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Kids Club at SOCO + The OC Mix

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By Greer Wylder
January 15, 2020

Calling all creative kiddos of Orange County! SOCO + The OC Mix now has a Kids Club launching this month that will bring fun events and interactive programming to the center all year long.  The very first event will be held on Wednesday, January 15 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., and the fun will continue throughout the year on the third Wednesday of each month.  This all-new Kids Club invites children ages 6 months & up and their parents to take part in various creative + hands-on activities! Every event will offer a live story reading, music + dancing,…

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Casa Barilla Rings in Lunar New Year

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By Greer Wylder
January 15, 2020

Casa Barilla is ringing in Lunar New Year with a festive new specialty dish, Spaghetti Salted Egg with Jumbo Shrimp. Beginning January 15 through March 25, guests can enjoy their favorite traditional lunar new year ingredients with an Italian twist for $14.95. The delicious new pasta entrée features seared jumbo prawns on a bed of steaming al-dente spaghetti coated in a creamy salted egg yolk sauce. The dish is topped with Thai red and green chilis and garnished with crumbled salted egg whites. Casa Barilla is located at South Coast Plaza in the Din Tai Fung Wing. 3333 Bristol Street,…

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PACIFIC SYMPHONY PLAYS TICHELI AND BEETHOVEN

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By Greer Wylder
January 14, 2020

Soka Performing Arts Center presents Pacific Symphony Chamber Orchestra with violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen on Sunday, April 5, at 3 p.m. The program includes Ticheli’s There Will Be Rest, a piece of fragile beauty and quiet dignity, and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.61, considered to be his most lyrical work, and the only concerto he wrote for one of the most popular instruments of his day: the violin. Tickets are $45-85 and are now available online at performingarts.soka.edu at the Box Office at 1 University Drive in Aliso Viejo or by calling (949) 480-4ART (4287).

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Laguna Beach Books Booksigning WILliam Wheeler

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By Greer Wylder
January 14, 2020

Laguna Beach Books is pleased to welcome William Wheeler, author of State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 5 p.m,  William will be discussing and signing copies of his book. RSVP at LagunaBeachBooks.com. In State of War, foreign correspondent William Wheeler tells the story of how in the 1980s, the U.S. supported the repressive Salvadoran government in a brutal civil war, and many Salvadoran families fled to America―especially Los Angeles, where teenagers in poor neighborhoods founded MS-13. A decade later, the U.S. responded to rising anti-immigrant sentiment by deporting many Salvadorans back home. Ever since…

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We need your Help to Finish our Documentary, ‘The Human TRial’

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By Greer Wylder
January 14, 2020

It's been 15 years since my son, Tristan, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes—overnight our lives changed. My son’s existence has become a scary rollercoaster of damaging blood sugar highs and lows. Since then, I’ve been committed to raising awareness and funds for a cure. I'm the Executive Producer of “The Human Trial”, a feature-length documentary about the search for a cure for type 1 diabetes. After 5 years of filming, our documentary is nearly done! Through the patients we profile, we hope to raise the public profile of this widely misunderstood disease and help lead the nation to new support, money…

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