--packing a collapsible baton in his carry-on luggage--Snoop pled guilty and escaped with 3 years of probation and 160 hours of community service. (He was arrested twice after that for gun and marijuana possession, for which he also received probation.)
The rapper is expected to join an Orange County grounds crew as early as next week to earn out his hours. That's four work weeks of 8-hour days--unless his tour intervenes.
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Knott's Berry Farm is a big-time amusement park located in Orange County. While we would never consider going to this attraction unless we were saddled with some whining kids that we needed to shut up, their annual "Scary Farm" is worth a stop. This isn't some old haunted house with twisty mirrors and a few skeletons popping out of a coffin. No, this place is a "160-acre living horror movie" designed by professional "scare-masters" for you to enter and hopefully find your way out of. New this year is The Grudge 2 maze (another way for the movie to cross-promote itself):
Pass through the threshold of the house that is determined to possess any soul that enters. What horrific crimes have been committed here that would give rise to such a grudge? Visitors to this dwelling of the damned will come face to face with the tortured spirits and will find themselves,much like characters in the movie, fighting for both their sanity and their lives!
Some other mazes are Lost Vegas in 3-D, The Asylum and Hatchet High, all with familiar elements found in your favorite horror movies.
For those a little too scared to check out these Haunt mazes, you can catch the Haunt Shows like "Dead Idol" where deceased rock n' roll legends perform again "live," or the "Haunted Hypnochick" who performs hypnosis, or walk through four of the Scary Zones like Ghost Town or Silver Bullet Mine Town which are probably less scary than a maze and probably have a few more exits when you need them.
Open from Wednesdays through Sundays starting at 7pm, now through Halloween.
[Photo: Knott's Scary Farm]]]>