Results tagged “orange”

              

Driving around Anaheim after an Angels game or a concert at The Grove of Anaheim can feel like you are driving around a ghost town -- wide, empty streets with nothing but Taco Bell signs as evidence of life. But there is a haven for your beer-soaked belly. Cruise on down Katella to the strip mall lights of Taqueria Mexico. They are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In fact, one patron says that during a six month period during the 80s they didn't even have a front door.

“He insisted on only the best ingredients,” the franchise's operator Gerald Tanaka said of Don Callendar, who passed away on Wednesday. The Marie Callendar's opened in 1948 when Callender helped his mother Marie take her home-based bakery into a wholesale pie business. "The first pie and coffee shop later opened in 1964 in Orange," Fast Food Maven Nancy Luna wrote. Apparently, Callendar was one of the first in the business to build restaurants via franchising.

It is one of the simplest, freshest and most delicious snacks for a hot summer night. Straight from the farmers' market (or your neighbor's tree) to the fridge, a chilled orange is more than just nutritious, it's quenching.

The Los Angeles Times conducted a survey of all 58 counties in California asking about policies relating to same-sex marriage. 35 stated that employees were not allowed to opt out of officiating over marriages for any reason; or, at least, no reservations were expressed by clerks in those counties.

Unfortunately, the uploaded photos were not tagged, leaving it up the Flickr community to do so. Searching for "California" or "Los Angeles" still has limiting results. As Stephen Shankland says at CNET's Underexposed blog, "it's a safe bet that the Library of Congress photos won't immediately sport a huge range of highly descriptive tags... I can't imagine the government would pay on its own to fund some dedicated tagging effort."

I happened upon this event last year and giggled for about 4 days. Last year I had the fortune of walking by just as the women's figure competition was finishing up, and there was this voice of God over a microphone that would say "LEFT DELTOID" and then everyone would turn and flex their oily glistening shoulders in unison and smile their most constipated smile while standing atop 4 inch tall plastic hooker shoes....